A slow restart

Starting yesterday I start doing serious programming again! But what a very slow restart. Most of my time was spent on looking at my previous coding. And trying to re-understand it!

Its have some bug which I'm trying to solving. Trouble-shooting works take a lot of time. I got a feeling that I can solve it. Let see In this 2, 3 days, can I do it or not!


If given a buggy program which one is your choice?
1. Trouble shoot the program.
2. Get brief idea of what the program intend to do, and write own program.

Make your choice and tell me why.

BTW, TQ sifu taufiq for helping me last night.

Start Programming Again!!

My busy schedule hindered me from serious coding for last three months! And now I'm pushing myself to sit in front of my HP Pavilion laptop.

I'm accompanied by:

1. A cup of coffee ( Thanks Abe Su for the 3 in 1 coffee)
2. TCL\TK books - Practical Programming in TCL\TK for my reference
3. Logbook - contains my thought and ideas
4. Used or "conteng-conteng" paper and a pen to layout my thought and ideas
5. My U-Mobile Broadband connection for internet connectivity

Keep looking forward!!

No Blog Post = Busy

Other part of me asking,

"when you re going to update your blog?"

my other self answered,

"I have no mood to write, I am busy with something else"

Another question,

"Why don't you put a poll?"

Simple.

"I have nothing to ask, let me finish my other works"

Then,

"you will always be busy"

The answer,

"Most likely , yes, but there will be time where I wont be busy. "

Another questions come.

"A not updated blog? Why must you write it at first place?"

A long answer.

"I don't need a reason for that. I can write when I want to write. If it is beneficial for me and others, why not? If it does not give any help to others, at least I'm helping myself"

Another bad thought

"Beneficial?? What benefit?? The content is not that superb. Did it ever help anyone?"

Answer.

"Believe me, at least we get the benefit, don't you agree - take an example, the feeling when we are writing the entries! A good feeling, Right?"

.........


Conclusion:
It is definite! Having a blog is good! Writing in a blog is good! Sharing Knowledge is good! Not updating Blog is not very good! The feeling when writing the entries?
A lot of "good" compared to "not very good". To my bad inner self :

GO AWAY!!!

p/s: dear visitors. This blogger is busy with a lot of things so the blog will be updated in a random , without specific time line. Depends a lot on blogger's mood. Sometimes it will be frequently updated, sometimes it will be left not updated for a long time.

So Much Thing to Write

It is about two (or more ) months I didn't wrote in this blog..

There are many interesting event occurred , there are few comments in my blog still left not responded. Never expected to be like this when i first started to blog.

In blogging, sometimes I'm too concerned on layout-ing the blog until I forgot to write. The time just pass by like that.

To name a few things that at first I plan to write during last two months, but it unfortunately left in my sketch books or maybe in my head!

1. Dr Bob Bishop Lecture : May 2008 in Uniten [link]
2. Extracting information from trace file
3. NCTT-MCP which successfully concluded last week [link]
4. Introducing Taufiq's blog [link]
5. The disadvantages of being a skeptics, and my logical approach/thinking/action in order to overcome some of the skepticism inside me.
6. Robogamez 2008 which will be held in September 2008 @ Uniten [link]
7. "Fizz Buzz" puzzle and how to write a program
   
8. RS485 and RS232 serial communication
9. Some cool blogger tools/gadget
   

Hahaha.. ! there are so much I planned to write but at last..... sigh..

BTW, taufiq.. your blog is is now in my blog roll..

HSDPA Modem

Wednesday, last week, I bought an HSDPA modem so that I can go mobile within Klang Valley, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. The brand is U-Mobile, for information about U-Mobile please visit http://www.u.com.my.
The modem is connected to the PC through USB port. The speed is up to 3.6Mbps depends on the coverage, however the dealer said that the company is now in the process of upgrading the network, the speed is expected to be 7.2Mbps. The company also plan to expand the network. Hopefully it will be implemented as soon as possible. So that my mobility is not just in Klang Valley.

From 2 -3 days experience, the speed is acceptable, however when I uses it home , most of the time the signal strength is quite low but enough to update the blog , email , google around, and play turn base chess at http://www.itsyourturn.com .

Any Malaysian using HSDPA modem ? which service provider?

Just have a look on Wikipedia about HSDPA :

"High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity. Current HSDPA deployments support down-link speeds of 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.4 Mbit/s. Further speed increases are planned for the near future. The networks are then to be upgraded to Evolved HSPA, which provides speeds of 42 Mbit/s downlink in its first release. "

Occupied Mind!

My last post to this blog is on 18th Feb , and now it is 8th April.

Quite a long break.

I also realized that there are also questions (comments/email) from the visitors regarding mannasim and NS2.
I did reply some of it and feel really sorry for not replying some of the message. I'm away from NS2 and mannasim so I'm not very sure to answer certain questions.

It is not that I'm busy. It is just my mind is occupied with a lot of things other than NS2 and Mannasim.

Hopefully i can get a hand on NS2 and mannasim after 2 weeks from today. The sooner the better.