Friday, 31 October 2008

asus eee pc s101

最近幫朋友查看Asus EeePC最新型號S101,找到一篇「Asus Eee PC S101 深入評測--效能實戰篇」(by CNET/郭立偉),這個評測無擬是勸敗S101的,但看看它那個16GB MLC SSD的讀寫速度,和SATA比較,真是令人難以置信。

Windows XP配這個SSD,是否真的會跑快一倍?


節錄:

比較機種的硬碟規格如下:
Asus Eee PC 1000H -- 2.5吋SATA硬碟
Asus Eee PC 900 -- SLC SSD 與 MLC SSD
Asus F8Va -- 2.5吋SATA硬碟,主流NB
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 -- SSD,1.8吋SATA介面,超輕薄旗艦NB
Asus U2E -- SSD,輕薄NB

[FDBENCH]
效能數據 (Op/min)讀寫隨機讀取隨機寫入
S101 SSD 16GB484487699248530595698702
S101 SDHC 16GB132461810112772165455567
1000H HDD 80GB2854139233412071567418050
900 SLC 4GB234633852514927343046095
900 MLC 8GB175622951010586270753076
F8Va HDD 320GB253795559119022472822174


[HD Tune Pro 讀取測試]
效能數據最低最高平均存取時間Burst
S101 SSD 16GB54.4 MB/s77.4 MB/s72.4 MB/s0.2 ms51.6 MB/s
S101 SDHC 16GB13.6 MB/s17.0 MB/s16.9 MB/s1.1 ms13.3 MB/s
1000H HDD 80GB16.9 MB/s40.3 MB/s31.6 MB/s16.9 ms87.7 MB/s
900 SLC 4GB18.4 MB/s34.9 MB/s29.7 MB/s0.5 ms30.8 MB/s
900 MLC 8GB13.6 MB/s25.8 MB/s23.5 MB/s0.5 ms24.8 MB/s
F8Va HDD 320GB28.8 MB/s61.7 MB/s48.4 MB/s17.6 ms87.5 MB/s
X300 SSD 64GB52.3 MB/s76.6 MB/s58.5 MB/s0.3 ms83.0 MB/s
U2E SSD 32GB26.3 MB/s41.0 MB/s37.0 MB/s0.3 ms38.0 MB/s


[HD Tech 讀取測試]
效能數據平均速率隨機存取時間Burst
S101 SSD 16GB75.8 MB/s0.2 ms88.9 MB/s
S101 SDHC 16GB17.7 MB/s1.1 ms18.2 MB/s
1000H HDD 80GB33.2 MB/s16.7 ms117.3 MB/s
900 SLC 4GB34.8 MB/s0.5 ms42.5 MB/s
900 MLC 8GB28.5 MB/s0.5 ms31.8 MB/s
F8Va HDD 320GB49.8 MB/s18.0 ms168.1 MB/s
X300 SSD 64GB79.6 MB/s0.2 ms97.3 MB/s
U2E SSD 32GB49.1 MB/s0.2 ms57.4 MB/s

Friday, 24 October 2008

sick leave

我望著檯面的Cadbury朱古力已經有四天了,很想咬它一口,不過,一直都作病,先是喉嚨痛,之後是咳。看了兩次醫生,醫生就是不肯開抗生素,說過兩天好不了又死不去就回去再看病(死不去是我自己加上去),算了,反正有保險cover,看他三五七次不花錢,倒是沒所謂。

看完醫生拿了藥,回去讀電郵、工作、上sign、再看電郵、MSN,頭又開始痛了。上頭有一堆工作壓下來,下屬有一堆問題推上來;上頭要短時間完成一堆工作,下屬要多點時間完成一件工作,唉。救命。

sick leave應該寫成「識leave」。看來明天還是要繼續告病假,否則,咳~死梗。咳~

Thursday, 23 October 2008

你撈過界喎

前晚和舊同事於灣仔稻香海鮮火鍋酒樓聚舊打邊爐,被編排坐在一個角落裡,按酒樓的間隔,屬於近窗一行的最盡頭,右面是牆,後面是玻璃幕牆,沒有什麼不好的地方,也不見得會難一點被待應看到。

好不容易才決定要好點的菜,負責該區的待應卻不曉得去了哪兒,等了一會也不見其蹤影,作為食客,自不然舉手去找隨便一個可以落單的待應。後來,有個穿黑色制服的過來,幫我們確認點好的菜。這時,棕色制服、負責該區的待應回來了:

黑正在彎腰確認點菜紙。
棕制服雙手按著黑制服之雙肩,笑著說:「喂,老友你撈過界喎。」
黑制服沒有答他,棕制服自行走開。

我心想:因為你的失職,別人才走過來;作為食客,才不理會你們誰管哪一區什麼的,我只要點菜、上菜、吃菜。況且,在客人面前,這種行徑也是要不得,明明是你忽視了我們,其他同事幫忙才走過來,還要拿個尾彩嗎?

當工作表現不理想時,自不然會被人取蒂,上頭採取的方式可能有很多種,被辭退、被投閒置散、被分配一堆低難度的工作等。原因最終可能只有一個:已經不被信任了。

Thursday, 16 October 2008

lot of tasks

what does it mean by "a lot"?
if lot of = lot of lot of, then
lot of tasks = lot of lot of tasks...
lot of lot of tasks = lot of lot of lot of tasks
lot of lot of lot of tasks = lot of lot of lot of lot of tasks.

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

微軟正黑體

在一台XP機上,改用Vista的微軟正黑體,沒有改Registry(太麻煩,問題又多)。改動後,感覺良好,在16:9的LCD電視上看,也很不錯。太概因為本身FONT SIZE大,DPI又高。

打開IE的Settings,把中文編碼使用的FONT都改成微軟正黑體:

Sunday, 12 October 2008

竹蔗茅根海底椰


最平的八個半有兩支,最貴的九蚊支。真係海鮮價。

Tuesday, 7 October 2008

修改eeepc 901(xp)的profile路徑

朋友托我買了一台EeePC,一啟動,C Drive已經只剩下1GB的容間,即使把My Documents改去D Drive,長此下去,還是會出問題的。尤其是對於不曉得maintenance一台Windows機的用家,似乎有必要將整個Profile搬走,連帶其他用戶文件都可以搬到去D Drive,最多可以放7GB的柬西。

網上找來這個:Move your Documents And Settings USERNAME profile off of the C: drive,值得參考。利用修改Registry,讓Windows把整個profile搬到別的路徑去。以下是中文簡化版:

打開Registry的路徑:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ WindowsNT\ CurrentVersion\ ProfileList,從這裡找一個ProfileImagePath的值等於你使用中的Profile的值,並修改成你想要的新路徑,例如:“D:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME”。

別人說這時要匯出該Key,但我匯出了卻沒有用過它。做與不做,隨你喜歡吧。

重新啟動(不要只登出),並以Administrator的帳戶登入(當然不可以用你自己的戶口)。這是tricky的地方:Windows XP Home是不容許"Administrator"登入(除非Safe mode),所以,最好事前先增加一個管理員級的帳戶,修改完後,請刪掉這個管理員級的帳戶以免成為保安漏洞。

把你的帳戶文件夾(C:\Documents and Settings\Username)覆制到新目錄下,用copy比move要穩陣一點。

由於我沒有用個那匯出的文件,我直接log off管理員再log in自己account,就把原來的帳戶文件夾剛了。

我做的沒有出亂子,不等於其他電腦都可以,最好是參考上面的URL(如果那網址還在的話)。

Sunday, 5 October 2008

一街都係唉瘋

以前買了PDA、電話、iPod,在街上總不希望見到連阿公阿婆賓妹學生哥細路哥都用同一型號,否則會覺得很cheap,因為人總希望自己有一定程度的獨特性,那種與眾不同的感覺永遠是超然的。所以貴價名牌永遠有叫座力,就因為不是每個人都買得起,所以出貨有限。Nokia和LG都明白這道理,所以推出一些價超所值的「高貴電話」,希望可以撈返一筆。

當下滿街都是iPhone,用家各式各樣、男女老幼、貧富貴賤、貓貓狗狗,呃、不對,肯定是富貴,五千幾蚊一部機喎,還要付供應商那開天殺價的月費,肯定非貴則富。

在iPhone推出之前,花五六千元買一台手機,在街上應該不容易跟別人「撞機」,可以很自豪地暗笑「人冇我有。五千蚊,抵!」,貴得有道理。但如今在一卡地鐵列車裡,隨意望望,拿著iPhone把玩著的最少有三五個,其中總有一個唭唭哩哩的。別人望著你用iPhone時,不再是羨慕妒忌的目光,而是「好叻咩?我都有」或者「唓,我成家上下人人都有,連隻狗都有一部,嘿」。那麼,還值得花上萬元買嗎?別忘了還要付data plan月費。

噢,如果沒有data plan不上網的話,那還不如買部iPod Touch。

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討厭的銀行傳單

十年前在外國時已經使用網上理財,可以從容的查閱賬單和繳交卡數,所有通訊都是經電郵。而現在香港只有部分銀行提供網上理財,而且不提供e-statement,即使有,銀行還是會不時郵寄推廣傳單。雖然我明白郵寄推廣傳單的重點,但我還是比較喜歡電郵。

keypad lock on s60

S60 3rd Ed FP1 support keypad autolock. To configure it, open Settings > General > Security > Phone and SIM card > Keypad autolock period, and set your time out period. However, this autolock only work when your phone is in the idle screen, the screen you make calls. If you leave your phone in application view, the phone won't autolock your keypad. Thus, the phone might do strange things because of keypad mis-pressed.

That's why S60 users need a 3rd party's keypad autolock program. But I'm not going to recommend any program, as I just finished one for my company. What I'm going to discuss is how to use both phone's and 3rd party's keypad autolock programs.

Assume your 3rd party keypad lock program works when in application. Set it to some 1 minute to 5 minutes timeout would be great enough. So it won't affect you when you are using your phone and application. But you might wish the phone autolock quicker when you are not using it. That's why some people like flip phones. Since the system's autolock only work in idle screen, set it to 10-30 seconds would be good, especially if you seldom use the Active Standby in the idle screen. This settings work great to me because if I put the phone into idle screen, I am not going to use it for a while. Feel free to try yourself. You can always disable it if you don't like it.

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address book crash on mac osx 10.5.5

After upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.5, my Address Book crash on every launch. The CPU goes insane when it loads, both the applications or the Address Pane inside Mail. After searching the support in Apple's site, here is the solution.

Open ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata and look for group files with "Smart". You can use Spotlight but be careful, it's case sensitive. Those are files causing the crash and removing them will fix it. Oh, technically sayings, the Address Book in Mac OS-X 10.5.5 is not able to handle Smart group with negative filter. That's what users said online. Is it true? That's sucks! Apple please fix your software immediately. That's scary if your software act like Microsoft's.

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