New theme~ yay.. just like you see it’s green and blue… i made this to remember the old blue sky and how green the earth used to be…

The Earth Day 2009, the most environmentally-aware generation will lead the way in introducing the Green Generation campaign to the world. It promote the understanding and protection of the natural world by actively engaging all people of all subjects in an inspired week of environmental learning and service before Earth Day..There are 77 countries and 680 cities have already committed to VOTE EARTH for Earth Hour 2009, as part of the worlds first global election between Earth and global warming.

“Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights..” - Earth Day 2009

I am happy that Indonesia joined in the part of Earth Day 2009! This is the first time the Indonesia will switch off the lights for one hour, one day, one year !

Let us change the world and support the Earth Day 2009 because we want to take care of our GREEN planet, for our future generations~!

Most searh engines have three parts: a crawler, an index, and a search interface.Let’s look at each part individually to get a better understanding of them. Each part has its own role to play in the process, with all parts working together to make searches possible.

1. The Crawler:

Also known as a “spider” or “bot”, this part of the search engine wanders the web, following links and picking up information for its database. Crawlers do most of their work at times of the day when search engines are less busy, but they typically visit frequently updated pages more often. This is something to keep in mind when you are working on your pages.

Your site’s title and text(your content) are the most important thing to a crawler. The fastest way to raise your site’s search engine ranking for specific key words is to implementthem into your title and your content.

2. The index.

Once the crawler has collected all that text, it is then stored and indexed. This allows people searching for key words and phrases to get results relating to what they were searching for - their search results. Most sites will incorporate rating systems such as Google Page Rank or Alexa Rankings in positioning your site. These ratings are used attempt to ensure that sites that are important receive more traffic than unimportant sites.

To see this in action, go to a search engine and type in a word. You’ll see some text on the page saying something like “results 1-10 of 1,234,000″. This means that the search engine’s index contains 1,234,000 pages it believes are related to the word you typed. If you wanted to, you could look through all these pages to find the information you’re looking for.

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In order to understand rating systems more thoroughly consider your own site. When you place links on your site you generally do so to increase your users understanding of the content of your site.

If every site in a particular field links to a particular site, this site is probably very important to that field and should, therefore, be listed highly in the lists of search engine results. This is the basic ideology of Google Page Ranks.

Consider again , a site that receives a great deal of traffic, it probably has some information or service that is very important to its users. Alexa ratings attempt to estimate the amount of traffic that a particular site gets and compare it to the amount of traffic that other sites get. The closer that a site is to the most trafficed site on the internet, the more likely it is to have important content if it is relevant to search query.

3. The Interface.

Search engines provide a public intrface for users who want to find information on the web. They can type the word or phrase they’re searching for, and the interface will run an algorithm to find the pages relevant to their search and display them.

These algorithms are an important part of the SEO(Search Engine Optimization) business. You’ll notice when the algorithms change, the rankings of your website will change with them. No two search engines have the same algorithms. They all work differently, with their unique features, and they will all respond to your website in their own way.

The most popular search engines today include Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alltheweb, and AskJeeves.

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Let me enumerate them: As I have also mentioned on my previous articles

1. Defrag your computer at least once every two weeks (I do it once a week). Go to start>accessories>system tools>disk defragmenter. You can click on “analyze” first before you choose defrag, it will tell you if you need to defrag. Just defrag it even if it reports you don’t need to.

2. Do Disk Clean Up at least once every two weeks (again, I do this once a week). Go to start>accessories>system tools>disk clean up. It will analyze your disk and will generate reports. I suggest you delete files from the recycle bin and the files located in the temporary files folder. Note: I avoid compressing files. It’s your call.

3. Clean up your program files, delete and uninstall unwanted programs on your computer. Go to control panel>add remove programs. Make sure you restart your computer after uninstalling or removing the program so that complete deletion will take place.

4. Delete all files (temporary files and cookies from the computer). Here’s how: open a browser. On top of the browser click on tools>internet options>delete files and then delete cookies. Make your history set to (0). Others wants it on at least 10. I always set mine to (0).

5. You have to be very careful in installing or downloading programs. Make sure you need it, if not please just avoid it. Uninstalling them is really hard. Many vendors has all the power to have their program stay in your computer!

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6. Always turn on your firewall. I suggest you have only one firewall and one anti virus. You get less safer if you have two anti virus running (I know people who likes to have two anti virus programs running on their computer, I don’t know why.)

7. Run anti-spyware programs. I trust spybot, search and destroy and the Adware from Lavasoft. I run SD every week, I do immunize them before I do the the entire program to run. I run adware every week too after I run spybot search and destroy.

8. Run complete scan using your antivirus software at least everyday (some do it once a week). Mine is scheduled at 3:00am everyday.

9. Avoid multi-tasking too much! Meaning to say, avoid opening too many programs all at the same time running at the task bar.

10. I also suggest you get a dual hard drive (which I know is now common in the market), one for the operating system only and the other for all the programs, database and files. This way, the computer boots on one hard drive.

11. Also check the performance of your computer when connected on the internet. Go to control panel >network and internet connections >network connections >right click the mouse on the connection available (e.g. local area connection “connected”, “firewalled”)>click on “STATUS”. Make sure on the status tab, you will see the speed (mine is always 100 mbps). The packets sent and the packets received must not have a very high difference. If it is sending too much packets (as in ten times) than it receive (then try to do number 7!).

12. Always make sure you install the latest updates on your computer.

13. Always make sure all devices (drivers, etc) are properly functioning. Go to control panel >performance and maintenance >system >hardware >click on DEVICE MANAGER. You will see all the devices and adapters available on your computer. Make sure you don’t see a yellow question mark (?) or this means there is an error on that device or adapter. If so, you need to update it or install the right drivers. Updated firmware might also be needed.

14. Browsing the internet? well, I have my google toolbar installed on my computer and is my default search engine. Their pop up blocker is really great!

15. A memory of at least 512 RAM might be a good idea installed on your computer.

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There you go, 15 steps! Good luck!

Okay, i finally found the answer for angel when she asked me about cute yellow mushroom emoticon at tuzki emoticon.

Here’s the cute yellow mushroom :

	Name: thien thien / dian dian (translated: little bit of) Sex: Male Height: 5.3cm Weight: 38g Date of Birth: April 25, 2007 favorite food: dandelion dew mushroom head height: 0.6cm
	Name: ti ti / di di (translated: drops of) Sex: Female Height: 4.8cm Weight: 25g Date of Birth: May 11, 2007 favorite food: strawberry dew

at 19-02-2008 he got his english name : Magoo

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My friend, Winson said that “dian dian di di” = drips of water

Emoticons

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Wallpaper

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Merchandise

Cool Stuff

Comic

You can see more about him in the website, at http://magoo.comic.gov.cn
There’re comic, video, wallpaper, and of course emoticon/smilies in there.

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hmm… when talking about mushroom reminds me of my ’sister’ fungi ack.. i mean lie fung

Maybe you have see it everywhere from MSN emoticons and forums just like yoyocici and onion. But do you know where do these cute rabbit icons come from? Who made them? And why? I have been wondering who made them for ages because it’s nicely drawn and animated. I got this emoticon from my sister, she got a whole pack. And i asked her what’s the rabbit’s name ? Unfortunately she didn’t know it. So i start googling… and i found it !

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These are the works of Wang Momo, a student in animation department of Beijing Broadcasting Institute created this popular lagomorph.

Here’s an excerpt taken from an article on Shanghaiist.
Wang stated that she created this character to be able to write her diary in a graphic form. Her friends and classmates always nicknamed her “rabbit” as well. The first Tuzki was very simple, and just waved his arms and shook his head. Then she created more pictures and small animations for this character based on her real life experiences. To date, Tuzki has 39 different expressions. And thanks to the 150,000,000 Tecent QQ users and 20 million MSN messenger users in China, the popularity of Tuzki also generates income for this young woman. She is now designing Tuzki posters and postcards, which will take the rabbit beyond the definition of an internet idol.

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Check out Ms. Wang’s personal blog. Loads to see and goodies to download. It’s purely in Chinese though. And though I don’t understand much, my random clicking around brought me to good stuff. Go explore and enjoy the stuff she puts up. She has a regular comic strip starring none other than tuzki too.

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Today we use firewalls in computer networks to isolate our network and hosts from danger posed by our neighbors. Firewalls protect us from the unauthorized use of our resources by external entities. Simply put, a firewall protects you from what is happening “out there.” And it can help to keep something happening inside your network from spreading.

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Why do you want to be protected? In order to meet the three principles—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—you need to address the risks you’ve identified. This may mean you need to be protected from the wide-open Internet. It’s a scary place out there. You may also need to isolate select hosts from the rest of your network. The threat of insider intrusion is still very real, and firewalls can help here too.

How does a firewall protect you? In its simplest form, a firewall examines your communications requests (network traffic) and decides, based on rules you have defined, what is and is not allowed. Really, a very straightforward function—on paper, anyhow. Complications are introduced by the different ways to achieve this goal. And each method has its own strengths and weaknesses.

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Traditionally, corporations have firewalls only at the perimeter of the network—where the corporate network meets the Internet. However, the traditional network is changing. Users connect from home with high-speed Internet connections like cable modems, and sensitive data is being stored on local hard drives. These changes often make it necessary to consider protecting the local host with its own firewall software. And this is where personal firewall software plays a role.

Spam costs Internet Service Providers both time and money. ISPs must invest in extra hardware and pay employees to deal with thousands of unsolicited messages. Staff members are put to the task of investigating thousands of spam reports and complaints. Spam increases the load on mail servers and consumes valuable bandwidth. This increase in load overburdens mail queues which lead to delays in sending and receiving mail.

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Also check the knowledged-based blog -

http://blog.eukhost.com

Consumers also pay for spam. Time required retrieving mail messages, including spam, from the server increases, wasting one’s time. Fees for accessing the Internet are dilated fro those who have a limited dial-up service. Time is wasted on filtering, blocking or deleting spam. There are psychological costs as well; frustration and annoyance mounts with each spam message polluting one’s inbox. The costs of spam are therefore high to ISPs and consumers alike.

There are 7 basic steps you can follow to help keep the amount of spam in your Inbox to a minimum.

1) Use a Spam Filter
2) Never Reply to Spam
3) Don’t Post Your Email Address on Your Web site
4) Use a Second Email Address in Newsgroups
5) Don’t Give your Email Address Without Knowing How It Will Be Used .
6) Never Buy Anything from Spam.
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How to report spam to the Expedient’s abuse reporting system?

Forward the offending email or newsgroup message to abuse@expedient.net. Be sure to include all of the relevant information you can provide. You must include the full email or newsgroup headers for our Abuse Department to be able to process your report; Click here for instructions to get the full message headers for email and newsgroup messages. You should receive an automated response to your report giving you some general information about network abuse.

Some relevant terms -

UBE - Unsolicited Bulk Email - This is email which is sent to you, which you never requested. The form of the mail suggests that it has been sent to everyone and their mother, or sometimes there are dead giveaways like a CC: list of several dozen or hundred people. Note that this email doesn’t ask you to buy anything directly or advertise a commercial web site.

UCE - Unsolicited Commercial Email -Same as above, but the message has a commercial spin to it, asking you to buys something or visit some company’s web site for the actual sales pitch.

MLM - Multilevel Marketing - This describes schemes where you are asked to buy some product (a report, a software package, just about anything) and you are promised phenomenal profits from reselling that product to as many people as possible. This is also occasionally twisted around to read “make lots of money.”

MMF - Make Money Fast - These are schemes where you are given a list of names and addresses and asked to mail money to the people on the list, then cross off the first name on the list, and add yours to the bottom. After this you are asked to distribute the list with your name on it to as many people as possible usually by spamming it to every newsgroup you can find. These are also commonly known as money pyramids or pyramid schemes and are illegal in the United States in paper and electronic form. MMF email messages are pretty easy to spot by their titles.

ECP - Excessive Cross-Posting - This refers to news posts which are posted to multiple newsgroups. Crossposting in itself is not as big of a deal as EMP (see below) because when a message is crossposted, only one copy of that message actually exists - the others are just links to the original message. However when ECP is posted to many groups where the message would be considered off-topic, then it is considered an abuse issue.

EMP - Excessive Multi-Posting - Same context as ECP, however all of the messages are individually posted to the news server, resulting in more disk space, CPU cycles and network bandwidth being wasted. One hundred individually posted messages is a bigger problem than one message crossposted to 100 groups.

UDP - Usenet Death Penalty - A mutual agreement by a number of Usenet providers to stop accepting traffic from another provider. Often used as a threat against Usenet providers who have a steady stream of spam posts coming from their machines and refuse to do anything about it.

You can find and download the themes here :
http://finalfantasy.cc/dissidia-media/dissidia-official-psp-theme

There’re FFI - FFX , so you can choose which one you like and use that theme for your PSP :3

Let’s change your PSP theme to this one, Final Fantasy Dissidia lovers