Posted on Monday, 31st December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Artist: Carmen Gomez Inc.
Album: Carmen Meets Kharma Live
Publisher: STS Digital
Recording Technology: SACD Hybrid Multichannel

About this album:
What will happen if you see Siltech, Marantz, dCS, Pyramix, SECC, WBT, Soundcraft, Schoeps, Philips, Kharma, and STS Digital join together? Well, the result is this Hybrid SACD Multi-Channel: Carmen Meets Kharma Live (Limited Edition).

According to what I read at the booklet inside this SACD, this album was recorded live in a small theatre in Almere. The audience were 100% audiophile and specially invited for this event (they were all the subscribers of high end magazine HVT in Holland). The audience were very quiet, according to Fritz de With (the recording engineer/producer).

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Posted on Monday, 31st December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Artist: Various Artists/Compilation
Album: Burmester Vorfuhrungs CD III
Publisher: Burmester
Recording Technology: -

About this album:
Burmester is well know as high end and expensive audio equipment manufacturer, from Power Conditioner to Amplifier. This is their third Reference CD Audio (Burmester Vorfuhrungs CD III). A compilation from some best track to measure up your audio system performance.

As their audio equipment product, this CD also quite expensive considering this is just a CD, not a SACD, HDCD, or even a Gold CD. This is just a plain silver CD and may cost you over US$ 20 (I don’t remember precisely, feel free to check from your local Burmester dealer). Just remember, this CD is quite expensive.

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Posted on Monday, 31st December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Artist: Anne Karin Kaasa
Album: Svalande Vind
Publisher: Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Recording Technology: -

About this album:
This is a very old album. The first release was 1991. Well at that time, I was still playing with cassette deck

Not much information about Anne Karin Kaasa (or just because I don’t know). Just like other Norway singer, she sang local language songs. Although this album name is “Svalande Vind” (Track #3), but for me, the best song in this album is the “Gje Meg Handa Di” (Track #1).

Anne’s pronunciation in this album was excellent. She sang with emotion and surprisingly, the recording quality was very impressive (consider this was recorded in 1990-1991). Surely it’s above average current most “audiophile labeled” CD. Other strong point from this CD was the instruments. The instruments played could bring and create powerful ambiance. Anne will sang right on the center with instruments filling the ambiance. On some parts, some of the instruments would play themselves without Anne.

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Posted on Saturday, 29th December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Yesterday, I found my old SD Card. I thought that I would need that one to exchange data to/from my big notebook and my Eee PC. Read my other article if you don’t get my point. But like in the Forrest Gump movie, “shit” happens. My SD Card couldn’t be detected with either my notebook or my Eee PC.

I believed that this SD Card shouldn’t be dead (at least it should be quite durable). Then I checked the connectors. Dirty! Check the photo below.

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Posted on Saturday, 29th December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Well, currently I’m using about 3 Kilograms notebook. For me, I’m quite happy since it’s well equipped with giant RAM, hard drive, and screen (also dedicated NVIDIA graphic board for gaming). But at some occasion, I prefer lighter notebook. When traveling which all I need are email, web browsing, and chatting, I don’t think my giant RAM, hard drive, screen, and dedicated VGA will boost my performance. All I got is muscle training due to heavy weight on my backpack.

Today, I leave my 3 Kgs notebook at home. Then I only bring my Eee PC (900+ grams - wohoo, my girlfriend’s handbag should be nice for this ;)). Along with me also my O2 Exec (with all Contacts and Schedule synced with my notebook Outlook - except email).

You can see my clean work desk. With tiny white Eee PC adapter on the outlet. On the right side are my Motorola W210 CDMA Phone, my O2 Exec, and off course, a mouse

To be honest, I have a quite big hand. Typing at Eee PC may take some time to practice. As you can see from the picture below, my left hand will consume almost one third of the Eee PC keyboard area. My typing speed may reduce 30-40% and some keys may have smaller size (like Right Shift, Enter, Backspace, etc).

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Posted on Monday, 24th December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Merry Christmas…

You know that I love you so much…

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Posted on Saturday, 15th December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

I was playing with Microsoft ISA Server 2006 until I realized that by default, client behind ISA Server firewall wouldn’t be able to write/upload to FTP Server. I was a user of ISA Server 2000 (damned slow!), ISA Server 2004 (quite fast), and now 2006 (never tested completely, just installed it).

And the solution is quite simple. You just need to create a FTP firewall policy. I will not discuss how to create a policy in ISA Server (I assume you already know it). Just create a policy like shown below (user group can be modified when necessary).

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Posted on Saturday, 8th December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

I just check my Bluehost.com this morning and see below. Bluehost.com offers 600 GB of hosting and 6.000 GB (6 TB) of bandwidth. Simply amazing for US$6.95/months (2 years contract) web hosting.

You will also able to add unlimited domains! Just pay your domain cost (US$ 10) only.

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Posted on Wednesday, 5th December 2007 by Jimmy Auw

On the sunny Sunday afternoon, I took a shoot of my mother’s Lotus flower. Captured with my old Canon A80, macro mode, 1/636 sec, F/2.8mm, ISO 50. Not a really good composition though (black pail on the top right corner and some “sleepy” Lotus around), just want to show the beautiful of Lotus flower (and a prove that old cheap pocket camera could do quite good macro shoot ;))

Click on the image to view the larger size.

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