Enabling More Than 4GB RAM on Windows 7 32-bit

Posted by Pradeesh on May 16, 2012 0 comments

In this tutorial , I’ll be guiding you on how to enable 4GB of RAM on Windows 7 32-bit.  This is handy especially if you are planning to use your old Windows 32-bit without the hassle of going through reformatting and re installing Windows 7 64-bit as there is no way to upgrade from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS. Before we start , be sure to backup your system and you also would also need to download the patch here . If you prefer to do it for yourself , scroll down and read

DISCLAIMER : Bear in mind that we are going to change our system here. For instance you may enter Twlight Realm and you may be a fan of Justin Bieber afterwards. I am not held responsible if such incident occurs. So be sure to backup your system before attempting to do so.

 

Source Microsoft TechNet

Physical Address Extension (PAE) - Allows processors in 32-bit to address more than 4GB of RAM Source: Microsoft TechNet

Simply run the patch and select patch 4GB of RAM and reboot !  If you did correctly , voila you should see something like this. Congratulations , now your 32-bit Windows 7 supports > 4GB of RAM !

 

 

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Server is In Process of Migration

Posted by Pradeesh on May 7, 2012 0 comments

Hey guys,

I am currently migrating my server. So CSS and few other things may not work. I am trying my best to fix it as soon as possible.

Sorry for the inconvience

 

Regards

Pradeesh

Samsung ML-2160 Review Part 3

Posted by Pradeesh on April 30, 2012 0 comments

This is the last part of my SAMSUNG ML-2160. You should read the previous two segments , which are located here and here before reading this. In this segment , I’ll be wrapping up everything and giving you my final conclusion of the printer

 

 

Printing Speed

I’ll let the video be the judge. In this case I decided to print a lecture note which is in powerpoint file format (PPT) and decided to print 6 slides a page with SAMSUNG Easy Eco functionality. I’ve posted a video which I would like you to be judge

It prints relatively fast as you could see in the video (faster compared to Inkjet printers which are priced the same) . The printing quality is not bad at all (bear in mind I turned on eco-saving features so probably it has toned down on sharpness to save toner’s ink)

 

Final Thoughts

Lastly , here are my thoughts. If you are a student who prints their lecture notes for revision and stuff and wants an affordable printer , this is the printer that you are looking for. The additional things that the printer includes is pretty much one of its kind , that you can’t find in any other printer of this price range. However if you are kind of person who would like to print things in colour or are just looking for a multi-function printer , sorry to say that this printer is for you at all. You are better off with an Inkjet printer. I’ve summed it up all in a simple pros and cons point form

 

Pros

  1. Affordable Price & Compact
  2. Broad Compatibly  (works with Windows and Mac)
  3. Toner which lasts pretty long
  4. Awesome Bundled Software (suc as Eco Drive)

 

Cons

  1. Noise of the Printer (It can get a bit loud at times)
  2. No Automatic Double-Sided Printing Capabilities
  3. No Stop Hardware Button if you want to abort Printing

 

Again this printer is great. Some of the cons or drawbacks of the printer are outweighed by the benefit. For instance there the hardware physical stop button is replaced by SAMSUNG Eco Drive so you could review your pages before printing , but however I still prefer a hardware stop button. That’s just being me. Overall , this is the first time I am using a monochrome laser printer  (and reviewing a printer) and it seems to be perfect for my everyday use. Not only its affordable as I have pointed out early but it is also compact. SAMSUNG does deserve some praises in this area. So kudos SAMSUNG , hope that you guys could release a laser printer that allows to print colour pages in this similar price range

Overall Rating : 4/5

 

Acknowledgements

I would like to say that its not a sponsored post by Samsung but more towards the printer  itself. The review can be negative or positive as they have spent out that each reviewers have their freedom of expression to express their thoughts. I would also like to thank SAMSUNG for providing me with the review unit

Samsung ML-2160 Review Part 2

Posted by Pradeesh on April 12, 2012 3 comments

Let’s take a look at what else Samsung ML-2160 has to offer. In the previous section of the review , we took a look at price/performance ratio and the hardware aspects of the printer such as its size. In this segment , we will take a look on the software aspect of the printer.

 

 

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Risks Involved in Free WiFi

Posted by Pradeesh on April 9, 2012 5 comments

Malaysians (and quite sure the rest of the us) truly love Free WiFi. No doubt that you see tons of Malaysians love to spend time in Cafe such as Starbucks , Coffee Bean , SF Coffee for hours by just buying a small cup of latte (or their favorite drink) and sitting there for an entire day and downloading their favorite animes. Of course some of us go to these places for group discussion or to meet people or to do some ‘mission critical’. Others even use Cafes as their secondary office – meeting new clients and sealing off deals.

 

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WiFi Hotspots are becoming more and more common in this era as users are getting tech-savvy (Picture from popfi.com)

The biggest concern is security. This is why there is even an article in The Star , which inspired me to write myself this article  One may ask what are the risks involved and how you can protect yourself when using Free WiFi. More after the jump

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Samsung ML-2160 Review Part 1

Posted by Pradeesh on March 27, 2012 2 comments

Printers are essential for two things – printing reports and printing notes. It becomes an essential tool for every student who is currently in college or university. It is because more and more of our lecture material , tutorial questions are being posted online. Not to mention that printing them in your college/university could be a hassle – especially when everyone is using the library printer for instance – you will see people printing their assignments at the 11th hour or simply printing the entire stack of lecture notes , tutorial questions for the semester and not to mention that at times , the printer could broke down and most importantly – printing in university could be expensive

Now you may say that if there is only a way I could get the awesomeness of university printer for my personal use and which does not cost a bomb. Thankfully your prayers have been answered – SAMSUNG ML-2160 series printer. A printer that is easy on the wallet and the environment too – and not to mention that it’s a laser printer (similar to the ones used in your university for printing documents)

 

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Fixing Lion Annoying Resume

Posted by Pradeesh on February 21, 2012 1 comments

MacOS X Lion has lots of great features and it somewhat makes MacOS X as close as iOS (this is what Apple is trying to do) . One thing which I hated in OSX was its resume functionality , like how application and system resumes when you shut it off or restart it. Of course you have the option of turning it off every time you reboot/restart , but you’ll have to untick it and reboot for a clean reboot , else it would load up all the applications that you had previously and this would have an impact on boot time (unless of course you are using SSD).

I’ve found this great guide in MacOS X hints which describes how to do it , but unfortunately , it was not clearly explained as I would prefer to explain on what these commands do as you could understand them and improve your UNIX skills.

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Plugging into IPV6 – the next generation

Posted by Pradeesh on January 21, 2012 0 comments

 

The Internet grows very fast just like how houses are built everyday to cater the masses. This is because with the introduction of smartphones , the growth of Internet went up high. As for developing country , affordable broadband connectivity translates to more and more people are hoping online. Of course just like in real world , you’ll eventually run out of land and  it goes the same for the virtual world – eventually you’ll run out of IP Addresses which means it would be impossible for new devices to hop on and join the World Wide Web.

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Yes Life iPhone/Android App Review

Posted by Pradeesh on December 27, 2011 0 comments

DISCLAIMER – I am not paid by YTL/Yes to write this review. It is my honest feedback and my experience

My Australian journey was fantastic and people in Australia are truly awesome , but at the same time there are technology revolution that helped me stay in touch with my family and friends back home in my country – Yes Life comes into play. (more after the jump)

Introduction
Yes Life is an application for iPhone and Android that transforms your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch and your Android device into a phone. You get a Malaysian phone number (ideal for Malaysians who are going overseas for a long period of time and ideal for foreigners who come to Malaysia – it works both ways) and its SIM-less (meaning that you don’t need a SIM card and you can carry the number across ‘devices’) – which was ideal in my case. I could pop in an Australian SIM (which I did , and subscribed for a data plan) and loaded up this program. I would make calls using this program , it would use up my data quota and not my voice minutes. Just think of it as Skype.

Getting Started

Firstly you’ll have to download Yes Life for iOS , which can be obtained by clicking it (it takes you to App Store) , and as for Android users , you may download it by clicking it here (it takes you to Android Market). The application itself is free , however you need to purchase or activate your Yes Line – which costs RM 50/RM 68 or more depending on which package you have selected.

 

Using the application

Its straight forward – works similar to how your Android phone.app or iPhone Phone App. You have everything – text messages (SMS) , phone – its there. It pulls all your contact information from your existing contacts , so you woul not have to enter it twice. Apart from that there is nothing much to explain in this area. Its like using your phone.

 

My Experience 

The beauty of is the ability to make cheap calls back home (you are only charged RM 0.09 sen/minute) which is dirt cheap compared to your roaming charges which is around AU$0.80 or AU$1.50 / min (I can’t remember for Optus). Incoming calls to your 018 number is free and the other party has to pay for it. Its even easier for your parents , this is what I did for my OZ Adventure – just gave them my australian number and my 018 number. Its cheaper for them to make calls to 018 number as it would be charged as a local mobile number and on the other hand its free for me , I don’t have to worry about being charged for incoming calls.

 

However, there were times whereby the call quality was bad . This is due to several factors , one of it is being poor 3G reception and the other one is poor connectivity to Yes 4G network. I had issues even with WiFi (connected to my University’s line which is ~100Mbps). Mainly the issues are similar to what you face when you experience ‘lag’ in games – its just about that. It takes time for your ‘hello’ to be transmitted the other side and the other side would just keep on saying ‘Hello’. On a bright day (i.e when there is no network hiccups or what-so-ever) , it works pretty well. I’ve been on conversation for 40 minutes without disconnection.

As for reloading , you could do it via Website. For some reason it does not show foreign banks (i.e ANZ) on their list , but if you pick maybank and enter your foreign credit/debit card it works well as well. They should have an option for foreign/overseas Credit/Debit card !

Conclusion

I would recommend to Malaysian students who are planning to study overseas or plan to attend an exchange program with a university. You could save a ton of money on call rate especially if you are going to a country whereby the mobile service provider charges you for incoming calls as well. Secondly , its suitable for businessman who would regularly visit Malaysia and plan to establish contacts – its your Malaysian number – cheaper than your average prepaid and you can use it once you are back on your home country.

I do not recommend for short-trips or your European adventure trip. It is just not worth for that purposes.

 

To conclude , Yes Life pretty much fills where Skype lacks for Malaysian. I do hope they start improving the application – especially by adding push notification. The battery drain on Yes Life application is horrible and pretty much after a day’s use my battery dies. With push notifications , at least I would be notified if there were any miss calls or incoming SMS.

 

Thank You Steve Jobs

Posted by Pradeesh on October 6, 2011 8 comments

Thank you Steve Jobs for everything. On behalf of the hackint0sh community and pretty much everyone. Thank you for making us a great OS that allowed us to hack and work it with our generic computers. You made some awesome things that made us all of us wow and you brought us together. I am pretty much stunned by how hackint0sh allowed me to meet new friends from different countries.

 

Once again , Thank you steve jobs. If you have been hackint0shing and haven’t purchased OSX. Please do so , at least support the great guy who made it possible. You’ll be forever missed !

 

Cheers

PS – I’ll be replying to e-mails as soon as possible (I got few on hackint0sh) . Telstra’s cap is a bitch. After 10GB (which is a joke in today’s standard) , I am throttled to 64Kbps which makes gmail impossible to load as well !