Category: General

Argh…. My computer’s going haywire today for no apparent reason!! At first my GNU/Linux flashing me with error kernel messages and kernel oops, then my Windows 98, Windows XP and Freebsd!

I’ve seen the case where all operating system could go haywire at the same time, just a matter to confirm it.

I inserted my home made diagnostic cd which i carried around just in-case, and boot off a memory test program from http://www.memtest86.com.The diagnostic reveal a screenful of memory error only in 17% completing the second test.

Damn, my computer got bad memory, I need to get my data’s out to print it somewhere. So I use my home-brew KrazhBoX rescue Linux system, and boot the floppy base GNU/Linux system.

To get away with “bad memory” kernel oops i use this boot parameter :
boot: rescue mem=16M
To limit the RAM usage up to 16Megabytes only (the first bad memory block position reported by memtest86 was 97MB), but heck KrazhBoX could run with less memory than that.

I’ve copied all my data out using my USB Flash Drive just in time, and print out my works in another PC. All went well today when I’ve manage to replace the bad memory stick. :)

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But the above-mentioned url only redirect (Permanently Moved) to this website, so dont update your bookmark, just use it as a friendly url.

Just remember : http://blog.mypapit.net :p

Petrol and Diesel price rise again today, oh my god. The petrol price rises by 10sen and diesel by 20sen. I think 2005 is a memorable year because of the petrol price rise.

I didnt question about the petrol hike, every nation in the world are suffering from this, the result of fossil fuel burning out. And I also know that the government can’t handle the burden of subsidizing the fuel to common people people like me

I only hope that the official can announce the price hike “officially”, and be specific about the price hike, or else people will begin speculating about the price hike and you need to give them some silly warning not to speculate the very thing that is going to happen….

I had a very stressful day trying to study the Oracle back. Well have been using the MySQL 4.0.x series for quite sometimes that I forgot that handling Oracle database isnt quite a piece of cake.

I’ve encounter plenty of pitfalls and gotchas on porting the database and tables from MySQL (not including the data) as a favor for my friend. Well, I’m glad that everything is settled now.

Now I understand why you need expensive certs just to handle such beast, it’s like launching NASA rocket, except you are not a rocket scientist!