Monday, October 5, 2009 at 9:42PM 
The kids thought it was a good idea to drain the batteries!
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The S E is rather suspicious ... is it special edition or ... semalam?
A rather long day today, and it started quite badly. Enough to set me in a bad mood. I left my E71 at home. Luckily Irfan is going for his class today in Bangsar, so we got somebody to send over the phone to me. For the last 3 months, UMMC has given up the ghost on using beepers. We use personal handphone, but the major drawback to that is loss of privacy. Anybody can contact you if they get hold of your number and unless you are using a dedicated line for the hospital, you can't really switch the mobile off at night.
The other issue is the fact that if the hospital contacts you and you missed the call, you wont have a clue of who was it that tried to call you. The number on the phone screen is the switchboard's. A pain if you are on call because the nurses are not exactly on a habit of leaving messages.
During lunch, I left my stet
s at the cafe. I returned about 10 minutes later and it was gone. It was 5 years old however, and probably need upgrading. However to my surprise, the stets turned up at my ward. It happened that one of my Medical Officer eating at the next table picked it up and helped out her senile boss! Saved myself RM500 that! I'll buy her coffee tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 10:52AM
The best is still surfing at wi-fi hotpost, Starbucks etc. Even kedai mamak and McDonald's one. No problem there even though there might not be much privacy. Nowadays, even hotel lounges charge for broadband use. So what's next?
Personally I use my E71, boot up a program called WalkingHotspot. It will turn my phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and I can hook up to 5 devices onto it wirelessly. So if I go out on a holidays with my family, I can use my MacBook while my wife and Idlan can use the other laptop. I also use it at home because the stability of the connection and the fact that Streamyx can be really slow at times where I live. The main drawback is you need to have the phone charger with you since it drains the juice. There is also the problem with latency! So if you are into online gaming, it can cause slower reaction time.
When I used my Dopod, I turned the unit into a Bluetooth Local Network. It can only hook up to one device. The connection is a bit slower as it depends very much on how fast your Bluetooth ship is. On both cases, the connection speed depends on the GSM signal speed to your phone. Using my E71, using 3G netwook, the connection goes up to 45kB/s, which is pretty decent. No problem watching Youtube on that speed. EDGE goes at around 15kB/s. If you have a stable HSPDA signal, it can go up to 120kB/s. When I was on holidays in Kota Bharu, I was getting downloads at 350kB/s. That's screaming! I you want to test your connection speed, click here.
What seems like the in thing at the moment is WiMax. Certainly in Silicon Valley, the technology using microwave essentially - no you can't fry your egg with it - there are concerns about slow adaption of this technology. Other newer technology are catching up fast. The main drawback is the cost on it's basic infrastructure. Once the antennas are up, you're blazing. The technology is basically based on a base station spouting out microwave signals. Then you have a capture device, similar to an ADSL modem inside your home. This device will translate the signal and hook up into either a router or straight into your computer's dataport. Since the technology is directional, the receiver needs to be pointed towards the emitter antenna.
There is also a mobile device that goes straight into your Laptop USB port that will capture the signal and feed it directly into your computer. This is the main selling point to this technology. The advantage, connection speed is faster than 3G mobile modem. Drawback, you have to be in an area where the service is available, re, mainly in Lembah Kelang.
In Malaysia, there are 4 companies that are licensed to provide this technology. The familiar one is Pocket One Networks or P1 W1MAX by Green Packet Berhad. Other players are YTL with Y-max. The other two are Asiaspace (AMAX) and REDtone-CNX, most likely going to be made available in Sabah and Sarawak. At the moment, I am very happy with my E71 connection and will probably stick to it.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 9:52AM Been surfing for half an hour or so in bed this morning before getting up ... trust me, there is nothing better than surfing in bed. I read through the number of hits I am getting for the last week. There were not bad considering how new I am with this client. Getting close to 200 hits per day. Many of the referrals seems to be from fellow bloggers. I spotted a pattern here, the best was to get hits is if you have a direct link from your fellow's page. What I need to do next is to set up a quick link section on my page. But first thing's first, need to figure out how it works on my system. A quicklink staring at them right on the blog page works better I think than having to be transferred to a new page full of link.
So, task for today, maybe tonight after I reach Penang would be to sort out a quicklink section on my page. I have also figured out that I can post an entry straight in through email via my E71. Maybe that's what I will try on the road. So watch this space
Haris Abdul Rahman
Oh dear, major change in plan. Since both Irfan and Idlan haave only just recovered from flu, we decided to just head out to Ipoh tomorrow. It will be a shorted journey plus less of a hassle driving against rather than with the traffic
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