Jimmy’s Junkyard

Notebook Power Consumption on Test

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

So far, I’m very anxious to see how much power I can save with my laptop (let’s say - if I turn of my screen, my speaker, my ODD, etc). Well, this time I have chance to test myself

I use my laptop, ASUS F3JC. Powered with Intel T7400 (2.16 GHz), 2 GB or RAM, 120GB of SATA HDD, 15.4″ screen, and a Super Multi ODD. What else? I use standard 65 Watt adapter.

I use a device that can measure the power consumption directly. You just need to plug this device on to the wall outlet, then connect your peripheral to this device. Then, this device can measure the power consumption of your peripheral instantly (real time). Take a look of the device below.

This tiny little device can measure the Voltage, Current, Power Consumption (in Watt or VA), Frequency (Hz), Efficiency (Power Factor), and Power Usage (kWh). This is a great device, but somewhere not available in Indonesia.

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Eee PC 900 on Hand (A Short Review)

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I just received Eee PC 900. Here is some photos and comparison with my old Eee PC 700 series (4G). Enjoy it!

Photo above is the comparison between Eee PC 700 series (left) and 900 series (right). Not much different in size (and weight) between those two. The black frame surrounding the Eee PC 700 screen now has been removed on 900 series. On 900, The speakers is moved to the bottom side. The 900 series will have 8.9″ screen, compared to 7″ on 700 series. Note: I forgot to remove the plastic on 900’s screen

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Biaya Roaming Satelindo Matrix di Shanghai (dan Narik Duit dengan ATM BCA)

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Sekitar bulan Maret lalu, gue ada pergi ke Shanghai (transit di Hong Kong). For some reason, gue beli SIM Card di sana juga (cuman ada dua pilihan, China Mobile atau China Unicom - dan gue beli China Mobile yang merupakan operator besar di Cina). Tapi seperti biasa, SIM Card Satelindo Matrix tetep gue nyalain, in case ada telepon penting yang masuk. Gue juga pernah mencatat biaya roaming di beberapa negara lain yang kebetulan gue kunjungi. Silakan liat di sini.

Berikut kita liat biaya roamingnya…

Untuk mengirim SMS, biaya yang dikenakan masih cukup wajar yaitu sekitar Rp 3.388 (dengan China Unicom) atau Rp 2.954 (dengan China Telecom) per SMS.

Selanjutnya kita liat biaya untuk menerima panggilan…

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Simple but Pain Error: Wordpress Garbled Characters After Upgrading

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

I just upgraded my Wordpress to 2.3.3 with Fantastico. Suddenly, all Chinese characters on my blog changed to garbled characters. Man! What a pain to edit all of the words.

I searched around and got a perfect solution. Actually the problem was on the wp-config.php file.

Open the wp-config.php file and edit as shown below:

//define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
//define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Add “//” on those entries above.

And make sure there is no line at the end of the file (after ‘?>’). Delete the line if you find it.

Voila! Everythings back to normal now

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Ignore the Autorun.INF (Forever!)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I was on the meeting, and suddenly all the attendees infected with a 3o.exe trojan. This was due to an USB Flashdisk. The trojan infected all automatically (and silently) by using the autorun.inf script. It executed all the trojan scripts without anyone realized it (until finally one of us realized).

I will not talk about how to remove the virus (it’s quite easy actually, just enter the safe mode, delete all the amvo.*, 3o.exe, autorun.inf, and some *.cmd file). But I will talk about how to disable the autorun.inf auto execute so we can prevent the virus or trojan to self install when we plug our USB.

Please be noted that this method is not the same with removing AutoPlay function.
Disabling AutoPlay function will not prevent your system to run the autofun.inf automatically. So if you are thinking that you can make your system safe by disabling the AutoPlay, then you have to think it twice!

I got the useful link from here.

Scott Dunn on the website suggests to use this simple script below. This will make Windows to ignore the autorun.inf file forever for all devices (so no more silent install or silently running application).

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@=”@SYS:DoesNotExist”

Just copy paste the script above to a text file and rename it to .reg file. Double click to run the script.

Or you can click here for the script file (zipped). Extract the unregautorun.zip and you will get unregautorun.reg. Double click on the unregautorun.reg and click “Yes”. Done!

The bad thing is… You will no longer receive pop-up menu to install by the default installer (a game or software CD most likely use this feature). You have to explore manually to your CD and click the necessary file (setup.exe or install.exe).

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Silent Downloader

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I tried to download Google Earth. I searched around and found this link. I downloaded the Google Updater and after few clicks, I downloaded the Google Earth. Google would use this Google Updater to download Google software just like the screen shot below. You decided the software that you wanted to download (on the web) and Google Updater would then download by this Google Updater.

As easy as A B C, right?

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Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I just have problem with my Outlook 2007. It’s getting slower, slower, slower, slower, and slower. And in last few days, it sent multiple emails to same recipient (especially when I sent email with big attachment). I check around and finally decide to give a try with it’s Service Pack 1 (for Microsoft Office 2007, but patch for Outlook also included there).

You can download it from here.

I think I can feel some improvements in my Outlook. It’s a little bit faster (my PST size around 1.8 GB). We will see is this for real or just a “hype” from myself

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Why Foobar2000?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

This is a very popular question from PC-Audio users. Why Foobar2000? It’s a strange name. Why not WinAmp? Windows Media Player? MusicMatch Jukebox? Apple iTunes? or what-so-ever more popular other players?

Simply because Foobar2000 offers better sound quality. And it’s also very simple and lightweight player. It doesn’t offer many colorful or skins option (though it’s possible to do so).

Foobar2000 was developed by Peter Pawlowski, former Nullsoft (WinAmp) freelance programmer. On some thread I’ve ever read (forgot where), Peter himself admits that this Foobar2000 should produces sound in the same quality with others player. “Foobar2000 is no better than any other players”, claimed Peter (despite the fact that in Western community like hydrogenaudio, any black is black - period. If you hear the different, then it’s a placebo So no use of debating what your hear “good” or “better” here).

But the fact is, Foobar2000 is absolutely better than any others standard player (WinAmp, WMP, iTunes, etc are no match for Foobar2000).

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Disassembly ASUS Xonar U1

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

It doesn’t take a long time to disassembly this tiny cute ASUS Xonar U1. So I decide to do it on my short spare time.

The first thing to do when disassembly the ASUS Xonar U1 is to remove the big volume control button as shown below.

Then prepare to see amazing thing inside.

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Treo 600 No Sound Problem (Except if 2.5mm Jack Plugged In)

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Well, I received this old Treo 600 from my friend (Bugzy Khu). I bought it very cheap But off course the price could describe the condition. Broken antenna and no sound problem (except if the 2.5mm jack plugged in). See the funny photo below.