Change is good

Past few weeks have been very tough for me, I have submitted my resignation letter at my current place without having found a new job, shifted to my sister’s apartment temporarily, had and still have a bad flue, assembled a desktop for myself, had an interview with Innity, job offer and discussions with Phang from Innity.

I still have lots of things to think over, but I strongly believe that the change is always good. A very good real life example which I experienced myself was that I sent my family back home for a holiday. It helped me to think over a lot of things, our relationships, made me more thankful that I have a wonderful wife and a brilliant son and in the meantime I had a daughter. It made me realize a lot of my mistakes which I will try not to repeat again. To be a better father and husband.

Thinking of my children(wow! how’s that?), I believe that each of them came with a blessings that would help their parents in this life. When Arsen, my son, was born I had another chance to come back to Malaysia once again to work, and with my daughter’s, Meleka, birth I am now quiting my current job and joining a new company.

June 23, 2007 | Filed Under Life is beautiful | 3 Comments 

Project Blackbox - Data Center on the go

Did you know Sun has come up with a Data Center on the go. Project Blackbox is a transportable shock-proof shipping container. It is capable of accommodating up to 250 Sun Fire T1000s or x64 servers, with up to 7 terabytes of memory and as many as 1.5 petabytes of disk or 2 petabytes of tape storage — just supply water and power, and the thing will run on its own.

The question is - Who’s gonna use it and where?

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June 22, 2007 | Filed Under Servers | 3 Comments 

Safari 3 beta out, available for Windows

Apple has changed the outlook of their website, now it’s no more the old-fashion apple GUI, now it has a glimpse of a new Mac OS X Leopard. With this update, Apple released beta version of their popular Safari browser. Among many other new features and add-ons, Safari is now available for Windows users also. This is a direct hit to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

I have tried Safari on Windows, I must say I’m quite impressed. Mani from Daily dose of Internet is not really satisfied with the Safari on Windows.Safari 3 Public Beta

I am a quite a fan of almost all Apple products, however I own nothing from Apple(will change in near future!). As a matter of fact I use Gentoo Linux on my laptop. So, I’m a Firefox user.

Mani blogged on how to convert Firefox to Safari in 3 steps, but then if you don’t like Safari why make Firefox Safari?

And by the way, did you watch or listen Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5?

June 12, 2007 | Filed Under internet | 6 Comments 

Great interview, even greater chat

Last Friday Phang from Innity called me for an interview. Interview was for Linux Engineer position, later in the interview Phang told me that some other work will also be added as well.

As usual, Friday I tend to sleep very late, blogging, researching and just surfing. Saturday morning is the toughest of all mornings, especially if there’s an interview to attend.

I wake up early(10am) get things ready, ate my breakfast(Roti telur) with my sister in the nearest mamak and headed to LRT. Innity office is located in Kelana Jaya, a little further in Kelana Jaya LRT station. I took a taxi to get there coz I didn’t know the neighbourhood. I arrived at Kelana Square, newly finished business center for a mere RM4. I found the right block and the right office.

I was the first person to get interviewed that day, I guess. We started talking from my resume and have gone to things like “I don’t like winter” and “Microsoft Office vs Google Docs&Spreadsheets” and many many other interesting things.

Phang, was indeed an outstanding person with some technical background and was into business development.  I would like to work with that kind of people. Young and passionate!

June 12, 2007 | Filed Under Life is beautiful, internet | 2 Comments 

Where to download OpenSolaris?

I don’t how about you but I have tried downloading OpenSolaris and I always failed in doing so. The reason is not the sucky streamyx we have in town, mostly it is because it so damn confusing just to get an installation media from them. Recently Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, blogged about this on his blog.

I hope now that Ian joined Sun, OpenSolaris will become more Linux-like and people can just download one iso image burn it and boot up from the CD. This will help to popularize OpenSolaris, and of course Solaris.

However, there are a few derivatives from OpenSolaris, that are available to download via iso images.

If you know any other, please leave in the comments!

June 12, 2007 | Filed Under Linux, Open Source | Leave a Comment 

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