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Apr 4: I won a "golden" mug in Singsoon Bowling Mini-tournament at SuperBowl Marina Sq. I got a "double" in game 1, and a "turkey" in game 2. My total pinfalls is 278. First place almost went to runner-up Lau Hock, but my "turkey" gave me a huge jump in pinfalls. Thanks to Sing Soon for organizing this bowling session.

Feb 24: I tried to boot my toshiba usb drive with Windows XP USB Stick Edition on my thinkpad t43, pre-formatted with fat16/fat32/ntfs using hpusbfw.exe v2.0.6. however only the fat16 option works in this case. I tested a usbmemstick guide, and it proved that my usb drive formatted with fat32 is able to boot into msdos on my laptop.

http://www.freewebs.com/tulir/pe2usb-FULL.htm
The only format utility that worked OK is the HP HPUSBFW Windows-based Format Utility for HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB version 2.00.006 A (6 Feb 04). The newer one version 2.1.8 A from (17 May 04) or (20 Jan 05) did NOT made the stick bootable! The same with the command line HP utility from all 3 packages!

2008 Feb 23: I bought an Toshiba TransMemory 4GB (ReadyBoost Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive) for 38sgd at Bizgram@SimLimSquare today. I made this purchase decision after checking out all the shops, which only sell countless lousy/expensive USB flash drives (mostly imation, sandisk). I wanted play around with installing/booting Pe2usb/WinUSB/USBoot straight from BIOS. With that Vista ReadyBoost logo on the package and without a better choice (like Lexar, Corsair, Patriot), it should be a safe bet.

Then I went home and ran some benchmarking software on it:

	H2testw: Write speed 8.29 MB/s Read speed 17.5 MB/s
	HD Tune: Average read 17.4 MB/s Bootable Yes
	HD Tach: Average read 18.4 MB/s
	Sandra Lite: Device Index 1114ops/min Read performance: 144 KB/s-17MB/s Write performance: 10 KB/s - 7 MB/s
	Bench32: Write: 8.26 MB/s Read: 10.11 MB/s

Well, the results suggested that it is just an average drive, but I think it can hold me until I need to buy a better one.

Dec 10: Just did a bandwidth test at Speedtest.net , and here's the result.

Dec 8: I remember my internet plan is expiring soon, so I surfed by SNBB: 3Mbps Unlimited. I signed up online for the 3M Unlimited, 12-month contract, [1 month subscription worth $43.82^] option inside the Re-contract page. Deliberately avoided those longgggg 24-months plans. Hate themz ;)

Here's a forum thread on this promotion: Singnet free ipod touch! - www.hardwarezone.com.sg.

Dec 5: Exams are over. Pray my math module wont fail me.

Nov 13: I have been busy doing a major school project over this past few week, and my 2 exam papers is coming up as well.

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ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.Net 2.0 - Master Pages Tips, Tricks, and Traps

Geekz Sources of IDea How to remove Flash.10.exe and Macromedia.10.exe virus

FLASH.10.SETUP.EXE, Prevx

ASP.NET 2.0 Pre-compilation

Startup Delayer

Delay Run : allow the delayed startup of your windows programs

Troubleshooting Windows XP, Tweaks and Fixes for Windows XP

The official Tech Babes GIF thread - VR-Zone IT & Lifestyle Forum!

DekaRanger

AJAX

Ajaxian » Google AJAX Translation API

Windows / Office Related

Misc Softwares

shadowandy - my life stories: DIR-300 Archives - review on DIR300 BT performance before flashing and after flashing with 3rd party firmware

Feature: Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato

WEPKEY.COM - Wireless Encryption Protocol WEP Key Generator - Lost WEP Key Convertor

Offline rip of WEPKey.com

networkgarage.com: WEP-Open more secure than WEP-Shared? Who knew?

No-IP.com - So your ISP has decided to block port 80?

Hard Disk Drives: 3.5" or 2.5"?

Firefox & IE Prompt You To Remember Passwords - Do You Say Yes ?

A Guide to fix the Thumbdrive Virus; RavMonE.exe Part 2! « StyleZ.BLOG @ Republic Polytechnic

NAT loopback/Loopback Connections

PortForward.com Forum - Solution for Warcraft battlenet lan hosting join

All u need to do, to enable loopback for your router. If your router doesnt have this function. Then you'll' have to manually hack into your router if your router is linux based. As far as i know, some dlink or linksys are linux based.

your need to Putty (google it yourself) or any supported telnet clients. Login in as root. cd into /etc then type this into your telnet client.

echo 192.168.0.2 portforward.dyndns.org >> hosts

D-Link DSL-604+ Wireless ADSL Router - Support Forum - eXpansys Cyprus

You have stumbled across a number of common issues with consumer-grade NAT routers - and the issues are certainly not limited to D-Link products!
1. The router does not by default implement NAT loopback. This means that it is not possible to access a service running on a system behind the router from another system behind the router using the public IP address of the router. There is also the DNS-related issue of resolving domain names to local IP addresses when local services are accessed from behind the router.

Some1 please help with this modem issue - D-Link - DSL Hardware

I suspect "loopback port redirection" is what you are after. Computers on your LAN probably resolve the name of your game server (the PC on your LAN) as public IP address. And they are trying to log into the game server through the router's WAN port. But since they are coming from LAN, port redirection does not work. It only works when connection requests are coming from WAN.
If I guessed the problem right, there is no fix for it. These routers do not do loopback redirection.
What you can try to do is to force your computers to connect to the server using its private IP address.
Another option is to modify the HOSTS file on your computers to make them resolve the name of the game server into private IP.

hacking a DSL-G604T D-Link router - D-Link - DSL Hardware
DlinkDslG604t - Seattle Wireless
Exploring the Netcomm NB5 - ADSL / ADSL-2/2+ Modem Router
Auto DL Hosts File and Install... - LinksysInfo - Community Forums for Linksys Devices
DynDNS: Knowledge Base -- Loopback Connections

WWW FAQs: Why can't I access my home-hosted website from my own computer?

Some routers are smarter than others: they can tell the difference between an attempt to connect to the "outside" address of the router and an attempt to connect to its "inside" address (usually 192.168.2.1). But some, alas, are not so smart. And with these routers, you will not be able to connect to your home-hosted website by name from within your home.

Windows Mobile Related

My past news and happenings

Programs I wrote
TransparentGUI 2.1 CSMapRandomizer 1.2 WallpaperStyleInstaller 1.0 JADMAKER 1.15 Comments from Internet Users AutoMouseClicker 2.1 More to be added...