I’ve decided to merge posts about reading MyKad from my previous blog into a single post.

Notes:

1. The original codes were written by Xenon from Lowyat.net. Somehow, he managed to reverse engineer MyKad’s APDU so that we can read it without buying any SDK.

2. This application only reads data from Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN).

This should help you with NCReport in Qt.

This guide will help you (mostly will help me in the future) to configure your Ruby on Rails to support connection to Sybase.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to forget these steps, so, just to be safe, I’m putting it here. I’m dividing this tutorial into two sections, one for default MySQL that comes from Slackware and the other one is for new MySQL.

First of all, at the time of this writing, NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Technology is not supported on Linux and without proper configuration, you won’t even be able to load your Desktop Environment such as Xfce.