Scott Yang's Playground

First of all I got to apologise to both Tim and Libing for being absent in their combined birthday party, as I’ve previously arranged to meet up with Sonny from BlueSky BBS, someone I have not seen for years. I can’t remember when was the last time I met up with Sonny – a few [...]

Don’t you just hate it when you are administering a co-located box in the data centre using SSH, your colleagues have been heavily downloading stuff off the net that congested the pipe so badly, that you have to wait for half a second for each character you’ve typed to echo back to you. The dodgy [...]

I’m having a relexed Saturday this week. Unlike my previous weekend, we did not go around looking for properties. Instead, Vivian and I, with some other friends from MBF played tennis for 3 hours (9am-12pm) this morning. We had lunch at Sandra and Amanda’s place, and then I came home to have a nap, recovering [...]

In one article on the OpenOffice.org Mac Community website, it talked about a company that rebranded OpenOffice.org 1.0 for Mac OS X (calling it LuxuriousityOffice – what kind of name is that?) and then sell it on their website and eBay. In Luxuriousity’s web page on this office product, it claims its very own Luxuriousity [...]

I have to agree with Tim on this one – why so many people are getting married under the hot burning sun of Australian summer? Beside Alan/June and Jack/Virginia‘s wedding on the 13th of December, recently I’ve also received two new wedding notices. One is coming up soon, and another one will be just a [...]

Saturday morning has been occupied with more house hunting activities. This morning we went around the Eastern suburbs looking at places that can possibly fit into our budget, which were mainly town houses and apartments. We also went for 2 auctions, both by LJ Hooker Maroubra, and that was an experience. It was actually the [...]

Because I took a day off yesterday, Friday felt quite fast to me. Well, plus I have got quite a few things to do at work as well. For tonight, there’s MBF leaders meeting at my place. There’s quite a few leadership issues that I need to address, and I’ll probably rant over here later. [...]

Yeah! I finally received my copy of Australian Personal Computer magazine October 2003 issue yesterday. I have been a subscriber since ’99, but I have never been so excited to received the latest issue. My letter to Epinions on “Panther at a price” was actually used – first letter on the page! Well, I was [...]

I took an day off from work yesterday to go to a few propperty inspections around the Eastern suburbs, together with Vivian. She was supposed to go to TAT and meet up with some girls on the campus to do bible study, as Thursday is her MTS day, but she also got concession to skip [...]

On the way to work today, I heard from the radio that public school teachers across Victoria, NSW and WA are having a strike, demanding to have better pay rise. Hundreds of school across Australia will be shut down today, either completely or partially. How come it never happens when I was studying high school?! [...]

Last week I finally got my own copy of The Aussie Bible!! I went to Koorong after the SCEA the Saturday before last week, and the sales staff said it was not available in the store. Felt a bit disappointed, but then Vivian bought it for me last Thursday. I am not sure where she [...]

On Saturday Vivian and I joined the Asian AIM at the Burwood Chinese Presbyterian Church. There were significantly less people comparing to the last time, partly because many female Christians have gong to the WKC on the same day. Also the SCEA day was on the previous weekend. But nevertheless, it was an enjoyable and [...]

Amanda rang on Sunday from Taiwan, asking whether she should get a Powerbook instead of an iBook. I said, “Nah”, as Powerbook is about to be updated. Buying it now means you are losing thousands of dollars (NT$ anyway) immediately. She should either get something else (like an iBook) or wait for a few days… [...]

It seems VeriSign has added wildcard to .COM and .NET domains. $ host f0cuser.net a.gtld-servers.net Using domain server: Name: a.gtld-servers.net Address: 192.5.6.30#53 Aliases: f0cuser.net has address 64.94.110.11 $ host what-the-heck-is-this.com a.gtld-servers.net Using domain server: Name: a.gtld-servers.net Address: 192.5.6.30#53 Aliases: what-the-heck-is-this.com has address 64.94.110.11 $ host 64.94.110.11 11.110.94.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer sitefinder-idn.verisign.com. $ host verisign-sux.com a.gtld-servers.net [...]

From my previous rant against Microsoft and MSN Messenger, I said that I would not be able to connect to this instant messenger network after 15th of October, as Microsoft will be blocking all the clients using protocols prior to MSN8. That would include the Jabber server I’m using at work to connect to MSN. [...]