next gen of Microsoft Search: Bing!

Screenshot of Microsoft new search engine - bing. The engine will be up on 3rd June.

Bday cake

Mommy sent me a 'virtual bday cake' for my bday =p haha

Facebook API

Been playing around with FB apps for the past few days. Found few good articles about intergrating FB

Facebook connect

http://devtacular.com/articles/bkonrad/how-to-integrate-with-facebook-connect/

Facebook developer toolkit

http://www.codeplex.com/FacebookToolkit

Live Mesh

Found another files synchronization service - Microsoft Live Mesh. More info on wiki.

Actually I'm using Dropbox now. What I find good about Dropbox so far:

• Fast, the upload & download speed is tremendous.
  
• Accurate update on files (its not accurate when I use Microsoft Office Groove, bad application, it creates many version of files instead of just update the contents).
  
• Cross-platform - can sync between Windows, Mac, Linux.

Basically the functions provided by MS Live Mesh is the same, with the following addition function:

• Sync over mobile phones!

Things to ponder:

• Will it be another Microsoft Groove? Hope not.

Windows 7 RC Build 7100 Installation - A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing

After I've selected Time & Language, Keyboard Layout (at the first step of installation), then I got the message "No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and the click ok" at the "Select the driver to be installed" screen (which is the second step of installation).

My computer is installed with Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 currently. I'm planning to reinstall 7100 over it.

I've previously installed Windows 7 RC on another Compaq Laptop, which means the ISO and the DVD that I burn is fine.

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Solution 1

http://www.evga.com/forums/printable.asp?m=100677004

Had same problem installing vista ultimate 64... had to use a legacy DVD drive on IDE channel... even after vista installed, it still wasn't reading both my blueray drives on SATA (They are both on the red SATA ports).

Problem is you need the JMicron drivers.

The JMicron SATA controller drivers can be found at:
ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/R1.17.48.12.zip
For eSATA control please download the following:
ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/R1.17.48.12_eSATA.zip

Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 to Windows 7 RC Build 7100 -What you need to know

Source: http://tr.im/m0Fo

• Download the ISO as you did previously and burn the ISO to a DVD
  
• Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build)
  
• Browse to the sources directory
  
• Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad
  
• Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For
• example, change 7100 to 7000
  
• Save the file in place with the same name
  
• Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed

Warning: It is not recommended to upgrade from Beta 7000 to RC 7100.

If you manage to upgrade, can post a reply at http://tr.im/m0G6

Dont Forward That Funny Email

Got this from Gizmodo. Gosh, hate those forwarded mails which flood my email account last time.

future of search engines?

Yahoo Vows Death to the '10 Blue Links' http://bit.ly/10mw23

Yahoo! and Microsoft feels the only way to win market share and search is to change the playing field and do things differently...

IMHO, this is so not going to work. People use search engine to find relevent links to website that contains information that they need.

If we were to look for

Restaurant reviews - hungrygowhere.com

Movies review - imdb.com, wikipedia.org

Maps - maps.google.com, maps.live.com, (local) gothere.sg

News - bbc.co.uk, channelnewsasia.com, sinchew.com.my

General information - wikipedia.org

It is hard (if not impossible) for a single website to provide all the different type of information that users need. That is also the main reason search engine exist - to help users consolidate and filter all these websites, so that user can find the all the relevant links in a single place.

Google remains at the top search engine today because of its fast and effective search engine. Besides, there smart processing of users' search input, e.g. automatically display currency conversion, math calculation, word definition, news, videos, image result, makes the search engine more lively.

For me, what I like about Google Search is its clean design and the accuracy of search results (which other search engines cannot achieve).

LOVE STORY (Taylor Swift) meets VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay) - Piano Cello - by Jon Schmidt

Nice instrumental.

[SPAM] Spam nowadys

Wah, spam nowadays so advance. The name and the nickname are real. Maybe the account was hacked, or its just created just for spam / virus transmission purpose.

Luckily I do some 'homework' before accepting any invitation, or else, sure got tricked by it.

不明白

真的不明白为什么他们不要直接跟 uncle seng 安排食物。uncle seng 都已声明菜色可以安排。搞到现在 unlce seng 迟开早关，甚至没开。

NUS, NTU, Top 14
Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_375684.html?vgnmr=1

TOP ASIAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE QS.COM ASIAN UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: 1.University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2.The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 3.University of Tokyo, Japan 4.Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 5.Kyoto University, Japan 6.Osaka University, Japan 7.KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea 8.Seoul National University, South Korea 9.Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 10.=National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 10.=Peking University, China

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Vocaloid

Vocaloid, a singing synthesizer, which able to generate vocal accoding to lyric and melody. Amazing, technology nowadays.

Below is the song "Conveni(ence Store)" by the female vocal - Miku Hatsune.

[C Programming] Difference between const int* and int* const

const int* - a variable pointer pointing to a constant integer.

int* const - a constant pointer pointing to a variable integer.

E.g.

int i = 7;

const int* p = &i;

*p = 8; //ERROR!

* The trick is to read from right to left. :)

Windows 7 Release Candidate is out!

Windows 7 RC is avaiable for download at http://technet.microsoft.com/. The RC will expire on June 1, 2010.

stress i guess...

wah... damn bo liao...

How to Get Windows 7 RC

May 04, 2009 — Computerworld — On Tuesday, Microsoft will post Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for the general public.

The milestone is important, since it's the one-and-only release candidate Microsoft will issue for Windows 7, making it the last public stop on the operating system's brief tour before it ships.

And when will that be? Microsoft's not saying, though at least one executive recently broke with past practice and admitted it's possible that Windows 7 would be out in time for the holidays. We're betting it shows up sometime between Aug. 28 and Sept. 20, dates based on the past pace from RC to final for Windows XP and Vista.

Windows 7 RC is also an important-to-get preview, because --while it's not final code -- you'll be able to use it until June 2010, more than a year away. Microsoft's largess has never been larger.

Nor, apparently, have its ambitions been greater, since Windows 7 must simultaneously pry people away from Windows XP while masking the odor left behind by Vista.

Has Microsoft pulled it off? Our reviewer said "RC1 is stable enough and fast enough that it's well worth the download," which, though not a ringing endorsement, is encouraging.

So you'll want to grab a copy and try it out, decide whether you'll -- finally -- ditch XP or give up on Vista. But where can you get it, how do you install it, what do you need to run it and can you upgrade from the beta or from Vista or from XP?

Questions, there are always questions. And we have the answers, most of them anyway.

When can I download the RC? That's easy: Tuesday, May 5. Microsoft has declined to say exactly when it will throw the switch that day, but back in January, it originally pegged the beta's start time as noon, Pacific. (And we all know how well that worked out.)

Of course, if you subscribe to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) or TechNet, you've been able to grab it since last Thursday afternoon (after the now seemingly-inevitable snafu on Microsoft's end).

Where do I get it? The public download will be posted to theWindows 7 site, Microsoft said.

Windows 7 RC will be available in both 32- and 64-bit editions.

Is Microsoft limiting the release candidate, like it tried to do with the beta? No. "There is no limit to the total number of downloads for Windows 7 RC," a company spokeswoman confirmed.

That's a change from the beta, or at least the plan for the beta, when Microsoft originally said it would turn off the spigot after 2.5 million product keys had been issued. But when eager users rushed the servers on opening day, bringing down the whole download plan, Microsoft backed off the 2.5-million mark and eventually let people download the public beta for one month after the restart. Even Microsoft learns from its mistakes, it seems, because not only will it not restrict the number of downloads, but it will make the RC available for nearly three times as long, until the end of July.

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6th Month

Half a year already :)

There are ups and downs along the way, but glad both of us can give and take and try to understand each other.

Feel sorry for didn't give her any present. Exam period, projects... schedule quite tight. Maybe due to poor time management also :( Will definitely make up for that.

[Update] This week

These are the 2 hot issues circling around Sg for the past 2 weeks.

Swine Flu
Singapore was very causious about the pandemic since beginning. Now all the schools and Uni students are required to submit thier body temperature to school website. Thermometer was given to all students.

For NUS, everyone needs to take body temperature readings before entering exam hall.

AWARE

The new Exco of AWARE were given vote of no confidence in the EOGM today. No comment, just think that maybe they are abit radical in the issue of lesbian in Sg.

more http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/426519/1/.html

[Background info]

The new Exco took over the organisaztion during AGM election on 28th March.

more http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/422301/1/.html