Have you ever felt that, sometimes you are wasting time? For example, you are waiting for some people, or you are on the bed and waiting falling in sleep.

I often feel that.

That is why, I looked for short prayers which I can recite whenever and wherever I am.

I forgot where I read a short prayer. It was:
“Jesus, Mary. I love you save souls.”

Besides that, there is a popular prayer: Jesus Prayer.
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Previously, I installed K-Lite Mega Codec and used MediaPlayerConnectivity add-on for Firefox. But the Media Player of K-Lite Mega Codec could not connect most mp3 and wma files especially in chinese websites.

Now I tried VLC. And using VLC, it solves the problem of MediaPlayerConnectivity. That means, MediaPlayerConnectivity works well with VLC.

So, now I click the “play” button of MediaPlayerConnectivity, it will pop up VLC and play the audio streaming file. Nice.

Do you know leap year? There are 366 days in leap year. And when is leap year? Every 4 years, there is a leap year, this was what I learnt from school. And counting leap year, just divide current year by 4, right?

If so, then is 1900 a leap year? NO…

To get even closer to the actual number, every 100 years is not a leap year, but every 400 years is a leap year. Putting all of these rules together, you can see that a year is a leap year not only if it is divisible by 4 – it also has to be divisible by 400 if it is a centurial year. So 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was. That brings the average length of the year to 365.2425 days, which is even closer to the actual number.
(From: http://people.howstuffworks.com/time.htm/printable)

Introduction

To learn about programming, C++ is a very popular programming. However, besides the language itself, there are many things need to know.

Compiled language

C++ is a compiled language. Therefore, it is not platform independent like interpreted language such as PHP, Perl, Python and else. Because it is a compiled language, that means the developer should target the platform of the C++ program, Microsoft Windows or other? Because I am using Windows, so I will only focus on Win32.

Do you know Liturgy of the Hours (or Divine Office)?

Click here to read detailed information: link.

I like a software: Universalis. And you can also read the daily readings on the website.

But the different locations have different reading, so the reading might not be same as your place. For Malaysia, I think the nearest is US calendar of the website. Because some places celebrate Ascension on Sunday, some Thursday.

[1/1/2008]
I forgot to said that, I like the “Reading” from Office Reading. Because most of the readings were written by saints. And from the reading, we can know a lot of their spiritual knowledge.

I am conservative. But I think this is important for Catholics to know, especially male teenagers and adults. I suggest to read the whole article (link).

The whole article is quite important. It is about a common mortal sin. But I like the following quote:

Holy Communion is a very private thing - and no one should ever feel compelled to receive Holy Communion: no matter what the circumstance. It is most inappropriate to ask another “why did he not receive communion?”
(From: http://www.newjerusalem.com/bepure.htm)

Sorry for some visitors looking for the other drivers, because I did not notice that some visitors asked about the other drivers.

For the audio driver, I installed from my Toshiba laptop. So I don’t know where can find the correct driver. So, I found that Softpedia provides similar driver version. You can try the driver.

For the information, the audio driver I installed is:
Realtek High Definition Audio
Date: 3-1-2007
Version: 5.10.0.5377
(Info showed by using DriverMax)

Do you find that some websites background colour is hurting your eyes?

You can solve this problem by installing Greasemonkey or Stylish if you are using Firefox. If you are using IE, then you need to install Trixie. I personally do not install Trixie.

Then, install the “user styles”:
Black text on white background or Light text on black background

If you are using Maxthon instead of IE, MyStyle is the solution.

I like this chinese idiom: 流水不腐, which means “flowing water does not rot”.

This is a basic phenomenon. If the water can flow, the water sure be clean. This idiom can be applied to many circumstances.

The drain need to be unobstructed, so that the water can flow, and the drain will be clean.
We need to allow the air of the room circulate so that we have enough oxygen.
We need to go to toilet, so that the our organs will be clean, and we will not sick.

[This is also an article from the previous blog.]

After a while dealing with Linux. I have learnt many things.

There are too many distributions of Linux. It is hard to choose. I have tried LiveCD. It is nice to use LiveCD. Because, if you got the pendrive or external harddisk and the computer BIOS is able to detect USB, then you are able to boot in the pendrive or external harddisk LiveCD through BIOS. However, the pre-requisite of the pendrive or external harddisk is that, the file system need to be FAT. This is because a program syslinux is only able to modify the boot sector in FAT, ext2/3, but not NTFS.