change without chaos, growth without limits

revo · at 1:26 AM

Science vs. Faith flowchart

revo · at 3:26 PM

Joke: Comparing Men and Women at the ATM

Instructions for the guys:

1. Pull up to ATM
2. Insert Card
3. Enter PIN
4. Take cash, card and receipt
5. Drive away

Instructions for the Gals:

1. Pull up to ATM
2. Back up and pull forward to get closer
3. Shut off engine
4. Put keys in purse
5. Get out of car because you're too far from machine
6. Hunt for card in purse
7. Insert card
8. Hunt in purse for grocery receipt with PIN written on it
9. Enter PIN
10. Study instructions
11. Hit "CANCEL"
12. Re-enter correct PIN
13. Check balance
14. Look for envelope
15. Look in purse for pen
16. Make out deposit slip
17. Endorse checks
18. Make deposit
19. Study instructions
20. Make cash withdrawal
21. Get in car
22. Check makeup
23. Look for keys
24. Start car
25. Check makeup
26. Start pulling away
27. Stop
28. Back up to machine
29. Get out of car
30. Take card and receipt
31. Get back in car
32. Put card in wallet
33. Put receipt in checkbook
34. Enter deposits and withdrawals in checkbook
35. Clear area in purse for wallet and checkbook
36. Check makeup
37. Put car in reverse
38. Put car in drive
39. Drive away from machine
40. Drive 3 miles
41. Release parking brake

revo · at 2:16 PM

1. Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

2. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don’t insist on interactive input.

3. Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don’t hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.

4. Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you’ve finished using them.

- Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition.

revo · at 10:27 PM

MALAYSIAN POETRY BY A MALAYSIAN

This is a story about Malaysian society
Where different races supposedly live in harmony
In 2003, came along a Prime Minister by the name of Abdullah Badawi
Who led his party to a resounding election victory.

This is a PM whose promises are many
All his slogans are equally catchy
As a result, many people are taken in completely
By his humble and Mr. Clean personality.

First among his chief promises is to combat corruption immediately
That has everyone applauding loudly
But until today, all the major cases are still one big mystery
Lack of evidence or is he fooling us secretly?

Not long after, he introduced Islam Hadhari
Some complained there is only one version of Islam from the Almighty
Anyway, what is it all about, no one knows exactly
Except for some broad points outlined in theory.

Then, he said we need to cut our budget deficit quickly
Which started the dismantling of Tun M's legacy
This caused us to hear about the crooked bridge flip flop story
With all the accusations, what is fiction and what is reality?

By his own admission, his son is extremely wealthy
Because he controls a listed company by the name of Scomi
Was once implicated in the shipment of banned components to a Middle Eastern country
But his son claimed ignorance and that's the end of the story.

He also has a son-in-law by the name of Khairy
Not elected but is UMNO Youth's deputy
Got entangled in the merged Avenue-ECM Libra entity
Which happened right under the nose of the PM-led Finance Ministry.

Then, we came across a foreign newspaper reporting factually
Of his adventure to see a yacht at a faraway place somewhere in Turkey
This is not true, he said insistently
But I don't see the newspaper issuing any apology.

Next, came the jet on the itinerary
Bought or leased, he is lucky that Malaysians are not financially savvy
The jet is also for the Agong's use, he said publicly
I wonder whether the Agong requested for one specifically?

Later, we read of his holidays in an Australian city
Staying in a mansion owned by someone named as Patrick Badawi
We shouldn't be so critical if he was only away temporarily
Except for the fact that there was a major flood in our own territory.

Then, we get the case of Proton disposing off a subsidiary
Not for a large amount but for a mere penny
Many think behind the deal something's very fishy
Tun M's pet project is certainly going awry.

Overall, crime rates are going up rapidly
Confidence in our police is at its lowest historically
But the IGP got his tenure extended easily
He must be thinking everything's hunky-dory.

He has also been busy launching economic regions lately
Trying to attract foreign investments into the country
Sadly, some are saying that the northern development is benefiting a crony
While others argue the southern one will end up as LKY's colony.

You see, I can go on and on about this indefinitely
Because it is easy and I do not need to create any of them individually
They are all plucked from the web where the stories about him is aplenty
From promoting judges unfairly to always being sleepy.

Actually, I am just an ordinary Malaysian who cares about her country
And I have to state that I am not against him or his policy
For I do not care who is the Perdana Menteri
As long as the person is capable and trustworthy.

resource = unknown .. still seeking the owner of this poem

revo · at 3:40 PM

Premssioin to use, cpoy, mdoify, drusbiitte, and slel this stafowre and its docneimuatton for any prsopue is hrbeey ganrted wuihott fee, prveodid taht the avobe cprgyioht noicte appaer in all coipes and that both taht cohgrypit noitce and tihs premssioin noitce aeppar in suppriotng
dcoumetioantn. No rpeersneatiotns are made about the siuatbliity of tihs srofawte for any puorpse. It is provedid "as is" wiuotht exerpss or ilmpied waanrrty.

revo · at 10:32 PM

http://warpedvisions.org/images/website-suck-flowchart.png

credit to warpedvisions.org

revo · at 10:45 PM

today i learnt new word in Malay

usually , we said it as roundabout or bulatan in Malay .

roundabout - pusing keliling.

i felt ashamed with myself , because i'm not very good in Malay language :(

revo · at 2:36 PM

I got this quote from ittutor.net

it means alot to me

Learn new skills,

Unlearn old ones.

Adapt to the changes of your organization,join a different department,climb the ladder etc.

Avoid,avoid Outsourcing companies,avoid IT in a specific industry which are highly expose to global market trends etc.

revo · at 5:21 PM

today, i'm able to configure my Mac for 3G connection using my phone.

it's easy as 1 2 3 .

but the bandwidth is medium . Maybe my location is far from it's broadcast.

revo · at 9:57 AM

i found this script from The Internet , on how to check installed patch in Solaris .

It is using perl script to check it

the output is here . I'm using my Sun SPARC machine to test it out.

source = http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/installation.html

# ./pca.pl
Download xref-file to /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref:
done
Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Apr/06/07
Host: sun (SunOS 5.9/Generic_118558-34/sparc/sun4u)
List: missing

Patch IR CR RSB Age Synopsis
------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------
111722 04 < 05 --- 241 SunOS 5.9: Math Library (libm) patch
112874 34 < 37 RS- 108 SunOS 5.9: libc patch
112908 27 < 29 RS- 115 SunOS 5.9: krb5, gss patch
112928 03 < 04 --- 83 SunOS 5.9: in.ndpd patch
112954 14 < 15 R-- 152 SunOS 5.9: uata Driver Patch
112960 39 < 45 RS- 61 SunOS 5.9: ldap library Patch
112963 25 < 30 RS- 90 SunOS 5.9: linker Patch
112964 15 < 16 R-- 151 SunOS 5.9: ksh patch
112965 05 < 06 R-- 157 SunOS 5.9: eri driver patch
113032 03 < 05 --- 118 SunOS 5.9: init patch
113077 18 < 21 R-- 67 SunOS 5.9: su driver patch
113225 04 < 08 R-- 52 SunOS 5.9: Timezone commands and zoneinfo database update Patch
113277 47 < 50 R-- 133 SunOS 5.9: st, sd and ssd drivers patch
113278 15 < 16 RS- 83 SunOS 5.9: NFS Daemon, rpcmod Patch
113318 26 < 27 R-- 145 SunOS 5.9: NFS patch
113319 24 < 27 RS- 91 SunOS 5.9: libnsl, nispasswdd patch
113320 06 < 07 --- 129 SunOS 5.9: se driver patch
113329 17 < 18 RS- 147 SunOS 5.9: lp Patch
113335 03 < 04 R-- 147 SunOS 5.9: devinfo Patch
113451 11 < 12 RS- 60 SunOS 5.9: IKE patch
113459 04 < 05 --- 148 SunOS 5.9: udp patch
113494 01 < 02 --- 20 SunOS 5.9: iostat Patch
113535 -- < 03 --- 973 Netra ct 1.0: S9 Dual Console TTYmux support
113579 09 < 12 RS- 48 SunOS 5.9: ypserv/ypxfrd patch
113584 -- < 17 --- 285 SunOS 5.9: Bug fixes for EMEA locales
113713 21 < 23 RS- 129 SunOS 5.9: pkg utilities Patch
113981 04 < 05 --- 47 SunOS 5.9: devfsadm Patch
114006 01 < 02 --- 145 SunOS 5.9: tftp Patch
114133 02 < 03 RS- 154 SunOS 5.9: mail Patch
114224 05 < 06 --- 147 SunOS 5.9: csh patch
114235 01 < 02 --- 117 SunOS 5.9: libsendfile.so.1 Patch
114332 23 < 25 RS- 132 SunOS 5.9: c2audit & *libbsm.so.1 Patch
114344 21 < 25 -S- 4 SunOS 5.9: arp, dlcosmk, ip, and ipgpc Patch
114564 09 < 12 RS- 11 SunOS 5.9: /usr/sbin/in.ftpd Patch
114713 02 < 03 RS- 95 SunOS 5.9: newtask & libproject.so.1 patch
114716 02 < 03 --- 117 SunOS 5.9: rcp patch
115030 03 < 04 --- 33 SunOS 5.9: Multiterabyte UFS mount patch
115544 02 < 03 --- 105 SunOS 5.9: nss_compat patch
115545 01 < 03 --- 102 SunOS 5.9: nss_files patch
115553 23 < 25 -S- 4 SunOS 5.9: USB Drivers and Framework Patch
116016 03 < 04 --- 140 SunOS 5.9: /usr/sbin/logadm patch
116488 03 < 06 --- 83 SunOS 5.9: Lights Out Management (lom) patch
116561 14 < 15 R-- 151 SunOS 5.9: Volume System H/W Series platmod patch
116669 20 < 23 R-- 83 SunOS 5.9: md Patch
117067 04 < 05 R-- 105 SunOS 5.9: awk nawk oawk Patch
117155 10 < 14 --- 77 SunOS 5.9: pcipsy Patch
117560 03 < 06 --- 10 SunOS 5.9: Microtasking libraries (libmtsk) patch
118305 08 < 09 RS- 145 SunOS 5.9: tcp Patch
118335 05 < 06 R-- 96 SunOS 5.9: sockfs patch
118558 34 < 39 RS- 88 SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch
119937 02 < 04 --- 87 SunOS 5.9: unable to jumpstart client using DHCP boot
120241 03 < 04 --- 148 SunOS 5.9: bge patch
121319 01 < 02 --- 119 SunOS 5.9: devfsadmd_mod.so Patch
122300 -- < 04 RS- 5 SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch
123366 -- < 01 --- 143 SunOS 5.9: ldapaddent patch
123368 -- < 01 RS- 87 SunOS 5.9: tip patch
123370 -- < 01 --- 95 SunOS 5.9: libsecdb.so.1 patch
123372 -- < 02 RS- 62 SunOS 5.9: rm patch
123374 -- < 01 --- 18 SunOS 5.9: usr/bin/cut Patch
123378 -- < 01 --- 10 SunOS 5.9: pseudo patch
123761 03 < 04 --- 147 SunOS 5.9: PCIE/Fire drivers Patch
123763 02 < 03 --- 132 SunOS 5.9: Sun Fire V215/V245 platform Patch
123764 01 < 02 --- 132 SunOS 5.9: Sun Fire V445 platform Patch
123766 01 < 02 --- 154 SunOS 5.9: pcf8584/pmugpio/ebus patch
124498 -- < 01 --- 157 SunOS 5.9: tail patch

revo · at 4:22 PM

hahaha ..for heart-breaker

revo · at 4:20 PM

YESTERDAY

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone
hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

moral = backup, backup and backup ! !

revo · at 5:17 PM

gunzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep

revo · at 7:36 PM

revo · at 7:35 AM

NBC's Spiderman 3 HD special that premiered for 24 hours ONLY after the new heroes episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxFidevwqL4

revo · at 3:10 PM

Google has done a deal to offer students in Kenya and Rwanda access to Google Apps - its online selection of products including Gmail.

Lecturers and students at Rwanda's National University, the Kigali Institute for Education, and Kigali Institute for Science and Technology will all get access to Google's online applications - Google Docs, calendar and spreadsheets. In Kenya some 50,000 students and staff at the University of Nairobi get a Gmail account.

Google is trying to sell its online apps package to small businesses for an annual per seat charge of $50. The company offers an education version of the package free to schools and colleges.

Google Apps does not support local languages like Swahili or Kinyarwanda.

The deals are Google's first in sub-Saharan Africa although the company promised more to come in its blog entry. ®

source : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/20/google_kenya_rwanda/

revo · at 12:20 PM

Title says so . Need to observe what those people doing ..heheheh

revo · at 8:27 PM

Not many Malay people able to be listed into this club ;-)

source : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/10/nation/17106916&sec=nation

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

revo · at 4:08 PM

actually i found from this source

http://www.technudgelive.com/linux/?p=140

gives me more details about Linux distribution evolution

revo · at 3:02 PM

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