AhYap’s Blog

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.

There are a few types sohai in DotA that are very annoying. They don’t understand DotA is a multiplayer game.

1. He joinned a 10 players public game and after he was pawned 2 times, he left the game. NOOB SOHAI.

2. After the game started, he type in -random to pick a random hero. I thought he is a pro. End up that he didn’t like the hero and he immediately left the game. ACT-LIKE-A-PRO SOHAI.

3. A teammate dropped off from the game leaving his teammates some items, he took all the items himself without sharing with his teammates. Worst, he sold all of them for 50% gold instead of giving to teammates who need them. SELFISH SOHAI.

4. For the whole game, he solo from the start to the end. He farms creeps or kills hero all by himself. Or course, he dies alone too. Why don’t he just play with the computer AI if he like to solo so much? SOLO SOHAI.

5. He scold people NOOB while he himself is the real NOOB. While everyone is already level 15, he is still level 9. He killed 0 but get killed 18. SUPER NOOB SOHAI.

6. Almost all DotA games is at least 1 hour long. But after 30min in the game, he told all the players he had to leave because his cyber cafe package was going to time-out! %^*$#^% HEAD-NEED-TO-BE-CHOPPED-OFF SOHAI.

7. “Sorry Guys I have to leave because my dad ask me to go supper”, “I have to leave because my mum is very mad now”, “I have to leave to take dinner” … LAME EXCUSE SOHAI.

8. He ‘tunjuk perasaan’ after his teammates say something he don’t like. He want to revenge his teammates. So he intentionly and repeatly get himself killed by the enemies and say, “I don’t care, I’ll feed them!”. ACT-LIKE-A-KID SOHAI.

9. He saw 4 enemy heroes partying and he thought he can kill 4 of them. So he run to them and before he manage to hit once, he was already a dead duck. BRAINLESS SOHAI.

10. When all of us are busy farming peacefully without any battles, suddenly he get killed. This doesn’t make any sense. Who killed him? After we read the sub title, he was killed by neutral creeps!!! DAI SOHAI!

Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker ATI for $5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.Any such deal would shake up the processor industry, which is witnessing a battle over market share between AMD and larger rival Intel.

ATI is one of two major graphics chips makers, along with rival Nvidia, and is a big supplier of chipsets - the cluster of secondary chips and interfaces that surround a computer’s processor - to both AMD and Intel. Unless talks break down, a deal could be announced as early as Monday, the source said.

ATI declined to comment, and an AMD spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.Shares of ATI rallied on Friday on renewed speculation that a deal was close at hand.Rumors that AMD could purchase the Canadian graphics chip maker surfaced in late May when an analyst suggested the move could make AMD more competitive with Intel. The speculation sent ATI shares surging about 10 percent.

Some analysts have questioned the rationale for an AMD-ATI merger, and others were surprised that the speculation received no attention from analysts during AMD’s earnings conference call on Thursday.

AhYap’s Comment:
No wonder AMD stock fall like shit for the last few weeks. I traded 4 call options last month. 3 made money and 1 lose money. Guess which is the one that lose money!!! It’s not that AMD or ATI is a bad company. But the ‘pattern’ was that if COMPANY A acquire COMPANY B, COMPANY A stock price will fall while COMPANY B stock price will rise. For example, when Bumiputera Commerce want to acquire Southern Bank, Bumiputera Commerce stock price will fall wall Southern Bank stock price will rise. That’s how people response to stock market. It’s all human phychology and nothing related to the ‘fundamental’ aspect.

Just noticed from streamyx site here. The package cost RM188 which is RM100 more expensive than the 1mbps package! But it comes with modem.

Very disappointed with the price. I hope in the future there will be a cheaper ‘modem not included’ package.

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Updated: July 12, 2006
Zidane says insults to mother, sister caused head butt (Associated Press)

PARIS — French soccer star Zinedine Zidane apologized for head-butting an Italian opponent during the World Cup final, saying Wednesday that he was provoked by insults about his mother and sister.

“I apologize, to all the children” who watched the match Sunday, Zidane said in his first, highly awaited comments about the act of violence that marked the end of his career.

Zidane did not specify exactly what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said that enraged him, but that it was insulting to his sister and mother.

“I would rather have taken a punch in the jaw than have heard that,” Zidane said, stressing that Materazzi’s language was “very harsh.”

Zidane and Materazzi exchanged words after Italy broke up a French attack in extra-time. Seconds later, Zidane lowered his head and rammed Materazzi in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

Zidane was sent off, reducing France to 10 men. Italy went on to win in a penalty shootout.

The France captain said he felt no regret for his act, “because that would mean [Materazzi] was right to say all that.”

At nearly the same moment Zidane was appearing on French TV, excerpts from an interview that Materazzi gave to Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport were posted on the newspaper’s Web site.

“I didn’t say anything to him about racism, religion or politics,” Materazzi told the Gazzetta. “I didn’t talk about his mother either. I lost my mother when I was 15 and even now I still get emotional talking about her. Naturally, I didn’t know his [mother] was in the hospital, I give her my best wishes.”

“He’s always been my hero, I admire him a lot.”

For days, sports fans around the world have been riveted by the question: What could Materazzi have said to set Zidane off? Media from Brazil to Britain hired lip readers to try to figure it out, then came up with different answers.

Materazzi has acknowledged he insulted Zidane, without giving specifics.

Materazzi spoke to Zidane in Italian. Zidane, who played several years for Juventus in Turin, speaks Italian.

Despite the head butt, Zidane was awarded the Golden Ball award for best player at the World Cup — though FIFA president Sepp Blatter has suggested Zidane could be stripped of the honor.

“The winner of the award is not decided by FIFA, but by an international commission of journalists,” Blatter said in Italian newspaper La Repubblica. “That said, FIFA’s executive committee has the right, and the duty, to intervene when faced with behavior contrary to the ethics of the sport.”

In France, many have already pardoned Zidane, even without his explanation. A poll published Tuesday in Le Parisien newspaper showed that 61 percent of the 802 people questioned forgave Zidane.

ahYap, “Fxxx You Materazzi!”.