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Merdeka Blogger!

Interesting blog on the block as well. Anybody can register an contribute to it. So go ahead and hit http://www.merdekablogger.org/

new blogger on the block

This new blogger ain’t a nobody. It is the opposition leader of the parliament, Mr. Lim Kit Siang.
Congratulations and welcome on board to Mr Lim. What an appopriate way to start the National Day celebration.
You can reach Lim Kit Siang’s blog at http://limkitsiang.blogspot.com/.

National Day!

It would be Malaysia’s 48th National Day in 1 hour and 40minutes time. Happy National Day to all Malaysians.

job: web-surfer

Really, no kidding! Soon there is a job for you web-surfers out there. Well, officially, not the unofficial one where your company pay you to do work, but you read people’s blog instead.
PETALING JAYA: The Government should set up a special unit to surf the Internet for local websites….
Obviously the “representatives of the industries” [...]

Linux on Laptop

Linux is (without any doubt) a powerful operating system. And to have it mobile on a laptop, notebook, phone, PDA, etc have lots of advantageous. Not going in there today since my mind is shutting down.
It has been a refresher course and also steep learning curve to get Slackware-current to run perfectly (almost) on Dell [...]

fantastic linux

I thought I have lost my touch with Linux. However, that is not the case. Still pretty sharp at it. (Self praise?, Is no praise.) I must say it has been pretty frustrating few days compiling kernel over and over again. Probably more then 10 times. All of that to get 2.6.12.5 kernel going on [...]

Low Yatt price list – weekly

This post serves as my bookmark.
If you are contemplating to buy certain computer stuff. And you want to have a benchmark of among the lowest price in the country. Check out shops at Plaza Low Yatt, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. The price list is what you will get from the shops. It is updated weekly. [...]

who says windoze is easy?

I have not being bothered by Windoze Pseudo OS for sometime. And I have forgotten the PAIN it caused me.
Who says installing Windoze is easy? Well, maybe the pseudo-OS, but not a workable OS. To make it workable, you got to install countless drivers, and anti-virus, firewall, anti-spyware, etc. PAIN!
Installing Linux especially Slackware is such [...]

link between stupidity and smokers found!

Yes, that’s right, according to a recent study conducted by Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. The study was lead by Associate Prof Lekhraj Rampal over a period of 10 months. The crux of the results was published in News Straits Times today. (PDF).
Peer preassure? Huh, it is stupidity! I am always [...]

Tempoarily out of resourse, please try again later (2)

This problem has not been solved by TM Nut. Today I got the same error message on 219.95.*.* subnet. Looks like the only safe subnet is 218.111.*.*
But it is annoying keep on dialing and disconnecting to get the 218.111.*.* subnet. Damn.
By the way, there is a cable outage under the Indian Ocean.

the return of mx700

In my computer literacy lifetime, I have owned a few Logitech mouses. You can say, I am quite a loyal customer.
I’ll try to list out what has been under my palm guiding the cursor on the screen before.

Logitech First Mouse – Serial Port – 2 button mouse.
Logitech Optical Scroll Mouse – USB
MX300 – USB
MX700 [...]

documents wanted

I am looking for two historical documents. The original copy are kept in The National Archives, Kew in UK.
The documents are:

CO889 – Colonial Office: Federation of Malaya Constitutional Commission (Reid Commission): Minutes and Papers. Or better know as Reid Commission Report.
CO947 –
Colonial Office: Commission of Enquiry in North Borneo and Sarawak Regarding Malaysian Federation (Cobbold [...]


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