Posted in January 22, 2009 ¬ 11:51 amh.John Jiang
I realised I’ve been blogging mainly about “tech” stuff lately. But you know…I can’t really help it. Yes…I am incredibly lame and desperate for digging my blog posts. God help me.
After calling TPG, iinet and Exetel, it seems like we have to swap to Telstra first for our phone lines before they’ll connect us to [...]
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Posted in January 21, 2009 ¬ 9:18 amh.John Jiang
Not too long ago, the Windows Live Hotmail team decided to add POP3 support for users in countries such as United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. If you are in these lucky countries you can finally stay away from hotmail.com and use your favourite mail client or in this [...]
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Posted in January 18, 2009 ¬ 4:54 pmh.John Jiang
There’s nothing worse than being capped. I had to setup English Xp on my cousin’s laptop. I thought I had a gig or two left but I was wrong. After installing Windows I installed all the updates. I then installed Office 2007 and then more updates. Rebooted computer…and installed more updates. Graphics driver wasn’t installed [...]
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Posted in January 17, 2009 ¬ 1:04 pmh.John Jiang
So…I got home last night. Inserted my brand new 1TB hard-drive. Copied all my files onto it. Inserted Windows 7 32bit, rebooted my computer, deleted all the random partitions I had going and began installing Windows 7. To be honest, it didn’t feel anything different to Windows Vista at first but then again it was [...]
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Posted in January 15, 2009 ¬ 2:16 pmh.John Jiang
I’ve read too many tutorials on how to setup Warcraft 3 on linux. However, the tutorial usually just ends there. Sure, you have a working version of Warcraft but when it comes to playing online it’s a different matter. Current versions of Wine do not have a working implementation of AcceptEx, this causes in game [...]
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Posted in January 14, 2009 ¬ 6:12 pmh.John Jiang
Well, recently my 1 Terabyte hard-drive decided to fail on me. For some reason, my Ubuntu wouldn’t boot. Originally, I thought that I had corrupted my Ubuntu partition accidentally…magically…somehow as I was on Windows Vista. I was able to boot into a live cd and mount the partition, checked my boot menu, ran some scripts, [...]
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Posted in January 5, 2009 ¬ 4:06 pmh.John Jiang
Have you ever been in a situation where you want to do something but you end up just not doing anything? It could be anything from a brawl or an accident, it doesn’t even have to be anyone you know. When I went to Canberra for the Nicta Showcase there was an incident where it [...]
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