Here we go again....

*Sign*....It's time, finally, our experienced DBA is leaving us, he tendered his resignation last Friday, 20/4.

I was told that he had found a new job in the finance sector, but still in IT field. The funny thing is that, his new job is on contract basis, for six months, I heard, but enough to make a decent pay equivalent to one year's salary here in this company. If I got an offer like this, maybe I will also consider, job market is good now.

Oh well, have to start doing knowledge transfer, again, kind of getting used to it now...

My new D-I-Y PC

Finally, I went down to the computer stores last Friday to get all the hardware needed to setup my new PC. A new ATX casing, MSI Mainboard, 1GB Kingston RAM and 250GB HDD are all that I needed. The Mainboard has built-in Sound and Video, so, I don't have to buy separate cards. Also, I saved a bit more by having to built it myself, usually, this costs about $40 if you get the guys at the stores to do it for you.

I have not done D-I-Y PC setup for years, but lucky, with all the diagrams and instructions given in the manuals, I managed to it set up and running in about a day, phew, but wait, except for one small issue, although the BIOS recognised the 250GB HDD, but the Windows XP Professional OS doesn't, this was due to the '137GB filesystem' limitation. The problem was fixed by installing XP SP1 or the most recent SP2 (in my case) from update.microsoft.com, of course, you must make sure you got the legitimate version of XP to download the patch.

The moment I turn on the PC, WOW, it was faster...than my old PC. So, what's going to happen to my old PC? Guess I will dismantle it, salvage what that can still be used, and maybe sell it in the Internet, ebay?

Thanks, uncle!

Today, when I was on the way home on a crowded train, a family boarded the compartment where I was lucky to have a seat. Seeing that a young kid from the family could not get a seat, I gave up mine, as usual (I am nice?). Most of the time, people will just take the offered seat without saying anything, but, this time, it was different, the small girl said to me, "thank you, uncle!". I was happy, over the sky, really.

Kids are kids, they are so innocent and sweet, but, when they grow up, will they still be that courteous too? I am not sure. We shall see then.....