Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Roach and roach again
I spent my own weekend learning Windows 8 programming, and was pretty exhausted last night when I headed to kitchen at around 10:00 pm last night trying fix my dinner.
There I was a giant 1.5 inch long roach staying right on the top of our electric stove. I was in panic and tried to smash it with something. But it already went toward my rice cooker and then disappeared. I was like "nooooooooooooooooooooooo".
That incidence totally destroy my willingness to cook, and eventually I went out and brought a to-go burger combo, ate it up before I continued my coding.
This morning I saw a dead roach with the same size died somewhere near the shoe rack. I didn't know for sure if that's the same one, but I know I will feel better if I make that assumption.
There I was a giant 1.5 inch long roach staying right on the top of our electric stove. I was in panic and tried to smash it with something. But it already went toward my rice cooker and then disappeared. I was like "nooooooooooooooooooooooo".
That incidence totally destroy my willingness to cook, and eventually I went out and brought a to-go burger combo, ate it up before I continued my coding.
This morning I saw a dead roach with the same size died somewhere near the shoe rack. I didn't know for sure if that's the same one, but I know I will feel better if I make that assumption.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Saving hard disk
Before I tell you what just happened to me a while ago, let me remind you this: if you see an Asian man trying to strangle a prostitute dressed as Wonder Woman to death in front of medical Marijuana clinic, don't use a hand gun to blow up his testicle and then shoot at his face. There could be a reasonable explanation for such a scene.
What I just said has nothing to do with the story I am going to tell. I just love dramatic situation.
So I woke up at around 6 pm by the blinking light of my mobile phone, and then realized that my room was in total darkness. I sensed that something was wrong, and then realized that the townhouse I lived at was out of power. So I started packing up my electronic gadgets and planned on getting back to office so that I could work and entertain myself. Just when I done with all my preparation, power came back again. I thought, oh well, that would be it.
Then I started doing all my post-power-outage-procedures (started desktop MacMini, closet home server, reboot router ...) and finally came to realize one big problem: the 1 terabyte harddisk that filled up with movies was not working. Yes, dead harddisk, classic modern day nightmare.
After spending a while trying to bring to hard disk alive, I was about to give up. Afterall, everything in that hard disk has back up either in another hard disk or in some DVD discs. It's just that it will be a pain and cost me a lot of time to put everything back to how the hard disk was before it died. Suddenly, something I read from Internet about how freezing an harddisk can resurrect a dead harddisk for a while. I thought, I have nothing to lose, so I went a head and gave it a try.
In the first trial, I only froze the hard disk for 10 minutes, and it didn't seem to do anything. Then I went further, froze the hard disk for half an hour. This time, the hard disk started spinning up the second time (yes, the first time still failed) I plugged the hard disk in an external hard disk dock. I knew I had to take this opportunity to rescue as many files as possible, cause there's no guarantee that this hard disk would spin up again once it went down. So I started copying everything from this 1 Terabyte hard disk to another new 2 Terabyte hard disk. In fact, the process is still going on right now, with 9% copied after 1.5 hours. It will take a while.
So that's it. Now look around and see if there's any Asian man around you.
What I just said has nothing to do with the story I am going to tell. I just love dramatic situation.
So I woke up at around 6 pm by the blinking light of my mobile phone, and then realized that my room was in total darkness. I sensed that something was wrong, and then realized that the townhouse I lived at was out of power. So I started packing up my electronic gadgets and planned on getting back to office so that I could work and entertain myself. Just when I done with all my preparation, power came back again. I thought, oh well, that would be it.
Then I started doing all my post-power-outage-procedures (started desktop MacMini, closet home server, reboot router ...) and finally came to realize one big problem: the 1 terabyte harddisk that filled up with movies was not working. Yes, dead harddisk, classic modern day nightmare.
After spending a while trying to bring to hard disk alive, I was about to give up. Afterall, everything in that hard disk has back up either in another hard disk or in some DVD discs. It's just that it will be a pain and cost me a lot of time to put everything back to how the hard disk was before it died. Suddenly, something I read from Internet about how freezing an harddisk can resurrect a dead harddisk for a while. I thought, I have nothing to lose, so I went a head and gave it a try.
In the first trial, I only froze the hard disk for 10 minutes, and it didn't seem to do anything. Then I went further, froze the hard disk for half an hour. This time, the hard disk started spinning up the second time (yes, the first time still failed) I plugged the hard disk in an external hard disk dock. I knew I had to take this opportunity to rescue as many files as possible, cause there's no guarantee that this hard disk would spin up again once it went down. So I started copying everything from this 1 Terabyte hard disk to another new 2 Terabyte hard disk. In fact, the process is still going on right now, with 9% copied after 1.5 hours. It will take a while.
So that's it. Now look around and see if there's any Asian man around you.