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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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 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 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 these [...]

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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.
The [...]

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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 60.50.203.72. However [...]

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