Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Virtual PC?!?!

Anything could happen in this world…anything…even Blue Screen of Death in a virtual machine! First of all, I am not blaming Microsoft / Windows / Sophos, because this is probably a driver problem. I was playing around and doing some tests on the virtual machines lately, trying out all the major anti-virus software.

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Wei Ping @ Arana

Wei Ping, who use to be my flatmate in 2005, was back in Dunedin for a conference last week. Brett, Daw, Darren and a few of us had dinner together @ the Golden Harvest on Monday night. It feels like she is still living in 117…because all of us haven’t changed much.
Here [...]

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Good bye AutoPatcher…

Its sad  to know that there will be no more AutoPatcher from now on   They got “told off” by Microsoft on 29th of August. 

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The iPhone! From Nokia?

Just saw this video from MacNN…its just a concept phone right now, but they are planning to release it sometime next year!
[Click here to read more]
Here is a video of a phone that looks something like the iPhone…

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Leopard build 9A527 intro movie

I found this from the RSS feeds of cnBeta tonight.  You can see bits and pieces of Leopard in this intro video

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Weekly Software Update (20th of Aug-26th of Aug 2007)

Windows:
DAEMON Tools v4.10 X86 32 Bits (with SPTD 1.50)
Virtual Drive.
http://mirror5.disk-tools.com/getfile.php?p=e5f6cf431e8cc08bdc6f9959059cfe9f/daemon410-x86.exe
Driver Magician Lite 3.29
Backs up your drivers (if you can’t find them anymore).
http://www.drivermagician.com/DML.exe
AutoPatcher XP Aug Update (use this if you got AutoPatcher XP July version installed)
Puts patches on your Windows.
http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/5004bd420975195144603c0dffe094ac/46ca0295/100006278/software/OS%20ENHANCE/AutoPatcher_WinXP_Aug07_x86_ENU_Update.exe

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Partition improperly dismounted?!?!

Computers are just like human beings, sometimes they just refuse to work and you have to perform some “Magic” to make them behave again. On Thursday night, I was confronted with a situation where I have to fix a hard drive with a partition table problem! To make things more complicated, the data [...]

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Partition improperly dismounted?!?!

Computers are just like human beings, sometimes they just refuse to work and you have to perform some “Magic” to make them behave again.  On Thursday night, I was confronted with a situation where I have to fix a hard drive with a partition table problem!  To make things more complicated, the data on the hard [...]

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EOS Integrated Cleaning System video

dpreview is the first (and probably the only) web site I will visit if I want to find out anything about digital cameras. Today I was searching for Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III’s wallpaper and found the video below. It’s interesting to see how the cleaning system works

Canon [...]

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More photos of Mike around the campus

After Mike saw the photos I took for my friend Yun Sing, he wanted to have the same “style” of photos taken before he returns his suite. So I spent the afternoon walking around the campus with my camera and took some photos for him. I have to say, you wouldn’t know how [...]

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Photos of Mike and his family

This evening, I went to Mike’s place to borrow his external flash unit (Sony HVL-F1000) for his graduation photo shot tomorrow afternoon. In order to get familiar with the flash, I took a few pictures of him and his family…well…quite a few actually…106! Think about how much that would cost if you use [...]

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Weekly Software Update (13th of Aug-19th of Aug 2007)

Windows:
Opera 9.23 build808
http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o923w_8808m.exe
StarDict 3.0.0
A FREE dictionary.
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/stardict/stardict-3.0.0.exe
IE7Pro 1.0.10
Enhance your IE7.
http://dl.ie7pro.com/ie7prodl/IE7proSetup.exe

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Mike’s Graduation Party

Mike, one of my friends from Computer Science is graduating today!  He invited us to his graduation party @ The Seventh Day Adventist Church.  Quite a few people from Computer Science turned up; including Armin!!!  During the party, we heard lots of interesting things about Mike, such as how he met his wife   [...]

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University of Otago Graduation Parade 2007

Just came back from the graduation parade this afternoon; took a few photos for my friend Yun Sing, Nathan (my lecturer) and Chris from Computer Science.  I have been to one of these parade a few years ago; from the photos, the parade might seem quite “small”, but that’s because this is only the “mid-year” graduation parade; you will [...]

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(Video of)C++0x – An Overview by Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup

I found this on my Google Reader last Sunday. Its a video of Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup himself giving a “lecture” on C++0x. If you are a Computer Science Student or you enjoyed using C++, you should really check this out:

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Stay up to date with Google Reader!

If you have been using Gmail (Google’s web mail), you have probably seen the word Google Reader already (when you’ve got no mail in your Inbox, you will see it), but chances are that you are just like me, who sees it everyday but never actually click on the link they provided.  So what exactly is Google [...]

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Kaspersky saves the day!

I was working this morning when Paul gave me a call and ask me whether I can have a look of a student’s laptop that’s loaded with Chinese versions of XP. I went to his office and discovered that the laptop was having a Chinese version XP Pro. Paul told me there were [...]

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Video Tutorials of iLife and iWork ‘08 from Apple (with download links)

After seeing the post Apple posts Mac event video, iLife tutorials, software updates on Appleinsider, I decided to have a look of the tutorials from Apple. I didn’t expect they have so many tutorials covering these two new apps (iLife and iWork), and since I am using dial up, I have decided to down [...]

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Improve the performance of your Windows Vista for FREE!

Microsoft just released an update which will improve the performance of your Windows Vista Operating System(under certain conditions). The update will address the following issues:

You experience a long delay when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
A memory leak occurs when you use the Windows Energy screen saver.
If User Account Control is disabled [...]

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Apple just released the NEW iMac!

Yesterday, apple revealed it’s new iMacs…which are thinner, faster and “sexier” than its previous model.  Apple didn’t completely redesign the new iMacs…instead they made some improvements to the previous model.  Apple also revealed its new “apps” including iLife and iWork 08.  Click on the links below to find out more from Appleinsider:
Apple unveils new line of [...]

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