How many time you have this conversation between your friend and you:
“Where to eat?”
“No idea.”
In Penang, you will probably ended up at Tanjong Tokong… in a western restaurant called No Eye Deer!

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If you are dealing with Chinese characters in English environment like me, you will come across some issues with Chinese characters, such as it becomes symbols or lots of question marks (??????) after retrieving. Here’s the solution on “question marks” issue when issuing “SELECT” SQL statements.

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Ever wonder how to access command prompt of another Windows PC on your network so that you can execute batch files on the remote PC ? PsExec allows you to do so. (Download link available below).

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Few months ago I mentioned on my Compaq Presario C793TU laptop in one of my posts. These two weeks, I had bad experience with this machine, that is, it is overheating at room temperature of about 30ºC! When I first purchased this machine I installed Fedora 9 (a Linux distribution) under air-conditional environment which is [...]

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Sometime after washing aquarium, this playful yellow African Cichlid (非洲王子) will jump into a Sushi King teacup ready to become sashimi.
Scientific name: Labidochromis caeruleus
English name: Yellow Labidochromis
Max. Length: 10cm
Water Quality: pH 7.5 ~ 8.5
Hardness: 5.0 ~ 12.0 dGH
Note: Easy to keep. Entry level of species. Semi-aggressive. Can mix with other type of fishes. Male fish [...]

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One of the advantages of using DataList is that it provide rich format for each row easily. I had been a while since my last development on ASP.Net. One of my readers asked me how to pass the value from rows in which user selected after pressing a button. I then fired up Visual Studio [...]

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I am not a vegetarian but I like to go to vegetarian shops for lunch during weekday. Reasons are it is healthier (to control my cholesterol and liver index) and I am less likely to fall asleep in the afternoon if I took it. However,  I found that it is difficult to know when is [...]

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One of my laptops is running Fedora 9 now and the reasons are:

1. Because it is free…. legally.
2. Because I don’t plan to play game on it
3. I mainly use it as BitTorrent server running 24×7
4. It has large supporting community and the applications are frequently updated (without any genuine copy validation).
5. My laptop is [...]

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Today I had been buzzed with a bug in WordPress 2.6. That is, one of my posts cannot be loaded when trying to edit it. The page only shows some headers and the rest is empty. As a result, I can’t edit the post. Checked error log and I found this fatal error:

[error] PHP Fatal [...]

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I personally own a Radeon 9600 AGP card on my good old Pentium III machine. Late of last year I purchased an LCD monitor with DVI input. Using DVI input, I found out that the image is sharper compared to analog.
The problem is, if you connected only DVI to your AGP card, you will receive [...]

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