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X10 + Vivaz In The Wild And 3 Network ‘Merger’ With T-Mobile

Posted by Chris Prakoso On February - 5 - 2010

Last week I had an opportunity to meet with a bunch of guys (and girls) from 3 Mobile on their New Year Meet Up.  I went to a similar meet-up before in the past, but the difference this time was that we got to meet different people who responsible in different part of the business.  [...]

When I’ve heard the first time that our friends in the US got to play with a new Wireless Mobile Broadband device, I thought that it was a great advancement in mobile broadband arena.  Because not only that we can connect to the Internet anywhere, but also we don’t really need our laptop anymore.  Suddenly [...]

Multiplayer Modern Warfare 2: Back Like It Used To Be [Video]

Posted by Chris Prakoso On November - 26 - 2009

Unless you’ve been living under a rock on some remote pacific island with polar bear in it, you might’ve ‘heard‘ about this Game of Year – the Game the Rules them All.  Yes I am talking about Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2, damn it!
I’ve played it, finished the Campaign Mode (short, frantic, intense, [...]

Why Americans Are Fat (We Know Why Don’t We?)

Posted by Chris Prakoso On November - 25 - 2009

It’s all about Bad Food + No Exercise + Too Much TV, Yes?
In anyway, it’s always nice to see it in a nice graphical way, like this infographic from OnlineEducation:

As I wrote last Friday, Google released it’s Chrome OS to the Open Source Community.  The idea is that from that day, developers are invited to ‘chip-in’ with their innovative ideas, to build and to create what it will become the Chromium OS which will be release to the public at the same time next [...]

Video: The Release of Google Chrome OS With Demo And Free Download

Posted by Chris Prakoso On November - 20 - 2009

Updated: If you want to run Chrome OS ‘right now’, check out my follow-up post here.

Many people were shocked when back in July this year, Google announced that they were working on an alternative Operating System (the piece of software which gives our computer hardware a soul), dubbed the Chrome OS!  What! Somebody is [...]

Could Wikipedia be the seed of ‘Skynet’ ?

Posted by Chris Prakoso On February - 5 - 2009

Last week I’ve finally managed to start reading Chris Anderson’s much acclaimed book The Long Tail.  At some point I arrived on the page where Chris was talking about ‘The Wikipedia Phenomenon’.  It tells the story about Jimmy Wales‘ controversial ambition to build ‘A repository of knowledge to rival the ancient library of Alexandria‘.  This [...]

Go to the field you want to change, click on the field to enter edit mode, and press CTL + 0 (that the number zero).
That’ll do the trick :)  This works in Enterprise Manager (SQL Server 2000) as well as Management Studio (SQL Server 2005).
Now, what I want to know is, how to input a [...]

Is there a better way to refresh dbml when database schema changes ?

Posted by Chris Prakoso On January - 20 - 2009

I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ works at the moment, and naturally database schema changes quite regularly.  Table fields added, deleted or changed, etc. So far the only way I know to refresh my dbml file is by deleting the table from the designer and drag a new one back from the server explorer.  [...]

Microsoft is making T-Shirt! You’re Joking?! No, Not Really

Posted by Chris Prakoso On December - 10 - 2008

WHAT!!?
Well, that’s what I said, when I read this article which points to this article. According to these two sources, Microsoft is launching a new line of clothing product under a name … wait for it … ‘Softwear by Microsoft’ !!! You have gotta be kiddin’ me! I think Microsoft needs to fire [...]

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