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My personal workstation keyboard

Introducing my workstation keyboard, I bought it in around 2001, and been serving me well. The letter ‘Q’ broke out from the keyboard when I attempted to clean it. The letter even took part of the keyboard with it, lucky that the letter ‘Q’ is quite unpopular when typing compared to the letter ‘E’, ‘R’ or ‘D’.

mypapit keyboard

If you noticed, the labelling on the keyboard are also gone, heh this is due to the toxicity of my sweat on the fingers. It swept away those letters.

well, there you go my favorite personal keyboard.

keyboard,computer,computing, peripheral,hardware

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Another WordPress exploit discovered

WordPress blog users, please disable the “Anyone can Register Option” in your “Option” tab because an exploit has been discovered in the current release of WordPress, affecting WordPress 2.0.3 and below (including 1.5.x).

You are also advised to delete all Guest users or any users that you do not know personally, details about this exploit can be read at Dr Dave blog.

p/s: The wordpress team has been informed about his exploit

exploit,wordpress,php,spam,vulnerability,security,threat

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Open Graphic Card – An Alternative to Nvidia, ATI

I guess GNU/Linux users may have already familiar with the problem related to to 3d graphic cards available nowadays. While they work fine on your Linux operating system, their 3D hardware acceleration heavily depends on closed source binary-only driver.

This means that the driver bloats the system, taints the kernel, and even threat the stability of the operating system. Closed source driver means that we’ve to depend on the vendor for new releases of graphic card driver and bugfixes.

open graphic card

The open graphic card solves those problem by making all specification of the graphic card available under the terms of GNU General Public License. The open graphic card is 3D accelerated video card which is fully documented, free-licensed, and available as open source driver.

Though the open graphic card is not as powerful as the current latest ATI and NVIDIA graphic card, the project itself seems promising, with the prospect of supported free operating system such as GNU/Linux and BSD variant operating system.

According to its website, the PCI and AGP version of the graphic card is given priority first than PCI-express interface. Due to low production output, the estimated card will cost about USD 200, but it will support 3D hardware acceleration nevertheless.

Visit Open Graphics Card website for more information

graphic card,nvidia,ati,radeon,linux,opensource, open source,3d acceleration,agp,games,hardware

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This is my favourite chicken

For your information I’ve a chicken coop in my backyard, and this is my favorite chicken.

I found it while it was wandering around the backyard at 8pm, it’s chirping sounds alarmed me to look for it. After that i started to care for it in my house until it has grown up.

chicken,chicks,ayam,hen,birds,bantham

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How to get USB Drive for less than RM20 (USD 5)

o you own a mobile phone that uses RS-MMC, DV RS-MMC or mini-SD card?

Have you recently upgraded your phone’s memory card? What happened to the old memory card that came with the phone? Do you keep it in some drawer, give it to a friend? or just manage to lose it somehow?

Well today I would like to share with you something that I’ve done with an excess 64MB DV RS MMC card that I own.


  

All you need is to get portable memory card reader, I use the one produced by Edge (http://www.edge.net.my), you can get it from your local computer store or Lelong for RM12-18. The memory card supports RS MMC/DV RS MMC/SD/Mini SD card, and its surely flexible, the memory card didn’t fell off the slot even when I carried it everywhere.

      

Already bought one? Then insert the DV RS MMC (without adapter) to the card reader and voila! You’ve a USB drive for a cost less than RM20 (that’s USD 5 for comparison). Heh, It’s even supported on my Ubuntu Linux.

Portable Card Reader

So keep this in mind the next time you’re upgrading your mobile phone memory card.

memory card, mmc, flash memory, usb drive, ubuntu, linux, debian, card reader, rs-mmc,thumbdrive