During the previous Aidil-Adha public holiday, I managed to finish reading the book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transform Our Culture. It shocked me myself that I finished the 300 pages book in just 4 days, that by that time I was also busy with raya and [...]
In just a month, we Malaysians celebrate 3 new years; based on the Gregorian, Chinese and Hijri calendar. Chinese New Year will be on this 29 January while Awwal Muharram would be on the 31 January. The 2 days CNY holiday that also falls on Sunday will be brought forward to Wednesday, making it a [...]
It has been sometime that I’ve been working with the ecollege project now, and I’ve come to think that I need a meachanism to effectively have a revision history for the project. Previously what i did was to copy the working directory to the backup/revision directory something as the following: $ cp -r /project/working/directory /project/backup/directory/<date> [...]
As the Gentoo Linux on Inspiron 6000 series is longer than expected, I've created myself a wiki page, and the guide on getting gentoo to work with Inspiron 6000 will be continued there. The wiki page will hold the more technical side of me, and this blog should balance it with my other sides.. [...]
My Inspiron 6000 comes with ATI X300 graphic’s chipset, and some might come with intel graphic’s driver, depending on how do you customize your order. Starting from Radeon 9200, ATI had closed it’s graphic chipset’s specification, making it hard for linux developers to develop drivers for it. Users with later models will onlly get 2D [...]