I'm starting my blog again. I didn't blog for a long time, and I didn't have anything useful to publish, anyway. I used to blog about personal stuff on Xanga, but it became a pointless ramble and only taught me how important good conversation is.. in contrast to the introvert …

I may have just saved the Encarta Intant Answers® from the claws of evil:

(14:46:20) Ben Jao Ming: You are a Microsoft property (14:46:21) Encarta® Instant Answers: Isn't it good to be a Microsoft property? (14:46:30) Ben Jao Ming: No (14:46:31) Encarta® Instant Answers: OK, fine.

Notice how it has …

Booting is still at 50 sec. Same hardware as my previous test. This is a 0% change.

YaST is very much improved in terms of speed. All those scripts running prior to a system change are now faster. But after installing packages there are still a billion redundant scripts executing. …

Often I've wondered what'd be the best practice when connecting to MySQL with PHP. Many people use some function and possibly open and close their database connection multiple times. Well, I've used global variables and such to keep track of the connection, but often global variables do not behave well …

Here's your problem: You're working on different computers. Maybe because you're at school doing an assignment, maybe because you're at work making notes for tonights TV Schedule, maybe you own a KVM Switch or maybe because you're running back and forth doing system administration.

This is what you usually do: …

In brief: New SUSE, first release from OpenSUSE.org, comes in OSS Edition (100% Open Source, only available on 5 CD ISOs) and Eval Edition (free and unlimited, but contains closed source. DVD or 5 CD ISOs), has been tested in 4 beta releases and 1 release candidate. This review …

The Linux Format Bounty round 1 has finished, and I was one of the competers. I ended up doing a JS version of SuDoKu because of my own skills and the fact that JS/HTML is so cross-platform and easy to do GUIs in. I also thought that SuDoKu would be …