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  1. Oh it is and still ongoing but now I have my 3yo to attend too as well due to my wife continuing her confinement at my MiLs with the other two kids. After a clean rebuild last night I have got the disk to disk speeds up to 80-90MB/s internal transfer, copying to the 4 disk raid is the same but copying from the raid to a single disk hit 122MB/s which is very nice. Only problem is that network speeds are still only maxing around 40MB/s for both Windows copies via a mapped drive (Samba) and FTP so it looks like there really is an issue with the network card and motherboard and Linux at the moment. At least it is usable now but just not at an optimum speed. Ever onwards .... . RB
  2. I demand photographic evidence. Ely in a maids outfit...cleaning, can or not... doesn't matter . I wonder if I buy my wife a cooks outfit whether she will start cooking . RB
  3. Ha, guess I was lucky that my wifes ex hubby paid already so my wifes mum waved off 'purchase price' in order to get the black sheep to move on. As we are both black sheep (although there is very little stigma attached any more in the west on divorce) so we knew better what to look out for in each other before tying the knot. She is certainly not the black sheep any more in the family . Old ways not so good ways sometimes. Agree with the photography. People should just book a session any time just to take pictures with hubby or family. Have a second wedding package but just take the photography as it may be cheaper than just paying for portrait photography. I really wanted to go to Keppel container docks and have some pics by the cranes with the wedding attire but the photographers just looked at me funny. RB
  4. Thanks Ely, will update the list. RB.
  5. Yeah I know what you mean but I wanted 10+ drives for both media and full backup and for around 1k + drive price. Not sure where can get for ready made like Synology. It is getting all the drive bays connected that is the problem. Standing on the cutting edge of technology then your gonna bleed a little . Once I get the network speed sorted out I will have 20 bays for my array of media (so upto 20TB based on current drives) plus backup plus extras. RB
  6. How bizarre. From China you say.... I don't seem to get that problem and always carry a folding umbrella in Singapore. Strangely I never carried one in the UK. You need the right umbrella... think Blade runner clear plastic dome umbrella. RB
  7. Oh well on a lighter note, I cleaned the sofa cushions last weekend. I will put an account of the experience up after I grab some lunch. It should bring a smile to your face..... RB
  8. Oh, I saw this than thought of you.... Maybe hubby can get it for you. It is an umbrella light so you can walk in the rain and still be in the spotlight looking fabulous . Not sure why it is under top 100 home improvement tools though . RB
  9. I would hope he does.... No it was more about my discussing your butt that he may object too . Not that I could claim to remember perfectly as it was a while ago since we all met up. Np. Ahh, I thought it was but then I have not read up on it that much. Probably worth it if you are likely to have lots of other region movies like I have. RB
  10. Yeah, it is all about the 'face' thing again for the parents. We tend to have a wedding ceremony, a special friends and family lunch then some drinking and dancing, then dinner (possibly buffet) with friends, then out for a night on the town. Can make the wedding night a bit of a 'let down' if your not careful though . RB
  11. Thanks Joyous. Both my parents birthdays are about 5 days apart (different years though). My birthday is the same day and month as my uncle (by marriage). Obviously different years though . Lots of strange coincidences around. Keeps the world interesting, jsut don't look too hard or you may see the cracks. RB
  12. Yeah, I am not going to even go there least I incur the wrath of your hubby . Thread some solid wire up, using a metal coat hanger unwound would work, from the bottom with some string taped to it. Tie or tape the string to the cable to be pulled down. Same method for putting the cables through out living room light box. May need a little patients but should work well. I could do the same but time spent watching is time not spent fixing . Have a detailed account on my T-Blog . What is the mod kit meant to add to your 93 ?. RB
  13. This is a techie post . Oh, wow is me...... Little did I know the pain this weekend would bring, the frustration, the mental anguish... yes, my Nas is not working the way I would like so I cannot watch my TV shows or movies from it at the moment. It all started when... {slowly fade out} [4 days earlier]. Thursday night... So I decided to get a new video card for my PC as I am using quite an old although perfectly adequate one. Popped to the shop and bought it, got home and put it in, installed the software and ...... faulty.....had to take it back to the shop. Tried WhatsApp, SMS and calling my ID to confirm workmen would be coming tomorrow as I had booked a days leave to oversea the final work. Friday Woke up, sat around watching 'The Walking Dead" TV show (very good if you like zombie apocalypse type movies / shows) waiting for the shop to open after 11am. Went to the shop and they have no other cards of the same type or higher in stock. Only thing I could do was buy a new motherboard and processor for my Nas which I needed to upgrade so I could use all 20 hard drive bays if I wanted too. Bought an Asus LGA1155 motherboard and an i3 2100 processor with a little top up. Got the parts home and fitted them to my Nas case. Decided to take one for the SSD hard drives (60GB Vertex II) from my main PC and use it in the Nas for power savings and speed. This means I also need to rebuild my main PC to windows 7 again. Problem 1 - Went to connect everything in the Nas to the PSU (power supply unit) only to find the PSU in the case has only one 4pin 12v connector and the motherboard needs 2. Took the PSU out of my main PC which has 2x4pin 12v connectors. Put it in the Nas case and connected to motherboard then realised it only had 3 Molex connectors (older style power connectors for hard drives and the like). I need 7 for the drive bays and fans. Took the PSU out and went back to the shop and bought a new PSU. Put the PSU in and connected everything up. Since the Linux version I was using (Fedora 14) has just released an updated version I though I would try it out. I downloaded the Fedora 15 install DVD which took a while and burnt it to a DVD disc. I changed my hard drive layout in the drive bays. I have 5 rows of 4 bays plus 3 internal bays. I am using the internal bays for the OS drive, Download area and DVD Rom drive. The 5 rows are for media array (rows 1&2 - 8 drives max), backup (row 3&4 - 8 drives max), odds and ends (row 5). Only half of the drive bays are full at the moment. So I put in the Fedora 15 dvd and booted up. The Asus board has the lovely new EFI BIOS so you can use a mouse and it looks much nicer than the very old style BIOS. Configured the hardware and booted from the DVD. Problem 2 - The SSD drive from the main PC had been used in an array (two drives together acting as 1) and the install saw this and decided it would not allow me to use this hard drive. I had to download another DVD which would allow me to start the system from the DVD (Known as a live DVD in Linux) and use the tools to wipe the SSD card so I could install the operating system to it). SSD hard drives are usually much faster then normal hard drives so you would usually use it for the operating system which would make the system run faster usually. That all done, I rebooted with the install DVD again. The install went thought the local and keyboard settings, network setup and then crashed with an unspecified error. Problem 3 - So the install keeps erroring but doesn't tell me why. After 3 attempts I try my old Fedora 14 install DVD giving up on the newer version. This install DVD also crashes out but it highlights the reason saying there is an issue with one of my 2TB backup drives. After trying to fix the issue with no success I end up having to wipe the hard drive but even this doesn't fix the issue. As a last attempt I move the hard drive to another bay and it works fine. Seems there may be an issue with that bay in the case. Saturday... The install runs and completes. One of the changes is that it is now using a newer version of the windows manager which gives the system its look and feel. Fedora 15 uses Gnome 3 rather than the older Gnome 2. This has a different look and feel and takes a bit of getting used too. The biggest criticism a lot of people have raised is that it takes longer to do things due to where they have been put. I would have to agree and some of the utilities I use are now missing. I recopy the backup data lost from the 2TB drive and then add a new rive to my media array and copy all the data back on to it. I move onwards and set-up Samba (the software that allows windows machines to see files on the NAS). The install and configuration of Samba is fine. Now I need to rebuild my main PC. As I only have one SSD 60GB hard drive now for Windows 7 I decide to move the program files and users folders on to a much bigger Seagate hard drive. I follow the guides around the internet and most of it works apart from a few small issues. New software is not being properly installed to the second (D:) hard drive. After doing a bit of digging I find a registry entry that needs fixing that was not in the online guides. Unfortunately it is now too late with updates and software installed between the two drives the system is not very happy. I decide to reinstall and to manually install software to the second drive when I can. Finally the Windows 7 main PC is rebuilt and I connect to the shares on the NAS and try playing a file... oh dear, it is going very slowly. So slowly it cannot maintain a video without keeping stopping. I test transfer a couple of files and can only get just over 2MB/s (I say 90MB/s before upgrading). Sunday Problem 5 - I check the network cards and switch but they are all showing 1Gb/s speed settings. I try the motherboard NIC but that is not even recognised. I try putting the NIC in a new slot and that give improvement for 15 minutes then back to the same as before. I tried via my media player and the same slow speeds so it is the Nas and not the widows machine. I noticed some old log files on the Nas that should have been removed on install so I am guessing the install tried to upgrade and got confused. I set about trying to install the older version that was working fine previously. Problem 6 - The older install DVD now will not install as there are conflicts with the software it is trying to install. I go to the Fedora website and they no longer offer version 14 as version 15 is out so I have to 'guess' a link to download the older version and set it of downloading last night. When I get home I will burn another DVD and clean the SSD in the Nas before starting again with Fedora 14. And I thought it would just be a simple upgrade... RB
  14. Ok, so we are sorting out the attendance for baby's first month so if you would like to come (all are welcome with partners, kids and assorted animals if desired) then please let me know in the thread for the gathering here. RB
  15. Please let me know if you would like to come but are not on the list below as we will be sending out the e-invites with details of how to find us to those people. Confirmed would like to comers so far in no particular order of superbness (you are all equally superb ) hafiizh Kobelala potatoes ngunadi & Wifey Ely & Hubby Please let me know if you will be bringing the loves of your life with you and any kids so we can work out head count for food. I will add to the list as and when others make their desires to visit known. RB
  16. I take it you got your speaker wire then . It is coming on pretty well so far. The filling for the trunking is usually passed on to the painters by the electricians so will need to check them. Fillin gin the big gaps is not so easy to get a nice finish. I tend to cut fill plastic pieces from left over trunking and glue them to fill most the gap then seal up and hide all joints with filler. RB
  17. Yeah we did the same then threw the extra copies as the carrot then hit them with the stick of take the carrot or get bare minimum. Luckily they liked my carrot so I could put the stick away. Considering we don't usually do the whole wedding boutique thing in the west with the photos etc, it is a major expense above what we would already pay for a wedding. Worth it though as some of the photos are very nice. RB
  18. I am sure we can be a little more inventive. Dog barking. "Oh your so pretty..." (effeminate male voice) "Give us a kiss." (Gruff male voice) "Whatcha want girlfriend." (Strong female voice) "Look at the size of that thing..." (Starwars quote) "You ring I come, you ring I come." (Hassled Chinese mans voice) "Kopi time." (Any voice). "[loud]Shhh, if we are quiet maybe they will think we are out." (Any voice) "One potato, two potato, three potato, four." (Kids voice - nursery rhyme) "You ask him in, and I will hide behind the door with a baseball bat." (Male voice) "Honey, another client for you..." (male voice calling out). I think I have to go searching for mp3 playing door bell now . RB
  19. I paid for our wedding out of my own pocket and with very little savings before moving to Singapore. Bearing in mind we had known each other for about 6 months before we got married and had only been together in the same country for about 1 month although the phone bills when we were apart were huge. We ended up choosing a ROM buffet (Msonic club) for family and friends as the wedding was not the first for either of us so a banquet was deemed 'inappropriate'. It was fine and the service was around the side in a nice little private area. For the wedding package we ended up with a 2k photography package and went all around Sentosa, by the colourful shop houses near the bridal shop, down by the Singapore river and finally got chased out of Chimes . We ordered one big album, one large picture for the wall, two small print albums for the parents. We topped up 1k for the extra prints we wanted but on the agreement that we would get a DVD with all the shots of the day. They were very resistant to this and at first only begrudgingly offered a DVD of the pics in the albums we had selected. After another 30 minutes of negotiation I finally put it to them.... We want a DVD of all the uneditied shots from the day (i.e. they do not have to process the shots to make them look better, just want the shots straight as they come from the camera), the extra prints we selected, the two small, one big albums and the big picture. We would pay 3k only for those and if they would not give us the DVD we would get the 2K only standard package and nothing else. After back and forth for the 10th time to the boss they came back with a counter offer. If we agreed for them to use our shots for promotional photobooks we had a deal. So we got our DVD of all the shots, got our books and wall hanging picture (which my wife now wishes to change) and ended up on some bridal shops demo photobooks . It was hard going though to get the DVD and took more than an hour of negotiating. I am not sure if the shops have loosened up on giving these out now. RB
  20. I know that feeling as people tend to stare at me sometimes but it is not because of rashes. Mainly the old Chinese uncles and aunties but some not so old too. Sure they staring at your rashes and not your petite butt . Yep same plan as us. As our downstairs TV is only 1080i the amp defaults to that for the HDMI connections so the media player downscales to 1080i even though the projector can handle 1080p. A new 1080p TV for the living room will resolve the issue and the 42" can go to the bedroom with the 37" bedroom one (free from Starhub 4 years ago for signing up for HD with them.... oh where have those offers gone) will go to my sons room. Sorting out the Nas etc is very secondary, no need to rush as other basic things more important . My Nas is giving me massive problems... I can feel a long post about it in my thread coming up ...... RB
  21. If he is not careful he will have to sell his new home to pay for all the durian he will own. The O$P$ will become ODPD written on his front door . RB
  22. Ah spoken like true serial killer (Grahams quote, not you ). Although surely normality is the desire of the conformists rather than the escapologists. Just finished the first season of 'The Walking Dead'. ant wait for the second currently in production. Up now after spending most the day rebuilding my NAS so all 20 drive bays will work and my workstation. Oh there were some challenges hence still up at 2am. Time for some . RB
  23. Yes that was the place also in Suntec. I would love some of their stuff but with 3 kids around who love sword fighting with their foam swords it really is far too risky. Of course your son would love it. He is a guy and of course all the boys know the girls love a guy with a big sword in their pocket . RB
  24. Give KEC or any of the other Adelphi shops a call to find out what their competitive prices are. Prices are subject to change fairly quickly depending on market conditions and if new models are coming out or if they have shortage / overstock of a particular model. Have a google for KEC as their contact number is online, the same for some of the other Adelphi shops. Buying online internationally will be cheaper although you need to factor in shipping which can be expensive as amps tend to be heavy and quite large. You also need to confirm warranty and if you can get it repaired in Singapore under the supplied warranty if shipped from outside Singapore. Sometimes you can still get repairs if something goes wrong but it will be much more expensive that a local unit or it is possible to get refused official repair for an international model (I have had this with a computer part bought overseas where the local service centre refused outright to even look at it as it was not Singapore bought). RB
  25. Easy, don't sign, cannot do. HDB website doesn't make it clear you can sign the indemnity form and what works are covered by it, especially not where it lists out works that are not allowed which would seem to be the logical place to put it. Rumour is that is already happening . Yep, where are all the pics . RB
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