2 minutes Yesterday I decided to take a gander at OC’ing my system. The initial idea when I bought the C2D system back in February was that these CPUs are OC demons, and OC just so beautifully, a facility I had not availed of till now. I found an excellent guide for the P965 Gigabyte systems, which … →

3 minutes And so it has come to pass- the dates are finalized and the tickets (at least for one) are booked! How much we are looking forward to this trip, is rather hard to put into mere words. It shall be my love’s first trip to India. Really can’t wait to take her around the golden … →

3 minutes Now featuring 3.0 TB of storage and counting. I have been waiting to start this blog post since forever, ever since my first HDD developed an interface error. I had tried everything in my vast repertoire of skills at troubleshooting, and had categorically ruled out most of the common and uncommon faults. The only recurring … →

< 1 minute … is it even worth it?

3 minutes So I took it upon myself to make some tomato-mozzarella salad this evening. Missing the essential ingredients yesterday, I made the hallowed trip to AH this evening after a fruitful meeting with the big Boss. Ever so happy with my “pimped-up” bike I cycled my way furiously to AH after delivering the darned malfunctioning HDD … →

2 minutes I have been trying out the latest version of Microsoft’s financial software Microsoft Money 2008, Home and Small Business edition. The initial impression is quite positive. The software suite keeps track of all your assets and liabilities as well as small businesses (eBay, and the like), having advanced options to create invoices and send them … →

2 minutes So my HDD just died on me. The main 320 GB Samsung SATA-2 HDD started acting weird after I plugged in two new IDE HDDs. The system would lag during file operations and without warning the drive would disappear giving me Event ID 11. A cold-boot would solve the problem, till it would reoccur with … →