I have switched from Palm to Pocket PC for about 3 months now but haven’t got the chance to explore much.
Until now when I discovered that I could play Age of Empires, Simcity 2000, FIFA 2002, Tomb Raider and a ton of other games, even emulated Gameboy games, I have almost no regrets.
Though I still miss the good old Palm Desktop. Outlook and the buggy Activesync just don’t cut it.
October 31st, 2006 / TrackbackI’m getting quite pissed these days, with the stress level building up due to the approaching project deadlines.
I do not understand how these people are doing Engineering in university, but can’t do a bit of thinking and give up easily when it comes to project work. Some Computer Engineering students can’t even understand a properly commented C code or the process of compilation or the difference between source code, binaries and data files or the basic of networking.
As a result, there are some who are putting in a lot of effort but lack of proper thinking skills, thus giving them a false sense that they’ve accomplished something. And then there are some who would just give up. I would normally end up having to do or redo their work, except with the former, I had to tell them that they have done a good job in order not to hurt them.
I don’t know why these people are in Engineering. Engineers are supposed to be making things, building and creating things. Logic and thinking skills are the most important and basic skills in engineering.
And most often than not, these are also the people that are scoring higher marks than I do in written theoretical exams.
How can I not hate university life.
October 31st, 2006 / TrackbackWhat’s with all those Mac being virus-free advertising campaign (MOV) that Apple’s holding and they’re shipping Ipods with Windows virus?
Troj/Bdoor-DIJ is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform. The Trojan contacts several remote sites to report the infection and availability of the backdoor.
- from Secunia
Knowing of this news got me really upset over Apple’s ignorance. This is definitely not a bug in a software. It’s not a hole in the code that results in such vulnerability. A bug doesn’t phone home. This is deliberately planted by some personnel along the production line. How can Apple, being such a key company in technology let such thing happen and yet they repeatedly claim themselve as a hardware company.
Even though this worm isn’t really that serious and can be detected by most major anti-virus softwares, but the fact that a big hardware corporation that we all trust and that keeps boasting about the security of their products let deliberately-planted virus being shipped with their products is simply unacceptable to me.
And to make things worse, they still dare to blame others:
Apple is “upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses,” but they’re “even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.”
- from Engadget
Any script kiddie can plant virus or do any damange to any systems in the world when it has physical root access to the system.
Although I do not own an Ipod, but as a security conscious person, I’m really upset over such incident.
Related: Apple’s Own Ipod Windows Virus Page
October 18th, 2006 / TrackbackI am back to Singapore this morning after the weekend with Sek Ling in Malaysia.
As I plugged myself back into the Web, to my horror, I found out that the World Wide Web is menstruating really badly.
Someone please hand the Web a limited edition extended maxi ultra long and wide non leaking sanitary pad.
October 16th, 2006 / TrackbackHappy 2nd Anniversary to my baby, Sek Ling.
It’s been 2 years we’ve been together and it has also been 2 years that we’ve been away from each other. It has never been easy for us to maintain a long-distance relationship for that period of time. We have had a lot of ups and downs. But I’m glad we’ve made it this far.
I am who I am today with your love, dear. Thanks.
I love you.
October 13th, 2006 / Trackback