Havoc at work

It was an unfruitful day at office.

Last week during my training, I have to restart my workstation at cube as my offline tester was troublesome. So I went ahead with shutdown -r -t 0 remotely. The workstation which was 1km away from where I was could not boot up into window automatically. Somehow the machine just stuck at BIOS waiting for a local F1 key to boot up...really stupid wasn't it? Luckily with my colleague's help (technically to go to my cube n press the F1 key) the machine boot up fine and I was able to remote login into the machine again. Actually I learned about this problem a month ago but just not bothered as I was busy with some other work.

At the same time, I have issue on my laptop as well. Our IT seemed to force BIOS upgrade on all HP6910p laptop inclusive of mine but the upgrade package was screwed up. Obedient Sze Wan always proceed with the package installation but somehow this package installation was like forever. I installed it for nth times till I finally have to call for installation postpones which in this case, I only have the choice to postpone 60 minutes each time. So just imagined working on a laptop which has a pop up every 60 minutes asking you to install a package...really annoying right?

So today, I have a little bandwidth and decided to solve my problems on both the workstation as well as my laptop.

First, it was the laptop. Contacted the service desk via the chat service and reported my problem. He was very helpful...trying all ways to solve it...checking my registry and event, manually call for the package execution, waited patiently for the installation and for an auto restart(which never happen) yet all these were not working. So he got me to restart my laptop and he continued with his diagnostic. Finally he proposed that I have my hard disk encryption disable and perform the installation again.

So reboot my machine and went into the bios setup...poor me...tried tens of my common possible password combination but failed to get pass the setup password. Without this password, I would not able to get into the setup window to disable my password encryption as suggested by him...trying hard to memorize if I have placed a setup password before and what could it be. It was running late for lunch time...hungry :S

Then I did a little google for some quick tricks and I found this.


It may be useful but not for my case. This laptop is a company property...no way that I can dismantle it and remove the battery. So after lunch, I went back to him for help. He has no idea and his solution was me sending the laptop over to PC service center for the technician to trouble shoot on my issue.

Guess what, it took the technician less than 5 minutes to solve the puzzle. They actually have a default setup password on my laptop...how come this was not known to the service desk personnel?...arggghhh!

So after getting into the setup window and disable my hdd encryption, I headed back to my cube to proceed with the upgrade installation. Installed as like my previous attempt and still no auto reboot as being suggested by the installation package. I was worried it didn't work out for me again. Anyway I just called for manual reboot and thank god for it was finally working. At reboot, upgrading process finally shot off...yes!

Done with laptop, I moved on to my workstation. I contacted the service desk again. This time it was she who came to help. After understanding my problem, she checked on my WS and suggested that it was not due to force BIOS upgrade as I was guessing about as there was no record of any Bios upgrade of my WS in their system. I asked for solution and she suggested that I reboot my WS and check on the BIOS, much like what I did earlier....problem with quick boot option or my boot priority...as I was no expert in this field, I did as she suggested.

Repeating my previous attempt with a little more on here and there. By the end of today, this problem was not solved yet. I have escalated this issue further to the service desk and really hope that they can solve my problem tomorrow with few simple steps.

I was really stressed out by this small problems...these problems didn't seem very important but may be ‘phek chek’ especially during my critical time.

And I really dislike facing all these problems...they were more tiring compared to my project development work...

Raya Plan for friends and family

Born and raise on Butterworth gave me a lot of opportunity to venture into the nature. It used to be in my weekend routine to go hiking at Cherun Tokun, jogging at Mengkuang Dam, having fun at my grandma's kampung house and orchard. With my outgoing and active personality, I grew to know Butterworth well both in food and landmark...I can easily turned into taman taman just to avoid traffic and find those road side stalls selling the best of its kind in Butterworth.

Many of my friends have suggested I take them round Butterworth but we just could not find time together. As Raya holiday is coming and I have a long 4 days break, I am suggesting to all my friends that lets make trips during these days. Just ring me up and we can arrange something up on mainland.

Dear friends,
Ring me up and we can have fun this Raya together.

Looking forward to our holiday...hooray!

Another RM370 gone

First RM2180 gone. Now another RM370.

So up to this moment I have spent a total of RM2550.

• Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF-S 18-55/3.5-5.6 IS Lens + Toshiba 8GB HSD + Canon LP-E5 battery pack (additional)+ Canon DSLR bag + Hoya 58mm UV filter + Air blower + cleaning solution = RM2180
• Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens + Hoya 52mm UV filter + 3rd party hood for 18-55 = RM370

Oh ya...I got my camera at the cheapest price one could get at KOMTAR area. I highly recomment Mega Star Photo to everyone. Btw...I was upset to learn the price from Click 'n' Snap. Everyone seemed to be recommending their prices and services here but personally it think they slacked badly after all those recommendation and being so ego and unfriendly.