From chinese opera This was a very entertaining traditional Chinese drama. The scene opens like this. You can make your own interpretation as there was a sound glitch halfway through the drama which was a shame really as it was a very good and entertaining piece. The costumes too were very impressive. From chinese opera From From chinese [...]

My three questions (No.106 to No. 108) on the 36th day in the current series to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat on the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal today are Question No. 1: Four days ago, Port Klang Authority (PKA) Chairman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng announced deferment of payment of RM660 [...]

For the frequent comment posters in Raymond.CC Blog, you might have noticed an addition of random words to type in before your comment gets in. Well this blog site has been attacked by some people that has nothing else better to do in their life. Yesterday while I was writing an article, I noticed that the pending comments awaiting for moderation shows about 800+! I normally check for pending comments every few hours a day and it’s impossible for the comments to grow that much in such a short while. At first I thought those spam bots has found a new way to bypass Akismet but seeing those comments, it looked like it had been done by some script kiddie.

The Wordpress spam comment attack is pretty smart because it is definitely automated and all the IP address were different. I assume the wordpress comment spamming tool uses a list of open proxy and tries to post comments in every article. Fortunately I have configured all comments to be moderated so that inappropriate comments doesn’t get posted out and create unnecessary drama.

If your Wordpress site has been attacked by similar comments spamming tool, here’s what you can do to easily delete all Wordpress spam comments using phpMyAdmin and implement a simple CAPTCHA system to make the spammer’s life difficult.

Since the spam comments keeps in coming in, I had to do something to stop it first. Log in to your Wordpress Admin site, go to Settings > Discussion and CHECK “Users must be registered and logged in to comment“. Now the spam comments should stop since it requires an account. To be on the safe side, disable registration by going to Settings > General and UNCHECK “Anyone can register“.

When you’ve done both of the steps above, no comments will get in.

Now to clean up the spam that’s in moderation. Log in to phpMyAdmin, select the database that has Wordpress installed and go to SQL tab. Type the following command below and click the Go button.

delete from wp_comments where comment_approved = '0'

As you can see at the screenshot above, phpMyAdmin took less than 0.1 seconds to clean up 886 spam comments.

There are a few Wordpress plugins that can help you implement CAPTCHA in your comment form. As for me, I installed reCAPTCHA because other than preventing easy comment spamming, it also helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Simply download wp-reCAPTCHA, drop it in plugins folder and activate. Sign up for a free reCAPTCHA account to get public and private key. Enter both keys in your Wordrpess’ Settings > reCAPTCHA.

Finally you will need to allow your visitors to post comments. Go back to Settings > Discussion and UNCHECK “Users must be registered and logged in to comment“.

The spammer took hours to spam the comment form but it took me less than 1 second to clean up the spam and another 3 minutes to install reCAPTCHA in my comment form. Do the math and the spammer sure looks silly. reCAPTCHA is not impossible to crack but the spammers would have to spend even more of their precious time and effort to do something that they don’t even gain anything from it.

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When will Utusan Malaysia, which had such a illustrious place in the history of Malaysian journalism, end its descent into the gutter and stop being a racist newspaper of untruths and falsehoods, and honour the journalistic maxim “Comment is free but facts are sacred”? Utusan Malaysia today carried in its “Sorotan Parlimen” an article [...]

I just got hit by an electrical shock when my left index finger touched the brushed aluminium panel encasing the touchpad of my laptop. The discharge was strong enough to give me a jolt me and temporarily numbed the tip of the finger. A search on Google revealed that this problem occurs in Dell XPS series, MacBook Pro and other makes of laptops with similar metal panels. I am currently using the Dell XPS M1330. Hopefully, this is just a static discharge instead of an electrical leakage of the system. My laptop is already connected to the power socket via a three-pin plug.

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Former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir has raised a very pertinent question – where have the close to half-a-trillion ringgit, to be exact RM426.6 billion, of petro-ringgit from Petronas to the government in the past 33 years since 1976 gone? Since 1976, payments by Petronas to the Federal Government are as follows: FY Payment (in billion) 1976 0.3 1977 0.7 1978 0.7 1979 0.7 1980 1.8 1981 2.0 1982 2.6 1983 3.8 1984 4.3 1985 4.6 1986 5.0 1987 4.0 1988 4.4 1989 4.3 1990 5.5 1991 7.4 1992 7.1 1993 7.7 1994 7.3 1995 6.7 1996 6.8 1997 8.8 1998 9.6 1999 8.2 2000 12.0 2001 17.1 2002 14.0 2003 15.6 2004 19.0 2005 28.1 2006 37.8 2007 44.1 2008 56.8 2009 67.8 Mahathir wrote [...]

Soalan : Tuan Manikavasagam a/l Sundaram [Kapar] minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan adakah Kerajan bercadang untuk meningkatkan jumlah minimum muflis (bankrap) daripada 30 ribu kepada 50 ribu . Jika ya bila, dan jika tidak kenapa?

Jawapan : YB Dato Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz , Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri.

Tuan Yang Di Pertua,

Pada masa ini Kerajaan tidak bercadang untuk menaikkan jumlah minima kebankrapan daripada Rm30,000 kepada RM 50,000.  Ini disebabkan jumlah minima tersebut masih lagi sesuai pada masa ini terutamanya dalam keadaan ekonomi sekarang. Penetapan jumlah minima ini juga tidak menjejaskan kepentingan kedua-dua pihak iaitu si pemberi hutang dan peminjam di mana kepentingan mereka masih lagi dapat diimbangkan (balanced) iaitu jumlah tersebut tidak akan menafikan hak orang atau badan yang mengeluarkan pinjaman untuk menuntut hutangnya, dan juga tidak terlalu rendah untuk seseorang itu dengan mudah boleh dibankrapkan.

Pendekatan secara seimbang ini dapat memberi maanfaat bukan sahaja kepada kedua-dua pihak berkenaan tetapi juga kepada masyarakat amnya.

Sekian. Terima kasih

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Dalam mesyuaratnya semalam Majlis Tindakan Negeri Selangor (MTES) telah memutuskan untuk membina satu Jeti baru untuk kegunaan Penduduk Pulau Ketam. Pada masa ini, penduduk berkenaan mengguna Jeti perikanan milik Jabatan Perikanan dan diuruskan oleh ASA Niaga Sdn Bhd.

Baru-baru ini Jabatan Perikanan membuat keputusan menarik balik kebenaran pengunaan Jeti kepada Penduduk Sungai Lima serta Pulau Ketam. Kemungkinan besar ianya didalangi permainan politik pentabdiran Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk memperburukan imej Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Selangor.

Walaupun bagaimanapun, Dato Menteri Besar Selangor YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Abd Khalid Ibrahim telah memahami percaturan mereka dengan mudah. Keputusan pantas oleh MTES  amat dihargai kerana ianya menunjukkan Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat berjiwa rakyat serta mampu memumbang segala politik kotor.

Saya berharap, Dato Menteri Besar Selangor juga dapat meneliti masalah Tanah di Kampung Perepat , Kampung Benteng serta Perkampungan Nelayan secepat mungkin supaya dapat kita menutup mulut dalang-dalang politik pentadbiran lepas walaupun mereka adalah penyebab utama wujudnya permasalahan ini.

Apabila Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Selangor memberi Air Percuma , mereka kata kita kehilangan pembangunan fizikal . Sebegitu juga pemberian Khairat Kematian di bawah Skim Mesra Usia Emas. Tetapi apabila mereka membiarkan pencuri-pencuri pasir berluasan serta meluluskan projek perumahaan hampir dengan kawasan padat dengan pencemaran udara tidak siapa peduli akan kerugiaan berjuta-juta wang Negeri serta kesihatan masyarakat.

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From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 Victor being Victor insisted on visiting the Borneo Cultural Festival Photography Exhibition. He signed up to join the society on the spot. He was that enthusiastic seeing the works of fellow photographers in Sibu. From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 Victor with my friend Suhardy. From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 My friend, Martin Sia with [...]

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From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 Victor and I were fortunate enough to meet up with this very nice young man. He was having a great time with his friends. We asked if we could take his pic and he obliged. From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 As you can see, the shoot came out quite well. I hope he [...]

My family had dinner at the nearby Mamak shop yesterday. The waiters misunderstood my mother’s instructions and served us more than we had ordered. Mom also thought they forgot Dad’s Roti Canai. She got a little frustrated and brought this matter up with the waiters. It turned into a light argument as I started to eat my piece.

Dad became affected by the argument between Mom and one of the waiters, and he added his share of displeasure. I guess the waiter eventually threw up his hands and stepped away. Alarmed by this, my Dad raised his voice - the very voice that terrified me as a child.

Sensing his aggression, Mom and I ate and minded our own business, hoping the silence will pacify Dad.

I was tempted to tell him immediately that it wasn’t nice to yell at people especially in public.

But I knew better than to say anything when I remembered how Dad punished himself two days ago after I got upset with him for gobbling down all the chocolate cookies.

I could only hope the Mamak shop guys sensed that something wasn’t quite right with my dad so that they will not take his aggression to heart.

As you can see, the actions of my mother and I are closely related to dad’s odd behaviors.

Psychologists use a number of theories to guide their approaches to treating people with mental problems. The image of a couch facing a passive therapist have long passed. Contemporary theorists today actively approach problems and aim to solve present problems rather than looking to the past for meanings.

An example of contemporary psychology is Systems Theory. According to this theory, the state of our minds, our actions, and behaviors are interdependent within the family. When someone in the family is thought to have mental problems and maladaptive behaviors, the therapist will work with the patient, and may also have additional sessions with other family members who are thought to have strong influences on the patient’s behavior. In System Theory, the family or other members in the family system may really be the one that is problematic while the patient’s maladaptive behavior is a symptom of the larger problem.

Therefore, I need to find a therapist who not only sees my dad, but a therapist who uses systems theory as a guide to his or her therapeutic approaches.

If mom did not yell “Stupid husband!”. Dad will not yell “Idiot wife!”.

The 4Mbps Streamyx has been up and running at my Penang home since yesterday. Fingers crossed.
It costs me RM160 per month.

I have also made redundancy redundant.

Finally, I have to retire my first-generation, 26-month old Maxis HSDPA broadband account, a saving of RM128 per month. My locus standi to complain against Maxis is now limited to voice account. (I am returning the personal signal repeater soon.)

With that, I am also retiring my 15-month old Celcom HSDPA broadband account, a further saving of RM98 per month. My locus standi to complain against Celcom is now limited to the Blackberry account (from which I mobile Twitter), still paying RM128 per month.

DiGi Wireless Broadband (read: Likely Average Speed of 700kbps, but I do get 1.4 to 1.8Mbps in Penang) will now have to carry out the mission critical and always-on tasks whenever I travel as a road warrior. A further commitment of RM108.00 per month.

Current Internet subscriptions: RM268.00

Terminated Internet subscriptions: RM226.00

Net additional Internet costs: RM42.00, for a reasonable enhancement of Internet speed for fixed/Home WiFi and mobile wireless broadband. That's excluding the eat-all-you-can Celcom/Vodafone Blackberry package.

Yeah, freedom to information does come with a cost.

I hope to switch to the 4Mbps Streamyx package for my Subang Jaya home, soon. It's only 2Mbps right now.

真系世事无绝对。不过对阿云，我的确又没什么期待的。像当年他离开去了皇马，利物浦就捧杯捧到手软，希望是好的预兆咯。

Yup. Did you still play LEGO nowadays? Too old to play already? Look at this creative guy. How he plays LEGO… It’s arcade time!!! You can try it at home when you are really free.

I will have a special recording with my pretty niece Xinyi. She is in the semi-final round of Estee Lauder Model Search 2009. I will talk to her and my sister tomorrow. Check us out LIVE around 8PM to 8:30PM (Malaysian time) on July 4, 2009. The show will be posted immediately.

Hopefully I can help her collect enough votes so that she can enter the next round.

From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 Time passes so quickly. It has been a year since the last Borneo Cultural Festival. Looking back I can see so many changes in Sibu, and also in my life. From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 Certain things never change though like the beautiful friendly people. From Borneo Cultural Festival 2009 Good food remains as always [...]

Guitar Geek – Flash Games Download – Overview Play the role of a … guitarist … in this Guitar Geek skill flash game. Attempt to virtually strum the virtual guitar via the keyboard ASDF keys as you play various guitar tracks in this Guitar Geek skill flash game. Unlike Guitar Hero, a guitar controller is not required and the keyboard alone will suffice.

Download Guitar Geek (File Size ~ 9.15 MB)
Download the ZIP archive: guitar-geek.zip

Guitar Geek – Title

No, this is not the menu. See the words Guitar Geek? This is only the title. Click once.

Guitar Geek – Menu

Right, this is the menu, but there is no title. Boo. Click start to begin strumming! Yeah!

Guitar Geek – Difficulty!

Just go for the geek difficulty, which should be the hardest and most challenging. Easy is just … too easy. You will fall asleep. Seriously. Geek difficulty all the way yo!

Guitar Geek – Track!

Seems like there are only six (6) tracks to choose from? Maybe more tracks will be unlocked when you beat these tracks. Would be too short if there were only six (6) tracks.

Guitar Geek – Action!

Only press the keys at the right time. Anything else will result in a miss or poor. Bad! Bad!

Guitar Geek – Result!

Not bad for a first attempt at geek difficulty. Still can pass the level if got enough perfect hits.

Deimos’s Daily Reads
No reads for today.

Deimos’s Thoughts
Nice graphics plus simple and fun game play. Nice sound track and music!

Deimos Asks
Do you like to play such music rhythm games? Yes? No? Why?

From Melaka This week’s theme is pink. This week I submit Melaka. It is a city rich with pink colour. From Melaka Pink is beautiful, isn’t it? From Melaka Even the church is in pink. From Melaka The tiles are in pink. From Melaka Pink clock tower From Melaka Pink From Melaka Pink again. To know more about photohunters click here

It seems that we have reached the second half of 2009. After completing '3PM', my third short film in six months yesterday afternoon, I can't help but feel a little wistful, a little melancholic, the familiar condition known as post-creativity depression is back.

So despite having finished my film, I actually chose to remain in the editing lab, and finally at night, I took out snippets of videos I shot more than a week ago with my own camera and looked through them, just so I could edit them and give myself something to do.

On the 20th of June, Lia the Artist told me and Niklas about the futuristic-looking waterbus "Himiko", designed by famed Japanese animator Reiji (or Leiji) Matsumoto ("Captain Harlock", "Spaceship Yamato", "Galaxy Express 999").








Lia's friend, Nakajima, a drummer and cahone player, was going to have a performance on Himiko.



Prior to boarding Himiko, we took a group photo.



We couldn't see the waterbus in the photo. So we took ANOTHER group photo.



Luckily I remained handsome in both photos, so I thought it was fine.

This is Lia's camera, it's injured, hence the plaster.



And so we started boarding the waterbus.



It looks like this from the inside.



We took yet another group photo in Himiko, because, you can never get enough of those. I'm still handsome.



Niklas took my camera and showed us the joys of shooting long exposure photographs.


Impressed with what I saw, I attempted to shoot some too.



Not too clear though.

I took another, it was better.



Encouraged by the results, I snapped a few more.







Each to varying degrees of success.

In the end Lia got pretty bored with my crap photography skills.



Impatient, even.



So I stopped.

Lia decided to take my camera and show me how photos like these were really taken. And so she did. Meanwhile, Niklas, too bored with our amateurish attempts at photography, turned away.

Well, despite being kinda out of focus, I remain cute, so I will say that Lia's photo was a decent attempt.



I remember that night for its pulsating music, for the crowd of people dancing, and for the stunning scenery I saw as Himiko headed to Odaiba.

Lia swayed gracefully. An ethereal figure completely immersed into the music, disconnected from her surroundings... (until I point my camera at her, in which she would cover her face or turn away)

Niklas danced nonchalantly, occasionally he seemed as if he were brooding solemnly whilst he danced. He then scored himself some free drinks.

Nakajima performed in the end, pounding his strange-looking drum cahone (thanks, cuz) with his bare hands, sometimes so quickly that his hands became a blurry motion, the girls standing closest to him squealed in ecstasy.

The night lasted for a few hours, despite the repetition, the scenery was never boring, the glittering lights of the buildings and their kaleidoscope of colours, more luminescent when they were reflected from the surface of the sea. As the ship went back and forth between Odaiba and Hinode Pier, my mind wandered fleetingly to the the ending of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. then I wondered whether the strobe lights were making me think seemingly unrelated things. During one of the last rounds when the Himiko docked at Odaiba, a woman puked and was carried out.



Of course I wouldn't finish this blog post without posting a video of the cruise. For the first time ever I actually had to do some edits for the videos I shot with my Panasonic DMC-LX3 camera (up until now most of the videos I shot and uploaded here had been unedited).

So, here you go.

This is my friend, Zhu Dan, from China. She's really nice and friendly.


But she's slightly intimidating because she carries a shotgun with her all the time.



I've heard in my overactive imagination that many of her ex-boyfriends who pissed her off got their heads blown off. But those were the lucky ones, the not-so-lucky ones had other parts of their bodies blown off. Imagining all these with such gruesome and graphic detail makes me shudder.



But because she always has a shotgun with her, I figured she would be the perfect person to act for my Thai friend Kong's action short film, where all she had to do was to blow people up. So I introduced her to him back in April.



It was Kong's first attempt at directing, and he was quite intimidated too, fearing that pissing Zhu Dan off would result in her blasting him with her shotgun too. (look carefully at where the gun was, and where it was aiming at, in the photo below)

The benefits of a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) are clear. We all need, after all, enough time to save that important report or close that game properly, brownouts or blackouts be damned. Straight from the Tom’s Hardware Forums comes some sound advice.

• “Never plug any surge suppressor or power strip into the load side of a UPS. [They] can cause the UPS to drain its battery faster than expected, or cause the UPS to shut down or trip a circuit breaker.”
• “Never plug any device into a UPS’s battery-protected outlets that… draws a high amount of power when first turned on. This includes most printers, especially laser printers; the power they draw at start-up exceeds what the UPS can deliver.”
• “[M]ake sure the load doesn’t exceed the UPS’s real or apparent power ratings. Most UPS’s have some type of total load indication or at least an overload indicator light to let you know that the UPS is overloaded.”
• “Different models of UPS may have the same apparent power rating but a different real power rating… UPS designs are different and one can handle more real power than the other. A prime example is the APC Smart-UPS 750 vs. the Smart-UPS 750 XL. Both are rated 750 VA, but the XL model can handle 600W while the non-XL model can only handle 500W.”
• “Different models of UPS may have the same apparent power rating but vastly different run times. The power rating is determined by the size and design of the inverter, while the run time is determined mainly by the battery size. The APC Smart-UPS 750 and Smart-UPS 750XL are both rated at 750VA, but when powering a 300W load, the XL model can run it for over 45 minutes, while the non-XL model has only 10 minutes of run time.”
• “Your computer power supply rating is much greater than the amount of power your system actually draws. Many computers today have a 600W or higher power supply, but actual draw from the line is generally 300W or less, so you don’t need to spend the money on a 1500VA UPS. To find out the actual amount of power your computer is using, use an inexpensive watt meter like the Kill-A-Watt.”

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When Dad came back from a surgery to remove the Cataracts in his left eye last Wednesday, he spot a new packet of chocolate cookies my friend gave as souvenir. He guzzled everything although we had lunch together one hour ago.

I was obviously upset when I couldn’t find the packet anymore. Dad was idling in the living room when I asked “Where did the cookies go? Did you eat it? Did you finish everything? Why did you finish everything?”. Dad tried to reply. But he looked confused. “I…erh…yeah…”

He could not remember if he ate it. Or if he ate it, he could not remember if he finished it”.

At this, I retreated to the kitchen to contain my disappointment. When I came back five minutes later, I found Dad sitting at the same spot and pealing off the bandage that a nurse had used to cover a very large wound on his leg that morning. He had the distant look while doing this, without paying attention to the bandage itself.

“Dad! Why did you remove the bandage?”

He looked away and did not reply.

My heart ached. I cried recalling this episode later at night.

I am so sorry.

Dad was hurting himself because he felt guilty for hurting me.

Before Dad had the Cataracts, he would have yelled and sent his voice thundering whenever I asked him about the things he did.

The Cataracts changed him but it was neither for better nor worse. Just different.

He is confused and does not always know what he is doing. But instead of expressing his confusion in anger and rage like before, he has started to put the blame upon himself silently.

Dad has always blame himself. Seeing him peel off a necessary bandage to unveil a gruesome Diabetic wound, I understood why he steadfastly refused hospital treatment for his many health problems in the past.

My dad is hurt by his own incompetence. Maybe he believes that he deserves the pain.

Yesterday, I sent an e-mail to Marian, the Head Lecturer of my department in college asking for contact details of a Psychiatrist who visited in April. I also found out that Marian’s husband is a Psychotherapist who does Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy that can help post-stroke patients ventilate and make sense of their emotions.

But he works in Bandar Tun Razak’s HUKM. That is a long journey from my home. Dad’s blood pressure is very high and may not be able to endure traveling so far by public transport.

On the other hand, the psychiatrist who paid my college a visit works at the nearby UMMC and lectures at IMU.

I am still undecided on where to go. It’s tempting to visit HUKM because the doctor is a person related to someone I am familiar with.

Psychiatry is still an eluding realm, an unfamiliar territory to me. Unlike getting treatment for NF which I have seven years of experience, I am cautious about being mislead while seeking treatment for my father.

If I make the wrong choice for myself, I will be the only one bearing the consequences. But if I make the wrong choice for my dad, I will be implicating him.

You know the best bit about shopping? Not the bit where you do window shopping. Or the part where you finally find the perfect pair of shoes. Oh no, the best part of shopping is coming across the weird and wonderful aspects of our society. You know the hilarious shop names, crazy signs and the eccentric shoppers. Those are what we will call the perfect twitter worthy moments!

1. No Missionary Positions Here

Thanks but no thanks for that mental image. Is this about your own personal preference or perhaps this is just a shop that sells dog products. You know, belts, collars, etc. If so, I would be hard pressed to explain those medium to large t-shirts in the front of the shop. Or the big Bugs Bunny figure.

2. The things we do for ice

Erm, no halfway measures here. A full commitment is what we are looking for. Or at least less drunkenness and more focus on getting… the job done. This must be the futuristic world of man-machine love that is usually shown in dystopians movies.

3. Vader picks out a lunch meal

So tell me again… why is Darth Vader and his minion walking around in a supermarket? Couldn’t get any of the other minions to pick out lunch? Well, it looks like someone is pampering the boss’s ego.

(The headline for the Malaysian Insider “No let-up as Kit Siang continues attacks against PAS ahead of Kedah trip” is not correct, as it is not reflected in the contents of its report. It implied that I was continuing to “attack” the Pakatan Rakyat government in Kedah. This is not the case. It further implied that I [...]

Take the Nokia E75 out of the box, and you’ll see a transparent sticker plastered over the display. Apparently, Nokia received too many complaints, from people who couldn’t figure out that on some phones, the red End Call key doubles as the power button! The side-effect of this noobishness? You have to take off the display cover to start using the phone, wasting the sticker’s screen protector potential.

Based on the attended product briefing, Nokia’s pushing the E75 as email-centric, highlighting the QWERTY keyboard that slides out from underneath the otherwise candybar-looking smartphone, as well as the email-friendly messaging app. Functionality-wise compared to the E71 however, the E75 is pretty much the same, with a different form factor and a newer version firmware to set it apart (and I was told that the same firmware is being prepared for the E71).

The complete data sheet is here, courtesy of Philippine affiliate Technograph. More pictures and a review to follow soon.

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The Malaysian Insider By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 — The DAP wants former Penang Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon to solve the Kampung Buah Pala fiasco by lobbying for federal intervention. Lim claimed that Koh, now a federal minister, was responsible for the controversy as it was during the Barisan Nasional [...]

We listen to classical music EVERY NIGHT these days. Apparently it's the best way to relax and wind down after a hard day's work.

My days consists of hard work … hard hard work. No, I'm not stressed out, but some people around me are very very stressed… for what reason, I have no idea. It just annoys the hell out of me that when I walk into their space I get sucked into that 'I'm so bloody tired and so tied up with work' kind of energies.

I think when the day ends, and when you shut down to go home, its time to leave your worries behind. It's hard, but its necessary. You can't carry that kind of weight around you all the time, no one can, we're all human bodies and we're not designed to carry burdens 24 hours a day. When we sleep, we're supposed to 'release' it all, and let it go. It can be done. I can't say I'm successful at letting my worries go, but I think I am able to park them some place temporary and pay full attention to 'relaxing' when I need to relax.

And God knows, everyone needs to relax every now and then.

Nearly a year ago I’ve posted a tip on how to obtain a 1 year a-squared Anti-Malware license using a coupon code. For those that are still using it, I believe your license is about to expire and here’s a good news to you all! There is a new coupon code being circulated which allows you to convert it to a 1 year license. A year has gone by and many updates and improvements has been done on a-squared Anti-Malware. Last time it only scans for spyware but now it has integrated Ikarus scanning technology to detect and block computer virus.

a-squared Anti-Malware monitors all active programs in real time for dangerous behavior (Behavior Blocking) and can detect new unknown Trojans, Worms, Viruses and other damaging programs (Zero-Day dangers) without daily updates. The signature-based security (a-squared and Ikarus double engine) ensures a very high recognition rate of known Malware such as Trojans, Worms ans Viruses.

Just follow the steps on how to get a fully licensed 1 year a-squared Anti-Malware v4.5 that normally cost $40 for FREE!

1. First you’ll need to have an account with a-squared. Go to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/account/ and signed up for one. Just enter your name and email address.

2. Check your email address and you should get an email from Emsi Software (automail@www.emsisoft.com) with the subject Your user account information – Requires verification. Note down your password.

3. Go to http://cc.emsisoft.com and login with your email and password that you got from step 2.

4. Click on Manage Licenses on the left hand sidebar and click Get license by coupon code.

5. Enter the coupon code kam-nef-max-558 and click the Convert button. You should then see that a-squared Anti-Malware has added to the list with a 1 year license period.

6. Download a-squared Anti-Malware v4.5 and install.

7. After installation, you will be prompted to enter an account to login. Enter the same email address and password that you entered in Customer Center on the program and click Log in. You now have a full version of a-squared anti-malware valid for 1 year.

It is important that you run an update after installation to download the latest signature. The first update should take a while because I had to download a total of 17MB. According to Malware Research Group test conducted on June 2009, a-squared Anti-Malware is able to catch the most malware files compared to 18 other antivirus. A big part of the malware consist of trojans or backdoors.

For testing purposes, I copied 19 real current live virus that are circulating around internet and networks today and a-squared anti-malware did not block anything. When I did a scan, it manage to detect all 19 files are virus. It also managed to detect all of the older version of private stub for a crypter called BCD. Same as Microsoft Security Essentials, it could not detect the private trojan on manual scan and also when I run it even after enabling Paranoid mode.

When a-squared Anti-Malware is active, it has two processes which is a2service.exe and a2guard.exe both taking up 113MB. If you want to use a-squared Anti-Malware for on-demand scanning, disabling all real-time protection will drop the memory usage to only 10MB. If any of the background guard is enabled, the memory usage for a2service.exe instantly shoots up to nearly 100MB. During a deep scan, a-squared anti-malware never eats more than 50% of CPU uage. They developers of a-squared Anti-Malware should do something about the memory usage.

Offer still works so get it fast before it ends! Thanks to saturnguy62 for sharing this with us in forum!

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Yesterday, I said that the country needs a new Inspector-General of Police to provide new leadership and vision to regain public confidence in the ability of the Malaysian police to live up to the benchmarks set by the Police Royal Commission Report in 2005 to be an efficient, incorruptible, professional world-class police service with the [...]

SHAH ALAM - Ahli Parlimen Kapar, S Manikavasagam kesal kerana sebagai wakil rakyat, beliau sendiri terpaksa menunggu lama untuk bertemu dengan Menteri Besar (MB), Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim untuk mengemukakan masalah rakyat.

Menurutnya, usaha beliau untuk bertemu dengan MB bagi memberikan gambaran sebenar tentang apa yang berlaku di kawasan Parlimennya sering menemui jalan buntu kerana beliau hanya dapat berjumpa dengan Setiausaha Politik MB, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.

“Sebagai Exco yang memegang portfolio Pembangunan Tanah, seharusnya lebih prihatin dan memberikan perhatian yang lebih utama kepada masalah yang berkaitan tentang hak pemilikan tanah.

“Beliau perlu membuktikan ketelusan dalam mentadbir. Saya bukan hendak menyerang beliau tetapi MB sepatutnya sedar inilah cara permainan politik dan seharusnya beliau perlu turun padang untuk berjumpa dengan rakyat yang berhadapan dengan masalah ini,” katanya ketika dihubungi Sinar Harian, semalam.

Manikavasagam berkata, kebanyakan rakyat yang datang mengadu masalah yang berkaitan dengan isu tanah ini terdiri daripada orang Melayu.

“Saya hanya menjalankan tugas saya sebagai wakil rakyat. Malahan, saya mendapat laporan isu hak pemilikan tanah ini bukan sahaja berlaku di kawasan Parlimen saya iaitu Kampung Perepat tetapi juga di Batu Arang, Kuala Selangor, Batu Caves, Ampang dan Subang.

“Kes ini sangat serius di mana hak orang miskin telah dirampas. Beliau perlu mengambil tindakan segera supaya tidak akan berlaku penyelewengan terhadap orang yang berhak,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, Menteri Besar seharusnya menyelesaikan isu pokok terlebih dahulu kerana lambat laun masalah lain pula akan timbul seperti pencemaran alam sekitar dan sebagainya.

“Beliau adalah MB dan kuasa berada di tangannya. Mungkin beliau takut, saya pun tidak tahu kenapa..,” katanya.

Sementara itu, beliau turut mengakui yang beliau juga terpaksa berhadapan dengan beberapa kesusahan ketika berusaha untuk mengumpulkan maklumat tentang hak pemilikan tanah.

“Pelbagai alasan yang diberikan antaranya, fail hilang, tidak cukup maklumat dan sebagainya.

Dalam masa yang sama, beliau juga tidak menafikan kejayaan kerajaan PR dalam memperjuangkan hak rakyat seperti memberikan air percuma, bantuan kepada warga emas.

“Apa yang saya harapkan adalah semua kesulitan ini segera berakhir. Kita perlu segera bertindak kerana rakyat telah memilih kita sebagai wakil rakyat kerana mereka mahukan perubahan.

“Jangan sampai mereka bosan dan mengubah haluan kepada pihak yang lama,” katanya lagi.

Sinar Harian 3Julai2009

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My three questions (No.103 to No. 105) on the 35th day in the current series to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat on the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal today are: First Question. On Wednesday, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) decided to summon Barisan Nasional big-wigs like the two former Transport Ministers, [...]

By Tunku Abdul Aziz JULY 2 — Public procurement is the single most important source of corruption in any country, including ours. This crucial process remains a great mystery to the public at large because it is shrouded in secrecy. The mystery is heightened by the Official Secrets Act (OSA). The OSA has become a permanent fixture [...]

Great bodyart showing Air New Zealand have nothing to hide.

If this really work as shown. I will get myself a XBOX console very soon. And it’s time to keep fit too.

Here’s some updated news since the WebOS 1.04 firmware update from Palm. Sadly, it seems you still cannot install UpToDate for PalmOS on the Palm Pre under Classic, the PalmOS emulator. This is despite there being a virtual SD card. Bulls96 in the forums has been trying and in his latest attempt, he is still getting a “white screen” when running the installation prc, with the appropriate UTD data files in the root of the virtual SD.

Nevertheless, UpToDate users can still use the excellent Pre’s browser and access the Mobile UpToDate site: http://pda.uptodate.com
Unlike the Epocrate mobile site, there doesn’t seem to be any issues when testing it with the emulator’s browser.

After logging, you get a nice and simple Search screen

The search results seem to format nicely on the browser

I understand that this is not the solution for everyone with a mobile since it depends on a good signal, and adequate data speeds which may not be the case in all corners of your hospital. Nevertheless I think if you can, it’s a viable option, at least till the problem is fixed (hopefully soon UpToDate!)
The best thing is for a native WebOS version of UpToDate and this is what we all look forward to.

from the Palmdoc Chronicles

UpToDate on the Palm Pre

Design*Sponge有很多这样让人眼前一亮的before and after。就像这个，让pallet变了漂亮的小床。

Just some quick updates.

You may have noticed that I have been missing in action for quite some time. Apologies for that.

I have actually been busy with a lot of things these past few weeks.

First up, exams. Results came out today. Pretty happy with it I guess. Got two 7’s and two 6’s. Nothing will be complete without my CPL though…

After exams were out of the way, I had to fly down to Sydney to participate in something that could potentially transform my life. Unfortunately, it was an unsuccessful attempt… Amazingly dissapointing I tell you… It felt like a slit to my throat…

After that, my mum and her friends arrived in Australia and I had to bring them down to Sydney again for holidays.

So, here I am, 0600 hours in Sydney writing from my laptop with my newly acquired pre-paid wireless broadband (pretty neat little bugger this thing!).

Alright, catch you guys pretty soon!

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This is yet another my first time story collection whereby I successfully upgrading HP Proliant BL460c firmware from Linux. There are 3 firmwares to be upgraded; BIOS - System ROM, Lights-Out Management (aka iLO) and Storage Controller. This machine is running RHEL 5.2 and all of the firmwares were upgraded ‘online’ from operating system itself. BIOS [...]

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Overview This is The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 walkthrough complete with images plus detailed text descriptions for those who need to consult a Reemus 3 walkthrough in order to beat this game. Detailed Reemus Chapter 3 walkthrough with both least resistance and aggressor endings.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Crash Site

1. Crawl onto the log “a”.
2. Consume the spider “b”.
3. Climb up the tree and consume the bird “c”.
4. Fly down and consume the snake “d”.
5. Scare the squirrel away and enter the hole “e”.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Gygax

1. Drop the fruit “a” onto the rock.
2. Consume the frog at “b”.
3. Hop onto the rocks “c”.
4. Jump up the branches “d”.
5. Leap up onto the branch above fruit “e”.
6. Drop the fruit “e” into the pool.
7. Dive into the pool “f”.
8. Consume the fish “f”.
9. Get hooked via “g” and consume the Gygax.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockcroach
1. Liam – Save the Cockroach – Path Of Least Resistance
2. Reemus – Chop down the tree – Path Of Aggression

Liam – Save the Cockroach – Path Of Least Resistance

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach

1. Liam – Go right to the Mushroom area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Mushroom

1. Liam – Pick up the mushroom cover “a”.
2. Go left back to the Cockroach area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Liam – Put mushroom cover onto log “a”.
2. Go 2 screens right to the Hive area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Hive

1. Liam – Walk onto “a”, switch to Reemus.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Reemus – Go right to the Mushroom area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Mushroom
1. Reemus – Get the sturdy piece of wood “c”.
2. Go right to the Hive area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Hive
1. Reemus – Shove the wood into the glue nest “b”.
2. Walk onto “a”, switch to Liam.
3. Liam – Get one of the bees “c”.
4. Liam – Go back to Cockroach area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Tie bee to the log “a”.
2. Repeat until 4 bees are tied down.
3. Switch to Reemus.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Hive
1. Reemus – Go left to Mushroom area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Mushroom
1. Reemus – Shove wood with glue onto rock “b” to make an axe.
2. Go left to Cockroach area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Switch to Liam.
2. Liam – Ride the floating log “a” to save Cockroach.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cave Entrance

1. Switch to Reemus.
2. Reemus – Axe the Cockroach “a”.
3. Switch to Liam.
4. Liam – Get the plugs underneath the rocks “b”.
5. Solve the puzzle “c” and enter the cave.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Inside Cave

1. Liam – Open safe “a”.
2. Get strawberry gelatin from safe “a”.
3. Pour strawberry gelatin into pool “b”.
4. Jump onto bouncy pool to get up to “c”.
5. Climb the spikes “d”, “e”, “f” and “g”.
6. Switch to Reemus
7. Attack the beast to break the axe.
8. Get the green mushroom “h”.
9. Feed the green mushroom to the beast.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Inside Cave

1. Switch to Liam.
2. Liam – Climb the spikes “a”, “b” and “c”.
3. Jump to the vines “d” at the cave exit.
4. Drop vines “e” to let Reemus climb up.
5. Switch to Reemus, climb up the vines “f”.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Waxy Goo

1. Reemus – Go right to the Chest area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Chest
1. Reemus – Go right to Docks area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Docks

1. Reemus – Play rocks scissors paper with the guard “a”.
2. Play with the guard again to knock the keys down.
3. Pick up keys “b”.
4. Go left to Chest area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Chest

1. Reemus – Unlock chest “a” with the key.
2. Switch to Liam.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Waxy Goo
1. Liam – Go right to Chest area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Chest
1. Liam – Get bark skin “b”.
2. Go left to Waxy Goo area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Waxy Goo
1. Liam – Get some waxy goo “a” onto bark skin.
2. Go right to Chest area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Chest
1. Liam – Use bark skin with waxy goo on royal stamp “c”.
2. Go right to Docks area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Docks
1. Liam – Give “royal message” to guard “a”.

Reemus – Chop down the tree – Path Of Aggression

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Liam – Go right to Mushroom area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Mushroom
1. Liam – Go right to Hive area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Hive

1. Liam – Walk onto “a”.
2. Switch to Reemus.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Reemus – Go right to Mushroom area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Mushroom

1. Reemus – Get sturdy piece of wood “c”.
2. Go right to Hive area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Hive
1. Reemus – Shove wood into glue hive “b”.
2. Go left to Mushroom area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Mushroom
1. Reemus – Shove wood with glue onto rock “b” to make an axe.
2. Go left to Cockroach area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cockroach
1. Chop the tree 3 times with the axe.
2. Cross the ravine with the chopped tree.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Tinkertok
1. Reemus – Go left to Grafitti area

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Grafitti
1. Reemus – Go left to Perriwinkle area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Perriwinkle
1. Reemus – Attempt to go Perriwinkle and get beaten up.
2. Switch to Liam.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Tinkertok
1. Liam – Go left to Grafitti area

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Grafitti
1. Liam – Go left to Perriwinkle area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Perriwinkle

1. Liam – Get Perriwinkle flag “a”.
2. Go right to Grafitti area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Grafitti
1. Liam – Go right to Tinkertok area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Tinkertok

1. Liam – Hang the Perriwinkle on rock “a”.
2. Go left to Grafitti area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Grafitti

1. Liam – Get painted tulip “a”.
2. Go right to Tinkertok area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Tinkertok
1. Liam – Paint the rock “a” with painted tulip.
2. Ring the bell “b”.
3. Go left to Grafitti area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Grafitti
1. Liam – Go left to Perriwinkle area.
2. Go left to the Pedestal area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pedestal
1. Reemus – Go left to Holes area

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Reemus – Go left to Cliff area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cliff
1. Reemus – Hold down branch “a” to reveal accorn.
2. Switch to Liam.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pedestal
1. Liam – Go left to Holes area

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Liam – Go left to Cliff area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cliff

1. Liam – Get accorn “b”.
2. Switch to Reemus.
3. Reemus – Let go of tree branch.
4. Reemus – Get rock “c”.
5. Go right to Holes area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Reemus – Go right to Pedestal area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pedestal
1. Reemus – Shove the rock into hole “a”.
2. Go left to Holes area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Reemus – Go left to Cliff area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cliff
1. Reemus – Get rock “c”.
2. Go right to Holes area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Reemus – Shove the rock into hole “a”.
2. Get ready to catch the flying fox at hole “b”.
3. Switch to Liam.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Cliff
1. Liam – Go right to Holes area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Liam – Go right to Pedestal area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pedestal
1. Liam – Put accorn onto Pedestal “b”.
2. Go left to Holes area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Liam – Go right to Pedestal area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pedestal
1. Liam – Go left to Holes area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Liam – Go left to Cliff area.
2. Switch to Reemus

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Holes
1. Reemus – Go left to Cliff area.
2. Glide down the cliff “d” together with Liam.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Weird Door

solve the puzzle by inserting the plugs into the right slots as shown above.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pool
1. Reemus – Go right to Switch area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Switch

Switch “a” activates red, orange, yellow in the Pool area.
Switch “b” activates blue, purple, green in the Pool area.
1. Reemus – Walk onto “a”.
2. Switch to Liam.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Pool

1. Liam – Get glass vial “a”.
2. Fill up the vial with yellow liquid.
3. Go right to Switch area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Switch
1. Liam – Go right to Stairs area.

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough – Stairs

1. Liam – Pour yellow liquid into container “a”.
2. Repeat until the colors are as shown above.
3. Press buttons “b” to reveal hidden stairs.
4. Go up stairs “c”.

Deimos’s Daily Reads
No reads for today.

Deimos’s Thoughts
Too  short. The puzzle is quite easy this time. Nice to complete the game in 2 different ways.

Deimos Asks
Played and finished The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 yet?

There is something that I hadn’t tell anyone. In late 2007 after setting a cataracts surgery date for my father at University Malaya Medical Center, I took my father to the hospital’s welfare department to get help. A young social worker interviewed my father while I sat quietly in the same room. My father did most of the talking. I did not know what my father said, but we received a letter of rejection months later.

That was why his surgery at UMMC could not proceed. When I knew the contents of that letter I quickly put the letter away and suppressed my hurt.

The social worker was a young man. Maybe he could not see anything unusual with my father’s speech pattern. But anybody who meets my father for the first time can tell that something is not quite right with him so the things he says can’t be taken too seriously.

The social worker did not even bother to talk to me and chose to rely on the information my father provided.

I did not volunteer information either because it was not nice to tell someone in the presence of my father that what he said was unreliable.

So I need to go around this issue in getting the help my father deserves as a citizen of Malaysia.

I am thinking of getting him an independent Psychiatric evaluation as proof to the Social Welfare Department. And I hope my father will not take it as an insult.

This Windows Mobile smartphone for CDMA networks sports a QWERTY keyboard and a familiar slab form factor. Key features include HTC’s Inner Circle feature, GPS navigation, MMS, memory card slot, and a 2-megapixel camera with video capture. Other features include Microsoft Office, voice command, and push email.

Specs:
Modes CDMA 850 / CDMA 1900
Weight 4.2 oz (119 g)
Dimensions 4.48″ x 2.48″ x 0.54″ (114 x 63 x 13.7 mm)
Battery Talk: 4.6 hours max. (276 minutes)
Standby: 320 hours max. (13.3 days)
1500 mAh LiIon
Display Type: LCD (Color TFT/TFD)
Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
2.4″ diagonal
Colors: 65,536 (16-bit)
OS Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) version 6.1
Processor 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7625
Memory 95 MB (internal memory available to user for storage)
Phone Book Capacity shared memory
FCC ID NM8CEDA200 » (Approved Mar 20, 2009)

I have been pretty busy lately. It has got to the extent I don’t even feel in the mood for gym. Mrs BB has been asking me where am I headed in all the activities I am involved in. Occasionally I have two or three activities going on at a particular time. Of course I [...]

Basically, if you’ve bought a PC that came with certain versions of Vista installed, from June 26, 2009 to January 10, 2010, you get an upgrade to Windows 7 for free! According to the Microsoft Press Release:

“There is a lot of excitement for Windows 7 in the marketplace today. However, many consumers need a new Windows PC for school, work or home before October 22,” said Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows consumer marketing at Microsoft. “So starting June 26th, any customer who buys a PC from a participating computer maker or retailer with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate will also receive an upgrade to the corresponding version of Window 7 at little or no cost.”

In other words, only Vista Home Basic users are exempted from this program. Micro Center has compiled a list of manufacturers included in the program, with relevant links:

Windows 7 OEM Upgrade Info

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Averatec
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Compaq
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Dell
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Fujitsu
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Gateway
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HP
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Lenovo
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Well, Palm promised the British press that a July 7 on the Palm Pre is forthcoming, but word on the street is that the event will be a launch—and that we’ll finally see a GSM version of the Palm Pre go official! Other rumors making the rounds: O2 will enjoy exclusivity, and a European market launch will increase units sold for Palm (Unless, of course, the company doesn’t fix its supply problems).

I can see why: the (hopefully) inevitable debut of the Palm Pre on GSM networks will vastly increase the potential market, allowing use of the smartphone in many more countries throughout the world, in the hands so much more people. Especially since the Pre is easily jailbroken.

At the very least, we’ll finally see just how popular Palm’s last-stand play becomes. No details yet on specs (will they be similar to the CDMA version’s or even surpass it?) nor pricing in the UK. Stay tuned for updates!

Thanks Electronista!

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Tuan Manikavasagam a/l Sundaram [Kapar] meminta Menteri Sumber Alsi dan Alam Sekitar menyatakan langkah-langkah yang tealh diambil oleh Kerajaan untuk memastikan kesihatan penduduk sekitar tidak terjejas akibat pencemaran udara oleh industri-industri sekitar kawasan Perusahaan Sungai Puluh, Kapar serta Stesen Jana Elektrik juga di Kapar, Selangor

Tuan Yang DiPertua

Untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat, Kementerian ini melalui Jabatan Alam Sekitar (JAS) akan memastikan bahawa pihak industrt yang beroperasi di sekitar kawasan Perusahaan sungai Puluh, Kapar dan Stesen Janaelektrik, Kapar mematuhi standard pelepasan yang telah ditetapkan di bawah Akta Kualiti Alam Sekeliling 1974 dan peraturan-peraturan di bawahnya.

Pihak JAS memang menyedari masalah aduan pencemaran udara yang dihadapi oleh penduduk kawasan perumahan Taman Aman Perdana, Kapar yang berpunca daripada operasi kilang-kilang di kawasan Perusahaan Sungai Puluh, Kapar. Kelulusan untuk menempatkan kawasan perumahan tersebut telah dikeluarkan oleh pihak berkuasa kerajaan Negeri Selangor pada tahun 2002 manakala kilang-kilang tersebut wujud sejak tahun 1988 lagi. Sehubungan dengan itu, lokasi penempatan kawasan perumahan dan industri yang tidak bersesuaian yang telah menimbulkan masalah pencemaran udara bagi penduduk di kawasan tersebut telahpun dipanjangkan oleh pihak JAS kepada pihak Kerajaan negeri Selangor untuk diambil tindakan selanjutnya.

Berhubung dengan stesen Janaelektrik di kawasan tersebut , stesen ini dilengkapi dengan alat kawalan pencemaran udara electric precipitator bagi memastikan pelepasan dari cerobong mematuhi standard yang di tetapkan. Pihak stesen Janaelektrik juga turut telah memasang continous emission monitoring system bagi mengukur parameter pelepasan daripada cerobong pada setiap masa. Berdasarkan semakan oleh JAS Selangor, pihak stesen Janaelektrik mematuhi standard pelepasan yang di tetapkan.

Sekian, Terima kasih

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My blog will be 2 years old on July 6, 2009 which is next Monday. To celebrate this, I am giving away 3 web hosting accounts to all bloggers. The features plan for the web hosting account is: -

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It’s the second day after dad had the cataracts in his left eye removed. Mom and I took him to the clinic where the area around his eye was cleaned by a nurse. She removed the overnight capsule that covered his eye too. Mom said Dad told the nurse five times that he wanted to remove the cataracts in his right eye as well. To which the nurse replied, “I’m not the doctor” five times according to my mother.

Later, the doctor had a look at his piece-of-work and said dad’s eye was okay. At this, dad could at last direct his request to the correct person.

Dr. Fang said we need to come back two weeks later so that he may take another look at Dad’s operated eye. We’ll set the date for the other eye then.

After leaving the doctor’s office, we had lunch at the food court upstairs before going back down to Jaya Jusco Supermarket. It became clear that my father could now see better when he spot his favorite Kraft cheese spread a few feet away and seized two bottles.

As I type this, dad’s lying down and scanning the newspaper with both hands holding it up. It’s the worst place to read in our living room. Soon, we can remove all the extra wall clocks Dad had insist to keep at corners where he most often sat and return our house back to looking a tad more normal.

THE Klang District Officer will be hauled up by the Selangor government next week that wants answers to how a Datuk had managed to transfer Temporary Occupation Licences (TOL) plots in Kampung Perepat, Kapar within 24 hours.

Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim will also question several other officers from the same Land Office to ascertain why a directive by the State government to revoke the land titles given to the Datuk had not been followed. Khalid would be calling the Klang District Officer and officers from the Land Office to present the case.

Speaking to pressmen after the Selangor Executive Councillor’s meeting, Khalid said the case would be presented at the State Economy Action Meeting (MTES) within two weeks.

“We have requested that the case be presented at the MTES either this week or next week. After that, we will deliberate on the actions to be taken on this matter,” Khalid said.

When asked if the State suspects any foul play in the Kampung Perepat issue, Khalid said: “I dare not comment anything on that right now. We shall wait and see.”

On June 19, Malay Mail frontpaged the Selangor government’s promise to 17 families, who held ToLs for agricultural land in Kampung Perepat, that the plots would be returned to them after a long-drawn tussle. Khalid, when asked for his feedback on the long-running issue, did not mince his words.

“If it is illegal, we will demolish it,” he told Malay Mail. He added that he would deploy his officers to investigate the matter. But he declined comment when asked on the lengthy amount of time taken by the Klang District Office to respond to his query on the issue.

On June 22, the controversy surrounding the Kapar land-grab issue has since deepened. Kapar Member of Parliament S. Manikavasagam said when he went to the Selangor Malaysian Anti- Corruption Commission (MACC) office at Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, an MACC officer told him that three reports lodged by the Kampung Perepat pioneers, as well as the one he personally filed last year, could not be found. MACC responded by questioning one of the pioneers and a Malay Mail journalist.

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How is the stock market reacting to Najib's "quota-free" announcement today... the 2nd day of Q3?

I believe in the Golden Rule of 'You reap what you sow.' And I believe that it works in all areas of life, especially the subconscious 'requests' to the universe we so subtly transmit all the time.

Like say for example, if you're an attention seeker (and I know most people, including myself, are, to a certain extent), you need to be very, very careful about the kind of attention you're seeking. Because literally, you will always reap what you sow, what happens in life will definitely work in a way that returns and gifts you what you are begging for.

So if you are begging for pity, for the 'oh you poor thing, I so pity you, you so stress at work, you better eat more, aiyoh you so sad,' … if you want that kind of attention, then you need to work on yourself. Notice that you'll probably get it, but because you get it, you'll probably have a pretty sucky life with all the problems that will allow that kind of loving, pitiful attention to gravitate towards you. So do you have a 'I am too thin, problem, and no matter how much I eat I keep losing weight?'

Or do you have a, 'My boss is a slave driver, problem, and I have to stay in the office until 2 am every day.'

You do get stories to tell your friends every time right?

Well I don't like you bitching too much about the choices you make in your life, and constantly asking me to go, 'aiyoh you poor thing, aiyoh, don't lah like that, you hang in there.'

I think… you should just go hang, because you make the choices in your life, you live with them.

…

Wanna seek attention also, seek the ones that matter lah. Seek the ones where people will envy you. It's WAY WAY MORE gratifying, far far more fulfilling and it gives you a lot of energy to create positive energies in this world (me going new age here, don't mind me).

Dunia ini, macam-macam ada.

Pada hari ini kami ingin mengumumkan Senarai Jawatankuasa Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat mengikut Kementerian.

Matlamat Jawatankuasa ini adalah untuk menyediakan Ahli-ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat bagi sesi perbahasan di Parlimen termasuk perbahasan Rang Undang-undang dan sesi soal jawab. Ini adalah bagi meningkatkan kualiti perbahasan dengan bersandarkan rujukan secara khusus berdasarkan kementerian masing-masing.

Jawatankuasa ini dibentuk mengikut 25 Kementerian dalam kerajaan Barisan Nasional dan dipengerusikan secara bersama oleh seorang wakil dari setiap parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat. Keanggotaan Jawatankuasa ini melibatkan beberapa Ahli Parlimen lain dan juga boleh melibatkan pakar dari luar dalam bidang masing-masing bagi membantu Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat.

YB Mohamed Azmin Ali            YB Tan Seng Giaw                                       YB Salahuddin Ayub

Ketua Whip                                 Ketua Whip Ahli Parlimen DAP                Naib Presiden PAS

Ahli Parlimen PKR

Senarai Jawatankuasa Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat Mengikut Kementerian

Kementerian	Ahli Parlimen PKR	Ahli Parlimen PAS	Ahli Parlimen DAP
JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI	YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim YB Mohamed Azmin Ali YB Sivarasa Rasiah YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Abdul Khalid Ibrahim YB William Leong YB Ahmad Kasim YB Fuziah Salleh	YB Dato’ Seri Hj Abdul Hadi Awang YB Ust Nasharudin Mat Isa YB Salahuddin Ayub YB Dr Hatta Ramli YB Dr Dzulkifli Ahmad YB Taib Azamuddin YB Khalid Samad	YB Lim Kit Siang YB Ngeh Koo Ham YB Hiew King Chiew YB John Fernandez
KEMENTERIAN DALAM NEGERI	YB Dato’ Johari Abdul	YB Salahuddin Haji Ayub	YB Karpal Singh
KEMENTERIAN KEWANGAN	YB Mohamed Azmin Ali	Dr Dzulkifli Ahmad	YAB Lim Guan Eng
KEMENTERIAN PENGANGKUTAN	YB Dato’ Zahrain Mohamed Hashim	YB Khalid Samad	YB Tan Kok Wai
KEMENTERIAN KERJA RAYA	YB Dato’ Kamarul Bahrin Abbas	YB Dato’ Mahfuz Omar	YB Gobind Singh Deo
KEMENTERIAN PERUSAHAAN PERLADANGAN DAN KOMODITI	YB Dato’ Rashid Din	YB Dato Wan Abd Rahim Wan Abdullah	YB Er Teck Hwa
KEMENTERIAN TENAGA, TEKNOLOGI HIJAU DAN AIR	YB Chua Tian Chang	YB Nasir bin Zakaria	YB Charles Anthony Santiago
KEMENTERIAN PERDAGANGAN ANTARABANGSA DAN INDUSTRI	YB William Leong	YB Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli	YB Teresa Kok
KEMENTERIAN PERTANIAN DAN INDUSTRI ASAS TANI	YB Ahmad Kassim	YB Taib Azamuddin Md Taib	YB Sim Tong Him
KEMENTERIAN PERDAGANGAN DALAM NEGERI DAN HAL EHWAL PENGGUNA	YB Azan Ismail	YB Dr Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut	YB Jeff Ooi
KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN	YB Yusmadi Yusoff	YB Che Uda Che Nik	YB Chong Eng
KEMENTERIAN PENERANGAN KOMUNIKASI, KESENIAN DAN KEBUDAYAAN	YB Amran Abdul Ghani	YB Dato’ Mahfuz Haji Omar	YB Teo Nie Ching
KEMENTERIAN SUMBER MANUSIA	YB Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid	YB Muhammad bin Husin	YB M Kulasegaran
KEMENTERIAN SAINS, TEKNOLOGI DAN INOVASI	YB Nurul Izzah Anwar	YB Dr Che Rosli Che Mat	YB Chow Kon Yeow
KEMENTERIAN PERUMAHAN DAN KERAJAAN TEMPATAN	YB Hee Loy Sian	YB Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud	YB Nga Kor Ming
KEMENTERIAN PERTAHANAN	YB Saifuddin Nasution Ismail	YB Dato’ Seri Muhammad Nizar Jamaluddin	YB Liew Chin Tong
KEMENTERIAN KEMAJUAN LUAR BANDAR DAN WILAYAH	YB Ab Aziz Ab Kadir	YB Dato’ Ab Halim bin Ab Rahman	YB M Manogaran
KEMENTERIAN LUAR NEGERI	YB Sivarasa Rasiah	YB Dato’ Kamarudin Jaffar	YB P Ramasamy
KEMENTERIAN BELIA DAN SUKAN	YB Tan Tee Beng	YB Mohd Firdaus bin Jaafar	YB Anthony Loke Siew Fook
KEMENTERIAN KESIHATAN	YB Dr Lee Boon Chye	YB Dr Mohd Hayati Othman	YB Dr Tan Seng Giaw
KEMENTERIAN PEMBANGUNAN WANITA, KELUARGA DAN MASYARAKAT	YB Zuraida Kamaruddin	YB Siti Zailah bt Mohd Yusuf	YB Fong Po Kuan
KEMENTERIAN PELANCONGAN	YB Manikavasagam a/l Sundaram	YB Dato Wan Abd Rahim Wan Abdullah	YB Fong Kui Lun
KEMENTERIAN WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN	YB Wee Choo Keong	YB Dr Lo’ Lo’ Haji Mohd Ghazali	YB Lim Lip Eng
KEMENTERIAN PENGAJIAN TINGGI	YB Zulkifli Nordin	YB Salahuddin Haji Ayub	YB Tony Pua
KEMENTERIAN SUMBER ASLI DAN ALAM SEKITAR	YB Gobalakrishnan a/l Nagapan	YB Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa	YB Chong Chien Jen

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Brian wrote in:

Unbound Medicine has announced the release of their Merck Manual family of products for download to iPhone and iPod touch which includes:

* The Merck Manual for Mobile and Web (Dx)
* The Merck Manual with Patient Symptoms Guide (Dx+Sx)
* The Merck Manual Suite + Davis’s Drug Guide (Dx+Sx+Rx)

Features of The Merck Manual on the iPhone:

* Interface optimized for iPhone and iPod touch
* Personalized favorites
* Cross-links for fast navigation between resources
* Frequent updates
* Superior navigation and graphics
* iPhone and web access

Animated GIF demo:

from the Palmdoc Chronicles

The Merck Manual now for iPhone

Whenever all these giant companies comes out with something new, you can find it written all over the Internet. Remember Bing, the new search engine by Microsoft? Well me and many others still think Google search results are way better. Then few days ago I heard about the upcoming free antivirus software called Microsoft Security Essentials created by Microsoft that will provide protection from viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. As usual, it was posted everywhere and the first thing that came to my mind was is it necessary to create all that hype?

I personally don’t think that Microsoft Security Essentials will dominate the antivirus market even if it is bundled in future version of Windows. Just like Internet Explorer, it comes in every Windows but my monthly web statistics shows that there are more Firefox users than IE. I am very curious to see how good or bad is the upcoming free antivirus by Microsoft so I left work a little early today (of course with my boss’ approval) to test it out.

A good antivirus must have very good detection of known virus through signature and unknown virus through proactive method. Then it shouldn’t now slow down your computer when it is protecting your computer real-time and also during manual full scan. Scanning time and cleaning of virus should be fast. Finally, when an antivirus has proactive defense, there will surely be false detection but the numbers should be small.

The interface of Microsoft Security Essentials is very easy to use. It doesn’t have too many features to confuse a basic computer user. You have a tab to run a full, quick or custom scan, an update tab to update the virus and spyware definitions, a history tab showing you items detected as potentially harmful and the actions you took on each item and finally the settings tab to configure some options on MSE.

Virus detection (Signature and Proactive)
The virus detection on MSE is very good because it managed to detect all 19 viruses as a potential threat while RISING Antivirus 2009 (sad to say) only detected 75% of it. As for the proactive detection, I am not sure if MSE even has that as I couldn’t find any information about it. I have a private version of trojan which is detected by Kaspersky, Avira and NOD32 but is still undetectable by many other antivirus. MSE wasn’t able to detect the private trojan.

Scanning
A full scan takes 19 minutes to scan 160,000 items. I’d say that MSE has an average scanning speed as I’ve seen other antivirus software that scans at much faster and slower speed than this.

Real-Time protection
I plugged in a USB flash drive that has a malicious autorun.inf file and MSE immediately notify me about the potential threat it found. I also noticed that the real-time protection is a little slow. Meaning when I open a folder that has a virus which is detectable by MSE, it takes quite a long time to tell me that it is a virus. When I got fed up of waiting, I tried running the virus file, MSE blocks the file and prompts for action on the virus.

Action on detected items
Another problem with MSE is the actions such as removing and disinfecting an item is also very slow. This happens when MSE found a potential threat and you click either the Clean computer or Apply actions button.

Memory and CPU usage
There are 2 processes by MSE which is MsMpEng.exe and msseces.exe. Both process’ memory usage takes up an average of 60MB during idle and scanning. When running a full scan, the CPU usage goes up to around 40% but never above 50%.

The tests above are done on my desktop computer running a vanilla version of Windows XP Professional SP3 with latest hotfixes. Although the 19 virus that I had is very little to test on but they are real current live virus that are circulating around internet and networks today. As for the private version of trojan, it is also a very popular trojan (I won’t say what is the name) and good antivirus such as Kaspersky or anti-keylogger such as Zemana is able to detect the malicious (injection) activity even though it is not in the virus signature database. Do take note that Microsoft Security Essentials is still in BETA (testing) and if you’d like to try it yourself, you can download from the links below. The installer does a WGA check before allowing you to install.

For Windows XP: mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-xp.exe
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit): mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-vista.exe
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 (64-bit): mssefullinstall-amd64fre-en-us-vista.exe

Technorati Tags: MSE, morro, microsoft, antivirus, security

每当在工作上遇到困难的时候，心里默念：

“我的女儿很可爱，我的儿子很帅很多头发。”

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Ong Tee Keat's attempt to kick the PKFZ scandal into the Parliament's basket isn't futile.

Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Ronald Kiandee confirmed, and announced in the House today, that we MPs will not get the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit report and its appendix on the Port Klang Free Trade (PKFZ) -- that Tee Keat promised -- until the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has completed its investigation on the matter.

The deputy speaker also clarified that the 300 copies of the report were being kept by the Parliament Cecretariat on its capacity as the secretariat of PAC, because the reports were required by the PAC, first and foremost.

Unless the PAC finishes its job fast, and unless the Parliament will courier the report to us MPs, this means the earliest date we MPs can obtained the complete report is when the Parliament re-convenes on October 19.

So, what's new Malaysia Boleh, and quote OC Phang, what's new capable Malaysians?

Let me repeat, again: This PKFZ scandal is fast becoming an Agatha Christie mystery murder: You have a stinking corpse with multiple fatal stabs, no killers.

很忙很忙，忙到没有时间泵奶怎么办呢？

I like this, this would be cool in my office and any public toilet. This is more practical than those Japanese invented, but the warmer on the toilet is pretty nifty too for cold weather country.