This week or so is for everyone to visit the graves and ash urns of their dead kin. Not so clear about the religious aspects but I'm here to wipe the urns anyway.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Mar 24, 2010 8:02:35 PM
Somehow my install of iis,php,mysql and drupal didn't work. I think I'll install a clean os tomorrow to start anew. Wonder if tinyvista will work? Vista ultimate seems heavy..
Then maybe I'll start with xmail and get it to work first before adding drupal.
And my 486. Hope its still working! I'll take it out tonight to see what i can do with it. I'm hoping to run a gallery thing. Hope theres a really light open source gallery thing i can use,and hopefully it does static pages. Or lets me set up cacheing easily.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Mar 21, 2010 7:54:33 PM
On the bus back.
The macpup/p3 system at home lacks 2 things crucially. sound and office.
I'm going to cycle thru all the sound driver options before giving the machine a separate sound card instead of using on board sound. And i hope open office runs ok on a p3 500mHz. After which i can think about a better video card than the on board video.
Tat settled, it'd be the 486 next. Will slitaz or deli run ok and at least browse the net on it? I wonder if i can add xampp and/or a mailserver+mailscanner and clamav on it? Probably too much. Especially the latter i guess. SMS requires at least a 500mHz pentium or k2. But what other use is such a machine?
i hope to keep the p4 as it is and figure out how to make it record tv and stream the recordings. maybe this could run the web and mail too.
but if so what to do with the 486?
ha ha.
Mar 21, 2010 9:50:51 AM
Sian. The macpup p3 system can go online. I haven't tried openoffice on it yet.
I'll see if that'll work properly on it first before i go about changing the sound and video cards.
Currently its using the on-board sound and video. and theres no sound. and youtube clips play at maybe 5 frames per second?
and the mkv file i tried to play didn't play. either i figure out how to add codecs to it or i get totem or maybe a p3 500 is really just underpowered for modern video playback.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
free mac
i think i still want to retain my p4 systems for whatever usage i have for them in the future if possible...maybe for running some sort of hosting from home, i dunno...
so i'm going to pass the p3-500 to my friend who needed a system 'just to surf net'...
the hardware actually ran xubuntu 9.1 just fine from livecd. so its actually even speedier on the much lighter macpup...
and macpup probably looks better than xubuntu...
if he protests violently then i'd maybe swap the p3 macpup for a p4 running ubuntu 10 or something...
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Mar 18, 2010 10:13:14 AM
A Republic of Steak has just set up shop here. while stocks last,they say. about their $29.90 wine fed wagyu.
in other news, I've no problems at all connecting to my ftp server using its internal ip. but when i connect by its name, or external ip, all i get is 'econnrefused'. why?! i suspect i left out something basic. maybe i put in the port forwarding rules but didn't turn them on or something.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Mar 16, 2010 9:58:01 AM
Touched down on malaysian soil..just like aa paper,no jam. been thinking the whole morning if its economic to purchase a pack of cigs here just for the day..but i simply cant bend my mind around the numbers..must be because woke up too early...
Monday, March 15, 2010
except that i think they're all a joke
maximum social good
- The original invites system wasn’t a marketing ploy, it was simply an engineering decision to make sure they could scale
- There’s a 30-1 engineers to products managers ratio in the Gmail team — it’s certainly one of the biggest ratios at Google
- The Gmail team is spread over a few offices around the world (including Zurich), it used to be more, but they consolidated to help the product.
- There are “hundreds of million of users” — the third-largest email provider
- In India, Gmail is the number one email provider
- Gmail is growing fasters internationally than in the U.S.
- Gmail is available in 53 languages
- Internally, the Google Buzz team was known as “Team Taco Town” after an SNL skit
- Google uses Gmail internally (obviously), switched over from Microsoft Outlook at launch (about 6 years ago)
- Gmail is slow for some users mainly because they have a ton of emails saved. A fix for that is coming soon
- Most of gmail is written in Java, JavaScript, C++
- There are several hundred thousands lines of javascript in Gmail – one of the biggest in the world
- No new feature can launch for Gmail that adds latency to the product
“We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business,” Mr. Jobs told Apple employees during an all-hands meeting shortly after the public introduction of the iPad in January, according to two employees who were there and heard the presentation. “Make no mistake: Google wants to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”
One of these employees said Mr. Jobs returned to the topic of Google several times in the session and even disparaged its slogan “Don’t be evil” with an expletive, which drew thunderous applause from his underlings.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Mar 13, 2010 5:13:24 PM
So its the 3-monthly i.t. show again. The crowds inside suntec are ridiculously large. And the traffic like shit. Wonder why they all bother. Hardware zone posted a flickr album of all the posters and brochures found in the show. They don't even need to come to see,only to buy. If they have something to buy at all. The prices at the show are not magically low,and they're held every 3 months. Whats making everyone come? If anything, looking through the brochure scans, only 3 things caught my attention. 1.There're way too many digital media players..i believe they'll be all over the shops after the show anyway-there's no need to get one now. 2. The buffalo terastation quad and the dlink dns343 are the cheapest 4 bay Nases at around 300+. 3. The people selling planex are selling a bluetooth earpiece at $20,which is cheap enough for me to get one to play with,if I'd actually find it in myself to brave the crowds..
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Mar 11, 2010 6:51:30 PM
On the pie. On the 154. What an amusing day! If there're no barriers to entry why isn't everyone doing it?
Are some people already laughing their way to e bank? We just need 2 weeks to see..
sell gold
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Mar 10, 2010 1:59:01 PM
Am at plaza sing..the text to speech thing for their queue system is amusing..Edit me
Mar 10, 2010 1:54:01 PM
With friend at starhub.. he's wasting his 58$ plan on a free phone like mine..but theres no better specced android phone with resistive screen..and hopefully a hardware qwerty too..
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Monday, March 08, 2010
spleen
Sunday, March 07, 2010
this android fragmentation issue is boggling my mind real bad
Mar 7, 2010 10:43:50 AM
Suntec road diversion again! Probably some idiotes going for an en masse jog..again:(
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Crimes Against Humanity
Friday, March 05, 2010
"everybody" has a nokia
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/03/04/uk_smartphone_survey/
We should point out up front an important caveat: just over 89 per cent of those who took part in the survey said they own a smartphone, defined for the purposes of the study as "a mobile phone that combines voice services with applications including e-mail and/or internet access".
That definition takes in a broader array of devices than you might expect - these days, the ability to download apps is what sets smartphones apart - and the market penetration of true smartphones is actually around 14 per cent, according to most market watchers.
So either a large proportion of punters think their feature phone is a smartphone, or Fanfare's sample is significantly more biased towards smartphone usage than is the general population.
basically, if it runs symbian, palm/webOS, winmo, android, or if its a bb or an iphone, its a smartphone. apple has maybe 1/3 of the smartphone market. win mo and bb are the incumbents in the US, symbian(read:nokia) for the rest of the world. and if its not a smartphone, its probably a nokia, samsung, LG, motorola or sony-ericsson. or maybe its a wince device from china; wince is huge in china - how many phones do they sell there?
and about apps, part of the reason symbian, win mo and bb are incumbent is because there're actually useful apps. they won't have 100 different fart apps to choose from, but they will connect to your corporate messaging system.
another interesting development is samsung's bada os. now with the open-sourcing of symbian and the open-source-almost-from-day 1 android, why does any phone maker need to spend development money on a phone os? if its about differentiating their product and avoid becoming box pushers, how about better design and better hardware? or maybe exclusive, bespoke apps like samsung's very own midori ?
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
"Simple mistakes can shatter lives. Your actions could stop them happening"
1. ryan shawcross broke francis jeffer's leg before(7 mths out?) and almost did it to adebayor later, rendering him out for 3 weeks.
2. arsenal in the last 3-4 years had eduardo's leg broken by martin taylor(birmingham), and diaby had his broken by dan smith(bolton?).
i will avoid talking about patterns.
but i will say this. road accidents are accidents too.
if i accidentally shoot somebody while at the range, thats an accident too!
but i will repeat
"Simple mistakes can shatter lives. Your actions could stop them happening"
so, i suggest
1. we could apply the rule of law(for us hoi polloi) and charge the footballers who inflict grievous bodily harm on their colleagues with assault or battery, as it would likely happen if they did it maybe 100m away, just outside the stadium.
2. or we could ban the injurer for as long as the injured player. and maybe have him conpensate the injured player with half his pay too. or something along those lines.
the idea is, if the cost of breaking somebody's leg is 2 weeks off from work, its probably too low. if we can raise the cost of injuring others(just like we do in real life) , maybe footballers may think harder before they do something stupid(again, just like we do in real life).
i'm in favour of 1.) because
1. why does law stop on the pitch? and for players only?
2. if i went down to the pitch and gave a player a good kick and broke his leg, i'd be charged for battery/assault too
3. you cannot contract for somebody to break laws, i believe. since i cannot sign a written consent form to allow you to kill me-the police will still arrest/charge you, i think playing football in a stadium with 10000s of witnesses doesn't mean you can break my leg either.
Monday, March 01, 2010
PandaHome
that could be gde...its certainly shinier than pandahome graphically, but i like pandahome for its ability to use other home themes-in fact i'm using a openhome theme right now...and its already quite shiny enough for me - it can regularly/randomly change themes and/or wallpapers, touching the screen gets a bubble/glow/color effect, and i can choose how many home pages i want(5..more than that would be too many apps for the poor phone? and definitely too many apps for me to keep track of!)...
on another front, this dreamhost apps beta thing is really quite amusing...u get to play with a bit of drupal, zenphotos, phpbb, mediawiki and wordpress..and google apps too! functions are much duplicated, to various degrees, between the 6 platforms...
its finally over
got a bunch of apps to manage apps..ahahhahaha...
gonna try out watching anime on it, managing wordpress with the wordpress app, try a couple of rpgs in time to come, maybe install OpenHome and see what happens... plus maybe even run a ftp server on it(why not Apache/Mysql/Php???! its already got the "L"! ahahahahah!!!)..