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Don’t know if you notice, but the URL of this blog has now been changed from http://tjandrawibawa.org/lyceum/techblog to http://tech.tjandrawibawa.org/blog. The change in URL is the one of the effects of changing the blog engine from Lyceum to WordPress MU.
I have been faithfully using Lyceum for quite a while, probably since mid 2007 or even earlier [...]

This particular problem caused a long delay on my installation of Mac OS X on VMWare. Basically, the mouse (in this case a USB mouse) just doesn’t seem to work, the mouse pointer seems to stuck on the left hand corner of the VMWare window, you can move a little bit to the left or [...]

Since upgrading my computer I’ve been contemplating on making the usual Windows XP & Linux (Kubuntu) dual boot scenario. I’m contemplating because I quite like working in XP nowadays and I am not sure whether I’d be working with Linux that much.
Dual boot scenario is quite inconvenient since you cannot easily switch between OS [...]

I have spent yesterday and today working on upgrading my home PC. It is a five yearly ritual that I observe.
These are the components:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHZ (E8400)
Memory: Kinsgton HyperX DDR2 1066MHZ 2GB kit
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q-Pro
VIdeo Card: ASUS PCI-E 512MB 9400GT
PSU: Widetech 550W
Mouse: Evoluent Right Hand

Total cost: 814.63
I bought Evoluent mouse as [...]

I put forward a suggestion for us to have some sort of bookshelf at the office and we can stack it with books. I was thinking that by reading more all of us can improve together.
But then our manager chuckled and said one thing that hits me "who have time to read?". He is absolutely [...]

Suggested to my boss today that he should offer the developers an extra monitor for a dual monitors setup.
He took my suggestion and asked who want to have an extra monitor, to my surprise it’s only me and the QA guy that want it. I am really puzzled, I thought everyone would just jump to [...]

Ah my new treasured toys (Acer X193W):

Replacing my faithful (and very bulky) LG monitor of 5 years.

Is it just my imagination or is Firefox 3 really lighting fast? My manager seems to notice that too.
And the memory usage so far never exceeded 100k (it’s been around 95k for my usage pattern). My Firefox usage pattern is consisting of opening quite a number of tabs (usually at least 10 tabs), I [...]

I am in the search for a tool that will help me convert paper documents into a digital library whereby I can easily do categorizing, do searches and so on.
Few things that I want to store:

Bills
Magazines articles
Church sermons, house parties, conferences etc2
Quotes from books?

The amount of papers I accumulated is freaking me out, I [...]