I just realise today that sugar rationing has taken effect in Alor Star when today I was only allowed to buy a maximum of one kilogram of sugar from my local shop. This is due to the lack of sugar supply in Kedah/Perlis area. Hope the situation will be resolved by the time my sugar […]
Last week, I was thinking of burning my collections of avi (xvid encoded) files into DVD, but the problem is I don’t know how to do it under GNU/Linux and what kind of tools that I need (if any exists). Fortunately, I found a nice well written article about converting video files to DVD format […]
Some of my files on my other hosting company has suffered hardware failures and they lost my accounts, well a couple of my “one-off” website are totally gone, along with some of the files that i mirrored there. Luckily I’ve transfered most of my files/work and this blog to Interunix, back a couple of week […]
This may be already a stale news, but I’ll post it anyway. OpenDocument recently was approved as international standard (ISO/IEC 26300), hooray. For you information, OpenDocument is an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations. The OpenDocument […]
$100 laptop, sounds crazy, but it’s feasible to get one. Enter One Laptop per Child, non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop. It’s objective is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. Although at first glance, it seems like impossible to build a $100 […]
You may have heard about Linux From Scratch, a project dedicated for those who wants to build their own GNU/Linux operating system from scratch. But now let’s hear from Debian From Scratch (DFS) , based on Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Though not exactly related to Linux From Scratch project, DFS is a full rescue CD […]