My original plan for CSS.Net is for it to become an online portal for classes from different years. It will be a place where people can keep in touch with each other from the same class or from the same cohort. Overall, there will be a forum, where people can discuss about almost everything! Scolding teachers, etc etc etc… Lol…
But all these are not present in the current CSS.Net.
I passed them CSS.Net in the hope that they will do something better and faster out of it. In the end, it became a desert. I took a look at the yahoo group: the last announcement was in 2004!!!! WTH…
It was a wrong choice to give them that domain name. Can they make it alive??? Hello? There's no one home.
Damn. Pui.
Never mind for now. I shall continue to work on HS.Net… There are a lot of things that I wanted to do, but there's a lack of time.
I have formatted my laptop 3 days ago. I spent 1 day restoring everything. Currently, it is free from a lot of things! No WinPIC, no VC++, no VHDL stuffs, everything also don't have! And it now runs like a horse! Lol…
Still, the old problem remains: lack of disk space.
Having a 1GB thumbdrive does increase my backup capacity by quite a bit.
However, there are some things that I cannot download yet due to the underground cable problem near Taiwan. I can access the file, but it is just slow. Slow and unstable. And so, I shall KIV first. That is not too important. Some things can be done with other methods.
I spent around 2 minutes searching for something, and I found it: SG NRIC verification algorithm. How do you verify an identification number? By using a dot.product of the number with a set of multipliers! Lol… in simpler terms, it means multiply each number in the identification number with a multiplier, and sum up all the results. Then the number is divided by a divisor, and the remainder value is used to get a letter from a table. I think the last letter is called a checksum or something like that. It is used to verify that the numbers are indeed correct.
Same thing. NUS uses that in the matric numbers too.
There are other things that uses such checksum methods, but often, the formula for getting the letter is not known to the public. But it's good for programmers to known how they work… Lol…
3 more days to the end of 2006. Welcome, 2007!