There is something very wrong with the wireless module on the DELL Precision M4300 I am currently using - after a while files begin to get corrupted and Windows will fail to write the event log. I have just had the motherboard changed by DELL last Monday. In the office I did not have any [...]

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You can consider this as an honest and sincere opinion from me, as a Malaysian and a heavy Internet user. Maybe, if Rais reads this it will be much fun.
It’s all because of this news article: Malaysians advised against being immersed in Facebook, Twitter.
In twitter, the tag #yorais has been spreading like mad. The tweets [...]

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No, you don’t need to. This morning I struggled to convince someone that the server does not need a reboot. It was because of this: Increasing the number of file handles on Linux workstations.
ulimit - Provides control over the resources available to the shell and to processes started by it, on systems that allow such [...]

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Borrowing Google’s term - I have lately been using a flaky connection when connecting to the Internet. What I noticed is that my Yahoo! Messenger list becomes static and no custom messages are being updated. When I looked at my friend’s list, the custom message I set wasn’t showing. I was also not able to [...]

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For real?

The black box with two terminals is a 12V battery, and it looks like a lead-acid battery. Is it a DELL? Is it an IBM? Is it an HP? No, it is a Google. That’s right people, it’s a unit of many Google’s server inside its data center containers. It’s a 2U thick server, [...]

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I received an email yesterday:

Dear Ady Romantika
 
We see you have been a valued member since 2004-12-29. Many of our clients have
asked for a notice when we post special savings, we are pleased to provide that.
Please find the latest specials that are available for the month of February.

It’s from RegFly, a resurrection of RegisterFly [...]

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Have people been stealing images from your websites? Well, there are not so many interesting images in this site so I don’t really have that problem. You can add a watermark to your image, but I guess everyone knows that.
Another form of image theft also involves bandwidth theft. It’s has many names - hotlink, inline [...]

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No, it’s not possible unless you have their passwords.
From my moonlighting jobs and previous jobs I usually include myself in the SysAdmin or IT email groups or distribution lists. I received a good one yesterday (translated from Malay):

Dear IT,
 
Need your help to delete 3 emails sent by John Doe to 3 recipients below because
we sent [...]

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No, there is nothing wrong with OpenID, and there is nothing to worry about security or privacy. Giant players like Yahoo! and Google has also been implementing OpenID for quite some time.
I lost my account at Stack Overflow because I was using WordPress.com as an OpenID. Well, I lost it for about a day because [...]

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I’ve recently received a chain of emails, originated from a celebrity in Malaysia on how Facebook is a device used by CIA and how CIA is harvesting data of the world population in order to reach world domination. The email was quite elaborate, and I am impressed by the level of thinking the celebrity has.
I [...]

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I have always thought it’s difficult to migrate Perl CGI script to Windows. I was wrong, and today I learned how to do it. The configuration part is actually 100% similar!

# This line will ensure only .cgi and .pl files are executed as CGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
 
Alias /request/ "C:/request/"
<directory "C:/request">
AllowOverride None
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I don’t know what people are thinking, this modem has the management control panel wide open from the Internet, and set to use the default TM password.
I bet the user doesn’t even realize this.

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I was going after a moron who was disturbing my wife’s blog and reached an IP number. Utilizing nmap, I found out that port 80 on the IP is open.

-(~:#)-> nmap -A -T4 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
 
Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2009-02-09 23:52 MYT
Warning: Giving up on port early because retransmission cap hit.
WARNING: RST from [...]

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I have been a long time Yahoo! Mail user (since 2001), and a paying customer of Yahoo! Mail Plus for 5 years+ (since 2003). There were no Gmail back then, and I needed a permanent email with POP3 access. Yahoo! slowly improved their services, although one thing that I have always been annoyed about is [...]

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Read the title again. Gmail is going offline soon and that’s the truth. Scared yet?
Gmail is actually testing out a new lab feature: Offline Gmail
The video featured in the official blog looks really cool, and they are currently opening the lab feature for testing in the UK and US. Seeing how many emails I store [...]

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