Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Aztech WL556 repeater


Due to work requirement to work from home for quite a foreseeable duration, I got myself a Aztech DL556 repeater today as my room is having a blindspot for wireless ID.

The installation was alright. I was confused initially after entering the web's UI. I input the repeater's SSID which is incorrect. It should be the AP/router's repeater.

Initially connection through wireless from my Milestones phone does not seems smooth. The signal was excellent though. Then I was to restart the repeater and connect again. Seems ok now..will continue to monitor and update this.
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I suppose this gadget is under evaluation?

I asked the man in the IT shop. Probably Aztech is the only company selling this at the moment.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Parting quotes..

"a bird in hand worth more then 2 in the bush" ~Yim San..

thanks..

I will remember...

I'd like my life back


Source: mypaper.sg

Something similar happened in my career's life. I'd like to have my life back too. According to chinese lunar calendar year 2010 is a tiger year full of power, fierce animal. I need to watch out in next cycle ie 12 years. My life is shaky. Glad is going to be over. Things hope will improve in 2011 year of rabbit. Hopefully a more tame animal.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Digital Cabinet

I am sourcing for a digital cabinet. Trust me, if you got a SLR investing in a digital cabinet is the next utmost important thing that will never regret. 10 years ago, I owned a F60 Nikon film camera while my buddy has a Minolta film SLR. He has been putting the his camera in dry cabinet for 10 over years and last checked was still in good condition. While mine, already got fungus everywhere..Dont think it's worth anything now.

Dry cabinets has various brands in the market like Aipo, Akarui, Digicabi.

Maybe I just go for analog simple ones.

My first digital SLR - 450d

I got a used Canon 450d yesterday from a friend. It comes with a standard kit lens 18-55mm and a prime 55mm 1.8f lens.

Pretty cool.

Start taking photos. Check out this space.

Friday, December 3, 2010

A new beginning

Had a nice evening dinner with my boss whom flew down from the States. We had a nice meal at the Fosters, an English rose cafe in Holland village.

Then we moved on to Harry for our beer session.

Nice team building.

Next day, I told him about my plans moving on....

Glad to have his blessing boss.

You are the man.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Getting last line in file using PERL

#!/usr/bin/perl

open(INFILE, "input.txt") || die "Cannot open file $!\n";
while () {
if (eof) {
print $_;
}
}

Friday, November 12, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

dentist

Dr Hong Yong Huat
360 Orchard Road #01-14
Singapore 238869
Tel: 67346522
Fax: 67351505

Dr Soh Jen
Braces & Aesthetic Dental Clinic Pte Ltd
10 Sinaran Drive, Suite #10-36
Novena Medical Center (Square 2)
Singapore 307506
Tel: 67322706


Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tungsten MySql replication

Spend a fair bit of time to setup tungsten by continuent.  A software that enable mysql replication and load balance.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Java 6 Ubuntu


New way of installing java in Ubuntu Lucid

sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk




Timeline: Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Timeline: Gulf of Mexico oil spill http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE68I1KT20100919

Monday, September 13, 2010

Options

It has been one of a fruitful weekend back to my hometown. The purpose back home originally was to attend my brothers ROM. I was lucky to meet up with my uncle who flew from Melbourne. I have not meet up with him for almost twenty years.
I mentioned I am happy and lucky and over our conversion I learned that he is actually been doing some options trading which I have looked into it for the past two years. I took some initiative to ask a little more from him. Spend a few hours and he willingly shared his experience with me. I am sure this will me invaluable to me one day.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Top 100 books from BBC

  • Publish Date: April 2003
In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

You can search these books in this site to download or read online.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Friday, August 27, 2010

Tired but looking forward to weekends

I am feeling tired nowadays with late nights and early morning need to wake up early to travel for abt 1.5 before arriving work. Need to sleep early.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Another colleague had resigned

My best friend colleage that I make in this company had left today. What that means for me? Must I always be the lone person? Cant get a friend that can click and chat?

Wish you best in your new company Mr Goh. ..

KB982110 flaw

I clicked update as per normal windows 7 updates. Then I clicked restart.

Little I know that my PC was unable to complete the patch upgrade and it said that it needs to revert. ANd the PC rebooted. Then it prompt the same screen saying trying to update and failed and then reverting...pls do not switch off.. this was happening for at least past 3-5 times before it allows me to boot into windows 7.

Then I checked on the windows patches applied. This is the one not applied KB982110.


==> Updated
An update. I uncheck the update for this patch KB982110 and rebooted my PC thinking that it will not apply the patch. However it did and applied. This time there is no error. Patch was applied successfully. Thanks.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Install Sun Java 6 into MySQL

1. vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following two lines into the end of the file.

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main multiverse

2. sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

mySQL installation

Have been struggling to install the MySQL Binary version in Linux. Wow..what a challenge..thought the source was the difficult one.

Basically..follow the instructions in mySQL website. but need to do more..

/usr/local/mysql/> sudo scripts/my_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql

/usr/local/mysql> sudo bin/mysqld --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql

need to set .profile as well
mkdir $HOME/bin
PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/mysql

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Windows Utils

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

http://old.bink.nu/xpbootcd/

Promise TX2650

Well, I got my Samsung 1TB F3 hdd after reading various good review from the web.

Happily got the hdd and went home and tried to install the hdd. Boot up fine and into OS. Then launch WebPAM tool by Promise RAID via http.

Great...can only perform RAID 0/JBOD on my two hard disks. My primary is a OS disk. Gosh this is not what I want now. I wish to perform RAID1. But I can't without deleting the primary logical partition. And if I do that, I will loose my OS disk.

I guess I am stuck and just have to get another hdd and then perform a mirror.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Promise raid tx2650

This is a entry level raid card for desktop. I used it for raid setup and plan to use it for raid 0 stripping. However the idea of raid 1 strikes me and I might give it a go not to worry about my file backup. Though it still compulsory to perform backup. But for busy user like me might be a good temporary alternative. 

Installation of the promise card in windows 7 is not smooth. I hit into several issue and blue screen as soon as I get the card installed into my pci-e 1x card. I have to unplugged my sata from the card and connects back to on board sata to boot into windows 7. Then I run the installation cd. The windows tries to install a driver for my sata but was not successful. I have to manually update with two driver that comes with the cd. As soon as its done, you are up to go. Point your browser and enter http://localhost:8080/promise

The only issue that I had was the ctrl +f key seems not allowing me into the raid bios upon startup.

Else I am looking forward to raid when I shop for hdd this weekend.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Encoding and transcoding

I was surfing the web last night and bump into this two terms -encoding and transcoding used in video capture and editing.

One website mentioned that encoding is transforming from a looseness ie original contents eg wave files to a loss format eg mp3.

While transcoding is converting from a compressed to a more compressed mode.

I am looking at several cards that does video editing. One of them is the leaktek a taiwan manufacturer. Software used tmpneg 4.0. Very powerful card. Nice card.

Amazon.com,newegg.com,buy.com are several e shopping sites.

I have tried vpost and comgateway for shipping service.

Happy shopping.

My colleague has resigned

Having joined my new company for a month, and l was lucky to click along a new colleage whom come from a very similar background like me. However this morning he told me that he is resigning after a short two months with the company. I was definitely sad to see him leaving.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Yealink voip

I am going to get the Yealink voip phone. Its is being distributed by Lantone systems in Singapore. Two interesting model t18 & t20. The latter has a lcd screen to configure ip address. While the former requires a computer to get it configured. Apparently skype software is not supported.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Multiple mysql instances

I have been trying a couple of hours today to sort out the multiple instances of Mysql running in the same box of linux.

According to mysql website only a copy of binaries is required. Today I manage to launch the instances listening in different port and socket file. Importantly you need to specify a different data directory.

Run mysql_db_install --user=mysql --datadir=/xxxx

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Des&Jac's Honeymoon in Europe (2003) - Part 1

BP CEO resigned

After several weeks I resigned from BP, it was reported in reuters news today that BP CEO Tony Haywood has also resigned in wake of the worst oil spilt history in America. He will be replace by Rob Dubly whom two years ago was fleeing out of Russia when the TNK BP join venture went sour.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Mysql learning journey

Coming from an Oracle background,  there some learning steps for me to pick up Mysql.

We are using Mysql very 5.148, the latest on Ubuntu. One important feature is to enabled log_bin=on in /etc/my.cnf file. This is equivalent to archive logs feature.

Next we need to take care on how to archive these bin logs before it fills up. I have a cron script that runs and remove binary logs that are a couple of days old. Alternatively, there is a parameter 'expired%' that can specify the validity of binaries log before removed by system.

Monday, July 12, 2010

New job

Started new work today and it took me nearly 100 mins to get home.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

A new beginnings

Come Monday mark as a new beginnings of my career life. For past three and half years, I have contributed and developed myself to prepare for new challenge ahead.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

extracted two tooth and braces

Went to extract two lower tooth last week. And the doc told me that I am progressing well with my orthodontic treatment. Doc changed to a thicker wire for my upper two teeth.

I am feeling the pain now.Oucch.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tough times for tough jobs

Well was walking alone aft lunch meeting a long time friend, Sam.

Saw this scene where two workers was cleaning glasses of a nearby office building. This pic will reminds me the difficulties faced by everyone.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Birthday gift for my daughter

Today was a hectic day. Went to giant tried to get a bicycle wasnt that cheap as promotion only applies to other bike. And worse another customer took the left one bicycle away. Finally settle down in toys r us.  And got a bike. But was a display set too.

What a day. Its for my daughter 6 yrs birthday.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Develop Anroid software

Was trying to play around developing Android.

Found lots of useful sites that guided me. Thanks.

1. Install Netbeans IDE 6.9 RC2 was the one I used
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/69/install.html

2. Download SDK for Android
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

3. Go to youtube. There's a good video there that shows you how to develop and setup it run.

Go to SDK directory,
cmd> android.bat create avd -n android_1-1 -t 2

BP close to 4 pounds now

3.9 pounds...is it time to buy?

BP shares has been trading ranges lately. It has gone up to 4.8 just few days back and yesterday's close was 4.58 pounds.
Tracking of BP Shares performance
31/3/11- 458.45

BP short interests



Source: Shortsqueeze.com

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Prushield purchase

Decided finally to move all my shield plan with my good insurance mate, Joo Chuan today on Prudential.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Folks visits

My folks are in town last weekend to visit us. It was a nice short visit from Fri to Sun.

Fri was an easy going, stay at home most of the time. Evening went to Marina Barrage and Mount Faber. Nothing much excitement as it was late already.

Sat was cool evening went to Singapore Flyer.
2 adults free 2 child promotion right now.
Online book got 20% discount. Also they have Senior citizen price.

They enjoyed the ride, except the disappointment came when it come to collect the photo. The process was slow. Took about 15mins queue.

Then it was late we decided to dine in Marina Bay, Imperial Treasure. The noddle was just ok. But the chinese dishes was well prepared.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Motorola Milestone

Got my first Android 2.1 Motorola Milestone phone from StarHub today. Was a pretty good and amazing phone. They are currently having a promo from DBS giving 24 mths free call-ID.

I am kinda of like the phone except the battery was a little weak. Got a spare battery from Energizer to charge it as a standby battery.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

JP Morgan run




Clocked abt 1 hour for 5.6km. No preparation at all.

Sent from my iPhone

Resigned!

The day had finally come. I tendered my resignation on Tuesday 4 May. It was a short chat of quick 5-10mins and settled. My boss wishes my all the best in my new career move.

Yeah three years finally has come. Time to move on.

pat on your back Dessie!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Work life

Thought it might not be the bottom of my career. Things just goes bad
to worse. I am still surviving. The going gets tough the tough gets
going. I hit into an obstacle where my bosses put all the fences
blockage from preventing me to move upwards, take all the credits of
goodwork that I have done these years. All I get is a giving up seat
to a newcomer. Thanks for your reward. I will persevere. Years later
when I see back this post I will laugh, and gets myself motivated. I
know someone I watching.

Sent from my iPhone

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Life is tough but the life gets going

I reckon that I have a crisis in my life be it my career or family. I still remember my Sec school English teacher, Mr Patel whom taught us "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going"

Yes I will persevere...and determine to succeed.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Parenting primary school kids

I have a primary 3 boy whom is the eldest in the family. Since young
we have been pampering him, showering him with lots of materials toys,
love and care. This to the extent it brought a not so welcome
personality that we see in him. He became very dependent on us, taking
things for granted, got lots of hatred when reprimanded, he not
showing a loving character towards his 3yrs junior younger sister.

We have tried various way of disciplining him whenever he did things
that are wrong. His resentmet only happened at the time of being
discipline. He will forget thereafter. We are disappointed in him. My
wife has asked to sent him to Sunday school. Will that help if he
can't appreciate god's words.

Sent from my iPhone

Monday, April 19, 2010

Circle line

This my first day experience on Singapore circle line since it opened
last sat.

Sent from my iPhone

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Orthodontist

Being 33 years young, I have decided to take my gut and patience to try out orthodontic treatment for my jaw and upper/lower teeth.

Treatment is planned to last for a total of 24months, hopefully.

I am into week2 of the treatment now. I am sort of impatient for the results as my teeth doesn't seem to move any. No obvious difference can be seen yet.

MBQ

Installed a 8" subwoofer for my car. It's the MBQ which sits nicely under my Vios driver's seat.

Nicer and deeper bass now.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

A trip to Kukup



I was just spinning my car hoping to reach a humble 20K within 1 year, still a shy of 1K away now. I dediced to bring my family for a spin to Muar. Cus it is much further away from Singapore and I could make most milage too.

We started journey through Tuas (2nd link), hoping to chalk up more mileage in Singapore. Tuning into local radio, told us that our decision was right. It was about 4pm on a Saturday. The news confirmed that the traffic was heavy in causeway. Cool, lucky for us.

As we breeze through the 2nd link, my son was complaining hungry. Our dear, didn't have a heavy lunch. I search through my Garmin POI, tells me that there is a yummy roti canai in Gelang Patah. I didn't pay much attention to the POI and thought it might be need the exit from 2nd link. Drove past Msia custom, and followed the GPS to the roti canai stall. The GPS kept on directing into smaller inner road passing through Gelang Patah on route to Tanjung Pelepas. Somewhere detour into a local remote village. Gosh, still not there yet. Finally after another 10-15km, found that place, it was closed. Yes, it's afternoon, roti canai in local village is meant for morning breakfast. Good. Drove another 5min, found a mini stall selling groceries, got a bread for him. Oh dear..He must be hungry.

Looking at the destination arrival time to Muar, it showed 7pm compare to 6:30pm earlier. Shall we go? Yes that was the answer. Our clocks shows 5pm. As we breeze past through some trunk roads, found the "'Leisure Farm Resort". There's some publicity and advertisement about this rich area. Many foreigner and Singaporeans have settled there. I decided to drive in and was stopped at the guard house. We manage to have a quick glimpse of the bungalows before making our exit.

Time is getting late. We decided to carry on and the sign board shows our way to Pontian. Well might as well go there as it is a shorter time. Now my turn to get thristy, hungry and need to go to loo. Manage to drive another 30mins before arriving Pekan Nanas, a town that was once famous with a great export of pineapples. Didn't know what to eat there and found the KFC. We have our dinner. Ordered 2 dinner plate plus 2 extra chickens. Yummy Malaysia always serve the best KFC chicken. Never disappoint us.

Time already 7pm. Continue our journey. The GPS is unable to route my route to Kukup or homestay Piai which we found out from one of the signboard.

Never mind just carry on and rely on the local sign board. Manage to pass through Pontian Kechil. And then way on to Kukup. We came to a junction. The police station is a local landmark. On the left turn into Homestay Piai and straight to Kukup.

Well, let's turned into Tanjung Piai (It's the soutern tip most of Asean mainland).

Time is darked. Manoveour our way and manage to find it though our Garmin GPS is unable to route. Lucky us.

We route back our way and went into Kukup town. Here there were ample seafood restaurant that really worth exploring the next time.

We got hold of some fireworks display and enjoyed.
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