What is Orz

This question have been wandering around my mind for almost 1 year. I saw many of my ex Taiwan colleagues like to use this "Orz" in their daily conversation in instant messenger. And I even saw some T-shirt printed "Orz". What is Orz actually? Is it a new word, symbol or acronym?

I tried to ask my friends and the way they answer me is like this.

Me: "What is Orz actually?"

Friend: "Orz is Orz la."

Me: "What do you mean by Orz is Orz."

Friend: "Orz is nothing but Orz la, cannot explain dude."

Me: ...... <give up asking>

And one day, I saw a picture from my msn friend avatar. And i shouted, "OH.... I SEE", I finally got it, I finally know what it's means.

For those who have no idea what is Orz means, don't worry, I will clear all your doubts here.

The following is the image that help me to understand what Orz mean. I guarantee you will get some idea once you see it.

Orz1

Still don't get it? No worries, the following attached with more images that related to Orz and a few lines of explanation on Orz are provided. For detail explanation, you may go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orz
Explanation: a Japanese emoticon representing a kneeling or bowing person, with the "o" being the head, the "r" being the arms and part of the body, and the "z" being part of the body and the legs.





By now you should know what is Orz , if not I really will Orz.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orz

Sunday, August 24, 2008 | posted in , | 2 comments [ More ]

Comex 2008 coming soon



Comex 2008, Singapore Biggest IT & consumer technology exhibition, will be held in 28 - 31 August 2008 at Suntec City Exhibition Centre. Since I have miss the PIKOM 2008 PC Fair II held at KLCC, so I wouldn't want to miss this one for sure.

As I never been to this fair before, so not much I can comment about this.

Just want to send a friendly reminder to all IT geeks,

"Is time to break you piggy bank and spend hard."

Source: http://www.comexshow.com.sg/

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Customize Popblue 3 Column

I've customize the theme based on my own preferences. Basically, I only modified 3 files, which is style.css, single.php, index.php.

So what is the difference between default and customize popblue 3 column theme?

Changelog:


- maximum width of popblue 3 theme, wider screens

- Post title:

  • link, remove underline

  • bigger font size

  • added author and postview (required wp-postview plugin)


- Post display

  • Display the latest post on Top

  • List older post with short description at bottom of the page. (The ideal is base on "Blog oh Blog V2.0 theme")


- Page navigation

- blockquote

To compare the theme,

Default: Test Run

Modified: My Blog

Download Modified theme: [download#2]

Source: http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-pop-blue-3-columns/

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New Theme For blog.chenhow.net

Few days back I received a comment from a friend, saying my blog are a bit messy and untidy. All the while I thought my blog are simple and clean, I didn't expect getting this kind of feedback, anyway I accept criticism. Any constructive comment I'm also willing to listen.

Therefore, I decided to look for a new theme and after browsing to a few wordpress theme websites, at the end I still want to stick back with my belove popblue. I don't know why, I just love it. So, I decided to enhance abit by changing the theme to popblue 3 column and modify it.

Dear readers, hope you will like the new look of my blog. :-)

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The Fastest way to calculate hosts/subnet/broadcast

Yes, you are right. The fastest way is to use an IP subnet calculator. You can find tons of free IP subnet calculators over the Internet, example like http://www.subnet-calculator.com/

But, what if something happened to your PC, where you can't use the software or internet to do the calculation for you. Therefore, you should always have a backup, like every IT staff did. Make yourself a backup and learn how to count without any 3rd party tools.

Actually is not as difficult as you think. Here, I will show you an easy way to do it.

Given a scenario, if provides you the IP address and subnet mask. And ask you to find out what is the number of valid hosts, subnet and broadcast address.

Example:
IP - 192.168.10.34
subnet mask - 255.255.255.224 or CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) :/27



To find subnet and broadcast address.
1) 256 - 224(subnet mask last octet) = 32

First subnet is 32.
Second subnet is 32 x 2 = 64
Third subnet is 32 x 3 = 96
.
.
.

etc


Since our IP (192.168.10.34) is fall between 32 - 64 subnet, so the subnet address is 192.168.10.32 and the broadcast address is 192.168.10.63.



Find Host range
1) Valid hosts range is 192.168.10.33 - 192.168.10.62
- as 192.168.10.32 is subnet, 192.168.10.63 is broadcast

Find total valid hosts

1) 192.168.10.(62) - 192.168.10.(33) = 29


or


32 - 27(CIDR) = 5


2y = 25 - 2



= 31 - 2
= 29



All solution only got 1 step. Simple isn't it. Still don't understand? Nevermind, let's do another example.

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Inspiration Quote

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not
vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

This is so true. I find it most of the time, our boss are not someone who think smarter than us, yet they are our boss.

Orz

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Raped Cases In Malaysia

Recently, I read an article talking about 'why Malaysian men rape', and the title is called 'she was ripe for thee plucking', this is what rapist think and it's like describing women as an items, which is total discrimination against women.

In this article, A statistic shows that everyday an average of four women are raped and rape cases just like petrol price hike, every years keep on increasing. From 1980 till 2007, the number have been increase tremendously. The following is the chart shows the raped cases happen in different year.

















Years1980199420062007
No. Of Cases13891224313177

66.3% are malay
15.3% by others
10.5% are chinese
7.8% are indian

The number might be more because all these are reported cases, unreported cases are not in count.

Being a Malaysian, I really feel sad to see the number of raped cases happen in my own country. I always wonder, why rapist doesn't want to find prostitute to release their urge. Do you know why?

Base on the research did by Dr Rohana Ariffin after interviews with 90 convicted rapists. Rapist think prostitute are dirty. Pathetic isn't it, like raping is something clean to them.

We really need to find a cure, infact, this is an interesting topic to discuss because to reduce the number, we need to know what and how rapist think, why they committed this unforgiven crime. Is it the purnishment are not hard enough? Do they feel any regret after committed this crime?

In the mean time, all ladies should be more caution not only when you are walking alone or going out with stranger, but also when you are with friends and colleagues. We tend to believe that rapists are someone unknown to the victims but the reality is that most victims were raped by someone they know, a friend, former partner, even a relative. Even those trusted in authority like parents, policemen, religious leaders and community elders have been charged with rape.

Hence, I hope the government of Malaysia will tighten up the law to punish those who committed rape crime and improve the security by installing surveillance camera on dark/quiet area and add more patrol car.

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