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May 14, 2004May 15, 2004

Beheading Video

I had the chance to download and watch the video of the American who had his head sliced off by Iraqis and held up high. This is by far the most mentally disturbing thing I’ve ever seen since watching “Faces of Death”. I would advise my readers not to watch it.

It leads me to think why the Iraqis had to go such lengths to get the Americans off their soil. I’d rather they do it Ghandi-style or shout “Get off my land!”(think Air Force One). I don’t think the higher-ups would care about 1 life since all they have to do is apologise on TV and perform some publicity stunts. You can’t really tell if they feel sorry. [:|]

The video I had started off with the murderers shouting “Allah! *something*” and they pushed the guy onto the ground, one of them took out a knife and started slicing. The victim did not put up much of a struggle. He probably knew he was going to die.

I’m most grateful that the video was low quality, low resolution. It’s a one minute video with 500KB filesize. Any more detail and it would make me lose appetite for a few weeks. [:(]

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I could not get CSS to work the way I wanted it to. I may fall back to using HTML tables for now. But I will give it a try again when I gain more knowledge.

May 12, 2004

Just another blog entry

My boss is having me work on a new design for his church. I’m going to learn to use CSS instead of HTML tables for the site layout. Seems like there’s a lot of advantages using CSS to design the layout. What I note is simpler codes and faster load times. The current sites that I’m working on and using HTML tables are harder to maintain and change because of the code structure of a table. Experienced web designers/developers should know how troublesome it is and how worse it can get when it comes to a point where we have to nest tables (having more tables in a table). I have a feeling it’s going to help me in the long run especially when my work involves me having to code and design a dynamic, database-driven website all by myself.

I think I’m going to start a second blog. Either incorporate it into this blog as a sub section or a totally new blog. It’s for me to dump any computer related stuff. Sort of like a tech blog.

The open beta for Lineage2, Japan, is going to end soon in June. I’m becoming so attached to the game I might sign up once it goes official. There may be a problem for foreigners signing up but I’m checking it out with some Americans who are also interested in playing in Japan servers instead of their North American ones.

The biggest reason for staying on Japan’s instead of going over to NorthAmerica’s is the difference in culture. If you want lots of action, drama, betrayal, war, NA is the place to go. The Japanese are friendlier and playing on Japan’s would be more relaxing. [:)]

May 10, 2004

ETD, Experiencing Technical Difficulties.

Darn, the other day my mum was switching the light bulbs with the electricity still turned on. She caused a short circuit which shut down my 2 computers. When I got home, I could not boot up cos 1 of the harddisks on my webserver could not be detected. Right now, I’m still too busy to fix things. I only just realized my blog site is cocked up.

Around 5 years ago… I spent $2500 on…
Pentium2 233MHz MMX
64MB SDRam PC100
4MB AGP!
3.2GB 5400RPM Harddisk!
Creative AWE64 that uses the ISA slot!
WinNT 4.0 Workstation. I shouldn’t have bought this but it was reccomended by a friend. Ended up using Windows 95 because of driver conflicts.
17″ Philips monitor (Served me well)

May 5, 2004

MySQL

This is for those who work with MySQL.

The article at the end of this entry talks about how the storage engines(MyISAM, InnoDB, etc.) works. Since I use the default storage engine (MyISAM), it’s helpful to know about the difference between static rows and dynamic rows.

I’m going to review the database structure I’ve come up with for a project at work and see if I can make changes to make the rows static.

MySQL Storage Engine Architecture, Part 2 – An In-Depth Look

Wishing you lower seektimes.

May 4, 2004May 4, 2004

Wow…

Must be a damn unlucky day for me. I received a code red 2 attack but I could not confirm the damage it had done if any. Downloaded the tool from symantec but it did not detect any code red viruses on my web server, Chii. Worse, I experienced network problems and could not get my server online to get a virus scan done.

Then I tried reinstalling the OS, didn’t work too. So I tried connecting the ethernet cable to another port on my router and it worked! Guess it’s a faulty router port [:(]. Still thinking whether or not I should get it replaced. I certainly can’t stand being disconnected from the net or unable to access my computer while I’m outside.

I’ve installed as much patches as I could find from Microsoft’s website. And installed URLScan 2.5 for IIS 4.0 and above. The default configuration for URLScan immediately blocks .asp extension which is why my blog didn’t work well today. I’m done with the config file now. To those who run their webservers from home, on IIS, I highly recommend this tool, URLScan 2.5. Just remember to take a look through the documentation to learn about the config file. If you have it installed on IIS 6.0, remember to recycle your worker processes to have the new changes in URLScan config file applied.

My projects at work are slowly progressing and getting more interesting. Each day there’s a different problem to tackle and many things to learn. Today, I learned that magic_quotes_gpc turned on in a php configuration is EVIL.