Kanok’s Balcony

เห็นข่าวการเมืองแต่ละวันแล้วก็ละเหี่ยใจ  มองไปทางไหนก็ยังไม่เห็นทางออก  ทั้งๆ ที่เศรษฐกิจโลกกำลังย่ำแย่แบบนี้  คนในบ้านยังตีกัน  คงรอให้ไฟมาจ่อหน้าบ้านก่อนแล้วค่อยจะสำนึกมั๊ง

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มาเรื่องที่จรรโลงใจดีกว่า  ในที่สุดผมก็ต้องเป็นผู้ดูแลอุปกรณ์ของ Apple เพิ่มขึ้นอีกอย่างก็คือ MacBook สีขาวสะอาด  ว่าไปแล้วก็ไม่ค่อยรู้เรื่องอะไรเท่าไหร่เลย  ก็มาเริ่มพร้อมๆ กับพ่อ  มีหนังสือมาอ่านสองเล่มทำตามไปเรื่อยๆ  ทำไป ทำมา เจ้า Mac OS X นี้ก็ไม่เลวเหมือนกัน  แต่ยังไงก็คงไม่มีโอกาสซื้อใช้เองอยู่แล้ว

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It has been report that Space Station ‘notebook’ computer has caught virus.  Luckily it is not the mission critical computer.  The virus identified as W32.Gammima.AG, a stealing gaming password worm.

They’re working really hard to find out how this virus got through the screening protocol and pop-up on the Space Station.

In the mean time, don’t play game or this virus will steal you password

http://www.space.com/news/080827-iss-computervirus.html

Does anyone know Firefox?  It is a rival Internet browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.  The developer claims that it is faster and more secure than IE.  It gain more and more popularity as the market share grows.  The Mozilla foundation is continually develop and add more functionality to this program.  And now it come to the third generation.

For over 34 months that Mozilla foundation and developer around the world develop Firefox 3.  They had announced that the will release long await Firefox 3 on June 17… (see the announcement HERE)   They even have a campaign to set a download World Record.

But wait June 17 on whose time?   Is it GMT, PDT, ICT or what?   It is clearly that they are over joy on their new product and forget that there is time zone in use on this planet.  People on one side that get to June 17 than others wait the whole day wait for Firefox to appears and they announce.  Until later on June 17 they must have tones of e-mail from east side of the world that “where is Firefox on June 17? I’m about to go to bed already”  that they announce that it will be June 17 at 1700 UTC (see the announcement HERE)

By the time they release their product, it is already June 18 here already.

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July 18 1.12 GMT

Now the download link is up.  You can get FF3 by clicking HERE (the link download FF3 direct from Mozilla.com)

Microsoft has released the latest and final service pack for the old and faithful Windows XP. The Service Pack 3 or SP3 is intended to be a collection of previously-released fixes and product enhancements, as well as a few new features that are unique to this release.

When talking about “new” feature for SP3, do not expect a dramatic feature. That what Vista is here for. See the list and you will know.

Network Access Protection compatibility. Announced years ago, this feature allows Windows XP machines to interact with the NAP feature in Windows Server 2008. This functionality is built into the RTM version of Windows Vista as well.

Product Key-less install option. As with Windows Vista, new XP with SP3 installs can proceed without entering a product key during Setup.

Kernel Mode Cryptographics Module. A new kernel module that “encapsulates several different cryptographic algorithms,” according to Microsoft.

“Black hole” router detection algorithm. XP gains the ability to ignore network routers that incorrectly drop certain kinds of network packets. This, too, is a feature of Windows Vista.

You can download the full SP3 from Microsoft from this link directly. The whole thing is 316 MB, so a high speed Internet is needed.

Hard drive from wreckage of shuttle Columbia which identified to contain results from an experiment to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity.  Once believe that data were totally destroyed, still can be recovered 99% of that data contained.  The result was published in a journal called Physical Review E.  By the way the HDD was 400MB Seagate.

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Last week I bought 2G Kingston DataTraveler 101R special edition (Year of the Rat) and plan to put my existing JetFlash 2G thumb drive as a file backup.

I expect this new USB drive to be empty or just has some bundled software in the drive but not the full locked partition with cripple software.  Kingston tech support confirm that it cannot be removed.  I may need to find a way to remove this partition in order to continue using my TrueCrypt security software.

They should have put a warning at the package that the bundled software cannot be removed.

So long Kingston.  If you continue doing this, you will not get my money again.

From the same company that creates iPod, stunned the world with iPhone on Mac World 2007.  Last year Steve Jobs said “We’re going to make some history together today” when he introduced iPhone.  This year Steve Jobs, again, stunned the world with “The Thinnest Laptop on Earth!” - MacBook Air.  Watch the YouTube video below and you will see.

Thinnest but not compromise specs at all.  It has Intel Core 2 Duo, 2G of RAM, 13.3 inch wide screen LED display, 80GB HDD or 64GB SSD (Solid State Drive-Wow!!!), multi touch keypad similar to iPhone, built-in 801.11n WiFi, iSight web cam and USB.  The battery life is 5 hours with wireless web browsing.  Can’t wait to see what’s next?   3G iPhone perhaps?

I just lost data from my corrupt 2G thumb drive.  I removed it from a hung notebook and the next time it is unreadable.  :-(  After a quick format and recovery software, I’ve got some data back but the file name is all changed.  Lots of trip schedule in the past and some of the information for future trip are gone.

So I would like to remind everybody.  DATA BACKUP is important event for your thumb drive.

Such a sad day.

อาทิตย์นี้เป็นสัปดาห์ที่ผลิตภัณฑ์สองอย่างเริ่มให้บริการ  อย่างแรกคือ Airbus A380  เริ่มให้บริการระหว่าง  Singapore - Sydney  เริ่มวันที่ 25 ตุลาคม   ส่วนอีกผลิตภัณฑ์ก็คือ Apple OS X: Leopard  จะขายเป็นครั้งแรกวันที่ 26 ตุลาคม  หลังจากที่เป็น beta version มาพักใหญ่

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