Daniel Mak

Mystery Solved: My PC won’t sleep

So about a month ago, for some odd reason after working since I got the system, my computer would randomly wake up at night even though I did not touch the keyboard or move the mouse. I had also set the LAN port not to wake on LAN or special packet (which means that I can’t remote wake the computer from any remote desktop client such as Window’s Remote Desktop Protocol, Logmein or Teamviewer.)

It was late at night when this problem happened (at around 2am, so I didn’t give it much though. I gave up trying to find the solution cause I was just too lazy to find out. So since then I had left my computer running at night and my room got warm cause heat builds up in a closed room.

About a month later, Neowin makes a post about this issue and how a lot of people are having this issue. One of journalist had this issue and discovered a solution to it as well. Turned out that Google had added a task to repeat every hour to check for updates. I don’t know how that was added but it somehow caused the computer to wake up from sleep. So I disabled that and ever since it’s been able to sleep and wake up whenever I tell it to. And the occasional bump to the keyboard when someone goes into my room.

Finally got the issue fixed. It was starting to get annoying (not really…). lol

New Years…

I’m a little late in posting this. But HAPPY NEW YEARS… and welcome to 2012. Supposedly the end of the world occurs at the end of this year, for people who believe in that prediction.

I’ve been sick for since New Years. Sigh… Got Food Poisoning from Moxies on New Years Eve and have been sick ever since. Just getting better now, but still not 100% yet. Looks like im going to avoid the Moxies in Fairview from now on. Scared I might get food poisoning again.

Other than that, I almost bought the Blackberry Playbook which they are selling it for more than 50% off at their official website. $199 for 16GB, $249 for 32GB and $399 for the 64GB. The US site is selling all three versions for $299. I made the order for it, but decided last min that the money is better off being spent else where so I emailed and cancelled the order.

Then this morning the power at my house went out for 3 hours. Luckily I had a back up UPS for 2 of my 3 machines. (Note to self: Get a UPS for the media server). The power came back just as I was about to leave for work. Talk about a waste of a morning with no power…. Nah I just slept. No power outage can prevent me from being online. That’s what a smart phone with wifi hot spot is for. ^_^

That about wraps up the first 4 days of 2012. Great start so far in the new year…. NOT!!! =.=

CC Dinner 2011

Christmas time agian, and CC hosted another annual Canada Computers Christmas party for their employees, partners and vendors.

This year’s event was held at the Premiere Banquet hall. The entire hall was filled with from what I heard about 800+ people. 300+ more than last year’s number which was already alot. I suspect next years number will be increased with the current expansion rate.

The dinner was a Chinese style meal, obvious since it’s ran by Chinese people. lol, sponsored by the Vendors. Unfortunately there were no door prizes like last year which I was looking forward to the most, I mean who wouldn’t want to be able to win a free TV or a free digital camera. LOL. There were however table prizes which were small prizes. The biggest one was a digital camera which I didn’t win. I won a R/C Helicopter which ain’t so bad.

I didn’t get a chance to win anything when it came to the lucky draw, but I wasn’t expecting to win anything, especially with my luck. The food however was pretty good, for the usual 10 course Chinese meal. Got to meet and mingle with alot of coworkers from different stores that I’ve known over the year and a half I’ve been with the company. Maybe next year will be alot better, that’s if I’m still with the company that long.. HAHA