Time Capsule: Faith of the Heart

For all you, mandarin muttering ppl and banana man dunwannabee out there in this world:

It might be common knowledge, but I just found out about it today. Do you know that you can  actually type chinese without installing any additional exterior programme if you are using XP. Believe it or not, its true. Just follow the steps for setting this option up:

1) Go to START

2) Go to SETTINGS => Double click CONTROL PANEL

3) Double click REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS

4) Click the LANGUAGE tab and click DETAILS

5) Click ADD

6) For INPUT LANGUAGE column find and click CHINESE (PRC). PRC stands for People’s Republic of China incase you brainy-iacs, don’t know

7) Check (which means tick) the KEYBOARD LAYOUT/IME and find CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED) - QUANPIN. This means that you will be using romanized chinese pronouciation method of typing. This method is a bit slower than the touch pad, but most of us have been living with this for quite some time now.

Click OK  and OK and OK.

9) Now to test this baby out. Open up WORDS and start typing. If you wanna use back English just click the windows icon at the bottom of your screen, should be on the lower left.

Thanks to Kheoh for telling

Hope my manager doesn’t have friendster.

UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - Take Four 

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am."    

The woman below replied, "You are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."    

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist.    

"I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"    

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is, technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help so far."    

The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."    

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"    

"Well," said the woman, "you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it’s my fault."    

Engineers, you will appriciate this:

UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - Take Eight    

One day, an engineer was crossing a road when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess".      

He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.    

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want." Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.    

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess, I’ll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?"    

The engineer said, "Look. I’m an engineer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that’s cool."

Thanks to Cynthia for sending.

Do you know that when you delete something on your comp (computer), you are actually not deleting it at all? Its true. You are actually just deleting the "Table of Content". The real raw data is still in your computer. Cool. This means that what you delete and emptied from your recycling bin, can still be retrieved, maybe by using Norton Unerase Wizard.

This also means that should any of your friends or enemies get a hold of your computer, they can see what you have deleted, sometimes this can be very awkward and even incriminating.

So how come we can still retrieve files that have been deleted. Lets put it this way, deleting is similar to tearing off a part of the content section of a book, lets say chapter 5. If you read the content section, you will not know that chapter 5 exists, but if you read the whole book, you will find one chapter, called chapter 5, is still in the book. Similarly, when you delete something, your computer will delete the "Table of Content" but not the raw data. It will always be there unless your hard disk runs out of space and overwrites files whose "Table of Content" has been deleted.

So here comes the interesting part. Is there a programme that can permanently "delete" files that you really wanna get rid of? Yes, this programme is called Eraser, it overwrites your original file for as many as 35 times with different patterns. Most common computer users will not be able to pull back the files that you erase this way. Of course, the Government or some hot shot hackers might have a way around this, who knows…..(X-Files theme playing)… The truth is out there. Anyway if you are interested in some Computer Kung Fu, just download it from the link below:    

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=37015

I got this info from a guy in the net. Whoever you are thanks. Lots of interesting stuff on your site, man. For more details on how to use this programme, see the link below:

http://mboverload.no-ip.org/tech/recyle.html