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Malaysia: The Internet and The Country.

I have been terribly frustrated with some of the current issues in Malaysia. First, the Auditor-General’s Report 2006 outlined that ministries have been overspending with public funds. Including:

• set of screwdrivers(brand unknown) for RM224, which only worths RM34 per set on the market.
• Faber Castell Technical Pens for RM1,147 per set, which only worths RM160 per set on the market.
• 2 Tonnes Car Jack for RM5,741 per set, which only worths RM50 per set on the market.

These are no lies, though administration tends to label bloggers as liars. These report are from Auditor-General Malaysia(JABATAN AUDIT NEGARA MALAYSIA). I’m not in the mood to tell you more about this, please download and read the reports yourself.(In Bahasa Malaysia). More news on the TheStar Malaysia

Tags: internet, Issues, Malaysia, WWW

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Some innovations going on..

I stumbled upon this web2.0 summit event site this morning. It seems like they had a happening conference at San Francisco, US, during November 7 - 9, 2006. Well, none of my business anyway. On that site, they’ve listed a few participants of the event, that may draw a little attentions.

Here’s the page. If you have time, read on some upcoming innovations on the Web, those on the list may hit it big time in the near future. I am quite interested on these following participants.

Tags: innovation, internet, web2.0, WWW

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Internet Explorer On Debian

This is very big surprise to me, check out this IEs4Linux! A godsend!
Especially if you are big linux fan, yet need to worry about web pages layouts in Internet Explorer. This is your saviour.

Okay here’s how it starts. Use your synaptic, aptitude, or even apt-get to get these package.

1. wine
2. libwine
3. libxxf86dga1
4. libxxf86vm1
5. cabextract

Tags: Debian, IE, internet-explorer, wine, WWW

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Solution For MySQL UTF-8 Encoded Data Unreadable In Web Pages.

Introduction
This blog entry is about technical issue regarding data manipulation in mysql, with tool like phpmyadmin. Data stored in Mysql is retrived/input with PHP pages. If you can’t understand the topic at all, please don’t continue.

Problem
I’ve been dealing with web projects for years. Mostly with PAM(php + apache + mysql) environment. When it comes to something that requires user’s interactions( comment, forum, etc), I always use UTF-8 as the default charset in web pages. This ensures that different characters(simplified chinese, traditional chinese, japanese etc)can be displayed on same page nicely without users have to change the character encoding in the browser.

Tags: MySQL, phpMyAdmin, WWW

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Browsers, the longest war on the Internet.

A browser is a program you use to read this post now.(Just in case you do not know, no offence yo!)

Is there only one?
Now the question, how many browser do you use? If you are one of the dominating Windows XP users, I bet there’s only one you use. Internet Explorer. And why is that? It is only because Internet Explorer 6 is preinstalled with new copy of Windows XP. You get it free. Do you like it? Do you enjoy using it? I doubt that not much of you can really answer this, because there’s no comparison.

Bad experience..
I have Opera, Mozzilla and firefox installed on my debian box. No Microsoft, no Windows, no Internet Explorer, I’m done with those. Let’s not talk about flavor of operating system. I wonder if any of you, always turns on the Automatic Live Update in Windows like I used to do? Now this is the biggest drawback of MS that annoyed me to the maximum, day by day, my windows received updates, and mostly start with “Internet Explorer Security Update/Patch/Fix” and so on. The system disk (Drive C: or whatever your windows installed on) got bloated very fast. I used to install programs/games on a seperate harddisk, so my drive C: was only for windows. Only windows itself took 9GB+ of the harddisk space.

Tags: browser, internet, mozilla, web, WWW

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