Scott Yang's Playground

I found this classy piece of joke on the Internet. It must has been quite dated, as Windows 95 is already a history (not classified as a supported platform by Microsoft anymore). I don’t agree with its claim 100%, but well, it is a joke. Let’s compare Windows 95 against another saviour, Jesus of Nazareth, [...]

I saw Sharp’s press release on their new Zaurus SL-C700 today, and it surely looks like a wonderful machine. Most importantly, it has go a keyboard that looks usable. Actually, I might need to try to do touch-typing on it to confirm what I have seen. It surely looks like a good replacement for my [...]

Usually people think that good man goes to heaven and bad man goes to hell, because we believe there is some sort of justice system in this world. Well, maybe not in this world all the time, but at least this “sovereign divine being out there” must do better than the rulers and governors over [...]

I will share my experience configuring a Linux email server that uses Postfix as MTA, Courier IMAP as IMAP server, and SpamAssassin as spam filter. Recently, I have been receiving quite a few unsolicited commercial emails (UCE), a.k.a. spams, from my home email server. At work I have experienced with setting up company-wide spam filtering [...]

The second MovableType blog site is now alive! A Christian brother from FOCUS, Thomas, is now testing his new blog site. It took me less than 10 minutes to set up an extra user/author, create the directory to host the site, and then update the DNS entry with the new virtual host name. Because Apache [...]

Well. It is the time of the year again. End of November, beginning of December – and that was when the last incarnation of “Scott Yang’s Playground” was created. After the whole year of Wiki, I am starting to get bored of it. I still want a website that capture my thoughts, but I found [...]

Okay. I am back from the holidays now. After coming back on a Cathay Pacific flight at 6:45am Eastern Australia time yesterday (Sunday), I quickly wrapped up a slide show presentation for the MBF review/farewell event yesterday. Vivian and I tried to catch up some sleep, and then we rushed off to the church. The [...]

I am getting myself ready to get out the door by 7:00am this morning to go to the Kingsford Smith airport, so that I can fly to Taiwan at 9:00am. I will be away from this country for 2 weeks – one week in Taiwan and one week in Hong Kong. I will be meeting [...]

Hi everyone! This is Scott’s very first blog using the Moveable Type weblog backend. This is actually a very nice system, and I am hoping for the next few days I will move my old blogs on the Wiki system to here. It looks nice, generating static HTML, and is very easy to use. Besides, [...]

I found the Mozilla vulnerability list today on their own website, and now I am wondering whether Mozilla is really more secure than Internet Explorer.

Got a new 30Gb hard disk for my Inspiron 8000 2 days ago. Partitioned to give 20Gb to the almighty Windows 2000, and I want to install some useful operating systems on the rest. Yesterday I downloaded the FeeBSD 4.7-RELEASE from Internode’s mirror, and was prepared to install it. I’ve not tried FreeBSD for more [...]

The hard drive of my Dell Inspiron 8000 dropped dead yesterday. It has not much warning. I tried to power the notebook up, but then it refused to boot into Windows. You can hear the clicking sound coming from the hard drive, and you go – Doh! I reported it to work today, and hopefully [...]

Just came back from Eric and Christina’s wedding reception. I’ll give my best wishes to both of them here! It was a Christian/Anglican wedding this morning, and the message presented by Rev John Warner is actually a bit evangelistic. The reading was from Song of Songs and 1 Corinthians 13, however John presented 1Co13 in [...]

I’ve watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on DVD finally. Went and borrowed it Friday night from Movie4U, and watched the whole lot in Mandarin. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this Oscar-winning film directed by Ang Lee, but I never had a chance to actually watch it. Anyway, the Kung-Fo scenes are awesome. [...]

Vivian and I spent our long weekend at Asian Club 5, and we came back yesterday afternoon from Merroo. There are just so many things that I need to digest through – mainly on my Christian ministry decisions. A bit stressed and confused at the moment about what I want to do, what the church(es) [...]