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Mass Effect on Steam

Bought Mass Effect on Steam a week ago, and have to say really liking it. You do not have shiny boxes or DVD to show off, but this particular version of Mass Effect have no SecuROM in it!

But there were problems if you’re using Vista. You might not be able to run it successfully the first time because of UAC. But easy to remedy by running Steam as an administrator

It only took a day for me to download the files, but after playing a few minutes, I felt that the game was not responsive and I was getting headache (slow fps).

It turns out I have to disable Steam In Game Community, as it took a lot of resources. After that, smooth sailing!

My Mikail

Unrelated to technolog, my newborn son is named Mikail. The only thing related to this post is that it is done on the iPhone

My Next PC

Another 3 days until the end of Ramadhan. And a week hopefully for the baby to come out. And me and wife will be parents! How cool is that?

Anyway I have been configuring my next PC. Considering a Phenom X4 system, but later to changed to Intel because can get the same price as a Phenom X4.

This will be the specification:
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Fasting month

Well today is the second day of the fasting month for muslim aka Ramadhan. I would like to wish all of my friends happy fasting, don’t eat too much during break fast.

And it’s sad that I can still my old post http://say.syedmuhammad.com/index.php/2007/10/16/selamat-hari-raya/ meaning that I haven’t update this blog regularly.

Anyway checkout this browser Google Chrome. Sleek but still in beta…

Update: After entering this post, the post itself is non visible anymore. Aha! But i still haven’t had the the time to update this blog regularly

Integrating Facebook with Wordpress

It can be done.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/

What’s up

seldom i’ve been updating this blog. Anyway, just found out in C#, that Thread.Sleep(value) accepts the value of 0, but instead sleeping for 0 milisecond, it will block the thread indefinitely. Well, that sucks.

int interval = 10;
Int32.TryParse(AppSettings["interval"],out interval);
Thread.Sleep(interval * 60000);

Meaning that if the parsing from the config fails, then interval will be 0. The solution?

int interval = 0;
Int32.TryParse(AppSettings["interval"],out interval);
if(interval == 0) interval = 10;
Thread.Sleep(new TimeSpan(0,interval,0);

Hmmm… well… sucks.

My page layout in IE7

Well, just noticed the layout screwed up in IE7. Well, if I have the time I’ll fixed it.

The many helmets of Vader

Being a Star Wars geek myself, I couldn’t resist of not posting about it here. Oh did you know that Star Wars is 30 years old on 25th May 2007?
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