Archive for the geeky Category

Apple Revolution 1976 – 2007

Posted in geeky, macosx, pics, techie on July 18, 2007 by althelix

Apple Revolution

A friend of mine give me this picture showing the products by Apple since the early days…. I think its way cool. I hope everyone likes it the way I do.

My OSx86 installation is not helping at all (the DVD I got is version 10.4.5). I had make the box kernel panic at least twice – by tweaking the wireless for both build-in and pcmcia card (still not working though). I hope that i will be able to try it out again soon (when I got more information on the setup and tweaking). For now, I’m learning OpenBSD 4.1 stuff.. based on this book and the man pages, of course.

My Transparent Network Cable…

Posted in bestbuy, geeky, malaysian, wired on June 6, 2007 by althelix

To be exact, it is a transparent Cat5e UTP cable. But kinda looong – 7 meters!.. Well, actually, I saw the cable at Tesco Penang when I went to shop for my groceries and I just had to visit the IT Cable Section and saw the cable… (honestly, I didn’t aspect I’m gonna find cool stuff like the cable there!)

Anyway, sorry, I don’t remember the price anymore.. haha. But, if i’m not mistaken, the price range between RM10 – RM15. So far, I had use it several times but since its too long, I think I will cut it into 2 (each 3.5 meters) and recrimp each end. Most probably, I will leave one at home and the other I will keep it in my bag (so I could use it at work.. ). Well, I won’t take a 7 meter network cable to work anymore – I had the experience of my senior (in fact he’s a CCIE in Routing and Switching) laughed at me jokingly because I was carrying a 7-meter network cable everyday to work! Check out the pics below. It was taken by Raz when he visited my house on Sunday last week (Thanx man! Well, he had come over to my house to learn how to crimp network cables!)

Isn’t it long?Close Up at the RJ45 HeadI’m connected…

Kill Your Television?

Posted in free stuff, geeky, multiplatform, music, open, techie, video on June 3, 2007 by althelix

Indeed. Thats the title of the ‘about’ page of Revision3, an internet based media company that blends information with entertainment, providing downloadable technology-related videos mainly to geeks.

Revision3

There are various different shows ‘airing’ at Revision3:

The video shows are easily distributed and work in various platform since it can be downloaded directly or downloaded via Bittorrent and encoded in various different format – Quicktime, Theora, WMV, Xvid as well as flash! Cool isn’t it?

Currently I’m downloading systm in Quicktime format. So far, I’ve downloaded 5 episodes and will be downloading all the aired shows as well as subscribe to the upcoming shows. I think everyone interested in technology should take a look at the site and start viewing the shows!

One more thing I should add – If you had watched The Screen Savers, a TV show previously aired on TechTV (shown in Malaysia via Astro’s TVIQ Channel), you would remember some of the faces in the videos. So now you can expect the quality of the presentation and content of the shows rite?