Salt

All the action is not so bad, but it’s a bit boring to be invincible right. Everytime when she shoots, she will hit the target. And no matter what situation, she will be the first to shoot first. Mole in both organization, wondering what is she trying to do. To become the bad guy and become the good guy again.

I still prefer her in Tomb Raider role.

Windows 7 to Windows XP

Finally downgraded from Windows 7 back to Windows XP. Still can’t get used to the interface in Windows 7 even though it has faster boot time. The problem with user profile sometimes cannot be loaded is getting on my nerves every time it happens.

Noticed some differences is that, USB transfer is faster in Windows 7 compare to Windows XP, probably it’s the driver issue.

Windows 7 with all effects turned on with Intel 915GM chipset is still a bit laggy but it’s not really noticeable for normal users.

Probably I’ll stick to Windows 7 with new PCs, but old PC should just use Windows XP.

Windows 7 running on her SU7300 with DDR3 memory is blazing fast. Guess Core 2 processors does make a difference compare to older generation Pentium M.

Excusay Muah

Nowadays I found that people are getting more and more impolite, perhaps due to their vocabulary or it's intentional. What's wrong with adding a word 'please' when you like them to do something, like 'can have the salt, please?', 'please let me through', etc etc.

And another thing worth nothing is that, when you want to buy something or order something from the menu, don't start off with 'can I have' or 'may I have', instead, you should start off with 'I like to have', because you are not asking for permission to order the stuff. The stuff is made to be purchased/ordered so asking for permission is like so weird right.

Robot

Doing the same thing over and over again. I know it’s inevitable in work but doing the same thing year after year is not something desirable either. But still we need to work in order to make ends meet.

Sometimes people have the misconception that work will get easier as they grew older. No, not anymore. In this new century, the job just get tougher as you grow older. Sure the organization can give you a pay rise, but their expectations out of you will be higher. No organization will pay you more if they want you to do less. Unless you are working for yourself, you are the boss yourself.

I’m glad that some people can be happily working, they found joy in work. That’s the correct attitude. Those who can’t find any joy in their work, they should just quit and go beg for money instead. Working on something without any interest at all is plain torturous, why would they want to torture themselves?

Harry Potter

Just went to watch Harry Potter in the afternoon before start of really busy job schedule in coming weeks.

Personally I feel that it is not bad, but still lacking some depth in the story line. Can’t blame them as they are just following the book.

Watching the movie is only for enjoying the special effects and also relaxing.

Everybody has grown up now, Harry Potter is finally shorter than Ron, well, they started from the same height at least.

The plot goes like this:

Ministry of magic has fallen and there is no more people to defend against the evil. Harry and the gang continue to find for more horcrux and trying to destroy them one by one. So in this episode, they only succeeded in destroying one more horcrux only, guess there are a lot of horcrux to be destroyed in the next episode.

Shook vs Fisherman's Cove

Somehow I find that Shook is serving better food than Fisherman's when they are having the MYR 3.6 promotion. Fisherman's garlic bread is as hard as rock! Okay, it's not that hard but harder than normal bread a lot. I wonder if we can request for a softer bread.

Another thing about Fisherman's is that, we order our pasta together with the table beside us, and the table beside us get the pasta first, fine, and we waited for 30 minutes more, still our pasta hasn't arrived yet. It is exactly the same pasta. Note that we are one of the first few tables to make the order, there is no queue in front of us! Were they really that busy or they have just forgotten?

Somehow I read in somebody else review that Fisherman is serving the best food.
Guess it's just wrong timing for us.

ORA-27121 error

Running Oracle and suddenly sqlplus cannot login anymore?

ERROR:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27121: unable to determine size of shared memory segment
Linux Error: 13: Permission denied

To fix this, there are many methods, one way, is to change permission for the oracle binaries in the bin folder of $ORACLE_HOME:

# cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin/
# chmod 6751 oracle

# ll oracle
-rwsr-s--x 1 oracle dba 74016776 2006-05-25 09:54 oracle*

Cheers!

Enabling remote acess for Oracle XE in console

Just installed Oracle XE on Ubuntu 10.10 server but found out that remote user cannot manage the database using Web. Most of the guide out there are suggesting to use the web to allow remote access, but since Ubuntu servers by default does not have any GUI install, we can just forget about web.

Here's the command in sqlplus:

EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETLISTENERLOCALACCESS(FALSE);

Then try to access using web from remote again.

Get them moving!

Motivation talks, motivation camps, everything about motivation is important. We cannot expect our employee to work for us forever naturally. There must be something that is driving them towards their goal, driving them towards the right direction in the company.

Human will get tired, human will get disillusioned, human will get bored doing the same thing over and over again.

Even if you can pay them a lot of salary, the working environment must be right. Heck, with the right working environment, we don't even need so much salary to begin with.

How to make your Internet faster

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Note: Does not apply to Digi, Maxis, PacketOne, UMobile, YTLC Yes, Jaring, Redtone and the rest of the minority ISP subscriber.

Changing of video card

Previously I was using GTS260, man, it's churning out hot air at approx 70 celcius as soon as windows has finished booting.

When I was folding, the temperature could go up to 80 celcius. I tried once to let it fold through the day when I went for a trip, when I reached home at night, the whole room feels like an oven! Even hotter than the day.

Now I have switched to GT430, the temperature is only at 43 celcius. Much more comfortable.

Not sure if I should continue to use Windows Vista or should I switch to Windows 7?

www.yes.my

Sure there is a lot of hype, creating high expectations. Well, can't really say anything for sure until they have launched. I still firmly believe wireless can never beat wired for raw speed and response time. But I won't mind trying if the company is willing to sponsor us to try.

Unifi 20 Mbps

Do you know how fast is it? Doing moderation on forum.lowyat.net is like no waiting time needed. Just click, and the page will load fully. Streaming Youtube videos is like, finally it can load faster than you can watch, craps, even if we stream 3 videos at the same time, it still stream faster than we can focus.

Downloading from Hotfile/Fileshare is like.. so unusual. Usual download time of 1 hour has become like.. 10 minutes? The only crap thing about Unifi is that, sometimes the web host has limited bandwidth/throughput available, like I was downloading Fedora 13 from the mirror list just now, non of them can give me like 10 Mbps speed, max is only like 4 Mbps, 5 Mbps.

The VOIP phone supplied can make free calls to all land line, inclusive those from other states apart from KL, but not free to mobile or international call.

They also provide an IPTV box, but all the channels are craps. I am not demanding much, give me Discovery, NGEO, ESPN, AlJazeera International, CNN, Bloomberg - I'll be happy enough.