Mega SSD Review Part 3 – Super Talent’s Firmware Mystery

It has come to my attention that Super Talent had posted a new firmware version on its website (090508S), and I had missed out that update. Upon updating the drive’s firmware though, I found that the random write speeds have improved dramatically. Without further ado, here’s my findings.

Looks like Super Talent got it right this [...]

Locking Down MediaWiki

Been wanting to post this, but I kept forgetting about it. Recently there has been activity on my wiki site, and I haven’t been paying attention much to the pages on my wiki, until I decided to check all the pages on a whim, and I found out that an automated web crawler had used [...]

Da Vinci At The Science Centre

Wanted to post this earlier but didn’t have the time. So here it is.

Well the prices are a tad bit expensive IMHO, but I guess its alright for an exhibition this size.
Surprisingly the turnout was quite large, and its not even the last day of the exhibition. Went for the exhibition first, which was pretty [...]

Knowing is Half the Battle

Caught GI Joe on the eve of National Day with a few friends from army days, and the turnout was quite big – 12 of us occupied one entire row in the movie theatre at Marina Square. The plot was OK, though some of the scientific stuff seems a bit stretched too far, but hey, [...]

A Blue Bird’s Tweet

After reading the various good and bad blog posts regarding tweet.sg, I shall provide some factual evidence with a dash of history lesson and my personal opinion at the end.
Tweet.sg was first set up in November 2008 as a “project” of sorts by Jymster to allow local users to send their SMS updates to a [...]

Mega SSD Review Part 2 – Super Talent MasterDrive OX 64GB

Another piece of hardware to play with today – two Super Talent MasterDrive OX 64GB SSDs off eBay.

Strangely, the box is packaged bigger than the OCZ Apex, even though its an SSD.

Before I show the pictures of the benchmarks, there’s something that I want to highlight. What’s interesting about this SSD is the firmware that [...]

Video Games Live! 2009 Singapore Tour Review

Another big video game music orchestra concert arrives in Singapore, just slightly under a month after Distant Worlds was here. This is a very different concert for a different crowd – or it could be just the Friday Night Effect. People from all walks of life were at the show, compared to the mostly teenage [...]