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New search engine launched

2007-09-12T16:23:00.000+08:00

Wabbadaba Search Engine
Web User

A new search engine that gives you the chance to win prizes every time you search the web has launched.
Called Wabbadabba, the search engine awards up to 15 prizes per day at random. The prizes range from Amazon vouchers to TVs.
No pre-registration is required and you'll only have to enter personal details if you win something.
"We aim to add a bit of fun to a task that has become a part of everyday life for most people who use a computer either at work or at home – with the average person typically doing 10 - 12 searches a day, that's a lot of chances to win," said Ben Akin-Smith of Wabbadabba.
You can also invite your friends to use the search engine - and if anyone you invite wins a prize, you will win one too.
www.wabbadabba.co.uk

How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

2007-09-10T20:47:00.000+08:00

This is me!
81%

What Language Should You Learn?

2007-09-09T10:11:00.000+08:00

This is the language that should i learn. And of course i'm on my way!

You Should Learn Japanese

You're cutting edge, and you are ready to delve into wacky Japanese culture.

From Engrish to eating contests, you're born to be a crazy gaijin. Saiko!

What Language Should You Learn?

Give it a try!

Reduce the Firefox memory usage

2007-09-06T04:40:00.000+08:00

Here's an additional settings to reduce the memory usage in Firefox

There are a couple of settings you can tweak in Firefox that can limit
the amount of memory allocated for caching.

1. Open Firefox and type in about:config in the address bar.

2. Type browser.cache.memory.enable in the Filter Bar and make
sure it is enabled. If not, just double click it to set it to enable.

3. Right-click an area of empty space in the browser and choose
New > Integer.
Type in browser.cache.memory.capacity and click OK.

The integer value you enter depends on the amount of RAM you have.
If you have:
256 MB of RAM, enter “4096”
512 MB of RAM, enter “8192”
1 GB of RAM, enter “16384”
and so forth… Just double the number as your RAM doubles.

4. Right-click anywhere on the window and click New > Boolean and enter:

--> config.trim_on_minimize

And set it to true. When you minimize an application in Windows Vista,
the memory usage is supposed to go down but Firefox doesn’t do this.
By setting this to true,
Firefox will begin to use less memory when minimized.

5. Restart Firefox for these changes to apply.

Want a job at Google? Try these brainteasers first

2007-08-31T21:39:00.000+08:00

Google, Microsoft, and eBay are looking for engineers who can think on their feet. Here's how they find them.

By Michael Kaplan, Business 2.0 Magazine

August 30 2007: 9:17 AM EDT

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Dream of landing a coding job at an A-list tech company? It might be a good idea to prep for your interviews by pondering how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus. Or how much you would charge for washing all the windows in Seattle. Or why, exactly, manhole covers are round and not, say, square.

Seemingly random questions like these have become commonplace in Silicon Valley and other tech outposts, where companies aren't as interested in the correct answer to a tough question as they are in how a prospective employee might try to solve it. Since businesses today have to be able to react quickly to shifting market dynamics, they want more than engineers with high IQs and good college transcripts. They want people who can think on their feet.

Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) often gets credit for bringing so-called open-ended logic-problem screening tools into vogue in the late 1980s, when Redmond interviewers peppered job candidates with offbeat questions like How much does a 747 weigh? "We want to gauge people's creativity," says Warren Ashton, recruiting manager at Microsoft. The manhole cover problem is Ashton's personal favorite.

The most common answer, he says, is that a square manhole cover, tipped at an angle, could fall through the hole. "But some people recognize that you can roll a round manhole cover from site to site. Others figure that you save money by making it round because of tooling requirements. You want to see people taking their conclusions as far as possible."

Such questions are more relevant to a high-tech job interview than you might think. "Employers want to see if you can make an estimate in the ballpark, within an order of magnitude," says Mark Jen, a former Google (Charts, Fortune 500) employee who is now a program manager at Tagged. Coders are constantly making educated guesses rather than calculating exact answers, so a good interview should probe how well a candidate handles such estimates. That's why Amazon.com (Charts, Fortune 500) interviewers, for example, have been known to ask job candidates to guess how many gas stations there are in the United States or to ballpark that bill for washing all of Seattle's windows.

But today's interviews go beyond seat-of-the-pants estimation. Author, design consultant, and veteran coder Bruce Eckel likes to have job candidates describe a chicken using a programming language. eBay (Charts, Fortune 500) often hits candidates with a word problem that goes like this: You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)

But no company has taken brainteaser recruiting quite as far as Google, which famously reeled in engineers three years ago by posting complex math problems on a billboard along Highway 101 in Silicon Valley. Passing motorists were invited to submit their solutions to an undisclosed website. (The site's URL was hidden in the answer.)

If you got to the site, you were asked a second, more difficult question. If you answered that one correctly, you were invited to submit your resume. Once you got to the Googleplex for an interview, a favorite question was this: You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

It's not just employees who have to adjust to the new screening processes. Employers are also prepping for interviews in ways they never did before. When LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman was searching for a new CEO earlier this year, he took an unusual approach to checking references. Having set his sights on a particular candidate, he used the LinkedIn network to find what he calls "off-balance references": 23 former associates who were not preapproved by the candidate. Some were friends of friends - two degrees removed, in LinkedIn parlance. Some had no idea who Hoffman was or why he was calling.

The unscripted references helped to prepare the team that interviewed Hoffman's final choice. Equally important, Hoffman got unfiltered information about a potential top-tier employee, minimizing the likelihood of getting duped. "Normally it's a low bar for someone to give you two or three people who'll say nice things about them," Hoffman says. "Our way of doing it requires a bit of detective work, and you need to put a story together. But you quickly sense if a person is good or a sham."

Getting a handle on a candidate's people skills can be just as important - and just as tricky. At aQuantive, a digital marketing company, job applicants go through an extensive interview loop and in most cases must win the approval of everyone who met them before getting an offer. "We jokingly liken it to organ rejection," says Kem Day, director of recruiting. "But by reaching a better decision up front, we make sure that whoever we hire will get support from within the company."

Clearly, technical skills alone are not going to cut it in today's high-tech environment. "It used to be that if you could spell 'engineer,' you got a shot," says Beverly Principal, assistant director of Stanford University's Career Development Center. "Now there is much more concern about employees being able to work with the company and grow to the next level." That, and being able to survive when shrunk to the size of a nickel.

How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

About 500,000, assuming the bus is 50 balls high, 50 balls wide, and 200 balls long

You're shrunk and trapped in a blender that will turn on in 60 seconds. What do you do?

Some options:

1. Use the measurement marks to climb out

2. Try to unscrew the glass

3. Risk riding out the air current

How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

Assuming 10,000 city blocks, 600 windows per block, five minutes per window, and a rate of $20 per hour, about $10 million

Michael Kaplan is a writer in Brooklyn, N.Y. Brainteaser solutions by Mark Jen, engineer and interview junkie.

From http://cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com

Blogger X-Change Launched!!!

2007-08-27T12:45:00.000+08:00

My "Blogger X-Change" blog just launched! "The bloggers links exchange"
Fell free to visit & comments on it ok!

Car For Sale!

2007-08-27T11:01:00.000+08:00

Original ads HERE!

Wait for my new "Blog X-Change" blog...

2007-08-25T12:19:00.000+08:00

I'm going to make a new blog just like the above name ("Blog X-Change"). As the name sounds, it's a blog that we can exchange & share our blog/weblog/www community links.The main purpose is to broaden our community of Internet Ads Marketplace such as Google Adsense & AdBrite. Hehehehe...! (You know what i meant... ^_^) So, please gimme a support okay! So to all of my fellow bloggers out there, get ready to post your new or old blog/site links ok! You can post the links by posting a comments or emailing me & I'll publish your links, got it!

It's gonna be a huge network soon!!! Heheh!!! ^_-

Download

2007-08-23T20:16:00.000+08:00

Download lagu "manusia lupa": Ahli Fikir kat sini!
& Jangan lupa untuk klik iklan Google kat atas tu! ^_-

Japan want to replace the Internet ?

2007-08-23T02:34:00.000+08:00

Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will start research and development on technology for a new generation of network that would replace the Internet, eyeing bringing the technology into commercial use in 2020. Speaking to reporters in Brazil, where he is visiting, Suga said an organization will be set up as early as this fall with cooperation from businesses, academia and government offices for promoting the technology when the Internet is seen to be faced with increasing constraints in achieving higher throughputs of data as well as ensuring data security. The envisaged network is expected to ensure faster and more reliable data transmission, and have more resilience against computer virus attacks and breakdowns. The ministry is hoping Japan will take a lead in development of post-Internet technology and setting global standards, a move that ministry officials believe would help make Japanese companies competitive in the global market for hardware and software using such technology. Suga also said he will set up a task force early next month to oversee the transition from analog to digital broadcasting in July 2011. The task force will request the electronics industry to produce and sell low-price converters to enable analog TVs to receive digital broadcasting programs within two years, the minister said. ''We will consider providing simplified converters to low-income households for free or distributing coupons to assist them to purchase such converters,'' he said.
Via - Kyodo news

Sale! Sale!

2007-08-20T17:13:00.000+08:00

This is my ad. for selling my computer. (starting August 2007)
If anyone outthere interested, please email me or leave me a msg(comment) here,got it?
This is my PC specs:

Pentium III 935 Mhz processor
512Mb SD DDRAM
128Mb ATi Radeon Graphic Cards- GeXCube
2pcs Samsung CD Drive (Burner+Normal)
4 USB port (2 front+2 back)
Realtek network interface card
5.1 Channel C-Media sound card (PCI slot expansion)

*Kalau ada sesiapa yg nak share/iklankan barangan diorang kt sini, bolehla

emel

ok! Nanti aku postkan kat sini A.S.A.P.

Crashes!!!

2007-08-20T16:37:00.000+08:00

Baka yarro!!! Not again!!!
My hard disk drive (Western Digital 120Gb) got crashes since the last 2 weeks! It's just about 1++ years old... So unreliable, huh! Probably caused by overheating. Luckily it's still in warranty, so i'm going to getting claim for it in the next few days. Hopefully can get a new replacement HDD in the next few weeks... T_T

Another cheque!

2007-08-20T16:02:00.000+08:00

One more cheque!!! hohoho!!!
This time about (RM500) five hundred "ringgit malaysia".
Kaya la ko Aiman! >_<
Get your own cheque here!!!

仕事! 仕事!

2007-08-20T15:44:00.000+08:00

*Aiman doing his work

仕事! 仕事!
Shigo to!!!Shigo to!!!
Syoknye budak ni buat kerja...
so clever aaa!!!

Payout

2007-08-19T15:57:00.000+08:00

This is my friend's AdBrite cheque.
He's gonna get about RM1130 (Ringgit Malaysia One Thousand,One Hundred & Thirty).
Pretty much huh! ^_^
(*owner id & address in the pic has been blurring for some reason,ok!)

If anyone outthere interested with AdBrite campaign program, why not check thiz out here! (click the ads below)

What is AdBrite and how does it work?

AdBrite powers the world's most trusted and transparent marketplace for digital advertising. Rather than selling books, CDs, or rare antiques, we sell ad space on thousands of websites. So whether you are an advertiser looking for the right space to place your ad, or a publisher looking for a simple, yet powerful way to make money and sell ad space on your site, AdBrite is your marketplace.

Test post!

2007-08-19T06:06:00.000+08:00

Be right back!!! >_<