a bit of me

I've always asked by friends and family alike, "How do you know all about computer?"

And I always stunned. How the hell am I going to answer this? Its not like I know everything. looking back, my knowledge is somewhat shallow and not as deep as some might think I do.

The first computer I've touched is an old mac, at my dad's workplace. I think I was somewhere in primary school. I don't quite sure what the name of the game, but it is a DOS game. And at that time, what in my mind is not the computer but the game.

an old mac

I am a heavy gamer and I wear glasses because I of that (Although my hobby reading at midnight time also to blame). My first PC is a system with a superfast Celeron 366Mhz with staggering 64MB ram and a huge 3.2GB of HDD space! The only thing inside my HDD back then was game alone. And I've become pretty much computer geek because my PC keeps on crashing and its my job to keep that PC alive so my dad don't know how many time we (me and my bro) break it down.

sim city 2000 is one of my fav game that time

The amount of time i spend on computers is irrelevant to my knowledge. As far as i can remember, i always loved gadgets and stuff. Seeing someone repairs something (or breaks up things) excites me. Even a simple fix to our faucet by my dad, or motor repairs by my uncles, really makes my inside ticks.

Gadgets galore, but not a single cell of brain detected.

Overtime, my knowledge accumulated, and in weird ways too. Just because i do wears specs, people just lump me into 'Nerd' group and expecting me to be able to hack UN,NASA, and ISRAEL with my hands tied and blindfolded. It is not true, I can't hack a single thing. Even my own laptop, in an even of I had forgotten my password. (thank god I never forget them). Me being sort of adventurous, tried. One after another PCs, Laptops, Servers I've repaired, and recovered from Virus, worms, bad format, missing boot record, excidental 'format' etc...

So, is that answer your question?

Mac OSX on my BenQ S41

Inspired by some of the forumers success on installing OSX into his BenQ-S41, being the same model, I'm also into trying this. These are the links that I've followed. Throughout this process, Ive got another PC with all the guides I got below and an active Internet connection in case of something goes wrong.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.2/Portables#BenQ
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Guides/Kalyway_DualBoot_10.5.2
http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/07/03/updated-osx-10410-dual-boot-guide/
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=81036&st=500
http://www.andrewchapman.net/home-mainmenu-71/1-latest/73-hackintosh.html

Please be aware that I'm just a student who are trying to test the system. After the success of this, I'm also be sure to delete all traces of mac and will destroy my burned disk as well. Please don't ask me where i got the disk and where i downloaded it from. Its not ethical and I only done this to test it. after all, I am going to buy a mac in few years time. And also, i'm not in the mood of making any screenshots. Please don't ask. Read the guides instead.

This is the specification of my BenQ Joybook S41-409
- Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.8GHz Dual Core, 800MHz, FSB 2MB L2)
- 2 GB DDR2 667MHz
- 120GB SATA HDD
- 14.1" 1280x800 nVidia 8600GS 256MB GDDR3
- Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
- Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

In Vista, my score is 4.3
- proc: 4.9
- ram: 4.9
- graphics: 5.9
- gaming: 5.5
- HDD: 4.3

1. Formatting.
At fist, I've resized my jampacked HDD. After few DVD backup of my data, ( 9 pieces ) I've loaded my S41 with an Acronis Boot Disk. This is to resize my HDD partition and make some room for OSX installation. Notice that I do this without ever need to destroy any of my existing data.

the structure of my HDD: 3 partitions.
c: [45GB-NTFS] vista partition
d: [15GB-FAT32] mac partition --set it to active partition.
e: [56.78GB-NTFS] Data partition. i kept all my data into this partition in case my vista does become corrupt, which is not possible unless i do something really stupid.

2. Burning and making boot disk.
I think this should be the first step. But heck, I'm using the "Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd.iso" and after all the sweat and tears of downloading 3.67GB I've burned it using Alcohol 120%. You can use any burning software instead.

Next, using Acronis Disk Director, I've made a Boot disk using a CD. This is to make the step no 1 above a success. Again don't ask me how I do the first step. Do your google search.

3. Booting up and selecting.
I've changed my boot sequence to DVD and after inserting the Mac disk, I've been welcomed with a beautiful wallpaper. Before that, I've make sure to boot with F8 and -v command.

By selecting English as my language, I've open up the disk utilities. I've prepared the Mac partition to use the 'Mac OS Extended Journaled' as my partition. Exit and I'm done with the disk utilities.




Now time for some customisation of the installation. The + is what I've added, and the - is what I've removed. Note that I do this on my own risk.


-Additional Fonts
-Language Translations
+Kernel_vanilla_92 (i've also unchecked the default)
+NVinject-256


After that click ok and the disk check will make sure that the disk is ok and consistent. After that the installer begins installation. Time left: 24 minutes. Pretty good. Vista takes a whole lot more time.



4. Repairing and booting.

After the installation is completed, I've restarted my Laptop. Something is not right, it won't boot up. The error saids HFS+ Error.
I've re-inserted my Acronis Disk. this is to make my vista active again. This step is to do a dual-booting and with hoping that it will cure this, I make my vista partition active again. Then, off I go rebooting. It works. Inside vista, I've copied chain0. and then with few command in cmd.

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X” (just leave the {current} there and don’t change it)
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set [ID] PATH \chain0 (replace [ID] with you identifier: http://janschneiders.googlepages.com/idosx.gif)

for the sake of my ass, i just do what the above said, and began booting up. it works and I've been welcomed by a really beautiful welcome screen. With lots of welcome in different language. Then, I hav to do some sort of customizing.

5. Testing and Playing around.
This step is not shown and I think most people don't need me to shown this. A lot of apps loads fast, I don't even need to wait. The animation is really fluid, pressing F9 key brings up expose, and blah blah blah...... you get the point. Even now I'm still playing around with my Mac Joybook. Lol.

Leave me a comment if this little diary of mine is used or if you want to add this to somewhere.

3rd day

Now, its the 3rd day of my Industrial Training. All the briefing is done, all the introduction done, task assignment is done, most of the things are in place. The timeline are set and planned.

From now onwards I'm in the task of making a prototype of what should I do throughout the IT. Its almost complete and need a little more touch here and there.

and now, of all things I hope I can survive the training here. Wish me luck.

Salam.

p/s - sorry about the short post but I'm pretty busy actually, and its been a long time since i got internet and I only manage to post this short entry.

A week before exam.

Its less than a week till my final exam. Now is the time for me to really put up all the things I've been learning this whole semester. Pretty hectic but still in relaxation state. But today I wont be talking in details about the exam, but this is my daily rant, as its suppose to be.

I dunno for how many days I've been without eating any proper meal. I've seems to lost count of the days where I ate any decent meal at all. Up until now, I've lived my days eating only 3-minutes noodles. To make things even weirder, I only drink 3-in-1 Milo with that. Imagine like counter balance. Mom said Instant noodle not good for health, and Drink Milo to keep healthy. lol, now its like I've been eating nothing at all....

My Instant noodle stock is completely eaten up right now, and my Milo 3-in-1 only have few sticks left. My little tupperware of hope is now practically empty, except only few pieces of biscuits and some cekedis.... I wonder how many days I will be able to go on like this, I felt my face have becoming more and more thinner right now. I've definitely have gone by losing few kilos for the past few days....

If you are wondering, now I'm eating canned tuna, without any bread. And of course with my 3-in-1 Milo..... Desperate of food, I've tried to look inside my Travel bag, I've manage to find another can of tuna. hmm.... seems like I can survive another day here.......

Student Life, cont.

Sekarang nie aku dah rasa seperti mana asal, back to campus. Walaupon cuma sehari dua sahaja aku balik ke rumah, dan pergi menunaikan tanggungjawab. Dua hari yang cukup singkat untuk berehat dan menenangkan otak sebelum pergi balik semula memeningkan otak.

Hari ini aku sudah kembali ke UNITEN. Hari ini cukup bersemangat untuk aku ke kelas, malangnye kelas sudah dibatalkan. Mungkin pensyarah sakit, atau dia mempunyai hal penting. Kelas kedua bermula 2 jam selepas itu, dengan dimulakan dengan pemberian semula kertas Mid-Sem. Keputusan yang agak teruk. Mungkin ini padahnya pelajar IT mengambil subjek Engineering. Nampaknya kelebihan pelajar Engineering lebih kepada sesi Lab, walhal kami 6 orang tidak mengambil Lab.

Surat2 khabar hari ini menunjukkan PakLah tidak langsung rasa tertekan, malah tidak langsung merasakan bersalah menjatuhkan BN yg sekian lama dibina oleh pemimpin lepas. 5 negeri Jatuh di tangan pembangkang, walaupun ini pertanda baik, tetapi saya agak rasa sedikit tidak selesa dengan DAP. Mungkin kerana saya masih lagi mempunyai jati diri Melayu yang cukup kuat.

As for now, my student life here continues.....

hari pembuangan undi

8 mac nanti, negaraku tercinta akan menanti kehadiran satu hari yang boleh mengubah masa hadapannya. Sudah menjadi kelaziman, sesiapa yg boleh dan layak mengundi, akan pergi menunaikan tanggungjawabnya. Aku juga tidak ketinggalan untuk pergi mengundi nanti.

Undi adalah rahsia, tapi tidak bagiku, aku berani menjawab dengan tegas, aku akan mengundi untuk mengubah negara. Aku akan mengundi PAS.