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May 27 2008, Happy 5 year Birthday to Wordpress. Wordpress is available completely free of charge under the GPL license. This blogging software that runs much of this site and thousands of other sites around the world is founded and developed by Matt.

To all California Readers, here is a good news. Wordpress will celebrate their birthday party at 111 Minna club starting at 9pm. The address is below:

111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna Street
San Francisco, California 94105.

Remember no present necessary, just bring yourself and all your wordpress friends to celebrate. It is a bar so 21 and above. Besides that, to get a free drinks, you will need a password, so just ask a fellow WordPresser.

Here is the announcement of first wordpress 0.7 release on May 27, 2003:
Wordpress Now Available
Also available at Facebook.

To see the others Wordpress Version at Release Archives.

Happy Birthday again to Wordpress. Wordpress.com | Wordpress.org | bbPress.org | automattic.com

This is the first time i saw a notebook that have a screen which can be divided by two and 13.3 inch per screen. Do you saw it before?

This has to be the worlds largest laptop when unfolded which measures about 19.5″ across when you unfold it. This company had a great idea on the hinging concept because the entire laptop folds twice making it very portable.

The keyboard is functional and it does type and you can enter the bios but I have not been able to go past that since I do not have a hard drive cable (which appears to be a custom cable with 1mm pitch) and I do not have a CD Rom for the unit. I have tried to getting it to boot of an external USB CD Rom but it would not detect that. The small plastic latches that hold the screen in place when it is all folded up are broken but does not effect it that much.  Trackpoint is missing from the middle of the keyboard but the touch pad should work but have never booted to windows to confirm.

This product is sold by Xentex in 2002, for about $5000(RM16,081.00) and this product is still a prototype of the company. Now the product is place in ebay and currently bid is US$643.00. Feel want bring it back to your home, faster go Xentex Dual 13.3 Screen Laptop Page for bid it, the highest bid will get the laptop back to home.

This product I/O:
1) 2 PCMCIA slots
2) 4 USB ports
3) 1 Firewire port
4) Audio, Mic, Line-In, Digital Output
5) Infrared
6) Ethernet port
7) Modem port
15 Pin VGA port

[Via Edgaget]

Microsoft launched the new Windows XP SP3 in windows update, many users start to reporting that their network cards and previously crafted connections had mysteriously vanished from Windows after updating with the service pack. Besides that, the device managers window show empty screen and suspect is Windows’ registry, a directory that stores settings and other critical information, had been packed with large numbers of bogus entries.

Most users who posted messages on Microsoft’s XP SP3 support forum said that the errant registry keys — which started with characters such as “$%&” and appeared corrupted at first glance which is the section devoted to Sysmantec products. So some users will blame on the security company. After that, Symantec engineers had connected the current problem to a Microsoft file named “fixccs.exe.” According to information on the Web, fixccs.exe stands for “Fix CCS MaxSubkeyName mismatch,” and appears to be part of both XP SP3’s and SP2’s update packages that happen few years ago in two Microsoft Support Documents -  KB893249 and KB914450

“After you install Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) on a Windows XP-based computer, the Device Manager window is blank or some devices no longer appear,” reads KB893249.

Fixccs.exe has also been linked to problems some users had installing early builds of XP SP3 late last year. In a support forum thread that started Dec. 22, 2007, Shashank Bansal, a Microsoft engineer helping users troubleshoot XP SP3 installation bugs, said: “This is a serious problem for us and we would like to investigate it to further depths. We would need help from all users on this forum for the same.” Bansal then asked users who had had trouble updating from XP SP2 to SP3 to identify the process that had hung or had hogged CPU cycles. “Look out for cscipt.exe or fixccs.exe,” he asked.

When asked earlier Thursday whether it had uncovered any more information about the disappearing Device Manager and the corrupted registry entries, Microsoft said it nothing new to add beyond the recommendation it made Tuesday: that users contact the company’s technical support desk if they have had problems upgrading to XP SP3.

Microsoft was not available for comment Thursday night.

Xampp is a Apache distribution that include Apache, PHP, MYSQL, Zend Optimizer and Perl. Besides the function mention before, there are a lot of software that include in Xampp that are PHPMyAdmin, XAMPP Control Panel, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System, FileZilla FTP Server, SQLite, ADODB, XAMPP Security and eAccelerator for PHP 5.

You just have to follow the instruction of exe files that you download from the download page mention below, after that open the Xampp Control Panel and start the service in the control panel include Apache, MYSQL, FileZilla and Mercury. You can login to the Xampp Web base Control panel by using Microsoft Internet Explorer, type 127.0.0.1 or localhost. Remember go to Xampp Security to check the status of your localhost server whether it is secure or not. Besides that, you have to enter http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php to edit your MYSQL root password and Xampp Directory Protection(.htaccess).

 Xampp can used in many Operating System such as Linux(SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake and Debian), Windows(98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista), MAC OS X and Solaris. Enjoy yourself because it is a freeware.

Website: Xampp Website
Download Page: Linux | Windows | Mac OS X | Solaris
This program is distribution in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty or without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

You will feel very strange that I had change my blog themes to this and in the mean time, I would like to thanks John Chow. You will see that his site and my site are almost the same while actually I am the copycat but I have to mention is this themes I make it on my own starting with a piece of paper and draw the layout of this site. After that, I work hard on building the index file that include header, index, sidebar and footer. I doing this four file had spent me almost one week to done it. Finally, this is the hardest part of doing a themes, CSS and layout without using table.

I brought a book - HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2^nd Edition by Rachel Andrew & Dan Shafer, this book has help me alot in designing the css and layout of my blog without using table. Thank you to Rachel Andrew & Dan Shafer. After few weeks of study and learning of css, I finally create out the perfect website that you can see now.

What plugins you use in this blog:
The plugins I use for this blog is below:
1) Ad rotator from Angsuman Chakraborty,
2) Adsense Deluxe from Acme Technologies,
3) Brian’s Threaded Comments from Brian Meidell,
4) Math Comment Spam Protection from Michael Woehrer,
5) Random Redirect from Matt Mullenweg,
6) Recent Comment from Nick Mumrik,
7) Recent Post from Nick Mumrik,
Simple Tags from Amaury Balmer, and
9) Page-Navi from Lester Chan

My Themes will not available for download to public because it is similar with JohnChow.com which he buy from Unique Blog Designs. If you want a themes like me or JohnChow, feel free to contact Unique Blog Designs.

Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 already provides support up to 20 different documents formats within Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Words. With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 scheduled at first half of 2009, the list will grow up to include XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1.

When user use SP2, they can open, edit or save documents to XPS, PDF and ODF file format without install any addon of the Microsoft Office. A few years ago, the company had release the addon of microsoft office for support ODF format. Now will the SP2, the addon is built in inside the application so user no need to download the addon.

If you cant wait for using the Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 that will release at first half of 2009, you can try another application which can open the format Microsoft office 2007 SP2 have, that is OpenOffice.org.

China Earthquake that happened on May 12 with magnitude 7.9. The city nearest the earthquake is:
75 km (45 miles) WNW of Chengdu, Sichuan, China
145 km (90 miles) WSW of Mianyang, Sichuan, China
345 km (215 miles) WNW of Chongqing, Chongqing, China
1545 km (960 miles) SW of BEIJING, Beijing, China.
This earthquake has caused more than 40,000 people died and 4.3million homes has been destroyed.

The cyclone that strike Myanmar has cause 1 million of people homeless and 70,000 are still missing. Besides that, the death toll may exceed 100,000 that is almost five times the 22,000 the Myanmar government has estimated.

For donation of the Myanmar Cyclone victims and SiZhuan, China victims, please refer to the pictures below:

Or THE STAR MYANMAR CYCLONE

Kontera, The IN-TEXT Ads company has published out the plugins that easy for let their Publisher to edit what color of link, which pages you want to put the ads link, block the content link from appearing at comments box and determine when content link should appear in a pages.

Installation of the content link:
1) Download the content link plugin at the bottom of this pages.
2) Unzip the plugin to your hard disk.
3) Upload the content link folder to your wordpress/plugins folder.
4) Go to administrative panel–>Plugins and activate the Kontera Contentlink plugin.
5) Go to option panel–> Kontera Settings to setting and input your publisher ID. If you not register yet, please follow here to SignUp.

Website: Here
Download: Wordpress 2.5 | Wordpress 2.0 or earlier

Exabytes Network Sdn. Bhd. offer 70% Discount on their dedicated server on their company celebration of 7 year annicersary. The Dedicated Server Specification is Pentium D 925 2.8GHz Intel Quad Core Xeon X5355 2.6GHz, 1024MB ECC RAM 2048 ECC RAM (max 8GB), 2 X 80GB SATA Harddisk 4 X 73GB SAS(15K RPM) Harddisk, FREE Guaranteed 1Mbps at AIMS or TMNet worth RM10,800, FREE Gold Management Plan worth RM3600/year, FREE SmarterMail5 50 Domains/250 Users worth RM 942.00, FREE SmarterStats 3.x for 50 Sites worth RM 785.00, FREE SmarterTicket 2.x for 2 agents worth RM 312.00, FREE HELM Lite ( 5 Domains ) Control Panel, FREE 90 Days Submitnet SEO, FREE changes 4 x 73GB SAS (15K rpm) to 4 x 320GB SATA (7200rpm) and FREE cange Windows 2003 Web to Linux. The FREE Gift worth RM2039, that mean you save about RM15,000 or more.

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