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Food
Feb 14th
Qi’s home cook food. nyam nyam.
Char hor fun / Wat Tan Ho
3 dishes
Egg with onion
Char Siew
OpenGL
Feb 2nd
Hmm, I think I am done! Anyone have any idea how to implement Anti-Aliasing?
Anti-aliasing using Nvidia control panel settings. 
Sony Ericsson w810i Teardown.
Jan 30th
I bought a cheap eBay housing to replace my current one for $7. I can say that the quality isn’t as good as the original housing. I found some listings selling the original housing for $30, but since it is an old phone, I will give the $7 housing a try.
Side by side, the font is not as sharp as the original one. The plastic sover for the LCD isn’t as good either. It is thinner, hence not as flat to the front face plate. The plastic housing gets scratched easily too.
The fonts are not as sharp. Yes, I taped my battery because I lost the cover. The battery easily pops out without the cover.
Remove the 2 screws and peel the back cover.
Remove the other 2 screws and peel the front cover. You can see how dirty is my phone.
The whole phone disassembled.
Phone assembled to new housing.
UB: Rotated Display.
Jan 28th
I am having fun with UB’s Dell Widescreen monitors that can rotate. Had to use 3rd party software to activate this rotation because UB disable changing display privileges by default.
UB: Computing/Printing Guide
Jan 26th
v1.0 01/26/2010
Here are some tricks that I have learnt during my years of studying in University at Buffalo.
Printing Tips
- Avoid printing during peak hours (print turnaround > 1hr)
During peak hours, consultant have tendency to mess up sorting just to keep up with the printers. - Release multiple print jobs at the same time.
Releasing multiple jobs at the same time will lower the chances of loosing printouts. - Count/check your print jobs.
Count to see if you have missing print jobs or may have held someone else’s print job. - Printing PDF documents.
Some PDF files are pain in the ass to print. I found “Print as Image” in Adobe Printing Preference helps a lot.
Printing Hints/Tricks
- You can send printout from one computing site to another computing site (e.g. Capen to Lockwood)
Hint: Adding the right printer through Internet Explorer. - You can sent printouts to one particular printer
Hint: Adding the right printer through Internet Explorer. - You can cut the printing queue by sending to another print server (e.g. iPrint Anywhere server has short queue.)
Hint: Adding the right printer through Internet Explorer. - You can release print jobs from the computers in the hallway.
Hint: You need the iPrint URL.
Computing Sites Hints/Tricks
- You can disable the 15 minutes timer on Express Stations
Hint: Task Manager - You can use Remote Desktop
Hint: Command Prompt - You can release print jobs from the computers in the hallway.
Hint: You need the iPrint URL.
Home Computing Tips
- You can access your S: Drive from home.
Windows Vista/7:
Map Network Drive –>https://ubfs.buffalo.edu/ubfs/myfiles/1st_letter_ubitname/2nd_letter_ubitname/ubitname
(e.g. https://ubfs.buffalo.edu/ubfs/myfiles/j/d/jdoe)Web Browser:
https://ubfs.buffalo.edu/ - Off Campus VPN
https://ubvpn.buffalo.edu
or read here: http://ubit.buffalo.edu/software/win/ubvpn/offcampus.php - Printing from home (iPrint Anywhere) (Requires Off Campus VPN)
Read: http://ubit.buffalo.edu/iprint/anywhere/index.phpWhen connecting to printer, there might be a failure (that is what I encountered)
To overcome this problem, go to \\iprint.buffalo.edu\ using Windows Explorer. Connect to the desired printer yourself.
Sleep paralysis
Jan 17th
In Chinese culture, sleep paralysis is widely known as "鬼壓身/鬼压身" (pinyin: guǐ yā shēn) or "鬼壓床/鬼压床" (pinyin: guǐ yā chuáng), which literally translate into "ghost pressing on body" or "ghost pressing on bed." A more modern term is "夢魘/梦魇" (pinyin: mèng yǎn).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
I never experienced this before as far as I can remember. Hmm….
