Samsung 830 SSD -1, Opening

Last week, there was one day sale on Samsung 830 SSD 128GB.
What is SSD? Think of it as a hard drive that works like a flash drive, or a flash drive that works like a hard drive.
It doesn't have a moving part, no noise, lower power consumption, and above all, faster speed.
Read more about it on Wikipedia.

Today I've got it in mail, and this is what it looks like.

Top view

Side view

On the back you see the summary of 830 series SSD.

Back side

Some models come with cables, brackets, and Norton Ghost CD.
This is what's in the box. Pretty simple. No cable. No bracket. No Norton Ghost.

What's in the box

The backside of the SSD you can find model numbers and stuff.

Soon I'll write how much faster it is compared to my old SATA2 HDD.

Remote Desktop and Windows 8 CP

It's been a few weeks with Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
I tasted many interesting new features of Windows, but I figured the new Remote Desktop was pretty confusing.
I use Remote Desktop a lot to get to my work computer especially when the weather is bad and I don't feel like going outside.

I'm no network expert, so when they changed the interface, I couldn't figure out how to set it up.

Huh? How do I use this?

Then, I found out MS still put the old style Remote Desktop hidden in system32 folder. If you're on Windows 8 and miss the old style Remote Desktop, this is how to get it.

Find "mstsc.exe" in C:\Windows\System32 folder.

Right-click, Send to, Desktop (create shortcut)

Now you have it on the desktop.