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KUALA LUMPUR: SJK(C) Jalan Davidson is the first school in Malaysia to be closed after an 11-year-old student testing positive on Friday for the Influeza A(H1N1) was found to have transmitted the virus to two classmates.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the National Security Council agreed to close the school until June 26 and its students and staff numbering some 2,100 were home quarantined.

p/s: jeez..H1N1 is one hell of a flu..hmm..

PETALING JAYA: Vandalism cannot be tackled via education alone but must be backed by stringent legislation and strong enforcement, says a social activist.

“An Anti-Vandalism Act should be introduced to allow deterrent punishment and compulsory community service,” Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye Lee said Sunday.

p/s:I AGREE!..

Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player. Unfortunately, its numbers simply don’t compare to Firefox.

Safari 4.0 notched 11 million downloads in just three days. While significant, this number is almost a rounding error compared with Firefox 3.0.11, which pulled down 150 million downloads in just 24 hours, as Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler reports.

p/s: 11 mil vs 150 mil..heh..firefox just keep getting better and better..

A team of scientists say they have evidence that a “super volcano” may be brewing underneath Mount St. Helens, NewScientist.com reports.

Researchers say indicators suggest Mount St. Helens and other northwest volcanoes are plugged into a huge subterranean pool of magma that could one day burst to the surface in a “super” eruption.

p/s: it was a super volcano before..

June 15 (Bloomberg) — A victim of swine flu died yesterday in Scotland, the first confirmed death from the H1N1 virus from outside the Americas, according to data from the World Health Organization.

Who should know more about PC threats than the company whose software makes most of them possible? Is Microsoft’s upcoming, free anti-malware app the company’s way of apologizing to customers?

Not hardly. The free service, codenamed “Morro” and due in beta “soon,” appears only after years of Microsoft trying and failing to sell a protection product called “OneCare,” which routinely landed low in the protection ratings.

p/s:computer programmer and developer just stay a programmer..u cant be like a hacker/antivirus developer..ur mind spin differently..

If the calendar is about to flip over to summer, it must be time for Apple to roll out another smartphone. Just as summer 2007 saw the release of the original iPhone and last summer brought us the iPhone 3G, this year, we’ve got a new model to obsess over — the iPhone 3G S.

Nearly four decades after astronaut Neil Armstrong planted his boot on the surface of the moon, the U.S. is about to take the first small step toward colonizing Earth’s tag-along satellite.

p/s: Which one is a better place to live..Earth or Moon?

A prominent anti-Taliban cleric and three of his followers were killed in a suicide bomb attack Friday in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police said.

p/s: just a statement and he’s dead..

WASHINGTON - The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in the United States yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million Americans a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco, and to ban flavored products aimed at spreading the habit to young people.

yeah!..no cigarette!

Another 10 reason why i really want an iPhone..hehe..;p

June 10, 2009 — Gazing at the computer screen may hurt your eyes, but it’s what people don’t see when they’re near the machines that cause the most injuries, new research indicates.

THURSDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) — Having bariatric surgery to induce weight loss might put a person at greater risk for broken bones, a new study says.

p/s: the best way of getting fit is good ol’ EXERICISING..no short cut!

PATALIAN, Pakistan — The body of Mohammed Sajad lies buried in the sandy soil of the village cemetery, beneath a lonely Pakistani flag that flies crisply in the sweltering air.

He died, his father explains, a soldier’s death, shot in the back after his Pakistani army unit marched into a trap in the Swat Valley. Recovering the body took four days because of the ferocity of Taliban sniper fire. It will take Sajad’s father far longer to understand why Pakistan is waging war with its own people.

p/s: thank god malaysia is a peaceful country..

“As for sales to computer manufacturers, Microsoft’s proposal may potentially be more positive,” it added, noting that computer manufacturers would appear to be able to choose to install Internet Explorer or another browser.

Apple’s new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros introduced this week feature an SD (Secure Digital) card slot primarily for reading and writing media files to SD cards, but this tiny slot can also serve as a lifesaver, allowing you to boot from an SD card during a state of emergency.

In a tech note published this week summarizing uses and compatibility for the SD slots, Apple notes that you can install Mac OS X on an SD card and use it as a startup volume simply by changing the default partition table to GUID using Disk Utility, and then formating the card to use the Mac OS Extended file format.

p/s: good improvements since dvd/cd rom is to damn big these days..

p/s:pity those people whose freedom and country have been robbed from them..

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation told its member nations it was declaring a swine flu pandemic Thursday - the first global flu epidemic in 41 years - as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.

Perhaps the biggest price bomb dropped at WWDC was that the existing 8GB iPhone 3G now costs just $99. Starting now. Way to pee on the Palm Pre parade, which is still $299 with a $100 rebate. Here Apple will have its cake and eat it too: High-end Apple fanatics will snatch up the iPhone 3G S, while value customers can still get in for the price of a BlackBerry Curve. If you’re an AT&T subscriber, there is no longer any reason not to get an iPhone. Well, as long as you’re cool with the virtual keyboard.

So, where does the Apple iPhone 3G S get its claimed “2x faster” leap in speed? Rumors are rampant that Apple is using a new chip to crank up the performance.

Why rumors when Apple has already announced the iPhone 3G S? Apple doesn’t disclose chip-level hardware specifications. Moreover, Apple clearly wants to convince any prospective buyer than it’s not the iPhone’s individual parts that matter but the Apple-branded whole.

p/s: haha..im cant wait for this gadget to be my latest sidekicks besides my lappy and PSP..ahahahaha..

So, where does the Apple iPhone 3G S get its claimed “2x faster” leap in speed? Rumors are rampant that Apple is using a new chip to crank up the performance.

Why rumors when Apple has already announced the iPhone 3G S? Ap

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Lawyers for jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed an appeal Thursday to Myanmar’s High Court to reinstate two key defense witnesses in a case that could put her in prison for five years.

p/s: just let the woman free..

June 9, 2009 — Escherichia coli bacteria may be simple organisms, but scientists have now created ones that can count to three.

The advance by scientists from Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could lead to environmental or biological sensors that measure toxins and then self-destruct once their job is done.

Not mine though..hmm..

What’s the difference would this make?