Archives for July 2006

PC Fair II 2006 – Special Promo from HWM

Just got this message in my gmail inbox… special promotion from HWM, HardWare Magazine. Subcribe the magazine for one year and you will get one Samsung 80GB Hard Disk Drive (worth RM160) for free!

Dear all HWM readers,

Enclosed herewith our latest promotion during the coming PC Fair II at Kuala Lumpur.

Date: 11-13 August 2006
Time: 11:00am – 09:00pm
Venue: Booth No 509-510, Hall 5, KL Convention Centre

Promotion: Samsung 80GB Hard Disk Drive worth RM160*
*only 100pcs HDDs will be given away per day
*limited to one subscription per subscriber
*warranty will be borne by Samsung Malaysia Electronics

What’s more? You’ll also get a Kingmax 128MB Super Stick USB Flash Drive if you are the first 200 subscriber, regardless whether you are the getting the HDD.

So, what are you waiting for? Call your friends and inform them this good news!

P/S: Remember, first 100 subscriber daily oh…. See you there!

Regards,
CINDY SIN
Office Manager
HardwareMag / GameAxis Unwired Malaysia
Write On Media Sdn Bhd
27-3, Block H-08, Jalan PJU 1/37
Dataran Prima, 46500 Petaling Jaya
T: 603-7803 9162
F: 603-7803 9172

In the last PC fair, I subscribed the HWM magazine and got a set edifier speakers (worth RM179) for free! This time, I might want to subscribe for another year too :)

Enable .htaccess and url rewriting in Apache for Windows

When I try to setup PHP and Apache in my notebook, I try to enable the .htaccess setting in apache’s httpd.conf. After I tried for a few hours (YES, a few hours) at my notebook and google-ing on the internet, finally I found the complete solution.

I record the steps here so that it can help those who want to enable .htaccess and url rewriting in Apache for Windows and also for my own reference in future.

1. Make sure you have setup apache and php correctly. Make sure that you can run php scripts without any problem.

2. Use notepad to open httpd.conf config file. Make use the line “LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so” is un-commented.

3. Under “<directory XXX></directory>” section, change the line “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All“.

4. Change the line “AccessFileName .htaccess” to “AccessFileName htaccess“. This is because in Windows, we can’t have a file with filename that starts with a dot.

5. Save the changed file and restart Apache Windows Service. You can then use the file htaccess to process your url rewritting.

Spam emails are getting smarter

Recently I feel that spam emails are getting smarter. Every morning when I open up my mailbox, I always see 2 to 3 spam mails in my inbox which suppose to be delivered into spam/junk/bulk folder.

I am using Gmail, yahoo mail and hotmail. Here are the statistic of spam emails.

Yahoo! Mail – 0 to 1 spam per day
Gmail – 1 to 2 spams per day
Hotmail – 3 to 4 spams per day

Are spammers getting smarter? Or spam filter become weaker?

Haze Returns

~~Superman~~Haze Returns! I smell the haze once I get out from my car towards my house just now. It become stronger and stronger this few days. It’s back!

The haze make few feel sick this few days… make me feel dizzy… damm… must drink more water!

Renovation for my blog

I uploaded my new theme last few days and it runs without any problem (so far).

I also deleted the “Archives” page because I already added it at my sidebar.

I also deleted the “WordPress Theme” page because I feel the old theme is quite ugly.. hehe.

I also added a “About” page.

Just now when I browse to my “About” page, I saw a Google Video Ads. This is the first time I see this type of ads and somemore it is on my own blog :)

Google Video Ads