Si Tenggang

Actually I've an almost hobby. Finding out about the Malay culture in different countries and comparing the similiarities and differences. It's an almost hobby because I never do it seriously and just ask anyone I could lots of questions without actually making notes. So far I've spoken to Malays from Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei. I forget most of the things I learn and am not even sure of the ones I remember so it's actually quite sad.
Anyway here's a reference to the Malaysian folktale 'Si Tenggang' in one of the blogs I read. I find it intriguing. This is one example why I like to find out about the Malay culture in different places.

The Si Tenggang Tale

64 bit

Oh Hana. Gomen-ne if you read this. It's just a bunch of nonsense I guess :D

I've gone open source completely for now. Only booted my windows once last week and once this not counting booting only to delete files still in my NTFS partition (no NTFS delete support yet in Linux). Anyways am using a 64 bit OS and it does improve a bit on the compiling speed if not on anything else. Been busy learning the intricacies of simple compiling. It's simple but there are quite a few things to learn when your system isn't the standard setup and a 64 bit system is not standard. Some essential softwares run only in 32 bit. The best example would be flash. No 64 bit support so I'm using a 32 bit firefox coupled with a beta flash 9 for linux installation. Oh I failed at installing that in any manual way so I got meself a pre-compiled package :) Prefer to build myself actually because I find that it's much more satisfying. Next thing I want to do is learn to create packages so that I can manage the installations better. Keeping source files on disk is bad for my free space...

Hmm... also plan on building a website. Am quite bad at adopting PHP-Nuke. Will search a bit. Read and practice on PHP-Nuke and also search for some other alternatives. I misplaced my link for PHP-Nuke modules so I'm going to search for that first. Basic editing is the max I'd go for now. Re-writing modules or any other thing from scratch takes up too much reading as of now and I don't want to devote too much time on that. I've enough doing making a stable system right now.

Okie dokie. Some more learning to do. Adios~

edit: I actually detest using windows for normal everyday things now as it's very very very slow. I guess using a derivative of Slackware exaggerates the speed advantage Linux has over windows. A no-frills distro. Won't be trying anything else unless I run into a brick wall which I don't think would happen anytime soon. Thank you to my bro in-law for introducing me to Slack.