Brother is Japanese, not Singaporean.

Booting 32 bit UEFI on a 64 bit CPU has been fixed in kernel 3.15. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux...

Then buy 2 tickets and double your chances to 100%.

Eurasian is used to describe somebody half European, half Asian. It's quite commonly used here in Singapore.

The obvious solution is simply to input all numbers with the country code and prefixed with a +. That works all over the world. +3120-1234567 and you're golden.

The BIOS isn't the limiting factor when booting from a GPT disk - the OS is or rather the OS's boot loader.

Windows will not let you boot from a GPT disk on a non-EFI machine, but Linux (using GRUB2 or a patched GRUB1) works perfectly fine with GPT on my two machines here.

Take a look at this page: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html

Not sure what problems you have experienced with Amarok in the past, but Amarok (versions 1.4 and 2.2) is pure bliss on my 300GB/21000 file collection here. No issues what so ever (apart from v2 not supporting transcoding yet) and although it takes a while to generate the library to begin with, after that it's smooth sailing.

Am I the only one who find the whole issue about illegally obtained evidence not being admissible in court preposterous?

Let's say I go out and kill somebody, but the only evidence against me it is an illegally obtained wire-tapping. It doesn't make me any less guilty. And the people who obtained it illegally obviously need to be prosecuted but it still shouldn't change anything in terms of me. Obviously in this case most people would argue that making me walk on a technicality is not in everybody's best interest. Without going into special cases, can anybody tell me why illegally obtained evidence should not be accepted? Evidence is evidence and it carries its weight irrespectively of how it came about.

For the record, I like the RIAA's actions as little as the next guy, but that's not what we're discussing here.

I do realise this does not constitute "include" but have you ever heard of DOSBox that does exactly that and is free?

http://www.dosbox.com/

If that gets you going, then have a look at this little diamond:

"the AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction" - a USD500 CAT5 cable!

http://www.usa.denon.com/productdetails/3429.asp

No, your LaCie USB hard drive is not a FAT device. It might very well be using FAT as the file system right now, but there is absolutely nothing preventing you from using a different filesystem on that device. The 250GB LaCie I have looking at me right now uses ext2 as an example.

The bottom line is that the device says nothing about the filesystem.

But you are correct on one point - FAT32 doesn't support files larger than 4GB, but that is a limitation of the filesystem, not your USB hard disk.

Had a similar experience - bought a new Samsung CC03 mobile on 31/12 (cheapest I could find) to serve as a temporary replacement phone.

It refused to let me set the date to 31/12. It was fine with 30/12 and then telling me it was Tuesday and after midnight it showed Thursday 1/1 properly, so for some reason 31/12 did not exist.

This is also posted from within China.

And while a great number of sites are inaccessible (a number of blogs on wordpress.com and blogspot.com for a starter), it seems otherwise completely random which sites have been blocked and they simply time out as opposed to telling you that you can't go there,

At least when I was living in Singapore, things were done properly. If you accessed a site deemed BadForYou(tm), you would be diverted to another site explaining that access had been blocked by the Media something something Bureau.

And that kind of makes me wonder - how come there is no outcry regarding the blocking of sites in Singapore? Most middle eastern countries? And of course the equally morally-indefensible child porn filter in some Scandinavian countries?

If you really want to block something, then PLEASE stop P2P downloads of Celine Dion but that allegedly still works.

On that note - we have a 4 year old at home (soon to be 5) who is hooked on GCompris. Most of the mini-games there are too difficult, but she loves the ones she can figure out.

She switches on the PC and logs on herself (with her own password) to get to it.

While I thought about giving her Sugar as the DE, she seems very comfortable with GNOME.

And we were the first country in the world to legalize porn - I'm sure that's quite an achievement in the eyes of the /. crowd.