Chinese New Year is just around the corner… two more days to go… wait, should be one more day only! It’s the year of the rat, so here’s wishing all Kongtechnology.com readers a Very Happy and Prosperous Rat Year! May the rat bring you wealth, health, love and charm in abundance. 🙂
Ah, no rats in my greeting card above because I had a “gotong-royong” session to clean out all the rats. Hahaha…
I know you may not pay attention to what’s being displayed at the window of Mediaplex because you may take it as yet another commercial. But the other day, I decided to stop and take a closer look at the window of this gadget shop in Mid Valley. Wow… only then I realize such advanced GPS navigation system is available in Malaysia! Yes, they have Malaysia maps! Hahaha…
And, amazingly the price is not very expensive. It costs RM1599 only… yeah, not expensive at all if you are on the road all the time. Imagine how much time and petrol cost this GPS navigation system from Garmin can save you in the long run? However, I don’t know if you need to subscribe to update the maps or not. 🙂
What should you post when you have nothing worth blogging? You post a geek monkey!
Hahaha… just so to keep you entertained. Hope you don’t look like the monkey when you saw this funny post. 🙂
I was browsing through Nikon’s website and was delighted to learn that they have just introduced a new DSLR named D60. The D60 has the same compact lightweight body and easy to use control layout compared to similar models from Nikon such as the D40 and D40X.
Just like the D40X, D60 doesn’t have the built-in focus drive motor which means it can auto focus only with motor lenses (AF-S and AF-I lenses). This must be the biggest turn off for serious amateur photographers.
Anyway, at least Nikon include a couple of innovative features in this latest DSLR, they include:
Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked the Internet’s growth since 1995, reports a mammoth milestone was reached during the end of 2007. In the December 2007 survey, they received responses from more than 155 million sites. This is an whooping increase of 5.4 million sites since the previous month. The web has grown by nearly 50 million sites since the same period the previous year.
Compare this number to the 18,000 websites that Netcraft, based in Bath, England, began keeping track of back in August 1995! Such an amazing growth!
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It has been a while since I released my Corporate WordPress theme. Never had I imagine the response will be so encouraging, from a couple of downloads and users, now the theme is being used proudly on many WordPress powered blogs.
I have no download counter on this blog so I am not sure how many have downloaded here but I do get pingback whenever the theme is being used. The result is totally “out of this world”!
Sometimes when things do not work, you tend to blame on the stupid idiot box. This is especially true with programming for example… I am sure it’s very common for programmers, you are rushing to meet the deadline and your code somehow just doesn’t work!
Guess what you do next? Throw the stupid computer out of the window!
I wanted to do the same when my AdSense doesn’t generate US$50 a day and my Alexa drop out of the 100K mark. 🙂
Yesterday we had installed the Telnet client on our Windows Vista. Today, let’s try to send an email using nothing but the Telnet client. This is a very good way to troubleshoot problems in sending emails in your email client such as Microsoft Outlook, and while at the same time you can learn the protocols which actually happen in the background when you press the “send” button in your email client.
What I listed below is the general commands that will work on most mail servers. If yours do not work, you will need to check what’s the mail server you are currently running and change the commands slightly.
Your telnet window should look like the following now.
Now, you now need to enter your full email address and then your password encoded in BASE64. To convert your full email address and your password to BASE64, you can use this handy BASE64 encoding tool. Enter your email, click on “Encode”, copy that encoded value in the telnet session and press Enter. After that do the same for your password.
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I know people might have forgotten what’s Telnet already because this ancient old program is not secure and people have more favor for secure Telnet and SSH clients such as Putty. Telnet is not even installed in standard Windows Vista installation.
Nevertheless, Telnet is still useful if you just want to use it to troubleshoot some simple functions quickly, such as on your web server or email server. To install Telnet client on Windows Vista, you simply need to follow the following steps.
That’s it. The Telnet client will be installed in a short while. Sometimes it will take a couple of moments while Vista performs checks and etc I guess.
In a future post, I might show you how to use Telnet to send a quick email. Yupe, without using Outlook Express. 🙂
You read me right, and you do not need to shake your monitor or kick it… it’s true that All IT Hypermarket which is located at the 3rd floor of Digital Mall Petaling Jaya is having a IT products price crash. Let’s check out what gadgets we can grab at absolutely unbelievable prices.
RM1 for each of the following!
RM5 for each of the following!
Oh my goodness, can you believe that?! Even if you are not so much into IT or gadgets stuff, I think you will definitely want to stock up tonnes of 100 Plus for the coming Chinese New Year!
Continue reading “Kingston 1GB flash drive at RM10 only at All IT Hypermarket”
