Remembering my First Encounter with Technology

I reminisce the days when...

1. Using a 5.25 floppy disk to boot a PC.
2. Looking at a monochrome monitor.
3. Afraid of dropping my floppy disk because it can get a computer virus.
4. Booting DOS, took 5 minutes.
5. Using an Intel Pentum Pro 166 PC
6. Using mouse for the first time.
7. Installing my first upgrade a 8mb EDO RAM for my PC
8. Using a computer with no hardrive, just 2 floppy drive, one for DOS and the other for application.
9. Typing my documents using Wordstar 4.0 and upgraded to wordperfect (now i can insert graphics).
10. Using Windows 3.1 for the first time.
11. Using windows 95 and watching the Blue screen of death.
12. Printing in Dot Matrix (Too noisy ) :)
13. Reinstalling windows 95 over and over.
14. Watching the drum being rattled in the installation of windows for over 30 mins.
15. Writing a Hello program in different programming language.
16. Rebooting my PC when an infinite loop happens in my program.
17. Being infected with CIH Virus that wipe out my entire hardisk.
18. Using turbo pascal,turbo c, basica, foxbase and dbase iv in programming.
19. Playing Jeopardy with a green pixalated screen.
20. Writing my first Computer Virus http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://inet.trendmicro.co.jp/virusinfo/isp/default3.asp%3FVName%3DW97M_ANGEL&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Davenging%2Bangel%2Bmacro%2Bvirus%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
21. that spreads :).
22. Writing assembly program.
23. Using COBOL in programming database application.
24. Playing Tekken in PlayStation.
25. Playing Game & Watch.
26. Playing Pacman in arcade.

Customize Plexiglass Mousepad

This is my first mods project.

What I used:
1 plexiglass 8x8.5 inch will do.
3 LED (Blue)
1 Resistor
20 inches wire
Masking Tape
Soldering tool
Dremel (for creating hole)

Steps

1. Cover the side area (about an inch) with masking tape.
2. Sand the center part and remove all the shiny part. (This is needed as Im using an optical mouse , this kind mouse will not work in a shiny surface.
3. Make 3 hole on the top of the plexiglass.
4. Insert the LED and connect all the LED in a series connection.
5. Connect the resistor by soldering.
6. Connect to the PSU using the black and yellow wire.
7. Finished.

Additional to my Techy Toys

With my last visit to the Philippines my brother gave me an Ipaq Pocket PC (H5550).

1. It has a fingerprint security technology.
2. Wireless Lan Connectivity (I tried to use it in Doha Airport Free Internet and it works!)
3. Bluetooth
4. Etc.
   

My Techy Side of Life

A regular day for me, would be waking up with my PC as an alarm clock, then fill my K800i mobile phone with the latest tracks from pandora.com. Then watching the latest news from my PC using TV tuner. Then check my mails and update some stuff in the net. Using my phone as an organizer schedule my day activies.

My tech toys

PC 2.4 GHZ celeron (only) but works get done!
USB Flash Disk
USB Music Player
K800i Mobile Phone
Sony DVD605 Camera for getting some memorable moments.

How To Make A Recovery Disc For Your Computer

1. Warning : I will not held responsible for any lost of data and damage to property upon doing this procedures. Practice Safe Computing, and remember to alway backup your data.
   
   Requirment :
   DVD Writer
   Blank DVD Disc (4.7 or 8.5(better) )
   
   Software:
   Acronis True Image www.acronis.com (Up to this writing latest version is 9.1)
   Nero Burning Rom
   UltraISO 8.0
   Windows XP
   
   The juicy part....
   
   I have 40 Gig Hard drive and i will partition by 3(16, 11,11 ) respectively.
   Format the drive using NTFS (all partition)
   Make a clean install of Windows XP on partition 1
   Install all the drivers, softwares you required.
   Install Acronis True Image.
   Make an Image Backup of Drive C:
   Put the new Image Backup on partition
   Put a name on the file this will have an extension of .tib.
   Now create a bootable iso image using True Image and save it in partition 3.
   Open the image and add the Truimage backup file using UltraISO. Save the file.
   Using Nero Burn the Iso image you created and test is by booting the disc in your drive. (Make sure that your Computer bios is set to boot to CDROM
   Cross your finger and if the acronis screen appears, then your in luck.
   Wait until it is fully loaded. Then Select Restore Image. Select the file from your DVD and proceed to the next prompts. Wait for about 30 minutes until it finished restoring your drive.
   Reboot your computer.
   Finished. You have now your restore disc. Keep in safe place.
   
   The lesson : You don't have to reinstall window xp in a normal fashion and you will save time.
   NOTE : The data that was on your computer before the restore process will be deleted. Please save all your important data in another hardisk or partition.
   

Any questions will be answer by the author.

Happy Computing
darkbyte23 at KSA
Copyright 2006
Kamote Innovations Inc.

How to Dual boot windows XP and Mandrival Linux 2007

I will post a link to the video on how to do these soon!!!!