St0rY oF uNpReDiCtAbLe LiFe II

I don't know when they change it, but this morning when I wanted to check my Yahoo mails, I were quite surprise by the changes that been made by Yahoo. The new interfaces is somehow quite familiar for me in someway…yup, makes me remember of some site that using the same concept before this. Hence, if you're familiar with site that based on Mambo, Joomla!, or even Wordpress, you'll understand what I meant. Below is the screenshot of the new pages. The first one indicates the overall page and the second one indicates when you mouseover your personal Yahoo section such as mails, messenger, etc.

Ok, my end conclusion. It's no doubt that the interfaces had been given some steroid, but how about the functionality? I for example, always put functionality on top rather than *eye candies* when I'm using such services (email, e-banking, etc). At one point, yes…it can make me come back for more but if the services have unstable functionality, hell I will drove back just to enjoy *the moment*. I personally want to see Yahoo improve their new interfaces on the email itself. It had been a long time since I'm using their Beta phase email services, yet I see there're not much improvement. Nevertheless, the efforts deserved a praise indeed & well done for the changes. But again, for long term of usage, Google services is still the best. Maybe some of you will argue by saying that it's no big deal because we use all the mentioned services FOC, but this is just my 2 cents. Without thoughts like this, what's the point on the so called *customers demand & rights*? Again, well done Yahoo and keep on the good work…

By the way, don't flame me if the news is already a history by now…most of the time I'm lagging behind on matters like this.. peace

Howdy mates….just another crappy post. Currently, I’m not so busy with anything serious, just trying to look like I’m so busy at the moment by doing a lot of reading basically on Linux theoretical parts, revising my php knowledge, and a little about general computing (programming, hardware, etc). Also lately I’m involved again in gaming scene after so long of absence by playing Onimusha 3: Demon Seige pc version. Yeah..not so new but I’m pretty convince that the game can be a remark of my little comeback to the scene :-P.

Oh…before I forgot, just recently I had updated my FC5 kernel from 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 to 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5. Well the update going so well for a moment, but then I realize that my windows partition that I mount before this, can’t be detected. Oh GOD…what have I done? But before I had the chance to become more panic, I realize that when I’m doing up the configuration, one of the step is to recognize the kernel version. So, I went to Linux-NTFS.org and dowload the new rpm correspondent to my new kernel version, remove the old ntfs rpm from my system (by typing yum remove kernel-module-ntfs command at the terminal as root), and installing the new rpm (by typing rpm -Uvh *.rpm command at the terminal as root). Pheww…moral of the post, don’t panic

Each 31 August, we as a Malaysian citizen celebrate the date because it’s awkward to forget it as our independence day. Yup, we celebrate it in various way…either shouting “Merdeka” sharp at 12 midnight, gathering in some places, a parade and others. We do realize that it’s so hard to achieve it without a sacrifice to make. Although it’s written in history that we achieve it without spilling blood, but the sacrifice is inevitably. To achieve and to maintain is two different things. Some might say that to maintain is a lot harder. To some extent, I agree. Even after 31 August 1957, there is a lot of hassle and fuss to deal with because of the “maintain” factors.

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Before anything else, let me tell you a story; a story which begins about more than a year ago. I begin to know about server side scripting by learning Active Server Pages (ASP) and later been introduced to the php world by my mates, Crynobone. Although when I’m learning php, I’m still a little bit confused and mixed up between asp & php, I still manage to learn it by referring to codes example and ultimately depends on what I personally like to call as “Quick php Server Setup”, the phpTriad. To put it simple, PHPTriad is a complete PHP development and server environment for Windows that automatically installs PHP, Apache, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin. It’s quite convenient for noobs like me at that time but I admit, besides the php syntax, I know nothing about what I’m using (more to I don’t really care actually). Be it the server or even the php engine itself, I don’t know or care. So when people around me chattering about what’s the version of php they’re using or what’s the version of the Apache server they’re running on their box….I begin to wonder, I’m absolutely missing something here. So, I took the so called “DIY steps”; uninstall the PHPTriad and begin to install everything appropriate one-by-one. The results? Good, if I may say that and it had been a long time since the first time I setting up all that stuffs manually (Apache, php, mysql, & phpMyAdmin).

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