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Sorry, and Thank You!

First of all, if you tried to access any websites hosted on the server between 3am and 2pm GMT+7 Wednesday, May 3rd, you may have noticed… well, the server was down. Sorry for that – any ‘inconvinience’ caused etc. Shall not go into technical details on what went wrong  (basically a boot.ini problem) or why [...]

A long night

If you visited the site between 9pm – 12am (2 hours ago), you would have noticed that the site was down for maintainance. So exactly what maintainance was going on?

Internet Filtering

Just some comments on my school’s Internet Filtering Policy. I think they’ve gone overboard with it, but they just seem to do more and more…

Spammers and antispam

Just a quick update on technical issues on the site (which I’m wondering how long to keep running – do many people actually visit it anyway?)

Site Update

Just minor changes to the site – Review category gone, Recent Comments on the sidebar, etc. Full details inside this post.

Typing Speed

Yes, I know. Lame. But I just thought it was interesting. I know there are people who are better than me at typing, without question. However I just felt like posting what I got here. —————————————————– Game over Your score: 492 keys per minute ~ 98 words per minute Language/mode: en Ranking: Very fast. Comparison: [...]

zero-day WMF exploit

If you don’t know about this yet, YOU’D BETTER GET ON YOUR TOES!! A new exploit in any variants of Windows ME, XP, 2003 has been discovered, where your computer can be infected JUST BY VIEWING WEBSITES (if you’re using IE). I’m not joking, you can check out http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/ for more details. To make it worse, there is NO PATCH available, which means ALL COMPUTERS are at risk.

EDIT Jan 8th: As of now, there is an official update from Microsoft. So go get it! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms06-001.mspx

Speeding up XP a *little bit*

Is your windows lagging? Slow to shut down? Can’t afford that new computer upgrade? Well, here’s a fact – Windows XP comes bloated by default. Many things are running which most users don’t actually need. Here’s a basic tutorial to speed it up a bit.