Reviews Of Some Computer Books On My Bookshelf

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

I don’t write book reviews often – this is just my first time since I was an anarchist school boy. And I defiantly would not write reviews at the most popular place – Amazon.com. Why spend even a moment of your time writing for Amazon for free when they use peoples book reviews to sell books for a profit? Will they give you a commission if someone buys a book after reading your review? No, I don’t think so! If im going to write for free then I want to make sure it is really free and not exploited, hence I’ve spent a while to review the IT books that are on my bookshelf and publish the article here on my blog.

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Microsoft Only Partnering With Commercial Companies For OpenXML & Open Document Format (ODF)?

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I read two stories today that lead to the suspicion that Microsoft is only looking out for commercial partners for any relationship between its so called Open XML standard (which Microsoft argues is open and not proprietary) and the open document format (which is open source and free).

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Video Card / Video Config On Linux – Editing xorg.conf the X11 Configuration File

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

A simple restart of my Ubuntu Linux development server went drastically wrong when the system failed to start back up again. It was hanging on the Kubuntu splash screen after seeming to go through a regular error free boot. After a few restarts to elimiate any chance it was just being weird, the same thing kept happening. What was going wrong?

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Year Of The Rat – Wars!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Any excited and capable rat catchers should really have an auspicious year, this Chinese year of the rat. There are millions upon millions of rats out there just waiting to be caught – a catcher on Jalan Ipoh alone should easily make a few 1000 ringgit a day, thanks to the huge volumes of food waste and spit that the Chinese stalls deposit all over the pavements and in the drains.

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Tutorial: Use A PHP Function To Determine Active Links With CSS

Friday, February 8th, 2008

A simple few lines of PHP code can dynamicaly check to see which page is being viewed and then apply an ID to a link to be marked up with CSS as an active link.  Here is the PHP “Is Active” link function…

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PHP – Useful Function To Get Current PHP File Name

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Did you ever need to find the exact file name of a php file?  $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] will not always work, because it contains full path information.  If you just only need the filename.php part then try out the function below…
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MySQL Training in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Register now to guarantee your slot!

February 25 – February 29, 2008: MySQL 5.0 for DBAs: 1199 USD/person

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Microsoft In Bid To Buy Yahoo! – Microhoo?

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Microsoft has made a £22.4bn cash and stock bid for struggling internet firm Yahoo offering to buy the company for £15.50 per share.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said…

“Together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers.”

“Microsoft believes that the combination of its software expertise with Yahoo’s branding, will allow it to emerge as a strong rival for Google.”

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No Special Police Task Force For Child Murder / Infanticide In Malaysia

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

With so many cases reported of infanticide / child murder – and many many times more unreported or undiscovered cases, how come there is no special police task force in Malaysia to handle cases of child murder / infanticide?

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