For the last week I had been at my friend's place in Aachen, visiting and get myself to go around places in Germany other than my place of study, Aalen and to get some fresh air, after locking myself up in this small town for the last 3 months before I got back to Malaysia.
Aachen is a nice city which is just at the right size, not too big and not too small. There are a lot of places to visit in the tow n itself, and the foods there are fantastic as well. I got to eat some authentic tasting wan tan mee and one of the best fried rice that I had ever tasted. And most importantly, I had learned some very important lessons on friends and friendship.
All this while i had always been very 'ke qi' with my friends. That means, I was really reluctant to accept favours from them, and when I do, I will find lots of ways to repay them. I had always been like that for a long long time. But on the other way around, I was never too hesitant to help people out whenever it's needed. Staying over here in Aachen with my friends there had given me a good lesson.
Being friends is never too much about giving and receiving, but about the feeling of friendship and that there are are friends out there that will accompany each other through the times. Friends are always there are for you through think and thin, through the hard and good times. And also to accompany each other to face the things to come...
Well, the most important thing I've learnt during this trip is that although we may be with our very bad flaws, our friends will accept and live with it. Small actions like accompanying each other to do a lot of things can go a long way to make our lives a very meaningful one...
To my friends out there, I wish you all well and happy always, and when I meet you all once again the next time, hopefully that you are still happy as always... =)
seehua
*Let's create a world full of LOVE~
Thursday, September 21, 2006
experiments and me...
The one thing about me is that i love to experiment with new things, expecially things related to technology.
For a measure, you can have a look at my own computer and my pda phone and count the amount of softwares that are still in beta* status. The list will be as follows:
1. Firefox 2 beta 2
2. Microsoft Active Sync 4.5 beta 2
3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 RC1**
4. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 beta 2
5. My own PDA phone is running on a hacked version of ROM build by the friendly guys at www.xda-developers.com.
I don't know why do I like to be at the cutting edge of things, but I think I like the thrill of breaking things and find a way to fix them, or find some ways to work around them. I love to get to know how things work from the smallest nuts and bolts to the whole assembled complete system. I am the one who will read a manual lots of times that I can repeat every word from the front page to the backcover, and then still want to go find out about additional ways to get more juice out of the system.
Perhaps this is the reason that I am able to maximize the capability of my own computer and PDA, running it the way I want it to, that to me is one kind of success.
But then, after I had maximized my usage of the system, I will go look for new ways to experiment. Right now, I am experiment with various distribution of Linux operating system. There are a lot of ways to customize the system, from the very core to the looks of it. In fact, in the future, after I learn how to program, i might even take a look into the source code of the applications running under linux and see what i can do to make it even better.
I think I had just made myself look really like a geeky kind of person right now...haha...nvm, that's who I am anyway. I used to play with lots of legos when i was really young, the time when I was still studying primary school in Brunei. I can still remember the first set of lego bought for me by my parents as a present for being top in the class. It was a Lego technic version of a truck, complete with it's own suspensions and steering wheel. Not much for a starter, but still lots of fun with nevertheless.
Several months later my father brought back one whole pail of Legos taken from someone who don't want it anymore. boy I was thrilled. I used to play with it for long periods during my holidays and managed to build a lot a lot of things from it, and learning a whole lot about gears, how things should fit together so that it is at it's strongest, what happens in a suspension system, how pistons are fitted together in an engine, and a lot more from it alone. There was one time that I was so engrossed in building my own car from lego that i spent one whole afternoon building it without doing anything else. I ended that day with a headache due to concentrating too much on the project.. =p but still, i did successfully build a car that had it's own steering, suspention, hood, doors etc etc etc all on my own...YAHOO.... =p
Yea, experimentation on things had been part of me all along, and brings along lots of thrills and fun with it...
ok, I am done with this post, time to test using debian linux...heh heh...
till my next post, *tata~
metta
seehua
*Let's create a world full of LOVE~
*beta means software which are feature complete softwares that are being tested to look for bugs and fix them
**RC means Release Candidate
For a measure, you can have a look at my own computer and my pda phone and count the amount of softwares that are still in beta* status. The list will be as follows:
1. Firefox 2 beta 2
2. Microsoft Active Sync 4.5 beta 2
3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 RC1**
4. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 beta 2
5. My own PDA phone is running on a hacked version of ROM build by the friendly guys at www.xda-developers.com.
I don't know why do I like to be at the cutting edge of things, but I think I like the thrill of breaking things and find a way to fix them, or find some ways to work around them. I love to get to know how things work from the smallest nuts and bolts to the whole assembled complete system. I am the one who will read a manual lots of times that I can repeat every word from the front page to the backcover, and then still want to go find out about additional ways to get more juice out of the system.
Perhaps this is the reason that I am able to maximize the capability of my own computer and PDA, running it the way I want it to, that to me is one kind of success.
But then, after I had maximized my usage of the system, I will go look for new ways to experiment. Right now, I am experiment with various distribution of Linux operating system. There are a lot of ways to customize the system, from the very core to the looks of it. In fact, in the future, after I learn how to program, i might even take a look into the source code of the applications running under linux and see what i can do to make it even better.
I think I had just made myself look really like a geeky kind of person right now...haha...nvm, that's who I am anyway. I used to play with lots of legos when i was really young, the time when I was still studying primary school in Brunei. I can still remember the first set of lego bought for me by my parents as a present for being top in the class. It was a Lego technic version of a truck, complete with it's own suspensions and steering wheel. Not much for a starter, but still lots of fun with nevertheless.
Several months later my father brought back one whole pail of Legos taken from someone who don't want it anymore. boy I was thrilled. I used to play with it for long periods during my holidays and managed to build a lot a lot of things from it, and learning a whole lot about gears, how things should fit together so that it is at it's strongest, what happens in a suspension system, how pistons are fitted together in an engine, and a lot more from it alone. There was one time that I was so engrossed in building my own car from lego that i spent one whole afternoon building it without doing anything else. I ended that day with a headache due to concentrating too much on the project.. =p but still, i did successfully build a car that had it's own steering, suspention, hood, doors etc etc etc all on my own...YAHOO.... =p
Yea, experimentation on things had been part of me all along, and brings along lots of thrills and fun with it...
ok, I am done with this post, time to test using debian linux...heh heh...
till my next post, *tata~
metta
seehua
*Let's create a world full of LOVE~
*beta means software which are feature complete softwares that are being tested to look for bugs and fix them
**RC means Release Candidate
Monday, September 11, 2006
I installed Linux without having to go to the console!!
hehe...Super happy now. All the 9++ hours waiting for my Suse Linux 10.1 download to finish was really worth it man. I got it running and it boot into it's gui without having me to go into terminal to add a line to a cryptic file. Now that's a first...opensuse, thanks... haha... keep it up team.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Howto: browse the internet safely
Helo to all. This post is kind of a kick off for my new series in this blog. If it do gets better, i might just make a new blog based on it. For now, i am just going to give you all advices on a field where i had done so much research but still have a lot more to learn, computing.
To kick it all of, the first topic is about security.
We all know that the internet is a dangerous place to go without a good set of protection tools, especially if you are using Microsoft© Windows® series of operating systems. With so much news on more and more exploits discovered and exploited out in the wild now, there is no better time to be concerned about these issues. Your own precious data might be released in the wild, and used against you in various ways. The most notable way is your stolen credit card number being used to buy hell of a lot of things through e-bay orany other online shopping sites. Then the next time you check on your credit card usages, to your horror, you find that you have a debt amounting to millions.
ok, that's just one senario that might happen. Yes, I know most of the people who will frequent this blog don't do as much online shopping as I do, but there WILL be usages for your personal infos and passwords. So it's always better to be on the safe side rather than to be sorry.
Here are some simple steps that you can do to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of online fraud.
1. Whenever an e-mail comes to your inbox and asks for your private information or details on e-bay/bank/paypal accounts, ignore it. They are most probably phishing e-mails sent out by people with bad intentions who wants to get their hands on your private data. If you are in doubt, call or e-mail the representatives of the institutions involved.
2. If you are using Windows operating system(any version), make sure you protect yourself with at least an antivirus and antispyware programs. If you can't afford to buy the licences from the big guns (Symantec, Mc Afee), there are a lot more antivirus vendors out there like AVG, Avast, Anvira and some others that will offer you decent protection without slowing your computer to a crawl. As for antispyware protection, you can get decent scanners from Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot search and Destroy, and Windows Defender. Remember to update the programs often, and scan your system once in a while.
3. Remember, the worst link in the chain is the human that is operating the system, i.e. yourself. It's at the outmost importance that you adopt safe-internet practices.
-Don't just forward everything that comes into your mailbox, especially those which are likely
to contain frauds and false news. It will only serve to spread panic. If you want to verify the
authencity of these mails, you may surf to www.hoax-slayer.com to get a accurate info on that particular topic.
-Don't store sensitive passwords (bank login details etc) within your browser. Always log in manually from the front page of these pages by typing in the username and the passwords yourself, and not storing it in the internet browser's cache. Laziness will cost you a bomb in this case, so don't be lazy here.
-Don't do your critical transactions using a public computer(school computer labs, libraries, cyber cafes etc.). You'll never know that the computers have keyloggers installed or not. So like always, it's better to be safe than sorry.
So here we are, some simple to take steps to ensure that you can surf the net safely. There are a lot more steps to take of course. But for now, these will suffice to make your internet-surfing experience relatively safe and enjoyable. So, until the next time I post another entry in this long unupdated blog, take care always there yah...
*tata~
metta
seehua
-Let's create a world full of LOVE =)
To kick it all of, the first topic is about security.
We all know that the internet is a dangerous place to go without a good set of protection tools, especially if you are using Microsoft© Windows® series of operating systems. With so much news on more and more exploits discovered and exploited out in the wild now, there is no better time to be concerned about these issues. Your own precious data might be released in the wild, and used against you in various ways. The most notable way is your stolen credit card number being used to buy hell of a lot of things through e-bay orany other online shopping sites. Then the next time you check on your credit card usages, to your horror, you find that you have a debt amounting to millions.
ok, that's just one senario that might happen. Yes, I know most of the people who will frequent this blog don't do as much online shopping as I do, but there WILL be usages for your personal infos and passwords. So it's always better to be on the safe side rather than to be sorry.
Here are some simple steps that you can do to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of online fraud.
1. Whenever an e-mail comes to your inbox and asks for your private information or details on e-bay/bank/paypal accounts, ignore it. They are most probably phishing e-mails sent out by people with bad intentions who wants to get their hands on your private data. If you are in doubt, call or e-mail the representatives of the institutions involved.
2. If you are using Windows operating system(any version), make sure you protect yourself with at least an antivirus and antispyware programs. If you can't afford to buy the licences from the big guns (Symantec, Mc Afee), there are a lot more antivirus vendors out there like AVG, Avast, Anvira and some others that will offer you decent protection without slowing your computer to a crawl. As for antispyware protection, you can get decent scanners from Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot search and Destroy, and Windows Defender. Remember to update the programs often, and scan your system once in a while.
3. Remember, the worst link in the chain is the human that is operating the system, i.e. yourself. It's at the outmost importance that you adopt safe-internet practices.
-Don't just forward everything that comes into your mailbox, especially those which are likely
to contain frauds and false news. It will only serve to spread panic. If you want to verify the
authencity of these mails, you may surf to www.hoax-slayer.com to get a accurate info on that particular topic.
-Don't store sensitive passwords (bank login details etc) within your browser. Always log in manually from the front page of these pages by typing in the username and the passwords yourself, and not storing it in the internet browser's cache. Laziness will cost you a bomb in this case, so don't be lazy here.
-Don't do your critical transactions using a public computer(school computer labs, libraries, cyber cafes etc.). You'll never know that the computers have keyloggers installed or not. So like always, it's better to be safe than sorry.
So here we are, some simple to take steps to ensure that you can surf the net safely. There are a lot more steps to take of course. But for now, these will suffice to make your internet-surfing experience relatively safe and enjoyable. So, until the next time I post another entry in this long unupdated blog, take care always there yah...
*tata~
metta
seehua
-Let's create a world full of LOVE =)
Friday, September 08, 2006
Fairness?
We can hardly speak of moral in relation to creatures we systematically devour, mostly singed but sometimes raw. There are men and women who practise horse love, dog love, cat love, bird love. But these very people would take a deer or a calf by it's neck, slit it's throat, drink the blood straight away or in a pudding, and bite off it's flesh. And who is to say that a horse they cherish is nobler that a deer they feed on? Indeed, there are people who eat cats, dogs and horses but would use a cow only as a work animal and the dogs to protect them and their properties.
D.Runes
Handbook Of Reason
D.Runes
Handbook Of Reason
Sunday, September 03, 2006
New Topics
From now on I might add on topics from my own interests to the topics there are already in discussion here...
They might include computer troubleshooting tips that i might had found out along the way while i am experimenting with various softwares and operating systems.
And some simple reviews of softwares will be included as well...
happy reading everyone =)
metta
seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVe=)
They might include computer troubleshooting tips that i might had found out along the way while i am experimenting with various softwares and operating systems.
And some simple reviews of softwares will be included as well...
happy reading everyone =)
metta
seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVe=)
Return of the ghost
After being off the radar for the last few months, yup, i am back to Germany now...
Time to say hi to all of you out there... having fun?
hope you do, but don't forget about work yah...
kinda sleepy now, maybe I am still stuck in Malaysia mentally... hehe.. but don't worry, I will be ok here...
Just want to say hi to you all:
Hello to all!!!
hehe...that's all from me this time... *tata~
metta
seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVE =)
Time to say hi to all of you out there... having fun?
hope you do, but don't forget about work yah...
kinda sleepy now, maybe I am still stuck in Malaysia mentally... hehe.. but don't worry, I will be ok here...
Just want to say hi to you all:
Hello to all!!!
hehe...that's all from me this time... *tata~
metta
seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVE =)
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