February 22, 2008
Technology
January 28, 2008
The birthday paradox 0
Did you know, in a room of 57 or more people, the probability of two people having the same birthday is 99%? In a group of 23 randomly chosen people, that probability is 50%! I wonder if this is due to the relatively small amount of days we have in a year (365, for those [...]
January 26, 2008
Classic George 0
I’m always amazed, and sometimes, surprised by the extreme range of talents and skills my friends has got up their sleeves. My high-school buddy George Ye has received the prestigious Golden Key Undergraduate Grant for the F07 semester back in November, and he never told me about it!
December 25, 2007
Unboxing 0
Happy Christmas everyone! It’s finally the big day, even though I’m not a Christian, it’s still fun to celebrate! As promised, here are the photos from my Samsung ML-1630 unboxing a few weeks ago: I bought this printer because I was sick of bubble/ink-jets. They were loud, annoying, and pretty much a money waster as [...]
December 1, 2007
Best support article ever! 2
This put a big smile on my face today for no apparently reason, maybe it’s the music geek inside me that’s laughing. Microsoft’s Help and Support Knowledge Base article 261186: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music. Apparently, certain Award/Unicore BIOSes and detection circuits from 1997 on would alert you that the processor fan was failing the [...]
