Here are some post install details about Windows 7 (Seven) M1 originally posted by “Kenipnet” in Neowin’s Forums. Hopefully we can get some leaked screenshots soon.

Over the weekend I finally managed to play with the build¦. but disappointed.

One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didnt boot after first restart, however.

On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark.

Oh well, so theres nothing to show.

The build is 6.1.6519.

The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I dont know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot.

Gadgets are now integrated into explorer. You can right click on desktop and select œAdd Gadget or œHide Gadget. There is a new gadget called œWindows Media Center that displays now playing information from the WMC. On the same menu, œDisplay is added above œPersonalization which gives you direct access to display DPI settings. The page is much more polished than the one in Vista.

The start menu features a pin besides each item. Clicking on it toggles pinning/unpinning the item. Search in explorer is now states where you search within (usually being within the folder, as in Vista). You can now, however, adjust the size of the search box.

XAML fonts, called the œComposite Fonts are now added to the font folder. Perhaps WPF will be much more prominent in this release. Its disappointing that I dont have Aero running, or otherwise there might be some interesting stuffs to see.

A new application is added, dubbed the œXPS Viewer, no surprises, either.

Then finally, something interesting came up: the feedback tool. The feedback tool lists the œpillars of Win 7. You can see that Microsoft is aiming to fine tune this release as the case in XP rather than technological advancement as in 2K. highlights includenetwork aware, with improved connection tools and detections. It will have the ability to detect which network youre in and switch your settings and devices accordingly; With Live account, you can carry your IE settings and favorites with you; Gadget data caching; New Calculator, Paint, and Wordpad using WPF; install to desktop in 10 mins with only 1 reboot; instant streaming; better battery mileage, etc. All descriptions are scenario-based, so what will actually turn up is still yet to know.

Oh.. how could I miss this. A new boot screen does show up, finally. A full screen Vista-logon screen like boot screen with a beam scrolling across the whole screen near the bottom. Looks nice but reminds me of Win9x (well since XP weve been in the œdark, so surprised to see such a bright boot screen)!

Source: Neowin.net: Windows 7 (Seven) M1 post-install details leaked?

I found this poem entitled “My Spelling Checker” very interesting during my CS2301 lecture today, just thought I share it with you all.

Wrong Version (But Pass The Spell Check)
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequertolled me sew.
~ Sores unknown ~

Correct Version
I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It plainly marks for my review
Mistakes I cannot see
I have run this poem through it
I am sure you are pleased to know
Its letter perfect all the way
My checker told me so
~ Source unknown ~

School Started
This week is the first week of my new semester. I am currently in year 2, semester 2. If everything goes well, I will be graduating in year 4, semester 1, which is around end of 2009.

Here are the modules I taking for this semester:

CS2106 - Operating Systems (4 MCs) [1 PT]
CS2301 - Business And Technical Communication (4 MCs) [1 PT]
CS3216 - Software Development on Evolving Platforms (4 MCs) [N/A]
CS3254 - Introduction To Computer Networks (4 MCs) [778 PTS]
MA1312 - Calculus with Applications (4 MCs) [1 PT]

Module Code - Module Name (Module Credits) [Points Bidded]

Mom’s Cousin’s Daughter Wedding
My last week before school starts was pretty busy for me as my mom’s cousin (from China) came down to Singapore because his daughter is getting married to a Singaporean. They are not those usual PRCs/FTs who come to Singapore and snatch our job because they are like 921380123 times richer than my family and secondly they speak hokkien as their main language instead of mandarin. You might be wondering how rich are they? They brought in SGD$50,000 in cash and got stop by air port custom, own several casinos in Asia and own a resort and a helicopter in Philippines. The daughter wedding dinner was held at Fullerton Hotel, if I am not wrong it is about SGD$2,000 per table (total of 30 tables). But the food at Fullerton Hotel was just average and all the food served are cold.

My Family, Photo Taken Before The Dinner
(From Left To Right: Me, Li Xiang, Dad, Mom, Hui Mi and Leroy)

Nokia N82
My mom and brother finally changed their handphones. My mom changed from Nokia 7610 to a Nokia N82 from Singtel for SGD$588 and my brother changed from Sony Ericsson W800i also to Nokia N82 from M1 for SGD$598. As for me, I am still waiting for my Nokia N82, hopefully I can get it before Chinese New Year (*hint* Dinesh *hint*).

Family Of Nokia Phones
(From Left To Right: My N93i, Mom’s N82, Bro’s N82 and Dad’s N73ME)

Sun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database.

Sun said Wednesday that it will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL’s privately held stock and will assume about $200 million worth of options. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos will join Sun’s senior executive team after the transaction closes.

The acquisition is a bold move for Sun, which has embraced open-source software and development practices in an effort to garner more revenue from its software business. Until now, it has sold support services for a competing open-source database, PostgreSQL.

Company executives said they will continue to support PostgreSQL and continue to partner with database giant Oracle.

MySQL, founded in 1995, is one of the most successful open-source companies. It’s part of the popular combination of open-source development products referred to as LAMP, for Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL and the PHP development language, which is broadly used on the Internet and within companies.

Mickos had previously said that the company intended to go public rather than be acquired.

Full News @ CNET

NOOOO. I hate Sun because I hated Java too. Look at how slow Java is. Imagine MYSQL written in Java?

Finally after they some miscommunication, I finally collected my spectacles from Optics Today located at Queensway Shopping Center. I have been patronizing Optics Today since I was in Secondary School. As the shop is owned by my uncle’s secondary school classmate and he can gives us very good price, and I mean really very good after comparing with several optical shops. My Swissflex Spectacles cost $350 (including frame, lenses and taxes) whereas I checked out 1 optical shop in VivoCity and the exact same brand and frame as mine cost $360 alone. My current Oakley Wiretap is also from him, cost me $250 (including frame, lenses and taxes) but just that it is a import set and comes with no warranty.

My New Spectacles By Swissflex Eyewear

My new TV was delivered to me on Tuesday together with my new washing machine. I put it on my TV rack and realize it was quite big and my dad suggested to me to mount the TV to the wall. After having that thought, I can’t figure it out where is the 4 screw holes that my TV suppose (my living room Samsung LCD TV has them) to have. After posting my question in Hardware Zone Forums, I got an answer and apparently I need to unscrew the 4 screws covering the 4 screw holes! The instruction manual didn’t even say anything about that! It just says that if I want to mount the TV to the wall, I need to contact my dealer. It was rather a stupid answer.

Then, the screws that come with the wall bracket could not fit into the hole of my TV, I was like WTF. In the end my dad installed the bracket first and today we went to Daiso to get the screws ($2 for 5 screws). Just for your information the screw needed is 6mm (diameter) x 25mm (length). My dad has been producing screws for the past 30 years and hence once he look at it, he knew exactly what screw can fit.

I really must thank my dad for helping me and of course my mom for paying for the TV!

My New 32″ Hitachi LCD Television (L32A01A)

2 items down, 4 more to go:

• New Hitachi 32″ LCD TV
• New Samsung 24″ or 27″ LCD Monitor
• New Intel Yorkfield Desktop Computer
• New Nokia N82 Mobile Phone
• New Ikea Table
• New Swissflex Spectacles

I just love 2008.

As copied + pasted from Neowin.net:

Dont you just love how Facebook has an application for everything possible? Dont you just love wading through your friends Facebook profiles with the simple goal of finding their Wall? Dont you just love how Facebook is looking more and more like MySpace every single day? Fear no more, the Facebook Platform Team has a plan to unclutter profiles: a œprofile clean-up tool. Essentially, the tool will give users the option to move extra profile boxes to an œextended portion of their profile. At the bottom of the profile page there will be a link to œShow Extended Profile which expands the profile for viewing all of the users applications. This should mean a cleaner look, and faster loading pages. Personally, I would much prefer a œhide all 3rd party crap feature, but this move seems to be a step in the right direction.

Finally they have decided to do it, I just hate it when any Facebook Profile has more than 10 applications installed. It just make the loading time increased by 932408932402 times and the chances of crashing your browser by 903248234 times.

They should also have an option called “Disable All Invitations By 3rd Party Applications” in your settings page or perhaps a “Ignore All 3rd Party Applications” in the notifications page.

I think I blog faster than Li Xiang as from what I know she only finishes Day 1 of our trip and here you have it, “My Version” of the Genting Trip.

Day 1 - Wednesday, 2nd January 2008
Reached Golden Mile Complex at about 6.30am, took Grassland Bus and it set off at 7.15am. The bus ticket cost SGD$65.00 per person for a 2 way trip. After much winding around the mountain, we reached Genting about 2pm. Checked into Resort Hotel to room 6154. It surely has a terrible view and not forgetting noisy because the room window is directly above the exhaust fumes that sit on the roof top 3 levels down. The hotel room cost RM160 per night for a standard room. After unloading out luggage, I immediately went down to Coffee Bean because they have free wireless Internet there as I need to bid for my modules.

We caught up with the rest for lunch at Causeway Bay restaurant located at First World Plaza. The food was not bad and one of the better restaurants located in Genting. After a late lunch, Wayne showed us around Genting Highlands and helps us apply for the Genting World Card. After that we went to take a look at the Casino located at First World Hotel and I played and lost RM10 to the slots machine. We parted with Wayne there as he becomes the god of gambler while Li Xiang and I shopped around First World Plaza. The shops there are quite limited and hence it takes us about 3 hours to finish our shopping. I got myself a Nike Dri-Fit T-Shirt and Li Xiang got herself a Diesel Blouse.

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I am back from my 4 days and 3 nights Genting trip. This is my 4th visit to Genting. The first one was in 1990 when I was 6 years old, the second one was in 1993 when I was 9 years old, the third one was in 1997 when I was 13 years old and 11 years after the last trip, I am now 24 years old. Time really flies. I was looking through those old photographs and realized that Genting did change but not that much over the last 15 years. At least 1 thing is for sure, the weather there is still as cooling.

We took a bus down to Kuala Lumpur on the 2nd day as it was very misty in Genting and hence they closed the theme park and because of that, there is nothing else we can do because we do not gamble and we have finished shopping in Genting. So off we go to KL.

I hope Li Xiang will type a detailed blog entry for each of the 4 days we spent there because I am kinda lazy. But nevertheless I have uploaded all the pictures we took (354 photos) for the whole trip to this site. Enjoy!

Genting Highlands Trip (2th January 2008 To 5th January 2008)

Hitachi 32″ LCD TV
My parents bought me a new Hitachi 32″ LCD TV (L32A01A) to replace my old Toshiba 21″ CRT TV (21VZ5E). Bought it at Best Denki at VivoCity for SGD$1099. Comes with a 3 years warrenty, HDMI cable and a wall mounting bracket. The only downside to this is that the television will get delivered to me together with a new Panasonic washing machine that my parents bought on the 8th January 2008.
Features:

• 32″ High Definition LCD TV
• Mega Pixel Resolution 1,366 X 768
• Hitachi’s Original IPS Alpha Technology
• Picture Master Full HD Alpha Graphics Engine
• 10,000:1 Contrast Ratio
• HDMI Input (Ver. 1.3) 1,000 Pages Teletext
• Manual Swivel Stand

Thank you mom and dad!

I Am Lengend
Caught I am Legend at Cineleisure, the movie is about 90 minutes long and somehow I find it very average or even slightly below average. Most people I know also said the same thing that the novel is much better. The ending kinda suck but I like how they make New York City deserted as in the technology behind it.

Barracks@House
2 weeks ago on the 18th December 2007, had lunch at Barracks@House located at Dempsey Road together with several The Digital Movement (TDM) members, ping.sg members and several guys from Microsoft. The reason for this lunch is because Joe Wilson who came all the way from Microsoft HQ wants to know the blogging scene in Singapore as part of his Asia Pacific visit. We discuss about lots of stuff including local politics, freedom of speech in Singapore, local media and what each of us think about Microsoft. It was a very good discussion and Nic is going to have more of this sort of lunch in the future. I can’t wait for the next one. Cheers to all those that I met during the lunch. It was nice meeting you all.

Last Day Of Year
This is the last day of the year before we proceed on to 2008 the year of the Olympics. 2007 has been quite a good year for me except for the fact that the USD keeps dropping, hopefully 2008 will be better for me and everyone else.

For the start, I can foresee that I will love 2008:

• New Hitachi 32″ LCD TV
• New Samsung 24″ or 27″ LCD Monitor
• New Intel Yorkfield Desktop Computer
• New Nokia N82 Mobile Phone
• New Ikea Table
• New Swissflex Spectacles

Woot!

2007/2008 Sem 1 Examination for COMPUTING 2

» CS2105 Introduction to Computer Networks A-
» CS3214 Information Systems Development Project A-
» CS3253 Management of Information Systems B
» GEK1531 Introduction to Cybercrime B+
» CAP: 3.65

I am so sorry guys and girls for CS3214, I think you all put in more effort than me into it and I think you are deserved the same grades as me, I didn’t even expect that I will get this grade.