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Skype Exploit
Monday, October 31, 2005 3:22 PM

Here's an exploit of Skype discovered sometime ago by someone on Securiteam Skype uses several data formats. Each format has its own specific parser. A specific encoding is used to store numbers, that will be referred as VLD (Variable Length Data). The

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MySQL 5.0 is out!
Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:14 PM

People had been complaining that MySQL is not powerful enough, not able to store triggers and procedures and etc. But now they could. A great job that Microsoft is doing is to come up with much more features to make sure they're far ahead of the competition.

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Report Submission Tomorrow
Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:58 PM

Wow.. Tomorrow's the report submission for us folks at Sg for the champ program... Guess what... My final program would be tomorrow where i would be presenting on Vista. Vista's pretty cool, but there's only a limited thing that i could pack into a 30

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Access to SQLExpress
Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:51 PM

i had been pondering which to use for a small scale application. Access or SQL2005 Express. I finally made the decision that Access is what i would wana use. Firstly, its much more friendly when creating the db and it gives your just so much visuals.

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So much to learn
Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:18 PM

This morning i was just browsing around to see how i could invest my sunday at. And guess wad! There's so many webcasts for download!!! I have downloaded about 3gb of webcasts now.. Shall download even more so that i have something to kill time the next

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Lucky am i
Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:10 AM

I consider myself amoungst the luckiest person on earth... *sounds really proud huh!* But i would say i would have to really thank god for all these.. I was exposed to the best in the trade for .NET. I go to know several MVPs, Trainers, MS-Staffs, RD

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Just formatted computer
Saturday, October 29, 2005 11:55 PM

I find that living with the guest user account is really a pain and i gave up on it after two weeks and reformatted my computer. haha... Bernard's right.. Lets just wait for Vista before we change. All the apps are not guest account friendly at all..

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Is that what i really wanted?
Saturday, October 29, 2005 11:06 AM

Sometimes in life, you really do not know what do you want, until you're given what you don't want. I had been doing certain things for about 1 year plus now. And i was just asking myself. Is that what i really wanted? Is this the life i really wanted

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Competitions in Communities
Friday, October 28, 2005 11:51 PM

I was just chatting with someone over the phone about the local student community as a whole. I heard that there's some backstabbing happening in it. I was like.. Wow... A strange phenomenon indeed! I guess these people are really getting bored or have

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More A Business Mind
Friday, October 28, 2005 9:30 PM

I am beginning to find that i have a more business mind than technical mind.. Haha.. don't worry.. I am not selling anyone anything here.. I guess i love technology. But the business & creativeness in me on how fast i can think about a 100 news things

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To Buy or not to Buy
Friday, October 28, 2005 2:24 PM

I had came across this question quite so many times now. I was wondering to buy or not to buy a refredigerator for my room.. I was thinking of getting a new bunker so that i could maximize the space of my room and place a couch under the bed allowing

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Attempting the Lottery Program
Friday, October 28, 2005 8:20 AM

I was thinking it would be nice to attempt the lottery program when it opens. =) I had a school mate who's from Myammar, she attempted it last year and she got through... she's now on the way to US to study.. haha... God! Please grant me the same fortune

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VS05 & SQL05 are out!!!
Friday, October 28, 2005 7:23 AM

Finally the long awaited moment had arrived! Visual Studio 2005 and SQL 2005 are out!!! It's now available to MSDN suscribers and had been sent for production to the general public... =) Woops... Is this old news? http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5917944.htm

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I Finally Made it
Friday, October 28, 2005 7:06 AM

Finally i am able to get my lazy bones out of bed at 6am... haha... something i had not done in quite a while. hehe. I must get myself adjusted to this time.. idealy, it would be great to sleep at 12 and wake up at 6. =)

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Job Offer?
Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:18 PM

Wow.. now i got a really good job offer from a really cool guy! i really enjoy working with him. Today's the first day i met him, but he was so friendly and he made me totally feel at home...Whats more? He's the ideal guy that guys would love to have.

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Buddy List
Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:18 AM

Wow.. cool! now steve ballmer is on the buddy list for ISVs.. I had already forgotten who my isv buddy is.. lol.. shall go search through my emails.. =) Great job to the ISV team/folks at Microsoft.

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Busy Day Ahead
Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:13 AM

Today would be an extremely busy day. It seems that all my clients for freelance works prefers thursdays to meet. Haha.. In the morning, at 9, i would be dropping by one of my client's residents whom would want to be implementing a ERP system for his

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Chat with Bus-Captain
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:22 PM

In Singapore, we do not call the bus drivers, bus drivers. They are called bus captains. Nonetheless, its a very noble career. Without them, we would not be able to function as a country. I was just chatting with this extremely friendly bus captian today

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Parts of XBox360 Made in Singapore
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:20 PM

Parts of the XBox360 would be made in Charter Semi-Conductor, Singapore after IBM fufilled the contract with IBM to have a second source. Could this spell trouble for IBM like what happened with intel and AMD? http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2005/10/ibm_describes_x.htm

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Patrifying Dentist
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:39 PM

I was at the National Dental Center today to fix a tooth. And the dentist attending to me seems to assume that i am a medical student.. Interesting!!! She started explaining to me everything in medical terms (just as how i always see doctors discussing

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Types of girls
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:11 PM

A email i received from a friend. Something really funny. Haha.. No offence!!! haha.. HARD DISK GIRL: she remembers everything, FOREVER RAM GIRL: she forget about you, the moment you turn her off WINDOW GIRL: everyone

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Time to Pack up my room again...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:56 PM

Guess its time to pack up my room and gets things in shape. Had been spending really little time at home lately... Guess i shall start packing my room and get everything back in shape by tonight. I was thinking of buying a new bed frame. One that's raised,

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Finger Printing
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:14 PM

Today my boss finally bought a fingerprint reader for me to do some developement on!! YAY!!! Its really cool! I guess i should study how it works deep down and start writing some articles on it pretty soon.. =)

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Do i really need the money?
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:01 AM

I am now involved in a pretty heavy amount of things. Half are revenue generating while the other half is pure community work. The revenue generatings ones are mainly my work with my current company, projects with a reknown speaker whom i am not supposed

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WCF Talk
Monday, October 24, 2005 11:59 PM

I was attending this talk at Microsoft today presented by David Chappell and the product manager of Indigo from Redmond. They are really dynamic and great speakers. After the entire thing, i was walking around and the product manager of Indigo from

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Saying "Hi" to people on the streets?
Monday, October 24, 2005 12:43 AM

I had been to the US some time ago. Rather, quite a long time ago infact. Back in 2004. I was walking around in the mall and a child was standing just in front of me looking at her toys. He's pretty adorable and i smiled at him and he replied by saying

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A fighter jet in Campus?
Monday, October 24, 2005 12:26 AM

The Singapore Airforce had placed one of its retired fighter jets in my campus... WOAH!!! Its sure a sight that no students in the campus wana miss... Its just so majestic.. Although its just a A4-SU skyhawk... =) http://www.tp.edu.sg/newsevents/press/2005/oct042005.ht

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Anyone interested in Lunar Job?
Monday, October 24, 2005 12:01 AM

Read more --> http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html This is totally out of this world... =O

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Photoshop CS2 Cleanup
Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:17 PM

Photoshop has this cleanup tool which runs as part of its process in CS2. Its seems to be something from Macrovision Europe Ltd and its process name is Adobelm_Clearnup.0001. One thing that i do not like about this tool is once it is activated,

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Nano Car
Sunday, October 23, 2005 5:28 PM

Some researchers at the Rice University had came out with something called the nano car which measures at only 3-4 nanometres across.. Thats even smaller then an ant. Might that be used in the future for spying? Who knows? *ponders* More on it would

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Printer's Secrets Cracked
Sunday, October 23, 2005 5:25 PM

"The pages that are printed by your colour laser printer may include tiny dots, almost invisible to the naked eye. The dots form a code that can be read by the US Secret Service, ostensibly to track down counterfeiters. Now, for the first time, the code

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Face? Whats that? LOL..
Sunday, October 23, 2005 2:41 AM

I attended a talk sometime ago at a local usergroup and there was this session by a german speaker who's name i would not quote. Something i find very interesting about a joke he cracked was when people asked him, "You not scared lose face?". He replied

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Cherish those around you
Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:42 AM

I was just watching a movie on Channel8, a local television station which illustrated that no matter how successful you are, your bad day would always come someday. If you do not treat people as humans, no one would bother talking to you when that day

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SQL2000 SP4
Saturday, October 22, 2005 9:46 PM

I have no idea how long this update had been up now. But it removes the databases such as northwind, pubs and etc. Not even masters.db is spared. However, it could be added manually though... =) However so, the Security Analyser 2.0 seems to detect

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Integrating Security Analyser with WinUpdate
Saturday, October 22, 2005 11:03 AM

I personally feel that Microsoft should intergrate the Security Analyser with the Windows Update. This would enable users to not need to download an additional tool. And windows update could then prompt users if they would like to do certain tasks and

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Borland Blues
Saturday, October 22, 2005 10:57 AM

I have this Borland software which is sooo hard to get it activitated. Whats more.. IT'S AN ORGINAL COPY!!!! I got this software at a conference sometime ago from Borland. I have registered it serveral times before and had been using different email

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C# Express
Friday, October 21, 2005 6:13 PM

I have been using C# Express for a while now. i have not been able to find the connection to a database. i am only able to connect to the MDF file.. =|

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Disabling Paging in Windows XP
Friday, October 21, 2005 4:42 PM

I had been so dumb for the last few days. I was wondering. Why did my computer have 2gb or ram yet it still runs like a 512mb computer. so i was talking to my lecturer today and bingo! i finally found the answer to it. i should have just disabled the

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Found myself again...
Friday, October 21, 2005 4:39 PM

I had been really tired over the last few day physically. But guess what? I had discovered my trueself again. the me emotionally 1 yrs back. i guess thats almost the best state of my life.. YAY!!! Shall be more focused, less lazy and more responsible..

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What is SQL server reporting services??
Friday, October 21, 2005 12:43 AM

What is SQL server reporting services Enterprise reporting Paper-based and web-based reports (Traditional vs interactive) Server-based reporting solution Scaleable, Manageable and Embeddable Report caching Server-based Reporting

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Defination of what should unit test be written for
Friday, October 21, 2005 12:39 AM

Something i learnt from adam's talk Unit tests should be written for Dependencies - eg. DLL Run times errors (JIT) Dependencies - eg. Database Schema, Datasets, web services Fragile Code - eg. Regular expressions When errors can be difficult to

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SQLUsergroup this evening
Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:09 PM

There would be a SQLUsergroup session this evening and it would be one of the few rare-times this evening that there's a guest speaker. Here's more... *I would be there* =) RD of Australia, Adam Cogan, to be presenting

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External Jobs?
Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:03 PM

Lucky me.. i just got 3 different assignments through 3 different contacts which pays me to do webdevelopment for them apart from my current job. I guess the money i earn from these 3 assignments would be even more then wad i am earning now... =D 1 step

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Bad Programming
Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:39 AM

I have recently decided to switch to using the guest/limited account permently as my normal usage account. One thing that i discovered is that there are quite a number of applications that could not run in guest. Examples would be the Windows Update and

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Busy Day @ Work
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:18 PM

I wanted to be productive always, but am never able to do so always. =( I guess it would have to be better time management that should be facilitating that. =) I have finally cleared all my other work at office so that i can commence on my next project

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Touching MTV
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:40 PM

I have came across a MTV which is extremely touching. The "Tong Hua" MTV. i guess anyone whom had seen it would agree with me. Right? =) How i wish i could have such a sweet encounter. (but the girl not suffering the same fate =>)

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Piled up work
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:51 AM

I have not been back to office for quite some time now(about 2 days) and i am supposed to be replying the interview candidates if i were taking them. Guess my mailbox would be flooded by now. =0

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Security Day @ Singapore
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:37 PM

Today's really a Security Day in Singapore. Its Security the entire day right from 830am to 9pm. In the morning i was attending the Standards Conference at SMU organized by the Standards Commitee in Singapore. There were some pretty interesting points

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Opening of New School Term
Monday, October 17, 2005 11:24 PM

The new school term would be opening soon. I guess i would have to really bark up to maintain my grades. I do not wish to see any more "B"s or "B+". So i guess i would have to work doubly hard to juggle between my school activities, student champ activities,

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