When it comes to file transfers across the internet, I often feel that I’m geographically disadvantaged. I’ve been attempting to download Pirates of the Burning Sea beta since it was opened to the public, but Fileplanet and I hardly get along at all. I’ve managed only an average of 20kb/s, and anytime it got somewhere [...]
After much procrastinating, I took my first steps into learning PHP over the weekends. I’ve been previously building web applications on ASP.NET for about bit over a year. One thing that always struck me about picking up another programming language is the difficulty in locating just the right book which starts off and maintains an [...]
Yay! I can see them shadows at last! Now I can play all of them last generation games in their full graphical glory.
My new system (actually an upgrade) was set up over the weekend and consists of the following:
Intel Core2Duo E6750
Asus P5K
Corsair Twin2×2048-6400 2GB
Asus Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
Silverstone OP650 650W
Asus 1814BLT DVDRW SATA
Didn’t actually [...]
There’s a new virus, or worm, to be exact, that goes around deleting MP3 files and it’s aptly named W32.Deletemusic by Symantec. It propagates by manual contact (eg. thumb drives and other removal media) and does not seem internet aware at this point, and copies itself to the root of every drive on the system. [...]
Just a little tip to those who does online shopping regularly, and those who might be tempted to given the weakness of the US dollar. PayPal’s exchange rate from US to Singapore dollars is about 10% higher than the market rates, which is more or less what you get when you purchase using a credit [...]
If you’re a frequent visitor of Friendster, you would definitely have noticed the search box now searches the Web by default, instead of profiles on Friendster, like it used to.
Despite me generally not being much of a fan of social networking sites, this bizarre change is now my greatest form of frustration on the site. [...]
Quite literally this time.
Last Tuesday, Microsoft held a Vista and Office 2007 launch down at my school, reiterating all the marketing slogans you’ve seen and love to hate everywhere. Little did I expect myself to walk away with a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Retail.
There was a series of talks held at the Auditorium [...]
After 24 hours of running on Vista, I’ve decided to revert back to Windows XP. My Vista experience wasn’t too pleasant and was dotted with issues and irritants, most of them caused by improper or lack of drivers. nVidia was the main culprit.
Most applications ran without a hitch, but gaming performance was sub-par (lack of [...]
Sums it up.
Edit: 2nd pic.
After doing my monthly round of Windows update today, I did my usual monitoring and stuff and something rather odd caught my eye. MSN Messenger was connected to a dubious looking address of by2msg1104216.phx.gbl:1863. .gbl is not a registered TLD that I know off. Worried at this point about my system security was being compromised [...]