Jul
20
2008
WordPress 2.6
Posted by: zorex in Day to Day

It’s been quite sometime since I login to my blog admin panel. Last few days I login and whoala, WordPress 2.6 is out. Here are some of the new features/changes in WordPress 2.6

Version 2.6

WordPress 2.6 was released, July 14th, 2008.

The database version is 8201.
New User Features

  • Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs between any two revisions.
  • Display captions of images alongside them in posts and pages.
  • Add paging of Themes in Design panel
  • Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pages
  • Press This bookmarklet
  • Add sorting to gallery
  • Export/import post excerpts
  • Theme Previewer
  • Check (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manage Post
  • Show when a term is both a tag and a category
  • Wider Profile fields
  • TinyMCE 3.1
  • Two categories can have sub-categories with the same name

From: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.6

This is a brief video tour of WordPress 2.6. it’s 3 minutes and 29 seconds in length, it’s worth a watch:


Download WordPress 2.6





Jul
07
2008
IT Fair 2008
Posted by: zorex in Events

ITS annual IT Fair has just ended yesterday. Sponsors and vendors from different places all come and gather in our Grand Exam Hall to sell their goods.

Crowd is good this year but wasn’t as good as last year. I think this is one good reason why vendors weren’t screaming their ass off trying to sell their products.

The most attractive is the lucky draw. Everyone hope they can win something including me. It would be nice if I can win a all-in-one-printer.

IT Quiz
The unforgettable moment was during Sunday where our beloved ITS President Ryan Justin a.k.a tamjiak give out prizes to winners of IT Quiz (one of the mentor program).

Here we have the winners for 2 days.

30 June

Jimmy Horlick Teng

1 July

Rajewara Rao

They both receive RM100 and a piece of ITS T-shirt.





Jun
27
2008

June is the worst month for all Malaysians. Petrol price hike has a big impact on everyone, directly or indirectly. As a student, our monthly expenditure also sky rocket as the food price increase. Those auntie, uncle if not charging you extra for the same portion of food, they will reduce your food portion or both.

Students already suffer enough within this 2 years since the increment of fees such as Library fee, Tuition fee and Parking fee (what else I miss?). Today, we receive an announcement stating, “All students have to pay an IT services fee of approximately RM100 starting this trimester

Here is the content

Assalamualaikum and very good day to all,

We from the Students Representative Council, Multimedia University (Malacca Campus) would like to hear some opinions/suggestions from students regarding the matter explained below:

Imposition of IT services fee (RM100)

Finance Division is planning to impose a RM100/year IT service fee on all students starting from the academic year 2008/2009 (this trimester). The fee covers the maintenance fees of MMLS, course registration system, wireless services and other online systems. Besides this, a portion of the fee will be used to upgrade the bandwidth of Melaka campus (from 16 Mbps to 34 Mbps).

Unfortunately, there are several controversial issues:

1. Although the students from both of the campuses will be charged the same fee, Cyberjaya campus will get a better service in terms of bandwidth increment (from 34 Mbps to 100 Mmbps). This is because the hardware of Cyberjaya campus is more advance than us and our hardware is not able to support the 100 Mbps bandwidth (Cyberjaya hardware can support up to 400 mbps while ours can only support up till 100 Mbps).

2. Not every student is using the wireless service.

3. CITS cannot guarantee that after the imposition of the IT services fee, all the flaws that we encountered before (eg. system down during the course registration period) can be solved once and for all.

4. Number of concurrent connections to the web services such as MMLS and course registration may or may not be increased. If it is not increased, the increase in bandwidth would not make much of a difference as the number of users allowed to access the said websites will still remain the same. As such, at high usage periods (i.e. before/during exam for MMLS & course registration days) students will still have the problem of not being able to access the websites. It would be akin to widening the roads but still having the same number of exits – You’ll get to the exits/entrances (i.e. websites) faster. Once there, you’ll have to wait in line (for countless hours) just as before.

Most of the students are not rich, including me. Some of us rely on government loan that provide us just the sufficient amount of money to pay our ever-increase fees. Not to mention the loan doesn’t include our daily expenses. We are still asking money from our parents every month.

RM100 might sounds very little for some of you. If they keep charging for every single things in MMU, we going to end up eating grass. Library fee, parking fee, increase tuition fee. Don’t know when they will impose toilet entrance fee or toilet bowl fee.

You’ll burn a hole in your pocket every time you go do your business.

SAY NO TO IT SERVICE FEE