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My girl don’t like to take photo, or rather say she can never sit still.
But this is an exception: she sit really still with my colleague Esther on her wedding lunch

I always complain about my SLK* cannot carry much stuffs. Until I see this.

*SLK: Small Little Kancil

Got some unexpected news today while visiting Sinchew news pages.
Screen cap here.

It was a brief error. I hope it was some programming issue instead of LAMP.

It is kind of scary to see this kind of error, when it happen on a more data sensitive portal. Good luck.

It is a gambling. Yes, Google is in the gambling business.

YouTube is about to get sued by many big media companies.
Anyone pickup YouTube would be expecting some long and nasty court sessions to come.

In the wild, the hippo will push their junior into the mud where all the crocodile is, and see if any crocodile dare to give it a bite.
The junior hippo shivering standing among the crocodiles, the crocodile can definitely take him off if they wish.

Chinese say “if you want to whack the dog, look at the master first” (打狗先看主子). If anyone want to sue YouTube, they will have to look at Google first.

Google is pushing the limit, like the hippo challenging the crock.
Did they crock bite? You should watch more National Geographic

Is Google that confident to win?
There is no such thing as “sure-win” in a gambling, but Google is boring, that’s why it bought YouTube.

All of our Windows machines in the office being hit by some kind of virus badly.
I took the opportunity to switch to Ubuntu – a Linux distribution that is well polished.

I used to get very strong resistant every time when I injected Linux in the workspace. Although all of our servers are already Linux based.

But not this time.

Ubuntu offer a browser, IM client, office suite in rather organized manner. Which is about all the software our office need most of the time.

Fedora Core offering the same, but it has 5 CDs to swap around during the installation

The graphic department may still need Photoshop and many Adobe applications that aren’t available for Linux – but the operation and sales department has enough software to go on.

I will probably try to figure out how to run Windows software on Wine, so that I can move everyone onto Linux. But that would need a lot more time, so much that Adobe might has introduced the Linux version on their applications already.

Oh well.

A hard disk failure after the colo center having some continuos power outage incidents.
In the land of boleh, I am speechless.

Remember that I have a server that has been up for over 500 days?
It was a major achievement and major worry, and it did.

It crashed on the 512 day.
The file system seems to have some problems (software related), and it took the net admin hours to rebuild it.

It was back on business a day after, but the 512 number got me wondering.

Why it has to be 512?

Is this some kind of software glitches on running out of bytes space? Or just purely coincident?

I am too busy to dig this, I’ll reboot the server on the next 500 day uptime to reset the “counter” to be safe