Hafidz Zulkifli

In Part 1, I wrote mostly about how I ended up working in SNA and I touched a bit on how Gephi can be used as the simplest solution to visualize your network. If you're good in JavaScript - the source generated by Gephi would've given you some idea on how to expand it further to have more selection panels and filtering capabilities. Unfortunately for yours truly - I suck at it.  Of course while I could spend some of my precious time learning a new language, I guess I could also make use of some ready-made tools available in the market. I chose Qlikview in this case. Mostly because it has a free personal license (who doesn't like free stuff right?)  Qlikview Traditionally - Qlikview doesn't support network graph visualization in any of it's out-of-the-box widgets. However, the beauty/strength of Qlikview in my opinion is it's support for extended plugins - which they call extensions. Using JavaScript, one has the ability to create any sor...

I've had this problem (ok,..so I usually write a how-to when I got a problem to fix) whereby my recently acquired laptop (my last one was stolen..#uck#n thieves..) was not able to play any movies at all. Talk about NOT being able to play movies on your laptop! Such blasphemy! Ok, so I know that you're not even suppose to go around and watch a movie using your company's property, but I mean come on..who does'nt? Anywho, after months of surviving without my own able-to-watch-laptop (I've been using my wife's since then :P ), recently I found this comments which attributed my problem to a DirectDraw problem. Full coverage of that thread here : System freezes when trying to play ANY movie So after disabling the hardware accelaration on my laptop - I could play them movies again! Yippee! Time to watch some episodes of the X-Men cartoon (the one that usually airs at 7pm back then) that I've been downloading.