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During the New Year’s Eve, I have received an air mail from Qingdao, China. There are 3 plastic shine effect aluminium Ubuntu’s sticker inside the mail.

Now my X60 got another piece of new “medal of honour”. Well done my buddy! I am counting on you again in Year 2009.

A couple months back, I came across an interesting article about the futuristic user interfaces from Smashing Magainze. The concept that really caught my attention is the Futuristic Glass section.

It is a concept of the future of internet search may looks like.

This is really exciting concept to me but everything seem to be so unrealistic [...]

Drupal 5 and above supports multiple databases connection but it does not distinguish the reads and writes among executed query. Although, this can be done by simple hacking within the Drupal core but you will have trouble when updating Drupal.
To do this without inside the application layer Drupal, I take a deeper look into MySQL [...]

Last weekend was my first attendance in open source conference, FOSS.my 2008. I traveled all my way from Singapore during the midnight 12:30AM and reach Kuala Lumpur in morning 5:30AM. It was very tired, I swear! But, I was so exciting and can’t wait to see it.

We got awesome speakers in this conference. We [...]

There are a lot of people who interested in trying out Linux on Earth. What holding them back is mainly because they can’t live without Windows. There are several ways to get your hands on Linux:

Show no mercy. Kill the Windows on your machine and load it with Linux. This is the most brutal and [...]

Still remember I was toying with AWS? A while back, I tried database replication on AWS with the most common implementation, one database server maintains the master copy of the database and additional database servers maintain slave copies of the database. This divides the database reads from one or more slaves and database writes to [...]

I been using VirtualBox to deploy virtual machines on my Windows machine since a significant memory upgrade. VirtualBox is suprisingly easy to used if compared to VMWare and it just fit to my basic needs.

Access the web server from the guest on host is pretty straightforward but not the other way.
In my scenario, my host [...]

Whenever people are talking about Amazon. Most of the people will say “Ya, the online bookstore right?”. But now beside the online store, Amazon also offering a series of web services, Amazon Web Services or AWS in short.

The infrastructure services that are offered:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon SimpleDB
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon Simple Queue [...]

It had been quite few months I haven’t update my blog. I quit my previous job in Malaysia and now I am in Singapore.
I joined a local Singapore company, G Element and participate in the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge.
Today, I went to CommunicAsia 2008 at Singapore Expo to attend the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Award Ceremony. My [...]

I just can’t stand when people show me the so called “Windows Aero”.
“Hey dude, see this? Is Windows Flip 3D! Cool man!”
“Oh ya? …”
Oh well, it ain’t looks cool. At least not me. Why? Guess you have to see for yourself.

With Compiz-Fusion on, Ubuntu (or any linux distribution) can do far more fancy or eyes [...]