Category: General

NO to EntrecardNothing to do with how great or how lousy the system is. Nothing to do with Entrecard in general, just that I cannot disagree more on how people behind Entrecard handle things.

In short, an Entrecard member’s account was deleted because he claims (pure claiming with no proof) that he could drop 300 cards within 5 seconds. This alone has got my disagreement. But things doesn’t stop here.

The member who got his account deleted was questioning for the reason, and the reason given was because he claims that he could drop 300 cards in 5 seconds, even without any concrete proof. Proof such as logs are not given—instead, Entrecard insist that they are doing the right thing to delete a member’s account with the claim alone.

Entrecard also mentioned that in order to restore his account, he must either:

  1. Provide us with the details of the method you utilized to subvertEntrecard security or
  2. Post publically on the same forum thread with the following exact wording:
    I wish to apologize to my fellow Entrecard users for undermining their faith in the Entrecard system in order to boost my ego. I do not in fact have a method for automatically dropping cards rapidly. I also apologize to the Entrecard programmer, who is in fact awesome.

Entrecard also demanded for a scan or digital photograph of a piece of paper, signed and dated by the member, with the following wording:

I commit henceforth never to abuse, or claim to abuse, the security systems of Entrecard.

This shows how proud Entrecard could be of itself. To me, all these shows that they doesn’t appreciate their members or even respect them at all. This have nothing to do with me, but it is enough to make me boycott Entrecard.

Visit the actual forum thread for more details.

I don’t know Jake (blogs at More Merchant) personally, but I have seen his head for several time as a 125×125 ad button via Entrecard. I saw it again today, but this time, even his body is shown:

Jake Rinard Now With Body

Coincidence actually, for having a t-shirt ad via Project Wonderful just right below his ad. It was spotted at studkickass. It might still be there if you are quick enough. A bigger look:

Jake with body, bigger size

[Windows XP / Server 2003] Want to customize your desktop but not sure where to start? There are several ways of doing it, but in this guide, you will learn how to customize your desktop with visual style, which is free, without all the advertisements popping every time you boot your computer.

Patch uxtheme.dll

Before you could use visual style on your Windows XP, you will have to replace a file in C:\Windows\System32 called uxtheme.dll. You can either do it manually, or download the patcher, which will do the job for you automatically.

After downloading, run the program to start patching. All file protection dialogs should be canceled, and after everything are done, restart your computer. You can always un-patch by running the program again, so no worries.

Download & Install Visual Style

You can already start customizing your desktop using visual style after restarting. Download any visual style that you like, and place the file or folder to C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes. These few websites have good collections of visual style:

Next, right click on your desktop and select “Properties”. Select the “Appearance” tab and choose the visual style you have just installed from the drop down menu. Click OK and wait. You will then see your old boring Windows theme changing to a nice theme of your choice.

via MakeUseOf.com

Received an email notifying about an advertorial order just now, and when I check it out on my ReviewME account, I was shocked to learn that the advertorial was overdue—because I just received it today. And more shocking, it says the advertorial should be posted by 1999.

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The advertorial was posted anyway without any problem. What a joke from ReviewME :)

Yes, welcome. My name is Vincent Chow, a dude that has been blogging from Malaysia since 2006. Sheep Tech is my third blog, and this is my first approach towards blogging on technology. With not much experience in this field, I will write on topics ranging from blogging, gadgets, the internet—just anything that is related.

For the blog name, Sheep Tech is picked for the reason sheep is my Chinese zodiac. The domain name is then registered and there is no way to turn back. As for the logo, showing a sheep with his laptop lying on a field of grasses.. it was drawn by my sister.