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Suggestion

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:13:57 +0800

Mobile Computing subforum should be under Computers section.

Handphones and Communications & PDAs should be combined into one subforum as Handhelds and Communications with PDAs being the subforum under it.

Just my suggestions.

[WTS] Sigma 10-20HSM RM1500 !

Joseph Hahn — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:58:04 +0800

RESERVED

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Item(s): Sigma 10-20HSM lens.
Package includes: Full box set.
Price: RM 1500 FIRM
Warranty: Unfilled. 1 year left. (Bought at YL Camera)
Age of item: 2 months old.
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Item(s) conditions: Very good. Rarely used.
Picture:

SOLD

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Dealing method: Preferably COD in Melaka but courier can be negotiated.
Location of seller: Melaka.
Contact method/details: PM / 01seven-seven830630
Reason for sale: Funding for other things.

Please request/remind me the receipt cause some of the items receipt are shared since i bought it in one go.

Panasonic G1

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:29:54 +0800

So is this a revolution ? What do you call this camera... FLVDILC ?
Stands for Full-time Live View Digital Interchangeable Lens Camera.
I wonder how much it will cost with a pancake lens. The one in red looks funky.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08091202...onic_DMC_G1.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08091201...4-45_45-200.asp

What do you think ?

Microsoft Photosynth

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:47:02 +0800

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As of this morning, Microsoft’s Live Labs project, Photosynth, is out of beta. The application / browser plugin combination allows you to stitch standard photos into 3-D panoramas.

Currently, Photosynth is Windows only — if you aren’t a Windows XP or Vista user, you’ll have to wait to get your photo-stitching fix. Photosynth uses a desktop application for creating your own ’synths,’ and a browser plugin to see them online, if you choose to upload your work. All synths are public.

I’d recommend trying out Photosynth with only a few photos at first — it can take quite a bit of time to build a complex synth, though the end result is worth it.

We covered a new Photosynth demo at the beginning of the month.

http://www.photographybay.com/2008/08/21/p...th-leaves-beta/

http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

Cool stuff. Gives me a headache though since it's so immersive.

Geavity.com

Joseph Hahn — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:48:21 +0800

Guys check out this website.

http://www.geavity.com/

Great to list out your current, future and even ex-gears. And you can put it in your signature.

Lens Sharpness

Joseph Hahn — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:29:24 +0800

Ah well read the whole article and tell me what do you think.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/lens-sharpness.htm

Canon loses SLR share, as Nikon surges

Joseph Hahn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:01:51 +0800

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When it comes to the strategically important and fast-growing market of SLR cameras, Canon remained No. 1 worldwide in 2007 but lost share to Nikon, new statistics show.

Canon sold 3.18 million single-lens reflex cameras in 2007 compared with Nikon's 2.98 million, according to a study released Tuesday by market researcher IDC. That represents a 42.7 percent and 40 percent share, respectively, of the 2007 SLR market. It's a much narrower margin for Canon than in 2006, when it had 46.7 percent of the market, compared with Nikon's 33 percent.

Nikon SLR shipments grew at a 71.1 percent rate, much faster than Canon's 29.3 percent rate, IDC said. To be sure, unit shipments don't reflect another important aspect of market share--revenue, which IDC didn't detail. But Nikon released competitive higher-end models, the D3 and D300, in the second half of 2007, so there's plenty of pressure on Canon there, too.

The SLR market is of major importance to camera makers: it's competitive, and the SLR market is far less saturated than the compact camera market, where camera makers are focusing on getting people to buy replacements or multiple models. SLRs offer much faster performance and higher image-quality than compact models, and lenses can be changed for different shooting styles. Thus, photographers have been flocking to SLRs as prices drop.

The overall SLR market surged 41 percent to 7.45 million units, much faster than the 22.7 percent growth to 123.3 million units for compacts, according to the IDC stats.

There, too, Canon faced pressure.

"The larger issue rests on repeat buyers looking for more camera at less of a price in years past," IDC analyst Christopher Chute said, and Canon has been trying to maintain higher average selling prices even as others cut prices.

In the total camera market, Canon's 18.8 percent share of units shipped gave it the top rank. Next in line are Sony with 16 percent, Kodak with 9.6 percent, Samsung with 9 percent, Nikon with 8.4 percent, and Olympus with 8.3 percent.

Original Sauce.

Well this is 2007 report. Next year we can expect the report to display Sony's surge in DSLR market. Competition is always good for us.

GACC 2008 Pictures

Joseph Hahn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:11:19 +0800

First set for tonight. More will come later today. I'm posting in chronological order. Description is available if you click the picture. I only noise ninja-ed, cropped and resized the pictures.

Stage fighting, pretty cool. XD

Chun Li and Son Goku.

Chun Li.

Lenalee from D.Gray Man.

No idea... anyone know ?

Also no clue.

Sadako from The Ring.

Esther from Trinity Blood and Misa from Death Note.

Ichigo from Bleach.

DIY Image Stabilizer

Joseph Hahn — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:17:39 +0800

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog...digital-camera/
Pretty cool.

MIRC 6.31

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:57:30 +0800

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mIRC 6.31 has been released! (November 1st 2007)

Visit the TurboMilk website mIRC is back with a new face! :-) mIRC now has a shiny new mIRC logo and new interface icons, updated and designed by the good people at TurboMilk. To match the new icons, we also decided to redesign the mIRC website to bring it into the 21st century... we hope you like the new look!

In addition to the visual changes in mIRC and the website, this new version of mIRC also addresses the various issues that were reported for the last release.

For scripters, we hope you like the changes to the script editor. The interface has been improved, it is now cleaner and easier to read, we added Check Bracket/Sort Variables items to Edit menu, line numbers to the margin, and enter/home key indentation support. The editor also no longer flickers when resized.

Various other changes include:

* A "Hide tips when locked" option to the lock dialog,
* An SSL option to automatically accept invalid certificates,
* Tips now shade each alternate message that is added to an existing tip to make it easier to distinguish individual messages,
* When bars are locked the drag bars are now hidden from view,
* Changed behaviour of "Hide minimized desktop windows" option so that query, message, and chat windows remain visible when they are first opened minimized on the desktop.

In total there have been over 50 changes to this version and although most of them are only small fixes and tweaks, we hope that they result in a more useful and stable mIRC for you.

Download @ http://www.efnet.org/clients/win32/mirc/mirc631.exe .

Nikon COOLPIX P5100

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:33:17 +0800

Pics:

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Nikon Malaysia Link: http://nikon.com.my/productitem.php?pid=1203-985ad59bcd
Reviews: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nikon+p5100+review =X
Price Watch: RM950

Paging OP1000 users

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:03:01 +0800

As you know, OP1000 power connector is non-standard, so can't use the normal male-female cable. Have to use the given triple pin head. So uh... there's few UPS out there that have triple pin socket and enough VA for this monster, so i'm just wondering, what UPS are you guys using ? I have a 650VA APC but it doesn't have triple pin socket, so are all the higher end models. Is there such thing as a triple pin socket power extension with male head? So that i can connect it to the UPS. This Neuropower 800VA i am using now has a triple pin socket but it's weak, my PC is on load all the time due to folding@home, so if the power trips it just turns itself off. Hope to see some feedback.

PangyaSEA v3

Joseph Hahn — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:26:01 +0800

Welcome to PangyaSEA Season 2.
Now, before you say golf is only for old people to play, that's just in the real world. This is a game and it's for all ages to enjoy and most people playing this game ranges from primary schooler up to the 30s (the oldest i've met was a 39yo from Southern Thai srsly ). Have a look at the video down below this post to see what it's all about.

For those who are new to this game, it's basically a Free to Play MMO Golf game with anime style 3D characters.
If you're bored with grinding in normal MMORPG, then this is the game for you that you can play casually.
Please refer to this article on wikipedia for more details.
The website for PangyaSEA is http://www.pangyasea.com and the official forum is here.

So here's the list of lowyatians who are currently playing sorted by level.
(level) LYN nick - username (IGN if different than username)
(Semi Pro D) SeaGates - sillygates
(Amateur A) Miyabi - ********* (Arin)
(Amateur D) dckj - danielchew ((-hi5)(wow)(hi5))
(Amateur E) gM | Mutsumi-san - mutsumi
(Amateur E) Joseph Hahn - amonrei (Yuki)
(Amateur E) adwin - pokopenien
(Amateur E) polarzbearz - *** (pOlaRBeArz)
(Senior C) Sora - sora147
(Senior D) allenultra - khaloon (allenultra)
(Senior D) mfa333 - imk333
(Senior D) madman20 - madman20
(Senior D) navilink - navilink
(Senior E) kurogane - kurogane (antivirus)
(Junior A) puffy7 - puffying
(Junior A) IntegraTypeR - jaycee (Ojou)
(Junior A) mfz - mfz_7777
(Junior A) zonan4 - zonan4
(Junior B) SilverCrimz - silvercrimz
(Junior C) lansankia - lansankia ([n2p]^Lansanlui^)
(Junior D) seaotter - TheOtter
(Junior D) sheep319 - sheep319 (Kambing)
(Junior E) Peisqo - Peisqo
(Junior E) jimmythw - jimmythw
(Rookie C) how to save a life - yubarix

Username is needed to add buddy. You can't use IGN to add buddy if it's different than the username/login id.

Newbies please give your username, IGN and level for the list up there.
Do remind me to update the list if you have leveled.

Thanks mfa333 for the youtube video suggestion.

Kooh.
[YOUTUBE]3ZI41SKfTuA[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]ATM5wIp7I-0[/YOUTUBE]

Arin & Silvia Cannon.
[YOUTUBE]eU0M_6Ll3wY[/YOUTUBE]

All characters.
[YOUTUBE]ZUrQw2sek_s&NR[/YOUTUBE]

A funny music video featuring WizWiz map.
[YOUTUBE]71F7XgN9PH0[/YOUTUBE]

l33t shots.
[youtube]CmcD9c_12uw[/youtube]

Pangya on Wii console.
[youtube]913gNq-GKEs[/youtube]

Credits to all the video makers.

DVD Burner stuck in PIO mode

Joseph Hahn — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:35:50 +0800

Hi guys. I realized i have this problem when i can only burn at 2x instead of 8x/16x and when playing from the drive the media will stutter a bit. I know this is a very common problem but most solution on the net i found and here as well are for XP. And of course i have already tried ticking that Enable DMA box but to no avail, it just won't enable the mode. I've tried uninstalling the controller as well, but it always reinstalls it back to PIO mode.

Anyone can help me solve this problem ?

[addedon]July 2, 2007, 5:25 pm[/addedon]Nvm... i plugged in the DVDRW into another SATA slot solved the problem.

Phone Screenshot Thread

Joseph Hahn — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:46:50 +0800

I wonder why this thread doesn't exist. I'll start with mine.

N73ME

Just put the picture followed by your phone model, just like in Camera-Phone Shots Gallery. Better still if you have the source of your theme or wallpaper.

For Symbian phones the wallpaper won't fill the screen unless it's part of the theme, so you can easily create your own theme here.

Screenshot software included for S60 UIQ, 1st/2nd & 3rd. I have no idea how to screenshot on non-Symbian phone though. If you have any idea, please inform me. Thanks.

Direct connection to USA

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:05:33 +0800

So i heard from Buletin Utama. Keng Yaik says it will cost 1.8b Ringgit, over 20000km long, and will be completed by December next year. TM only invested 50m Ringgit in this (lol?) while the rest are covered by other companies. Good news or bad news ?

ADSL2Plus Modulation

Joseph Hahn — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:30:25 +0800

Well here's the story, Sunday about a month ago all of a sudden my internet effed up. DSL blinking and disconnecting a lot in one day. DS margin was actually 0 but i was still connected to the internet somehow at one point. And then about 2 weeks later it got worse. The DSL just blinked all the time. Not catching the signal at all. And then i went to Melaka for 2 weeks to look after my bro's house. And now i just got back, turn on the modem and voila, the DSL is alive! Woot! So i turn on PC, take a look at the modem page and was really surprised to see this.

I don't want to really brag about the speed or something it might just be gone anytime. But what do you think ? Is TMNut now actually ready to go ADSL2Plus ? (We got the ADSL2Plus modem long time already ) And is there anyone else who have gotten this modulation ? My modulation is set to MMODE btw.

I did bug the TMNut people to fix my line until it's perfectly fine. And it became like this. The technician that was assigned to me was a kind person, he promised me that he'll fix it until it's totally ok. I guess he really did his job.

My PC Upgrade

Joseph Hahn — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:35:33 +0800

01. Intel C2D E6600 (RM740 no moq) @ expantyhoesthief [arrived] + Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (RM470) @ moderno [arrived]
02. Gskill PC8000 F2-8000PHU2-2GBHZ (2x 1GB) (RM899) @ kingmaker_20 [arrived]
03. Palit ATI X1950 PRO 512MB (RM530) but supplier sent Sapphire ATI X1950 GT 256MB (RM620) @ - L e O - [arrived]
04. Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (RM255) + Chill Factor (RM26) @ Hwoarang45 [arrived]
05. SilverStone FM122 Blade White 120 X 32mm Fan with Controller (RM58) + Silverstone OP1000 (RM1175) @ moderno
06. Antec P180B Casing (RM610) + 2x Evercool 120mm Spider Filter Fan (RM86) 1x Evercool 80mm Spider Filter Fan (RM33) @ moderno [arrived]
07. Western Digital Raptor 74GB (RM399) @ steven_seagal [arrived]
08. Western Digital WD 5000AAKB (RM549) @ niclasteoh [arrived]
09. Asus SATA Dvd Burner DRW-1814BLT (RM130) + Mitsubishi 100Pcs DVD+R 16x (RM115) @ super macgyver [arrived]
10. Logitech Z-5500 Digital (RM1550) @ viewcom melaka [arrived]

Thanks for reading.

Morning Musume singing Peace

Joseph Hahn — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:04:35 +0800

[YOUTUBE]rru-l7eGMtc[/YOUTUBE]

Sata 2 HD on Abit NF7-S v2

Joseph Hahn — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:46:55 +0800

As per topic, will it work ? Or this old board sata version is only for the older Sata 1 ?

Nvm knew the answer already. It's backward compatible.