IDB Bhoban - Bangladesh Computer Village

IDB Bhaban host the main computer city in Dhaka. Its a pretty very well built arena for computer and electronic.

A quest for 7mm HDD too me to the place. Despite not speaking a single word of Bengali, it was relatively easy to get the CNG drivers to understand IDB Bhaban.

I got there on a Sunday, but the place was closed. The IDB building itself was open but the Computer Building was closed.
A lady graciously advised that I come back the following day and after 12noon. I had no choice but to return to following day.

I found the building very well organized and brought my mind to Computer Village in Otigba in Nigeria.
This is a computer city down right.

Clonezilla and ddrestore to the rescue

I was using my hard when i heard a little noise! I ignored because i was trying to meet some deadline, but the noise didnt disappear, so i place by ear at the left side of the laptop and certainly it sounds like a hard disk crash.
That far from how, and that that particular time, was really a pain in the rear.

I listed out what i need to resolve the issue.. New HDD, Screw driver, Windows 8 media. When i thought it through, i tried to squeeze a little more work from the failing system. I managed to get 2 days work, which worsened the situation and brought me very close to losing my data!

Converting music files to mp3

I copied my new Liquideep album; Welcome Aboard; on my Nexus 4, but the android Play Music app does display it to even play it.
I did a search and read that android Play Music does NOT play .wma files, which is what I ripped the CD with.
So I need a convenient way to convert the multiple music files. Luckily, I have a command line program called ffmpeg, and a little knowledge of windows scripting and internet.

for /R C:\Music %%v in (*.wmv *.aac, *.flv, *.m4a, *.wma) do ffmpeg -v quiet -i "%%v" -ab 128k "C:\Music\M\%%~nv.mp3"

This script converts every music file in the folder "C:\Music" with the extension name (*.wmv *.aac, *.flv, *.m4a, *.wma) to mp3 using the bitrate of 128k

Convenient ehh..

You can run this directly on windows command prompt, or put it in a file and run as a batch script

NB: I prefer putting the ffmpeg file into the windows path, or simply drop it in C:\Windows\System32

Dhaka.. At first glance

Its hot! Average temperature 30C
Its humid! Average humidity 90%
It rains constantly
English knowledge offers very few advantage as the population speaks Bengali

This two combination makes for an operassive weather, in the first week of stay.

Immediately I left the airport, I was overwhelmed with people, strong aroma of smell that cant be decided!
The road is also chocked up; the Rickshaw is many and the CNG (3 wheels cycle aka Keke in Nigeria and TukTuk is other places), drive like they have a spare life somewhere

Two weeks into my stay, and getting used to the place and may even miss it!