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HYGEN Blog, Dan Gibas, MalaysiaHYGEN Blog, Dan Gibas, MalaysiaIm 25 and the Director of HYGEN Web Design Development and this is my personal blog. It is not related to work at all so any thing to do with work please go to the main HYGEN website. This blog is mainly for my own use to jot down notes on things, 
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Get The Latest Sky News Headlines For Your Website
2008-01-31 02:15:00 A new service from Sky News , possibly related to their developer competion is now available. You can add the latest news from Sky to a website using an HTML IFrame. Not the best way of doing things, but it works… More About: Website , Headlines
Convert .doc to .pdf Online For Free
2008-01-29 22:50:00 I have been doing a bit of work using Windows systems lately and they annoyingly lack so many features, especially when it comes to working with different file formats. It’s a real pain to work with old Bills software instead of good old Linux. More About: Technology , Free , Online , Convert
Malaysian Association For The Blind (MAB) - Accessibility Workshop for the
2008-01-26 20:34:00 I attended a workshop yesterday as a “web accessibility guru” organized by Khairul Yusof of http://foss.org.my. The workshop was a great opportunity to learn from visually disabled computer users, in fact 90% of the session was on obtaining feedback on all different aspects of IT from the end users perspective. More About: Linux , Web Design , Technology , Malaysia , Open Source
Chumphon, Thailand
2008-01-15 11:15:00 I cut my trip to Cambodia short - in Chumphon , Thailand ! I found what was just the perfect place to let the ashes go into the sea. Chumphon is about half way to Cambodia from Kuala Lumpur. One of the islands off the coast of Chumphon. More About: Travel , Photos , Lennox
On The Road To Cambodia
2008-01-09 11:39:00 I’m on my way up to Cambodia to disperse Lennox’s ashes at either of these two places - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonle_Sap More About: Travel , Malaysia , Thailand , Road
Ruby Tool ?flvtool2? For Long Flash .flv Files
2008-01-05 09:32:00 “FLVTool 2 is a manipulation tool for Macromedia Flash Video files (FLV). It can calculate a lot of meta data, insert an onMetaData tag, cut FLV files, add cue points (onCuePoint), show the FLV structure and print meta data information in XML or YAML.” More About: Linux , Open Source , Ruby
Tutorial: Rip A DVD Movie On Linux Then Convert It To A Flash Movie
2008-01-04 15:24:00 First get AcidRip: sudo apt-get install acidrip AcidRip will then be available under R 20;Multimedia” in the K Menu if you use KDE, GNOME will have placed a shortcut somewhe re similar. AcidRip is a DVD ripping utility and we are going to use it to convert DVD data to an .avi movie file. More About: Linux , Movie , Technology , Open Source , Flash
Open / Convert Adobe .AI Files In Linux
2008-01-03 11:06:00 I was unable to open or convert Adobe Illustrator files (*.ai) under Linux , using The Gimp and some other software too. Unable to find any answers online I came accross this service from Adobe… More About: Technology , Open , Convert
Carrefour Malaysia Displaying Tortured And Dead Animals
2008-01-02 18:55:00 Does anyone want a dead hamster, hedgehog, snake, rabbit, scorpion or sugar glider? Go to Carrefour Malays ia ! More About: Animals , Dead
Malaysian Web Hosting Site Launch
2008-01-01 03:31:00 I have just launched the following site for web hosting in Malaysia … http://www.iismanager.com More About: Technology , Hosting , Malaysian , Web Hosting
Convert .docx to .doc
2007-12-31 03:38:00 I have recently been getting quite a few documents by email from clients that use the .docx extension and found out that I am on the recieving end of a bitter Microsoft ploy to take over the office software market by brute force! More About: Technology , Convert
Malaysian PHP User Group Down
2007-12-30 08:39:00 I was wondering why http://www.php.org.my is down and discovered the domain name has expired. So just incase others are trying to access the Malaysia n PHP user group website (the forums etc) - now you too know the reason! More About: Technology , Malaysian , User , Group
Back From A MySQL Nightmare!
2007-12-30 08:17:00 Finally, my MySQL databases and server are back online! It has been days and days of endless stress and nightmares. The disaster started after what should have been a simple upgrade of MySQL server. The existing install went down while configuring to allow external connections and the newly reinstalled version would then not start ... More About: Technology , Open Source , Nightmare , Bugs , Back
What Happens When The Network Is Down
2007-12-20 23:45:00 I really feel for the IT admin guy… because I often am in his role… but this guy gets it really really bad… More About: Technology , Network
Reminder - PHP4 Running Out Of Time
2007-12-20 23:22:00 In a news release dated 13-Jul-2007, the PHP development team (http://php.net) announced the phasing out of PHP4… “The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes ... More About: Web Design , Technology , Running , Open Source , Time
Dr Roopi Running Illegal Abortion Clinic
2007-12-20 10:04:00 News travels fast online and in free flow - which is why I was not surprised to find ample accounts of evidence suggesting that Dr. Roopi runs an illegal abortion clinic (regardsless of the age of the baby - which means post 3rd trimester). More About: Running , Malaysia , Abortion , Illegal , Lennox
Exit Full Screen Mode In Terminal Server Client - KDE / Linux
2007-12-12 07:18:00 When using the terminal server client in full screen mode you can minimize / switch back out of the session without logging out / exiting the terminal server client by using the shortcut key command… More About: Screen , Linux , Terminal , Open Source , Mode
Emergency Perl Alarm Clock
2007-12-03 12:14:00 I was up at 3am last night without  an Internet connection and an alar m clock - plus cron was not working so I had to come up with a way to buil d an alarm clock as fast as possible to make sure I can wak e up ontime to go to work! I chose to do it in Perl for some reason and use the Debian XMMS music player to play a good song to wake me up. Here is the resulting code in case you ever need a quick and dirty alarm clock written in Perl! Save this code to a text file called alarm.pl… More About: Clock , Alarm , Alarm Clock , Emergency
Microsoft ?Home Server? Disaster Coming Soon
2007-11-30 10:32:00 According to Sky News in the UK, Microsof t has come up with a “new idea̶ 1;. “Plug it into your broadband router, they say, wait 10 minutes, and it will have discovered all the computers, printers, scanners that you have on your system and linked them together.” More About: Technology , Microsoft , Home , Disaster , Bugs
HINDRAF Rally Aftermath
2007-11-30 10:07:00 I would like to congratulate the people who dared turn up for the HINDRAF rally in Kuala Lumpur recently. I think you all did a great job, apart from the very few people who turned a bit violent. But from what I have heard it was most likely either justified or in self defense. More About: Malaysia , Rally
Backup or copy a MySQL Database Using Perl
2007-11-14 11:20:00 Duplicate / Backup / Copy A MySQL Databas e using a Perl script on a linux box… Save the code below to a file, for example mysql_copy.pl More About: Linux , Open Source , Database
Goodbye Lennox We Love You
2007-11-14 05:30:00 Bye bye, Lennox just before the cremation. More About: Malaysia , Love , Goodbye
Steroid Injection To Promote Growth Of Lung Tissue
2007-10-19 16:34:00 We have an appointment on Monday morning for a consultation and most likely an injection of steroids for Lennox . The steroids will hopefully boost the gro wth of his lung tissue enough intime for a birth by cesarian section. More About: Malaysia , Promote , Growth , Romo
Rh Disease Ruled Out?
2007-10-05 09:14:00 We have not had a test done for Rh Disease , even though it is the most common cause of Fetal Hydrops (Hydrops fetalis). When thinking about it, I can’t remember why it has not been done other than the fact that a few doctors ruled it out as they did not “think it was Rh disease”. This is not good enough, especially as th e tests for Thalassemia came back negativ e. More About: Malaysia , Lennox , Rule
DNA Testing For Thalassemia / Lennox?s Case
2007-09-27 21:41:00 There is no cure for thalassemias, and the best treatment available today consists of frequent blood transfusions (every two to three weeks) with iron chelation therapy (e.g. deferoxamine) administered subcutaneously. Bone marrow transplants (hematopoietic stem cell transplantations) and cord blood transplantation with pre-operative myeloablation are potentially curative, though the latter requires further investigation. (source - Wikipedia) More About: Malaysia , Testing , Case , Lennox
Detailed Scans Of Lennox
2007-09-05 21:43:00 I have just scanned two detailed images from Lennox ’s ultrasound scan yesterday. At least this time the doctor involved was good enough to give us printouts and not more concearned with saving paper like the last few doctors. So this time around we have a grand total of 2 images compared to 1 ... More About: Malaysia , Photos , Tail
Introducing Baby Lennox To The World
2007-09-03 19:48:00 It is hard to write this blog post. I would like to proudly introduce my son - baby boy Lennox to the world! He is mostly fighting fit and was all smiles at the thorough ultrasound scan last Saturday and very active. Here is a pic of our brave little fighter ... More About: Baby , Malaysia , Photos , World , The World
Manually Repair Broken Blocks In Drupal
2007-08-24 12:08:00 Quite a few times I have had to manually repair MySQL databases in Drupal installs because new PHP code in a block is crashing. When you add a block written in PHP it may behave differently to when you have tested it outside of the CMS because of the way Drupal works. More About: Linux , Open Source , Bugs , Broken
The Following Packages Have Been Kept Back
2007-08-19 19:58:00 If you are trying to update software packages on Debian / Ubuntu Linux using this command - sudo apt-get upgrade and you get this kind of response (listing different packages) - The following packages have been kept back: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt kdebluetooth skype totem wpasupplicant Then you may want to condsider doing the following… More About: Open Source , Back , Package , Been
K3B Needs Extra Work To Burn Mp3 To Audio CD?s
More articles from this author:2007-08-19 19:15:00 So you have Mp3 working on your Linux box and you think everything is fine. Then one day you want to burn some Mp3’s to an audio CD and all hell breaks loose - no Mp3 support in K3B! K3B, the CD and DVD “kreator” for KDE is great but it needs some extra ... More About: Open Source , Audio , Work , Extra 1, 2, 3 |
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