Archive for the 'Opinion' Category

Asus EEE PC or Thinkpad X31?

Monday, March 24th, 2008

My wife asked for a computer. The requirements are simple. Small and easy to carry. this computer will be used just for browsing and email and bit of document processing.
Then there was the hail Asus EEE PC hype coming up. The specification looks promising and as it is really light and just enough to browsing, [...]

Troubleshooting is not a guessing work.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Listening to first part and second part video talks with Zaheer Aziz makes me even more realize that the procedure and goal of troubleshooting are important. I’m working in an area where troubleshooting is my bread and butter for 12-hour shift.
Zaheer Aziz is one of the author of the Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols. I have [...]

Time Capsule. Delivering old technology to the new world.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

During the Macworld Expo 2008, just few days ago, Apple announcing a product called Time Capsule. A Hard disk plus a wireless router.
Looking this idea would make Time Machine user’s on Leopard even happier while they can use the wireless plus without having to get caught plugging in and out the external Hard drive. Time [...]

Why Ubuntu Linux Prevails?

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

A recent survey by Linux Foundation reveals that Ubuntu is the most popular linux distribution (55.5%) in year 2007. This finding is not very surprising and even quite obvious to predict.
Ubuntu started its initial released with Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) back in October 20, 2004. It was quite a surprised and brave decision to make [...]

When will be the first Leopard update?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is just just around the corner.
When do you think Leopard will get its first update?
No later than 7 working days since it’s released?

From failing you learn, from success, not so much.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

People always thinking that having a failure is not acceptable compared to gaining success.
Me? Hahaha, don’t ask. Mere mortal who made lots of failures. You, who read this lame article, are probably on the same team as I am. We have been through failures. Probably not deliberately, but surely made at least one.
The problem then [...]

Fire-fighter or Fire-lighter?

Friday, September 21st, 2007

I choose this topic as I’ve meet people who always say negative about anything I’ve thrown in. No matter if that was a good news or a bad news, an achievement or a failure. There are always people around us speaking negative.
I don’t really understand whether they try to do that because they see [...]

Guy Sebastian is taller, stronger, better.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

It was a cold Sunday afternoon while we went back from lunch. The day was coloured grey with rain. Driving closer to home, the radio played Taller, Stronger, Better by Guy Sebastian. It was always nice to listen to his music as it always contains good message.

Appreciation to Programmers

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Talking about Software Metric on S/W development, several methods are available in the real world project. Using these metrics, We can say that particular project requires more attention or requires more men-hours. Then suddenly I was thinking about resource management in S/W house. Just say that one programmer in S/W house is working with a [...]

Thinkpad T41 Memory. Don’t Use Kingston KVR333X64SC25.

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

I believe it’s the time to upgrade my Thinkpad memory. The main reason is to use more VMWare instances and use Dynamips for my Cisco lab. My computer is Thinkpad T41 2373-1FA and from the info I’ve got from IBM website, my memory is PC2700 Cl2.5 333 MHz.