Well, to be really honest the light setting and the loud music is really cool. However I feel that the bowling alley is poorly maintained. Discolored screens and malfunctioning equipment really helped to spoil the mood for a good bowling night. I was playing in lane 36 on Friday after work and I counted at [...]

I was doing a routine backup job for a client’s website hosted on Exabytes the other day and noticed something funny. There were supposed to be image, pdf, and video files in the upload folders but there were also .htaccess and PHP files in the main upload folder and each of the subfolders. The first [...]

I recently received an email from PayPal announcing that they now support additional languages. One of them is my native tongue, Bahasa Melayu. However when I clicked on the Malaysia flag it directs me to the same page as Bahasa Indonesia. Although many part of the Internet has already acknowledged and are well aware that [...]

I was jealous of Azlan when he was able to change his GMail theme yesterday, and so was Nazham. But look at what I found when I woke up this morning: Sweet!!!

I had to download the Flex SDK for work today and when I saw the file size I thought I can take some time to get coffee and a smoking break but I was wrong. I am not making it a big deal but I guess home users in Malaysia has never experienced this before. [...]

Tonight’s Internet access was annoyingly slow so I thought of recycling my ADSL connection. Out of habit I opened up WhatIsMyIP.us and was presented with a weird IP. The top text with black background is the actual IP my router was assigned with (60.52.127.200). And then I recycled my ADSL connection. The new IP was [...]

I went to have lunch at Marché Mövenpick at The Curve on Saturday and I was a bit disappointed by the lack of staff and all the waiting we had to do. While I understand that the system is for you to order and wait they should not have ask people to come back in [...]

I was using YUI Uploader for a personal project and it works very well on my development notebook and server. However when the code is live on the server the Flash uploader failed with this error message: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2038"] After a while I realized that it must be something server-side [...]

Mangkuktingkat.com is a very convenient service, initiated by YAYASAN PEMBANGUNAN NUR HIKMAH. The intention is good – to help single moms and women to excel in business. We are subscribing to a month’s worth of lunches and dinners for the month of November. The food tastes good (not great) and it’s worth every cent paying [...]

This is the second time I have posted about Naza Ria parking problems, and no I don’t have anything against that particular model or make. This is actually the third time I’ve seen the same model parked without using a brain. Now how the hell could another car fit next to it and be able [...]

[UPDATE] Ozzie was actually taken by a neighbor’s friend who thought the dog was lost. Ozzie was scared of thunder and wandered around to a Hari Raya open house nearby where the house owner asked his Chinese friend to bring Ozzie home. Ozzie is now back with his rightful owner he loves. [END UPDATE] If [...]

Yesterday I was trying to pay my overdue house rental that I have forgotten to pay because of the Hari Raya holidays (sorry landlord!). When I load Maybank2u it was fine at a glance, and the new design looks super cool! However when I tried to login and use the functions I was disappointed. Logging [...]

Yes, I am busy again that’s why I have been so quiet. As usual Rizal pointed me to an interesting post that leads me to Reverie. It caught my attention so much I had to write this short post. I was astonished by the quality of the movie, especially since it is taken using a [...]

I managed to get OpenVPN running on my DD-WRT v2.2 router, with the instructions from the wiki. However after a few reboot tests I saw that OpenVPN died immediately after it started, with no traceable reasons. Sep 12 00:51:10 192.168.xx.xx openvpn[3940]: TUN/TAP device tap0 opened . . . Sep 12 00:51:11 192.168.xx.xx openvpn[3949]: Initialization Sequence [...]

As a SysAdmin I have been using OpenVZ since it was introduced, and trust me it has not always been this easy. I used to take care of 20 physical servers with yearly replacement of about 5 machines. Since some of the servers are running different Linux distributions and different hardware it was decided that [...]