Thursday, November 22, 2007

Welcome to a new Mac

Hi all, just to menton, right now I'm being using a Mac computer all this while in my office, but just for temporarily, maybe. It don't take as much as anyone who wish to have a good job, but it just come beyond my thought. It's cool, stylish, bright, brilliant, and economic to the space given. I'm doubt if somebody ever come to me and say, "I would rather request the new asset from the HR" just to get the same look and feel with the other colleagues, just because this computer is a contra. I like the design, even the basic things that lies behind is almost the same, you could feel how far have you been when using this computer, just because the design you're looking into.There's less people who would be talking about the comparison between the system preferences and the design then just using it after attracted by its only cool appearence, that is Mac G4 I'm using right now!

Ok. Right now, this is not my current hot topics to be discussed. I have a few, yet another 'cool' topic to be shared. The top ones is of course, about life. Life is danger, and yet can be danger. Like the computer, I will left this Mac by keeping its power on without doing anything until the next day, but who cares if it is being hacked? Or being stolen or being missused in terms of all of its important datas and programs? Anyone can do that, but, the culprit could always be a human. Human did the job, mantains the machines, and, keep the machines that dones their jobs well always. Until nowadays, machines still can't be blamed. Even if they behave wrongly, disobey their master's rules, doing mistakes, deletes files, restart itself regularly or whatever misbehaves, we can't bang on them! Machines are always right! Yes, like the customers, machines are still acts like the user. I mean that it only uses our brain, our energy and our tasks and than convert it to what known as 'output' and provide it to the other parties. This is still called a user instead of provider or developer or scientist. It can only do works, but it still uses our brain, our energy and resources in order to accomplish their works. It can't do it by thier own. It can't just sit there and ask " Do you want a coffee, sir?" And perhaps someone will reply, "Yes, with sugar and milk!" and what you think it could do? That's the case, until now, computers are still dummy, alias we have seen too many hi-tech tools and system that can take a part in human's life. To me, the dummy thing includes wait there, become idle until someone puts in the 'inputs' and click 'next' or 'go' to get the outputs. It can't even does it themselves or suggest what could be the human's inputs.

These spice me up with my only idea of the HAL computer, but this ones get the higher and bigger design and efforts to do so in this while. However, I will and I really really want to do it, I can't wait. It's very important, see yourself what have and should I done in my office, troubleshooting, formatting, installing, asking and setting what the computers have to do. Unless, computers won't become like computers. It's still a dummy until this century. I hope this episode will end as soon as I've ever build the very first step of the HAL, where, everyone can keep doing as what every humankind must do, not like talking to the horse, cow or goats. We are in the modern age, not the ancient age, so why must every human behaves like talking to this kind of animals?

I've seen a lot of scence where this scenario belongs. Everytime computers making a mistake (not computers, it's human actually), we have to tell them the truth, but can't promise to them to never make it again, and again, and again, and again, we have to do the same thing. How many times you've seen people have to entering the computer's IP Address each time the different users using it? Not to mention when the computers is under attack or after being reformatted. It can't even remember the silly things, including its own name, i.e the IP adress, unless we've changed it. If only it can talk, it can said aloud the details, but it can't and that's the truth. Even we seldom heard that computers are among the highly sophisticated technology existed nowadays in this earth, but the truth is, it has no spirit to get it's own 'live'. We have to provide our own 'spirit' to them to behave like what we want. Again, we can't suspect anything beyond the programmer that doesn't yet have been installed or programmed to the computers to done the great job. If this arises, we have to contact the dealers, vendors, programmers, or developers just to accomplish the user's dream. Then the developer's part is to design, programs and install the updates according to the user's need. Until the latest updates being installed, the users can't have anything they need to have to being done by their computers. Like the one I told you earlier, like having a cuppa coffee. Won't you ever wonder one day we could have it directly in front of our monitor? Without ordering to the vendors? Without purchasing it first? Without any delivery or dispatch to come and send it to you? I think it would.

This could be done by just a GOOD, HIGH CARRIER, CREATIVE, TOUGH, AND FULLY TRAINED MENTAL CLASS of people. If you think this person could be someone like me, I'll prove it. Otherwise, please leave me alone because I know what I'll do in order to fulfill my dreams, all the humankind and lives around the world. I know I'm doing the right thing because the evidence has comes through my eyes. Now that's all my dreams, since my new Mac opens my mind to be more further in my steps. Happy working!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Boring!!!

Well, it seems that there's nothing much to do this night, since I stepped into this office this evening, at 6.00pm, until now, I have nothing else to do seems my works is just only repair and restoring one of a user's personal pc available. The pc is too old compared to what you should have this days, maybe about a decade ago and running a Windows ME version. What I have to do is to restoring it back to normal, as its OS has gone haywired with the missing rundll32 file and some corruption in its kernel part. Whilst taking a long time to backup and reformat, I have to wait and spend nothing, while writing this blog to fill my times, as times goes by. Its hard to tell you how I feel here, but as a work and a job, there's nothing more to say. I wonder what its like to be if I am a real Software Engineer at the other place, whether it is the same as here - waiting until nowhere or got some stuff to fill at each time. I've had an experience at the practical place last time, where there are a critical times where everybody needs to works hard to find the solutions to complete the system development under the very tight deadline. The work is quite tough, and yet challenging. It uses almost all resources available in my brain, like if it was a CPU, it will read 100% one time. To me, this is fun. I like working in this way. Yes, it is a stress to somebody, but, I will found this to be a part of my joy of the work and I will manage this to be fun, but with some limits. I miss this kind of work very much. Not like when there is a work, then only we did it and no management aspect of work style. Then, the rest of time we spend nothing and doing our own activities. When the tempo of my body drops down, and then when there are a critical work arrives, there could be a shock to me and I need to build up my energy again. This is difficult because it could take some times.

If this can be done very fast, then its ok. I will be able to speed up myself between the works and idle. Alias, my body sometimes seems to pick up slower so far, but I don't know why. What makes me woke lately from my current waitings were wondering me those days. However, I'll try to manage to stabilize it now because this is the place of the aggressive ones, not the slow motions. Otherwise, I need to find the suitable job, but, it seems most jobs in this fields seems like having the energatic kind of peoples. Theres no place to accept the people who likes the steam era style of works. Yes IT world is very fast. Not only the machine, but also humans. Humans needs to acts and reacts very fast, along with the machines to do well in IT business. If one part slows apart, then we would fail. That's how fast we are in the field of IT.

What happens to my body nowadays, is, sometimes I could only focus at one item per time, while this field requires me to do multitasking, just like computer does, as humans need to do, where switching from one task to another is possible. I don't know why did my brain stops working when I switched from one task to another, and how to prevent them. This makes me feel boring, because when I'm in a state of idle, the energy level becomes very low until I become unconsious. This makes me feel rather sleepy, then the boring begans. I won't take a lot of coffee instead, but doing exercise is better.

One other things, multitasking is important. Working in the IT field requires this skill to manage the tasks. For those or my friends who are in the same field, how did they get into it I don't know but to me this is the only way to cope with this situation. Stay alert, be alert. For those who works in this area like me, maybe this is the useful tips from me and if you feel that you have the other ways, please let me know, ok!

I'm getting tired when I failed to manage my energy level. I don't know how and what is the 'fuel' in order to get stabilized my energy - some person watch the movies at their desktop, some listening to the music. As for me, I don't find my suitable way to do it. Maybe I have the different ways. I need to search it in order to run smoothly like the fastest processor available. Not to hard to have it, or I will 'hang'! This is the exercise to get me in the situation and the mood of works not to add more energy. The energy is there but how we managed it to get optimized is what I thinking about.

So I'm still researching the best way to stay in touch of my tightly bounded environment where I couldn't miss even a bit. What could be yours? If you have any idea, please post a comment!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

New Man's Voice

Thanks for your viewings of this new post, actually I'm working on more blogs to be coming after this, though I'm running out of time. This post will tell you about the so known branch of my interests, i.e a parts of my hobbies, but this times its close to philosophies or thoughts.

Just now, just before I begin to write this post, I've read the very beautiful blogs, one about my favorite local author, Faisal Tehrani, whom I've read one of his popular book, entitled 'Bila Tuhan Berbicara'. I'm keep on getting on his books, for his works is the best of his imagination and thoughts, not to compare with the leading international one.

To be mention with this measures, honestly speaking, I'm looking for the sake of all mankind who seek for the global fairness. Unlike some part, like what claimed by the blog I read before, where in this world there are such an entity who likes to hides the 'lights' given by the God to them from the public. This statements has been thought by the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , in his speech read by me in that blog. What he claims is that the scientist and professors did not done the works like what the God has told them to do. They do the job, but instead manipulating it by hiding some useful elements, such as the spiritual and holy parts, which links to the mankind. This could destroy the peace, and distort the nature of the world itself.

I do agree with his statement, well, if the scientist of the leading country has done the true job previously, why then we saw too much of disasters, war, terrorists, and also a human discriminations? There is a 'light' of someone voice that proved that the life we are carry on is containing a final path or destination to the default 'world', where everything starts here. This is our journey, and its only lasts temporarily. So, for this reason, I've found a people like this could be a good interpreter to the world who are in thirst of justice and truth. People of Iran, say did in need of true justice upon them, because they live in a complete disaster in the past of 30 years. Just imagine, how a country of the people who don't commit everything on a war, but instead becomes a victim of terrorism. This could be a bad story but not for this part of a country of a world. They are all humans like we do, they eat, they live, they work and play like we do, so what in the world did the power world got to do with it? War? Kill? Conquer? Perhaps they seek an extra freedom by doing this, so that they could overtake or hide all of the innocent worlds' gifts or advantages, like what have they found so far.

As to the new man's voice, this will be like him and the author of my new favorite books of a thoughts, philosophy and also a humanity and nature. This person talks much of the God teachings, mankind and the relationships between them, and therefore it binds together and becomes a very beautiful works so far. I like almost all of his books, where the books discuss a lot of topics, more than just the religous or the science as well. I covers through almost every aspects of human beings, so that I think this person might have a huge perspective of human journey as well. He might know more about our journey on earth, like what to be called a 'Khalifah', the man who sent by God to earth to manage earth and to pray to Him, and describes it harmonically in his books. I like it. The ideas behind his works can be my examples of my daily routines, as I wouldn't confuse of any bad things exists on this world.


To be true, I am a software engineer, but, in the same time, I would like to practice it in the very true ways according to the God, my only religous and teachings, thus a philosophies lies beyond it. In this holy month of Islam, may I take the time to 'repair' myself and upgrading my track upon the right path to the God. This is related to how I manage my life, how well I accomplish my tasks, my future and my destiny. Together, I would like to share this bless with all of the participating people, especially muslims around the world. This may include the unity of all the residents of the innocent people, by approaching the healthy way of unity and life.


May God bless you always, happy Ramadhan and Eid-Ul-Fitr coming soon.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

My Hobbies and works

Hi all, after a 'long time no see' event happens in this blog, I'm here to continue what I'm saying about myself in the only blog about me and my life. Ok, afterall, this is my dream: to enable me to accomplish my life through my hobbies and my work. What I mean by this statement is, everyday I'm facing with a same situation: how to accompany the world with my thoughts, and how to make this world of peoples trust in me. After I keep spinning my head thinking how to solve this matter, finally I've found one solution, to blend anything left behind my dreams, my hobbies and my works together.

What to be the truth is, when I woke up, I always had a dream of the future, where myself is totally 'blended' with the every aspects of the life, my interests, my hobbies and my imagination. This is like what the people said when the dreams comes true, but to me, its more than just the dream itself. It also includes my interests, my hobbies and the likes. This is because my interests have many aspects of my life and my behaviour, like, for example, I take one of it, say, cooking. When I do cooking, I get the meals I want, that suits to my health, cuisines and also the eating style. I am the one who only know, after a long period of discoveries upon myself, that whatever contains in my interest or hobbies is related to myself, including my own spirit of nature, and also health. What I want and don't like is always contain in my hobbies, like when I played some musics on an instrument such as the organ, I do exercise my fingers, hands, arms and also my legs, where it moves my circulation of bloods, my moods, where it suits to the songs that I played, and my soul, relaxed, while attempting to believe that I can played such a beautiful songs. Thats all the relationships between my hobbies and health.

While for my works, I've also found some similar relationships, but this times it seldom flaws, like a plane wants to land in a crosswind condition. If I could handle it easily, than the chance to survive in my life is 100%. To make it easy, it involve a many steps, so as I've took a lot in a past times. This is to be related to my current abilities and disabilities(strength and weaknesses) about my jobs. To overcome this, I have to train a lot instead of practicing a true nature of the works of an engineer, where it could be having a shield from various swords, like the anger, complaints, and unsatisfaction of my jobs. This is the most energy needed part to me, where I do need to build a such 'shield'. This shield may last longer, if it is build by the proper material, and it too could crash soon if it is being built by the less quality ingredients. The ingredients include the strength and weaknesses of myself, where I found it all contains in my hobbies, interests and dreams so far.

What happens in my dreams is it keep telling me the clue to many things, like what I need to do to solve my certain problem of situations, like dealing with a person or any troubleshooting of any part of the system or even totally dealing with the machines. To deal with a human, you need to talk, prove, and relate it to the many parts of the world, to make them understand. As for the system or machines, you need to demonstrate and interact as personally as you could to it, hence the idea of a HAL 9000 supercomputer, which I will be building it soon. One example of my dreams is I keep saw my table fan at my own bedroom(in my dream it appears to be my old bedroom where now it has become my younger brother's room), where it always make its own decision, whether to speed up, slow down, or stops at all, depending on how many times and electricity has been consumed since I'm in that room for a day.(I think this might remind me of staying a long time in a bedroom). And when I fix it, check for the errors, or logs(if it have:)), or re-detach and re-attach it back, it still behave the same. So, after annoyed by that thing, I couldn't bang it, because it is also 'alive', by giving a warning to make the other electrical equipment taking over its behavior if it died soon. After a while, I keep saw the light, keep switched off one by one, after its usage period is over. This also remind me of the electricity usages, as I always left too many lights on in my house. This scenario also keep giving me an idea on how to solve the problems, by relating to all my hobbies and interests.

As I said just now, I could link all the electrical equipment to one central computer, where I could control the times, or its behavior to operates in many conditions, in order to saves the energy. I have a lot of ideas keep growing in my mind about the new inventions, solutions and many alternatives in order to keep myself and this world safe, green and healthy forever.

This is what I call the relationships between my dreams and my interests, beside my hobbies and my works as I told you just now. One other thing is that when I doing my hobbies, it exercise me and unwind me from any pressure I might experience during my works or daily jobs. As for this, I have a new planning, which I would like to join back my music classes that I have left for about a decade ago, where I used to attend the music class to learn the organ at the Technics Music School at Subang Jaya. Here I've learned until grade 4, but never took an exam. I stopped here because I have the other important things to catch up in my life at that time, my studies. At that time, by the year 1997, I was at the Inpens College taking a Pre-Science course held by the Mara Institute of Technology (now UITM), in order to take the engineering course if I could get the good grade. Due to a struggling habits at that time (Pre-UITM course often thaught in that way at many of the franchise available), I have to skip any of my side activities during that time and continue studying. Now is only the best time I thought for myself, of having such the activities in the past times. I can enjoy my hobbies, taking extra curriculum or sports, or having fun enjoying any extra jobs or freelancing works. This could also build my strengths, as I've saw in my dreams earlier.

Ok, this is all for me to talk about my dreams and hobbies, and I would create another blog on my dreams soon, so do keep updated with my daily posts! Adios, big buddy!

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Refreshing my world

Ok, just to say that I'm happy today, not because of the rewards or any thankfulness, but this is what I'm going to say.

This week I am feeling lucky because I have found the point where I can match whatever my type is to this world. Before I'm saying this, I just heard someone says that this world is mean, but I bet this statement, where I couldn't found any person with disabilities could not make a money from this world, take Ray Charles for example, why he can remember all his Piano notes whereas he is a blind man?

Haha.. just to mention his name, coz I love enjoying his song nowadays.. in my only laptop!

Ok, what I mean by lucky is I could arrange all my strength and weaknesses, my likes and dislikes, my interests, and my hates.

Just for under certain circumstances, there are something which I called this typical things(you could check this out at my new blog at friendster, addressed at http://fariz_n_friends.blogs.friendster.com/my_friends_and_me/), in order to refers them to the identical part of the items on their own philosophies. This peoples think they could create their own 'world' and rules it, so why don't just do it?

Last night I've just watched some part of the movie entitled 'XXX:......' on Astro, where there were parts where some known gangsters are coming to rules the world in White House, crashing here and there, including taking over a tanker! If this kind of human beings are taking over the government, I'm sure you know what would the world look likes a few years from now. Hope I wouldn't live in a 'Planet Of Apes'.

Lastly, what I want to tell you is, I do love my job, but I also love the harmonic values among the workers, managers, and all staffs.

What I mean is the value of trustness. Yes. This is the most valuable things that I miss a lot.. If and only if I could get this ones, oh God, please help me!!!

All I found in Utusan Melayu (M) Berhad is the lack of this value. All the editors and authors didn't show much of this value a year past. If some problem occurs, all of them seems to blaming each other without pointing to his/herself first. So, when will this problem being solved? While the searching begins, most of a forecasting results seems to be on their own shoulder, e.g. for what purpose in the office they are allowed to play games? When we raised this issues, we get scolded, so this issues remains closed until now.

So it seems like not the rules controls humans, but humans controls the rules. So, what is the implication according to my anology? Haha.. you name it!!

Ok. I've taken too long on writing this post, see ya next post. Don't forget to view my other blogs coming soon(I'm very sorry coz lately I'm in a very 'busy' state, dealing with those situations..so I am in a little chance to write it)

Adios...

Monday, July 30, 2007

A Neat Start

Ok, finally I've got started, at least a few lines of codes in vbscript in Win Vista on my new laptop. The code, from my perspective of view, believed to be the best starter, as the moment I wrote this code was my peak ideas time. I feel non other ways or tools which I can spend except writing it through my mostly used editor, the vbscript editor (vbsedit). The code, although its simplicity, contains the single line of database object, an input line, processing line and execution line. There is it, very simple.

But the expanding is worth for it, as the implementation goes, the expanding and extending methods could easily get through, while my brains works for more individual solution and references to other things like a formula, data banks, knowledge base, repository, and any AI units.

As the time goes by, I've received an offer from one special inventor known in Malaysia to invite me to join his new project on networking protocol (a very high-definition network based project), which, in turn, said that I have such a potential in programming with C to get involved in his project. I am quite surprised, and I do take the challenge, we dealt the agreement and I started the project, even there are a pre-requisite for me before I could start safely.

Right now I am actively searching for a Linux gurus for guiding me into the new different 'territory' in order to work with this project.

For my office works, there is not much programming stuff available. All my jobs is supporting and maintaining beside doing some stuff like scripting and troubleshooting.

With the new gadgets, I hope they will accompany my life as well.

Friday, March 30, 2007

2007: A HAL ODYSSEY

"Good afternoon gentlemen, I am a HAL 9000."

Looks familiar? Haha... back in 1968 where computers are all in the third generation(citation needed), movie director, Stanley Kubrick was very optimistic to what will happen to computers today. LOL! Look at your screen, what are you guys touching? Is it a large switch, large dials or a huge monitors displaying a DOS-based text?

All these could be a strange things for those who born after 1968(me too), but for those who are a sci-fi lover, just like me, will turn back past a few year or even more, (with the help of nowadays borned HAL), just to see what people at these ages think about us today. Just to remember, this could bring the opposite too, what about us facing a few decades ahead? Are we thinking the same thing? Perhaps no. This is because, our brain is no more optimistic, where we are tend to solve problems according to the requirements, not the dreams. Anyway this is just my perception. Maybe there will be a more accurate answers out there.

Okay, back to the point. According to my first line, back a few months ago, the adventure begins. This happens when I was shocked by a Big Black Monolith, Ooopss.... Sorry... Its the Big Black Hp 9600 Monitor, where in there there were some people posted the very best shot of movie entitled "2001: A Space Odyssey", where I starred, shocked just like the Extra Terrestrial Wave. I watched it, and watched it, again and again. I couldn't understand what is the ending means, however I decided to buy it from Amazon.com soon.

What has inspired me so much from this movie is its only famous character, the Hal 9000 series. What surprised me much is, my problem(from the last post) which I can relate it here so far seems to tell me that I can build this machine.

WHAT?? Yes, Its true, this idea only comes from my mind and my dreams. In my dreams there is a very intelligent computer(my modified old pc in my dream) - begans instructing me this and that, talking, laughing, suggesting and even making its own decision - whether to shutdown or not. And what really miracled me is this dreams keep repeating and repeating after all the times. (Look at my incoming post of new blogs: Deja Vu). After I sensed it, this may be the result of my creation soon. I've quite gathered the ideas rapidly, previously and later on(of course) about the basic design and architecture of the machine. Well, in my bathroom, in my bedroom, even in my office or LRT, some time these ideas comes like a lightning. It wondered me very fast and suddenly I get the ideas from it quite quickly, by relating my previous knowledge and studies, understanding and interest in the computing history and technologies. I keep browse the websites, looking for the greatest supercomputers, and I've found ones - the talking IBM 740/7000 series. I noticed that this computer also inspired Arthur C. Clarke in making the wonderful scene in the movie.

Afterall, my ideas, my thaughts, my planning and programs has comes to my fingertips. From the moment I keying in this post, till I start the very first step of phase of the basic design or architecture, I can't turn away round. I will keep focus and concentrating until I succeed. The huge things should start on the small thing. Like some person said on the midpress websites, there should be a simple equation that triggers out the larger and larger equations, and soon the equations becomes complexed, just like the theories of a Big Bang. I believe this, and I've found myself following it.

I think maybe sometime I will create this most powerful computer evolution like the one Bill Gates created before, like the Dos before the Windows, the Windows before the Internet, the Internet before the...? And this could be my destiny. I hope one day computer may talk to you, just like your pet. It's very heuristic. It can act like a human. It has the expression. It has the soul. It has everything BUT...

..the error. Haha... the 9000 series is the error-less kind known. So visit my developer blog on the post entitled "HAL project 2007: The life and beyond" Happy viewing and enjoy the "What-will-come-next" fantasies in your dream, perhaps in realities!

Alias, keep your pod bay door always open, before something bad happens to you!