Tommy Peters' Bicycles

A serial killer is on the loose. Forensics, summoned to the scene of the homicide, finds a baseball bat beside the bludgeoned body. At the press conference, police announce that they have a severe case of the  ‘baseball bat’. The killer commits a series of murders. Every time a body is discovered, the public is told that the spectre of the  ‘baseball bat’  has resurfaced and that they are working to eradicate the Instrument . The terms ‘homicide’ and ‘killer’ are never mentioned. Carla Bruni • Chanson triste  ∆ The Haze is merely the Instrument that kills .  The Crime is Arson, and the perpetrator is the Arsonist, period. The misguided terminology encouraged by the politically correct and commercially compromised media has placed affected people in a hamster’s cartwheel propelled by the Indonesian government that condones the repeated arson. The government's actions are a pathology to civilization, terroristic to man and nature and an unprecedented stai

Preamble:- Previously, I said about a come-back that went ahead without Jon Anderson that "if you can't pick a sucker in the listener within 20 minutes of a YES journey that isn't up to par, chances are, the sucker is you."  Musically, 13 retains its 'Anderson' element, but still, it is mystifying as to why the thing is at #1 on the Billboard. The only plausible explanation could be that Sabbath witch-heads were awaiting the bat-eating prodigal to return to the father; and finally, it did! 8-foot tall burning wicker by Spencer Jenkins - shot by Jonathan Knowles End of the Beginning  ∆   Refreshed in the sensibility of a New World Order beta, yet remains in the sentiment of the old decadency sword, Iron Man.   ∆ God Is Dead?  ∆     At the turn of the last century, thick in the belief of a Darwinian monkey god, Friedrich Nietzsche comfortably proclaimed that 'God is dead'. Hitler picked up on it and, with moolah from Ro

The Dells and iMac with the 'champion' on the table Coldplay • What If  ∆ Although the pre-Thunderbolt iMac 27" 2009 has an MDP port for a second monitor, the remaining USB ports may be channelled to add as many monitors as there are available USB ports via a bang-for-buck USB multi-display adapter. It's a dodgy brand but the nifty Mountain Lion compatible adapter uses a DisplayLink powered hardware and retails at RM155.00 at Sri Computers, Low Yat Plaza, Kuala Lumpur. The DisplayLink driver in the enclosed disk is vintage but a URL is provided for the current version. Once installed, Displays in System Preferences shows up the USB monitor to calibrate, rotate, extend and/or mirror. Understandably, being USB driven, HD movies on the newfound monitor are a tad jittery, but excellent for web browsing, mails, word processing and general reading, which in portrait mode, just adds to the experience. The Dells that stand portrait to the iMac at home

With the launch of the Veyron, some brilliant people have resurrected the soul-catcher of the century. Post in progress - (the audio in the clip is by Alex Peters who rendered the Sinatra classic at Flatfish Studio)

The images depict the swapping of the 500GB Hitachi HDD for a 256GB SanDisk SSD and installing the swapped HDD in a MCE OptiBay in place of the rarely used SuperDrive that has found a new home in a bus powered bootable USB 2.0 MCE enclosure. Angie • Stereophonics  ∆ Innards of a drunkard Spool juxtaposed with the lockstep of Flash  ∆ From 60 to 260  ∆ (Before)  Hitachi 500GB 5400rpm HDD • 60Mbps average  ∆  (After)  SanDisk 256GB SSD • 260Mbps average  ∆ SSD installed  ∆ Firmware updated  ∆   Trim enabled  ∆ Instruction gem  >  ' Please don't squeeze the HDD when make the installment' -   ∆ 500GB Hitachi HDD installed in the OptiBay  ∆ OptiBay installed  ∆ The SuperDrive is installed in the USB 2.0 MCE enclosure  ∆ End result  • The 256GB SSD works alongside the 500GB HDD in the same machine  ∆ Software :- Disk Utility, SuperDuper!, SanDisk firmware update, Trim enabler, MCE's OptiBay Utility. Tools

Tommy Emmanuel • Classical Gas  ∆ Innards of a drunkard Spool juxtaposed with the lockstep of Flash  ∆ From  115 to 255 • The old (CTO) 'bullet train' • 2.8Ghz Core i7 • 16GB RAM • 1067 Mhz • DDR3 (Before) Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm HDD • 115Mbps average  ∆ (After) Crucial M500 480GB SSD • 255Mbps average  ∆  Overview depicting the HDD assembly in the centre  ∆ Close-up of the (blue) Jumper Block, SATA Data, SATA Power and Thermal Sensor plugs  ∆ Prepping the Crucial SSD on a Sandisk 3.5" adaptor  ∆ The (coffee table) workbench  ∆ The 'overkill' glass lifter  ∆ Masking the glass upon removal (for dust and smudge protection)  ∆ Mask the LCD screen before lifting (for dust and smudge protection)  ∆ Remove the RAM cards  ∆ Remove the Vertical Sync cable  ∆ Prop the LCD screen with chopsticks  ∆ Overview of the HDD assembly  ∆ Remove Thermal Sensor, SATA Power and SATA

Preamble:- If the SSD/Firewire option is favourable over HDD/SATA, the plethora of suction cups laden hoops and low drop panel hangings may be deferred (with relief), but eventually though, as the HDD nears the end of its tether, those suckers are to be summoned for the SSD to be plugged onto SATA for a wicked fast boot. Stone Sour • Frozen  ∆ The iMac 24" . Last year, SmartReporter indicated that the 500GB 7200rpm Hitachi 3.5" HDD in the iMac 24” 2.8GHz Extreme (mid 2007) was failing. Data was backed up and to reduce tech downtime, an external boot drive on Firewire was created from the original Leopard install disk and thereafter upgraded to Mountain Lion. The boot drive, a Western Digital Studio, operated without a glitch albeit a lot slower. Eventually, after several months of external boots, the Extreme was taken apart by an ACMT certified tech who replaced the failing internal with a 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3.5" HDD backed up from the