The house is almost ready....

There are significant progress on site with regards to the construction of the property. Looks like it is going to be ready for hand over way ahead of the scheduled date of '2010. All the fixtures & fittings being installed and we can see the workers cleaning up all the units. It has been 3 weeks since I last visited the site and would definitely do so this weekend. We shall post more photographs after the visits.

Wakeboarding @ Tasik Prima

This is a video from YouTube.com that shows wakeboard activity in Tasik Prima where this house is located

Windows 7 and DELL Latitude D630

I had installed Windows 7 into my office Dell Latitude D630 in preparation for my 5-days trip to Australia (Sydney-Canberra). The installation of Windows 7 was very straightforward almost a no brainer. It recognized all the computer's components automatically, admittedly, D630 is rather new uses most of the common and standard stuff (e.g. Intel chipset, etc.), you know what I meant.

The challenges started only after I tried to install applications. First off, I need a DVD/CD emulator, I am a big fan of Daemon Tools but this time, I am out of luck. Daemon tools caused Win7 to BOD (Blue screen of Death) upon restarting the notebook. No luck, I search the internet and bum into few articles that recommended the alternative.

Installing Lotus Notes .... (to be continued)
Installing Microsoft Office .... (to be continued)

to be continued

Coming up ... Swine Flu & IT Contingency Plan

There may be uncountable number of articles exist in the Internet today on Swine Flu and its impact to human health and businesses. However, other than medical advices, no one seems to talk about the role & responsibilities of an IT Manager in this context. This shall bring us to the issue of How do we use IT as enabler to cushion the impact, e.g. ensuring business as usual even in the crisis situation where key personnel or decision maker being down with the flu and quarantined? ... Guys, we are talking about a crisis here! Don't you think it is time for us to switch to our Contingency mode? I will talk more on that later, stay tuned. Signing off from Port Dickson.

MSDN subscriber service (profile error) - download Windows 7 RC

Being a MSDN subscriber, I was eagerly awaiting for the coming of 30th April 2009 when Windows 7 Beta will be made available to MSDN subscriber. Guess what, MSDN loads up the page as usual, but wait a minute, what is going on? Instead of the usual "Manage Your Subcription" link, what I got is an error message (see below) claiming that my profile cannot be retrieved.

An Error Has Occurred

There was an unexpected error while attempting to retrieve your profile data.

You can try to:

* Close your browser and retry the operation again in a few minutes.

* Contact Support

* Read the On-Line Self Help

Reference Id: CFE16446

This error has been logged with the reference number noted above. Please use this reference number if you contact support.

Is the MSDN server being overwelm with the large number of request for downloads or simply put, priority is not given to ASIA subscribers? Reading the On-line Self Help is not helping anyway, instead of telling you to fix your problems of not able to access your subscription, you're being told how to fix your File Transfer Manager issues with your IE or Firefox. Interesting huh?

Wait a minute, while writing this blog posting, habitually, I clicked on the Refresh button of my IE that has the MSDN page loaded with the error message, guess again, the page loaded successfully and everything back in order. I had just signed in with my Live account and waiting for the page to load.

Alright, off we go... I am in. First up, let's download Windows 7 RC (x64) and soon, to be followed by x86. I will continue the blogging in the next 24 hours after the Win7 being downloaded.

What I intended to do is to try running it on my daughter's ASUS Eee 900... let's see how it performs and obviously, my office notebook, a DELL D630. Just hope that 2GB RAM is sufficient to get Win7 up and running...

More on that later... signing off @ 1:33am (1st May 2009) - Labour Day - for those who works with passion and live everyday to the fullest!