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            <p>Since the mother board is toast and there is a <a href="1081.html">10 day waiting period for macbooks</a> (and Imacs). The next step is to set up a new core 2 duo machine. I have always preffered AMD over intel, the only reason that the now deceased machine is an intel is because I am sick and tired of poor quality mother boards put of by third party companies. Well, the intel board didn't last much longer than my previous Asus or Gigabyte board. So there is no reason not to consider Asus and/or Gigabyte again.</p>
            <p>The only catch is that AMD 64x2 processors are not available here. Right! let's look for an Intel core 2 duo. Most of the idiots at the companies that sell computers and computer parts in <a href="http://www.saadhu.com/srilanka/">Sri Lanka</a>. automatically give you prices for a Pentium D processor. What idiot wants to buy a D?</p>
            <p>Very few people seem to have the core 2 duo in stock. That too only the 1.83 GHz variety and it's atrociously priced. A processor that's about 20k in Singapore costs closer to 30k here. And they don't have the intel 965 series of mother boards here. Only have the 946. The 946 only supports the slower RAM. What a waste it would be to get a 1066MHz FSB processor and slow it down with slow RAM?</p>
            <p>So it would seem that unless you want to buy a crappy solo pentium 4, you will not be able to buy a computer here in Sri Lanka. Great pity.</p>
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            <p>I have been coming up with various excuses for delaying the purchase of a macbook. One of them is pretty valid. It cost an <a href="1065.html">Outrageous 153,000 rupees in Colombo</a> while it costs only about 115,000 Rupees in the US and about 122,000 in Singapore. With people as reluctant as they have ever been to fly, you can buy a return ticket to Singpore, buy the macbook and still have a few rupees left over.</p>
            <p>Unfortunately my need is more urgent. I call the BT Options (local dealers) office and asked for a discount, They offered 10% for cash payment. No discounts for credit cards. Who can blame them, the government is conciously and unconciously <a href="http://www.webquarry.com/~raditha/blog/archives/001000.html">encouraging cash payments over credit card payments</a>. They are very keen to drag the country back to the dark ages.</p>
            <p>So I said, I will come over and pick up a macbook immidately. The lady at the other end of the line said, I need to call the showroom and ask them if they have stocks. They don't You have to make your payment and wait 10 days to recieve the darned thing. Well!! Since the situation is desparate (i'm with out a computer after all) I asked to buy an IMac. They don't have that in stock either. In fact they don't have anything!</p>
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            <p>My hardware has a tendency to fail more often than the next persons. It could be that I put too much a of a load on my machine or it could be because they manufactures always ship their low quality junk to South Asian while sending the best stuff to North America and Europe. Anyway, my motherboard, an Intel D845GEBV2 is toast.</p>
            <p>Yesterday, I returned from a visit to <a href="http://www.webquarry.com/~raditha/blog/archives/000955.html">Seru Kele</a> and was downloading the photos, when the computer shutdown for no apparent reason. Well it didn't actually shut down, it switched off. I have seen this happen with my father's <a href="000957.html">notebook</a>, so I reckoned that overheating was the cause. I had to go out again so , I left the machine to cool down. On my return, it simply wouldn't start up again.</p>
            <p>I have been very suspicious of this mother board for a while because of <a href="925.html">frequent hard disk failures</a>. Trying to get a replacement at 8:00 pm on Sunday isn't an easy task so I decided to find out what early to bed, early to rise feels like.</p>
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            <p>This wired screenshot is off Internet Explorer 7. Well it's by microsoft, what do you expect?</p>
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            <p>Hopefully they will fix it in time for their full release.</p>
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            <p>It's been a few months since we released <a href="http://www.radinks.com/upload/">Rad Upload</a> 3.0, we have just made version 3.01 available for download. 3.01 is a a bug fix release. Unfortunately it seems that there were a couple of glitches in HTML form processing.</p>
            <p>Version 3.0 made it possible to directly embed the applet into an HTML form. The applet retrieves the HTML form data using
                <a href="/javascript.php">java - javascript interaction</a>. Unfortunately this interaction works differently for different browsers and even on different platform. For this reason firefox users particularly those with Macs found that the forms were being handled correctly at times. Safari users ran into this even more often.
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            <p>As a result of this we have made some slight changes to Rad Upload and released the new version. The Standard Edition, and the Lite Edition (which is free) are both left unchanged because the ability to interact with an HTML form is a feature only found in Rad Uplos Plus.</p>
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            <p>HSBC loves to position themselves as the most sophisticated bank in Sri Lanka. They also like to pretend that they are most tech savy bank in the country. Nothing can be further from the truth. They are still living in the stone ages and haven't even heard of FireFox.</p>
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            <p>So much for sophistication.</p>
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Monthly Archives for 2006 10

Core 2 Duo.

Toast Motherboards and Macbooks.

Yet Another Toasted mother board.

Wierd IE 7

Rad Upload 3.01

Lame HSBC