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Passing of an Era 1 hour ago I have never posted before but on hearing news that the great Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice is closing by June 2013, I have to write something. Warning: Article/Review below may border on being a little emo and over dramatic. If there is a restaurant that encapsulates the story of the makan nation, it has to be Lim's. From a tender age of 5+ (am mid 30s now), I have patronised this far flung restaurant admist stories of motorbike racing along the "99 corners" road (a.k.a Kent Ridge Road). In all my years of patronage, the food there has never disappointed. If you read the other reviews here, the duck meat is really as good as it gets. It is the combination of the duck meat and the hot porridge doused with luscious gravy that have warmed the stomachs and hearts of many Singaporeans. What is even more charming and rustic of Lim's is that the place has never changed, the staff (that friendly uncle who always insist in speaking English and give you a feeling that he is just estimating your bill rather than calculating) are the same, the look is the same, the drinks are the same.. Everything you see, eat and feel there is a page out of the 1960s. There are very few places left in Singapore that has such tradition and remain staunchly "unfranchised". I will be going there very frequently until the very end.

Around 11pm like that... the taxi front smashed and twice until jialat jialat... then got ambulance also... and I see broken glasses on the ground... as I am driving pass I dunno got how many vehicles kana.

Anything nice to makan there?

around 9.10am, the junction of south buona vista road and prince george park rd..between a black civic and a taxi. dont know if the taxi tried to beat redlight or the civic didnt watch out traffic. sorry didnt take a pic bcos till now i still feel really "unwell" after i saw the accident scene. not sure how is the condition of the old lady now, who was the driver of the black civic..she looked unconscious at that time..

Esp. if you are turning left into the 99 bends. I was going up the slope this even and lost control of my vehicle there. Reason is I was keeping too close to the barriers and is very sandy with lots of gravel too. Luckily, managed to catch the car to preven a 360 spin but the snap back causes my front to take out a few barriers......lol.... Apart from some scratches and chunk of paint chip from my front bumper, nothing else was damaged. Heng.... Killer debris man....

Hi bros, I am trying to downgrade windows vista to xp but not able to reformat it.. any kind souls to guide me to this? plsss.. thanks..

Last weeknight, there was a Vios that spun and ran its backside up a lamp post or tree along South Buona Vista...... looks like either black or blue, OPC car. Got two cars, Honda Jazz/Fit and something else next to it, plus TP WRX. Another racing Vios challenging the downhill Touge and lost

PPstream works with WinXP but on Vista there's audio but no video. Anyone have this experience and workaround solution? Thank You.

as above, any expert can help as i am transfering the message from my old office laptop to a new lappy, but i can't using the method of importing or exporting.. any easy way?

as above.. if I have the XP OEM cd .. Thanks. WIll appreciate if there are steps for me to follow.. thanks!

Dear all, With new Windows Vista on most new notebooks and PCs .... just wanna get some feedback.

Hi, I have been using Vista for sometime and used to reset the wireless connection whenever my Vista laptop auto-disconnect to my wireless internet. Anyone knows how to stop the auto-disconnection? I search the settings in the Vista Operating system, but can't find anything on this. Thanks!

Hi All, Just curious what most of us are using now.

Taken from Wired Blog Network at http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/daniel_k-who-fi.html Daniel_K, Who Fixed Creative's Broken Vista Drivers, Speaks Out By Rob Beschizza April 01, 2008 | 11:13:33 AMCategories: Audio Daniel_K, the Creative Labs fan who fixed the company's broken Vista sound card drivers only to be threatened by the corporate brass, just e-mailed with his side of the story. "My name is Daniel Kawakami and I'm Brazilian," he writes. "I'm NOT a cracker, a hacker, just an enthusiast modder with basic assembly knowledge and very persistent." Kawakami's expertise allowed him to enable advanced features in sound cards that Creative advertised as Vista-compatible, but which did not perform as well under that operating system as they do under Windows XP. After tolerating the distribution of his unofficial drivers for a time, Creative's vice president of corporate communications, Phil O'Shaughnessy, ultimately asked him to stop, and accused him of "stealing their goods." O'Shaughnessy also wrote that whether or not it cripples its Vista drivers is a "business decision that only we have the right to make." The rest of Kawakami's e-mail follows, verbatim, after the jump.

Chilling stories, even from top Microsoft execs, tell the truth (NEW YORK) One year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to 'upgrade'? Microsoft says high prices have been the deterrent. Last month, the company trimmed prices on retail packages of Vista, trying to entice consumers to overcome their reluctance. In the United States, an XP user can now buy Vista Home Premium for US$129.95, instead of US$159.95. An alternative theory, however, is that Vista's reputation precedes it. XP users have heard too many chilling stories from relatives and friends about Vista upgrades that have gone badly. The graphics chip that couldn't handle Vista's whizzy special effects. The long delays as it loaded. The applications that ran at slower speeds. The printers, scanners and other hardware peripherals, which work dandily with XP, that lacked the necessary drivers to work well with Vista. Can someone explain why switching XP for Vista is an 'upgrade'? Here's one story of a Vista upgrade early last year that did not go well. Jon upgrades two XP machines to Vista. Then he discovers that his printer, regular scanner and film scanner lack Vista drivers. He has to stick with XP on one machine just so he can continue to use the peripherals. Did Jon simply have bad luck? Apparently not. When another person, Steven, hears about Jon's woes, he says drivers are missing in every category - 'this is the same across the whole ecosystem'. Then there's Mike, who buys a laptop that has a reassuring 'Windows Vista Capable' logo affixed. He thinks that he will be able to run Vista in all of its glory, as well as favourite Microsoft programs like Movie Maker. His report: 'I personally got burned.' His new laptop - logo or no logo - lacks the necessary graphics chip and can run neither his favourite video-editing software nor anything but a hobbled version of Vista. 'I now have a US$2,100 e-mail machine,' he says. It turns out that Mike is clearly not a naif. He's Mike Nash, a Microsoft vice-president who oversees Windows product management. And Jon, who is dismayed to learn that the drivers he needs don't exist? That's Jon Shirley, a Microsoft board member and former president and chief operating officer. And Steven, who reports that missing drivers are anything but exceptional, is in a good position to know: he's Steven Sinofsky, the company's senior vice-president responsible for Windows. Their remarks come from a stream of internal communications at Microsoft in February 2007, after Vista had been released as a supposedly finished product and customers were paying full retail price. One usually does not have the opportunity to overhear Microsoft's most senior executives vent their personal frustrations with Windows. But a lawsuit filed against Microsoft in March 2007 has pried loose a packet of internal company documents. The plaintiffs, Dianne Kelley and Kenneth Hansen, bought PCs in late 2006, before Vista's release, and contend that Microsoft's 'Windows Vista Capable' stickers were misleading when affixed to machines that turned out to be incapable of running the versions of Vista that offered the features Microsoft was marketing as distinctive Vista benefits. Last month, Judge Marsha Pechman granted class-action status to the suit, which is scheduled to go to trial in October. (Microsoft last week appealed against the certification decision.) Anyone who bought a PC that Microsoft labelled 'Windows Vist+a Capable' without also declaring 'Premium Capable' is now a party in the suit. The judge also unsealed a cache of 200 e-mail messages and internal reports, covering Microsoft's discussions on how best to market Vista, beginning in 2005 and extending beyond its introduction in January 2007. The documents incidentally include those accounts of frustrated Vista users in Microsoft's executive suites. -- NYT

Picture 1. Loaded the LTA Gadget. Picture 2. Click on the picture to bring up all the linked highway. Picture 3. I click on the round icon on Woodlands Checkpoint, it will bring up the linked highway. Picture 4. It will load the screen captured. Picture 5. Click anyway on the desktop, the picture captured will displayed on the gadget. There is a refresh icon, click twice to refresh the screen captured. This gadget is created by Singaporean, welldone for your efforts. Although from the website, some commented there is runtime error, but i dont encounter it, probably the programmer had updated the application. Download link below. http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.asp...57ed2&bt=1&pl=1 /cheers

Need help from experts out there. I just got my new notebook preloaded with vista. I have my old but original copy of Microsoft Office 2002 which is currently installed on my old notebook running on XP and was wondering whether I can install it on Vista or not. If cannot, I have to buy the new Office 2007 Appreciate your advice, cheers

I am an IT Manager in a big organisation. I would like to have a gauge of the general sentiments from you and the organisations you work for towards Vista adoption. To qualify myself, I am a Linux person deep down. I have been using Linux since 1996 and have extensive contacts with different Linux distributions from Slackware to Redhat to Gentoo and Debian. My servers/computation clusters run predominantly *nix OSes and my personal desktop now runs Ubuntu (oh btw, Gusty Gibbon will be released soon) with WinXP VM (VirtualBox). Still, I feel WinXP is a good, stable, easy to maintain/support and sufficiently peppy/light OS for daily computing, emailing, surfing and document processing, after having supported it since 2002. I dun remember having bad or painful experience in the early years of WinXP migrations and adoptions, in fact, I actually pushed for it's adoption. Unfortuntely, I dun have the same type of enthusiasm towards Vista. New systems in my organisation come pre-installed with Vista. Although I only have a handful of Vista machines in my support right now, they are already driving my up the walls. I have directors requesting for downgrading back to WinXP and since been extremely happy. Some common Vista user problems are: 1) slow, slow, slow and slow, resource gobbling 2) device driver incompatibility issues 3) software incompatibility issues 4) un-intuitive interfaces 5) cluttered desktop, messy workspaces 6) stability issues My other concerns are environmental issues such as having to condemn perfectly usable hardware when switching to Vista as they are deemed too slow for Vista. Incidentally, there is this really fancy, super slim notebook, Toshiba Portege 2000, that was too slow for even XP. I had it installed with Ubuntu and wala, my director is carrying it around for his overseas trips. I wonder if you IT ppl or even home users are facing similar problems?

Any suggestion for an Open Source FAX software ? Ju

Recently acquired a Sony Viao VGN-FZ15G Notebook with a pre-install Window Vista Home Premium. I encountered problem logging in to POEMS Protrader. The message I got was first "Unable to connect to server", then after some trouble shooting with Philip Security -"Windowcannot verify the publisherz' Any advice would be appreciated.