Posted on Thursday, 30th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Everyone knows TV programme called Smack Down (and it’s variants under World Wrestling Entertainment). Later these days in my country, Indonesia, some people claim that his/her chilidren got injured because of being “smacked down” by his friends! So, they ask the local TV to stop the programme.

So, what the hell is going on here?
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Posted on Wednesday, 29th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

HSDPA stands for High Speed Downlink Packet Access. I knew and tested this technology over one year ago. Actually it was more concentrated for data than voice, so the physic should be in the form of PCMCIA, not the mobile phone. Some notebook offer built-in HSDPA wireless system as addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. But ugh yeah, who cares? Some people need faster connection, with PCMCIA or mobile phone? They won’t matter. And now, Samsung is ready with its HSDPA phone.

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Posted on Tuesday, 28th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Well, I’m not a big fan of 007 series, but because I didnt have any better movie last week, so the latest James Bond: Casino Royale was chosen.

Here’s my critics about the movie and please remember this is very personal from myself. Go ahead and watch yourself. You may have different comments.

First, this “Bond” is more similiar to “Jacky Chan” than the “Bond himself”. At some of the beginning scene, he jumps from one building to others chasing the enemy.

Second, this “Bond” is very cold blooded, emotional, arrogant, but careless. He kills the enemy easily and don’t mind burning the whole house just for chasing the mice

Third, not much technology shown as we usually find on previous “Bond” movie. Even in this movie, Bond doesn’t use anything special with his car.

Four, very predicted story line. I guess you already know the rest of story about an hour before the movie ends.

The good thing is the movie is quite long (2 hours and 15 minutes if I’m not mistaken). Yeah at least you can sit and relax on the cinema longer than other movie.

Recommended? If you expect another “Bond” from the ordinary, yes this may change your perception about “Bond” and perhaps it’s a nice movie to be watched. But from my personal point of view, nothing special from this movie.

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Posted on Thursday, 23rd November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

I try to make my page more flexible with Google AdSense. So, I move the bottom banner to the middle of my post. But well, my last programming activity was about 4 years ago. I open the script page inside my WordPress. It’s based on PHP. I think PHP has similiar syntax with C/C++ (I have play with C/C++ for several years - that was 4-8 years ago).

I did trial and error with my previous C/C++ knowledge off course. Well, not much different, I guess

We still have same conditional equation operator with “==”.
Still the same “one addition” with “++” sign.
Just need a little adaptation for the conditional scope.

I add a conditional counter to add the banner after 4th and 7th post. As easy as A-B-C.

Not too difficult. Within less than half hour, I could re-design the main page and single post page to fit the Google AdSense on better position

What a nice morning programming day!

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Posted on Wednesday, 22nd November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Few days ago, I got sample of the new Creative sound card, the Xmod. Actually, it’s based on X-Fi technology: 24-bit Crystalizer and CMSS-3D. It has USB interface, plug-n-play for PC and Mac.

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Posted on Monday, 20th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Today is 20th, and I just remember that I have one bill due today. I come early this morning, expect to get faster Internet connection at my office. Then, I set my browser to www.klikbca.com. I do Internet Banking almost for all of my financial purpose, except to withdraw money off course

Then what… I can’t enter the site (at first, I can enter the site but stucked at transaction menu, then I always halted after entering my login). I guess too many user trying to login so the system stucked or something.

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Posted on Saturday, 18th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

I’ve just seen the launch of NVIDIA’s latest product, the 8800 card. Um well, this card is outrageously fast and simply to say the first to implement DirectX 10 (though currently no apps support this platform).

So, by the end of this year, we have two winners here. Intel kicks AMD with its Conroe, and NVIDIA kicks ATI with its 8800. It’s very interesting to see AMD and ATI “secret weapon” to answer Intel and NVIDIA’s challenge. Their current platforms are no match for Intel and NVIDIA. It looks like AMD and ATI are busy to reconstruct their internals (but I do hope they already set up strategy to bring back the competition). I expect more competition here…

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Posted on Wednesday, 15th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Last week, started on 6th November 2006, I had a 8 days trip to 4 cities in Indonesia. What a tiring trip! We spend day one to trip to Yogyakarta (after a slight delay on the flight). Arrived at night, we got dinner and prepared few things on the room. Then had a nice rest on Mercure Hotel.

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Posted on Thursday, 9th November 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Today is the birthday of Bodhisatva Kwan Im (Quan Yin) Pousat. And here’s the picture of my altar. Taken last week on 5th November (15th on Chinese Moon Lunar). She is well known as Goddess of Mercy. She vowed to remain on earthly realms (and not enter the heaven, though she is already capable) until all living things have reach their own enlightment and together enter the heaven.

Sabbe Satta Bhavantu Sukhitatta.

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