Archive for November, 2007

Slooow

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I’m in Mauritius. And, I know because the Internet connection is so slow!

I’m typing this over a Nomad 64 connection that was disconnected supposedly a few months ago. It is intermittent at best, but still allows me to check my e-mail and…

Mac OS X Leopard 2

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Dans Mac OS X Leopard, je conseillais aux utilisateurs de Mac OS X Tiger d’attendre au moins jusqu’à la sortie de la mise à jour 10.5.1 avant d’installer Leopard. Et bien, 10.5.1 est là, mais tous les problèmes ne sont pas pour autant résolus, du moins en ce qui me concerne. Mail n’aime toujours [...]

Login, Session & Authentication

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

The login form consists of 2 text boxes and 1 button.
 
Assume the following:
Txtid holds the username
Txtpass holds the password
The name of the database is XXX.mdb held in folder named db
The name of the table is jacko
The fields are username and passww
The form is named login
The button name is btnenter

Download Code snippet now (PDF)
   
Later (in [...]

My first spiked drink

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Went to Ngyone as usual last Saturday (the 10th). I had a small bottle of beer and chatted with friends. After sipping about half of it I felt kind of drunk and hot. I had to wash my face, but still felt drowsy. I spent some time dozing on one of the sofas. Later I [...]

Rookie dans les vap !

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

C’était lors d’une des séances d’initiation aux signaux de fumée de Rookie. En vertu de son expérience acquise au cours d’une immémoriale existence, c’est au Sage que fut confiée la noble tâche. Transmettre au jeune guerrier les subtilités de cette mode de communication sans fil (j’en profite pour signaler que la communication sans fil ne [...]

La pipe orientale

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Ohhh… je vois déjà une lueur perverse briller dans votre regard. Je vous le dis tout de suite, pas de ça chez nous ! Ce qu’on appelle la pipe orientale est aussi connu sous le nom de Shisha ou encore le narguilé. Ben El Fakir a probablement du trop en fumer quand il était petit [...]

Not an alternative source of energy

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

With the high price of oil, it is important to distinguish the alternative sources of energy available to us. Contrary to popular beliefs, not all alternative sources of energy are good. Solar energy on roof tops is great. Wind mills are good but may be an eyesore. Biodiesel/biofuel is bad I think. Using agriculture [...]

Two weeks of poor weather to come

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Today was a great day: a bit cold but sunny and clear sky. The next two weeks seem to bring rain and snow. It’s not a good combination.

lol, windows based ATM…

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Early this morning, at about 8am(ya, mo rentre work early aster), i got down from bus at Plaine Verte, n went towards an atm to cash out some money…
Reaching that atm, lol, i saw ppl waiting before the atm, without actually using it.
i thought the atm was perhaps out of order for some mins, n [...]

My first Facebook app

Monday, November 19th, 2007

In fact it’s a simple app written in PHP5 using the screen scraping technique ;-). Basically the script fetches the headlines from the local newspaper “Lexpress.mu” and displays them in your profile.
Add lexpress-mru app to your facebook profile. 
Download the php script here (requires php5).