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This is yet another official announcement from me. As of upcoming month onwards, I’m announcing that I’m not going to update my blog on Saturdays and Sundays, because I’m declaring the weekends as my computer-free day.
This measure is just a way to avoid myself spending my time excessively in front of computer all week in a month.
I had a very stressful day trying to study the Oracle back. Well have been using the MySQL 4.0.x series for quite sometimes that I forgot that handling Oracle database isnt quite a piece of cake.
I’ve encounter plenty of pitfalls and gotchas on porting the database and tables from MySQL (not including the data) as a favor for my friend. Well, I’m glad that everything is settled now.
Now I understand why you need expensive certs just to handle such beast, it’s like launching NASA rocket, except you are not a rocket scientist!
I’ve finished with my experimental PC (well, not quite) and done with partitioning of the hard disk.
Well I decided to put 5 Operating System inside my experimental PC and now they are coexisting fine inside the shared space of 80GB harddisk.
This time i determined to learn about Fedora Core 4 (i’ve never use Fedora or any Red Hat products seriously before) and FreeBSD 5.x (I only have experience using 4.x branch of FreeBSD and OpenBSD 3.5). So I’ve install both on the same PC.
I’ve put on Windows 98, to test out my home-made program how they react on legacy Microsoft Windows OS. And I also installed FreeDOS to play my old DOS game comfortably, the DOSBox is excellent, but i’ve rather want to relive my younger days with DOS :), besides my FM801-based soundcard is supported under dos, why waste it?
I really want to experiment with Cruxwall (results of hacking crux into easy firewall interface) so i’ve added one more Linux partition inside the hdd. I guess Xen would e suffice if I want to run another Linux-based system.
And why the Windows XP? well the experimental pc is shared by people who arent comfortable with Unix-like operating system in my house, so i’ve to include that. But my own personal PC is running SuSE 9.3 all the time :)
The bootloader? OK, I just use the plain-vanilla NTLDR (Windows XP) bootloader to boot Windows XP and Windows 98. The NTLDR can chainload Grub, which in turn can boot any GNU/Linux system as well chainload the FreeBSD bootloader. :)
I dont use any other 3rd party bootloader, because they tends to be problematic.
Here’s the partition map of my experimental pc
And my experimental pc specs is :
Pentium 4 1.70 GHz (400MHz FSB)
Memory 512MB SDRAM
HDD 80GB
1 CDRW, 1 Floppy Drive
2 NIC
Dear reader, I’m here to announce that starting today, my blog will have limited update throughout the the whole week until 1st August 2005. This is because I’m busy adjusting myself to the new environment.
I’m also going to refit my pc and reorganize my data and harddisk and all of these will take my time away from my blog and my usual activity. I promise I’ll get back writing to this blog after a few days.
One last thing, I’m officially announcing that all of my original writing in this blog are released under the terms of Creative Commons (Attribution) License. Well, I was thinking of GNU FDL, but the terms listed there is too complex for me to understand.
Anyhow, enjoy and don’t be naughty when I’m away ok?
Rumours floating around the internet that Microsoft is going to release it’s latest operating system product codename “Longhorn” as Windows Vista.
According to the rumours, the “Vista” name would be in line with the vision the company has presented for the operating system, which is due on the market next year, replacing the current Windows XP.
There is still no official announcement or confirmation from the Official Microsoft Longhorn website about this, but Microsoft has already registered domains to go along with the newly christened Windows, including windowsvista.com. The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.
According to the same source, Microsoft Windows Vista is going to ship out somewhere around the end of the next year (2006)
Update :
Microsoft release official announcement today 22 July 2005 (Pacific Time) about Microsoft Windows Vista, thanks to bro Hafidz for pointing me.
p/s: If this is true then, you might see your windows boot logo as Microsoft Windows Bueno Vista Kolumbia Tri-star. lol.
Source :
1.BetaNews
2.SeattlePi.com
3.Slashdot.org
News from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html revealed that the Mozilla Development team is going to scrap out Mozilla Firefox 1.1 release in August in favor of Mozilla Firefox 1.5.
The new Mozilla Firefox will feature new Gecko engine, ongoing HIG compliance, sw/update and extension manager improvements.
Quote from the site :
We are planning for a Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, but will divide the planned work over (at this point) three major Milestones, 1.5 (September 2005), 2.0 (unscheduled) and 3.0 (unscheduled). All major development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs.
According to the roadmap, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (Deer Park) is scheduled to be released on September 2005