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I had a word processor just like this before. Can't remember where I stashed it. Before this, my father lend me an Olivetti. Those typewriters that used two-coloured ribbon. Black on top and red at the bottom. I used to write resume after I left school with Olivetti and you should hear the sound in the middle of the night.
My father used to nag about the noise but I have to send the letter out the next day!
Anyway, when I have babies, I did not read nor write. Those 15 blissful years, or is it blissful?
Anyway, I started to write again but Olivetti was not with me. So I got myself a Brother Word Processor.
I used it for about 3 years and then came the Microsoft words. Out goes the Brother WP.
Why am I talking about past years junks?

Because right now I need that junk. I need that Brother WP.
Tell me how to type a virtual document on the computer. That document is like boxes that you have to fill up.
So, I still need that Brother WP.

Why don't your just write?

Nay, my hand gets nervous when writing important documens from the government. I cannot avoid some misspelled words and such.

Oh, give me my Brother WP!

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Masalah catatan blog

Masa kembali ke pulau ini dari cuti yang panjang (pada bulan Ogos tahun ini), seperti biasa saya rasa ada sesuatu yang tidak betul dengan komputer ini. Mungkin cara gunapakai Tomo, anak bujang, yang mengerjakan komputer sewaktu saya bercuti, berlainan dari cara saya.

Masa itu kotak komen dalam blog ini kerap kali hilang, sekali dua membuat refresh barulah ia muncul semula. Tapi dalam kesibukan masa, ada kalanya saya tidak dapat re-start atau refresh dan terlepas membalas komen dari pembaca.

Selain dari membersihkan dan mengemaskini berbagai memori dan data, saya hanya dapat membalas komen dengan mengikuti link dari pembaca.

Masalah ini sangat menyusahkan.

Sebelum masalah ini timbul, saya hanya membalas komen pada kotak di blog sendiri dan tidak rasa perlu melihat tulisan jiran sebelah. Saya tidak ambil kisah tulisan orang lain.

Saya rasa perangai begini seperti seseorang yang berjawatan tinggi, yang tidak mampu meluangkan masa untuk orang lain, yang hanya mengharapkan kunjungan pembaca lain.

Rasanya ini cara yang tidak adil sebab saya bukan seorang berjawatan tinggi, saya hanyalah suri rumah!

Rupanya ada hikmah di sebalik masalah kehilangan kotak komen.

Dengan tidak ada jalan lain lagi, saya mengikuti link yang ditinggalkan penulis komen, barulah saya tahu banyak pembaca yang meletakkan blog saya sebagai link utama. Terima kasih kepada mereka.

Amat terharu, amat tersendu rasanya.

Tidak sangka catatan yang tidak seberapa ini, yang kadang-kala terlalai, yang selalu tidak dikemaskini, dibaca dan dilinkkan dalam blog mereka.

Blog ini bermula pada tahun September 2003, sudah 5 tahun umurnya, oleh Naib-President JICA (Japan Internationl Co-operation Association), sdr MBA. Dalam 5 tahun ini, kumpulan kenalan penulis blog bertambah dan selepasnya banyak juga yang hilang entah ke mana. Ini masalah siber, hanya komputer yang bersambung dengan talian internet boleh meneruskan perhubungan siber.

Alangkah sensitifnya perkenalan dalam alam siber!

Satu lagi masalah dunia blog melibatkan keselamatan komputer yang merisaukan, pendindingan spyware dan pop-up.

Tolonglah pasang pertahanan spyware dan pop-up. Ini sangat penting.

Saya tidak dapat meng-access mana-mana blog yang tidak memasang pertahanan ini. Ini sebagai keselamatan dari dijangkiti spyware dan segala pop-up/iklan haram.

Saya rasa menjaga keselamatan komputer dari serangan virus/spyware/pop-up ialah satu kewajipan semua penulis blog bukan hanya pada komputer sendiri juga pada komputer pembaca.

Virus attack

"Watch your thoughts, they become words/ Watch your words, they become actions/ Watch your actions, they become habits/ Watch your habits, they become character/ Watch your character, they become destiny."/ by unknown writer.

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Friday night, I wanted to know the code for embedding MP music, so I searched for the code and out came some sound oooo and ahhhh.
Oh, oh, I knew immediately, some lucah site managed to break down my cover. Habis, that was the only thought that came in mind.
Yes, habis...

I take care of my pc like its my own child. I cover it with high security, on top of that, closed all spams and no pop-up is allowed.
More that that, every page I open I make sure the setting will prompt for cookie permission.
Than, every time I shut down, all cookie and temporary files are destroyed, just in case there are some ugly-ducklings trying to hide in the cookie.
On top of all this, every week, I do spyware and anti-virus scanning and of course not to mention, very top in latest virus updates and spyware.

So, I thought I was very safe. I thought I can gleefully fly all over the cyber world like the Japanese emperor going shopping in town.

Then I hear some ooohhh-ahhhhs.
This bloody lucah site break the spam wall, knock down pop-up protection and slide ever so smoothly in my system registry. Forgive my language...CILAKA betul semua manusia yang buat kerja "lucah" belakang tabir!

Ok, anti-virus screams every now and then for me to clean this pc, I am infected with Worm.Win32.NetSky (maybe from activeX of the lucah site) and Trojan Downloader (this one another big pain in the neck).

Went into system restore and work in safe mode, scan spyware and anti-virus for two rounds and still the worm is inside, can't get rid of it.

Where is it hiding?
In my system registry.
But I can't find the command line for the path to the registry of this worm.

What do I do?
I've spent this whole weekend tickeling and the spring sun is outside, shining ever so welcomingly. Warming my body and inviting me to bath in its light.

ps: Help me, if not I will have to reformat and then again all my links will be gone.

*sigh*

Izin Sony

Semalam waktu saya keluar, ada panggilan dari Sony Repairshop meminta izin untuk memperbaiki komputer yang saya hantar ke mereka 10 hari lepas.
Sony repairshop kata motherboard dan tv tuner dalam komputer saya harus diganti yang baru. Padanlah saya tidak dapat tengok tv kat pc dalam setahun dua ini, rupanya tuner dah blank-out.

Tapi...

kenapa harus Sony Repairshop minta izin dari saya?

Oh, mengikut lapuran dari Otto mereka kata apabila mereka memperbaiki komputer itu, semua data, gambar, driver, file yang ada dalam memory kena delete. Kalaulah saya masih inginkan segala dalam memory itu, makanya mereka tidak boleh betulkan dan ini bermakna saya tidak izinkan.
Komputer itu akan dipulangkan pada saya seperti dalam keadaan asalnya...iaitu dengan kerosakkan itu.

Berikan izin atau tidak.

Saya buat panggilan ke Sony Repairshop dan dengan rasminya memberi keizinan pada mereka memperbaiki komputer itu.

ps: lega hati ini semua gambar dalam pc saya sudah masukkan ke external harddrive seminggu sebelum ini.

My beautiful compu-ter

I had my first computer in 1997 and the operating system was in Japanese! The person who sold me this computer was my Japanese nephew who worked for Epson. He installed Japanese Win 95 and that was a very stressful time for me. That time, computer was entirely new to me. Before having that first compuet, I went to the Ryukyu University, almost everyday to practise some e-mailing procedures, mostly using hotmail.com, just to familiarize.
I had some hard time with Japanese operating system and a friend, who sympathised my situation, lent me Win 98 English . What I knew that time was only to do simple mailing and surfing. I did not installed any anti-virus system nor any Windows updates. On a few occasion, I had so much trouble trying to clean the computer after virus infection. I had to call in help from some students who are enlightenment on repairing computers. Since I could not get my hands on Microsofts products in english here, the situation became desperate to get hold of anti-virus ware in english. I called up some friends in Singapore and Malaysia to help me get those CDs.

Those days, I used dial-up line and it was based on hourly usage. The more I used, the bill would be sky-high, since it was the early era of dial-up.
Well, I ended all that by fixing asdl line on Feb 2003 and bought myself this present computer at the same time. The operating system is XP Japanese but good thing is, english-written softwares are compatible with XP windows. That means it is alright to install Canon Printer English driver or any english software like Digital camera Zoom Browser.
Over the years, I've collected a few cyber friends, some I know personally. So now, most of my time are spend with my cyberpals. Whenever I am online, they would chat up with me. Mostly during their working hours, I would leave them alone eventhough I can see their names light up ( online ready to chat). When I don't wish to chat, I would still go online but I make a remark like, "in the kitchen" or "not at my desk", or something like that!

To see my cyber friends light up, tells me...

1) that they are fine and are doing their daily chores,
2) that I am not alone in this cyber world,
3) that when I light up, I am telling those cyber friends "I am fine too",
4) that friends out there like to see me as well,
5) that friendship goes both ways.

When cyber friends light up, it does not necessary mean that it is time for chatting! No, I just love to see the names light up and I feel cyber friends appreciate this as well.
I find it really selfish of some cyber friends who go invisible, just to avoid chatting. Like they have the power to chat with some particular friends and ignore the others or like it's a one-way lane. What happens if all the rest of the cyber friends have the same attitude and everyone goes invisible. Then, forget about collecting cyber friends, forget about cyber chat machine. Stay alone and ignore the world and the world will ignore you back!
This is just my humble opinion, nothing to debate about.

PC Sony

Hari Sabtu disebabkan hujan selepas ribut taufan 15, projek untuk membakar CD diteruskan. Ah, audio CD sudah kehabisan, malam tu selepas makan, saya ke OIC. Dapat cari Salleh di bilik pc dan dengan Liza kami terus ke GoodWill PC shop. Dengan niat hanya membeli CD tapi terpukau pula dengan Sony Vaio model baru. Model yang saya pakai sekarang ini PCV-W120, http://vaio.sony.co.jp/products/PCV-W120.
Model saya tenung tu baru keluar hari itu juga.
Canggih sungguh!
2.20GHz, pentium 4, 120GB dengan GiGA TV, DVD-R/RW, kalau tak salah model ini Vaio PCV-W170.
Harga pun sikit lebih kurang sama dengan model yang saya guna sekarang. Model ini saya beli March tahun ini, hanya ada CD R/RW sahaja dengan GiGA TV box. Cuba fikirkan dalam tempoh hanya 6 bulan sahaja model baru itu jauh lebih canggih dari model yang saya beli.

Saya rasa tertipu, tidak adil syarikat Sony buat begini dalam masa 6 bulan sahaja.
Saya tanyakan samada boleh trade-in yang lama.
Tak boleh.
Yang pelik lagi...model yang bersiri PCV-W bukan untuk diekpot ke luar Jepun. Model ini hanya untuk pasaran Jepun sahaja.
Kenapa agak-nya Sony tidak hantar model ini ke pasaran luar negaranya, mungkin dimasukkan Giga Box TV kot?
Model seris ini boleh tune-in semua channel TV Japan, agaknya model ini tidak secompatible kalau di pasaran luar negara.
Saya perhatikan Salleh pun menenung model ini...adus, meleleh air liur kawan kita itu.
Ada juga sorang tu kata nak beli pc ini second hand supaya saya boleh upgrade model baru tu tapi pc ini os in Japanese...susah-lah nanti nak baca. OS windows XP Japan yang bagus pulak kalau buka sites English, no problem...kira bi-lingual. Bila download Nero Express ke, Adope Photo shop ke yang english version...no problem.