Saturday, December 26, 2009

The lost civilization - Friendster


Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization

This video reminds me of the news of MOL (a Malaysian Payment Company) purchasing Friendster that I heard when I went back Malaysia earlier this month. I wonder why MOL decided to acquire 100% of the "ancient" social network earlier this month when its obvious that everyone has shifted to Facebook.



Hope MOL have a really good plan for that, else will be just wasting money to try to prolong something on the verge of death.

More from TechCrunch http://bit.ly/74LsC6

Thursday, December 24, 2009

How to Merge Photos in Photoshop

I was so fascinated by the use of Mask+Smudge in Photoshop to merge photos. Before this, I've always use the manual way of slowly-trace-and-crop-out the section that I want to paste on to the other photo - which is very very painstaking. Using Smudge, merging photos is just brainless mouse clicking.

http://bit.ly/88vEVE

Monday, December 21, 2009

x-mas

☆  ╱╲ ╱╲ ☆  ☆  ☆
 ╱╳+▲╱  ╲ ╱╲ ☆  ☆    
╱╱ ◢◣+   ╳  ╲  ☆  
╱ +◢█◣  /    ╲☆    
☆ ◢██◣聖誕節  ˙˙˙
___▂▂█▂▂__預祝 聖誕節快樂﹋ Merry X' mas

。 ° • 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛
。° 。 ° 。˚ ˛ • ˚ ˚ ˛
M Y 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ • •
。CHRiSTMAS 。 。° 。 ° ˛ ˚ ˛
_Π____ 。 ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •˛ •˚
/_____/ \。˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •˛ •˚
| 田田|門| ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

(im)perfect Love

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

- Joseph Chan

Saturday, December 19, 2009

CS4273 :)

Got this from Lecturer today :)

Let the snippet do the talking.



This module sounds promising :) hehe

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Friday, December 04, 2009

Post Exam movie + date :)

Post-exam movie - 2012 :) CG was great but I thought they could have focus more on the research findings instead of the miracally-surviving scenes... :)

Saturday, November 28, 2009

First down

Had my first paper when everyone else having their last paper around this time.

Ah, did badly for my Semicon paper. Just because of mistakes of substituting wrong value to the equation for the calculation part of 2 out of 3 questions, I wasted almost 45 minutes on struggling trying to figure out what when wrong for those calculation.

Feel that I always screw things up at the end... haih...

Two more papers to go. 1 more project report to rush (which is considered as the "final paper").

Officially into exam mode. I must not screw-up my CS3220! Did so well for Mid-term, Assignments, and Tutorial... If I get B again, then must be final... CANNOT CANNOT!!!

The other paper is PC3247... didn't expect much, just a pass and I will be very very satisfied.

Okay, time to rush my CS4273 report again. Hope I can get really good grade for this. Pass Assessments got "near top" marks... Must complete and perfect the last part - report!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Codec for Mac

Was looking around for "K-lite Codec Pack" for Mac and found Perian.

"The swiss-army knife for Quick Time".
--Perian


Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
-- Perian.org

Files supported:
  • File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
  • Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
  • Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT


Download site: http://perian.org/#download

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"Enable" Blogger Flash links

Was trying to solve the problem of links not working for flash in Blogger for the past few days.

Found the links that explain the security changes for Flash 8 and above.

In Flash Player 8, the default for an unspecified allowScriptAccess value remains "always" when the main SWF in Flash Player is version 7 or earlier, but changes to "sameDomain" when the main SWF is version 8 or later.

The allowScriptAccess parameter allows an HTML page to include Flash content but prevents it from executing scripts in the HTML page...


Technical details explained here http://tr.im/D79G.

SOLUTION

For <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">, change the "sameDomain" to "always".

done!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Google Chrome Lag Solved

Found out the problem with the lag for Google Chrome.

Its described in Microsoft KB Article 929868.

To work around with this issue, you can change the Windows Scaling factor to 2. The following steps explains it.
  1. Click Start and type CMD.
  2. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to open the command Prompt with Administrative rights.
  3. Type the following and press ENTER
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted

This will set the autotuninglevel to "Allow the receive window to grow beyond its default value, but do so very conservatively".

Reboot.
---
To restore, just type the following:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

Reboot.
--
You can also disable autotuning with the following command:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= disable

Reboot.
--

Note: This should solve other high-ping related network issue too :)

Saturday, October 24, 2009

U32-to-U8 conversion

/*
* U32TO8_BIG(c, v) stores the 32-bit-value v in big-endian convention
* into the unsigned char array pointed to by c.
*/
#define U32TO8_BIG(c, v) do { \
u32 x = (v); \
u8 *d = (c); \
d[0] = T8(x >> 24); \
d[1] = T8(x >> 16); \
d[2] = T8(x >> 8); \
d[3] = T8(x); \
} while (0)

/*
* U32TO8_LITTLE(c, v) stores the 32-bit-value v in little-endian convention
* into the unsigned char array pointed to by c.
*/
#define U32TO8_LITTLE(c, v) do { \
u32 x = (v); \
u8 *d = (c); \
d[0] = T8(x); \
d[1] = T8(x >> 8); \
d[2] = T8(x >> 16); \
d[3] = T8(x >> 24); \
} while (0)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Change Firefox Address Bar Search Engine

If you, like me, has been the victim of Yahoo Spyware aka Yahoo IM then you may notice that in the firefox location bar if you type in a keyword, it takes you to Yahoo preferences page. Previously it used to perform a Google "I'm Lucky" Search and take you to the first page of its search results automatically.

If you want to restore the Google "I'm Lucky" search then perform this simple steps:
1. Type about:config in Firefox location bar and press Enter
2. Type keyword in Filter textbox and you will see only the preference keyword.URL.
3. Double-click on keyword.URL and change the value to:
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=
or, if you don't wish to go to the first suggested link by Google
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&q=

That's all it takes to restore default keyword search functionality in Google.

Note: You can use this to change to any search engine for keyword search.

Syntax Highlighter 2.1.x for Blogger

Found a useful script to display codes for Blogger - Syntax Highlighter.
http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
or the new site:
http://alexgorbatchev.com/

The setup is very easy.

Just add the following code in your Blogger HTML template, before </body> tag. (Replace the [your-hosting-url] with the URL where your downloaded scripts are hosted.
(mine is binghan.uuuq.com/js/syntaxhighlighter2.1/ in this case, feel free to use :) )







Move on to adding snipped-codes for Blooger. Add the following tag to wrap around your snipped-codes.


// your code goes here.



Done!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Monday, October 12, 2009

Patrick Hughes - Sign

Find this interesting... :)



One of the 2009 Cannes Lions winners! More info: http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/ent...

A simple short film about communication. Created by Publicis Mojo and @RadicalMediaDirector: Patrick Hugheshttp://www.patrickhughes.com.au/

Watch in High Quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0HNW...

Join the Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/SignsShortFilm

If you like the soundtrack, you can check out @ http://www.internetdj.com/signs-music

the Schweppes online film festival: http://www.schhh.eu/shortfilms/

Category: Film & Animation

Saturday, October 03, 2009

NUS VPN

Disclaimer: I haven't try this yet. :)

Found a note on how to connect to NUS VPN from outside NUS.

  1. Go to Control Panel --> Network and Internet --> Internet Options
  2. Click on Connections tab.
  3. Choose "Add VPN"
  4. Enter the following settings:

  5. Internet Address: 137.132.3.181
    Destination name: NUS VPN /* This is just the name

  6. Click Next

  7. Account: u0XXXXXX /* Your NUSNET ID
    Password: Leave blank /* You will be prompted when you connect
    Domain (optional): NUSSTU

  8. Click create.
  9. Connect to VPN.
  10. That should be it, you should now be prompted to enter you credentials and then get a message welcoming you to NUS VPN!

* For the server address: vpn.nus.edu.sg should work as well, but I've not tried it.


Modified from source: http://technosluts.blogspot.com/2009/03/connecting-to-nus-vpn-via-iphone.html

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Quake Measured 7.6 at Southern Sumatra

Just heard the news after come back for dinner just now. Gosh, everyone says the felt the quake, but I don't even feel a thing when I was in Lab.

This shows how concentrated I was during Lab session just now. TA-ing. *hur hur hur*

Anyway, here are some stats and news.
  1. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mebz.html#details
  2. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE58T2Q220090930
  3. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aD4AfO9ipyKU

Monday, September 21, 2009

Intel Atom 32nm Chip in Q4

Really surprise me when saw the articles. I thought my semicon lecturer told us that its very hard to shrink the Gate Length of MOSFET beyond 45nm. Imagine the technical challenges that one will face, how they going to fabricate the chip in terms of photolithography. The wavelength of shortest visible light source (violet - 380nm) which is used in the process is way bigger than the gate length of the MOSFET.

Anyway, more readings here.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Imperial Restaurant

Had our lunch at Imperial Restaurant, Vivo City - The shop that Jiawei keep on recommend us to go. Haha.

The food there is indeed good, and its not expensive either. What I like most is the prawn noodle and the egg tart.

Just one thing that I must comment about - The collocation of items in the restaurant. The restaurant name suggested its Chinese cuisine. Nothing wrong with that. But the chairs inside... its so state-of-the-art/modern cushion design. And the menu - its angmoh-model-wearing-cheongsam-eating-chinese-food. Well, just feel the whole atmosphere is weird. =)




Tuesday, September 15, 2009

vicious cycle

Been telling myself to keep myself out of any infinite cycle.

Similar problems will just keep on repeating itself if you just try to amend it, without rectifying from the root/source.

*puff*

So, 자신의 마 열쇠입니다!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Alison's house

Went Alison's house for a visit. Wanted to see her bungalow for quite sometime already. Its near Geylang Serai Malay Village.

Then we went to the temporary market for Ramadan to get Malay food for dinner. The market reminds me of the Malay food back in Malaysia. Frankly, I still prefer the Malay food back at hometowen, especially for Rendang. :)

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Yuling & Aloysius Bday

Helped Yuling and Aloysius celebrate their birthday at a Haebok Korean Restaurant at Furama City Center, Chinatown. The service there is good. But the food there is just average in terms of taste and value.

The birthday cake and other photos.

After that we went to Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品) which situated just a few stone throw away for dessert. Wah, the ice-cream dessert there very nice, especially durian flavour. I like durian! =)

Heard about the shop before this, especially reviews from blogs - a must-try shop for Chinatown area. But, I haven't been to this shop until now. The signature dishes there are "Mango Sago with Pomelo" (杨枝甘露), "Peanut Paste" (花生糊).

甜品s!!!




The address: 65 Temple Street, 058610 Sg.

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Random

How come I get all the recessive traits...
  1. Red-green blindness.
  2. I can't roll my tongue.
  3. I can't control my nose muscle.
  4. I can't control my ear muscle.

:(

:) Just random, but still, glad that I am who I am today.

20090905 Orchard Outing

Went Orchard with YC, Jiawei, Tina, Simin, (and Cindy). Plan to buy formal shirt from Gant at first, but who knows all the shirts there don't suit my taste, and not very cheap also although its clearance.

Went Ding Tai Fung eat after that.

Then we walked around ION. Most of the shops there opened already. Theres a shop that sells super cute miniatures on the 4th floor! Damn cute lar!!! and some of it even can be idea for RAG.... oh gosh, I still can't get rid of my 职业病. (Actually, before this, thought of cladding idea from another shop also when I saw the texture of the products. =p)... Gosh, have to tell myself: Time to move on alr lar...........!

Random photos.

The super cute miniatures from ION - 4th floor.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

FYF Meeting

Had FYF meeting just now.

Fatt was elected as the Command IC. I'm sure he will do a good job. He has plans on his mind, and prepared to take up the job.

For me, I'm not sure what lies ahead... I foresee its gonna be "the road not taken" - two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

See how things go...

---

There are two way to see command.
1. A dream/target for residence to strive for, till final years.
2. A happy-and-sad event where everyone come together reminiscence the hardship they've been thru or friendship they've forged throughout the stay in KR.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

random

Just quite busy these few days. A lot of events going on. At the same time, I'm trying replenish my sleep.

...

I wish there are someone out there who can understand me better than I am. Understand how my brain and body functions...

...

IBG track was a bad closing for my final year in Uni n KR. Should have chiong all the way since starting... reserved too much in the start...

Monday, August 24, 2009

Tired?

Guess a new kind of virus is propagating now - Tiredness.

I wonder will I be infected?

Maybe not, cause I feel tired/sleepy all the time. Or supposedly, I'm already adapted to this microb.

A lot of things in hand, but I just keep on procrastinating... and do other things that i'm not suppose to do at this point of time... IBG, website, talking, watching movie...

Haih... can't concentrate in class also today. I keep on dozing off in both lectures today. Unforgivable!

---

Okay, should stop giving myself all those excuses. And, its time to prepare for tomorrow's TA material.

I need to keep reminding myself: "My biggest enemy is TIME!"

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Facebook OMG! news that has been circling around

'Lindsay' updated her status with “OMG, I HATE MY JOB!!” before losing it.


This woman who updated her status in FB got herself a P45.

Morale of the story - never mix social network with work-related personnel.

Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/

Samsung Omnia 2 review

Samsung Omnia 2 i8000

Samsung Omnia 2 pros:
  1. Full touchscreen with 3.7″ AMOLED display.
  2. HSUPA 5.76Mbps, HSDPA 7.2Mbps and WiFi 802.11 b/g capabilities
  3. Storage of up to 48GB.
  4. 800MHz CPU.

Samsung Omnia 2 weakness:
  1. Can't send Contact Cards via SMS.
  2. Can' send SMS to numbers that are NOT in "mobile phone" field, and can only set 1 mobile number per contact.
    • Non-mobile numbers can receive SMS nowadays.
    • Most people have multiple cell phones nowadays.
  3. Very weak GPS receiver.

But I guess some of these (weakness 1 & 2) can be resolve by upgrade/updating the software.

Whats on my mind

It's been on my mind for quite some time. Thinking of the continuation and passing down.

I just want to have something nice to see when I come back next time, and proud to say that I'm part of it last time.

At least I'm relieve now, preparing to move on, to another stage - the lao lang stage.

Just few more things to confirm. Like what Weliam said, "Only when you know it is in good hands".

Saturday, August 15, 2009

20090814 Dinner at Marutama Ra-Men



Went Marutama Ra-Men (The Central @ Clarke Quay) for dinner with Jiawei, Tina, Cindy and Cindy's Friend.

Ordered Marutama Ramen (Spicy). Wah, guess my cough is still 'going strong'. Just 1 sip of the soup makes cough terribly. But the noodle is 'okay'. The type of the noodle reminds me of "kolo mee" back in home town. Miss the noodle very much. So gonna have a fest on "kolo mee" when I go back (still don't know when at the moment).

After that, we went walk-walk along Clarke Quay river, watch bungy thingy, then go back. Nothing interesting there along Clarke Quay. Just a lot of ang moh and clubs too! The only thing I find amusing is the "Clinic Club" and the G-Max Reverse Bungy.

What Google Thinks of Twitter

As of now (2009-08-15), google search auto-complete shows the following.

Google thinks that Twitter is...


Google thinks Twitter is
  • over capacity
  • retarded
  • down
  • useless
  • lame
  • pointless
  • slow
  • a waste of time
  • for twits
  • crap


:p

I still tweet all the time though :)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

[Solved] Chrome lags problem

Previously, Chrome lags on my Windows 7 (x64, 3GB RAM). Did a Google Forum search just now and found a temporary solution for it.

Open Chrome -> Option -> Under the hood -> uncheck "Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance"


I'm not sure why Chrome DNS pre-fetching causes the lag in Chrome, but at least it solves the problem for now. Hope Google releases fix to this soon.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

APCN2 undersea cable cut cripples internet connection

A cut in the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea submarine cable crippled connection speeds for users in the Asia-Pacific region on Wednesday, particularly in Singapore and the Philippines.
Source zenetasia.com

NUSSU RAG Day 2009

Source: http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/headlines/0809/rag_11Aug09.php


KENT RIGDE HALL: Overall champion for halls of residence



RAG AND FLAG 2009 WINNERS

Chancellor's Shields
Overall Champion for Faculty Clubs: School of Business
Overall Champion for Halls of Residence: Kent Ridge Hall

NUS Presidents Shields
Best Total Collection for Faculty Clubs: School of Business
Best Total Collection for Halls of Residence: Kent Ridge Hall
Best Rag Performance for Faculty Clubs: School of Design and Environment
Best Rag Performance for Halls of Residence: King Edward VII Hall

NUSSU Challenge Shields
Best Float Design for Faculty Clubs: University Scholars Club
Best Float Design for Halls of Residence: Eusoff Hall
Best Presentation for Faculty Clubs: Medicine
Best Presentation for Halls of Residence: Eusoff Hall
Least Cost Float for Faculty Clubs: School of Computing
Least Cost Float for Halls of Residence: Raffles Hall
Best per Capita Collection for Faculty Clubs: School of Business
Best Total Coin Collection for Faculty Clubs: School of Business
Most Environment-Friendly Float for Faculty Clubs: School of Design & Environment
Most Environment-Friendly Float for Halls of Residence: King Edward VII Hall
OSA Most Creative Float Award for Halls of Residence: Eusoff Hall
OSA Most Creative Float Award for Faculty Clubs: Medicine

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

KR RAG

My journey of RAG in Kent Ridge Hall.

Year 0 - KRonos
Mechanism controller for cylinder

The float that inspires a lot of Raggers and Floaters, including me of course.
I spent most of my orientation at dinning hall, helping out, with the intention to be the first few freshman to see this so called "float" structure. Finally I was chosen as one of the helper for the main mechanism, along with weliam. My first impression of KRonos - precision structure, with insanely intricate cladding!
Still remember on RAG Day 2006 itself, before entering presentation area, Boon Sern, the CE for KRonos, shout from the cylinder of KRonos - "Even the pulley break, we will not break!". In presentation box, witnessing that pair of wings that spread out of the float body (cylinder), I told myself that RAG will definitely be part of my Hall Life for the coming few years.

KRonos @ Plaza Singapura


Year 1 - Flight
Assistant Chief Enginner

First attempt in building something out of nothing. A lot happened throughout the whole 3 months. Sweet, bitter, joy, disappointment; witnessing how people changed for better, for worse. RAG its not as simple as I thought.
Lack of proper preparation, inexperience team, on week six, I knew the whole team were marching towards a pit of fire. On RAG day itself, its disheartening to hear our neighbour, SH, swept almost all the awards. But, what make me burst into tears is when I pass by EH's dancer's resting area, the dancers ran in front of me make fun of me.
Nevertheless, Flight is the reason for I continue on, to catch up with my dream, to correct the mistakes I've made.

Flight @ Padang


Year 2 - KRhome
Float Engineer

Things were much better this year, Weliam, ZY, Jeff, and I know what we want to focus on this time round. We started off early, identified the winning formula, and worked hard during the whole 3 months, even to the extend burning our Sunday rest time. On RAG Day itself, we won big. To be frank, I knew there will be one big winner when our float arrive at SRC, its either us, or EH. I was so worried, until the first award was announced :)


KRhome @ SRC


Year 3 - KRavings
Helper

Involved in the early stage brainstorming. Its really a different experience as an "advisor" I would say. I tried as much as possible not to provide any input, and let the idea flow within raggers themselves.
KRavings is a good float, the idea, colours and the intricacy of the claddings. But there are few winning factors that KRavings missed out during presentation. On top of that, competition was tough this year and, specially from KE. KEnovo is definitely a very very good float, with the creativity of the claddings (and compilation of the idea from the past winning floats. =) ). Actually, I like KE's float all these while, just that they were out shined during presentation - dance.

KRavings @ SRC



Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Monday, July 27, 2009

Chrome address bar updated?


Just realize a small change in the address bar of Chrome. Picture self-explanatory.

Side note:
Still in the process of figuring out why Chrome lags on my Windows 7. :(

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Live Android

Share photos on twitter with Twitpic

Loaded Android into Windows 7. :)

Guess what Ad is this

Source techielobang

Guess which phone advertisement is this ;)



The video captured by phone.



This is much better viral video, creative and its interesting in the sense that it hides the ad target within the video and the title! ;)

Guide for accounts that got hacked

For those who hotmail account being hacked to send scam/fraud links, heres a simple guide.


Re: Contact list / email hijacking

Product: Windows Live Hotmail (Windows Live Hotmail)