Author Archives for Universal Cynic
Confusing Logic and Flawed Maths
MIC FINDS FLAWS IN KL DRAFT PLAN – Yahoo! Malaysia News I am just confused. Here’s the excerpt from the linked news article, quoting MIC president, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu: “The draft plan states that the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur has only about 160,000 Indians, which I find strange. We have some 80,000 […]
Of Eggs and Petroleum Prices
Quite a while back, the per-litre controlled price of petroleum in Malaysia was raised because the government wanted to reduce the petroleum subsidy. Someone circulated an email suggesting that instead of filling up your tank everytime you go to a gas station, you should fill up only a bit. The email creator compared the situation […]
Titan Backup – Easy to use for backup novice
I’ve been using version 2.0 of Titan Backup and I think it’s the easiest and most easy to understand backup software as it works more on the principle of normal files and folders, and zip files. I can even easily see how many files have changed. After a while, I can just force a full […]
Download Today! Help Firefox 3 Sets a World Record.
Finally here! The long-awaited Firefox 3 Download Day. I’ve been checking since yesterday (my local time is +8 GMT) and well, wrong time :). So, here it is today. Help Firefox 3 sets the world record. Click the banner and download Firefox 3. To add to the fun, get a cool certificate with your name […]
Rejoice! Opera 9.5 is finally here!
Wow. It feels like ages have past since I started waiting for Opera 9.5. Ever since trying the beta, I have been feeling such a need for the Opera Link feature where you can synchronize bookmarks and speed dials. Opera has always been the ideal complete browser for me – except for these last few […]
The poor gets poorer. The middle-class now gets to join them.
This has just been reported in the New Straits Times: BREAKING NEWS: Petrol will be RM2.70 a litre at midnight tonight PUTRAJAYA, Wed: The new price of petrol is RM2.70 per litre beginning midnight tonight, it was announced a moment ago by Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Samad. [Read full news] Man… […]
Office 2007 documents in OpenOffice.org (Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron)
Once Hardy Heron is set up, I need to start working. One of the most important thing is the ability to open and save Microsoft Office 2007 documents. I had no problems with that when I was in openSUSE 10.3 especially after updating to the latest OpenOffice OpenXML translator provided by Novell. In fact, that’s […]
Hardy Heron, The Cool
I downloaded Hardy Heron release while it’s hot. Waited all night (I slept, though). Move my data elsewhere this morning – but lost some due to my mistake and prepare for take-off. By 12.00 pm, Hardy Heron booted Live and I played around a bit. Still, no wireless, bluetooth, or sound although they are detected. […]
