In the process of trying to get to the bottom of my intermittent “hanging” problems, happen to come across this useful link: Power Supply Wattage Calculator. This should allow you to have a ball-park figure of how big the Power Supply Unit needs to be if you are into building your own system.
Month: January 2006 Page 2 of 3
Last night, on my way home, what I observed as I was getting off the MRT (aka metro is other places) finally made me realize why many people like to say that life is tough in Singapore.
Recent problems with my PC running Windows XP – well, maybe not strictly an OS-related issue but also some hardware faults there as well – have once again driven me to ponder migrating to Linux once and for all. In fact, I had another error last night after a recent total reinstall due to harddisk failure: “rasapi32.dll is not a valid image…”
However, I am still reluctant to make the switch because of a heavy reliance of many, mostly open source, tools that work only on Windows, such as for video editing, disc burning, and audio compression, etc. Perhaps this is more of an deep-bred insecurity thing?? Well, I guess I will need to study The table of equivalents/replacements/analogs of Windows software in Linux. a bit more closely from now on, to see if it is possible to have the same sort of support? Yet another option is run a live CD distribution such as Knoppix or even Ubuntu.
Some people say I cannot sing,
but no one can say I didn’t sing.Florence Foster Jenkins, American Soprano
It is better to have tried and failed than not to have attempted at all, no? It is indeed quite frightening to take risks and try new things. We think, “What if I fail?” What if you do? It won’t be your first mistake. And no matter how bad it is, it probably won’t be your worst mistake. Life’s saddest words are found on a tombstone that reads: “When it came time to die, I had not lived.”
Looking over the past dozen or so entries, I believe that I can see a trend!?
There was a string of entries related to Tango, followed by (most recently) non-Tango reflections and other thoughts. This coincides with a period where I devoted a fair amount of time to Tango (be it dancing as well as teaching). Now that I am back from my Christmas/New Year break and with a number of activities planned in the near future, I am sure there will be a lot more of Tango-related stuff appearing here soon!