Hello Hardy Heron

April 26th, 2008 by kwong

After building my new quad-core computer (1, 2, 3), it was time for me to choose an operating system.
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Q9450 Initial OC Result

April 14th, 2008 by kwong

I have read speculations before its launch time that the new 45nm processors are going to be easy over clocking. So after I built the new machine, I decided to give it a try.
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Some Pictures of My New Rig

April 12th, 2008 by kwong

In yesterday’s post, I listed all the components I used in my new rig. Here are some of the pictures I took while building it:
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My Q9450 Arrived

April 11th, 2008 by kwong

My Q9450 finally arrived yesterday.
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Where Are the 45nm Quad Cores?

March 18th, 2008 by kwong

Last week, all the news source speculated the imminent launch of three 45nm Quad Core Processors from Intel.
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NTFS Partition Recovery With Linux

March 16th, 2008 by kwong

Over the years, I have formed the habit of keeping an up-to-date backup copy of all my critical data on a regular basis.
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XP Install Overwrites NTLDR

March 1st, 2008 by kwong

I thought it was going to be a non-eventful evening when I decided to install Windows XP on a second hard drive on one of my servers running Windows Server 2003 (well, I had some issues with the wireless card driver on Windows Server 2003 and wanted to see if the OS was the cause).
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Router Configuration on Port 80? It’s Never a Good Idea

February 27th, 2008 by kwong

A few weeks ago, one of my co-worker showed me how he monitors his home internet connection remotely using DynDNS.
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A Stange Issue With Global.asax

February 18th, 2008 by kwong

I always use Global.asax for centralized error handling in my ASP.Net applications and typically it works great.
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The Elusive File.Copy

January 11th, 2008 by kwong

A while ago, I discussed some interesting behavior of File.Exist function in .Net. Recently I found out that File.Copy is just as elusive when UNC is involved.
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