Recently I had heard about the idea of increasing GST for free public transport.
First thing that came to my mind was the superficial “Woot! Free transport!”
Then next comes the natural – try to calculate whether it is beneficial to me or not.
And then a look at whether it benefits the people who are in need [...]
Use MPlayer!
I have to reiterate that I am now using Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10).
Ok, less crap and on with it.
Install Mplayer:
sudo apt-get install mplayer
Next install the much needed codecs (I’m using a shortcut command which installs the codecs and the usually used fonts and such):
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
You are done!
Now just use the mplayer [...]
Recently clean installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on my machine from 8.06 (Hardy). I realised the usual shutdown button located on the top right hand corner of the screen is now a logout button. I figured it could be easily ‘reverted’ by right-clicking on the panel.
Select Add to panel… -> Shutdown…
Then just move it [...]
After I had typed so much on this post complaining about Smack not supporting BOSH, sad raw XMPP churning and all, I wiped it after-all. All I wanted to do was this:
To connect to Openfire using BOSH on port 7070 (the OpenFire default and assuming no other servers are using the same port), use the [...]
I had gotten the HP2133 mini notebook for free by extending my contract with Starhub since I figured I’m not changing the connection anytime soon.
The notebook not only doesn’t have a CD drive (not that I’m complaining), it didn’t come with a recovery CD. But what the heck, it’s free.
The notebook came pre-installed with Windows [...]
Away from the stressful road, I took a bus ride to run some errands.
It was peak hour that working day.
Unsurprisingly, approaching was a bus that was about to be so full it looks like it was going to burst up launching people in all directions in the process. I boarded it anyway.
Trying to be a [...]
Just awhile ago I was reminded about choices by someone. The exact phrase that reminded me of another ‘interval’ (I shall call it) was “It’s all about choices.”; and that sparked me into writing this post in the very early morning halfway through my work.
Quite some time ago, there was this friend of mine. She [...]
