Author: Paul Ooi

  • Dragon Tiger Gate : 龍虎門

    My friend asked me have I watched Dragon Tiger Gate? I said I didn’t, but I saw the trailler before, it looks very very… How to say it… Dramatic? Is like you kick wall it can break into 2 and you kick a person he can break into 4.

    The poster is quiet nice.

    But I think it’s better Jacky Chan feature them as California Fitness poster 🙂

  • New add-on on my blog

    Do you spot something different on my blog? You saw the picture beside the title? Yeah! I have added authors’ mugshot on my blog. The reason I did this is because most of the time, reader confuse who written the article and in the end they leave the comment to the wrong person.

    Like recently, Ling has written about her life in Jakarta but some of my friend thought I am in Jakarta :(. Beside that, “shorty” said he is too handsome and afraid girl who visits this site will fall in love with him(ahem phui*), he has refused to put his mugshot.

    I got the idea from Meebo’s Blog. Visit meebo, the coolest online messenger.

  • Remove IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Hidden Partition

    Since IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptop does not ships with recovery CDs/DVDs. The factory restore image is store in the hidden partition. If you buy a 40GB IBM ThinkPad, end up you only get 33.xGB hard disk space. For a laptop, 4GB disk space is a precious waste. Furthermore, for geekery people like us(ahem), it’s hardly for us to perform factory restore state.

    In order to throw away the hidden disk space, first you have to go into BIOS to remove hidden partition protection in Security > PreDekstop something and select Disable. A scary warning message will popup when you choose to disable it, don’t worry, it’s just a warning message, it won’t make you naked. Just select Okay!

    WARNING! Before you decided to format the hidden partition, please create recovery CDs/DVDs for the sake of factory restore thingy in the future. Click here to learn how to create IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Recovery CDs/DVDs.

    Now, you can run FreeBSD/Ubuntu/Fedora/Mac OS X/Gentoo/DesktopBSD on the additional partition and dual boot with Windows XP.

  • Create IBM/Leveno Thinkpad X40 Recovery Disc

    When you purchase an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X40 series laptop, it doesn’t come with restore CDs or operating CD like Dell/HP have. After you have purchased Thinkpad X40 series laptop, you have to call and request from IBM Centre for recovery CDs within 14 days from the day you bought the laptop. If you are like me, forget to do so, don’t worry, you can create the recovery CDs by yourself.

    If you are planning to create recovery CDs, prepare 5-6 CDs or if you prefer to build it in DVDs, you only need 2 DVDs. Make sure you have Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery installed. If not, download from IBM download site.

    To create IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad recovery CDs/DVDs, just click Start > Programs > ThinkVantage > Create Recovery Media. Follow the instruction, it will take around 30-45 minutes to complete the process, depend on your CD/DVD burner speed.

  • Work Place

    Office’s work place.