Misc

Last week, my desktop computer finally decided to play up again, after 2 years of trouble-free service. This time, it’s my motherboard again, or I hope so (since I bid on another second-hand Asus Striker Mainboard on eBay) to resurrect the computer.

It might have made more sense to just buy a new desktop computer and try to restore my RAID arrays, which is pretty much impossible if the RAID controller isn’t the same as your current board.

No wonder NVIDIA don’t make any more motherboard chipsets, since their partners keep on messing up and then wondering why Intel won’t grant them another licence to mess around with their CPUs (http://www.intelsinsides.com/page/home.html)

A fun experience from my days back at the big NV was when we had to fly out 5am from London Heathrow to Paris for the big annual marketing meeting. At this said meeting, we sat from 9am all the way to 11pm topped with a near darkness ride through the Champs-Élysées and some meagre French food. To all my previous colleagues from the Bangalore marketing team, I felt really sorry that when asking for a vegetarian food option, the waiter cheekily came up with the answer ‘Wee have French Fries’.

Close to my current office at Line Industries, at least they have a proper French bistro called L’eau a la bouche, where you can have a massive selection of hearty meats/cheeses/olives etc. What you shouldn’t try is counting on fast service, a toasted baguette will set you back by at least 30 minutes, a marvelous achievement considering that there are at least 10 headless chicken walking around the store.

I have just been fighting with the Wireless LAN on my desktop PC after a hard restart. Well, I tried everything from adding special entries in the registry to re-installing the device.

My colleagues at work have also been having this problem recently, possibly due to Windows updates. However, what I found was that you just need to go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and scroll down to the option named ‘WLAN Auto Config’ and restart that service and voila, my network adapter can detect wireless networks again.