Dell Laptop back in action

Dell support came today morning to repair my laptop. Found that can boot up normally before he even replaced the motherboard and RAM.. urgh.. anyway he replaced the mobo and RAM for me just in case if it were to happen again. Thanks Dell!!!

Anyway the laptop won't be with me for long as I have around 1 week or so more with Thales before I join Reuters. Bought a new desktop PC last Friday so that at least I can do some stuff over last weekend. Configuration of my new desktop:

AMD 4600 processor
Asus M2NPV motherboard
Kingston DDR2 667 MHz RAM (2GB)
Hitachi 7200 rpm SATA2 Hardisk: 300GB
LG SATA DVD/Writer
CoolerMaster Extreme 430W power supply
CoolerMaster Centurion 5 W/Side Window
Samsung 931BW 19" widescreen

I'm not into the heavy PC gaming so an onboard graphics card suffice.

Also when I went to Sim Lim Sqaure last week, decided to buy a Shure M44-7 cartridge to replace the old Stantons 500s. Besides, I had Stanton's iTrack for some time but in terms of power output, the Shure simply blows the Stantons away...

Dell Laptop crashed and can't boot up

*sigh* what a night... First I had to do night work to capture some Ethereal data for analysis .. but of all times it had to occur at this time...

I realised that I lost comms with my laptop after running the Ethereal program for some time. Went to check and found that there's a BSOD on the monitor. So I thought that by doing a hard reset, things would be OK. But no!!! It simply would not boot up to the OS!!! It just gave me a blank black screen with no hardisk activity.. now doing some diagnostics to see what went wrong. Also will have to get a new external SATA hardisk enclosure to see if I can still retrieve my unsaved data... I've been working on documentation for some time and I MUST RETRIEVE THOSE STUFF SO THAT I CAN COMPLETE THEM BEFORE I LEAVE THALES!!!

German Living Rooms Interiors

I want living rooms like these!!! Haha...

Ricardo Villalobos

Or Ellen Allien's

Me on Flickr

Decided to join the Flickr bandwagon too... my wife had a headstart some time back and it's time for me to join it... my screen name is tasha_abu_bakar .. Do add me in ya... To kick things started, have a look at the site now

Also just got my Ricoh GR Digital (with extended wide angle lens) and also a Canon 8400F scanner to scan my Holga shots and 35mm film stuff (yes I still love old school film)

Yeah!! New job!!

Alhamdulillah, just secured and signed the employment contract to my new job (refer to previous post). It'll provide me with a change of environment and definitely better career opportunities and advancements.

I will be joining an MNC company whose IT usage is second to that of Microsoft (as claimed during one of the interviews) so that roughly gives me an edge in having experience in a variety of systems, software, networks, etc.

So it'll be bye bye Thales in a month's time!!