• My Workstation aka Vearnstation V2

Later late in year 2004, I decided to sell off my rig (which I took quite a long time to consider) and topup a little bit of cash to migrate platform into AMD64 system. It was the time when AMD pawned most of Intel processors with their 64-bit and embedded RAM controller architecture ~ LOL . It wouldn’t be successful if I not managed to fetch a high price for my RDRAM, it was ON-DEMAND back on that time when everyone stucked with Intel’s RDRAM motherboard and doesn’t want to migrate platform . I sold few pairs of RDRAM back then by doing some trading .

So I went to do some reading and study on what hardware and setting I should get for my new rig. Thanks to many forumers at LowYat.Net which shared with me their information, experience and guidance, this was my first DIY and self-assembled rig :

• AMD64 3000+ 2.0GHz (socket 754, first generation of AMDK8)
• 2x 512MB DDR400 Kingston Value Ram (Hynix-D43 chipset)
• DFI LanParty UT nForce3 250Gb (best overclocking board for AMD64 s754 by Anandtech’s review)
• HIS ATI Radeon 9600xt Excalibur Edition
• Samsung Spinpoint 120GB SATA HDD
• LG 16x DVDRW-Rom
• Enlight 420W PSU
• Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Silver
• 15″ Philips LCD Monitor
• Altec Lansing AHS502 Headphone
• Logitech MX518 Gaming Optical Mouse on XtracPad Pro
• ANC s650 Webcam

This rig served me for 3 years++ until end of year 2007 before I did another major platform migration again back into Intel Pentium Core 2 system which with me till now while I’m on it updating this post . Occassionally during the 3 years time I upgraded some hardware and device:

• FSP Bluestorm 500W PSU
• Dell E1905FP 19″ LCD Monitor (it is a 8-bit MVA panel )
• Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
• Edifier R501 MKII 5.1 Surround Sound System
• XtracPad Ripper
• Canon Pixma iP4300 Inkjet Printer

Vearnstation V3.0 coming up next…

• My Workstation aka Vearnstation V1

Wah… laziness strikes back? Ahh… it has been almost 1.5 months I did not update my blog T_T . I just came back from Hong Kong about 4 weeks ago and have been very busy with my work lately, thus hardly get the time to do with my blog (hopes I’m not lying ~ ).

The first thing I’m concerned once I’m back to my own room is my computer work place. Usually IT geeks will call their computer as rig and computer work place as workstation which sound more pro? Hahaha… so I put mine as Vearnstation . This idea came up suddenly yesterday and so I took some of my time for it. I dig out my old photo files and trying to make a chronology of my so-called Vearnstation.

I first own a computer back in year 2001. I bought it at a computer shop named SBC at Low Yat Plaza and the spec was:

• Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz (socket 423, the first generation of Intel Pentium 4)
• 2x 64MB RDRAM (rambus!)
• Intel D850GB Motherboard
• MSI GeForce 2MX 32MB
• Seagate 20GB HDD (5,400 rpm)
• Creative Sound Blaster Live!
• Sony 52x CD-Rom & 1.44″ FDD
• Prolink 56Kbps Internal Modem
• Samtron 76DF 17″ CRT Monitor
• Power Supply Unit & Blue Metallic Casing.
• Thunder 2.1 Speaker Set
• Canon S400 Ink-Jet Printer

It was legend as I’m able to play Diablo II, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Starcraft and Tiberium Sun without any lag at all! This is the time when I started passionate interested with computer and learning the bits and bytes of the hardware.

Vearnstation V1.0 (nice Ergotech computer table? )

Later on late in year 2003 when I started with LowYat.Net, I begin to learn on how to assemble, troubleshoot and repair my rig. My rig was updated with:

• 2x 512MB RDRAM (rambus again for smoother run on Windows XP)
• JVC Liteon DVD-Rom
• Liteon CDRW-Rom
• Enlight 420W PSU
• HIS ATI Radeon 9600xt Excalibur Edition (for the sake of The Sims 2)
• Rear 80mm Coolermaster White Neon Fan
• Altec Lansing AHS502 Headphone
• 15″ Philips LCD Monitor (dual monitor setup is fun )

The Vearnstation V1.1 lasted for me about almost a year before I move on with V2.

Vearnstation V2.0 coming up next…

• Hong Kong’s Typhoon Signal No.9

It was told by the weather forecast a day before that a Typhoon Nuri is coming straight to Hong Kong and preparing the people that Typhoon Signal No.8 will be hoisted. For anyone that doesn’t know, when Typhoon Signal No.8 and above hoisted (No.10 is the highest which is a disaster), all offices, shops and schools will be closed. Public transportation such as buses and trains will be at reduced service and frequency. It will be very unlucky for those who are coming or leaving Hong Kong by air planes, boats and ferries as the services will be halted due to the typhoon.

The weather seems to be very hot and calm at night. My colleagues and I thought tomorrow we will be seeing each other again in the office. It is not until 8.00am that they hoisted the Typhoon Signal no.8 which indicate most probably another lazy day off. I can felt the strong wind even inside the apartment which later the day at 3.00pm, they raised it to Typhoon Signal No.9 which has not been raised since 5 years ago. My colleague and I decided to go down to get some food. As most of the shops closed, we left choices of McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut only.

Lets have a look on the condition of the typhoon at Hong Kong

Could you notice the banners and umbrellas are flying? *Try notice the old lady on the right trying to hold her umbrella walking against the wind*

Another poor old lady which dragged a few feets behind trying to hold on her umbrella.

Usually during these typhoon, the public rubbish bin will always be filled with “failed” umbrellas. *Can notice the purple one lying on the street on the upper right? The previous old lady decided to give up *

Now this is something special and truly remarkable. My colleague trying to walk backwards using his back against the wind to protect our McDonalds than flying away

This is something which we would not experience in Malaysia.

• Day 20082008, My Hong Kong’s Workstation

Today is 20th of August year 2008 which is 20-08-2008 or simply 20.08.2008; 20082008. Honestly, I didn’t even realize the date till someone greet me “Happy 20082008″ in MSN. LoL ~

Since I’m busy with my work and spending only limited time on designing my blog and customizing it. I simply take a photo of my current workstation in my apartment at Hong Kong which I do all my work on it. Here it is the place where my first layout and the design of this site were born. Special thanks to Daniel Chew whom helped me out with the theme and layout.

Hong Kong is a small country with a huge number of population. The lands are very expensive and people having high living standard. The apartment which I’m living in now considered one of very good average home for the Hongkies, despite being small and need to fit in one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom with toilet and two rooms. I’m now in the smaller room which the windows facing outside which has pretty good scenery.

Alright, here is my workstation at Hong Kong.

Yeah, you can absolutely see me on the reflect of the windows while I’m taking this shot. Nothing much on this workstation actually. From left to right you’ll see a container which I dump small and tiny pieces inside as not to mess up the place. Then we’ll see watch, camera pouch, wallet, pack of Watson tissue, small notebook, a pen, keys, QP pendant, pendrive and handphone. Usually these are all my carryings while I’m out of the apartment. Upper part obviously you can see a pink water tumbler (I have no choice as this is the only colour left) and a glass of milk which I usually take before going to sleep.

Next, the big player is on the middle which is a Lenovo IBM ThinkPad R61i which belongs to my company. Thanks to my boss in Hong Kong for his permission to let me use the laptop at home. Definitely not forget to thanks to the anonymous who “lend” me their wireless Internet connection. On top of the laptop is Audio Technica ATH-FC700 headphone. The Bronze Matte console on the right after the mouse is my PSP which come in handy when I feel like going for two or three rounds of Burnout Dominator to ease my mind. Wondering what the pieces of paper doing there? One for my “mousepad” and another one for short notes. This is where I started all for this site.

• New Site, New Blog, New Life

27th March 2008 which officially tells I’m 23 this year. Life has been going up and down all the times and mostly preference towards the down side. Arghhh… what a life!!! Well, hoping it to be better after this and definitely must be good ~ waaa-chaaaa!!!

I registered for this host and domain for quite some time already, however nothing much been touched and the total bandwidth for one whole year not even touching 20Mbps. Hahaha ~ what a waste. Now it will be a brand new start for my blog from here on. Lets see when will be the next entries ~ LoL *pretty busy these days*

P/S: Special thanks to my friends who remembered my birthday and wished me. I really appreciate a lots