Rooney, Denver, and kernel …

You might’ve wondered what does Rooney has to do with Denver, and what the heck are those related to kernel? Have I gone out of my mind? Oh, well you’ll find out!!

The Rooney Show

By far, Manchester United 4-0 performance against Bolton away at Reebok stadium last Saturday is the best team performance this season, led by the tenacious birthday boy Rooney’s brilliant hat-trick. Everyone is involved in the game, from van der Sar, who made an important save just before half-time to keep the score 2-0 to Carrick who showed why he is worth over 19 million pounds. Two assists including a magnificent inch perfect long pass to Saha who setup the third goal for Cristiano Ronaldo. The scoreline might’ve been a little unfair to Bolton who showed their resiliency midway through the first half and showed some promises in the beginning of the second half, although at the end of the day Manchester United fully deserved to win, and not only winning, but winning with style, a flowing football style that was the characteristic of the Cantona-led team during the 90s that ignited the English football. Brilliant!!

The defense finally leaked

In a game where Peyton Manning showed the world why he got picked first before Ryan Leaf –oh yeah if anyone still remembers this guy — Denver defense finally leaked, and not only leaked out but is sent back from immortality that was hyped after an inspiring start to the season. It didn’t surprise to me that they finally gave up the TD, but to give up over 30+ points playing at home against a team that has lost their running game is a little too disappointed. The Broncos offense finally contributed positively, with Plummer’s ratings above 100, but it’s the same story that keeps repeating in each of every Broncos’ lost to the Colts, a weak secondary that is overly exposed by Manning’s perfection in reading coverage and adjusting the play at scrimmage. This time, it wasn’t Lenny Walls, but it’s Darrent Williams, who prior to this game hasn’t been that much exposed and contributed hugely to the Denver’s defense from the successful secondary focused draft class.

It’s a disappointing loss, especially when it happened at home, breaking up a streak, but losing this game early on is much better than rollin’ high only to lost like this in the playoff. I’m speaking with the assumption that the Broncos will make it to the playoff, and I do believe they will, although competition is now tight with both Chargers and your truly Broncos sitting altogether at the summit of AFC West at 5-2.

Next stop: @ Pittsburgh!!

Kernel

These few days I’ve been busy with recompiling my Linux 2.6 kernel to include support for DRI, of which I need to have my brand new 1440×900 widescreen LCD to show-up nicely. It’s been quite a while since I last messing around with the kernel, and I need to refresh some of my memory, especially on changing the Makefile and where to find my config file! I’ll post more on this later on.

Oh and back to the beginning of the story, well, that’s it folks. It’s almost Wednesday here in Singapore, have a good the rest of the week!

SoonR … power PC delivered mobile

Check this out guys, www.soonr.com! Pretty awesome, you can access your desktop through your mobile phone!

Basically here’s how it works:

+ Create an account in soonr … obviously!

+ Download a piece of client software to be installed in the PC that you intends to be accessed with your mobile phone. The client at the moment is available for Windows and Mac, no support for Linux yet.

+ Specify which folder that you want to share

+ Goto www.soonr.com from your mobile phone, and login

There you can access your Outlook and shared folders.

Technology wise, that’s impressive, especially the ability to access Outlook, although one thing to notice is that if your folder is huge, and your phone is not too high-end (I’m using Siemens M65), it could run out of memory. Knowing that it’s still in beta though –although everything is in beta nowadays , this stuff does show good promises.

www.mindcubes.com

That, is the shorter URL to check-out this blog!

Oracle to support Red Hat Linux

It came from Mr.Ellison, it’s official that Oracle will provide support for Red Hat at a lower price that what Red Hat provides. Well, not so good news for Red Hat, whose move to acquire JBoss earlier this year to get into the application server stack –hence competing directly with Oracle –might’ve prompted the giant, who was an early investor of Red Hat, and whose products, 45% of them run on Red Hat Linux– to make this move, although it was played down by Ellison as purely a move to drive the adoption of Linux. For better or worse, at least Linux is becoming hotter in the marketplace.

Check out the following responds from Red Hat to Oracle’s “Unbreakable Linux 2.0″ tagged offering. Simply “Unfakeable”. Sweet

Beyond Time

Blank & Jones is one of the best trance DJ, and this track sums it all. I’m running out of words to describe that, it’s just simply AWESOME. That reminds me of my good ol’ days in the States Anyone has any idea if they’ll be stopping over in Singapore anytime soon?

Firefox 2 is fired-up!

Boys and girls, girls and boys, Firefox 2 has been released!! Grab it while it’s fresh!

Just a little over a week after Microsoft released their “overly” anticipated IE 7, Firefox has come up with an even better browser, Firefox 2.

Are you ready for a war!?!!

iPhone is knocking on the door!

That’s according to Red Herring’s report on the highly anticipated Apple’s iPhone.  Very exciting, and I’m hoping that this is for real!!  It would be awesome to have an integrated device as cool as iPod.  After all, with an already cluttered market, it’s all about usability and user-interface.

Defense! Defense!

Defense.

That’s been the key to the Broncos’ early successful season, sitting at the top of AFC West with 4-1 record, with a key win at New England in week 3. Ironically, that core part of the defense will be again the key when Warren, Myers, Ekuban, and co. visits their former paymaster, the Clevelend Browns. Mike Shanahan proves everyone wrong when his latest tricks a couple years ago involves a bunch of under-achieved guys, who includes a former #1 draft pick, another first-round draft pick, a bunch of other guys transformed into one of the most effective defense in the National Football League.

That move, combined with the blockbuster deal that sent Portis for Bailey, proved to be the key to the Broncos reaching to the AFC Championships Game last year, as well as a catalyst for the Broncos this year. Their offense might not be pretty this year, but their defense has only alllowed one, yes, one TD in 5 games! Opponents might be moving their ball, gaining some yardage, but when it comes to the redzone, picking throws at the red zone has starting to become Bailey’s habit these days, and I do believe he’s been the best corner that the Broncos has had in maybe a couple of decades.

Roll up the dice! — I don’t think the Broncos’ offense will be greatly improved when they meet the Browns, but having said that Javon Walker might have a huge game, while the defense will continue to carry this team. As much as the element of surprise that the Browns might bring to the Broncos, especially with personnels exchanged on both sides, I don’t see the Browns pulling out an upset. Broncos will roll, and it’ll be 5-1 at the end of the day. BRONCOS 21 – BROWNS 6

It’s a Wonderful Day!

Super Sunday with an early kick-off at Old Trafford marked a great day for Manchester United. A day full of history, a day when Paul Scholes made his 500th appereance for the club, only the 9th finest individual ever to do so, a day when Sir Bobby Charlton marked his 50th year at the club, yes, it’s the 50th year!, a day when Wayne Rooney marked his baby steps of 100th appereance for Manchester United at the age of just 21, a day when it’s all summed-up with a dazzling performance from the whole team to a convincing 2-0 victory to its biggest rival.

It was a classy performance by United, capped by a fine goal by Scholes (who displayed tremendeous energy and flair, and was awesomely honoured as Man of the Match) and Ferdinand with an absolute beauty in the second half. Everyone lives up to this great day in Manchester United Football Club history, and as a lifelong fan, it’s a wonderful day!!

it’s time for the old nemesis

a raiders visit to the mile high couldn’t be better knowing they are 0-4 (yes, 0-4!!), while the broncos is having a good time with its 3-1 record after a convincing win against the was unbeatable ravens last week.

broncos’ offense is still not showing their old-self but at least plummer is moving the ball and the broncos defense has been the catalyst during this young season. elam and ernster also played huge part to the 3-1 record. on the other hand, moss, and sapp, and all other raiders have not been living up to expectations. having said that, raiders and broncos have always been an interesting one to catch. a late game between two old nemesis, this one won’t be a walkover for the broncos, but with a strong running game and solid defense, the broncos will pull another one through. RAIDERS 6 – BRONCOS 17.