Remember when my laptop’s motherboard was fried?

Then it came where my desktop’s OS hard disk was corrupted – just last week. I managed to fix the errors and it was back and running a day later. I decided to give it a soft run – running non intensive or critical applications as well as reducing read/write load on the hard disk, and it’s been running for nearly 5-6 days till today, it crashed again.

I roughly figured out what’s wrong, it happens when I’m multitasking with Google Chrome (my quick startup browser), Firefox (normal usage browser) and Lightroom (my photo management/editing software) and a few other small applications running.

Not related to this whole ordeal, my network storage is finally maxed out. 50GB remaining but insufficient for the next few months. The last wedding alone took up 50GB on each NAS, desktop and laptop hard disks.

So now it’s back to the drawing board on how to build up my work studio. I think I’ll be heading downtown this weekend to get fresh sets of hard disks. Two 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black for the desktop to be RAID 1, a normal hard disk for OS. Then will decide on whether to upgrade the desktop or to get 2 more 1TB hard disks for the NAS. Ugh decisions.

And uh I definitely need to get a FireWire card reader. And uh a small and efficient laptop cooler. And uh, CAT5 network cables. And DVD-Rs.

This upgrade will definitely cost more than RM2000. T_T

P/S: I think the wedding is jinxed towards me. All my hardware fails right after the Hen’s night and Wedding.

1. Run a Game Server (dedicated game server)
2. Run a Webserver (host websites/scripts)
3. Run a database server (to compliment the webserver)
4. Run an online radio/video streaming server
5. Create a virtual private network (VPN, for proxying your internet connection)
6. Run a VOIP server (make calls online, free?)
7. Run a IRC server (mIRC days huh?)
8. Run a FTP server (host and transfer files between people)
9. Run a torrent tracker server or just download torrents with the VPS/VDS
10. Host a cloud computing software

Here’s what you can’t do with a VPS/VDS:

1. Can’t use it as a very expensive paperweight (however your physical server can)

That’s all that I can think of. Any more? Leave a comment!

The Good:

1. Chrome’s tab interface is cool and easy to use. Love the tab dragging feature. Truely drag & drop.
2. Chrome’s Omnibox (a.k.a Address box) is quite cool as auto complete is better than Firefox’s (so I heard, but initial tests were quite good)
3. Chrome’s start page is very innovative. And time saving as well.
4. Die pop-ups! DIE!
5. No title bar = more viewing space for laptop users like me. Only tabs bar and navigation bar. Bookmarks bar as well, if you want it. Status bar is also no no, but replaced with a pop up one. No idea how to describe it to you. Go see for yourself.
6. History Page is unique, has timestamps on all the pages/sites that you went to. It’s a page on its own. The Download window (in Firefox) also follow’s the History Page’s format. Haven’t test it out yet but I guess it’s about the same.
7. Not enough screen real estate on your textbox? Expand it! All textboxes (multi line) can be resized for better viewing.
8. Google Chrome’s FAQ/Manual/Story.