2007

General, Paid-Post

My girlfriend wants to work in Dubai !

I don’t know what got into her, but it’s seems almost like her life long dream to work overseas, especially in Dubai. She often mentions that how exciting it is if she were to work over there, with a fat salary, a new and foreign environment, and a chance to visit the word’s largest shopping […]

Computers

The $100 Laptop, OLPC is available for public to buy

Latest news from BBC that I read, It seems OLPC (one-laptop per child) XO laptop will be available to the general public to purchase after 2008. This was confirmed by the chairman of OLPC group (Nicholas Negroponte) that they have considered commercial schemes to distribute XO Laptops around the world. It isn’t clear yet how […]

General

Stopping Annoying Image Spams

I hate receiving email spams, who doesn’t right? The volume of email spams that I receive hasn’t decrease over the years. The emails that I receive range from the from the usually annoying sex enhancing drug, sex toys, to a variant of nigerian scam email which ask you for your help to deposit some amount […]

GNU/Linux, Open Source

No more Fedora Core, It’s only Fedora 7

According to the announcement I read from Fedora devel lmailing list recently, Fedora project will not release Fedora Core and Extras anymore. There will be no more distinction between the two repositories as both are will be combined and maintained by the community. Fedora 7, the first release under this new move will have 28 […]

Open Source

The Matrix Linux Console animation

One of my irc chat friend, surface has created a cool ncurses application which displays Matrix-style feed (as seen from The Matrix movie triology). The application comes with C++ source code licensed under the GNU General Public License 2, and it requires libstdc++ and ncurses (most linux distribution already have this installed). Please read matrix […]

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