Coder's Talk

Scrum is an iterative incremental framework for managing complex work (such as new product development) commonly used with Agile Software Development methodology. Although the word is not an acronym, some companies implementing the process have been known to spell it with capital letters as SCRUM. Maybe because Ken Schwaber capitalized SCRUM in the title of his early papers about this methodology.

Have you ever wished of having a desktop where your super slim LCD monitor attached to just a keyboard? And nothing else? If you did, it is worth to have a look at this space saving desktop computer from Cybernet , the Computer in a Keyboard . This company has shrunk the CPU behind a regular sized keyboard and it comes complete with an Intel Core 2 Quad chip, DVD drive, hard disk drive, up to 4GB RAM, a touchpad, memory card slots and standard USB ports . Even thou it makes the keyboard bulky, it can be a small tradeoff for all the space saving that the PC achieves. You can plug your standard monitor or even your LCD monitors into this Computer in Keyboard . Isn't that great? As far as I know, the PC in keyboard is fully customizable and will cost around $700 to $1100. Enjoy!!

In Linux computer , we have a simple tool to create CD or DVD .ISO file. This is very helpfull to backup your CD and DVD into ISO images: To make an ISO from your CD/DVD, place the media in your drive but do not mount it. If it automounts, unmount it. for dvd: $ dd if=/dev/dvd of=mydvd.iso for cdrom: $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mycd.iso for scsi cdrom: $ dd if=/dev/scd0 of=mycd.iso And if you wanna make an ISO from files on your hard drive, create a directory which holds the files you want. Then use the mkisofs command. mkisofs -o /tmp/mycd.iso /tmp/directory/ This results in a file called cd.iso in folder /tmp which contains all the files and directories in /tmp/directory/. For more info, see the man pages for mkisofs, losetup, and dd, or see the CD-Writing-HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org. Enjoy Linux!!

Hahahah... while reading my email, I receive this funny cartoon especially the Version Two about computer virus. Well, you cannot do this if you are using linux in your office. heheh Version One Version Two Smile and have fun!!

For technical writers who works with translations of documentation and manuals in Bahasa Malaysia would already noticed that it is really hard to translate computer or IT related documentations from english to malay. As I have already involved in my own personal project in translation , I found that there is difficulties in translating computer related terms into Malay Language without falling into other meanings where the real means of that terms isn't achieved or else I will up to creating new terms in Malay language that wouldn't be agreed by other documents with the same terms, translated by other translator. I've been searching around for any standard meaning of Embedded System or Embedded Hardware in Malay language. I found that Embed means 'tanam' which also means buried if translated back to English. Actually, there is a lot of other words with the same meaning in Malay and that adds more difficulties in finding the right word that exactly match the comp...

I regularly visit CodingHorror Blog by Jeff Atwood... I love reading his posts and his readers comments. I feel like I'm in a coder's community who hang around listening and talking about what Jeff said. However, I don't know is it an April fool or it is for real where his posts on Let That Be a Lesson To You, Son: Never Upgrade is shockingly sounds like linux-bashing attempt: "Apparently, Linux is so complex that even a world class software engineer can't always get it to work. I find it highly disturbing that a software engineer of Jamie's caliber would give up on upgrading software. Jamie lives and breathes Linux. It is his platform of choice. If he throws in the towel on Linux upgrades, then what possible hope do us mere mortals have? " —Jeff Atwood:CodingHorror I laugh aloud when Jeff said, "Jamie Lives and breathes Linux." while this Jamie guy said that he installed Ubuntu 10.7.... Where did he get that Ubuntu 10.7? I don't know... E...

Duh... I'm playing around with my 000webhost.com cpanel and my wordpress ... then I got some problem where I tried to point my sub domain of other domain I have to this blog. I got error page for a while and then manage to get it fixed... Lol, I changed the wordpress URL to my other subdomain and then redirect the subdomain to the wordpress blog... the blog goes crazy for a while. I can't reset the domain until I log on to cpanel and modify the database. All is OK then... but after a while, I end up getting redirect page which says, the admin is checking my website for malicious content.... WTF? here's what you can read on the blog now... Demmit!... better go home and sleep coz I can't do nothing now... Anyway, instead of this broken heart story, thank god I managed to get my PPTP on my debian TS-ARM running ... heheh... Look at the ps aux output It's up and connected... I can ssh my gprs board now... hohohoho...

Today, I notice something wrong with my pagerank at one of my scrap blog, The Rojak Blog . As a loyal Firefox user, I also use google toolbar to access my google bookmarks and I do wanna know pagerank of certain page because I'm also google's loyal fan... heheh Then, what's wrong with the code anyway? I see my pagerank icon on the blog from http://pr.blogflux.com/ shows zero (0/10) while my google toolbar shows 3/10. Which one do you think is more accurate? Obviously, the toolbar is from google and the pagerank value is also from google. The Verification... So, I go to pr.blogflux.com to verify the rank and blogflux still says that the pagerank of http://jerungkun.blogspot.com is 0/10. Then I go to another pagerank checker page at http://www.prchecker.info and it says 3/10 for that same scrap blog . Now, I can verify that there might be something wrong on pr.blogflux. Maybe they have to fix their code to keep people link to their site. The Solution... Instead of emailing pr...