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December 25th, 2008 . by nazham . 24 Comments
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Because even basic updates are meaningful to family members, friends, or colleagues—especially when they’re timely.
With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. Or, you can stop following them any time. You can even set quiet times on Twitter so you’re not interrupted.
Twitter puts you in control and becomes a modern antidote to information overload.
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Category: Computing, Internet
Tags: HSBB, Router, Security, TMNet, UNIFI
Posted June 1st, 2010 by nazham
Little Introduction:
On March 2010, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) launched its High Speed Broadband (HSBB) service, called ‘UniFi‘. TM’s UniFi high speed broadband packages comprises services of high speed Internet, video (IPTV), and phone, with speeds of 5 Mbps, 10Mbps and 20Mbps.
Upon sign up, the customer will receive 4 pieces of equipment:
- Fiber Broadband Termination Unit (BTU), ie. where you connect the fiber optic cable into.
- WiFi router (D-Link, D-615 with custom firmware), which is plugged into the fiber BTU.
- Set-Top box for IPTV and VoD, which will plug into the WiFi router.
- DECT phone plugged into the Fiber BTU.
I’m not going to rant about the UniFi or TMNet’s services, nor speed, nor the much debated bandwith cap that TM said they’re going to impose.
I’m going to talk about the security (or the lack thereof) of the default WiFi router setup.
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Category: Computing, Linux, Software, Ubuntu
Tags: 1080p, Blue Ray, HD, Karmic Koala, Linux, mkv, mplayer, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, VLC
Posted April 24th, 2010 by nazham
I have not-so-bad specs for my laptop:
- Dell XPS M1530
- Intel Code 2 Duo CPU 2.40GHz
- 4GB RAM
- Running Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
I have no problem running 720p .mkv HD video files. No lagging, no dropped frames whatsover. However, when running 1080p .mkv files, especially those big sizes full-HD Blue Ray medias, I have:
- Lagging,
- Dropped frames,
- 100% CPU utilizations.
It doesn’t matter if I’m using VLC, or Totem Movie Player, it will always have those problem above. From what I’ve read, this is probably due to FFMpeg codecs for H.264 decoding.
However, I have a solution, found from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1037625
Below are the steps:
1. Install mplayer:
sudo apt-get install mplayer-nogui
2. Run your 1080p .mkv files with it:
mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau /path/to/the/mkv/file
Now the HD movies playing in my Ubuntu laptop are smooth as it can be.
Try it out. Cheers.
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Posted April 15th, 2010 by rizal
Strip away your health, your wealth, your family, your friends, your network, your high IQ (if applicable), your knowledge, your qualifications, your job title – what’s left?
All the unread mails in your inbox, of course.
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Posted April 10th, 2010 by rizal
Q: If the director of Avatar were to live in Malaysia, where would he stay?
A: Cameron Highlands.
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Posted March 15th, 2010 by rizal
Who is Koji Kondo? He’s the composer of this theme song: Super Mario Bros. – Overworld (yes I come from that era).
I like his name, very Web 2.0.
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