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I was curious to figure out what is the carbon footprint of my car and a 500km journey. A bit of googling, I figure out from US EPA that 1 US gallon of gasoline produces about 8.788 kg of CO 2 or 2.321544 kg of CO 2 per litre . My car's mileage is about 0.065 litres/km or 15.4 km/litre. So, for a 500km journey from Melaka to Penang should consume about: 500 km x 0.065 l/km = 32.5 litres of petrol. So, the CO 2 released for burning 32.5 litres of petrol: 32.5 litres x 2.3215 kg/l = 75.45 kg of CO 2 Finally for my journey from Penang - Malacca - Penang: 2 x 75.45 = 150.90 kg of CO 2 for this weekend holiday trip. Bad bad boy... Anyway, Happy Diwali to my Indian... :-)

Ok, make a guess. Which of the two following DIMMs are fake. Now, recently, I bought a Corsair Ultra Performance XMS 512MB DDR400 RAM from lelong.com.my (a local ebay clone) because I already have an existing Corsair RAM and getting another one should give my aging machine a performance boost with more memory and faster dual channel memory bandwidth. I was pretty excited when I receive the parcel a few days ago. I plugged it into the mainboard and it seems to work. It passes the memtest86+. However, I notice something fishy when the memory speed shows 333MHz when it should be 400MHz. I booted into the old rusty WinXP (linux lshw does seems to show much useful info), and I ran PC Wizard . The following is part of the report from PC Wizard. >> Information EEPROM (DIMM1) Manufacturer : Unspecified Part Number : CMX512-3200C2 >> Serial Number Type : DDR-SDRAM PC3200 (200 MHz) Size : 512 Mb (2 rows, 4 banks) Module Buffered : No Module Registered : No Width : 64 bits Er...

Just installed updated to KDE 4.1.1 from Kubuntu Member's KDE4 PPA. The server seems rather slow. It took me quite a few nights to download all the over 70 packages. I wonder if there are any Asian mirrors for the Launchpad PPA. Anyway, here's my desktop screen capture.

Just found out that Multimedia University (MMU) has a mirror of the Ubuntu repository and it has a 100Mbps connection and it seems pretty up-to-date. So for Malaysian Ubuntu users, set your /etc/apt/source.list to http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu for example, for hardy deb http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted deb http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/ hardy main universe restricted multiverse Even with my 384Kbps Streamyx line, I get pretty good 40KBps downloads. It would be interesting to see what is the speed for the next major update.

Just bought a Lexma wireless laser mouse for RM70 at the last PC Fair. I was kinda pleasantly surprised by its precision and sensitivity. If you still remember the jump in precision and sensitivity between older roller ball mouse and current LED based optical mouse, there is also a similar jumps in precision and accuracy when switching to laser mouse. It works on almost any surface, much better than standard optical mouse. Well, it was mainly for my mum, she was complaining of shoulder pain because of playing too much casual games and the computer desk isn't exactly ergonomic. So I thought that getting a wireless laser mouse would enable her to use the mouse in a more natural comfortable position like using the mouse on a pillow on the lap instead of stretching her hand to a less comfortable position on the desk. Another interesting thing about laser mouse is that it seems to use infrared laser, so it is not visible unlike red LED optical sensors used in the common optical mouse. ...

The news that Nokia, the cellphone giant, is buying up Trolltech, the company behind Qt framework, which is also one of the core framework used in KDE has probably shaken the much of the open source community, particularly KDE. While their current announcement seems to indicate that Nokia and Trolltech will continue to support open source and KDE, only time will tell if they remain true to this promise. For further info, see http://dot.kde.org/1201517986/

Ladies and gentlemen, The wait is over. KDE4 is now released. This is the release announcement, http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/ I am so eager to download a live CD to try is out!

Ok I gotta admit that I must be the last Linux geek on earth to install Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 when people are starting to talk about KDE4 RC2 and stuffs. I have been rather busy recently and don't have much time do spend for upgrading the OS. Finally, a few weeks ago, I took some time to attempt to upgrade from Fiesty to Gutsy. As usual, I always backup the OS partition in case anything wrong with the upgrade. After I imaged the partition with Clonezilla, I started Adept Manager and upgraded all my packages and then perform the Version Upgrade as suggested in the upgrade instruction in Kubuntu site. However, the version upgrade installed failed and after restarting, it fails to boot properly. I thought of restoring the partition but later decided to perform a fresh install by download the Kubuntu Gutsy Live CD. After downloading and burning the CD, popped in the CD and launch the Live CD. Installation was smooth and seems faster that when I installed Edgy. This time, instead of choosi...

Okay, out of boredom and curiosity, I did a little self-googling and guess what I found? http://www.yzu.ca/sdba/action/a9over1/sortingMain.swf This is an assignment that my friends and I created for an Algorithm and Data Structure course 6 years ago when we were still doing our first year engineering. This is nostalgic! BTW, recently, Mark LaFamme has attributed this self-googling as masturbation ! So hey, I would like to make it clear that I don't do this often. If I do, I would have discovered the above link much earlier.