Tiger needs more RAM. Well this PowerMac G5 is very short of RAM, it is only 256Mbyte. Will be looking for two pieces of 512Mbyte of DDR400 RAM soon. Well, when I have the money. Have to reserve some cash for the purchase of some goods. Goods indeed.
Compiling with gcc4.0 on Tiger introduce some problem [...]
Archive for April, 2005
The Tiger is roaring!
Have not tried it on the iBook yet but it certainly fly on the PowerMac G5 (1.8GHz single processor).
PowerMac G5 line have just been updated.
The lowest end of PowerMac G5 is single 1.8GHz PowerPC 970, the next inline would be dual 2.0GHz PowerPC970FX. The medium range would be dual 2.3GHz PowerPC970Fx and the highest range is dual 2.7GHz PowerPC970FX. Check out the tech specs at apple.com.
Superdrive is also update to dual-layer burner at [...]
PowerPC 7450 optimized firefox build is back online. The latest build is 04/27.
So far there is no problem with stability. Most of the extensions is working now. Adblock is still not working. I tried to use the fix (hack) given in forums.mozillazine.org without success.
I have grown rather fond of Camino. Now I am having two [...]
Brace yourself for a historical event in our country. We will be seeing diesel revolution soon.
Diesel is running out in almost the whole country. It is making frontpage news in The Star and NST. Check out jeffooi.com for a good discussion there.
If you are travelling by bus or diesel guzzling vehicle to Johor during the [...]
Why would a government want to relocate a whole town? The town in question is Bau in Sarawak. It is also known as gold town because of its history of gold mining town.
Malaysiakini reports that the town is in the plans to be relocated. The reasons given by the government is indeed questionable. Chief Minister [...]
The CELL processor is the future of PS3 and other machines. It is a supercomputer class processor.
It is jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM. For those interested, IBM have put some intresting articles online since it’s introduction in March 05. The link to the articles in IBM is the first on the list below.
The [...]
I have seen sign boards at a few petrol kiosk stating “Quota Diesel Habis”. And this is effecting all diesel users nationwide.
An emergency motion in Parliament to discuss this shortage of diesel was shot down by the speaker Ramli Ngah Talib. Read about it in MalaysiaKini.
This very distressing. It is clear that it is an [...]
I have stop upgrading Firefox-trunk since April 22 build. A new extension manager was introduced into the trunk in April 23 and most of the extensions is not updated for it. April 24 build kills all extensions. Therefore I am switching to camino.
Hope the extensions developer catch-up again with the trunk code.
Unrelated: I have the [...]
This is just an urge to write about nothing in particular. I have 4 “articles” in my drafts section and I am unable to finish them. It is getting on my nerve.
Well, this is just a post of no particular subject or about everything. And it fits perfectly in uncategorized!
Tiger will be available at Apple [...]
I have been reading jeffooi’s weblog called screenshot. Therefore the influence of the numbering of the same topic on different post.
The backbencher chief Shahrir Abdul Samad have back down from his earlier stand which is to set up a committee selected by parliament to study the water management privatisation and regulation by the federal government. [...]
The name sounds familiar, but I do not know the story. It is not too far away to get the picture.
I will not attempt to summarize one’s life here. But I want to express my solidarity for her fight to defend human rights without fear nor favour.
A search on google.com would give many accounts of [...]
