A few months after its soft launch, the actual Opennet hardware setup has finally been deployed at my HDB block. Opennet is a new initiative (by IDA, I suppose) to deploy an optical fibre network across the country as a ready infrastructure for ANY service providers to retail high-end broadband internet access in the near-future. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fix’
Opennet installation @ my flat
Posted: January 7, 2010 by ralliart12 in Roadblocks, TechnopiaTags: appointment, bijou, crossroad, fibre, fix, install, internet, Jaben, lousy, mylerone, opennet, optic, poor, warranty
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How I spent my year-end holiday part 3 of 6: Within my family circle
Posted: December 18, 2009 by ralliart12 in ScratchPadTags: 7, backup, card, clone, computer, desktop, disk, down, extended, fix, graphic, hard, HP, migrate, PC, SLS, spoilt, video, warranty, Windows
Before performing my own system migration, I received a request from R to extract her old address book from her “retired” Sony Ericsson W910 unit. She has since upgraded to a Yaris but needed all of her 60 contacts from the older device. Well, one may ask why can she extract the data herself? Answer? [...]
How I spent my year-end holiday part 2 of 6: Laptop midnight fiasco aka Electronic Operation aka Tearing-my-laptop-apart-&-putting-it-back-together-again
Posted: December 18, 2009 by ralliart12 in 1-hour notebook, RoadblocksTags: bluetooth, broke, cross-reference, diagnose, disassemble, fan, fix, heat, itchy, key, keyboard, laptop, noise, notebook, Samsung, schematics, snap, touchpad, troubleshoot, vent, ventilation
I was preparing some Vista drivers for the impending migration when I noticed a BIOS firmware update available for my Samsung laptop. Decided to go for it & succeeded without any hiccups. Feeling adventurous, I decided to overhaul the physical innards of my laptop to clean the fans & reduce heat build-up. This proved to [...]
