t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

So I’ve been given a Final Year Project that deals with vehicular communication on a VANET (Vehicle Ad-hoc Network). It involves hardware implementation of an embedded system modules to a car’s CAN-BUS so as to communicate with the car’s ECUs and between cars themselves. If everything goes well, this would probably be implemented in luxury […]

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The motivation for this “HOW-TO” started when I was doing some coding on my Ubuntu. Although some may prefer in-built text editors with syntax colouring like Gedit, I still prefer Vim for its ease in usage. This is just a simple how-to for those in need.
Vim had served me well before on Fedora but somehow […]

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I would neither go into detail about the recent sex scandals (this is a tech blog anyway) nor post any links to the pictures (I’m sure those looking for it already has copies of them in their HDD). In fact, I’m not even sure why it is made into such a big fuss? (Haven’t you […]

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Recently I wrote a post on an MSN virus which has been fooling people around the world into downloading it by using infected computers to send a message that goes something similar to this:
Hey, is this your picture? :S http://www.msnimages.net/images/viewimage.php?=abc@hotmail.com
The infected computer would then be a the next zombie host which will spread the […]

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Google has become the most used internet search engine of today. It has, to a certain extent, revolutionized the way we search the web. Gone were the days where searching Toys will churn out search results like ¨adult toys¨, vibrators, sex dolls, etc. (you get the point). However, with this tool, you can do more […]

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There are times when your Windows machine starts to slow down or when everything comes to a halt frequently. Although there might be many reasons to why such a slow degeneration of your Windows machine occurs, most of the time these reasons are related to malwares/spywares. These nasty programs attaches itself to your computer unknowingly […]

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After several days of testing and using Fedora 8, I was kinda loving it until I found out that my sound wasn´t working! Usually I will switch off my speaker when not in use, but yesterday I wanted to watch Prison Break S3 (again) and I was greeted with a silent video. I went to […]

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Some of my past HOW-TOs (Fiesty & Dapper) on desktop eye candy effects are based on Ubuntu distros. With the release of ATI´s new driver and Gutsy, installing desktop effects on Ubuntu is now a breeze for ATI users!
Fedora 8 (released early this month) included desktop effects in their distro package, similar to what Ubuntu´s […]

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After publishing “USB thumbdrive error: Windows cannot find Boot.exe” article the last time, I had several e-mails concerning the same problem but on a different electronic device. One reader claimed that she had this problem on both her thumbdrive and her hard disk (internal). Somehow she tried following the HOW-TO but it failed to materialize.
Another […]

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Well, if your problem is because of you being out-of-range from your wireless router, then no need to read on. However, if you seem to be in transmission range of your wireless routers but still facing these nagging disconnection problems, you might want to read on. This article mainly deals with users who are using […]

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