Monday, July 14, 2008

A Change in Events.

I'm not sure u ppl know it or not.

I'm officially announcing this blog of mine: Inactive.

Please go to my active live blog:

New Blog Site

[This Blog is only meant to be my comm tech course blog in the very beginning, so closing it down would be normal after the course ended...]

Friday, May 23, 2008

Desktop vs Laptop

Status: Muse of thoughts
BGM: Passion - Utada Hikaru

Let's make some comparison between laptop and desktop.

Desktop is big and bulkier, while laptop is small and light.

On energy consumption, laptop consume less energy than desktop, which make it an ideal power saver.

Laptop is easier to be bring around, making it very convenient for people who needs to move around constantly. Meanwhile, desktop is hard to be carry around due to it's large size.

Until here it sounds like the laptop is better than a desktop.

However, desktop has it advantages too.

Desktop is relatively faster than a desktop, as due to it's size, it is able to provide near excellent air flow system to cool and maintain the desktop in moderate heat level, maintaining the efficiency of it.

Whereas for laptop, due to it's size, it is hard to have a powerful cooling system to cool it down, although there's external cooling system for laptops, it is still less efficient than the desktop cooling system - built-in cooling system.

Performance wise, laptop can hardly beat desktop, as desktop can be equipped with the most powerful hardware, while laptop will have it's limitation.

Well, both of them have their own pros and cons, and they both cater a different category of users.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Quantum Computers

Status: Blurry
BGM: Crank That -Soulja Boy (Alvin & the Chipmunk ver.)

Quantum Computers are said to be the next gen computers.

Apparently, when compared to the presently used computers, they could hold more data & process faster.

Currently, data in computers are processed with paralleled processing method.

Which practically means things are running in one same way, or one way method.

Meanwhile, quantum computer could run in a way that a few parallel system are ran simultaneously, greatly increasing the capability of a computer in handling high requirement commands.

Will that be the future of computing?

Hacker Wars

Status: Flayed
BGM: Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't be late

There's a recent hacker wars (competition): CanSecWest-2008 (March 26 -28), at Vancouver, Canada.

The hackers are to hack into 3 different notebooks, each with different system installed.

The system are: Vista Ultimate SP1, Mac OS X10.5.2 & Linux Ubuntu 7.10.

The results?

Well, the 1st to fall is... suprisingly, Mac OS X10.5.2

The reason? The hackers exploited a security loophole in the Safari Browser, and they hacked it within 2 minutes time. [On the second day of competition] After succesfully hacked, they gain control of the Mac Book Air.

Next is Vista Ultimate SP1.

It falls on the last day of the competition.

They attacked a security loophole in the Java system, and then successfully gain control of the
Vista system.

Ubuntu are safe even to the end of the competition.

Is it the safest?

Probally is, probably not.

There are some loopholes indeed, but the hackers think that those loopholes are too premature to be properly attacked.

There goes the whole wars.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Games & Physics

Status: Slightly-Impressed
BGM: My Heart Will Go On

Ever wonder how much games had evolved these days?

Truth is, it has evolved in a pace that most gamers found it hard to catch up.

Couldn't tell it? Well, look how fast the hardware sector evolved.

They even have physics cards now!

For what it is used for? To create real-life like physics effect in the game.

In older time of gaming (1998-2002), games usually are quite fake or surreal... like when you hit a building or a tank, it'll take the same damage no matter from which angle it got hit, and when it's destroyed, it goes by a blast, then it dissapear.

Now let's look at the more modern games (2006-now). I shall take the World War II themed RTS (Real Time Strategy) game, Company of Heroes, as the example.

When a tank is hit at the front, it takes less damage (due to thick frontal armor). When it's being hit on it's flank, it takes normal damage. When the rear is hit, it will take more damage than it usually does. And it doesnt die off in a simple blast. When it is critically damaged, it will either be it's engine damaged (reduced speed), Main Gun destroyed (It's cannon go silent), or gunner killed (machine gunner got killed off). When defeated, it usually blast off, leaving it's burned hull around, or before that happens, it goes out of control, run around and then dies, sometime crashing into friendlies, causing more damages.

How these all works are beyond me, but it is really impressive. I tell ya... this game's gonna make me go addicted once again!

M-Rated games... are they as bad as we think?

Status: Dumbfounded
BGM: The One - Backstreet Boys

In GTA IV, the players is able to steal cars, drives around, killing anyone, or challenge the police in various ways.

Gears of War 2 allow the players to slash people into half, whether it is from up to down, left to right or the total opposite, while players can also use corpses as meat shield.

These are downright violent, or morally incorrect to most of the baby boom generation.

As for the generation X, these are nothing: "c'mon, it's just a game".

Some politicians even slams these games, vowing to ban them and sue the game makers. [The truth is, it's just another way of publicity for them ( -_-|||) ]

Are they really bad for us?

Not exactly.

Various study found that although violent games will no doubt have some effects on the player, it is not likely to be the main cause of causing the gamer to be violent. Look from another side: the players of violent games might be having some degree of violence within them even before they play the games.

Until now, there are no sturdy proof showing that violent games will affect the players and cause them to be violent.

So don't be worry, let us sit down and enjoy playing GTA IV as much as we can. =D

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

What I feel about Comtech...

Status: Uber High
BGM: I got music playing in my brain!

It's almost the end of t3h semester now.

ComTech is such a lovely subject, and Mr. Avila is such a lovely lecturer.

The part I like about him is that he constantly suprises us with lots of gifts, mostly on the time that we never expect them.

And the presents make us cry in touch, so much that our tears run dry.

And it make us so happy until we can die of happiness.

It's such a enjoyable subject that I'll recommend my friends in the course to take up this subject.

And seriously saying, It's really nice! Come join the partay!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Handphone - the inseperable one

Status: Feeling a little bit sarcastic right now
BGM: Random ringtone music echo-ing within my brain

20-50 years ago us human are using normal phones to contact each other.

And thus whenever one leaves home, it might take forever to contact em or find em.

Sad right?

Now the problem is solved.

Handphones are all over the place, where handphone is a must-have tool for urban human.

The bane is, what will happen if one day this technology simply dissapeared like it's never been invented?

Could we human still survive normally without it?

And oh, the ironic part, I love em. - 30 years ago we have problem looking/contacting a person. Soon we would actually track them through their handphones. And 3G technology with the video call function virtually makes us unable to hide our track.

Soo much sacrifice for the sake of technology.

And I think, I'm one of the victim of technology too. Sighs.

OMG?

Status: Semi-spirited-away
BGM: Utter silence of the Computer Lab, save for the keyboard tapping sound echoing around.

Lately I enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of a friends in midnight.

It's just so interesting just to listen what they've got to say.

And the particular thing that interest me the most is that the way they mess around with their handphones.

They just love messing with handphones... to an extend they'll do all kinds of weird modification on their phone.

They talk like professional... yet when a question pops up, it pops the bubble.

"Eh i dunno how to do it lah, you know how ah?"

The LOLness, I tell you...

How human acts never cease to amaze me, even when they were dealing with technological stuffs.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

My source of Tech News

Status: Sleepy
BGM: My Prayer - BoA


In this age of web 2.0, information are lying all around the web waiting for someone to obtain them. However... we're not sure about what information we'll get sometimes... or is it reliable or not... as there's a lot of false or inccorect information out there. As for me, I'll get my tech info from some reliable website such as Cnet & Lowyat.net, and among these, Cnet will be my favorite.

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Oh crap why I talk with such a serious tone. @_@ Too much essay writings these days thanks to the stupid OSSLT... what a nuisance.

Ok back to the topic. Well as you can see, Cnet (http://www.cnet.com/) is one of the most famous website for anything related to technology... and that's not the end. It's subsites includes the famous Download.com (http://www.download.com/), GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/), GameFaqs (http://www.gamefaqs.com/), and many more.

Well, with so many topics and sites, I could hardly find myself running out of topic... the only problem with my blog is, well, lack of constant updates due to my laziness... =x

On a side note, my life-records blog is like... soo dead by now. Maybe it's time for me to give it some revival spark. Let's hope I would not procrasinate again...

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Who should I vote for?

Status: Normal
BGM: The Great Escape - Fall Out Boy


According to Kennysia.com, the party I should vote for in the upcoming Malaysia general election is...




According to the 100% accurate kennysia.com Who-To-Vote-This-Election Decision Generator™, I am voting for...




DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY!






Who Should You Vote For This Election?




Oh lol.

The questions are so funny. XD

Who would you vote for? Give it a try!

On a side note, comtech class is getting harder than I thought. I was too naive to believed than it is an easy subject. Guess I'm wrong...

Things are getting more and more complicated along the class progression, not to mention it's strenous, and thing is, all these are getting on my nerves... Argh.

Well, I think I'll just get on with it and do my best. Someone bless me pls!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Nyahahahahaha~ Progress Report!

Status: Slightly Delighted
BGM: Kazahane - Haruka Shimotsuki

I'm not sure what to update now. Hey, maybe I could talk about the progress of my ComTech class soo far.

Things are going quite well, except that... I miss out a few deadlines. Crap! Cant let this happen again, else I'm gonna lose myself. (And failing the subject...)

I guess I should put in more initiative in this subject. Meh. And workout my timetable planning... Well, the truth is, I always end up rushing everything at the last minutes. Bad habit. =A=

I need improvement... I guess.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Disastrous!

Status: Half-excited, half-worrying
BGM: I cant get over your best smile - Kotoko

Ever wonder how great is the 'affection' of MMORPG?

Well, to tell the truth, it is soo great.

Too great until I could hardly resist them.

I remember that I've sworn not to get addicted to any online games anymore, and yet everytime I does that, there will be an online game out there that is seducing me. Ah crap.

One of the fun part about the online game is not just only the gameplay. The gameplay does count, yes, but it's the atmosphere that makes u get addicted.

1 of the main reason i get addicted is not just because of the uber nice graphic the game has, it is the way I enjoy gaming with other gamers that count. Talk about enjoying chatting while getting your character level up. It's just fun. So fun that words could hardly describe the feeling.

Since this is still on the closed beta stage, I could still have some control over my time of gameplay.

Yet I wonder how far would I go for it once the full-time open beta goes online.

Let's just hope I wont go as far as forgotting all of my college assignments. Meh.

How Pakistan knocked Youtube offline... LOL!

Status: Overactive
BGM: Endless Story - Yuna Ito


Apparently, Youtube got knocked out from the global internet for like, 2 hours.

And how the hell did that happens?

Well, it seems like an order issued from the Pakistani Government to block the site has been given out to the main ISP provider in Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecom.

And by accident or design, the Pakistan Telecom gone as far as claiming the IP of Youtube, claiming themselves to be the legitimate destination for anyone who is trying to reach Youtube range of websites.

And that causes quite an uproar. According to one of the employee of PCCW, the Service Provider that provides internet link to Pakistan Telecom, they have recieved a flurry of phone calls from global ISPs wondering what is going wrong. A call from Youtube representative was also recieved. And the most suprising part is, even Pakistan Telecom contacted PCCW.

It's seems like even the culprit doesn't know what they have done. Wow. Seems like they have accidentally knocked Youtube offline... brilliant.

Youtube responded with countermeasures within minutes after the incident begans, as their traffic-tracking system picked up something abnormal. They initially try to reclaim their network by narrowing the broadcast from 1024 to 256. 11 minutes later, YouTube goes on a more specific additional broadcast, claiming just 64 address, which is more specific under the Border Gateway Protocol, overruling the Pakistani one.

And after 2 hours of the initial false broadcast, the mayhem is finally stopped.

The whole thing wouldn't be happen if A technology like Secure Border Gateway Protocol was used. Yet it was hardly used because the modems that usually recognize this are pretty costly.

Maybe this would act as a speed-up catalyst for the use of this technology.

Security in the world of Internet is like unexisting for the moment being. Anything could happen, so best watch ur back.

Software is dead; long live software

Status: Feeling Cool
BGM: Death of Titanic - Royal Britannia Orchestra

When is the last time u choose Google Docs and Spreadsheet over Microsoft Words and Excel?

Well, maybe we havent advance into that stage yet, but seriously, changes are going around us now.

Maybe in the next 10 or 20 years Microsoft Office will rarely be use by home user.

Web appliences might be taking over their position, as they might just be easier to use, and the good thing about it is u could access it in almost anywhere with a web connection.

Well, it's easier to say than to be done. Consider what will happen when there's no web connections or web connections went down like last time when the earthquake hit the sea and broken all the optic fiber cables, leaving us unable to connect to the outer world.

And before anyone says software is dead, let's have a look at Microsoft's Sales Figure. Microsoft Office 2007 is a big hit, increases in a rate of almost doubling it's predecessor, Microsoft Office 2003. Now what? Software is dead?

There's still a long way to go for software, at least for this century, probably. Software is dead? Maybe not yet.

Downfall of Conventional Media Storage

Status: Less motivated
BGM: Ash Like Snow - The Brilliant Green

There's a prediction to this: In the next 10 or 20 years, DVD, tapes and similiar media will be gone from the world.

Why?

Because there's gonna be a new way for us to get the latest movie and musics.

By downloading them to our computer! No more CD, DVD or Blu-Ray.

Maybe it'll be replace with microchips like SD card.

They are much more stable compare to Conventional Disc.

And it's painfull when a new media format is released, u're gonna change all ur favorite movies format by buying them again.

And that sucks.

Well now, that would happens no more. Maybe u'll juz to convert the video into new format or exchange ur old format ones with the new format ones.

Now that's an easier and less painful way. Just let's not talk about what will happens when a hard disk or a storage device get corrupted or go bonkers.

What will the world be in the future?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

My Blackboard Account... why it's dead?

Status: Soo Frustrated
BGM: Christmas in the Silent Forest - Ilaria Graziano

Hell, now I cant access my blackboard account. =A=

Guess it's time to pester mr. Steven Tan again. Sheeesh.

On a side note... Car interface these days are getting soo advance.

My news article and my project proposal plan are still not done yet.

And My IDC4U Project is gonna due next monday.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........... Somebody save me!

Where's My External-HDD?!

Status: Frustrated
BGM: Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru

External HDD are nice. Yet it could be disastrous when they got corrupted or you lose them, either way.

And it seems like the later one got me. ARGHHHHHH.

This is juz soo not my week. =A+;;;

Can anyone please help strangle me?

Or be kind enough to sent the HDD to the Comp Lab's Lost & Found Department...

T___T

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

HD-DVD is Dead. Love live Blu-Ray!

Status: Awkward?
BGM: Pieces of Dreams - Chemistry

Toshiba officially announced they are going to reducing the production and shipping of HD-DVD and generally, stop producing it. They realized that HD-DVD is losing the war and pull the plug fast before there's more losses coming their way.

One of the main reasons for their losses are that they did not had as much support as the Blu-Ray -- Blu-Ray is the standard optical drive for PS3 while Xbox 360 didnt do the same to HD-DVD -- which lead to the current outcome. Blu-Ray also had much support from some big name like Wal-mart, NetFlix and Best Buy, which is what HD-DVD and Toshiba lacks.

While Hollywood studios like Warner Brothers had already stated that it'll exclusively support Blu-Ray, others that initially support the HD-DVD format, like Universal, had been confirmed - changing their format from HD-DVD to Blu-Ray DVD.

Now we can all enjoy Transformers In Blu-Ray DVD Format. Cheers.

Yet another problem still persist... Blu-Ray is still soo freakin expensive. Blah. With the main rival going down, Blu-Ray prices is gonna drop later-than-sooner. Geez.

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft's "Marriage Proposal"!!!

Status: Normal
BGM: Konna ni Chikaku de - Crystal Kay

Yahoo says no. Microsoft in 'tears'.

Crushed are their dreams to access Yahoo's 50 million user database, where they will attempt in using it to compete with Google. I guess Microsoft wont stop until they monopolize everything they could.

Guess now the peoples in Google are happily partying now. lol. Before this they have planned to thwart Microsoft's plan for revenge. Microsoft had almost crushed Google's wish in acquiring the online ad company, DoubleClick, in a 1.2 billion deal. Now Google can take a short rest... but not for long.

Why?

Because it seems like Microsoft would not give up that easily (considering their past records), and although Yahoo had initially rejected the deal, they might still consider the merge... if Microsoft can offer more cash. Seems like there's still possibility for the born of "Micro-Hoo" ( Micro-soft + Ya-Hoo ) ...

Well, given the situation how advanced our computer era is now, there's a saying that goes like, "If Microsoft were to start over all again today, they dare not put up the price tags on their software like what they does now. This is the age of freeware."

Guess that only time would tell. Whatever the outcome is, it seems like the consumer are the one that will take on the results. So let us wish that one day, freeware will force Microsoft to lower their software prices.