non-computer

Got this piece of email this morning:

I've tried very hard to make this sound not like a spam message. But it's quite hard. (I tried, though.) =P
Well, it's just a leeeetle spam. Please bear with me because this is important to me!

I'm a finalist in the Omy S'pore Blog Awards and need your vote to win the award! The category I'm in is "Most Entertaining Blog". I'm quite flattered, really. But all that aside, now I'm kinda obliged to solicit for votes, lol.
If you love me (or love my blog) or potentially do (or even if not), please vote for me because I work hard on my blog!

My blog is at http://sheylara.com if you need to verify that I'm a real human being and not a spam bot.

And here is how to vote:

1. Go to this link: http://sgblogawards.omy.sg/finalists/?blogCat=entertain
2. Click on the "Vote Now" button.
3. Enter your e-mail and type a password of your choice.
4. Click on my picture and vote!

It gets close to 2 million of views and is very much of an edutainment one. It would probably make those who only read non-computer start digging into computer ones.

By looking at the title, those who know me might be tempted to think that it must be NetBeans IDE, of course not. NetBeans is just the tool that I use most to earn a living.

It is Azureus.

Azureus is a BitTorrent client, written in Java, and it is now called Vuze.

Let's take a look at some screenshots.













The first reason that I like it so much: I don't feel it is written in Java. Secondly, it is really feature-rich. Other than the single core feature that it offers, which is downloading files, it also provides quite a number of nice features. For example, in the middle of downloading some large files, I find that there might not have sufficient disk space and I wanted to move the downloaded files to different disk. I can do that with just four clicks.

This app shows the essentials of a good software: easy to use, feature-rich, decent UI and efficient network and disk I/O operations.

It will be in my top ten list even just talk about software I like in general.

Just used the wrong box to install Microsoft Office (XP, 2003 or 2007) and the online activation failed?

Don't uninstall it first, instead, modify the Registry, follow this Microsoft Support article.

After that, you can re-enter the product key comes with the right box.

I did not expect that it would take me 2 years just to upgrade my blog system.
Anyway, finally I got it done, from version 0.9 to 1.3. So what are the new things that you, as a reader will see?

Nothing much actually.

There is lots more styles for you to choose and I believe it would load faster

It seems a little boring by telling you that this blog system has got upgraded, let me see... why not share with you the successful page after the system upgrading is done?

I think what really has to be upgraded is the frequency of my posting, don't you agree?

PS: Sorry for make you waiting Angie.

Let's don't talk about the practical usage, isn't it cool to have a computer running inside a pen with a reasonable price of $149 (1GB) and $199 (2GB)?

Check out the Live demo at JavaOne (fast forward to 58th minute) and the company website. Guess what's the problem that this pen is trying to solve? See what tagline they've trademarked.

Due to the recent weather, SMART Tunnel is closed until further notice. The closing causes extremely heavy traffic on KL-Seremban highway, the highway that I use most often. The traffic report suggests that we could use LDP for an alternate route.

LDP, or Damansara-Puchong Expressway, the highway with high volume of traffic even on holidays.

Just because a method sucks on occasion doesn't mean you can suggest another method that always sucks.

I imagine this scenario when listening to the radion report:

Day 1 - Area A is dangerous
Day 2 - Area A is dangerous
Day 3 - Area A is known to be dangerous
Day 4 - As we know, area A is dangerous, but area B is also unsafe today
Day 5 - Area C is exceptionally dangerous today, you might try area A

After announcing the layoff of about 125 people, the spokesman of eBay explained that the decision is due to the reorganisation of the company to focus on their core business. What is the core of an online auction platform? the marketing? the web development? the network infrastructure? the security or the testing? Next time when you are sitting in a job interview, it's better to make sure you will be hired into the core business.