WMware on Vista is a disaster

I have really no idea how resource eating Microsoft Vista is until I tried to run VMware on Vista, I was like OMG!!!!!

When I installed the VMware, it request that it needs IIS, so i go ahead with it (surprising that installing vmware on windows OS need IIS whereas it is needless on linux). During the installation it hang like at least 3 times, and given that my laptop is the Asus F8Series with 4GB ram, it still hangs.

That is not all. when i create the virtual machine, it took around 15 minutes. The worse is when I click on the “start the virtual machine” hyperlink, my whole computer stop working for 20 minutes. I cant do a single thing, not even a Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I was contemplating restarting the whole thing when the laptop runs again.

Whereas in ubuntu it is a different story. I installed vmware and run windows enterprise 2003 server. It goes smoothly! I can even open a firefox browsers with an additional of 3 tabs. So if someone ask me why the adoption of Vista OS is so slow, perhaps microsoft should look at themselves.

In the 21st century, having good speed is an important key in enterprise execution. The resource guggling Vista OS is just simply crazy to think about, on top of that use an equally resource consuming VMware. No PC configuration so far can allow both to run smoothly.

I will work on different kinds of configuration and will let the audience know what are the possibilities a VMware can offer. In the meantime stay tune to this blog

Use PDFLib or FPDF?

I was happened to work on a software recently, and the php_pdflib in php 5.0 irritates me to the bone. the method pdf_open_image keeps unable to open the image and gives a 0 consistently. I was very fustrated, until I have stumbled upon FPDF. It is a lot simpler and the codes are easier to the eye.

FPDF

I recommend anyone who wants to create simple PDF files to use this. Mark my words, it will make ur life saner.

A fruitful night in Bukit Chandu

I have a hell of a time waking up on 27th July, as i need to wake up by 3:30am. I, haresh and chris need to reach there by 5am in the morning. When we reach there, no one was around at all, and we waited for a while for the main organsing committee to come. Then we are briefed what to do

Initially it was thought that the participants for the N.E.X.T challenge will only drop by at 6:30am. What caught us by surprise is that the first group came at 6:15am. Therefore we go about doing our work, and at the same time having fun watching participants drawing the required symbols on the partner’s arm. Some of them are really good pieces of art and some are really awful. On top of that, we saw a squrriel running on top of a tree!

The whole event ended at 9:15am. Although the three of us are all very tired, we do have fun and make new friends. Cu Xian is one of them,  a JC guy who has a very mature outlook of the world. We thank the NYJC students who make such an event memorable for us, and the YEC will definately look forward for another round of N.E.X.T challenge for next year.