| The Man Visualised by archtomato On Friday, April 28, 2006 at 9:02 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok, Special notes: The man is a complex creature. When you are in a man’s car; When you are in a man’s household; When a man extends his hand in friendship; When the man respects you; The man is a complex creature. Cheers  |
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| The Bcc Visualised by archtomato On Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 8:46 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok, My friends send me "stuff" to my email. And organizations I belong to send me "stuff" to my email. And mailing lists I am on send me "stuff" to my email. When you send people stuff you can send it in two distinct ways: When you put the email addresses in the "To" field or in the "CC" field, everyone can see everyone else’s email address. But, when you use the "BCC" field, the system hides the addresses of everyone else. I am writing this page to encourage everyone to learn about the "BCC" field and to learn how to use it. The "BCC" field gets its name from "Blind Carbon Copy". "BCC" is a term that was originally used (back when dirt was a novelty and typewriters used carbon paper) to indicate a carbon copy that was being made but wasn’t being acknowledged. It was a kind of "secret" copy, one that the addressee didn’t know about. Today, in Internet email it has a different use. It is used to hide email addresses so that you don’t disclose everyone’s email address to everyone else. Why should you hide the address of everyone else? Because when you don’t those addresses can get forwarded all across the Internet. When you send twenty of your friends an email showing all twenty email addresses and those people forward that email to twenty of their friends, suddenly 400 people now have your friends’ email addresses. These email addresses remain in the email and many people don’t edit them out. I once received an email that had been forwarded and forwarded and I was able to harvest 278 email addresses from that one email. Ever wonder how your email address gets on those spam lists? This is one way. This is what happens when people send your email address to people who don’t know you. Are you writing 5 of your friends who all know each other? No problem. They all have each other’s email address anyway. You aren’t disclosing anything. Are you in the office or in a business transaction. No problem. But, the next time you open up that email that was forwarded to you with a joke, motivational story, funny cartoon, or even with one of the ubiquitous virus alerts, look through that email. See how many email addresses you can see for people you do not know. And as you forward that email across the Internet to your friends sending those email addresses to spammers, remember that you know how to hide your friends’ addresses to protect them. Cheers |
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| The Future is Me Visualised by archtomato On Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 12:13 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok, The other day i couldn’t sleep for many myriad sets of reasons. So anyway, i decided to get the most boring book in the entire household and read it, hoping to eventually choke my brain into a brain submission. And i found a quote that i felt was rather profound in a weird sort of way. So just to share it with you guys.
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| The De-facto Idiot Box Visualised by archtomato On Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 14:28 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok,
The other day, a friend of mine was complaining rather loudly and very much to my dismay, that his PC had died on him the previous day. Then he began thinking out loud about his next PC, barraging me with questions for the next half day. So it got me thinking and i decided to publish my next article on PCs.
Fast forward to the present and here i am writing my first disclaimer for one of my articles.
Disclaimer: I will have to agree that this particular article is not for everyone. This article is for a mature audience and deals primarily on PC and technology (Mac lovers please move on). If you are not into this stuff then you could either read the previous post or wait for the next one to pop along. Or your could just go ahead and just hold your breathe, read it and go on with life with no value added. Like i said, the choice is always yours. Parental guidance is advised.
Ten years ago, your really could build a PC in a vacuum. You bought a CPU, then picked the motherboard that had the features you wanted. All the CPUs used the same socket, so you could use any motherboard u wanted. Then you could go for any graphics card, slap the parts together and your dream machine was complete.
Unfortunately, things are much more complex today. The modern PC is an interconnected organism, where each subsystem relies on all the all the others.
Now the CPU doesn’t have to just fit the socket, it also has to be compatible with the chipset and memory. DDR RAM simply doesn’t work with DDR2 motherboard. And if u want dual graphics cards, you need to pick the right motherboard or you are gonna have a greatly reduced purse.
CPUs and Hard disks used to heat up. Now it seems even the voltage regulators need cooling. Liquid cooling has become common place and RAID is a household name. ATA and USB 1.0 just don’t dig it anymore and so does CRT monitors. Hard disks can hardly keep up with faster operating systems. And talking about Oses, I dunno about you guys, btut i think the folks from microsoft are sitting around silicon valley getting fat. They should probably be hanged for treason.
The PC you order today becomes obsolete the day you power it on for the first time. Tragic isn’t it?
Cheers
ps: My Pc wants to take a crap.
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| Return of the Rambling Fool … Visualised by archtomato On Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 16:26 Hrs | Minimum B.S. ” Hakim works for a government Law Enforcement Agency. He strives to keep the crime rate low, nearly killing a few in the process. His cyber alias “A Boy Named Goo”, is still being researched upon and scholors are divided on its origin. Known for his dry sarcasm, the public knows him as a very rude man. He loves cream, cherries and books. He lives in northern Singapore and tries to clean his room regularly.” *The following entry is an excerpt from the author’s private blog. As a guest blogger of www.archtomato.com and too lazy to write a fresh piece of entry .. the author has decided to publish selected articles from his blog. WARNING: You MAY get a headache reading the extremely poor punctuated article. The author would like to stress that his thoughts are expressed in the following manner. He too, gets an acute headache just thinking it and therefore cannot be responsible for any ailments caused by this blog. Hello good netizens! Its been a while since I wrote in … its been about a year in fact … like I’ve said .. I’m never the type to stick to something for long … but something weird happened today … something nobody could EVER imagine … something that MUST be written in black and white (or whatever coloured font of your preference).. yes .. boys and girls … today .. on the 8th April 2006 .. I received good customer service in Singapore.!!! That’s right … it exists … like the supernatural … it appears to you when you least expect it … Therefore .. like any other government brain washed citizen … I felt compelled to give her the “GEMS” card .. (u know the little pink cards placed on dining tables that I initially thought were only useful, if you wanna pass your phone number to some cute waitress) Anyways … the place I’m talking about took place at a quaint little Pizza Hut in Marina Square … (just in case you’d be interested to go phenomenon hunting) .. Don’t go for the food though .. that darn place was so quaint .. they can’t fit a salad bar in it. Hey … before you service-line people start shooting me hate comments … let me say for the record … I worked in the service-line before … and in a way .. I still am right now .. and I know that some … no .. most people out there don’t deserve to be served nicely … they’re rude … obnoxious … demanding … spoilt … and they definitely do not deserve a glimpse of my yellow, coffee-stained smile .. but hey … nobody ever said life was fair … I know of people … myself included .. who say things like … “excuse me”, “thank you”, “sorry” so easily to service staffs .. but never to the people who really mattered … our loved ones … Do we say thank you to our mom when she cooks a warm meal or when that laundry gets done? I bet to most … it’d be easier to thank that cook .. or that Laundromat … yes, the one you paid for too … how bout when your dad gave you pocket money when you were younger? I bet you’d readily say thank you to the bank teller that just cashed in YOUR money … I’d go on … but you get the picture … It’s so easy to take our loved ones for granted … So maybe next time when someone you cared for had been waiting for hours while you finish your tons of work … and he suddenly missed your calls coz his phone sucked … before you screamed his ears off … don’t forget those ears were your faithful listeners while he rubs your stinky feet … The North Westerner Technorati tags: Archtomato, Guest Bloggers, Boy Named Goo, Return of the Rambling Fool 4 Tomatoes Squashed • Throw a Tomato • Category: Guest Bloggers |
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| Which is Which Visualised by archtomato On Monday, April 3, 2006 at 9:15 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok,
 So i was in the cinemas the other day with Meshuggah and Shaky to catch a movie. I has set my heart on Inside man but due to strong and overwhelming mind control techniques employed by Meshuggah we eventually settled for V for Vendetta.
For those of you concerned about reading the novel before the movie, the movie is very loosely based on the book and both are not without their own set of controversies. I personally do not think you need to have read the book before the movie, though the book does contain more of the expanded universe.
Long story short, V is not for Vendetta. It’s a prison cell in a dystopian future civilization where experiments are conducted on live humans. V is also the name of the secondary protagonist who comes across as a revolutionary who employs violence to see his ideals though. No spoilers though. V for Vendetta is a political thriller first and foremost with a very dark and multifaceted character at its center. "On one hand, V is altruistic, believing he can bring about great social change, but on the other hand he has a murderous vendetta towards anyone who’s done him wrong."
While the book attempts to feature V as an anarchist, the movie subdues him into a freedom fighter. Much of the violence from the novel is also omitted from the screenplay. Evey has also gotten a job change for the movie and she is apparently much older here. The relationship between the 2 chief characters have also been more clearly defined in the screenplay. Both the book and the movie strive to raise many questions and answer very few and leave most to the judgement of the viewer. Each of us will come out walking a different path eventually. It is not a movie for thrill seekers though but would be perfect for the armchair adventurer.
The Wachowski brothers have a strong inclination towards the holy trinity of the christian faith and as with the Matrix, this movie is pretty faithful to their ideals. Three central characters form the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit.
The whole concept makes me ask the question, "Is terrorism a perception?". If you have watched the movie or read the book, what is your question?
Cheers
ps: Beneath this man, muscles and bones, is an idea. And ideas are Bullet-proof.
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| Quotable Quotes – Sunday Visualised by archtomato On Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 16:00 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok, A rather violent one to conclude my quotable quotes week.
Cheers. ps: Women are full of rage now-a-days Technorati tags: Archtomato, Quotable Quotes No Tomatoes Squashed • Throw a Tomato • Category: Ageless |
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| Quotable Quotes – Saturday Visualised by archtomato On Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 4:15 Hrs | Minimum B.S. Ok ok, A quote for the grey area.
Cheers. ps: He has a PHD in Political Sci. from NUS Technorati tags: Archtomato, Quotable Quotes No Tomatoes Squashed • Throw a Tomato • Category: Ageless |
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