I apologize if this sounds harsh. I think they ought to hang 'em high. Throw the book at this guy. Maybe use the same punishment for drug traffickers in South East Asia for this guy. This is the scum of the earth. He do not deserve any clemency. Dig a hole somewhere, a very-very deep one, drop him in all the the way to the molten earth core. Adios, farewell, goodbye!
As an email system administrator, I positively hate this kind of sub-humans. If I am to fall to the dark side of the force, this is it.
Don't even start an account on MySpace. While you're at it, don't start a Friendster account either..
Seriously though, I think it's all due to the "make an offer" matter. Joe could handle it better by countering back, "how much you're willing to pay?".
By even asking to make an offer is already a statement of intent to actually pay. It's either a counter offer or a statement of refusal and taking business elsewhere. You're a bad person if you ask "how much?" but never intend to pay.
I think this Chris guy the Obama staffer is an idiot. Either that, a double-agent doing the worst harm possible to Obama. They ought to get rid of this schmuck!
On Joe, the damage's done. What can I say. From 160,000 to about 18,000 friends. For MySpace presence, Obama can take a hike. Don't think you can get 140,000 friends back overnight.
Personally, I think Obama staffers are just bad people.
Sounds like a plot for a corny (not!) 4x game!
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The possibilities of what'll happen have been explored countless
times. One of the most recent with most vivid possibility comes
from (of all sources) a computer game. Anyone remembers Sid
Meier's Alpha Centauri?
There are times when you have a CD-ROM drive that simply would not co-operate. It does not matter what OS, you've downloaded the ISO, have it burnt, then put it inside the drive, change the BIOS setting to boot from the CD-ROM and simply reboot the machine.
But the darn thing would not boot.
I have this problem usually on older machines or just simply on an older CD-ROM drives (on relatively newer machines too).
My solution? Either changing CD-ROM drive and hope it works or a simpler alternative - Smart Boot Manager - http://btmgr.webframe.org/
Usually there's no problem in booting up from Floppy.. SBM floppy will boot up and present you with a menu asking where do you want to boot from. Just select CD-ROM and voila!
Well, it works for me. Even on machines whose BIOS does not even support booting from CD-ROM.
(Disclaimer - If it still doesn't work, chances are either the CD-ROM really needs replacement or it's an error between keyboard and the chair)
In reference to the previous ver 8, the CEO promises to swim from Norway to USA, with a brief stopover for mom's hot coffee in Iceland. That is, if the download reaches 1,000,000 in 4 days..
Apparently it did! I remembered downloading a copy, in a bid to see such sport, but alas..
Posted by CmdrTaco on 01:06 AM -- Monday November 08 2004
from the dept.
I've always read the 'from the so and so and whatever dept' cuz it's humourously funny and cynic at the same time.
This time, it's just plain ol' from the dept. I just wonder, whether it is an oversight or CmdrTaco really does not have anything witty to say about it?:-P
I know, I know it is off-topic, mod me down then.. I probably deserve it.
Unfortunately, though it worked wonderfully well, my IT Director didn't know anything about Linux and therefore didn't like it. Instead he stuck with Microsoft products and so he ordered 50 new PCs with Windows XP pre-installed just for the Remote Desktop feature (everything else was locked down), in the process using up much of the department's leftover budget for the whole year within the first six months (the majority was spent on new XP servers).
I can identify with that. The company where I worked with wanted me to setup a central file server as a knowledge base library for anything and everything. Recommended linux, but was shot down because the Managing Director doesn't know anything about linux, thus had a phobia of it. Forced me to sell my soul and install Win2K Server instead.
I think one of the reasons corporate resist Linux alternative due to the decision makers are too chicken to take even a calculated risk. Playing it safe, even though it is much more expensive!
Well, I'm getting my soul back and I'm not returning the money either..
Sometimes, when the public tried to assist...
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Based on this experience, I now
honestly believe that 5-15% of all recipients of this email could
easily have fallen prey to the scam. I documented all the information
collected and emailed the scam
hotline of my bank.
Yeah, it happened to me many
times.. The first time (way back in 2003), I too documented
everything, even went so far to do a reverse IP, full e-mail headers,
checking the geographical location of the IP address (turns out to be
Korea, land of mass broadband penetration) and even incl. a snapshot of
the display output. What do I get in return?
The bank e-mailed me back advising not to click nor believe the mail
that I got originally. Hello?? I've done half of the work
for you trying to assist in catching these bast**ds, and I know that it's a clear blatant fraud
case.. What do you take me for? Sometimes I don't believe the
kind of idiots they employ.. Can't they understand english?
And these guys are supposed to be the country's largest commercial
bank!!
From that moment on, I'm not gonna do their work for them, I find it
easier to press the delete key/include in my shit list/configure my
spamfilter.. Well, at least not for these idiots anyway..
Peace of mind
PS - I noticed that since most of the scams (at least on my side) originates from Korea, I wonder whether it is the work of North Korean agents trying to scam money in order to generate cash in order to funnel it back to ol' Kim?? Nah... I've been watching too many kung-fu movies..
The launch of Tenaga Nasional
Berhad's (TNB) power plant, which uses crude palm oil as fuel, marks an important milestone in the country's power sector. Malaysia has started conducting feasibility study on burning palm oil
diesel fuel in its power plants. Blended with medium fuel oil, the fuel mix has been successfully tested at the TNB
Generation Sdn Bhd power station in Prai, Penang.
Palm oil, traditionally used for cooking and making soap, is the latest addition to the country's power source, though on a limited scale. This is in line with the government policy of introducing a fifth fuel policy;
fifth fuel is meant to mean renewable energy. As of last year, 80 percent of the country's power supply was generated using gas, 10.6 percent
hydroelectric, 6.6 percent coal and the remaining using medium fuel oil. In February this
year, TNB was approached by the Malaysian
Palm Oil Board to jointly conduct a study on the possibility of using palm oil to generate power. TNB's research
arm, called TNB Research Sdn Bhd, took three weeks to complete its preliminary study. Starting from March 28, 2001, the national utility's power plant in Prai has been using palm oil to generate power, which was claimed to be the first in the world. (Background: In February, crude palm oil (CPO)
prices hit a low of RM697 per ton with the buildup on palm oil stocks rising to 1.5 million tons. As a result, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board signed a
memorandum of understanding with CPO producers for the supply of the produce at RM725 per ton. The CPO is then sold to TNB at RM700 per ton, with the board subsidizing the price difference).
Blended with a ratio of 20 percent crude palm oil and 80 percent of
medium fuel oil, the mixture is burnt in a boiler and has a capacity of generating 120 megawatts of electricity.
The major advantage of using CPO is it results in less pollution, containing less than 0.05 percent sulfur dioxide during power generation, compared
to three percent using medium fuel. Palm oil is also renewable and takes only between three to five years for plants to mature.
However, on the downside, CPO is not an economically-viable option. The gross heating value- the amount of electricity that can be generated- for palm oil is 40,000 kJ per kg, compared to 42,600 kJ per kg for medium fuel oil and 45,000 kJ per kg for diesel. Furthermore, CPO is 16 percent more expensive than using diesel and costs 38 percent more compared to medium fuel oil. Under the pilot project in Prai, the Finance Ministry will subsidize the difference in power
generation cost.
Malaysian CPO will be sent to a United Kingdom-based research center, Power Generation, for further testing.
For further information on the Malaysian environmental market, please
contact:
United States-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP)
American Embassy
376 Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: 60-3-2168-5050 Fax: 60-3-248-4035
E-mail: usaep@po.jaring.my
Contact: Vivian How or Looi Chee-Choong
URL: http://www.usaep.org
With an educational discount, Windows
2003 server costs my department $142 (sure, it's more in a commercial
environment), I can install it, set it up, run updates on it once in a
while, run the baseline security analyzer on it, and forget about it.
Give me a linux that does all this in an easy to use manner, and I'll
switch. Sure, I could use apt and the others, but it just takes too
much time, and you have to worry about various dependencies and what
not.
At $142, that's $142 more you have to spend compared to FOSS solutions.
What you've described, proved either that your educational institution
is filthy rich and caters only for the rich and snobs, or you're just
plain lazy.
Most educational institutions, whether state-run or even privately
operated (esp. private with visions of education rather than for
profit), are almost always tight budget! This is especially true
in third world countries! That is why various bodies such as SchoolForge (and their Case Studies), K12OS, Moodle,
OpenSourceSchools, KDE Edutainment Project and a lot more
others are being founded and.. surprise! Thrives!
Personally, I love the K12LTSP
Project. A branch out of the K12OS Project, which when deployed
properly throughout the campus, can provide access to all students to
high-grade apps in a very stable environment. Access from any
terminal in any labs, authenticating via NIS, LDAP or whatever you
prefer and access your mail accounts, website or whatever. With
backend support tools available such as MySQL or PgSQL and PHP/Perl
(okay, maybe that's a bit far out, but I've met 12 year olds who can
code!)
Maybe NASA needs to closely follow this development. Political consideration aside that is, if they want to consider methods for cost-effective of exploring the Final Frontier.
I mean, they've outsourced all sorts of IT and Tech-related jobs to India, why not also the various NASA Space Programs, at least the small but expensive components.
I like it when they mentioned a few friends... How do you define a few friends?
Just wondering.. What's stopping me creating a website with user registration and all:-
Register here to become my friend.. - link
After that, all my friends can download and share between each other my digital tivo content via a medium.. say.. Bittorrent?
I mean, why start/stop at register to become friends? Why not, by visiting this webpage, you're my friend, therefore, I'm letting you having a go at my collection... No registration required...
Of course, Pr0n, pr0n and even more pr0n! (notice that I use pr0n instead of porn!)
Well, being an anime otaku, instead it'll be hentai, hentai and even more hentai!
Uuhhh, just imagine those tentacles!:-P
Seriously, with that much of bandwidth available, the world keep getting smaller.. Sooner or later, it'll get crowded! Then'll we be in trouble.. Oh man!
It's either survival of the fittest, or... We go to 'Space.. The Final Frontier.. These are the voyages of...' you get my drift...
Maybe.. But it's just a coincidence... 11th September 2001 (Or September 11th 2001, as the Americans prefered style) happens on 22nd Jumaada al-THaany 1422 A.H. as per Islamic Calendar. It's the 6th month, call it 6 22 then.
Yeah, terrorist did it. Let's not further confuse that particular fact..
While you're at it, read this Article too regarding the eleven planets!
How many Planets - 9 ? or 11?
Ancient Greeks wrongly included head of the solar
family and moon, our earths satellite. They counted planets as
follows : 1) Sun, 2) Moon, 3) Mars, 4 ) Mercury, 5) Jupiter, 6) Venus
and 7) Saturn. Indians till date include two more : Rahu and Ketu,
mere shadows of earth and moon. To the five genuine planets modern
astronomy added the Earth after being (identified with planet class
in the medieval age) and latest discoveries of Neptune, Uranus and
Pluto (as late as 19th century). This brought back the count to 9.
This received a jolt a decade or two ago. Indian
astronomer J.J Rawal in 1978 found that the farthest planets Uranus
and Pluto were making significant deviations from established orbits
and explained them in terms of gravitational influence of two as -
yet unseen planets, whose sizes and orbits he estimated. It was only
in 1988 his proposal got due publicity when NASA confirmed
possibility of Rawals outermost planet (or the 11th), by
analysing their own data gathered through their various space
missions. NASAs computations of mass and orbit tallied with
Rawals with refinements and additional details. Nevertheless,
NASA could not guess his 10th planet. Early this year
(1999) NASA brought the 11th planet to the limelight
again among astronomical community and general public. However, both
the planets of Rawals still remain unconfirmed optically.
Has Quran anything to say about the number of
solar planets? Yes, indeed!
When Joseph said unto his father : O my father!
Surely I saw in a dream eleven planets and the Sun and the
Moon....... (Yusuf: 4)
One may note the following points of immense
significance.
* Quran does not confuse the planets
(kawakib) with stars (nujm).
* Quran excludes Sun and Moon clearly from
planets. They belong to a higher and lower order respectively. Such
clear demarcation was achieved only by modern astronomy which is but
a few centuries old.
* The number of planets are given as 11. We mumins
have absolutely no doubt that it is a matter of time that modern
astronomy will reach this count. Science is now in the process of
gathering evidence for what it has already made indications.
Incidentally, when in 1988 news of NASAs
findings broke out concerning Rawals prediction of two extra
planets this author published an article titled New Planet
Discovered - As Prophesied by The Quran? In Islamic
Voice (March, 1988) quoting this Quranic verse now under
discussion. He sent a copy to the astronomer which reached him
exactly on the day he returned from lecture tour from US. On the very
same day he wrote back expressing his amazement at the Quranic
prophecy and remarked that he would thenceforth quote the particular
verse whenever he lectured on his discovery.
The author would also like to express his regrets
that many translators of Quran in English as well as languages
use the word stars in this verse instead of planets which
Allah specifies. They are either unable to distinguish between these
two different classes of heavenly bodies or are under the mistaken
impression that planets are merely a subclass of stars or vice-versa.
It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number.
The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II.
The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU:
Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III
The name was chosen because of difficulties Intel had in trademarking a number. It suggests the number five (implying 586) while (according to Intel) conveying a meaning of strength "like titanium".
Intel did not stick to this convention when naming its P6 processor the Pentium Pro; many believe this is due to difficulties in selling a chip with "sex" in its name. Successor chips have been called `Pentium II' and `Pentium III'.
Sorry, the above comments I pirate it off - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pentium The last paragraph is more closely related to NetBSD (or all BSDs in general) problem. I read an article somewhere years ago that, Intel actually engaged a consulting firm in order to come out with a name for suitable for the 586. One of the criterias was that it must be something not offensive in any languages spoken worldwide.
Call it political correctness, but you don't offend anyone if you can help it. Especially a wold class entity doing business worldwide.
NetBSD, is an entity that transact with people all over the world. People from all walks of life. Personally, I love the BSD daemon, kinda cute.. But I'm sure it is not the OS of choice for some/most religious organization.. Esp. those conservative ones who have yet to discover fire.
Well, if they decide on a new logo in order not to offend the sensibilities of 'potential' customers, why not indeed?
I just came back from watching it! Saturday night show at 9.15pm! I bought the tickets on Wednesday! When I bought them, I noticed some of the cinemas (I went to a 12 Screens Cinema) are already half full purchased by customers, and that was on Wednesday! Of course, the wednesday shows are all sold out, being first day and all! Luckily I managed to get the last row - middle seats!
The story were awesome!! Prior to watching it, some colleagues mentioned that they heard rumours saying it is not up to expectations. I said, rubbish! I've seen it and probably they didn't like the ending so they call it 'not to expectations', not bull-shit, horse shit more like it! You have to watch and understand the first two films before you watch the third one, you can't simply jump in. I admit watching the first one twice before I fully understand what the hell is going on in that sick world of the Matrix! Digressing a bit, but I remembered watching Akira at least half a dozen times before fully understanding the whole story. Okay, maybe I'm a bit slow of mind.. Reminds me of Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer.. Mendicant!
Caution, minor spoiler!
I like the final battle part, I don't think Mech Warrior game have anything like it.. Not even the Robotech/Macross have anything as intense.
CAUTION! MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!
Allright, I'll let you in on a little secret!
The Bad Guys lost!
Before you drink, read....
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Drinking (in reference to alcolic beverages) has always been subject to much debate. Most people say that drinking is bad for your health. There are some who even claims that it is good for you. Then there's also those who said that there's good and there's bad of it. These people promotes drinking in 'morderation'. Don't ask me what, I mean, what the hell is 'in morderation'. How much is morderate?
Personally, I don't drink.. At all.. Period! Never had! Not in my entire life.. But I've seen what happens to those who did, in excess!
I was hospitalised few months ago for acute infection of the lymphonode. Bad enough with high-fever, two days later, SARs hits asia and the doctors has been asking me whether I got coughing and sneezing too. Luckily I did not, otherwise I would have been isolated with the rest of the SARs cases, but I digress;-)
Anyway, I was placed in a two bed room. The other patient in the bed next to me was there for kidney failure or something. His urine has turned blue in colour! Excessive drinking!
Two doctors attended to him, a physician and a psychytrist. I can stand the physician. Normally he'll just examine the guy and give comments and such on how to get better. It's the other doctor, he came and starts lecturing about the evilness of drinking and what he should do in order to wean off his drinking problem.
Okay-okay... That not too bad, it's when his favourite (my emphasis) uncle came and starts lecturing him on his problems, telling him to think about his family, his wife, himself, kids, father, mother and host lot more responsibilities. I mean, I'm the one who got depressed after hearing all these. Well, he is sitting on the other bed and you can hear everything!
This link "Is Alcohol Good or Bad for Your Health?" the Pros and Cons. Sort of objective though.
This one talks about Kids and Alcohol, a short article but quite okay for those who wants a quick look.
And finally, this one explains why hundreds of millions of people never drinks at all throughout their whole life. Me included...
I noticed one thing... Anytime there's an article where nobody really understand the concept or the technology underneath it, for example like this one... And what did fellow slashdotters do? Crack jokes over it.. You guys are outrageous!;-)
I know I'm supposed to be patriotic (being a Malaysian myself;-) but sometimes these guys stretch things a bit far... But what do you expect from Bolehland (Boleh in malay means can or can do so literally, it's the land of anything possible;-)
They have a website to support the event, unfortunately it is in malay, but maybe there's some info in english somewhere.. Look here
But all started from the English Channel Challenge 2003, check it out here!
Slashdot Mirror
I apologize if this sounds harsh. I think they ought to hang 'em high. Throw the book at this guy. Maybe use the same punishment for drug traffickers in South East Asia for this guy. This is the scum of the earth. He do not deserve any clemency. Dig a hole somewhere, a very-very deep one, drop him in all the the way to the molten earth core. Adios, farewell, goodbye!
As an email system administrator, I positively hate this kind of sub-humans. If I am to fall to the dark side of the force, this is it.
Do something even better..
Don't even start an account on MySpace. While you're at it, don't start a Friendster account either..
Seriously though, I think it's all due to the "make an offer" matter. Joe could handle it better by countering back, "how much you're willing to pay?".
By even asking to make an offer is already a statement of intent to actually pay. It's either a counter offer or a statement of refusal and taking business elsewhere. You're a bad person if you ask "how much?" but never intend to pay.
I think this Chris guy the Obama staffer is an idiot. Either that, a double-agent doing the worst harm possible to Obama. They ought to get rid of this schmuck!
On Joe, the damage's done. What can I say. From 160,000 to about 18,000 friends. For MySpace presence, Obama can take a hike. Don't think you can get 140,000 friends back overnight.
Personally, I think Obama staffers are just bad people.
The possibilities of what'll happen have been explored countless times. One of the most recent with most vivid possibility comes from (of all sources) a computer game. Anyone remembers Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri?
Now, where did I put my CD..
They even spin-off a few novels out of it..
There are times when you have a CD-ROM drive that simply would not co-operate. It does not matter what OS, you've downloaded the ISO, have it burnt, then put it inside the drive, change the BIOS setting to boot from the CD-ROM and simply reboot the machine.
But the darn thing would not boot.
I have this problem usually on older machines or just simply on an older CD-ROM drives (on relatively newer machines too).
My solution? Either changing CD-ROM drive and hope it works or a simpler alternative - Smart Boot Manager - http://btmgr.webframe.org/
Usually there's no problem in booting up from Floppy.. SBM floppy will boot up and present you with a menu asking where do you want to boot from. Just select CD-ROM and voila!
Well, it works for me. Even on machines whose BIOS does not even support booting from CD-ROM.
(Disclaimer - If it still doesn't work, chances are either the CD-ROM really needs replacement or it's an error between keyboard and the chair)
Peace all!
Heh..
In reference to the previous ver 8, the CEO promises to swim from Norway to USA, with a brief stopover for mom's hot coffee in Iceland. That is, if the download reaches 1,000,000 in 4 days..
Apparently it did! I remembered downloading a copy, in a bid to see such sport, but alas..
Press Release
Previously, it was reported that the attempt failed due to various reasons, including physical condition. Let's hope he's is fitter this time around.
Yeah, no malfunctioning support raft.
Swim Attempt Report
Sincere regards to Opera Team..
-PS Crazy stunts like these are really fun!
Lookit here - slashdot.org
Unless, they do a very elaborate setup whereas it is actually WinNT but presenting it as *nix.. It can be done you know..
But if it is running IIS, somehow or rather, I doubt slashcode can be run on IIS with ActivePerl, stably I mean..
Regards
Posted by CmdrTaco on 01:06 AM -- Monday November 08 2004
:-P
from the dept.
I've always read the 'from the so and so and whatever dept' cuz it's humourously funny and cynic at the same time.
This time, it's just plain ol' from the dept. I just wonder, whether it is an oversight or CmdrTaco really does not have anything witty to say about it?
I know, I know it is off-topic, mod me down then.. I probably deserve it.
Unfortunately, though it worked wonderfully well, my IT Director didn't know anything about Linux and therefore didn't like it. Instead he stuck with Microsoft products and so he ordered 50 new PCs with Windows XP pre-installed just for the Remote Desktop feature (everything else was locked down), in the process using up much of the department's leftover budget for the whole year within the first six months (the majority was spent on new XP servers).
I can identify with that. The company where I worked with wanted me to setup a central file server as a knowledge base library for anything and everything. Recommended linux, but was shot down because the Managing Director doesn't know anything about linux, thus had a phobia of it. Forced me to sell my soul and install Win2K Server instead.
I think one of the reasons corporate resist Linux alternative due to the decision makers are too chicken to take even a calculated risk. Playing it safe, even though it is much more expensive!
Well, I'm getting my soul back and I'm not returning the money either..
Based on this experience, I now honestly believe that 5-15% of all recipients of this email could easily have fallen prey to the scam. I documented all the information collected and emailed the scam hotline of my bank .
Yeah, it happened to me many times.. The first time (way back in 2003), I too documented everything, even went so far to do a reverse IP, full e-mail headers, checking the geographical location of the IP address (turns out to be Korea, land of mass broadband penetration) and even incl. a snapshot of the display output. What do I get in return?
The bank e-mailed me back advising not to click nor believe the mail that I got originally. Hello?? I've done half of the work for you trying to assist in catching these bast**ds, and I know that it's a clear blatant fraud case.. What do you take me for? Sometimes I don't believe the kind of idiots they employ.. Can't they understand english? And these guys are supposed to be the country's largest commercial bank!!
From that moment on, I'm not gonna do their work for them, I find it easier to press the delete key/include in my shit list/configure my spamfilter.. Well, at least not for these idiots anyway..
Peace of mind
PS - I noticed that since most of the scams (at least on my side) originates from Korea, I wonder whether it is the work of North Korean agents trying to scam money in order to generate cash in order to funnel it back to ol' Kim?? Nah... I've been watching too many kung-fu movies..
Original article from here.
BURN CRUDE PALM OIL TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY
The launch of Tenaga Nasional Berhad's (TNB) power plant, which uses crude palm oil as fuel, marks an important milestone in the country's power sector. Malaysia has started conducting feasibility study on burning palm oil diesel fuel in its power plants. Blended with medium fuel oil, the fuel mix has been successfully tested at the TNB Generation Sdn Bhd power station in Prai, Penang.
Palm oil, traditionally used for cooking and making soap, is the latest addition to the country's power source, though on a limited scale. This is in line with the government policy of introducing a fifth fuel policy; fifth fuel is meant to mean renewable energy. As of last year, 80 percent of the country's power supply was generated using gas, 10.6 percent hydroelectric, 6.6 percent coal and the remaining using medium fuel oil. In February this year, TNB was approached by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board to jointly conduct a study on the possibility of using palm oil to generate power. TNB's research arm, called TNB Research Sdn Bhd, took three weeks to complete its preliminary study. Starting from March 28, 2001, the national utility's power plant in Prai has been using palm oil to generate power, which was claimed to be the first in the world. (Background: In February, crude palm oil (CPO) prices hit a low of RM697 per ton with the buildup on palm oil stocks rising to 1.5 million tons. As a result, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board signed a memorandum of understanding with CPO producers for the supply of the produce at RM725 per ton. The CPO is then sold to TNB at RM700 per ton, with the board subsidizing the price difference).
Blended with a ratio of 20 percent crude palm oil and 80 percent of medium fuel oil, the mixture is burnt in a boiler and has a capacity of generating 120 megawatts of electricity.
The major advantage of using CPO is it results in less pollution, containing less than 0.05 percent sulfur dioxide during power generation, compared to three percent using medium fuel. Palm oil is also renewable and takes only between three to five years for plants to mature.
However, on the downside, CPO is not an economically-viable option. The gross heating value- the amount of electricity that can be generated- for palm oil is 40,000 kJ per kg, compared to 42,600 kJ per kg for medium fuel oil and 45,000 kJ per kg for diesel. Furthermore, CPO is 16 percent more expensive than using diesel and costs 38 percent more compared to medium fuel oil. Under the pilot project in Prai, the Finance Ministry will subsidize the difference in power generation cost.
Malaysian CPO will be sent to a United Kingdom-based research center, Power Generation, for further testing.
For further information on the Malaysian environmental market, please contact:
United States-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP)
American Embassy
376 Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: 60-3-2168-5050 Fax: 60-3-248-4035
E-mail: usaep@po.jaring.my
Contact: Vivian How or Looi Chee-Choong
URL: http://www.usaep.org
Look at this link
With an educational discount, Windows 2003 server costs my department $142 (sure, it's more in a commercial environment), I can install it, set it up, run updates on it once in a while, run the baseline security analyzer on it, and forget about it. Give me a linux that does all this in an easy to use manner, and I'll switch. Sure, I could use apt and the others, but it just takes too much time, and you have to worry about various dependencies and what not.
At $142, that's $142 more you have to spend compared to FOSS solutions. What you've described, proved either that your educational institution is filthy rich and caters only for the rich and snobs, or you're just plain lazy.
Most educational institutions, whether state-run or even privately operated (esp. private with visions of education rather than for profit), are almost always tight budget! This is especially true in third world countries! That is why various bodies such as SchoolForge (and their Case Studies), K12OS, Moodle, OpenSourceSchools, KDE Edutainment Project and a lot more others are being founded and.. surprise! Thrives!
Personally, I love the K12LTSP Project. A branch out of the K12OS Project, which when deployed properly throughout the campus, can provide access to all students to high-grade apps in a very stable environment. Access from any terminal in any labs, authenticating via NIS, LDAP or whatever you prefer and access your mail accounts, website or whatever. With backend support tools available such as MySQL or PgSQL and PHP/Perl (okay, maybe that's a bit far out, but I've met 12 year olds who can code!)
Software cost? $0
Maybe NASA needs to closely follow this development. Political consideration aside that is, if they want to consider methods for cost-effective of exploring the Final Frontier.
I mean, they've outsourced all sorts of IT and Tech-related jobs to India, why not also the various NASA Space Programs, at least the small but expensive components.
I like it when they mentioned a few friends... How do you define a few friends?
:-
Just wondering.. What's stopping me creating a website with user registration and all
Register here to become my friend.. - link
After that, all my friends can download and share between each other my digital tivo content via a medium.. say.. Bittorrent?
I mean, why start/stop at register to become friends? Why not, by visiting this webpage, you're my friend, therefore, I'm letting you having a go at my collection... No registration required...
Cool!
Regards all...
Of course, Pr0n, pr0n and even more pr0n! (notice that I use pr0n instead of porn!)
:-P
Well, being an anime otaku, instead it'll be hentai, hentai and even more hentai!
Uuhhh, just imagine those tentacles!
Seriously, with that much of bandwidth available, the world keep getting smaller.. Sooner or later, it'll get crowded! Then'll we be in trouble.. Oh man!
It's either survival of the fittest, or... We go to 'Space.. The Final Frontier.. These are the voyages of...' you get my drift...
But when?
I suppose you did read the Bible and/or Nostradamus
Did you read the Qur-an? That is, before you came to the conclusion that they're all cut from the same cloth (or paper)...
Some links, that can help you or anyone interested
Qur-an, Islam and Science Qur'an and Sceintific Knowledge
Maybe.. But it's just a coincidence... 11th September 2001 (Or September 11th 2001, as the Americans prefered style) happens on 22nd Jumaada al-THaany 1422 A.H. as per Islamic Calendar. It's the 6th month, call it 6 22 then.
Yeah, terrorist did it. Let's not further confuse that particular fact..
While you're at it, read this Article too regarding the eleven planets!
How many Planets - 9 ? or 11?
Ancient Greeks wrongly included head of the solar family and moon, our earths satellite. They counted planets as follows : 1) Sun, 2) Moon, 3) Mars, 4 ) Mercury, 5) Jupiter, 6) Venus and 7) Saturn. Indians till date include two more : Rahu and Ketu, mere shadows of earth and moon. To the five genuine planets modern astronomy added the Earth after being (identified with planet class in the medieval age) and latest discoveries of Neptune, Uranus and Pluto (as late as 19th century). This brought back the count to 9.
This received a jolt a decade or two ago. Indian astronomer J.J Rawal in 1978 found that the farthest planets Uranus and Pluto were making significant deviations from established orbits and explained them in terms of gravitational influence of two as - yet unseen planets, whose sizes and orbits he estimated. It was only in 1988 his proposal got due publicity when NASA confirmed possibility of Rawals outermost planet (or the 11th), by analysing their own data gathered through their various space missions. NASAs computations of mass and orbit tallied with Rawals with refinements and additional details. Nevertheless, NASA could not guess his 10th planet. Early this year (1999) NASA brought the 11th planet to the limelight again among astronomical community and general public. However, both the planets of Rawals still remain unconfirmed optically.
Has Quran anything to say about the number of solar planets? Yes, indeed!
When Joseph said unto his father : O my father! Surely I saw in a dream eleven planets and the Sun and the Moon....... (Yusuf: 4)
One may note the following points of immense significance.
* Quran does not confuse the planets (kawakib) with stars (nujm).
* Quran excludes Sun and Moon clearly from planets. They belong to a higher and lower order respectively. Such clear demarcation was achieved only by modern astronomy which is but a few centuries old.
* The number of planets are given as 11. We mumins have absolutely no doubt that it is a matter of time that modern astronomy will reach this count. Science is now in the process of gathering evidence for what it has already made indications.
Incidentally, when in 1988 news of NASAs findings broke out concerning Rawals prediction of two extra planets this author published an article titled New Planet Discovered - As Prophesied by The Quran? In Islamic Voice (March, 1988) quoting this Quranic verse now under discussion. He sent a copy to the astronomer which reached him exactly on the day he returned from lecture tour from US. On the very same day he wrote back expressing his amazement at the Quranic prophecy and remarked that he would thenceforth quote the particular verse whenever he lectured on his discovery.
The author would also like to express his regrets that many translators of Quran in English as well as languages use the word stars in this verse instead of planets which Allah specifies. They are either unable to distinguish between these two different classes of heavenly bodies or are under the mistaken impression that planets are merely a subclass of stars or vice-versa.
Can't read worth a damn at their website... But.. I know it's a remake.. Did they keep the original characters??
;-)
People like Arugess, Brontes, Athena, Nike, Fang Berylbone A10F, Briareos Hecatochires and of course.. Deunan Knute...
Appleseed Rocks!!
Pentium
It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number.
The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II.
The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU:
Model Name
1 Pentium Pro
2 ?
3 Pentium II
4 ?
5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II
7 Pentium III
8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III
The name was chosen because of difficulties Intel had in trademarking a number. It suggests the number five (implying 586) while (according to Intel) conveying a meaning of strength "like
titanium".
Intel did not stick to this convention when naming its P6 processor the Pentium Pro; many believe this is due to difficulties in selling a chip with "sex" in its name. Successor chips have been
called `Pentium II' and `Pentium III'.
Sorry, the above comments I pirate it off - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pentium
The last paragraph is more closely related to NetBSD (or all BSDs in general) problem. I read an article somewhere years ago that, Intel actually engaged a consulting firm in order to come out with a name for suitable for the 586. One of the criterias was that it must be something not offensive in any languages spoken worldwide.
Call it political correctness, but you don't offend anyone if you can help it. Especially a wold class entity doing business worldwide.
NetBSD, is an entity that transact with people all over the world. People from all walks of life. Personally, I love the BSD daemon, kinda cute.. But I'm sure it is not the OS of choice for some/most religious organization.. Esp. those conservative ones who have yet to discover fire.
Well, if they decide on a new logo in order not to offend the sensibilities of 'potential' customers, why not indeed?
Regards all and everyone - peace!
I just came back from watching it! Saturday night show at 9.15pm! I bought the tickets on Wednesday! When I bought them, I noticed some of the cinemas (I went to a 12 Screens Cinema) are already half full purchased by customers, and that was on Wednesday! Of course, the wednesday shows are all sold out, being first day and all! Luckily I managed to get the last row - middle seats!
The story were awesome!! Prior to watching it, some colleagues mentioned that they heard rumours saying it is not up to expectations. I said, rubbish! I've seen it and probably they didn't like the ending so they call it 'not to expectations', not bull-shit, horse shit more like it! You have to watch and understand the first two films before you watch the third one, you can't simply jump in. I admit watching the first one twice before I fully understand what the hell is going on in that sick world of the Matrix! Digressing a bit, but I remembered watching Akira at least half a dozen times before fully understanding the whole story. Okay, maybe I'm a bit slow of mind.. Reminds me of Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer.. Mendicant!
Caution, minor spoiler!
I like the final battle part, I don't think Mech Warrior game have anything like it.. Not even the Robotech/Macross have anything as intense.
CAUTION! MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!
Allright, I'll let you in on a little secret!
The Bad Guys lost!
Drinking (in reference to alcolic beverages) has always been subject to much debate. Most people say that drinking is bad for your health. There are some who even claims that it is good for you. Then there's also those who said that there's good and there's bad of it. These people promotes drinking in 'morderation'. Don't ask me what, I mean, what the hell is 'in morderation'. How much is morderate?
;-)
Personally, I don't drink.. At all.. Period! Never had! Not in my entire life.. But I've seen what happens to those who did, in excess!
I was hospitalised few months ago for acute infection of the lymphonode. Bad enough with high-fever, two days later, SARs hits asia and the doctors has been asking me whether I got coughing and sneezing too. Luckily I did not, otherwise I would have been isolated with the rest of the SARs cases, but I digress
Anyway, I was placed in a two bed room. The other patient in the bed next to me was there for kidney failure or something. His urine has turned blue in colour! Excessive drinking!
Two doctors attended to him, a physician and a psychytrist. I can stand the physician. Normally he'll just examine the guy and give comments and such on how to get better. It's the other doctor, he came and starts lecturing about the evilness of drinking and what he should do in order to wean off his drinking problem.
Okay-okay... That not too bad, it's when his favourite (my emphasis) uncle came and starts lecturing him on his problems, telling him to think about his family, his wife, himself, kids, father, mother and host lot more responsibilities. I mean, I'm the one who got depressed after hearing all these. Well, he is sitting on the other bed and you can hear everything!
This link "Is Alcohol Good or Bad for Your Health?" the Pros and Cons. Sort of objective though.
This one talks about Kids and Alcohol, a short article but quite okay for those who wants a quick look.
And finally, this one explains why hundreds of millions of people never drinks at all throughout their whole life. Me included...
Enough! Leave me alone with my abacus...
Um, anyone knows how many bits can an abacus counts to?
I noticed one thing... Anytime there's an article where nobody really understand the concept or the technology underneath it, for example like this one... And what did fellow slashdotters do? Crack jokes over it.. You guys are outrageous! ;-)
Hmmm, take a look at this links here and here
;-) but sometimes these guys stretch things a bit far... But what do you expect from Bolehland (Boleh in malay means can or can do so literally, it's the land of anything possible ;-)
I know I'm supposed to be patriotic (being a Malaysian myself
They have a website to support the event, unfortunately it is in malay, but maybe there's some info in english somewhere.. Look here
But all started from the English Channel Challenge 2003, check it out here!