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I finally read this article (which had been sitting for a long time in my thick pile of printed “read-later” articles) from Apple Developer Connection about XMLHttpRequest which plays a major part in AJAX, which has been discussed a lot lately in the web development area and is used by popular services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Suggest and many more.

Maybe I should have named this category “Things I Learned Yesterday” since I usually post after midnight.

There are still a lot of people who are so naive and believe everything they got from the Internet or from forwarded emails, especially urban-legend or scarelore kind of stories. I hate those.

CeBIT Australia exists and it will be held from 24 to 26 May 2005 at Sydney Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. I’ll be there if I don’t have any exams or anything like that during that time. Free online registration.

Need to put less ginger and more salted fish for my spicy eggplant with minced pork.

A second look on iSCSI and iSCSI on Linux, and a first introduction to Vinum Volume Manager after reading a Slashdot post about Firewire storage.

There are several available options for backup solutions that are POSIX ACL aware, including using star, proper backup program like Arkeia, patched NFS (out-of-the-box with SuSE), rsync with ACL patch, etc. Info from this post, googled after answering a mailing list post.

“IT Research Methods” is such a boring and useless (at least for me) subject. It’s hard to force myself to do the assignments for this subject. I wouldn’t have taken the subject if it weren’t mandatory. Oh, what the hell, might as well make something useful out of it since I’ve already paid for it.

Evolution 2.0.x doesn’t provide an alarm for contact items such as for contact birthdays and anniversaries. I haven’t looked at the source code yet so I don’t know how hard it is to implement this. It’s surprising since I thought many people would have wanted this useful feature.

SMART hard disk monitoring, emerged smartmontools, and set smartd to run in the background. (Via Slashdot)

The Vigenère Cipher, I knew this from my cryptography class so it’s just refreshing my memory. (Via blogwalking to Mr. GBT)

Next time, put more breadcrumbs for the stuffing. (Via cooking roast turkey)

X.org X11 transparency and shadowing is still not stable, e.g. glxgears caused X to crash even with AllowGLXWithComposite enabled. (Via Gentoo Wiki)

AUD 1 = IDR 7,500++, and rising. (Via Yahoo! Finance)

There’s a Japanese pr0n model/actor named Anna Ohura, not to be confused with Anne Ahira. (Via a dream I had the other night. As if I’d tell you.)

A soda can and chocolate can be used to make fire. (Via Boing Boing)

The notorious TBE managed to screw up my Firefox, again, after an upgrade. I had to make a backup of my Firefox profile, delete the extensions directory and reinstall all of my Firefox extensions. It was strange that after I reinstall TBE it was working fine again. So I stuck with it, for now… but one of these days…

I finally know what Podcasting is about. I’ve heard about it for so long but I couldn’t be bothered to look it up in Wikipedia or Google until this morning. (Via blogwalking to Priyadi)

There’s a Wiki clone written in Ruby called Instiki that seems to be recommended by some people. Not in portage yet, so I haven’t bothered trying. (Via Nat)