January...

Last year ended with me hoping for a good 2011. However, January is not over yet and I am already so down. Funny that I am usually positive and full of energy. But unfortunately, the new year had a different idea in mind.

Part of which is that one of our clients still hasn't paid us and they seem to have a million excuses on to tell. Majority of those receivables are my payables to a supplier.

Another road block would be where I am teaching. The school has so much potential but the college I am in, for some twisted reason, is the worst college there is. Maybe because our dean has only one thing in mind, which is to get into into a higher post that they neglected one of the biggest part of the academe which is to compensate the educators. The pay isn't the issue but when you are not paid for months, then there is an issue. Politics is really every where and sad to see that the students suffers because of their inefficiency.

Lastly, is that one of my partner in another venture seems to be all talk. We trusted him because he is a friend and we wanted to give him a shot. Now, we are not so sure whether he can put up with his sales pitch to us. The possibilities are endless and our number one enemy is time.

2011, take it easy, it seems that I am facing a storm so early... hope that good things will go my way after this...

My PC set up

I enjoy downloading stuff from the net and from the time I stopped downloading from my laptop, I bought an old desktop PC. Bought this PC December of 2008 and the main purpose of this PC is to download stuff.

Since my PC was previously owned, there will be problems. Started quite fine but as time goes on, certain parts will just have problems. Ranging from Video card, sound card, to hard disk drives. It came to a point that it was so slow that prompted me to switch operating system from Windows to Ubuntu. Luckily, I enjoyed using Ubuntu.

Recently, I was fascinated to plan games again. Not that I will be addicted but as a past time. Unfortunately, most Windows based games are not compatible with Ubuntu or might have a lot of tweaking to do. Also, my PC did have problems loading games for reasons I do not know.

Just when I was about to give up on my quest on how I can play old games (yes I love old games more than new games because newer games requires newer PC specs which I do not have. Another reason is that I simply love old games) my friend mentioned that he is not using his old PC anymore. I quickly went to his place and got the PC.

It wasn't easy since he didn't used the PC for more than a year so there might have problems and yes it did have a lot of problems which I was able to solve. I changed the processor, power supply and even a hard disk (good thing I have an old processor and power supply. A friend gave me a new hard disk on Christmas so I have a spare which I used for this PC.).

My next challenge would be how can I used both when I only have space for one monitor, keyboard and mouse. Then, I discovered through a friend that there exist a product called KVM (Keyboard, Video monitor and Mouse) switch. I spent my Christmas holiday fixing my PCs.

I was in euphoria when I was done. Now, I have 2 CPUs one in Ubuntu and the other in Windows. My Ubuntu is my main PC, thus having a bigger hard disk, my important files and Internet access. While the Windows is used for games. I still need to add something to finalize my set up for my Windows PC. Here are some list that hopefully, I can finish soon for my kinda "ultimate tight budget set up".

1. Wireless LAN - to give me Internet access for both PC and making file sharing easier
2. Sound card - the on-board sound card is not working.
3. Video card - the on-board video card is only 32MB.
4. Speakers and microphone - for multimedia purposes
5. VGA cable for my Ubuntu CPU - for some reason, when I used my friends VGA cable I got a great resolution size. When I switched back to mine, it was not that good.
6. Pen tablet - maybe this for multimedia

Hopefully I can get them soon. Cheers to my 2 CPU set up!

New Year, New Beginning

New years signifies new beginning. It is a point where people should reflect on life and she what we can do for the year ahead.

I started setting plans for my life and for some reason, I did bumped into challenges and is still facing a number of challenges.

This year as the year starts, I will set new goals and revise old ones. A new year... a new beginning.. a new me...