This is in response to the article in mumbai mirror here
This is precisely the type of bastards that the BMC is made of. We have no dearth of senseless and apathetic "officers" who, instead of doing good for the city actually screw it up further just for a few rupees.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
Review: TechCom 8110 Front Loading Desktop Cabinet
This is a review of the TechCom 8110 front loading desktop cabinet.
Product page: here
I bought this product from Ebay for Rs. 1899. Item code: 160132581192.
I needed a desktop cabinet that would save some space on my small table.
I have the following drives:
1) Samsung CDRW
2) Sony DVD drive
3) Samsung Hard drive
4) Western Digital Hard drive
When I opened the contents of the package, the first thing that struck me was that there was NO instruction manual. When you have to squeeze hardware into a small space, you need some kind of instructions to see what goes where. But this was conspicuously missing.
Then as I was checking the wires, the HDD LED wire just came off. I noticed that the LEDs were just "stuck" with some white sort of wax like substance, probably some molten plastic. The quality of this cabinet really sucks. Same was the case with the drive bays. The switches were of some bad plastic and were "stuck" to the main case with some whitish plastic substance. Needless to say, those also came off.
I fit my motherboard with CPU, RAM, LAN card and AGP card. After that I fit my 2 CD/DVD drives and my 2 hard drives onto the removable assembly. Then I tried to connect the power and data cables to these drives. This is where I really got frustrated.
The way the assembly is designed, it is impossible to connect all four of these devices to the motherboard
a) due to the limited length of the power connectors
b) due to the limited length of the ribbon data cables
So currently, I am running my comp with the DVD drive disconnected since neither the ribbon cable nor the power cable can reach to it.
This reflects poor design on the part of TechCom. Please do not buy TechCom products if you are looking for good quality. Their products really suck as you can plainly see from the excellent description on their product page.
Product page: here
I bought this product from Ebay for Rs. 1899. Item code: 160132581192.
I needed a desktop cabinet that would save some space on my small table.
I have the following drives:
1) Samsung CDRW
2) Sony DVD drive
3) Samsung Hard drive
4) Western Digital Hard drive
When I opened the contents of the package, the first thing that struck me was that there was NO instruction manual. When you have to squeeze hardware into a small space, you need some kind of instructions to see what goes where. But this was conspicuously missing.
Then as I was checking the wires, the HDD LED wire just came off. I noticed that the LEDs were just "stuck" with some white sort of wax like substance, probably some molten plastic. The quality of this cabinet really sucks. Same was the case with the drive bays. The switches were of some bad plastic and were "stuck" to the main case with some whitish plastic substance. Needless to say, those also came off.
I fit my motherboard with CPU, RAM, LAN card and AGP card. After that I fit my 2 CD/DVD drives and my 2 hard drives onto the removable assembly. Then I tried to connect the power and data cables to these drives. This is where I really got frustrated.
The way the assembly is designed, it is impossible to connect all four of these devices to the motherboard
a) due to the limited length of the power connectors
b) due to the limited length of the ribbon data cables
So currently, I am running my comp with the DVD drive disconnected since neither the ribbon cable nor the power cable can reach to it.
This reflects poor design on the part of TechCom. Please do not buy TechCom products if you are looking for good quality. Their products really suck as you can plainly see from the excellent description on their product page.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Serial kisser now has a conscience???
This is with reference to that article by TOI here.
Awwwww..how sad. The ever-so-ethical and morally sound Emraan Hashmi is sick of kissing beautiful women??? I bet Ashok Row Kavi would be interested in this article :D
Bloody hypocrite. He doesn't show any 'sickness' when smooching them on screen. But then I guess he's such a terrific 'actor' and the 'scene' requires the kiss and its so 'aesthetically' shot that he doesn't have a problem doing it.
Way to go.
Awwwww..how sad. The ever-so-ethical and morally sound Emraan Hashmi is sick of kissing beautiful women??? I bet Ashok Row Kavi would be interested in this article :D
Bloody hypocrite. He doesn't show any 'sickness' when smooching them on screen. But then I guess he's such a terrific 'actor' and the 'scene' requires the kiss and its so 'aesthetically' shot that he doesn't have a problem doing it.
Way to go.
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