Earth, I love you!

March 28th, 2009 at 0:00 · Filed Under Blogging, Environment · Comment 

Responding to the Earth Hour initiative, I will go off-line for 48 hours from now ( midnight tonight). I will power off all electronic devices like cell phones, cordless phone, computers, servers, modem, router and network switch for 48 hours. The only communication (for emergency) I have is the land line phone at home. I will check my messages when I am back on line on Monday.

We will switch off all the lights for entire two nights, leaving only the refrigerator and at least 1 (and maximum 2) fan(s) on.

In fact, I have been doing this since 2007. As the matter of fact, this initiative is not started by the Australians (as I heard from TV advertisement). Read here and here.

Why only an hour? Make it the whole weekend for our Earth. This will further reduce energy consumption.

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A hot Sunny affair

March 26th, 2009 at 3:03 · Filed Under Ada, Computing, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris · 5 Comments 

I have been hesitating for another hot Sunny affair since the last one about three years ago. This is just another one I have been longing since then. The recent eclipse of Sun resurrects my overwhelming but sleeping desire. Although this happened near the time when Sun is setting, but it is never too late to do it again because Sunset is beautiful and romantic.

Will Sun set and never rise again? Here is my encounter of the hot Sunny affair.

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iPhone is in Malaysia!

March 14th, 2009 at 10:35 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Phones, iPhone · 7 Comments 

The long awaited Apple iPhone 3G has finally arrived in Malaysia. Apple’s website announced its arrival today and Maxis has begun informing its customers via SMS a few days ago. I was in joy receiving the SMS and quickly went to Maxis website to check out the details.

 

iPhone 3G

The iPhone 3G that makes you drool...

I was truly disappointed after reading the details on Maxis’ website. The selling price is very high and apart of this, Maxis locks you in with either 24 months or 6 months contract. The worst thing is that if you breach the service contract or choose to opt out before the contract matured, there is a huge penalty awaiting you ahead.

We have paid so much for the iPhone with our own pocket, why is there still hefty monthly service fees and contract commitment?

Is that another dirty Apple’s trick?

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Is Apple dirty?

March 13th, 2009 at 2:00 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Mac OS X, Marketing · 1 Comment 

I have been Apple Mac user since 2003 after ditching Microsoft Windows in 1998. Mac OS X is real UNIX operating system comparing to Linux which is UNIX-like. Thanks to Apple for spending quite a substantially huge amount of money to license the UNIX operating system. Ever since I had an iBook, I am getting more entangled with Mac. I shifted all my web browsing, emails, calendar, contact, photos, video, and even software development to Mac platform. Although I am still running Linux on Intel boxes and SPARC Solaris, I have become totally dependent and obsessed with Mac. I would crave for a Mac if I were to work on non-Mac.

Why?

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The new WordPress

March 5th, 2009 at 11:55 · Filed Under Blogging, Hacking, Web · Comment 

Just finished upgrading WordPress to 2.7.1 with a totally new user interface. I still prefer the one in 2.6.x so I guess I need a little time to get use to the new UI.

The upgrade is inevitable because some of my sites were affected by Yahoo! Counter  malicious malware. It is a nasty injection of script. I could not locate where it was injected and my web host wasn’t very helpful. I decided to upgrade, hopefully, to wipe out the code injection.

Now, I have to file a request to Google to clear the malware listing of my sites.

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