Edmund Tse :: specialist in technology generally
Posted in Mini-Projects, Software on Nov 30th, 2009
It’s been about a month since I’ve migrated my blog from a hosted service at Wordpress.com to hosting my Wordpress blog on my own servers. So far, everything is doing quite alright especially the benefits of self hosting Wordpress which gives me total control over my contents and my plugins.
So this is intended to be [...]
Posted in Hardware, Mini-Projects, Photos on Sep 13th, 2009
Introduction
A while ago, I’ve designed a home theatre PC build for regular TV viewing and recording. Recently I’ve followed it up with an unceremonious unboxing of various parts involved in that HTPC. So the thing that comes after unboxing is putting it together. So in this article, I’ll share my thoughts and experiences while building [...]
Posted in Hardware, Mini-Projects, Photos on Jul 29th, 2008
In the beginning, there was a box:
Which had some specifications on it.
But when the box was opened…
Posted in Hardware, Mini-Projects on Jan 12th, 2008
I have two old laptops: BenQ Joybook 5000U and IBM ThinkPad R31. The Joybook is a bit newer than the ThinkPad, but its construction proved to be quite weak, and literally fell apart. So I’ve decided to take the wireless card from the Joybook, and install it into the ThinkPad.
Posted in Hardware, Mini-Projects on Jan 4th, 2008
I recently got a new NAS device from Hong Kong, and decided to move my file server role from my PC to this neat little network device. Essentially, it is a Now I can turn off my PC, and still be able to access my files from my laptop. For some reason, entry-level NAS devices [...]
I use Mozy.com for my automatic online backups.