Well, this is not about telling you how to get free Microsoft products, but to share with you why, how and the tradeoffs to be Microsoft-free these days.

From the article written in ExtremeTech, it covers 4 parts, which are :-

Part 1 – Why switch to Linux?

• Life without Microsoft: What You Gain
• Life without Microsoft: What You Lose

Part 2 – Linux home file server and basic client PC

• A Three-Tier Approach
• Building a Home Server

Part 3 – Gaming PC

• Design Considerations and Component Choices
• Component List
• OS Setup

Part 4 – Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC

• The Challenges
• Candidate Applications and Components List
• Installation/Configuration
• Up and Running

By the way, I’m still a windows user. Thought of getting into Linux world long time ago, but just don’t have much time to try it out. :-< Anyway, hope you guys enjoy those interesting articles.

Ok, usually I don’t write about sports here, but I just can’t stop myself to express my happiness to Chelsea achievements so far.

Chelsea Football Club, the club that i supported since I was 15 years old, when Gianfranco Zola (My all time favourite football player !) joined the Stamford Bridge club from Lazio. His skills attracted me to love Chelsea FC since then.

Today, Chelsea have been crowned champion of English Premier League after securing the last 2 points they needed so badly after waiting for 50 years since they last won as a champion back in 1955. There are still 3 matches to go for the season 04/05, but they have enough points to drop to emerge as the champion at the end of this season eventually. In other words, they have 88 points already in their pocket now, even the closest rival, Arsenal, can win all their 4 matches remaining, the most they can earn is only 86 points in total, so mathematically, Chelsea is the Champion Of English Premier League Season 04/05 !!

Chelsea have already won the Carling Cup and the English Premier League in this season. Their current aim will be winning the Champion League because this is the most prestigious tournament among European football clubs. They are now inches away from winning the Champion League, as they already in the semi-final second leg. I wouldn’t say they will certainly win the second leg, but a score line of atleast 1-1 will be good enough to send them to Istanbul for the Final !!

So, 2 down, 1 to go, chelsea will be the treble champion eventually !!
Go Chelsea, go !!

According to the source, GMail space is increasing in the pace of 24,912 seconds for 1 Meg.

So, i did a calculation myself as well.

Target Milestone = 2075MB
The Space When I Wrote This = 2061.55 MB (at 3.00am, April 6th, 05)
Difference = 2075 – 2061.55 = 13.45 MB

So,
Time Needed To Reach 2075MB
= 24,912 sec x 13.45 MB
= 335066.4 sec
= 93 hrs (335066.4/3600)
= 3.87 days (So, it’s around 3 days and 21 hrs)

So, we in Malaysia will have 2075 MB of GMail space on Sunday, April 10th 2005, 00:00:00 (GMT+8).

As compared to what original author have said, we will get 2075MB on on Saturday, April 9th 2005, 16:00:00 (GMT). It’s absolutely true, because Malaysia is in GMT+8, so we have to add 8 hrs.

All in all, if the concept of 1 Meg needs 24,912 seconds to grow, then it’s no doubt, on Sunday, January 1st 2006, 17:00:00 (GMT+8), we all here wil have 3Gig GMail space !!

张国荣 (September 12, 1956 – April 1, 2003)

转眼间， 哥哥离我们远去已两年了。除了惋惜， 还是惋惜。有时想，是不是传奇都是不告而别?无论如何，张国荣的歌声从没在我脑海里淡去。一言难尽，我想千言亦如是。只希望，哥哥在天国也过得一样快乐。有缘再见，永远的明星!

《烟花烫》

烟花就是指很灿烂但又很短暂的东西，
烫就是指感觉很痛。

是谁那么慌
剪破四月的时光
飞鸟和别姬都碎在镜子里
谁刻过你的手掌
宠爱画得那么长那么长那么长
给我这个信仰
永把当年情不忘
在人间在天上还是你我一生中最爱
百惠传奇继续吹盼下辈子再遇上
梦死醉生烟花烫
因为相信你是从未离去才不曾绝望
至少有爱帮我在心底圆谎
把距离铺成一条河从此后用天涯相隔
你在何方都一样
因为要做一个有心的人会注定悲伤
但信无苦无痛在他方延续你的辉煌
因为爱过共同度过的人才终身难忘
当风再起时陪你再唱

保重…

Well, i hate to write my first article here in a negative way. I was left no choice but to share my views regarding Internet Explorer (IE).

Yesterday my friend told me that this blog was not accessable in his office. He scared me definitely because if no one can access this blog, what’s the point of me setting up my blog. Soon he figured out his IE was crached due to unknown reason (hope it was not because of my blog B-) ). Everytime before i make my post public I tested my blog using 3 web browsers, which are Firefox, Opera & IE. In other words, i’ll make sure every one is able to view this blog perfectly regardless of your web browser.

I always encourage my friends, relatives, colleagues, teammates, classmates, etc etc to use other browsers instead of IE. I’m already fed up of listing all the bad points of using IE, so i’ll not touch it here indepth. Instead i’ll tell you some major drawbacks of using IE.

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Yet another “Don’t Use IE” article