November 30, 2008 – 1:12 am
The MSI Wind has a spec of 2Gb ram, 160Gb harddisk, and comes with 6 cells battery.
I first use the Wubi Ubuntu Installer to install Wubi 8.10 on Windows. This Ubuntu runs on the Windows file system, so we can test Ubuntu out without creating separate partitions. (The instruction is detailed at Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy [...]
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November 23, 2008 – 1:52 pm
Yesterday, my father and I travelled back to our Malaysia home town in Pontian. I recorded down the bus trip from Larkin interchange to Pontian with Sports Tracker. We travelled on a Penawar express bus.
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View the same map on Nokia Sports Tracker.
On our return journey, I received sms from my brother, knowing that [...]
This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]
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March 24, 2008 – 10:58 pm
In IE6, ExternalInterface.call method will result in a Javascript error when the flash object is within a html form! (an undefined error)
Steve Kamerman had produced a fix for the bug. (Check his blog)
IE’s implementation of Javascript seems to want to look for “window.yourObject” and not “document.form[x].yourObject”, so his script figures out which form you are [...]
December 9, 2007 – 8:43 pm
From FoxNews.com.
It has taken more than two years, but the One Laptop Per Child initiative has finally released its much-anticipated laptop: the OLPC XO-1.
The XO-1 costs $200 each to donate, but for a limited time — until Dec. 31, 2007 — people can avail themselves of the “Give One, Get One” promotion to give [...]
November 29, 2007 – 12:20 am
From Physorg.
The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online.
All of the books are available [...]
November 25, 2007 – 11:34 pm
From Esquire.
They are six researchers with six ideas that will one day change the world.
Breaking Down the Firewall
Internet censorship is the book burning of the modern age. A new brand of activists — or “hacktivists” — are using their computer expertise to help people stranded in Web-censored countries abroad (and corporate offices and military bases [...]