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lemueltan
Christmas week
Christmas week Christmas in Bukit Mertajam this year was rather quiet. Gone were the days when I could join the youth fellowship to go carroling, gone were the days of frantic christmas present buying. Christmas has literally become yet another day. This is especially reinforced by the fact of the culture here. Shops everywhere are playing Chinese New Year music instead of Christmas songs! Bah Humbug! YWAM (Penang) Few days before Christmas, I made a trip down to Penang to attend a YWAM: DTS promotion program. My aunty brought a bunch of YWAMers from Kuala Lumpur to help the local YWAM team "enlighten" the post high school students about various opportunities to serve in YWAM. My brother was the only musician that day. We siblings have music blood deep within us. Unfortunately, as much as I would like to participate in DTS; Christina is going off to do her DTS in Germany =); I have already planed to settle down in Perth and start my career right off. No pre-breather before I launch... (more)

The Chancellor
Side Channel Attacks
Codes and puzzles were meant to be broken. Just ask any puzzle blogger (or riddle blogger). It's not that they were made to be broken, they just represent a challenge that drives a certain type of person to solve them. In cryptography, a side channel attack is any attack based on information gained from the physical implementation of a cryptosystem, rather than brute force or theoretical weaknesses in the algorithms (compare cryptanalysis). For example, timing information, power consumption, electromagnetic leaks or even sound can provide an extra source of information which can be exploited to break the system. Many side-channel attacks require considerable technical knowledge of the internal operation of the system on which the cryptography is implemented. Attempts to break a cryptosystem by deceiving or coercing people with legitimate access are not typically called side-channel attacks: see social engineering and rubber-hose cryptanalysis. For attacks on computer systems... (more)

achemm
Jawatan Kosong -
Pensyarah di UiTM
kekosongan jawatan Pensyarah di UiTM... Kepada yang berminat ayuh memohon sebelum tarikh tutup pada: Khamis, 15 Januari 2009 DOWNLOAD IKLAN DOWNLOAD BORANG

nota hidupku
Ujan lagi...
Pagi ni ujan mulai turun lg di bumi yg sentiasa basah ini. Demam aku dah okay tp batuk belum reda... Cerita psl mekah n madinah belum sempat aku siapkn. KIV dulu citer tu. Mlm td rasa kurang sihat. Terus terlena lps mkn ubat (tu psl aku tak suka mkn ubat..ubat buat aku lemah.) Thn ni aku mengajar setiap kelas. T4, T5 n T6... Entahlaa....dema kata senang supaya aku boleh 'bawa' anak didikku tu dari permulaan tahap2 hingga UPSR. ermm..iyolah tuh.. p/s aku senang dgn students T4B thn 2009 ni.. InsyaAllah mereka akan menjadi yg terbaik antara semua. T6B - mcm biasa. Anak manja, si Alif asyik tenung aku sejak aku masuk ngajar. naper ek.. aku lawa ke..hahaha... nnt esok aku tanya dia naper. ******************** masa tunggu umi dia dtg amik dr skolah, aku tanya aliff... "anything I can help u, aliff?" "Teacher nampk tak sihat..kurang senyum." Aku senyum jer.. " I'm okay..demam sikit. tp all of us have to be serious this year,my dear.. Ingat...jgn bawa perangai thn... (more)

Civil Defense
Obama:
Crisis Has Only Started
KEY SPEECH EXCERPTS AFTER ARTICLE In his biggest speech since the election, President-elect Obama warns at 11 a.m. Eastern at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., that the economy 'could become dramatically worse' and the nation could face unemployment above 10 percent without bipartisan support for his plan to 'save or create at least three million jobs over the next few years.' Obama uses his signature word 'change' twice in the 960 words of excerpts provided to reporters ahead of the speech. 'It is time to set a new course for this economy, and that change must begin now,' Obama say in remarks released from a major speech on the economy he is delivering this morning at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. (Full excerpts at bottom of Playbook) The speech is the most dramatic, sobering element so far in what aides promise will be a long and continuing conversation between Obama and the nation about the dire state of the economy and the necessary solutions. Coming 12 days... (more)