Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

My Sound Of The Day


I listened to this song last week as i was watching TV, it was the soundtrack of an ad: Flash And The Pan - Walking In The Rain. The video of the ad is in the complete post.










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Thursday, May 19, 2011

When Your Laptop Goes Pfff


Two weeks ago my work laptop decided to crash. It was not the first time something like this happened to me and i am quite prepared to it but this time the laptop shutdown around midnight just before the start of my work.



I got to the office on Monday night around 11 PM, I switched on my laptop and went to check that there was no issue in the network. No night operation is allowed if there is an issue going on. When I came back in front of my PC, Windows had booted and the login window was waiting for me. The session opened after having typed my password, I started opening the files I would need to work then started connecting to the servers I would work on. All of a sudden the blue screen of death appeared and disappeared, it was almost like a flash before my eyes and the computer restarted. When you get a blue screen of death the computer just sits there and usually waits for you to switch it off. As the computer was restarting I told myself to use my Linux partition to copy the files I would need on a USB drive. It was a great idea because the I tried to boot Windows after copying the files but this time the blue screen of death appeared even before the login window. I tried to switch on the computer a few time during the night but in the end nothing was being displayed on the screen anymore not even the computer brand which is the first thing that is being displayed when you switch your laptop on.



My trips to Kiribati and Tahiti came straight to my mind: a HP laptop that works perfectly well the day before but powers on the next day without displaying anything on the screen is not new to me. One could think that it is a screen issue but it just means that the laptop motherboard is dead, the 2 times this has happened to me it was because those boards don't handle humidity very well.
There was 3 choices:
- Find all the HP reseller on the island to buy a new motherboard hoping it wouldn't die 2 days after being installed.
- Ask to have my laptop replaced. I would get a new one that I think is less suited for my work thanks to UPS.
- Remove the hard drive from the laptop, put it in an external case to make it an external hard drive and install on it all the software I need to keep on working whatever the computer I am working on.



After a short night because we stopped working at 5 AM, I went to the first computer store I found and bought an external case. My boss is now used to getting a mail where the subject is « Computer Dead » and where I write: Hi, my computer just died but I can still perform my assignment. We will have to setup a appointment for me to get a new laptop when I will get back to France. Regards.
For sure I can't work on my scuba diving pictures with Picasa anymore but who cares.

La suite!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

My Sound Of The Day


This one is dedicated to my friend Alexis: Akhenaton & Faf Larage - Je Danse Pas.









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Monday, May 16, 2011

I Am Not Dead!


I just have too much work.
I spend so much time in front of a computer that the last thing I want to do once I get back to the hotel is stand in front of a laptop to write about my life here. Each time I think I will have more time, I get even more work. So I hope I will soon be able to write about the stuff I have seen and been doing the last few weeks in a week or so because I have a lot to tell.



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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

My Sound Of The Day


The Herbaliser is one of my favorite band, they are able to produce jazz, trip-hop, hip-hop or acid jazz tracks. I couldn't decide so i uploaded two songs: The Herbaliser - Moon Sequence & The Herbaliser - Starlight Feat Roots Manuva. The video in the complete post is a full concert that was shot in Paris in 2009.


















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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

My Sound Of The Day


Something to move your body! Swizz Beatz gives away a song for free each monday: Swizz Beatz - Everyday Feat Eve.









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