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The most successful geek in the world, Bill Gates, will retire from his job in July 2008 after around 33 years of doing his job in Microsoft. With his net worth of more than USD 50 billion, he was one of the richest person in the world.
What will Bill Gates do after retirement? Some possible ideas:
1. Spend [...]

post Category: Information Technology post Comments (0) postJune 26, 2008

Few days ago I tried to withdraw some money from my Paypal account to my local bank (Indonesian Bank) BCA. It stated if you withdraw less than Rp 1.5 mill they would charge you Rp 16,000. That’s fine. I have only less than USD 100 to be withdrawn. I tested this service using only this amount. [...]

post Category: Information Technology post Comments (1) postJune 18, 2008

Firefox 3 is finally ready to be downloaded. Mozilla is trying to break the record of the most downloaded software in one day. So far up to this second, already close to 3 millions downloads all over the world.
I found that Firefox 3 is faster than the previous version one. It has new Gecko rendering [...]

post Category: Information Technology, Mac post Comments (4) postMay 26, 2008

I have two Apple computers which already considered as vintage Mac (although in fact I have total three Apple, but I don’t know where it is).

One of the oldest Mac is PowerBook G3 Pismo. It is equipped with 400MHz G3 Processor and 256MB RAM with only 6GB of hard disk space (It is greater than [...]

post Category: Information Technology post Comments (5) postMarch 16, 2008

There are one thing that I missed from current MySQL which is XML function. It’s kind of tricky to perform XML functions in there. A common trick is to store xml tags within a string/text field. Then you may do any XML stuff manually in your script.
PostgreSQL 8.3 has this XML integrated.. finally! There are [...]