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I make a post few weeks ago and it reads, “Perak will see 60 percent of its populated areas go wireless come September, said Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli.” Delayed from June. Now it is confirmed delay again to November. Why not just make it to Chinese New Year? Zzzzzzz

August 21, 2006 (News Source) Perak wants to bring WiFi Internet access to 80% of its towns as early as November, half a year earlier than planned. [ahYap: Last time say June, now say November still 'half a year earlier than plan?]

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali said he hoped to see this in place by the time Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi visited the state.

The Prime Minister has been invited to launch the RM24mil Perak Multimedia Super Corridor in Meru here along with the Wireless Perak initiative in November.

Tajol Rosli said the wireless service was part of the state’s efforts to increase information and communications technology knowledge among residents and spearhead economic growth.

“Once we have set up the Perak MSC near the Perak Hi-Tech Park, we can attract local and foreign investors,” he told reporters on Saturday after the Pasir Salak Umno division delegates meeting, some 55km from here.

“We also hope that the Multimedia Development Corporation can advise us so that the Perak MSC does not compete with the MSC in Cyberjaya and other states.”

On Friday, Abdullah had suggested that cybercities and MSCs develop their own specialisations rather than compete against each other.

Tajol Rosli added that the state had attracted more than 10 investors to set up operations at the 1,200ha Perak Hi-Tech Park in Klebang here.

One company, he said, was investing RM5bil to produce new-generation thin film transistor-liquid crystal display monitor screens.

On the state’s proposal to draw underground water, the mentri besar said they were studying whether it could be drawn, treated and distributed competitively to consumers in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.

Oh God, Dota Sucks! I am swicthing to smoking!

Viagra is always the winner of SPAM in my mailbox. Reason for such SPAM are obvious, they want to sell their viagra pills. They want to make money from you.

One exception is SPAM that contain viruses and trojans. Their purpose is not to sell you anything but to infect your computer with virus.

However I couldn’t understand why I am receiving so much SPAM on stocks, which usually give you hot tips on which stock to buy. They are not selling anything or trying to infect you with virus.

The only reason that make sense to me is that they are syndicates who try to make money via the recommended stock. They want to move the stock by creating news (using SPAM).

What I want to show you is the SPAM Stock Tracker. A guy named Joshua processed 4,272 SPAM stock emails and compiled an investment portfolio by following all the hot-tips. The result is amazing. Total investment would be $69,010.00 and you will lose $45,794,70. That’s 66.4% lost!

After being diu by soufu that my picture gallery sucks (messy and unorganized), I have switched my picture gallery script from Coppermine to Gallery 2 today. Both are the best free scripts available for handling picture gallery. There are a lot of debates on which one is better. After trying both, I would say Gallery 2 is better. Let’s see if soufu will diu me again with my new gallery.

I have uploaded a lot of pictures and one that guys can’t miss out is the pictures of Aya Hirayama.

I have also uploaded some fun vacation pictures of 4 sohai visiting Pangkor Island in 2003. See fat spiderman soufu look so sohai in the picture! muahahahahahahaha.

Cibai Donald’s site

CibaiLang.com

Have a look. expecially this 2 posts – cibai exposed & 干 = dry or fuck?

By the way, what is the correct spelling of Cibai? I prefer to use the short form CB. I played dota today and a guy’s nick name is ‘Jibai‘. Then my friend Feboy always spell it as CheeBye (Bye?!?!).

Come on man, when are we going to have a standard spelling?! What are your suggestions?

Found a lot of old files in my computer. One of them being a coursework for my Digital Signal Processing (DSP). This is the subject that I’ve dropped along with my 4 housemates which end up that 5 of us have to extend for another semester! Totaled 4 and a half years in UTM. But then life is really good in the last semester. We have 2 weekdays and 5 weekends as we only need to go to class for 2 days a week.

I remembered I got an A for this subject. But then, when I found this in one of my file, I don’t have a clue what are they!

a. FIR filter using Hamming Window
» b = fir1(180, [800]/4000, hamming(181));
» [h,f] = freqz(b, 1, 1000, 8000);
» subplot(211), plot(f, abs(h)), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘magnitude’);
» subplot(212), plot(f, unwrap(angle(h))), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘phase’);

FIR filter using Boxcar Window
» b = fir1(180, 800/4000, boxcar(181));
» [h,f] = freqz(b, 1, 1000, 8000);
» subplot(211), plot(f, abs(h)), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘magnitude’)
» subplot(212), plot(f, unwrap(angle(h))), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘phase’)

b. Butterworth Filter
» [b,a] = butter(24, 800/4000);
» [h,f] = freqz(b, a, 1000, 8000);
» subplot(211), plot(f, abs(h)), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘magnitude’)
» subplot(212), plot(f, unwrap(angle(h))), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘phase’)

c. Chebyshev Filter
» [b,a] = cheby1(10, 0.5, 800/4000);
» [h,f] = freqz(b, a, 1000, 8000);
» subplot(211), plot(f, abs(h)), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘magnitude’)
» subplot(212), plot(f, unwrap(angle(h))), grid, xlabel(‘frequency’), ylabel(‘phase’)

Graduated for almost 4 years now. And it is enough to erase almost everything that I have learned in my university. Time flies. I do miss my U time a lot. Hanging around mamak every night, driving to JB for shopping centers, movies and lots of food!, playing StarCraft with my housemate, clubbing in some cheaplak pub, walk around the dirty JB beach, sleep on the streetway of Orchart Road on Christmas, vacation at the Kukup fisherman village, keep checking the Bumiputra ATM to see if PTPTN has deposit money to us… life is so good when we are still students.

Surprise surprise, I found a book in my cupboard that I bought in 2006 (11 years ago). The title of the book is “The Internet Complete Reference” by Harley Hahn. Bought for RM62.40 from Popular Bookstore. The book was recommended by Computimes Magazine (not publishing anymore).

11 years! I have been using the internet for 11 years! And that was the 486 PC, 28.8 kbps modem and Windows 3.1 stone age hardware, software and connection! There are so many changes in just 1 decade. Do you know that there is an option to TURN OFF images loading so we can surf the net faster? People are now enjoying broadband connection with live video streaming, dual core super power processors, wireless connection, 3G ….

But what I am interested in pointing up today is that the internet changes a lot in the last decade, after referring to that book. At that time, internet was made by the following components:-

1. Mail
2. Web
3.Web Search Engine
4. Usenet
5. Gopher
6. Veronica and Jughead
7. Anonymous FTP
8. Archie
9. Mailing Lists
10. Telnet
11. Talk Facilities
12. MUDS
You might not even recognize some of the components because many of them is now obsolete. Let’s look at them today.

1. Mail - Email is still popular today, but one of the biggest changes is that web-based email arise (Hotmail) and dominate the original POP email.
2. Web - World Wide Web is the component that grow up to the strongest which is basically the INTERNET today!
3. Web Search Engine – At that time was Yahoo. Later Lycos, Altavista, etc. Today is Google.
4. Usenet - Still existing today but most has been replaced by Web-based discussion forums.
5. Gopher - Hah, you sure don’t know what is this. This is the ‘web’ that doesn’t have pictures but pure boring text. No wonder they are obsolete now.
6. Veronica and Jughead – This is the search engine for Gopher, dead now.
7. Anonymous FTP – Still exist today to host download, but most downloads are hosted directly from the Web. Even if a file is hosted by FTP, modern browsers support direct anonymous FTP download without the need of another software.
8. Archie - This is the search engine for files download. Now everyone is using Google to search. Dead.
9. Mailing Lists – Still quite popular, yahoo even have a free service for this. Members in the mailing list can send email to the whole group easily.
10. Telnet - Telnet is remote access to a computer. The new generation for telnet is called SSH (secured shell access) for better security. Now we also have remote desktop connection for Windows and a lot of other software for remote management.
11. Talk Facilities – This is the grandfather of Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Microsoft Live Messenger, Google Talk, etc. There are lots of talk facilities at that time but most are dead now except ICQ.
12. MUDS - This is some kind of text-based gaming where online gamers meet. Yep, playing games by just typing words and reading text. No graphics! This has been replaced by online RPG games today like World of Warcraft, Ragnarok, DotA!!!!, etc.
What else changes in the last 10 years?

1. Google is not even mentioned in the book!
2. Altavista, Lycos, Excite, Webcrawler are history.
3. Netscape is dead.
4. TM-NET came out and screw Jaring (for Malaysians only)
5. You actually need to type in commands to connect to the internet, and the commands are
ATZ (means reset modem)
ATDT1511 (means dial 1511)
Then you need to enter username and password.
I forgot the command to logout.
6. Banner advertising is dead. It actually created the Dot Com Bubble because the advertising create no value to the advertisers.
7. There is no such thing as blog or blogging at that time.
8. Mahathir retired. Hmmm…. but he doesn’t know ….

It is indeed a bit weird that I have actually bought a book to learn about the internet. But then, at least I know what is bcc! Do you know what is the use of the bcc field when you are sending an email? 9 out of 10 people have no idea what is that and yet it exist until today. Check it out baby.

July 13, 2006 21:01 PM (News Source)KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 (Bernama) — Perak will see 60 percent of its populated areas go wireless come September, said Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli.

He said as Ipoh’s very own Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is put in place and businesses come in, regional hubbing of telecommunication services are to begin out of Ipoh.

“We hope when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi launches the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in Ipoh this September, he would also be launching wireless Perak,” he told reporters after the signing of an agreement here Thursday between Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Perak and telecommunications company, The Red Snapper.

“Hopefully by then, about 60 percent of the most populated areas in Perak will be wireless,” he said.

When fully deployed, a wireless Perak would allow people to sit in parks and enjoy free internet, he said.

He said about RM24 million was spent to launch and ensure the success of the wireless internet access, collected from the state’s 24 constituencies.

Tajol said the state had a RM20 million budget for the information communication technology (ICT) sector for the year.

The Wireless Perak project is to be managed by Asia Gateway Communications (M) Sdn Bhd, a 40 percent-owned company by Perak’s State Economic Development Corporation (SEDC).

Asia Gateway is the owner of The Red Snapper, which will provide the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services over WiFi-Cellular handsets, and allow the smooth handover between WiFi and cellular.

“This is Perak MSC’s flagship venture,” said Tajol.

“Technology enables us to export dial-tone and turn the Perak MSC into a regional telecommunications hub. Hence, the direct investment (in Asia Gateway),” he said.

Launching a regional telecoms platform that allows a user anywhere in the world to make and accept VoIP calls from his WiFi-Cellular handset, the company demonstrates that there is no digital divide between Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur or any other city, Asia Gateway chief executive officer, Braham Singh said.

“Wireless Perak is required to bring subsidised internet access to students and weaker sections of Perak’s social fabric and still turn a profit,” he said.

Asia Gateway chief financial officer, Asad Sultan said The Red Snapper expected to see a revenue of between US$8 million and US$10 million initially and US$100 million in five to 10 years’ time.

AhYap: Today is 05 August 2006. The last time I heard was that wireless Ipoh will be launched in June. Now it is changed to September. Let’s see if anything will happen in September.