St0rY oF uNpReDiCtAbLe LiFe II

I read a lot of reviews about Safari’s Window version and most of them is not positive enough. Well it’s expected because the browser is in its beta phase (or alpha maybe). I also encounter some odd problem with it even before exploring the full functions of it (even after patching to 3.01). From the above pictures, on the left is Safari’s fresh installation and on the right after I meddling with some settings (in geeky way to note it). What I do is changing one key property from font.plist files located on “c:\documents and settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari”. I change the font from arial key and the value is from linkin.ttf to arial.ttf. Well, to make it clearer, the browser didn’t detect my arial font by default and replacing it with one of many fonts that I already have on my system which happen to be linkin.ttf. I don’t know how this happen but what the hell…it’s beta anyway. But that doesn’t stop me from saying that Apple must work harder or else…Windows users will never turn their attention to Safari again. Just my two cents….

Source: Safari 3 Is An Half-baked Web Browser from Apple, Wait for a Patch

It’s almost the end of the year and so many things happen all along the way especially a few weeks back. I presume most of you (Malaysian and any countries nearby) realize how our internet connection been impaired lately. Owh…this time the fault is not on our lovely local ISP (TmNut), it’s because the APCN2 Submarine Cable damaged during the earthquake that struck close to the city of Taichung, Taiwan. Other than that, the upcoming Hari Raya Aidiladha (which is tomorrow) and new year celebration will not be taken as good as usual because on some part of Malaysia, they faced an unusual flooding disaster. I’m quite remember during this time last year, it’s the northern region of Malaysia been affected by flood, but this time, mostly been affected is the southern region (Johor, Melaka, etc). Well, an unusual phenomenon that only struck once every hundred years (not my assumption of course…read it somewhere else). Luckily, my home at Johor is not been affected by this flooding problem, but I do sympathize with all the victims. Well, I’m really in despair about my internet connections but I do realize there are some other part in the world (or if I don’t need to go that far, I just substitute ‘world’ with ‘Malaysia’) that suffer more than me; flood and earthquake victims. I pray that all this difficulties can be overcome and people can start their usual life again in near time. Read More

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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