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My uncle asked me about linux today, says his computer (WinXP) is new, but there's some virus or spyware or something which slows his computer to a halt, forcing it to reboot and eating up all its memory. Then when unplug the modem the computer is fine. Explained to him how installing linux beside Windows is like (I've done it twice!), and will be going over to his place one of these days to install Debian GNU/Linux.

It was simple figuring out how to run a cron job. Spent some time reading "man cron" and "man crontab" and what I had to do was add a line to the system-wide /etc/crontab. The line was
@reboot root fan --auto
which turns the fan of my Toshiba laptop on upon boot-up. The "--auto" switch turns the fan on when connected to AC, and off otherwise.

Going to try to use my external Iomega CD writer in linux now. Web programming is a royal pain in the ass, damn challenging. Friday is another "gala night" and I'll be acting as an Ah Beng. I had one line but the script is tighter now and I no longer need to move my mouth at all.

There's something wrong with the mouse, which is quite annoying. It generates spurious mouse clicks which can cause havoc (like spawning a million windows), and sometimes also refuses to move.

Casino in Singapore? People are queueing like mad to buy Toto for the $10 million "Hongbao" draw. And they're buying $1000 packets containing "quick picks" and 4D numbers.

Hmm... a Total Defense ad on TV... this guy got a call on his handphone saying he's mobilized, and he opens the trunk of his car and his army equipment is inside. Then it shows women watching soccer on TV in coffeeshop, which is also part of Total Defense, supporting the Singapore team.

Last night's CSI there was this guy who got into Princeton but the parents wouldn't pay for him to go so he took activated graphite from his fish tank filter and put it in the fireplace, which was somewhat blocked, and his mum died from CO poisoning. Dad survived because he quit smoking 3 weeks ago.