Windows 7

Windows 7 has been launched here for a few months now, since October 2009. The launching of Windows 7 ends the regime of Windows Vista, which lasted only 3 years, way shorter than Windows XP which served for 8 years. Some doubted the quality and performance of Windows 7 as they fear it will just be the repitition of Windows Vista.

Luckily, Windows 7 turned out to be better than Windows Vista. There are few versions of Windows 7 released, Starter, Home Basic(not released within this region), Home Premium, Professional(business Windows) and Ultimate. You can say that Windows 7 is the 'Vista version' of Windows XP, as it is simpler and more user friendly compared to Windows Vista, thus Your PC, simplified. It uses less in RAM, normally 40% when you have 6 windows open. The processor normally remains less than 5% if you are just idling and doesn't fly to more than 60% when you switch on a programme like Photoshop.


Windows 7 removed some features in Windows Vista and added some features not found in Windows Vista. You can have a look over here and here! A mascot for Windows 7, Nanami Madobe, is created prior to the launching of Windows 7 in Japan, voiced by 水樹奈々! Why 水樹奈々? Simply because 奈々 sounds like 7(七) in Japanese. Why 'Madobe' then? In Japanese, windows is translated into 'mado'. Thus, Nanami Madobe literally means Windows 7, with the additional 'mi' to sound girly and 'be' to sound like a first name.


Here are some features of Windows 7:
Point your mouse cursor at the small rectangular box at the end of the taskbar, you will get to the desktop. Windows key + D does the same.


If you don't want to go to click on desktop but you wanted to look at what is on your desktop, just hold Windows key and spacebar.


Hold ALT + TAB key will allow you to switch between windows. With AeroPeek, a nicer windows switching can be done with Windows key + TAB(also in Windows Vista). And of course, you will need to enable AeroPeek in order to do this.


Some other combinations also can be done(some are included in Windows Vista) -
Windows key + U brings out Ease of Centre.


Windows key + P brings out external display options.


Windows key + F turns on Search window.


Windows key + X brings out Windows Mobility Centre(may differ between units).
Windows key + R turns on Run window.


Windows key + G selects gadgets on your desktop.

Windows key + L logs off user.

Windows key + E brings out Computer.

Winodws key + + zooms in where your courser is while Whidows key + - zooms out.


Windows key + upward arrow maximizes a window while Windows key + downward arrow minimises a window.

Windows key + left arrow snaps the window to the left while Windows key + right snaps the window to the right.

AeroPeek is automatically enabled when you have a GPU. Aeropeek is normally disabled if you are having an onboard graphic VGA(lower Intel Graphic Accelerator XXX)[red rectangular box]. Some may find the grouping in in the taskbar annoying. Changes can be made by selecting the option where the red circle indicates.


Well, I'll say Windows 7 FTW!! If you want to use Windows in a 64-bit platform, be sure that your processor can support 64-bit operations. 64-bit can fully utilize your RAM of more than 4GB, not like 32-bit platform, which can only supports up to 4GB of RAM, but only 3GB usable. Wanted to change to Windows 7? No problem, if and only if you bought your lappy or desktops in the period of July till December with Windows Vista preinstalled, write to your manufacturer and they will issue a copy of Windows 7 to you(Home Premium and above only). Be sure to do a clean install if you are upgrading from Windows XP or lower. You can just upgrade directly if you are using Windows Vista. Get more info in Microsoft's official page.

I'm stopping here, have to finish my reports...




Regards,
Blue-Wingz

Happy Birthday Mum

I wish Mum a Happy Belated Birthday!!! I'll give half of the stuff you took this morning and be sure to share it with Dad :P. But the other half is still mine!!

Fukuyama and Mr. Lim are crapping and I can't concentrate anymore. Cheers and ciao~~


Sincerely,
Blue-Wingz

Early in the morning, and yet I'm still wide awake. Just came back from 'Malas-la' and sitting here to fix some stuff here and there.

At last, I got back my beloved lappy 2 days ago, on Friday!! I've waited for this for, let's see, 4 weeks? I remembered sending it in on the 1st of January this year. But, I'm not happy, NOT HAPPY!!! Mine was Ultimate version 64-bit when I sent it in, and it came back as Home Premium 32-bit UNACTIVATED VERSION!! I still have 27 days left when I switched on it. They told me it wasn't a hardware problem, but the 'entanglement' of audio codecs that causes the abnormality of the speakers. So they offered to reformat my C Drive and backup my data in the other partition, so I thought 'Why not?', but I never thought it would end up to be like this!!

I still have to thank Harvard as he purposely accompany me all the way down to KL just to get my lappy back. Of course I have to thank Lyence for sending us to and fro the station. Harvard and I talked alot in the commuter train before reaching Central an hour later. I helped Fukuyama to buy a 4GB pendrive too (That guy, asked him to follow me but he don't want to, darn!). The plan of going to Greenbox was cancelled when it was raining heavily outside when we left Lowyat. Having no choice, we walked around Time's Square and went back.

Missed 2 trains in Central as it was too packed. Everyone is in TGIF mood afterall, plus Thaipussam the next day, we were pushed out 2 times from the train. Luckily the train we got on board was quite empty, which arrived 4 minutes later than the previous one (back-to-back service as it is in peak hours). I don't know we were counted lucky or not, but we were forced to leave the train at Bangi, and we were supposed to arrive at our destination just after one more station. What to do? The 'Ma's are so efficient!

Barely reached hostel at 6.30pm and rushed to MPH at 7pm. Thanks to Larry, I was able to sweat for 1 hour and 40 minutes non-stop, playing badminton!! I was surprised with my own stamina, and I got muscle pains all around my body now... Had my dinner with Fukuyama and gang, which was supposed to be their supper. I thanked Fukuyama properly for loaning his other lappy to me for almost a week, so that I can finish my lab reports.

I spent the whole night till yesterday morning reformatting and reinstalling this lappy. Of course I slept, or else I'm gonna die of sleep deprivation. Continued the installation at 6.40am yesterday morning after I did my laundry. I found out later that my driver CD is not working!! For Pete's sake, why does it have to be corrupted??!! Had no choice but to download drivers from ASUS offical web, which I is yet to be done till now.

Installed Photoshop CS3 this afternoon for Ray's Site-Exchange Programme, which you can read it in more detailed from Ray's or Fukuyama's page. Wanted to install CS4 actually, but was lazy to walk to Ray's room and get the setup file from him, so I installed CS3 which I already got instead. Spent my afternoon just to create that little 170 × 50 thumbnail, and I did it!! It was my first time using Photoshop LOL!!

Next, I spent my night doing bits and bits of changes here, including this blog's template. Ray came to my room and helped me somehow, Fukuyama did too, but later. Taught Ray some maths, though I'm also not quite good at it. Liverpool won 2-0 as we were having roti canai in Al-salam just now.

Continued in the next post~

I never thought this will happen. I know Japan is being hit hard by the recent recession, but one of the largest carrier in Asia filing for bankruptcy protection was really shocking. People expect new resolution from a new year, but this doesn't seem to be a good resolution.

As reported on 19 January, Japan Airlines, or JAL in short, announced that they are bankrupt. Even their board members have decided resigning, causing roughly 15,600 to loose their jobs. As of 19 January, the shares of JAL is only 10% of the previous week, and now the whole value of the company is only $150m, barely enough for a jumbo jet.

Japanese government announced that flights will still continue as they are restructuring the company. Plans of replacing older aircrafts and flying routes are being made (about 12 international destinations).

I heard from my brother that their service were damn good, and wanted to try it someday... But anyway, Delta Airlines has issued a statement to help JAL out, with the condition that they have to join SkyTeam and leave OneWorld.

You can read more about it HERE or HERE.


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Just finished both my CHM and MCB lab reports. Feeling very tired right now. What Ray told me just now:

"We have a good network indeed. Although Kent's country is damn rich because he has a lot of oil, he still need my country. My country has only water, so we need your (referring to me) country. Your country have technology to process crude oil while Fukuyama's country is an entrepot, dealing with packaging and exporting."


Having 8am class later, so I guess I'll stop here.


By,
Blue-Wingz

Duck Rice, anyone?

Had a bad start this morning. I can't sleep and I don't know why, so I switched on the laptop I loaned from Fukuyama. Ray bugged me when I signed in MSN. So I told him I wanted to go and buy coffee and newspaper. At last he agreed to take a stroll as he can't sleep too. I saw someone outside the block, and greeted LOL. The weather was cold with cool breeze blowing. Ah, I like the feeling of cool breeze blewing. Slept at 3am++ and woke up at 7am.

I had MCB 2 quiz 1 at 10am just now, after Dr. Ooi's class. The quiz was a bit different from what I did till now. Mr Lim let us watch a short clip and asked us to answer the questions given. Luckily the questions are not that hard, but the second part of the quiz was confusing. Stupid MCQ, I was not confident in my answers for the last few questions. Mr Lim said that we all seemed very tired, so he let us go at 11.10am and we were happy and shocked.

There was a second hand book sale around MPH and we went to have a look. I took a while over there and bought James Rollin's Deep Fathom. His book is interesting, so I bought it without second thought. Later, Lyence, Keiro, HSiang and I followed Mr Lim, Kenneth and GY to Nilai Square and had duck rice. The duck rice was somehow different from what I've had before, especially the steamed rice, which makes it special. The chili sauce was nice too!! However, the shop is confined that you won't notice there was a coffee shop there.

Mr Lim named this shop 'Hak Dim' because it is always dark inside and the shop is unnoticable.

Everyone except me. I'm the photographer LOL. Can't see GY...

The roasted duck we ordered.

Care for some chili sauce, anyone?

We sat there and joked till 1pm. Just got back from the lunch :) Feel like having a nap now to recharge what I lost this morning.

By the way, Moral lesson from Dr Ooi's class:
1. Gambling = Sex substitution
2. Ah Bengs going overseas (Au) come back as Ah Lians
3. Pendrives are like prostitutes


By,
Blue-Wingz

23 days since the new year has arrived, at last I decided to type a few words over here. Just to tell everyone that, I'm still alive and kicking!

Look, he's half dead. But I'm still alive!!! (Sorry Lyence xD)

The second semester started 3 weeks ago, and I had my first quiz (BTE quiz) on Thursday. The next quiz will be MCB2 scheduled on Tuesday. But the unfortunate part is that I was unable to get my precious lappy back for 3 weeks!! I sent my lappy for a warranty replacement for the speakers which bursts after volume 46... and I've been calling them and asking when it will be done. Those stupid buggers keep telling me that they have to follow protocol and I have to wait for it to be done. WTH!! 3 straight weeks and you tell me it is not done yet? You all might as well just jump off a cliff! The suggested me to get it back without replacing the speakers as I was telling them I need it urgently. If I really want it back, of course I wanted the speaker to be replaced before getting it back! What's the point of leaving it for 3 weeks and getting it back when nothing is done? I really hate those buggers...

Anyway, as my friends and I came out of the chemistry lab yesterday morning, we saw something nice just outside the block.

Huh? A lift leading down to a toilet?

Kent: What the heck is this?

Kent: Look, the lift opened? Maybe we should go down and have a look on the supposed toilet?

Here is a LINK that may give you the clue about the toilet. Well, I'm done for now. May do a major change in this blog when I got my beloved lappy back.


Yours truly,
Blue-Wingz