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You know you’re old when …

rizal — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:23:38 +0000

You know you’re old when kids open Windows Explorer and ask, “why do the drive letters start from C?” and you explain that, in the old days, DOS assigned drive letters A and B to the floppy disk drives; then they ask, “what’s DOS? What’s a floppy disk?” If they’re lucky they won’t ask about [...]

Island Hopping Langkawi

nazham — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:23:28 +0000

At the end of this year, my family and I decided to go to Langkawi for our family vacation. Langkawi is an island in the northern state of Kedah, 500++ km from Kuala Lumpur. You have to travel by boat to go there, taking either from Jetty Kuala Kedah, Kedah or Jetty Kuala Perlis, Perlis. [...]

View Battlefield 3 Statistics on Mobile Web

nazham — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:25:43 +0000

Battlefield 3 (BF3) is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and published by Electronic Arts (EA). Released for PC, PS3 and XBOX 360, the game is the next installment for the Battlefield franchise. The game features Campaign, Cooperative and Multiplayer game modes. For those who are familiar with Battlefield [...]

How to Stream Movies to your iPhone or iPad

nazham — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:30:44 +0000

I have just found a way to successfully stream movies (avi, mkv, mp4, etc) to my iPhone. It’s via an app called AirPlayer. First, set up a media server on your home network (for example, PS3 Media Server, like what I have explained in my previous post, “How To Share Media Between PlayStation 3 and [...]

Different technology, same excuse

rizal — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:58:26 +0000

“Just because I didn’t send you a smoke signal doesn’t mean I don’t care” “Just because I didn’t send you a homing pigeon doesn’t mean I don’t care” “Just because I didn’t write you a letter doesn’t mean I don’t care” “Just because I didn’t telegram you doesn’t mean I don’t care” “Just because I [...]

Create Your Own Web App to Execute Linux Command

nazham — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:03:58 +0000

Let say you need to run a command (which you use frequently) on your headless Linux box, such as, copying files, start/stop services, reboot, etc. However too lazy to go to the physical machine or open a ssh command from another pc. Would it be nice if we have a web application that can easily [...]

How to Queue Torrents in Transmission

nazham — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:59:39 +0000

Currently there’s no queue features in Transmission. Luckily we can improvise this with the help of transmission-remote, a command based client for transmission, and along with some Linux bash scripting. Below I have created a simple bash script: 1. Install transmission remote: sudo apt-get install transmission-cli 2. Copy the script below, and save as my_script_name.sh [...]

Favourite movie quotes

rizal — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:18:40 +0000

These are my favourite movie quotes, which I could rattle off, anytime: 1. “Adaptation, improvization; your weakness is not your technique.” 2. “I did not choose. I was born, and I am.” 3. “A sad commentary in and of itself.” As a software developer I’m just waiting for the chance to say the first one [...]

Is blogging dead?

rizal — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:02:45 +0000

No, but might as well be … I would say blogging technology is like a human being in his or her mid-forties: mature, established, still able to contribute to society, but decidedly less attractive compared to a certain twenty-year old. (No prizes for guessing who that twenty-year old is.)

One side effect of having amnesia …

rizal — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:44:22 +0000

… is that you’ll no longer be able to access your email, Facebook, Twitter, and online banking accounts. Unless, of course, you had clicked “Stay signed in”! But then you won’t be able to login to your PC as you don’t know the password. We can imagine Jason Bourne going through hand-to-hand combat, high speed [...]