Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Ah, the refreshing music from Arctic Monkeys plays in my favorite media player: foobar2000. Their music is somewhat unique and catchy, that I don't know which genre it belongs to. Anyways, I'm not here to talk about the album (which is the title of this post).


Out of boredom, I began to type in the keyword "techrangers" and "techranger" in Google. And so I discovered that we're not the only Techrangers out there. Simply put, here's the result:

1. CDWS: Techrangers
They are a division of Course Development & Web Services at the University of Central Florida. Obviously they have nothing to do with us, since none of us ever stepped foot on that university. Their role, however, is pretty much similar: provide tech support.

2. Flickr: Six Degrees of Techrangers
A collection of party pictures, probably related to the first result. Again, none of these pictures have us inside, so don't waste your time looking for us there.

3. High Tech Rangers FC Information
Some football club I guess. From Cheltenham League? Never heard of it.

4. http://techranger.com/
Pure rubbish. It's not even a real website.

5. Tech Ranger
On-site PC support & rescue.

6. Techranger's "just for fun" site
A blog about racing horses. Weird.

7. techranger.com blog
Honestly the blog doesn't make sense to me.

Other than that, it appears that someone is using "techrangers" as his/her username. Oh well...

Jumping Ship! All aboard AMD! :P

Been playing Empire:Total War and Sims 3 on my PC for a while, at first I been patient enough to withstand the low frame rate and low settings. Even on that settings, the frame rate still stutter and the game perform poorly :(

And yesterday I was reaching a breaking point. Been greeted with 3 times (yes 3 times) blue screen of death is not funny, and worse, it happens when I play the games For the motherboard, I pick Asus M4N78 Pro with GeForce 8300 onboard graphics. Capable of Hybrid SLI, this board sure can accommodate my need for performance.


Inside is pretty much basic stuff, surprisingly from Asus. But it got nice small thing that most motherboard manufacturer didn't see, a small socket call Q-Connector. This small connector organized casing power button, reset button on single connector and just plug the connector. I didn't have to use magnifying glass to see what's written on the board anymore :D

The price? its price RM365, but the seller give me discount RM2.... ^_^;


And for the processor, meet Phenom X3 8650 (OMG! Its AMD!) I know, Im jumping ship as I short on money and need quick upgrade, this is the best I can buy, just for RM275.

In short, my upgrade costs RM638. Not bad, in a few months maybe I will upgrade my graphic card too, currently running on 8800GT 512MB.


Windows Installation nightmare


After assembly and first boot-up, Windows Vista load normally but detect so many new hardware. I decide to repair or upgrade windows installation only, but at that time, its already 1am in the morning.

I left my PC to install Windows and sleep..........

Around 4am I wake up and see blank screen with "Disk read error, press Alt+Ctrl+Del to continue" message. Damn, is it my seagate drive malfunction? Im scared like hell already.

And the windows installation stalled. I dont have a choice but to reformat partition C: from my Seagate drive T_T After clean install, Vista works perfectly but pops out new message.

"Please activate your Vista" LULZ, ok I just go activate. But.... the system said that my key has been activated! Ouch! There it goes my original copy of Vista, >.<

After all drivers installed and system is stable, I install the games. See what triple-core can do compare to my old Pentium 4. And hell yeah! it was a blast. Although I still can't play at max settings (because of my graphic card) at least I can play smoothly on medium or high on 1680x1050 resolution.

Well after done testing, I need to go back study, I had exam today! wish me luck! :)

Windows 7 craze! Microsoft release boxart

DailyTech website posts up picture on Windows 7 boxart will look like. Seems like Windows 7 will be package in Home Premium, Professional (reminds me for XP Pro) and Ultimate version.

Pick which one you like, as Microsoft plans to release Windows 7 on 22nd October. Buy original! XD

Meet The Techrangers

Techrangers

• is a Gforumer
• have green and bolded usernames
• have semi-mod powers
• is responsible for the Gforum's Tech Section
• should be fairly knowledgeable in tech
• is constantly in need for new hardware & software (please donate)
• somewhat have a dry sense of humor

sharif-strike

• leads the Techrangers
• is taking Diploma in Computer Science (Multimedia)
• still uses CRT monitors
• craves for raw power
• ventures into 64-bit computing
• uses foobar2000 v0.9.5.5 with noise sharpening plugin
• likes Google Chrome
  
• plays Zerg
• uses liquid-cooling system (broken and replaced with CM Vortex 752)
  
• prefers instrumental music
• almost immune to moe
  
• is usually stuck in crappy wireless services
• also does photography and graphic design
• wishes he owns a DSLR (do give me one for free :D)
• dreams of driving a muscle car
  

RevolutionWorks

• veteran moderator who been semi-retired by being techrangers :D
• Currently studying for Master of Science (Computer Science)
• Hold Diploma in Computer Science and Bachelor Degree in Computer Science (Multimedia Computing)
• Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): ASP.NET
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• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework
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• runs Windows Vista on an AMD Phenom X3 processor (with 4GB RAM!)
• Got 2 free copies of Windows 7 Pro from MSDN AA but still don't upgrade yet.
  
• have 6 fans running inside its NVIDIA casing
  
• plays GDI (Global Defense Initiative)
• is known to own a PS2,PSP,PS3 and an X360
• rarely watch anime or read manga nowdays
  
• is older than sharif
• NVIDIA FTW
• is busy "with his master study"
• never met sharif face-to-face before

halfey

• freestyler (in terms of fashion)
• loves extreme music (rock) but classical always own by default
• likes to cook and experimenting with new recipes (western food)
  
• shares everything with nobody
  
• gives a damn (LOL)
• hates happy-fun anime
• wants an Intel Core i5 CPU
  
• wishes to see a true-color pigment-based display technology in his lifetime
• needs ridiculous amount of money right now (seriously LOL)
  
• will kill for nothing
  
• hopes everything he dislike will vanish from this world
• asks "what's the answer for life, the universe and everything?"
• has been on internet forum since 2003
• was a lolicon (and still a lolicon LOL)
• wonders what would happen if the internet never exist
  
• feels uneasy when the boss is around LOL
• thinks equal rights ain't necessary; equal chance is
  
• says "Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit"
  
• is an audiophile

Sorrow Days, and Extra Storage

Lately it's been a little sorrow for me, since my Chinese grandfather just passed away last Friday. To be honest, I don't know him much, since he was Chinese and lives in Johore, while I live high up in Kedah. Still, it does leave some impact to me. If you're wondering, yes, I share a blood relation with him. He was very old, but yet very kind. Although our cultures and religion might be different, a family is still a family.

Moving on, I've just arrived in KL yesterday, and went straight to Low Yat. I managed to collect enough money to buy myself a new hard disk: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB. Gone now the days where I have to delete something just to get something else in. At least for now. The already cheap drive just got cheaper; mine is priced at RM320, giving an easy 32 cents per GB. A fresh new hard drive waiting to be filled. Yay. Bigger drives generally mean faster drives; each section of data is smaller on the disk, which results in lesser movements required by the read/write head.



On the side note, whenever you buy an extra internal hard disk, plug it in and directly turn on the PC, you won't find the hard disk in Windows even if it shows up in the BIOS. This is because a fresh hard disk has no partitions. So you will have to create at least one partition for your hard disk, using a Windows Setup CD/DVD (just stop at making partitions, you don't need to install Windows). If you don't have one, you can grab a DOS bootdisk instead. If you're going to use DOS, use the command FDISK to create a partition. A menu should appear and it shouldn't be too hard to understand the interface. Formatting the drive in DOS or Windows Setup isn't necessary, the drive will appear in Windows after that. You can then format the drive in Windows, and your new hard disk is good to go.