No free lunch dude!

Last sunday's nite, desktop prompted out a message while i watch the show. I was being informed that the next version of the AVG (famous free antivirus) is no longer "FREE". There will not have any updates for the current AVG. Well, that is the business. When gain enough popularity, ppl sure greedy for $$ la. Basically i do not offense their policy. As a programmer, i understand the effort on developing such a powerful tool. Their programmers have to survive pun ma. No choice lo, just uninstall the AVG and search for replacement. Luckily there still have many powerful "free" antivirus out there for me to try up...at least temporary for me to replace the old one. I found another lighter version antivirus called Avira. Quite effective pun, just installed and able to catch 2 "potential" viruses for me :). For this moment, i will just let it to take rid of my system...till sometime they take the free lunch back.

The antivirus is available here. Have fun with it :)

Nano & Pico lead by how many zero huh?

I always confused by these fundamental units - Nano is 1o^-9 Pico is 10^-12 or vise versa? To be frank, i am not good in memorize numbers. It is kind of tough for me to swift between these two notation. Everybody talked on pico second since the evolution of high-speed devices, suddenly switch gear back to nano second. I felt like, omigosh, how many zero are there for nano???

Since worked on the i-diagram, my mind was filled with the numbers & formulas - formulas that never learn before, no where to reference, nobody know or perhaps only i dunno. Questions like Lease-squared method, reference deduct actual squared, jitter, linear interpolation, why interested on standard deviation but RMS, why rise/fall time fixed to 10/90 and not 20/80 but the compliance tool not even used these two values (this question need to close sooner =P) .

So far as i did programming, single/double never my concern. Not until i met i-diagram. Maybe some ppl will treat 2.083 ns as the signaling rate. Maybe 2.083333ns more accurate. Maybe 2.0833333ns, 2.08333333333, 2.0833333333333ns? The most precision for sw should be 1/480e6. I believe those US Bus validators/designers never care about the precision of the value. The concern is - whether PASSED or FAILED, providing the value is flow within the 5%/10% tolerance level, then is good enough. Maybe some of them only recognized the color for Pass fail. For jitter measurement, the precision of actual period will definately impact the result of the jitter.

I will continue to learn the formulas, memorizes those golden numbers (327 not happened in the latest 4D -_-") and in the mean time, study the graphics programming. Hopefully one day, i will be as smart as i-diagram ron (atleast my matlab skill not bad pun...haha).

The following numbers carried some meaning in my life. Not sure you ever meet before. "Digital life" - Hope you like it ;p

３　０６２４７００ ３　０６２４７７０ ５　３４２０２　１３９４２ ４３１４　０６２４ ３　０６２４７...

{Yummy @ KL} Restaurant Yap Yin, Serdang

This post suppost to be post last month. Due to some "technical issues" I only manage to post it by today. Family & I visited this Restaurant during last trip to KL. It was introduced by HoChak!. After watching the program, my "air liur" almost drop down. The restaurant is located at the downtown Serdang. The specialty of this restaurant is, they offered variety on "Jiu Pai Choi"(special meals). It was famous on its "Bak Ku Teh", "Pork Leg", "Claypot Cheese Crab"(lots of ppl ordered this, next time i should try it),"Stimmed Shang Yu Pin"(This is the dish that drive me to visit this restaurant:p ),"Serdang Lat Tong"(Spicy Sour with Ayam Kampung), and many more. Lets the pictures describe it :)

The restaurant was full of ppl during the dinner session. Luckily we manage to get a medium sized table, just good enough to fill up the dishes. As living in the Carnivor family, we ordered 5 meats + 1 vege dishes... :)
While waiting for the dishes to be served, we bought some curry puff to fill up our empty stoma.

This is my piggy favorite. Chicken feets and "usus babi" in "Bak Ku Teh" taste.

"Stimmed Shang Yu". The chief cooked the meat and the bone separately to avoid overcook or undercook for both parts. The fish is so fresh, cut into slices and you can really enjoy the milk taste of the fish.

The is the famous soup in Serdang - "Lat Tong" - cooked with rice wine and kampung chicken. Those who cannot eat spice, not a choice for you :p

"Tin Gai" in onion and ginger - this is the dish that you hardly found in Penang. Even my piggy oso ate it. She pretend this is the fish meat. Well, it does taste like fish meat though.

Next is the "Pai Gut Wong". Nothing special but taste great.

Nothing leave behind after the carnivors attack -_-"

Here is the location. Further details, please refer the HoChak! clip....hehe

Oopss... this is what ppl called multimedia.

Black and green interface has been companion us for few decades. From PC to handphone. Technology evolve from black & white SMS to current colorful MMS. From lousy WAP to 3G.
How come my blog still soundless like a fish? It should have something more attractive. Should bring the blog alive.

Yes, without delay any times, lets enjoy the first shows on my blog ;)

My IBM died

What a present surprise! This morning i was rush to office for a project meeting. When i settle down everything and ready to powerup my IBM, some strange behavior happened. The fan of the system kept running and the screen did not show anything. Well, initially i thought this was due to the slow performance of my IBM. But it wasn't. I reschedule the meeting and took him to clinic. So panic as no backup been done since last quarter's system rebuilt.

It just took 5 minutes for the IT guy to diagnose it and the system is declare died. They did the surgery to take out the brain and migrate to a refurbish system. Whole process took only 15 minutes. Fortunately, everything working fine and the speed of the new system even faster :p.

I need to backup the system now, else all my critical information and treasure photos will gone.

Today not a bad day for me though...hehe.

Ho Yu But Ho Kao (can meet but cannot hope)

Home sweet home. Since last two week, MIL was asking us to look for property in Penang. She engaged a friend in Simpang Ampat who want to sell off a corner lot. Well, as usual i just agreed to check out the house, no harm ma. Simpang Ampat was a small town about 30-40km from island. We follows the old road instead of PLUS. Along the way, you can see the palm estate are surrounded the area. I felt very sad when saw the houses area around there are so rural. Questions keep on pop out in my mind - "Am I really gonna end up my life here?", "Wow!So kampung, how to stay?", "So dirty", this and that. While we reach MIL's friend house, I totally fed up. The design of the house are out-dated, like 20-30 years house. The space is really big 20x20x60 ft". The corner lot cost rm128k, negotiable. I said nothing, just to wait for the time to pass.

Along the way back, I ask myself "do you want to be a rich guy in poor city, or a poor guy in rich city?" No answer in my mind yet. Felt a bit depressed, uncertain on my future. Should i stay in island? mainland? or perhaps KL?

My mood had a 360 switched when i saw a big sign-board at the corner of the road stated that "RM168k Double storey terrace". Without delay much, we visited the showroom. The project already 90% done and will sooner received the OC. Unfortunately the rm168k project is sold off, only leave few units for rm183k. The design of the house is very comfortable and is built based on Chinese's feng shui. Another selling point is car porch - it is shielded by the concrete roof top (can do BBQ and party on top...hehe). Overall, i would said this house only needs to do some minor renovation, like grill installation and can migrate in. The drawback of the house are - toilet too small (cannot yinyong hei shui :p), too many flies (probably can rare my fish...haha) and surrounded by rural area. Well, all these are fall under my tolerance level :p.

Actually buying a house is not like buying vegetable, so many thing need to consider - property value, location, market demand, capital appreciation, economy of the country, future development, child's future, fengshui, etc.

Good house is "ho yu but ho kao". Luckily i found one, hopefully the area would not flood....hehe