Fool's Flu

We interrupt this blog reading session to bring you a special and urgent announcement. For a long time now biological scientists have expressed fears for the possibility of the evolution of a Super Bug, ie a highly virulent strain of microorganisms capable of essentially annihilating the human race. Unfortunately, experts have recently made the grave announcement that they have discovered a potential candidate.

The ailment was first discovered in the person of an Undergraduate student at the National University of Singapore. The patient, who identifies himself as Jason Lim Yuen Hoe, describes the symptoms as thus.

"It started out like an ordinary flu, with the usual runny nose and all. But the discomfort quickly intensifies as headache, eye irritation, wooziness and intense lethargy quickly join an escalating avalanche of nasal mucus."

While these alone are alarming enough, experts have discovered another diabolically peculiar trait of the infection, which was dubbed Fool's Flu.

"The symptoms skyrocketed exponentially the more homework I tried to do. Especially when I attempted to work on my Math Tutorial - suffice to say I nearly died that time." Said a helpless Jason "It's as if the infection is sensitive to attempts at improving intelligence, and reacts aggressively and violently against it."

Under the deadly influence of Fool's Flu, Jason found himself bedridden about 10 seconds into each of his tutorial-solving attempts.

"I only completed exactly three tutorial questions in the entire span of the weekend!" Lamented Jason, who has voluntarily quarantined himself in his room.

The precise mechanics of how the infection could spread from one person to another is still not completely known, but health experts have the following advice for all who come within a 20 km proximity of Prince George's Part Residence.

"Do not share food and drinks, and keep clear of unboiled water or uncooked food. We do not know yet if the microorganism is airborne so keep three layers of cloth over your nose and mouth as often as possible."

Firefox foxfire

For a long time now I have browsed the web wielding the combined features of Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Opera web browser, who each complement the faults of the other. Today I finally decided that it is time I showed my support for the marvelous Open Source movement and got myself the Firefox browser. Of course, the fact that Firefox is a single browser combining the strengths of both my previous browsers was an added bonus. Imagine my surprise then, when Firefox fumbled on its very first day under my fingers.

There I was nonchalantly bringing up a Youtube video and it failed to display, presumably due to the absence of a flash plugin. "This isn't a problem" I thought, as I calmly went on to download Adobe Flash Player v9. Confidently I reloaded the video after the installation, and imagine my horror when the browser crashed!

Rather annoyed, I went on to try everything from reinstalling the plugin to doing a system restore to reinstalling Firefox itself, all to no avail. Frustrated I went online in search for a fix, and after feeding a few keywords to Google (probably the greatest entity ever to grace the web) finally found my solution.

I must say that I really like all the other aspects of Firefox, from the GUI feel to the browsing speed and tab system, but issues like these are going to tarnish the user's experience. Hopefully this glitch will be fixed and dealt with soon or we're never going to kill off Microsoft. For the benefit of those who might encounter a similar problem, here is a description of the problem, as well as instructions on how to fix it.

Symptoms
After having downloaded the plugin, Firefox begins to play a flash video with no hiccups at first, then the video freezes and Firefox becomes unstable, failing to respond normally. Occassionally a pop up "llegal Operation In Plug-In" error appears with the message "The plugin performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Firefox". Closing Firefox and rerunning it restores normality, but only until the next time you attempt to play the video

Fix
Uninstall flash player 8/9 and install flash player 7. This seems to resolve the issue. To uninstall run a search on your computer for the following files :

• NPSWF32.dll
• flashplayer.xpt

Then simply delete them. After uninstalling, go here and download flash player 7. Remember to download the Netscape version and not the Internet Explorer version. Simply download the setup file into any location, then shut down Firefox and run the setup file. Once installation is complete, Firefox should now show flash videos properly.

First Post!

First post in a brand new blog! And I'd first like to note that Siewping the professional spammer has spammed on my first post even before it was properly written! One has to hand it to her. I gotta go over to her milo kosong blog and spam her once in awhile.

Anyways I am still trying out this service, so this may not be permanent yet. Please do not link directly to this blog, but link instead to my main website (http://yuenhoe.co.nr/) Much of this place (and of my main website) is still under construction but I'll have it cleared up sooner or later. In the meantime if you discover anything defective about my blog/site (except my poor header up there which Siewping blatantly abused T.T) please let me know.

Welpzz nothing more to write I guess. Just came back from wushu and the SWI(Start work inertia) syndrome is as strong as ever (Why do you think I'm actually BLOGGING?). Likely I'll ride my current rush of interest and webbie-enthusiasm to bring all my planned updates up as soon as possible, so keep near and around. For latest info, please check the announcement box in my main site :)