Lloyd Leung

Category: Technology

Technology stuff

  • Remove Ads on Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger 8)

    Remove Ads on Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger 8) | LiewCF.com – Technology, Computers and Internet (Malaysia)
    The title says it all.

  • Hamachi : Stay Connected

    Hamachi : Stay Connected
    Wow… a FREE vpn like service. I wonder will this work behind my school’s firewall?
    hamachi is so easy to setup. It’s just another network adapter, with a private network setup. Making stuff work just so easily…
    you’re hooked up to the network, like ICQ, with just another layer. Speeds aren’t too bad either.
    So, all clients hook up to the a central server to get communication information, and then you’re able to connect to the clients without issue.
    Now, it’d be nice if I could actually somehow lose the central server hookup. But I’m not complaining if it’ll allow me to go from:
    laptop -> hamachi -> vnc 128bit encryption client -> vnc server -> hamachi -> workstation.
    a few layers… yup. But currently school is filtering out ports 5800… so I don’t feel like digging to find out what ports are open to me. So hopefully hamachi will solve this problem. I’ll know this evening if I go to class.

  • New List of firefox extensions

    Adblock 0.5.2.052
    Auto Copy 0.6.0
    del.icio.us 1.0.2
    Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0
    DownThemAll! 0.9.8
    Ext2Abc 0.4
    Gmail Notifier 0.5.3
    ListZilla 0.7
    MeasureIt 0.3.5
    NoScript 1.1.3.4
    PDF Download 0.5.1.2
    Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.8
    Talkback 1.5
    TinyUrl Creator 1.0.1
    Viamatic foXpose 0.2
    Web Developer 0.9.4
    (more…)

  • flash dynamic preloader

    Flash has a nice tendency to not load stuff properly. This is because I’m so used to linear processing, as opposed to parallel taskes to be done at the same time.
    With this in mind, flash causes start/finish issues. Flash will try to use an object that hasn’t been completely loaded yet. So checks all these checks have to be put in place.
    The alternative to checks, is to preload that objects. Which, if you know nothing about actionscript is a little daughting.
    I’m in the middle of writing a modular preloader for dynamic content in actionscript 2. At least the dynamic content’s size can be calculated.
    This really shouldn’t be that hard, except the fact that I don’t know the scruture of actionscript. Perhaps this will be the new thing I’m going to learn…

  • Firefox extensions that are a must

    MUST have extensions:
    noscript denies Java, and JavaScripts from running, unless whitelisted.
    adblock – Just as it sounds, blocks ads.
    a large list for adblocking – a community list for adblock
    Disable Targets For Downloads – Prevents sites spawning blank windows when clicking binary downloads.
    Tabbrowser Preferences
    gmail notifier – little notice icon when new mail arrives to your gmail account.

  • New pet project, simple group schedular

    – Allow user to login/register.
    – Select what days they are free to do this project.
    – Colate Dates which are good.
    – Different shades from Red to Green, where the more green something is, more people can show.
    User: ID / Login / Password / email / IM contact
    Event: ID / Description /Map / Date Start / Date Finish / Notes (Unique rows)
    Event_User: Event.ID / User.ID (Unique rows)
    Attendence: User.ID / Attending_bool / Note
    Populate Calender:
    Given: Event.ID
    Select * from attendence, Event_User where Event.ID = $EventID

  • Free VPN like Solution

    VPN via SSH and putty.. Kind of says it all.

  • Flash Burnin Effect

    This is for a flash action script 2.0 file.
    requires: http://laco.wz.cz/tween/to be installed to function
    Note some aspects of this code:
    – dynamically loads a directory full of images (jpgs specifically)
    – fade aspects are definable.
    – recursive function for looping through images.
    – just a setInterval for the master loop. (more…)

  • Simple pleasures in life

    Yesterday was such a beautiful day.
    I accomplished so much in the span of the day.
    Had good food, panzerroties from the local pizzeria and grilled chicken on a greek salad.
    Sat in the sun, smoked a good cuban cigar, having some fine jamacian rum and vanilla coke while read a book by Philip K Dick – The Minority Report.
    The Minority Report, is just one of the short stories that are in that book. It’s a compilation of serveral short stories.
    After all that lounging I decided to wash my car and driveway.
    That got me in a productive mood, so sat down and nearly finished writing the adminsitration backend for my client. Just need to tweak a few things, and all should be good.
    All in all, a very productive day. Hope the rest of summer can be like this.

  • Rant on Apple, Microsoft, and Via.

    GAH!!!!!!!!
    After a few days of not being able to connect my HP Apple iPod 20gig 4th gen. I got feed up.
    I tried my iPod on Alice’s firewire port, and it worked fine. But not USB. I couldn’t get the stupid iPod to work on Alice’s iBook, Mags computer, my computer, or my laptop. My conclusion, iPod’s USB dock thing, broken.
    Works perfectly fine on 1394/1394a/firewire. Stupid iPod.
    Now to rant on Microsoft. GAH!!! Why can’t they release a proper driver. My VIA VT6306 chipset Firewire card, wouldn’t work out of the box with Windows XP SP2 installed. I had to go in a round about way to get it to install.
    STUPID VIA and stupid MS for not releasing PROPER Drivers. Alright, I shouldn’t expect miracles from MS or VIA, to work out of the box. But damn it! Release some drivers that work!
    Instead I had to download some shady drivers from somewhere on the net to get the damn 1394 card to work. Now I just need to remember to backup those drivers, otherwise I’ll have to go through hell again and back to get the IEEE 1394 card to work again.
    Here’s hoping that my iPod will REMAIN working with the firewire.