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When my computer died, one of the first few things that I thought of was my motherboard being fried. It just wouldn’t turn on anymore suddenly. Then of course, I consulted some people, like my boss who sidelines as a computer consultant and technician and my friend Yu. I can’t remember who suggested it that my video card might have gone bad.

I do remember chatting with my boss though and he told me to try taking out the video card and see if it’s dirty or dusty and try cleaning it a little to see if it will change anything.

I took out my video card and I tried making the fan spin. It wasn’t spinning at all. So my boss told me to unscrew the fan and see if I could clean it out.

Is it still recognizable? I don’t know what you call that one, that thingie that reminds me of cities with high rise towers, that thing that functions as a heatsink maybe. Well… it was caked with dust. Literally caked. I had to poke the dust to remove it. Simple brushing wasn’t working. And the fan? Oh… a lot of work had to be done to the fan as well. I won’t even go into details.

Is there like a proper way of taking care of video cards? I know I’m not the best computer-literate person but if I did know how to take care of things, I might try to keep it in mind and prevent something like this from happening again. How do I avoid this from repeating anyway?

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MiBook (the name of my MacBook) is slow. Very Very slow. I need more RAM, I think, but I don’t know the capacity of this PoJ (Piece of Junk). I can buy 2-1Gb laptop RAM sticks but I’m not really sure if this will be able to take 2Gb of memory. Does anyone know if the old MacBook can use 2Gb?

Here are the specs of this PoJ:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB11.0061.B03
SMC Version: 1.4f12
Serial Number: 4H62947ZU9B
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

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I don’t know what exact information I need to provide so that I could determine if this can take 2Gb. If that’s not what is needed to determine it, just let me know.

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Yes, that’s what I’ve been busy with lately. After AznV.tv, Veoh.com would probably be my second favorite video streaming site. I like Veoh better for anime because I won’t have to use my precious premium account for something that I can watch somewhere else. Quality-wise, for anime, they’re just about the same. My main problem with aznv is just that I don’t think they ever had mac users in mind to begin with. I have to use VLC which is something I don’t really like.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a really huge screen with theater seating

Did you know that soon, analog TVs and Radios are going to be replaced by iTVs and iRadios and so on? It’s not really too far in the future for the US or other really developed countries like Japan and Korea, but for the Philippines, that would take maybe 50 more years.

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That’s the byline of catch phrase of this car insurance billboard that I see every time I go home. I guess, knowing myself, I’d really need one. I might be crashing into walls every so often, or I might get into accidents.

But I don’t have a car. I can’t even drive. *sigh*

I was looking at an application form for a BPI Credit Card, and I could get Travel Insurance and Life Insurance as well. I think that would be really nice. However, I don’t really travel and I’m not really into dangerous adventures. Although of course, usually insurances are for accidents and you can never really expect accidents. Maybe I’ll take it for the life insurance.

~__~ Just that there’s so many requirements to get a credit card, it’s so lazifying. -_-;

By the way, I was checking out credit cards because my desktop broke and I don’t have enough moolahz to buy up new parts for it. I’m basically going to get a new CPU–tower, board, and all that. I’ll only be keeping my monitor, keyboard and mouse, and my hard drives. I’m going to have my video card checked by my boss to see if I can still use that one.

So…

I’ll make a comparison chart of BPI credit card and BDO credit card and ask Lori which one would be best, although I can almost hear her advising against it. XD

and in the mean time…

Anyone out there willing to donate? XD

Just click

button at the right.

The one above works as well.

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GRRRR!!!

I hit Taba this morning when I woke up. I woke up to find my charger cable chewed up again! A perfectly good, original Nokia charger for my N80.

I was so annoyed that I spanked him. Now I’ll need to buy a new charger -_-; and I don’t really want to buy some cheap charger like last time. Ugghhh…. ~___~

I wonder if keeping a cat would have been better. I think cat supplies are cheaper but then I don’t really feed Taba dog food anymore coz he refuses to eat it and it’s just a waste of money so I just give him human food and milk.

Where did I go wrong? What did I miss? I walked him this morning. I even carried him even with his muddy paws because there were some stray dogs and I didn’t want him to be bitten by those stray dogs. Dogs are supposed to run if there are other dogs after them, not ask their master to carry them T_T.

And then when we got hime I fed him his favorite Adobo rice. And I even gave him some of my milk, my darned expensive milk. He chewed a roll of tissue paper and my charger cable. At least he didn’t chew the ethernet and phone and other electric cables… why the charger!!! And this is the second time he chewed a charger cable =_=

*sigh*

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I fixed it! >_> Because… well… I don’t really want to buy a new one. I just tried…
I cleanly cut the ends of the wires and spliced them and wrapped masking tape on them.

:D Voila! It’s charging again.

I hugged Taba and gave him some milk again.

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I have a new phone. It’s a Nokia N80 Internet Edition. Eelai had to return the Chinese Motobuddy (A rip-off of a Motorola business PDA phone) because of business and personal reasons and she lent me her Nokia 5300 at first. But then her brother’s leaving for the US and left her his N80. Eelai didn’t like the N80 so we switched.

At first, I was so happy (and sleepy) because I had a new phone, again. The N80 was very new. It probably wasn’t used much. I was playing with its Internet features the whole night while trying to sleep. And then a message came in. I opened my inbox, and clicked open the message. “General: System Error”, and then it will keep showing that and when you press the end call button, the phone will restart. If you don’t, you’ll have to remove the battery to make it stop.

It did that over and over again. I kind of realized now why it was unwanted. Because it wasn’t working properly. It was my College graduation the next day and I was having a hard time with it because I couldn’t exchange text messages with people properly.

That night, I did some research and came up with five possible reasons why that error message comes up.

1. Firmware sucks and it needs to be updated. The version 4.0707.0.7 is said to be really buggy. If you have a European phone, the version you could upgrade to is 5.0719.0.2. If you don’t have a European phone, you’ll have to change the product code of your phone by downloading some programs and doing a lot of stuff.
2. The Network Settings is not set to GSM and but Dual Mode.
3. Either phone memory or memory card is corrupt and you need to either reset it to factory settings or format the memory card.
4. The phone is broken and you’ll have to bring it to a Nokia business center.
   
5. The SIM is not 3G compatible.

When I got the phone, the version of the firmware was 4.0632.0.38. So I tried upgrading the firmware, and I got 4.0707.0.7. I still got the same message. I tried doing the more complicated process of changing the product code of the phone but I just couldn’t make it work so I gave up.

I changed the Network setting to GSM from Dual Mode and I was still getting the same error message.

I formatted the memory and reset the phone to factory settings and still getting that error message.

I borrowed Mama’s SIM because I know it’s 3G compatible and tried it on the phone. Voila, it works.

So… I just slept. Or tried to. The next day I went to SM to go check with Globe first before going to Nokia to have it fixed. I had a hell of a time talking with the stupid guard at the Globe business center because he said there’s no SIM card available for my phone number so I can’t have it upgraded. When he said that, I got the list from him and looked for my number (the first 5) myself and I saw it. I wanted to hit the guard in the face, because while he was looking for it and while I was looking for it, 5 people have gone ahead. If he had used his EYES instead of his mouth, then he could’ve found it faster and I didn’t have to unnecessarily wait for 5 people to go ahead of me.

And so while watching Mr. Bean, I went online using the free wi-fi from Nokia and just played with the semi-useless phone. When I finally got called, I said I wanted to have a SIM upgrade. And then the nice lady processed it and when I finally got my new SIM card which she said will be activated in 2 to 3 hours, I explained to her that I wanted an upgrade because my 3G phone seemed to be having problems with my SIM card so I wanted a 3G SIM Card. Then she said that I didn’t really need to upgrade the SIM, I just needed 3G to be activated for my phone number.

Well, I didn’t really believe her because I read that the SIM needed to be replaced.

So anyways, I left the mall and went on my way to iblog4 at UP Diliman where I needed to go anyway. Around 40 minutes later, Sarah sent me a message and I accidentally opened it, and Voila~ It opened. Then I remembered that nice lady’s words that I didn’t really need a new SIM, just that 3G needed to be activated. …. Oh well. And then I lost my signal. So I switched SIM Cards and everything was alright after that.

So… It was really just the 3G thing, perhaps. Or maybe the SIM needed an upgrade. In anycase, I’ve wanted my SIM card to be upgraded anyway. Just never had the time or money before when I really really wanted it.

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A customer called in once and asked what was the grade of the wireless modem router (gateway) they have from us. I told her it was a Wireless-G. Then she asked about Wireless-N because her son mentioned it and that he was a serious gamer and he needs one like that. I told her that it has a wider coverage and a stronger signal. She then asked if her Internet will be faster. I said that it really depends on her speed plan. A better router doesn’t necessarily mean faster internet, which a lot of Americans seem to think.

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Yes! I took the chance! I took a gamble! I laid out my cards on some fancy poker tables and hoped that some little things I removed from the site would slow down the sudden upsurge of traffic. At 10:11pm last night, I got the alert

The domain miii.net (miiinet) has reached 99% of its bandwidth limit (9903.42/10000.00 Megs).

I still can’t find a way to find what my bandwidth usage was right before midnight, but with the trend I was having, I guess it was really pretty close to 10Gb. so… OMG I survived!

I brought back the banner pictures, but I’m afraid I won’t put back the Crystal-Skies forum because no one really goes on it and it has become the home of some spammers.

With my 10Gb monthly bandwidth, I can normally manage, even hosting some songs every once in a while, but the upsurge from the forum was really not something I was able to handle, nor something I expected.

So, … I’m back to normal. I was also holding off posting something new because I was afraid that I might just kill it instead. ^__^ Happi~~~ \o/

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Because of a sudden upsurge of bandwidth usage from a forum that I have hosted here that no one really uses, I’m panicking right now. I’m getting a message that I’m nearing my bandwidth limit.

I only have an allotted 10Gb of bandwidth every month and for the past months ever since I started the pinay scandal post, I’ve always been able to manage.

But recently, I reviewed my bandwidth trends and saw that I had a spike with my Crystal Skies forum (that no one uses, as I’ve mentioned at the start). It was constantly using below 200Mb for the past months, and for this month, it had a whopping 1.3 Gb. I’m guessing this is because of all the spam in it. But nonetheless, I only have about 800Mb of bandwidth left for this site.

So… I’m putting down most of the images files for now, my beloved banners and avatars. These are part of my blog, of my site. You can probably compare them to light fixtures in houses, wherein some of them don’t really serve any real purpose aside from being a decoration. These are kind of my signature images on the site. I’m also going to put the the Pinay Scandal post in Private for now and hope that in doing so, it will also minimize the traffic.

I don’t want to put them down, but I don’t want miii.net to go down either. So… just as a final effort with the hopes of saving my site for at least 4 more days, I’m putting these images down, moved the forum and so on. Hopefully, this will slow down the traffic upsurge.

I’m glad my post is in the first page/result of google search when they search for Filipino porn. I mean, the traffic really helps boost my site (except in Google Page Rank), and this will help soon when I consider monetizing my website again with adlinks aside from the one I’m doing now. But right now, I just want to save my site.

So… I hope in bringing down my main images and my most popular post, it will help my site stay alive until the end of the month.

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Does anyone know if you need to buy from mac itself to upgrade the memory of the macbook? or any laptop memory would do? I feel like my macbook’s so slowwwww. Maybe I just need to reformat it or something. I want Mac OS X 5 (Leopard)

I never really understood how to update Mac OS’s. Is it like windows wherein you have to do a complete reformat of target drive or the drive where you’re going to install it.

Maybe I should windows there instead… the left click would be a problem though. *sigh*

Bleh.

All I’m thinking of now is to spend =/

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