Archive for January 20th, 2006
How to beat a speeding ticket
by Leion on Jan.20, 2006, under General
I am amazed by this guy.
He got a speeding ticket, went to court without a lawyer and got himself off the fine. All with the help of Google and his nice brain. COOL!
Law is just a matter of debating lol!
What else can you do with your thumb?
by Leion on Jan.20, 2006, under Software, Technology
I mean the thumb drive actually. 
I have a 256mb original thumb drive. Original because it is from Trek, the Singaporean company, that invented the portable drive.
Though I kind of neglected my thumb drive now that I have my laptop with me almost all the time, I still bring the thumb drive with me all everywhere I go. Portable Firefox is a must for someone who loves Firefox as much as I do.
This drive houses my treasured programs and my school work, which I find it very hard to synchronise the files on my computer and my thumbdrive.(I have stupidly overwritten my new data with my old one before). I just find out that there is a program by MS,? called Windows Briefcase.
How to get it to work: Go to windows explorer, select the drive, then click File, New, Briefcase. then copy the files from the computer to the new Briefcase folder. So the next time when you want to synchronise the files, just right click the briefcase folder and choose update all.
Alternatively, there is a even newer toy:? SyncToy for Windows XP
| SyncToy v1.0 is available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers. |
This new toy has more advance functions that can make the synchronisation smarter. I have installed it and it seems impressive.
256mb may not be big enough to put a windows in, however, Damn small linux, as the name already suggested, is really small. It is 50mb only and can fit easily into a thumbdrive. The ablity to boot up from my thumb is nice however I am too lazy to try it out
NICE little drive I have and I am not going to throw it aside yet.
Do not blog on impulse.
by Leion on Jan.20, 2006, under Technology
Google has this function to cache up the whole internet!(I wonder how many harddisk they use up every minute.) That’s good news. We can get to see a website even if it is down. However on the flip side, all unwanted details online that was already taken down can still be retrieved.
See here. All the deflaming posts or private details about your life you accidentially posted online could be cached and stored for view back at a later date, even if you have already deleted and changed your posts. This is really bad so I shall keep this in mind.
However, fear not, it seems that there are ways you can do to tell google to back off from caching your site. I think I should look at that sometime soon…
