Kuala Selangor Nature Park, Malaysia – Wildlife Videos

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Kuala Selangor Nature Park can be found at the mouth of Selangor River, in Selangor state, Malaysia. The nature park covers approximately 800 acres of mangroves and mudflats and is home to a wide variety of wildlife including Silver Leaf Monkeys, Monitor Lizards, Mudskippers, Fresh / Brackish water Crabs and Otters. There are chalets available for overnight visitors. The Kuala Selangor Nature Park is a great place to get up close to the wildlife that thrives in the coastal Mangrove habitat.
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KDE Tutorial: Manage Start-up Services With System Services Program

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

KDE Manage Services

This is a very basic tutorial. If you are familiar with the Windows MSCONFIG utility and the services.msc console snap-in, there is an application with a similar role in KDE. If you use KDE (K Desktop Environment) for your Linux distribution you will no doubt want to tune up your start-up services in the same way you must under Windows.
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Didier Drogba Ban A F****** Disgrace

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Didier Drogba Shouts At Referee

The Chelsea hero is not out of the dog house yet.  Chelsea are likely to appeal after being handed a €100,000 fine (£85,000) by Uefa and longer than expected bans for Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa for the fracas at the end of the club’s Champions League exit to Barcelona.

On a more positive note, Drogba has a new 3 year contact at Chelsea despite Roman Abramovich apparently hating his guts.

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Mounting NTFS File Systems With Read And Write Permissions – Revisited

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

If you mount an NTFS drive in Ubuntu Dapper the regular way you won’t have read / write access to it even as a super user / using sudo. Everyone knows this already, including myself, however, today I messed things up though as after already mounting an NTFS drive using the regular mount command I then decided I needed read and write access using ntfs-3g. However the ntfs-3g command won’t work if you already mounted the drive using regular mount command! So forget about:

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Malaysias Modern Day Slave Trade Under Review

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Maids in Malaysia? An old US poster...

Today reports from the US capitol stated that Malaysia is back on the human trafficking blacklist. Again. To get a better idea of just how bad and humiliating this is for Malaysia, take a look at who else is on the list. Malaysia is right up there with the African nations of Chad, Eritrea, Niger, Mauritania, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Sudan and “developed” nations, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Other human trafficking buddies include Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Papua New Guinea and Syria. No offense intended to all of these nations, but they are not the most peaceful and advanced nations in the world are they? Spare Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from that last comment – they are filthy rich nations with no excuse for being on the list and deserve an ear bashing of their own.

It’s ironic – Malaysia want’s to be on a list of top vacation destinations but it’s name is more firmly pasted in the human trafficking yearbook along with notorious regimes like North Korea and Myanmar! It makes you wonder how Malaysians feel about this position and more importantly what they want to do about it. As usual, local media here just reprints stories by the AFP and Reuters etc without actually doing any further journalism. No wonder blogs are so popular for discussing hot current affairs topics when the licensed public media is so cowardly under government restrictions to dare to discuss anything at all serious.

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Fraser’s Hill Tarantulas In Decline

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Fraser's Hill - Really cold!

From the Star newspaper:

TARANTULAS – one of the major tourist attractions in Fraser’s Hill – are facing extinction unless the Government takes proactive measures to check the situation, Tamil Nesan highlighted in a special report.

Bukit Fraser Development Cor­poration science officer and tourist guide K.S. Durai lamented that some locals were selling the arachnid species to tourists at RM1,000 each.

He said there was a noticeable decrease in the tarantula population since he started compiling data on their habitat early this year.

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