서마이의 생각들을 담는 곳입니다…
Jan
6
I have to say that I wasn’t anywhere near when iPhone came out in Australia. There were couple of reasons for it. I bought the iPhone when I moved to a new team in the company. Then ever since, I haven’t let iPhone out of my sight.
As examples..
* I do my emails using iPhone
* I do my calendaring using iPhone
* All my contacts are in iPhone
* I haven’t touched my D80 for months
* I have the Bible in iPhone
* I do blogging using iPhone
the list goes on…
As an extra thing last week I went on a camping trip with my family guess what I took with me? iPhone!!! For fishing in nsw me and my friends needed licenses how did we get it? Using iPhone!!!! This is insane.
Jan
5
Just realized that WordPress2 for iPhone is out. This is a test post.
The Picture is of my son and his friend that I took around christmas using iPhone.
Nov
11
For last few days the temperature has been around 35 degrees. The most unfortunate thing is that the house that we are living doesn’t have an air condition 
so for last few days my family had to go through rather sweaty experience. Yesterday was the peak of that and decided to run away to the Brighton beach and saw this wonderful sunset. This was just a view that blew all the heat and uncomfortableness away.
Oct
31
Red Hat is having an APAC tech summit in Singapore main focuses are on the virtualization technology, RHEV and Satellite (at least from infrastructure perspective). I am hoping to update as it goes.
Oct
22
Today, I bought a new HDD for my X200.
2.5″ Seagate 500G, it didn’t cost me much, about AUD117.50.
So while I was reinstalling Fedora 11 on my laptop, a colleague of mine asked a question,
“What is the CPU flag that tells the CPU is capable of 64bit?”
Hmm.. the question stumped me, so I started to google and found following site;
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Gentoo:/proc/cpuinfo
Also, To outline what those are;
The flags line tells us what extra instructions the processor has to offer. This is a listing of flags with a short explanation of each. There is an even shorter explanation in the file /usr/include/asm/cpufeature.h.
<edit: For F11, the header is in “kernel-devel”, and located in “/usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h”>
Intel flags (This table is currently identical with /usr/include/asm/cpufeature.h. Hopefully some hardware god will share his wisdom and expand this table. )
| Flag | Description | Common in processor types |
|---|---|---|
| fpu | Onboard (x87) Floating Point Unit | |
| vme | Virtual Mode Extension | |
| de | Debugging Extensions | |
| pse | Page Size Extensions | |
| tsc | Time Stamp Counter: support for RDTSC and WRTSC instructions | |
| msr | Model-Specific Registers | |
| pae | Physical Address Extensions: ability to access 64GB of memory; only 4GB can be accessed at a time though | |
| mce | Machine Check Architecture | |
| cx8 | CMPXCHG8 instruction | |
| apic | Onboard Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller | |
| sep | Sysenter/Sysexit Instructions; SYSENTER is used for jumps to kernel memory during system calls, and SYSEXIT is used for jumps back to the user code | |
| mtrr | Memory Type Range Registers | |
| pge | Page Global Enable | |
| mca | Machine Check Architecture | |
| cmov | CMOV instruction | |
| pat | Page Attribute Table | |
| pse36 | 36-bit Page Size Extensions: allows to map 4 MB pages into the first 64GB RAM, used with PSE. | |
| pn | Processor Serial-Number; only available on Pentium 3 | |
| clflush | CLFLUSH instruction | |
| dtes | Debug Trace Store | |
| acpi | ACPI via MSR | |
| mmx | MultiMedia Extension | |
| fxsr | FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions | |
| sse | Streaming SIMD Extensions. Single instruction multiple data. Lets you do a bunch of the same operation on different pieces of input in a single clock tick. | |
| sse2 | Streaming SIMD Extensions-2. More of the same. | |
| selfsnoop | CPU self snoop | |
| acc | Automatic Clock Control | |
| IA64 | IA-64 processor Itanium. | |
| ht | HyperThreading. Introduces an imaginary second processor that doesn’t do much but lets you run threads in the same process a bit quicker. | |
| nx | No Execute bit. Prevents arbitrary code running via buffer overflows. | |
| pni | Prescott New Instructions aka. SSE3 | |
| vmx | Intel Vanderpool hardware virtualization technology | |
| svm | AMD “Pacifica” hardware virtualization technology | |
| lm | “Long Mode,” which means the chip supports the AMD64 instruction set | |
| tm | “Thermal Monitor” Thermal throttling with IDLE instructions. Usually hardware controlled in response to CPU temperature. | |
| tm2 | “Thermal Monitor 2″ Decrease speed by reducing multipler and vcore. | |
| est | “Enhanced SpeedStep” |
Sep
3
Finally I now have my hands on this phenomenon called “iPhone”.
Since I moved to the consulting group in the company, I had to give up my old number as well as the phone which gave me an opportunity to get a new phone and number. Of course I couldn’t pass the opportunity and bought the iPhone. I had to wait for 3 weeks. But I think it was worth it. I think I got everything setup except 2 things. One I have way too much crap contacts that was generated by the thunderbird + zindus. I wish there is a easier way to edit/delete these so far the cloest thing that found is ipcsuite but requires jailbreaking which I want to leave as the last thing that I want to do. The other thing is getting tethering working with Fedora 11. There are few articles that says it can be done over the Bluetooth however I am having issues with pairing iPhone with my laptop. My guess is something in F11’s bluez package in x86_64 is different from x86. An example is that there was no /etc/sysconfig/bluetooth. If that is the case my dilema is whether to keep the box in x86 and lose the capability to build x86_64 KVM/XEN guest machine but being able to connect Internet at customer’s site without another dongle to carry.
CORRECTION: After rebooting the machine.. TETHERING over Bluetooth WORKS!!!!!
Aug
16
In my ipod, there are a lot of CCMs (Contemporary Christian Music), about 80% of 10Gs are all CCMs.
This is something that I enjoy so much, and something that not a lot of people around me would understand.
But, This is one thing that I really enjoy day in and day out.
Also, this is a reason why I keep it closest to me day in and day out.
Today, after attending a service at a Korean Church in Hong Kong, I was lucky enough to find the Quarry Bay.
Well, I was just walking and walking with no reason..
I set down at a bench and this music started to play..
This is by a CCM group called “Tent of David”
http://www.ydfc.com/da/menu1.php
One thing I have desired of the LORD
That will I seek
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD
All the days of my life
To behold the beauty of the LORD
And to inquire in His temple
Just let me live
In the Beauty of Your holiness
This one thing I have desired
To be changed into Your purity
From glory to glory, forever with You
주께 구했던 한 가지 소망 기도하니
나의 사는 날 동안 주의 집에 거하며
주 아름다움 앙망하며
그 전에서 사모케 하소서
오 나의 주
거룩한 주의 아름다움
오직 한 가지 내 소망
주님 정결하게 하소서
영광에서 영광으로
영원히
Aug
16
After doing my laundries, I started to read “Lonely Planet” book to figure out where I should go and to sight see.
I wanted to look, feel and experience Hong Kong and Chinese…
First thing that I wanted to see was traditional markets, to me these are the places where people’s life can be seen and felt maximum.
I wanted to take those life in my pictures…
The book recommended a place called “Sheung Wan”, oh well.. I have to say, I am bit disappointed.
So I walked and walked and walked without a map to Admiralty, which is about 2 MTR stations.
Only thing that I could see were luxury shops, well I can’t say I don’t like those, but…. not the ones that I wanted to see TODAY!!!!
Pictures that I took, I don’t like.. sigh..
Overall… I am not happy with today..
Except the fact that I walked for awhile, and sweated good amount which I am happy with 
Aug
15
I have arrived in Hong Kong a week ago.
This trip the second official job for myself at the new position.
Oh, now I am officially a “Consultant”.
This is a two and half weeks long engagement.
Living in a hotel room for a week, I am just getting used to the “aircon noise”…
So far, it is intriguing. The surrounding is in the mixture of KR and AUS.
Driving on the ‘right’ side of the road
But, people and culture has bit more Korean flavour than Australian.
Today is the first time that I am going to give myself a time to tour and take some pictures.
Aug
15
So it has been two weeks since I made the decision to move on from one service organization to another service organization.
The basic decision came down to what I want to do in next 5 years, and whether my family is willing to leave everything behind.
If this was about 4 years ago, without Jedi and Jonathan, I may have decided to move.
However, I realized that this is not about myself now.
Of course, this is my life, and I could do whatever I pleased.
However, there is important people in my life, I don’t want them to suffer any consequences based on my decisions.
Whether it is leaving behind what we have built in last year and half and so on.
More over, during last 9 years of being with the company, I moved about 5 times, except the initial move to BNE, everything else was pretty much paid by the company. I started also realized that I am not young as once I was. I felt that “Active Trial & Error & Learn” was the right motto for younger ages than where I stand right now. For me this is more towards a time where I now need to find my feet on a solid ground and be able to grow based on those feet, and be able to provide my family a nice big shadows for them to rest and dwell.
I have told few around me about this decision, but this had to be the hardest decision that I made for my 34 years of life.
And this is a decision that I am so excited to see succeed.
There were a lot of advices but so far the best one that I got was from my mentor, any decision that was made longer than 7 seconds ago is past, and shouldn’t dwell in it. That is right. I have been dwelling on so much of my past. I need to use this opportunity to change myself from “Past Dweller” to “Future Driven” and being able to put 110% efforts in the present.
THIS IS A NEW BEGINNING AND WILL BE SUCCESSFUL ONE!
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