Happy moment...

Happy hours at Bukit Tinggi...

It's a painful weekend...

I am struck by flu......this time it is so bad that i couldn't walk properly for 2 days.

Sun ALOM

Taken from Sun website...

The ALOM System Controller and ALOM firmware combine the features of RSC and LOM, as well as adding several new features. The ALOM System Controller hardware is embedded in the server. However, ALOM functions completely independently as a separate embedded computer. ALOM firmware is pre-installed by default and is active from the first moment that the system is plugged in.

ALOM 1.6 features include:

• Serial interface (CLI)
• 10 Mb Ethernet interface telnet CLI (10/100Base T for V215/V245/V445)
• Secure Ethernet interface (secure shell CLI)
• Host side interface/admin utility
• Host side monitoring (disks, fans, power, temp, PSU, FRUID, LED, hotplug devices)
• Host control (power, reset)
• Server watchdog XIR: (OS monitor/restart/XIR)
• Self watchdog/restart
• Enhanced events (ALOM events, host events, hotplug devices)
• Logging events to ALOM (including nvram and syslog)
• Logging host console stream output
• Multiple users
• User configurable delivery of events to ALOM CLI, email, and syslog
• Out-of-box functionality
• Optimized boot time
• Hardware environmental monitoring/management

System Requirements

ALOM comes pre-installed on your server. Servers currently supported by ALOM 1.6 are:

• A Sun Fire V125 server
• A Sun Fire V210 server
• A Sun Fire V215 server
• A Sun Fire V240 server
• A Sun Fire V245 server
• A Sun Fire V250 server
• A Sun Fire V440 server
• A Sun Fire V445 server
• A Netra 210 server
• A Netra 240 server
• A Netra 440 server

Focus

I have lost track in following up the new Sun servers offering. I know they are new models roll out every quater, but i am just unable to keep up with all the developments.
Here's the link to Sun website that provides a quick glance on the different models of Sun servers.

CoolThread Servers
- Netra CP3060 Blade
- Sun Fire T1000 Server
- Sun Fire T2000 Server
- Netra T2000 Server

x64 Servers
- Sun Blade 8000 P Modular System
- Sun Blade 8000 Modular System
- Sun Fire X4600 Server
- Sun Fire X4500 Server
- Sun Fire X4200 Server
- Sun Fire X4100 Server
- Sun Fire X2100 Server
- Sun Fire X2200 Server
- Sun Fire V40z Server

Blade servers
- Sun Blade 8000 Modular System
- Sun Blade 8000 P Modular System

Entry Level Servers
- Sun Fire V125 Server
- Sun Fire V215 Server
- Sun Fire V245 Server
- Sun Fire V445 Server
- Sun Fire V210 Server
- Sun Fire V240 Server
- Sun Fire V440 Server


Midrange servers
- Sun Fire V490 Server
- Sun Fire V890 Server
- Sun Fire E2900 Server
- Sun Fire E4900 Server
- Sun Fire E6900 Server
- Sun Fire V1280 Server


High End Servers
- Sun Fire E20K Server
- Sun Fire E25K Server

Carrier-grade Servers
- Netra 210 Server
- Netra 240 Server
- Netra 440 Server
- Netra CT900 ATCA Server
- Netra 1290 Server
- Netra T2000 Server
- Netra 1280 Server
- Netra CT 410 Server
- Netra CT 810 Server
- Netra CT 820 Server
- Netra CP2300 Blade
- Netra CP2160 Blade
- Netra CP2140 Blade
- Netra CP3010 Blade
- Netra CP3060 Blade
- Netra CP3020 Blade

and...........

PrimePower Servers !!!!

- PRIMEPOWER 250
- PRIMEPOWER 450
- PRIMEPOWER 650
- PRIMEPOWER 850
- PRIMEPOWER 900
- PRIMEPOWER 1500
- PRIMEPOWER 2500

《独立新闻在线》 - 三次重申内安法令乃公正法律 是否废出版法阿都拉不置可否

《独立新闻在线》 - 三次重申内安法令乃公正法律 是否废出版法阿都拉不置可否

This is the response from Pak Lah on ISA. About his reply asking journalist to go back to school -- my feeling is that he is arrogant. He is not a humble people as he claims!!!

Long San Temple and Ching Ann Temple

Ching Ann temple is the first temple i visit in taiwan, i believe there must be some sort of 'yuan', and i made a wish to the 'five thousand years old' to have some fortune....hehehe...typical chinese mentality.
;-)

Very happy!!!

It's busy time

I have just returned from Taiwan trip. It's has been a nice tour, i like Taiwan more after this trip.
I will post some photos later.

Sun Opens Java

Sun Opens Java

And it's under GPL.........not CDDL. I think Jonathan Schwarts really knows what developers want.

Something unexpected in Armsterdam China Town

The Armsterdam Boat House

Blog O’ Matty » Veritas Volume Manager

Blog O’ Matty » Veritas Volume Manager
Yes, this blog is going to be useful in future....

Jalan Loke Yew Road Expansion Photo

docs.sun.com: System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

docs.sun.com: System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones:
"global# zonecfg -z my-zone 'create ; set zonepath=/export/home/my-zone'"

This one liner could be useful.

Expert Sun bigot - Rich Teer

The real Sun bigot who is a real expert in Solaris -- Rich Teer. I am still way way behind this guy.
Got to own one copy of his new book: Solaris System Programming.

Slashdot | "iSCSI killer" Native in Linux

Slashdot | "iSCSI killer" Native in Linux
According to Coraid, he could get storage pricing below $1 per GB. That's real impressive.

Sun's X4500 - Thumper able to get as low as $2.00 per GB, that's of course come with much better performance :

2 GBps throughput from disks to memory, and approximately
1 GBps from disks to the network.

BBC English | Moving Words

The winning Moving Words are........
"A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-- Lao Tzu

CIOL : News : “We will provide services in non-Sun environments”

CIOL : News : “We will provide services in non-Sun environments”: "Would Sun be willing to provide services in non-Sun environments?"

Yes. It comes from Dan Berg, vice-president and chief technology officer, Sun Services.

Sun has finally takes a pragmatic approach.

memory at zone level...

I just hope Sun can include memory management features at the zone level, currently the parameter rcap.max-rss is only able to be set at project level. I am not sure why Sun did not implement it at zone level.

Just wish it can be included at the next update.

Zones memory

I just hope Sun can include memory management features at the zone level, currently the parameter rcap.max-rss is only able to be set at project level. I am not sure why Sun did not implement it at zone level.

Just wish it can be included at the next update.

Manual for Solaris Administration Guide: Containers.......

This is the title of the manual i have followed up in docs.sun.com for a while:
System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

I have several versions of this manual, earliest i have back date to sometimes Apr 2005 if i still remember correctly........the part no is 817-1592

I have version of 817-1592-12 (December 2005), 817-1592-13 (May 2006).
The latest i download is of a different part number, yet the manual title is still the same.
The new part no is 819-2450-6 (July 2006) and there is a word "beta" on the cover page....this really baffles me.

Oh Solaris 10, where are my disks?

Solaris 10 Update 2...ohh. Started SMC. Expand the Storage, where are my disks? It seems that the boot disk utilization is wrongly reported as well. What the heck is this -2.5GB??!

Solaris Zones on VMware on 2 core Wintel Machine

This is a small testing to see whether Solaris 10 zones resource management feature really works. Objectives are to test both Resource Pool and FSS.

First i installed Solaris 10 on VMware on a Pentium Duo Core machine with 1GB RAM.
The global zone is sol10vm8. The two non-global zones created are vm8z1 and vm8z2 respectively. When creating VM using VMware, i choosed to use 2 CPUs for this Sol 10 virtual machine.

****************************
sol10vm8:[/scripts] psrinfo
0 on-line since 08/01/2006 16:36:15
1 on-line since 08/01/2006 16:36:20

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Created a pool called vm8-pool which used maximum 1 CPU.
This step is important as we want to limit the utilization of CPU to 1 by using resource pool.

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sol10vm8:[/scripts] pooladm

system sol10vm8
string system.comment
int system.version 1
boolean system.bind-default true
int system.poold.pid 441

pool vm8-pool
int pool.sys_id 3
boolean pool.active true
boolean pool.default false
int pool.importance 1
string pool.comment
pset vm8-pset

pool pool_default
int pool.sys_id 0
boolean pool.active true
boolean pool.default true
int pool.importance 1
string pool.comment
pset pset_default

pset vm8-pset
int pset.sys_id 1
boolean pset.default false
uint pset.min 1
uint pset.max 1
string pset.units population
uint pset.load 12002
uint pset.size 1
string pset.comment

cpu
int cpu.sys_id 0
string cpu.comment
string cpu.status on-line

pset pset_default
int pset.sys_id -1
boolean pset.default true
uint pset.min 1
uint pset.max 65536
string pset.units population
uint pset.load 18
uint pset.size 1
string pset.comment

cpu
int cpu.sys_id 1
string cpu.comment
string cpu.status on-line

****************************
Seems ok. Enable FSS on Global zone.

#dispadmin -d FSS # init 6

Non-global zones shares
vm8z1 -- 30
vm8z2 -- 20


sol10vm8:[/scripts] zonecfg -z vm8z1 info
zonepath: /vm8z1
autoboot: false
pool: vm8-pool
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /lib
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /platform
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /sbin
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /usr
net:
address: 134.251.5.235
physical: e1000g0
rctl:
name: zone.cpu-shares
value: (priv=privileged,limit=30,action=none)

****************************
sol10vm8:[/scripts] zonecfg -z vm8z2 info
zonepath: /vm8z2
autoboot: false
pool: vm8-pool
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /lib
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /platform
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /sbin
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /usr
net:
address: 134.251.5.236
physical: e1000g0
rctl:
name: zone.cpu-shares
value: (priv=privileged,limit=20,action=none)

****************************
started Brendan Greggs's script zoneflogcpu.....

sol10vm8:[/scripts] zoneflogcpu start

.........and the above images are the output

You can see the utilization of vm8z1 and vm8z2 used 29% and 20% of the cpu resources respectively. Look at the Windows Task Manager......the 1st CPU is highly loaded while the 2nd one is relatively idle.

Yes!! We achieved our objective!
By using resource pool, we are able to limit the processor set we use.
By using FSS, we have successfully limit the utilization of zones.

What about setting the shares to 60 and 30? (This time i set vm8z2 to 60 and vm8z1 to 30) Here's the result:

PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
4281 root 2920K 1496K run 3 0 0:00:50 5.8% perl/1
4252 root 2920K 1496K run 1 0 0:01:10 5.4% perl/1
4249 root 2920K 1496K run 14 0 0:01:10 5.4% perl/1
4278 root 2920K 1496K run 2 0 0:00:50 5.3% perl/1
4255 root 2920K 1496K run 5 0 0:01:10 5.3% perl/1
4275 root 2920K 1496K run 14 0 0:00:50 5.2% perl/1
4266 root 2920K 1496K run 1 0 0:00:26 2.9% perl/1
4246 root 2920K 1496K run 1 0 0:00:36 2.9% perl/1
4269 root 2920K 1496K run 3 0 0:00:26 2.8% perl/1
4240 root 2920K 1496K cpu0 14 0 0:00:36 2.7% perl/1
4243 root 2920K 1496K run 3 0 0:00:36 2.7% perl/1
4272 root 2920K 1496K run 3 0 0:00:26 2.7% perl/1
441 root 77M 17M sleep 1 0 0:00:12 0.1% poold/8
1779 noaccess 130M 60M sleep 11 0 0:00:22 0.1% java/27
3513 root 4392K 4176K cpu1 56 0 0:00:01 0.0% prstat/1
ZONEID NPROC SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU ZONE
7 39 126M 72M 19% 0:06:20 32% vm8z2
5 41 130M 74M 20% 0:03:26 17% vm8z1
0 53 385M 178M 47% 0:01:09 0.2% global


Total: 133 processes, 454 lwps, load averages: 12.01, 11.61, 13.18

You can see that the prstat did not show 60% and 30%, it shows 32% and 17% which is about the half of it. Well, this is simple, what prstat -Z shows is the overall utilization which includes all the CPU resources in the system, which is 2 CPU in this case.

The OVERALL cpu allocation for vm8z1 is : [30/90] * 100 * 1/2 = 17%
and vm8z2: [60/90] * 100 * 1/2 = 33%

This indeed shows that prstat output is correct. I will look into granularity of cpu allocation at project level when have time.

Trajedy in Qana

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Honeymoon's over, Zam warns media - Malaysiakini

Honeymoon's over, Zam warns media
Hello Zainuddin, so the media should just keep quiet when issues like Murthy's case happened around us?? (I really hope Muslim in this country understand how non-Muslims feel about issues like this)
Government should promote understanding and not sweeping the issues under the carpet.

鉴定2家报章滥用自由 新闻部长以茅草行动警告媒体 :: 当今大马

鉴定2家报章滥用自由 新闻部长以茅草行动警告媒体 :: 当今大马
Yes, only Berita Harian and Utusan will never "ABUSE" the freedom given......

The Unix Guardian--Sun, Greenplum Create Opteron-Based BI Appliance

The Unix Guardian--Sun, Greenplum Create Opteron-Based BI Appliance


Scan 1 TB of data in 60 seconds?? Sure boh???
Are you sure? That's what Sun and Greenplum claim!
I wonder what magic Oracle can do out from this Thumper!!

Ony the best as judges....

Today's headline (The Sun):
Only the best judges move up

.....of course CJ is absolutely correct to select the best as judges.
The question is "what criterias"??

This is his criterias:

-- "their conduct, including in society, judicial temperament ... not to lose your temper every time you sit on the bench, fast in delivering written decision".

-- to be proactive, responsible, productive and prepared to sacrifice his/her own personal time for the purpose of justice and disposal of cases.

I am absolutely agree with CJ, but i have one question in mind.

How about the criterias like ability, experience and Intelligence to make the best judgement?? We are talking about MAKING JUDGEMENTS now, but processiong documents!!!

Here's my 2 cents about BPO -- malaysia

BPO..........yes BPO. Malaysia has recently been identified as number 2 location suitable for global BPO operation,
India and China?? Of course India is still hot on the list.......but here's some true scenario.

In a article of Financial Times : Are India and China up to the job? By Jo Johnson and Richard McGregor
...it is observed that.......
India produces 3 millions graduates every year, but out of those number, only 25% of the engineering graduates and 15% of the non-engineering graduates are suitable to be directly employed to BPO operation.
(That’s a big number anyway compared to Malaysia)

China?? Until now, the engineering workforce size suitable for MNC operation is no more than 200,000 at anyone time. That's a miserable figure considering the total number of workforce it can provides.

So what do we do in Malaysia?? The key point here is SKILLED labour. Regardless of the number of graduates you produce, the country who can provides skillful workforce at a reasonable cost will win.
(of course many will disagree on what that reasonable cost will be)

It doesn't has to be the cheapest, it has to be reasonable. As long as the country can keep the living cost low and provides adequate living quality, the companies will be able to control the demand on wages increase.

If Malaysia able to provide that -- I am sure she can excel and stand out from among the rest.

情在人間‧作者：鄭丁賢

Let's look at his article first............ i will comment later...

吃飯讀書，不簡單
updated:2006-06-21 18:30:50 MYT
小時候，父母親對你說："孩子啊，乖乖把飯吃完。你看，中國和印度的小孩都沒飯
吃。"

今天，你應該對孩子說："孩子啊，乖乖把書讀完。你看，中國和印度的孩子，已經在
搶你的飯碗了。"

前者是以前漸@界；後者，不是未來的世界，而是如今的世界。它已經活生生發生
了，只是很多人還不知道，或者還不能接受。

不久前，副首相納吉到印度訪問，行程包括前往印度的矽谷邦加羅，參觀印度軟件巨
頭，也是世界最大的資訊工藝外包公司Infosys。

Infosys創辦人Narayana Murthy，很客氣的接待納吉，同時也很禮貌的敘述他和馬來
西亞的一段淵源。

幾年前，Infosys有意來馬來西亞投資，準備把部份業務分散到這裡。

當時，Infosys雖然沒有今天的規模和地位，但是在全球資訊工藝領域，已經嶄露頭
角，尤其在商業程序外包（BPO）方面，獲得歐美眾多跨國公司的委託，份量非同小
可。

它相中了馬來西亞，馬來西亞政府部門卻把它當成是一家嘛嘛檔公司。各種投資申
請，束之高閣，無人理會。

資訊業一日千里，邦加羅總部不能適應大馬的甘榜作業方式，派出高級人員來馬洽
談，移民局卻把印度電腦專才當成是孟加拉勞工，在簽證問題上大作文章。

無奈之下，Infosys撤消投資計劃，並且在投資名單中刪除了大馬。

Narayana先生敘述這段經驗時，不知心情如何，是遺憾呢？還是暗暗爽在心裡？

很可能是暗爽吧。沒有在大馬設立基地，並不影響Infosys的發展。幾年之內，它成為
全球最耀眼的電腦軟件公司，並且在全球大展拳腳，包括獲得中國政府熱情邀請，提
供特別優惠獎掖之下，前陣子在中國上海落戶，準備在2009年時，在中國聘請1萬名員
工。

與Infosys失之交臂的大馬，雖然也未淪落到窮途末路，但是多媒體走廊的招牌怎麼擦
也亮不起來。還有，幾萬名大學畢業生，包括許多國立大學的電腦、資訊工藝學
生，找不到學有所用的工作。

身為副首相，納吉的心情又是如何？

愛打高爾夫球的納吉，當然知道全球最佳高爾夫球員之一的VJ Singh。原籍斐濟，印
裔血統的VJ Singh，80年代末期曾經在大馬駐留，對大馬環境頗為鍾情，因此曾經申
請成為大馬公民。

但是，大馬的移民局官員何曾在乎VJ Singh，也許他的申請，還排在幾萬名，或幾十
萬名印尼和菲律賓人之後。

VJ Singh後來離開大馬，幾年之後，他榮獲世界數個高爾夫球賽的冠軍，並且曾經排
名世界第一。只要扭開體育頻道的高爾夫球賽，就不難聽到："來自斐濟的 VJ
Singh，3桿入洞，得到了birdie...。"

世界變了，大馬卻變得很慢。也許有一天，中國和印度人會說："孩子，乖乖吃飯，乖
乖讀書。你看，馬來西亞的孩子沒飯吃，沒書讀。"

Anwar names those responsible for forex losses - Malaysiakini

Anwar names those responsible for forex losses - Malaysiakini
I had read some articles many years ago about Bank Negara being an active forex speculator.......
Really it is not big news to foreign bankers.

People's Daily Online -- Malaysians lose 2 million smart ID cards

People's Daily Online -- Malaysians lose 2 million smart ID cards
Walau! I can even find this new in Chinese paper.
So how many of those lost cards end up in the hand of illegal immigrants?? You guess.

BBC NEWS | Business | Buffett donates $37bn to charity

BBC NEWS | Business | Buffett donates $37bn to charity
I think what's more than the donation alone is the TRUST he has in Bill Gates. $37bn is a colossal amount of money!!!
The pledge comes come after Bill Gates' promise to step down in year 2008 and focus on charity work.
This shows what level of commitment Bill Gates is putting into his charity fund.

Sun X4500

Don't play play.... Sun's Thumper is here. Picture taken from Jonathon's blog....really impressing.
More info here.
- 48 SATA drives
- 4U server
- up to 24 TB
- zfs
......
...

SAPR vs LAMP

haha finally a complete open source software stack from Sun:
S - Solaris
A - Apache
P - Postgres SQL
R - Rails

The only thing in common with LAMP is the Apache. We can only see Apache getting more and more popular.

NFS and NIS

Summary of Managing NFS and NIS:

16.4.3 Locating bottlenecks

- Get a rough idea of whether the NFS servers or network is the biggest contributor to performance problems before walking thru all diagnostic steps.

- On a typical nfs client, type: nfsstat –rc

- If the client-side RPC counts for timeout and badxid are close in value, the network is healthy

- If nfsstat shows that timeout is large while badxid is 0 or negligible, then the packets are never making it to the server. This problem is network related – NIC cards of server and client, router, etc.

达祖丁揭马航交易黑幕 2000年内阁是否曾讨论秘密协议？ :: 当今大马

达祖丁揭马航交易黑幕 2000年内阁是否曾讨论秘密协议？ :: 当今大马
This is something unexpected for Dr.M.

Car car car

I have finally decided to buy one of the national car: kancil.
After mulling over the costs, etc.....finally my sister-in-law said she might need to drive my car during weekend, and she doesn't know how to drive manual car....ohh.
So it is a used Perodua Kancil 850 (A), 5 years old.
;-(

What car??

I need another car for my own now... got to work out the budget.
It's headache time again. My favourite car or economic car????
Sigh!

Project SMART

This is the link to the SMART. The authority's official site for this RM 2.1 billions giant project.
Rather than back to basic, they believe KL flood foes will be solved once and for all. I do not think it is going to improve the situation. Go and take a look at the number of clogged drains first.

With 500,000 new vehicles go down the street every year (and this figure just keep increasing), you can think just to what extent this project is going to ease the KL traffic congestion.

Damages caused by the project?? Here.
Photos coming up next.

Who is 大丈夫?????

You all know these people in the pictures? Is he 大丈夫 ??? Shit! What that fatty old man did was something really sordid! Read this.
他自己爆出一句话：‘大丈夫做事，敢做敢当，陆庭谕调职的事，是我做的..........'

In my opinion, the real 大丈夫 is the man on the left.

Some Free ebooks on e-daden

Glad to see Daden has put up some free ebooks of Master Lu on their website.
Feel free to drop by Daden Culture web site.

I am happy to see Oriental Daily to start publishing Master Lu's articles!

Happy moment

I just hate all these projects!!!

Want to know how many multi-millions/billions projects currently running in this area??

1. SMART Project -- major underground tunnel digging
-- gigantic control stations
The main purpose is to resolve the flash flood nightmare

2. New KL-Putrajaya Highway construction work

3. Jalan Loke Yew - major expansion along some 10 km road

4. Sungai Kerayong (Kerayong River) river bed deepening work

You can really imagine what happened to the landscape here in 2 year times. This area is already highly congested with houses, apartment and cars, you can imagine the quality of life we have now!!

I will put up photos of all these projects.......

Drug Addicts

There is about 1 millions of them in the country, this is the figure revealed by MYC President Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo. And this is just a conservative number. Breakdown by race, 68% is bumi, 10% Indian and 16% Chinese.
Our population?? 27 millions.

Spiritual Consolation to David Wee

His father passed away yesterday 13/6/06, while he is still on a business trip in Houston.
It's really time to read Ksitigarbha.

Quintuplet

Let's pray for her!

Give me a break

I found that many friends have wrongly used this idiom. They take it literally.
Here's the definition from thefreedictionary.com:

give me a break

it is difficult to believe this is true or real. This guy is going around saying he's from another planet and getting paid for it — I mean, give me a break! You're going to run in tomorrow's marathon? Give me a break!

NS??

公正黨：3年6學員死亡, 國民服務應終止

（吉隆坡訊）人民公正黨全國副主席西華拉沙說，國民服務計劃自推行短短3年內，發生6宗學員死亡案件，首相阿都拉必須馬上終止該計劃，以向所有痛失孩子的父母交代。

6 NS trainees died in the camp in 3 years...........

I really would like to compare the fatality rate with that of Singapore NS Service.

Jacqueline Ann Surin

Jacqueline Ann Surin, the assistant editor from The Sun who wrote an Open Letter to the PM, my salute to her.


The following conversation took place at one mamak stall near Jalan Ceylon when i was having teh tarik several days ago:

Uncle Samy: You reading this article huhh??
Uncle Tan: Yes. She very brave.
Uncle Samy: Not many people dare to do this nowadays.
Uncle Tan: The Sun also very brave huh, dare to publish.
...........

Golden 4d Number

2800, 3142, 0013
Go and bet RM1000 big. Guess why the trio?
;-)

No Permission to Enter!

After reading today's NST Editorial Column http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Tuesday/Columns/20060613080704/Article/index_html
, what would you feel and think about our Imigration Department??

The whole problem lies in just one department, you know just how 'powerful' this department is!!
Imagine gigantic IT companies the size of Infosys and Dell still facing such bureaucratic issues, you can jugde yourself the level of responsiveness or services provided to smaller IT companies.

Those poor IT guys in Malaysia

Well, we are not really that poor. We only poor in terms of knowledge, when compared to IT force work in countries like US and EU.

About three years ago, I purchased an Oreilly's "SSH: The Secure Shell The Definitive Guide" by Daniel J. Barrett, Ph. D., Richard E. Silverman. It costs me 132 Ringgit. Well this is about 3 times more expensive the US version. We all know that too well, the ringgit pegging thing. IT guys need to pay 1/3 of the price to gain the same knowledge, whereas people like us who is already earning lower than our counterpart in US, got to pay 3 times higher. Make sense?
So you think what quality of life do i have?

It is sad thing we IT people (in fact all knowledge workers) who need constant upgrade got to pay the price for policies like this. People (friends from India) told me books are priced reasonably there. Books from China?? I know well, they are not expensive either. What difficulty is there for the authority to provide some concessions to publishers? Government has been subsidied large amout of petrol and diesel years, what so difficulty about subsiding people technical books that we knowledge workers much needed? Fair??

Cyberjaya Street Mall

This place needs to have 2 things in place:
1. ATM
2. Cyber cafe

Unbelievable huh?? No ATM there? Yes, this is what i experienced today. The nearest ATM is located at the Maybank office, which is a few hundreds meter away from Street Mall, it is about 40 minutes to and fro, yes still walking distance huh!

Oh yes, i need to logon to some sites which is not convenient to do in office (do not ask me what sites), arrr, where is the cyber cafe?? Do not ask me. It is another disappointment!

Someone told me there is more street post in Cyberjaya than the whole of Dengkil. Not surprising, considering it is an intelligent city. The surprising thing is the population density in Cyberjaya is almost 0, compared to Dengkil.

528 Nanyang Bustle - an eyewithness version

《528南洋报变大揭秘-我在南洋133天》



Well this is the book i want to buy for some times. It details how timber tycoon Tiong Hiew King plotted his media 'consolidation' operations.
Ever since i know his ambitious plan, i started buying 東方日報.

Oh yes, our Mr.Tiong is not going to call it monopoly.

More info here : http://mybook.com.my/home/

Guang Zhao Association

Another morning walk .

SETI

In my life, I have never known there is such an organization exist for such propose. But i only known it too late after doing study in other area. They are looking for a senior unix administrator now in their website, but i am not ready fully qualified for it. Alas!

The successful candidate will have 5 to 10 years of increasing responsibility administering Un*x, OS X and Windows systems. In addition, the candidate should have most of the following skills:

• Scripting experience (Perl, tcsh, bash, tcl/tsh, awk/sed, PHP, Python)
  
• Very strong network skills (Layer 2/3 switching, ACLs, security)
  
• Performance tuning of Solaris/Linux
  
• nis , ldap, dns, sendmail/procmail, dhcp, ntp, sql,ssh
  
• Experience in securing the network environment, using IPSEC, firewalls, IDS, and log monitoring.
  
• Incident response
  
• RFI and ESD experience a big plus
• System imaging
  
• Backup and recovery
  

This is going to be the list i will work on and study from onward. Yes
Anyway i don't think it is too late to join them one day. We will see.

Something from Bodhisattva for the poor memory

Ksitigarbha bodhisattva offers something FOC and invaluable.............for people like....me
;-)

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Some people may resolve to read the sutra texts Hoping to help those confused to reach the other shore. Although the vows they make are quite remarkable, Try as they may, they cannot remember what they read.

Because of their karmic obstructions and delusions, Those people cannot memorize the Mahayana sutras. But they can offer scents and flowers to Earth Store. They can give him clothing, food, and other things they like.

They can place pure water on an altar to the Bodhisattva, And leave it there a day and night before they drink it. With diligent intent they should abstain from pungent plants, Alcohol, meat, improper sex and false speech.

For three weeks they should not kill or harm any creature, While being mindful of the name of that Great Being. Then suddenly in a dream their vision may become boundless. Awakening, they may discover that they now have keen hearing.

From then on, once they hear the teachings of the sutras, They will never forget them throughout thousands of lives. How inconceivable this Bodhisattva is In helping people like that gain such wisdom!
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Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is something that i find hard to remember. Earth Store Bodhisattva?? Yes, this direct translation name has a better meaning to me.

60 tonnes of rubbish..........

Well, those rubbish all go into our Klang River..........everyday!!! This is from DID Director General. When it rains, it goes up to 80 tonnes.
D-G: "We should have a system whereby people can help to monitor rivers......."
When are they really getting serious about setting one such system...wait until 500 tonnes i think.

I made a decision

Well, the decision been made. I really hope it's a wise one. What else do i need to do? Well, pray hard and do some serious study on unix stuff!

Lorong Rubbish

I had early morning walk along Jalan Alor, it is just so much rubbish dumping around the back street. Roadside littering is just so common, sad.
Just so disappointed, this is one of the most bustling area right in the center of KL.

A busy day

Today is a day of significance meaning to me. Thanks to my friend Jang. Well, he knows what i meant.

Sun??

I called myself a Sun bigot, but ........... what the hell am i spending so much time on linux??

Da Jie 大杰

Hi, I am 4 months old.

Tua Cha's Wedding

Congrats to my old fren Chong Kok Leong aka "Tua Cha" 大只 (it means big size in Hokkien) on his wedding today. He has found the love of his life.

Da Wei 大为

The cake is 1/3 of my weight.

Let's get started!

My first post. It was a sunny Saturday here at Cyberjaya that i decided to start writing something for myself. Sort of personal diary as i am not good in keeping stuff.
ok. That's so much for the day.