At last, the MMU Vista Launch was over...

2 days of promoting, distributing, and performing, Microsoft Campus Launch was ended at 12 April 2007, 5pm. All our event on the second day was not as excited as the first day... This is the post that I continue from the first day of event.

On the second day, as usual, I skipped class again. We continue the Live Quiz event to giving out freebies from Microsoft. But what surprised me is, no one can answer the quiz. serious.

People are getting frustrated to get their DVDs and CD-keys, and started to complain to us, and what we explained was no point for them...

However, the Spot the Car event still going on, and lots of freebies were distributed to the lucky winner whose cars were spotted, congratulation!

*One thing I want to mention is, on the first day and second day, 1 bastard kept coming our booth, act like committee, walking around in our working area, and always asked me give him DVD and CD-key, even I told it that CD-Key will be distribute later. He thought he is some friend of high-comm, then he can do whatever he want, go back your house and fuck yourself. You know who you are...

MMU Microsoft Campus Launch was held successfully today!

Today, I was so excited. Woke up 7am in the morning, went to class, wearing the T-shirt sponsored by Microsoft. Yes, after months of arrangement and preparation, at last, Microsoft Campus Launch is here! In Multimedia University, MMU Melaka!

decoration on top of CLC Concourse

"5,4,3,2,1 Windows Vista is now in MMU, Melaka"
This launching is awesome. We cover half of the CLC Concourse(for your information, CLC is the largest building in MMU, Melaka), we invited our sponsors, Dean of FIST, and Marketing Director of Microsoft, Vico (his name), cute? With our respective MC, (she ask me to call her 'M'), she carried the open ceremony successfully, and together with the Live Quiz. And during the quiz, we gave out a Windows Vista Ultimate and a Vista Home Basic, congratulation to the 2 lucky friends!

Vista Girls in joy

XBOX
Besides that, we manage to get a XBOX for demo. A little bit disappointed, because our actual plan was XBOX 360. However, that is the first time I touched XBOX console, quite excited. I played car racing games with friends, and even strangers, and that time I feel that gaming console is not that bad thing. Share the fun together.

Windows Vista Review
This talk was conducted by our event director, Smith Ang, who is also the Microsoft Student Partner in MMU. He is funny, and crap a lot. During the talk, he introduced some cool and significant features of Windows Vista, for example, Windows Sidebar, Search box, Backup Manager, backward compatibility, other cool feature. For me, I already seen and experience those features for so long time(although I don't have Vista PC), but still feel cool with Vista.

Giving out Windows Vista Business Edition CD-Key
I think this is the main concern of all participants. They all bought our T-shirt during the event, so they can Windows Vista Business Edition, no matter full version or demo version. The queue was so long, and after an hour, it's still look the same!

Best part of today
I skipped 2 classes to see the crowd during launching, but never feel regret. I also manage to took photo with Vico! Today is also the first time I touch XBOX.

Me with Vico(Microsoft Malaysia Marketing Director, not Milo. (See my T-shirt?)

keep reading my tomorrow or day after tomorrow blog about the second day of the launching, more freebies to giving out yet!

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New Graphic Card from Nvidia will release this month.

As you all can see from the title, new graphic cards will be release by Nvidia this month, or to make it specify, is 17 April.

This release, the main character is Nvidia GeForce 8 series, consist of 8600GTS, 8600GT, and 8500GT. This is a really big news for me, as I want to experience DirectX 10 and shader model 4.0 on my new PC.

I think most of you know that, only Windows Vista will supported with DirectX 10. And because of that, I struggle a long time to choose my future graphic card. ATI is definitely not in my buying list, (in narrow minded, I dont like AMD; and AMD bought ATI, so I don't like ATI).

Geforce 8600GTS
Yes, from all the 3 releases, I prefer this one. Here is the specification:

Code name: G84
Bus interface: PCI-E x 16(of course!)
Memory: 256MB
Core clock reference: 675MHz
Memory Clock reference: 2000MHz
Bandwidth reference: 32GB/s
Bus type: DDR3
Bus width: 128bit
Support DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1

The spec is very satisfying me, although some values are slightly lower than GeForce 7950GT, but compare the price and the performance, 8600GTS has more value per performance than the old 7950GT that can't support DirectX 10. Click here to see the specification performance of Nvidia GPU.

Pricing
Before the release of 8600GTS, I thought I never have the chance to experience DirectX 10, because even the low end 8800GTS cost around RM1300++... But now, the GeForce 8600GTS just cost around RM690 to RM794, half the price of 8800GTS, but get about 70% of it, that's definitely worth!

The design is not as long as GeForce 8800, not really cool design, but can you see the SLI connector on top of the graphic card? Yes! It can support SLI! Actually, I am not a gamer, I just like to test several experiments with my new PC, feel excited to see high benchmark. Quite expensive way, right?

Some Radeon news:
Radeon will also release it's first DirectX 10 graphic card, the Radeon X2900 family, X2600, and X2300,(code name R600) with a lot of variety in the X2900 family, include X2900 XTX2, X2900XTX, X2900 GTO, X2900 XT, X2900 SL. Especially the X2900XTX2, it should be the best graphic card ever when it release. Click here to see the specification comparison.

Now one more PC component targeted, next is the motherboard.

See my previous post for my targeted hard disk and monitor.

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After about 1 year, I realize it...

When Disney Channel first release it in January 20 2006, everyone was mad with it, love it so much, people admire the singers, hope the same romantic scene will happen in real their life. It's High School Musical.

Story start with a basketball captain Troy Bolton ( starred by Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (starred by Venessa Anne Hudgens), 2 completely stranger, both joined a New Year party. They were selected to sing a song with the title "Start Of Something New". The story went on with their high school life, conflict, and how they overcome the problems.

I am the one who seldom listen to music, as I can't concentrate when I listen to music while doing other stuff. Recently during Trinite 2007, Vince Chong sang a song entitle "Breaking Free", I just realize how nice is the musical. I feel young again (although I am not old!) when listen to the song, I feel like I am still in secondary school, with dreams, and love.

One of my friend Weiyin, who always imagine herself as a wizard, love the musical so much! Now I just realize it, me too.

More information can be found on Wikipedia.

I am quite outdated, but nice song won't be forgotten even after centuries.

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SATA and SATA II ?

Again, I write post about my dream PC again.

This time, after my investigate about the monitor SAMSUNG 940BW, now I look at the other part of my new PC--hard disk.

What is SATA II?
To fully understand SATA II, I search on Wikipedia. But what make me confused is, no clear explanation of what is SATA II! Most PC catalogue show that their motherboards and hard disks are SATA II, but no further explanation on it...

After some searching work, I understood it.

Actually, SATA II is not a technology or brand name, just a marketers gave the new SATA hard disk that name. SATA, or Serial Advance Technology Attachment, is a new technology that using Serial cable to transfer data, instead of traditional parallel cable. During the time when SATA came out, the transfer rate is just 1.5Gbit/s. Later, a new organization, called SATA II was formed and they increase the transfer rate to 3.0Gbit/s. And because of that, marketer use the name of the board as the new 3.0Gbit/s SATA hard disk. Now the name of the board was change to SATA IO (Serial ATA International Organization).

What the big different about SATA and the so-called SATA II?
The only obviously different is the transfer rate(not to mention some architecture design of it). From the first generation SATA, (or so-called SATA I), the transfer rate is 1.5Gbit/s, doubled to 3.0Gbit/s in the next generation SATA (or so-called SATA II).

How about the buffer rate and the electric usage?
I don't think this is under SATA II works. This vary from manufacturers, as well as models. If you want to buy hard disk, you have to compare it by yourself. Of course, I prefer Western Digital (don't know why, feel they are professional). My next targeted component locked--WD Caviar® SE16 ! Come with 250GB,300MB/s, 16MB Cache, and 7200RPM, wow!

WD Caviar® SE16, my future storage companion.

OK, finished my preferable hard disk, I want to show you all a cool hard disk by Western Digital, too.

150GB, 10,000RPM, 16MB Cache, and the best part is, the WD Raptor X is the world only Clear Cover hard disk! You can see how the platter spinning inside the hard disk, and how read/write head moving to read/write data, that's really cool!

Take a look at this video:

 

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Integrity in your words.

Recently, one of my post in this blog caused a misunderstood. Not to mention about the details, but this caught my attention before use some sensitive words. Here are some example of sensitive words:

1. love, like
2. hate, dislike
3. scold, remind
4. angry, frustrated
5. ......

Hope next time won't do the same mistake again.

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Trinite 2007: Temptations - The Last Installment

Previous night, 31 March, 2007, Trinite was successfully held at Equatorial Hotel, Melaka. This post is to conclude Trinite, continuously from my previous post.

Free hair do TEAM Hair Studio
As a working committee, we do have a free hair do from professional hair studio--TEAM Hair. The designer designed a stylish hairstyle for me, with some yellow color dye, and the best is the glitter than made my hair looks shining.

The first time to Equatorial Hotel
After hair do, we moved to our main event venue--Equatorial Hotel. The lobby is beautiful and elegant, especially the big light on top my head. How good if this is my house?...

The schedule on a plasma TV at Equatorial Hotel lobby

same concept with last year Trinite, with ice wording(grabbed from jijitankyy)

Wow! The performances were awesome!
Joey G and Marion Caunter, as our respective MC, were so professional! Marion Caunter looks so sexy on the stage! Wow! With the cute Joey G, so adorable! They brought the environment to the highest level, by just simply crap(but I love their crap style!) They carried out some small games like dancing, cat walking on stage, and passing rubber band with straw, using mouth. I can see the environment is very excited when Joey G cut the straw become shorter and shorter if the participants managed to pass the rubber band in time.

The highlight of the night, was the performance from our celebrities! "Let us welcome Vince Chong!" The man who win the Academic Fantasia, stood out on the stage there, singing You're Beautiful, and he walked down the stage, sang together with the guests. Another 2 songs selected by him was... I can't remember... sorry, will post up later once I check it out.

The second performer is Dayang Nurfaizah! I believe many Malay guests love her. I saw a lots of people snapping photo with her and request signature from her. When she came out, she is much more open minded and sexy than I thought, especially her beautiful long hair.

OK, this is a tough one. Guess who are they? Here is the Clue-- "U le le U le le Oh!" Yo! It's K-Town Clan! I love their songs, they can rap very fast, although not really understand each sentences, but just simply like to drown into the madness with them.

Some downside of my mood...
I was changed into internal division during the extremely critical hour, to in charge the DJ system(what the fuck?!, I be a DJ?) I spent 1 hour for my director to brief me about my new task and memorize the sequence of the song or music to play, and in charge the projectors display... Very difficult for me to handle it, as I never have any time to practice and rehearsal, plus a low class mouse that always move the cursor even the mouse is idle. I accidentally clicked a song that not suppose to play during that time because of that mouse. Look like a good investment in mouse is important. I warned by director even the fault was the volume control unit by HMG(is it HMG?) company. But I admit that some problems are my fault. I really try my best to do it, sorry. I felt nervous for the whole night, I don't even have the mood to eat.

The worst things is, I don't have camera! That's why I don't have high quality photo here...

What cheers me up....
Vince Chong and K-Town Clan shook my hand when he finished his song. (because I am the DJ, yea!) I also got a free PenDrive mousepad(enough for that, I don't request much)

found my signature?

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Another Gmail innovation: Gmail Paper is here.

This is a really cool feature from Gmail, and I think no one have ever thing about this before! The new feature from Gmail--Gmail Paper, is a revolutionary method to manage your mail. You can touch it, write on it(using pen or pencil), tear it(by hand), throw it into a recycle bin(real recycle bin).

What is Gmail Paper?
Normal email services just allow you to receive mails in electronic way, this is good, as you don't need to print it out and this can save your money and environment. However, some mails are better to be held on hand, like photos. But the process is irritating: download, run printing application, print; and most of the time I will just gave up to print, just because of money.(1 piece of glossy photo paper is expensive)

Now Gmail Paper is here! You don't need to print it out by yourself, just click the Paper Archive button in your Gmail.

(screenshot from Gmail)

Gmail will send the mail to your house in a beautiful Gmail box, right in front your doorstep.

Here is some cool fact about Gmail Paper:

1. It's free, because every mail that arrived your doorstep were sponsored, and the advertisement will appear at the back of your paper printed in red bold color.
2. Attachment files... depends on what files is that. If it is  photo, Gmail will print it in high quality glossy photo paper. For mp3 and other unprintable files, Gmail would like to recommend you to preserve the file and not to print it.
3. You can print out unlimited copies of mails, from hundred to million, all free, no limit. But use your brain well while printing these.
4. Just need 2~4 days of business day to process.
5. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and if you use Gmail Paper, you will save environment, as you don't need to use real paper to print your mail.

Do Gmail Paper really environmental friendly?
Although Gmail use organic recycled paper as their medium, but how much recycled paper in this world can support gigantic of Gmail usage everyday? Maybe this can boost the value of recycling paper, and help environment indirectly. As TienSoon said about Paperless or Paper Less, people still rely much on paper.

For now, Gmail Paper still not available yet and just open to beta tester. Hope I can try the service soon.

Thanks for read it, its April Fool!

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