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  • Amrita enjoying 2 ice-creams at once

    Don’t believe me? Watch it for yourself!

  • Farewell dinner party for Jose

    Enjoyed an extremely wonderful dinner party for Jose. Iain, Sasha, Sandy, Dinesh, kids and us enjoyed it alot. Was very interesting to meet new friends, have a nice little chat, mixed with rare Moldovan dinner, and special Moldova wines, of course! Second round was with Turkish, Indian sweets, and hot cup of delightful Turkish tea.

    Farewell Jose

  • Gifu Trip

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    Trip to Gifu with my friends – Gary, Dinesh and Jose. We had an excellent weekend stay.

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  • Hamster for kids

  • Printer not connecting – Troubleshoot

    Didn’t realize turning on “TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper” service would solve the issue. The message “Printer spooler is not running” is completely misleading.

  • Weather in Tsukuba Japan

    Weather in Tsukuba Japan

  • Replacing memory in a desktop – Binary algorithm?

    Cut long story short … computer started to act weird, narrowed down to memory problem. Got 4 slots 1 GB each, and 1 of them is faulty. Want to find out which one, and get rid of it.
    Problem is, how quickly can I find it?

    Replacing memory using Binary algorithm

    I have to shutdown the computer, then remove one memory, start it up, if no problems – hurray! I found it out in first shot (lucky?). If not, I remove next one, still no good. Remove third one, nope. Remove fourth one, YES!

    Took 4 times to restart till I narrowed it to last one.

    Interesting.

    Can I do it quicker, not 4 times, without relying on luck, but guaranteed!?!

    Tried below

    • Took out all, put one by one back … not good – still minimum 3 restarts till I can say last one remaning in my hand is the bad one, because the 3 that went in don’t give the problem anymore.
    • Pick up one by one … oops we already tried that :-S
    • Pick randomly? – Not allowed to be lucky, no.
    • Put 2, keep 2. Hmmm … this seems good. First restart, all good. That means one of those in my hand is faulty. Remove good ones, put those in my hand, baam! Second restart, remove 1, keep 1 back, third restart – either one in my hand is faulty, or the one plugged in. – 3 restarts … wait
    • What if I don’t put the two in my hand together? First restart says the 2 plugged in are good. So, to know which one in my hand is faulty, I put only _one_ back in. Second restart, if good, the one in my hand is faulty!

    Hurray, I can do it just in two steps. Put 2 in, keep 2. Restart says OK. Means bad 1 is in other 2. Put 1, restart. OK. 1 I didn’t put back in was faulty!

    4 memory slots, 1 faulty. 2 restarts to find which one. I know Binary algorithm in real life!

  • Infinity Blade – Awesome game on iPad2

    Infinity Blade – Awesome game on iPad2

    Trust me, I haven’t got enough after hours of playing this one! The graphics are unbelievable, and best of all – iPad2! Yuhuuu!

  • HTML 5 Fish swimming over my desktop

    Isn’t this beautiful!

    Fish swimming over desktop