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ECollege: The web based college management system

I'm blogging here today just to tell everyone that I'm still alive, despite the fact that my last post was well over a month ago. So, what has been keeping me busy from updating this blog? For one, I'm into developing this web based college management system, http://mohdshakir.hopto.org/administration_dev.php/config, which is a ...

Installing KDE 4.2 in Intrepid Ibex

I've been a KDE user since I started using Mandrake Linux 8.0, which if I remember correctly by that time bundles KDE 2. It was until recently that when Kubuntu 8.10 includes KDE 4 by default rather than KDE 3, I switched to GNOME. KDE 4 at that time for me ...

LPI to update LPIC-1 and LPIC-2

LPI (Linux Professional Institute) is revising it's current LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs and the updated certification program is set to be launched in April 1, 2009. What this means to me is that if I am to take any of the exams, I better do it before the updated certification program ...

Sabah Sunset

Not the best sunset photos around, shot during my November 2006 visit to Kota Kinabalu using my Sony DSC H5 prosumer digital camera. [exzo url="..." title=""]/wp-content/uploads/image/200901/mn-dsc03943.jpg[/exzo] [exzo url="" title="Tree"]/wp-content/uploads/image/200901/mn-dsc03965.jpg[/exzo] [exzo url="" title="Generation"]/wp-content/uploads/image/200901/mn-dsc03984.jpg[/exzo]

In memories, Pantai Sabak..

Pantai Sabak is a once famous fishing village in Malaysia's tourism map. It is located 13 kilometres from Kota Bharu, the state's capital of Kelantan. Among other attraction to the village is the fact that it was a historical battleground between the Japanese and British forces during the World War ...

Trans Gopeng-Cameron

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Photography, a new beginning…

I'll be posting more of my photo collection in this blog, starting with the old ones; the time when my gear was point-and-shoot cameras and photography to me really was to point, and shoot.. As a start, the following was taken at Sungai Gabai waterfall, Hulu Langat. Selangor, circa 2003 [exzo url="" ...

New toy on the block – Nikon D90

In a not so recent past, I've got myself a Nikon D90. It's my first dSLR and as of now I'm very pleased with what it can do. The only problem now is that I'm probably still not good at making it do what it do best, taking great photos. For ...

Fedora 10 is out!

And I'm downloading it now.. Though I'm not a Fedora fan (I've had bad experiences with rpm), but I just want to try it out under Virtualbox to see how much has it changed since the last time I tried it. I never was a Fedora user though, and the last ...

4Mbps broadband in Malaysia, is it for real?

I know the title is gonna be a joke in a couple of years, but I finally got my TMNut Streamyx 4Mbps broadband to my home today, after applying for it 7 months ago!. Previously I was solely relying on my unreliable Celcom 3G for broadband at home, and while ...