Wednesday, May 31, 2006

My Leisure Tree

I am working on my Leisure Tree.

posted by Administrator @ 3:30 PM 5 comments

Quick Way to Improve Broadband Speed


Have you ever experienced slow broadband speed? And you will start blaming the ISP. I have this problem as well but later on I found out it is not totally the ISP problem. It might be because of the ADSL modem problem.

What is the factor that causing the slow speed of the modem? Temperature. Yes, the modem is overheating. When the modem temperature increasing, it will slow down you broadband speed, especially if you are a Bit Torrent maniac who downloading Gigabyte of files everyday 24 hours 7 days a week.

I solve this modem overheating by using the fan to take out the hot air from the modem. Yes, I make myself a USB powered fan. All the parts are getting from the old PC. It basically cost you nothing at all. Just need about 20 minutes time and some soldering. You need a DC5V, 0.15A or 0.20A brushless fan. You can find it in the old GFX card or old notebook. And you also need a male USB cable. This you can get it from the old mouse. If you can't find an old mouse, then you need to sacrifice one of your mouse.

If you are lazy to make this USB powered fan, another alternative way is to get the electric house Fan, turn it to the highest speed and blow at your modem. It will works as well.

Every since I have this USB powered fan on my modem, I enjoy the Bit torrent download speed at 65Kbps averagely. Sound cool ya. :)

posted by Administrator @ 1:56 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

How To Recruit The Right Person For The Right Job?

Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window.

The send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door.
Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation.

If they are counting the bricks. Put them in the Accounts department.

If they are recounting them. Put them in the auditing.

If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks. Put them in Engineering.

If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order. Put them in Planning.

If they are throwing the bricks at each other. Put them in Operation.

If they are sleeping. Put them in Security.

If they have broken the bricks into pieces. Put them in Information Technology.

If they are sitting idle. Put them in Human Resources.

If they say they have tried different combination, yet not a brick has been moved. Put them in Sales.

If they have already left for the day. Put them in Marketing.

If they are staring out of the window. Put them on Strategic Planning.

And then last but not least.

If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved.
Congratulate them and put them in Top Management.

posted by Administrator @ 9:17 AM 0 comments

Monday, May 29, 2006

What is Google?

I believe most of you who are reading this will know what is Google/Google Desktop, what is Operating System (OS) all about.

I am working on this Google Project for the company X I work for. This morning, I received an urgent notice, our big boss want this Google to be implemented in this region as soon as possible.

In order to get thing done, I need help from this "Software Engineering Dept". So, I wrote an email to them including their manager. After a while, I received a call from the manager, let’s call her "Nah Jie" (Sister Nah) here.

Nah Jie: "I got your email regarding this Google. Can you tell me what Google is?"

Me : "Google Project is search engine etc..including Google Desktop, Google Tool Bar.."”
I explained to her.

Nah Jie: "Oh, I see. Google is a search engine. Google Desktop…. What? You are launching a new Desktop model and you want my team to perform.....… Sorry, we got no extra resource or bandwidth to support you for this project. Please do proper planning for your project before.... "”

Me : "Google Desktop is not a real desktop, it is a software application."

Nah Jie: "Oh, sorry la, I confuse. I didn'’t know that. OK, no problem, we can help you."”


What! a software engineering dept. manager that doesn'’t know what Google is!? Gosh!!
I hope she knows what Firefox Web Browser is! Or maybe she doesn't know that at all.

"“Firefox is a type of fox, its mouth can blow fire ball!" LOL...

It is a shame being a Software engineering manager who working in software dept, an IT based company, doesn’t know about this and never update their knowledge.

Later on, I heard from someone from her team, Few years ago, we she attending a job interview, the interviewer asked her: "What Operating System you are using?"
She asked back, "What is Operating System?"

OMG.!

"Goo.gle Dekstop. New Desktop Model. Designed for idiot Proof!" LOL.

posted by Administrator @ 8:16 PM 0 comments

You know you live in 2006 when...

1. You go to a party, sit down and take MYSPACE pics.

2. You haven't played solitaire woth reals cards in years.

3. The reason for not staying in touch with your friends is that they don't have MSN Messenger/YM/ICQ/SKYPE/Email.

4. You'd rather look all over the house for the remote controller instead of just pushing the button on the TV. Sometimes, you don't even know where is the power button.

6. You can't do you works when there is no email access.

7. Your evening activity is sitting in front of the computer.

8. You read this list, and keep nodding and smiling.

9. You think about how stupid you are for reading this.

10. You were too busy to notice number five.

11. You actually scolled back up to check if there was a number five.

12. And how you're laughing at your stupidity.

posted by Administrator @ 4:30 PM 0 comments

Sunday, May 28, 2006

MIT $100 Dollar laptop now a working prototype!





The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative wants to bring computing to the poorer countries and MIT has been working on a $100 dollar laptop for a while. The first working prototype pictures have been uploaded on flickr. Take a look.
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based (Edubuntu), with a dual-mode display—both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution.
The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.

[Via:OLPC]

posted by Administrator @ 9:33 PM 1 comments

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 arrived!!

Microsoft released the puplic Beta 2 of Office 2007. It's available in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish. After signing up on windows live, answer some questions, everyone can download the following products:
  • Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Visio® Professional 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager
  • Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Groove® Server 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Multi Language Pack 2007 - French/German/Japanese/Spanish
  • Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007
  • Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007
  • Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 - Enterprise
  • Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 - Enterprise(x64)
  • Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007
  • Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 (x64)
You can get it here

posted by Administrator @ 9:25 PM 0 comments

Purple Color Chili


I found this purple color chili this morning at my garden. This is the first time I see the purple color chili. I wonder where my mom get the seed. She told me this species of chili can prevent cancer. Believe it? Here are some facts about this chili:
  • Common Name: Aurora Chili
  • Scientific Name: Capsicum Annuum
  • Heat Level: 7
  • Small 10-12" plants, purple and green foliage, chillis 1½" long. Upright plant, ripens from lavender to deep purple to bronze/orange and finally to red. Very nice for the patio or in the house. Easily grown in a pot on the windowsill reaching about a foot high.
**Master Win calls this chili "hiaw han chiu" (Horny Chili). Why? Because purple is "hiaw" color for Master Win.

posted by Administrator @ 1:32 PM 1 comments

Poor Little Ah Miao Bodies

This evening while I took Spark out for a walk, I saw 2 kitten dead bodies at the field.
There is a warning sign " Dilarang Membuang Sampah. Denda RM500".
Still got these irresponsible people who dump the kitten dead bodies just like that.
OMFG, if they are really the cat lover, at least go a dig a hole to bury the poor little kittens. They should know if you throw a dead body on the open field, it will attracts the flies and crow, and the smell is very disgusting.
When your pet died, please bury them nicely. Do not simple throw.
I know who you are, and I gonna order Spark and Kangaroo watch after your cats.


posted by Administrator @ 2:42 AM 0 comments

Make Your Firefox Much Faster !!

1. Type "about:config" into the Firefox address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows: (by double clicking them)

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (I changed mine to 100, works great.)

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves

It works for me. No harm try it out.

posted by Administrator @ 1:05 AM 0 comments

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Lego USB Drive



This is the LEGO USB Drive created by Stickman.
He used the 128MB USB Drive, removed the casing and resized the circuit board to fit into a 2X4 LEGO brick.
Very creative!! I will use my 64MB USB Drive to make the similar LEGO USB Drive. I will use Grey Color LEGO Brick. Stay tuned.

[via MAKE:BLOG]

posted by Administrator @ 10:31 PM 0 comments

小王子的旅程

小王子结束了9年的蜗牛式生活，卸下重壳，开始展开处处无家处处家的新旅程。

目前，小王子是在巴西的Foz do Iguacu。

在这里祝小王子有一个愉快的旅程。

小王子下一站会是哪里呢？

posted by Administrator @ 12:51 AM 0 comments

Tech Support. What a technical Person!!


Tech Support. Yes, technical support executive. From the name we know these people should have very strong technical knowledges.

But in my company X, they hired a lot of this idiot tech support that don't have technical knowledge at all. They asked stupid questions. They dispatch the wrong parts for customers, then they come back to blame the engineers for qualifying wrong or giving wrong info.

This morning, I received an email from this customer service and the T.S . A customer is having problem with the PCMCIA slot and some idiot onsite support technician or what ever confirm that the slot is NG. So this expert TS requesting for replacement of the PCMCIA slot. The problem come when customer is using Model A of Notebook, but they are sending PCMCIA slot of Model B to the customer and later complain to me that the slot cannot fit in the system.

Why they never check and verify before sending the part?
No wonder this company X is wasting a lot of money on sending part for customer.
If you are hiring a monkey to do the job, that monkey will give you a monkey result.
I wonder what is wrong with the hiring manager.

OMFG...

posted by Administrator @ 12:22 AM 0 comments