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06
Dec
Persistent In Action
FLC

Yesterday, I was like having a blackout. I can’t access to the internet and it’s so frustrating. I have enrolled to the best 3G wireless network in my country, but yet the signal was terrible. It was like how many bytes and not kilobytes per second… it’s really a nightmare.
I was preparing a quotation to one of my customer and I’m so determined to get it done that nothing going to stop me. I was trying to access to the internet from my home and I took half an hour without any success.
That’s not all, my kids was so irritating, needed me to do all kind of things when I was so pissed off.
Ok, I had enough, I was not able to send an email for an hour… I grab all my keys and wallet, dump my laptop into the car and rammed off. I was like driving my car with my laptop on and looking for good signal.
It was an aweful experience.
The thing was, I kept persisting and I know I will be successful. So I passed by this cafe where I had coffee before with my partners and my wifi connection is on.
Deary me, the one I paid for the service and yet did not give the satisfiable service yet someone else wifi network gave me the connection to the internet to send the quotation.
My frustration was beyond controllable level, but that’s life. Things appeared to be pretty simple, type a quotation after got all the data, and compile , and send to my customer via email. Yet, so many obstacles along the way.
I know the bigger my quotation is , the bigger is the obstacle is, but I know I must persist in order to be successful. And you should too.

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08
Nov
Catch Infidelity
FLC

So I got this old friend suddenly called me because he is desperately need my help to do an urgent assignment. I was surprised about what I am able to help for him.
He told me about his predicament, and need my help to catch his spouse for cheating him. So, there were few options, and 1st task was to hack into his wife facebook account.
So, I told him that I need a bit of time to do this as I’m not a fulltime detective, but I was curious to find out too as actually I saw his wife before and she is gorgeous, no wonder she had so many admirers.
So, there were couple of ways to hunt down her activities. I was able to zoom into the target which is his wife’s boyfriend. And here I was trying to lure him and become his friend.
I was in the middle of the investigation when my friend told me to stop all the work, which I was reluctant to do so after pouring in all the effort. But nevertheless I have to respect his decision. Instead I help him out with another option which was to install a detector in his wife laptop.
It recorded all the activities of his wife and later with sufficient information to confront her. She got nothing to say, but was blaming my friend’s fault for leaving her cold. But this lady father is rich and my friend was handsomely rewarded for not bringing this out and spoilt the family reputation.
I know my job was done as I have completed my task, but deep down I thought I may have ruin a family harmony as they might have filed for divorce. But I did not ask more about the matter to my friend as it’s his personal matter. I know he is feeling bad about the whole thing, but that’s all I can do for him.
I don’t do this kind of things anymore as I feel bad about it. But I’m sure there are many PI or cyber PI out there doing this. They can do better job than me.
But why pay such a high price for their service since another way is better and cheaper. You can have experts guide you the way to hunt down cheating. Put your mind at rest by finally know if he or she is cheating.

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26
Oct
Extract Multiple String in GZ file
FLC

Recently, I have a request to extract data from a compressed file in the form of .gz file (which was compressed using gunzip). The system OS is Solaris platform. And they need to retrieve particular string start with U1 until U9 after a comma, below is the command I use :

gzcat 2009032514.SMT.gz | egrep ‘\,U1|\,U2|\,U3|\,U4|\,U5|\,U6|\,U7|\,U8|\,U9|\,U0′ >data7.txt

Gunzip provide a tool to see the content of the file in the form of gzcat and I’m trying to get string that start with ‘,U0′ or ‘,U1′ or ‘,U2′ until ‘,U9′ , after that write the line data to data7.txt file.

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18
Oct
Digital Content Copyright
FLC

Here are the contents contributed by a friend of mine code name JT.

Digital technology makes it easier than ever for people to violate copyright laws. What, if anything, should be done to protect the intellectual property rights of the people who create pictures, videos and music?

Education and culture acceptance – Have you ever look at western countries on legal issue of digital products. Although not to say they don;t have piracy or other copyright infringement, but since early stage , they have strong ethical mind about products that are owned by someone.
The culture, the education should have instill the antipiracy and basic legal copyright knowledge.

Strong law enforcement – Copyright infringement in US is very severely punished, and it’s very hard for a person to hide, especially the high tech cyber police able to detect piracy activities.

Under what circumstances do you think it’s acceptable to copy sounds or images for use in your own work?

There are certain general laws governing the usage of the graphic or music files owned by someone. It’s important to read and find the privacy and copyright message from the author which normally attached with the package, or if it’s a website, look at the bottom of the page for the message.
In general, if such message not appear, you may use the graphics or the music file for personal usage only. If you are using on a website to include this files, make sure we are not selling it and earn money from it, Furthermore, we must endorse them by putting in words like courtesy from or include the link to the owner of the files
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p/s : I’m not a legal enforcer nor representing the legal professionals, words contained in here is for reference only

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18
Oct
Software Presentation Vs Transparency
FLC

Here are the contents contributed by a friend of mine code name JT.

In what ways is the usage of presentation graphic software a better choice than the traditional usage of transparency?

Of course the presentation using software more efficient in the following ways:
- you need to print on transparency, then you will need to buy the transparencies and not just this cost money, the printing as well. Where as, in software, you need to only save it and invoke the runtime presentation software

- in term of storage, and transportation, imagine carrying around the transparencies as compare to having the file saved in a pendrive.

- transparency will be really messy had you found any mistakes or typo errors where you need to make correction, whereas in using software you just edit and update the changes, saved it and it’s done without any messy and unclean look of the presentation

- when you need to distribute the handouts, it’s easy to just copy the presenation file and send to participants, rather than need to physically scan and duplicate the transparencies.

- using software the presentation can be very lively, with help of animation and colorful pictures, whereas the transparencies unable to do so..

- imagine that bulky transparency machine compare to projectors which nowadays are really slim and ergonomics..In term of contrast and vividness of pictures, of course presentation software able to produce bright, sharp , and vivid colors whereas the transparencies are having dull and often dim lights

- you will need huge space to house or to store the transparencies whereas the software and the huge space of hardisk can house or keep many thousands of presentations.

- how about flipping through the transparencies, which is very tedious and cumblesome, where as using software you can switch back and forth easily without interupting the flow of presentation.

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