Memory requirement most people don't understand

I think many people in the IT world will know what the memory requirement is. Actually what is the requirement for a system is considered enough? Let say, database software purchased require 256 MB of RAM. Is it mean you just need to install 256 MB RAM to the system so that it fulfill the software requirements? I think that is stupid decision.

Let take a look for a hard disk spaces requirement for that database. It may stated that it require 2 GB of free space. Does it mean you only need to purchase 2GB of hard disk? The answer is definitely “NO”. This is because you have to think of the other occurrences of software that will use that hard disk also. So the actual hard disk will take more than 2GB. Why? Windows it self is almost takes 2 GB of hard disk spaces. Other software such as Java (100 MB), Office (500 MB) and etc (1 GB). So the “concurrent” spaces require is about 5.6 GB. Add 20% for performance issue, the spaces you need for that system is roughly 6.5GB.

Now back to the memory case. We should consider the “concurrent” application that is running. Windows takes 128MB, Java takes 128MB and then the database takes 256MB. Total up would be 512 MB. So this is the way we calculate the total amount of RAM required for a system. Not blindly put the particular software requirement as a standard.

聖誕節快樂!! Merry Christmas !!

聖誕節快樂!!

Merry Christmas !!

Java...

JAVA… Once has been classified to be a platforms independence mid-layer engine. Now the JAVA so called multi-platform has been narrowed down. SUN has cheated the software developers. As I know, java platform cannot run on “Console” or “DOS” (in Microsoft platform) Mode. It also cannot support the older Windows such as windows 3.11. It even has problems to run on Windows 95 and Windows 98 (not SE).

At first, many people said JAVA was very secure. But recently many viruses are come from java itself. But I most hate JAVA is SLOW… very slow… It takes a lot of memory. Not user friendly.

The new "Apprentice".

You know him? He is the new “Apprentice” for Donald Trump. What so excited about this guy? Ok… have a look at his profile below.

Randal, 34, is the founder, president and CEO of his fifth venture "BCT Partners," a multi-million dollar management, technology and policy consulting firm based in Newark, N.J., that works with corporations, government agencies, philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Hightstown, N.J., he holds five academic degrees in engineering, business and technology including a B.S. from Rutgers University, an M.S. from the University of Oxford in England as a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.S., M.B.A. and Ph.D. from MIT. A former college championship track and field athlete, he has received numerous awards for his accomplishments as an entrepreneur and technologist including the National Society of Black Engineers "National Member of the Year." A Leadership New Jersey Fellow and Next Generation Leadership Fellow, Randal has been featured by Black Enterprise magazine and Ebony magazine in their "30 Leaders of the Future" issue. He is a proud member of First Baptist Church in Somerset, N.J., where he resides.

I saw the show on the local channel. He is so impress me when he is a “Project Manager”. From that show onward, I already know he is “The One” for this season.

Need for Speed Most Wanted (4 Stars)

After complaints a lot to the EA Games, this time EA came out with more stable game engine. This time I haven’t experience any crash yet. The game engines also much faster and much better graphics experience than Need for Speed Underground, Need for Speed Underground 2 and CNC General.

Game is nice. I have been chased by many police petrol cars and smash everything. Oh… There also have helicopter too… So far I have one comment… When I was “spotted” by police, the police car is just like ghost. They can sudden appear everyway, but when the situation is “cold” the police is suddenly disappear. Strange, isn’t it?

Borland Developer Studio 2006 (codename "Dexter")

After long waiting (much longer than Visual Studio 2005), the latest development tool from Borland is start it "Preview" version. I am so wondering what it has improved after the last release of Borland C++ Builder 6.xx. I manage to get the preview edition from my friend. It consists of 4 CDs.

I would like to see a “waalaa” from Borland after they has been “rest” for so many years. I took the CD (Disk 1) and insert into my DVD-ROM. The screen appear and shown a lot of items there. I click on the “Borland Developer Studio 2006”. Oooops… What a disappointed. It prompts me to install “dotnet Framework 1.1” and “dotnet Framework SDK 1.1”. WHAT!! WHAT!! After so long user has been waiting… and they still adapted to dotnet 1.1?

I know the dotnet Framework is officially release just a month ago. But it has been in the BETA nearly 2 years already. If Borland put the “BETA” framework 2.0 to the preview of Borland Developer Studio 2006, what’s wrong is it? The dotnet Framework 1.1 has long working well in the Delphi 2005 and the C# Builder 2005. I don’t know why Borland is so left behind to Microsoft technology. If they think Microsoft technology is a burden, then they should leave that product already and continue to focus on their own “brand” which is C++ Builder.

I don’t know is this part of it marketing strategy or what, but I think that Borland is start losing it trust to all their users especially the DELPHI user.

Technology ?

Technology... Word that scare people away. What do you think technology is? People think that new technology is very troublesome. They need to take very long time to learn from it. People think that "technology" is kind of complicated process, which involve study like in the school or colleague time. But do we know, main purpose of technology is to reduce the human trouble, mistake and pain.

To me, there are 2 technology peoples groups. One of them is technology “users”, which they are benefited from the advancement of technology. Second type is technology "developers", which these people responsible in the technology advancement.

Technology “users” require no experience, on the other hand it need no skillful people. Why? Technology is some sort of the key to future. Without solving the technology puzzles, we will never moving forward. Like the most recent one is the bird flu. People will forever scare to eat chickens and ducks. But if the cure has been solved, do you think how many people interest get to know the process of curing this.

Technology “developers”, is the behind the scene worker. Some of them work for dreams and hobbies. Some of them work just for $$$... And some of them just work because of responsibility. Whatever they work for, they are responsible for human future.

So, it is up to you to decide which side you want to be. You can be a car mechanic or RND engineer or just driving a VTEC car. You can be developer or programmer or just a normal Windows and Office user which just using it. Make up your mind and decide which side you want to be.

ADIEMUS I-Songs of Sanctuary

Nice album to introduce....



厂牌: Virgin Records
时间: 2003
产地: E.U.
数量: 1 CD
类型: 古典/人声
评分: ★★★★★

专辑介绍:

ADIEMUS系列作品中的原版第一张专辑。
通过此碟，KARL铺就了一条通过结合与新世纪，
古典和民族乐风的而成就的创世纪系列音乐作品ADIEMUS。
并且成为和声音乐的典范，并为其他作者所学习和运用!

女声类似于非洲土着雄壮的呐喊和民族乐风的纯朴结合得如此的魅力无边!
比较与ERA系列，ERA注重与动感和节奏。
比较与VANGELIS的作品，VANGELIS让我们崇拜和敬仰与音乐空间的宏伟和音域的宽广。
而这里，ADIEMUS更让我们有亲切感,更感温馨和融洽

Wan's Comic Blog...

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Slooooooow !!!

Hoho.... I finally installed the trial version of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. It's took me around 3 Hours to complete the installation from Windows to the SQL Server 2005.

First impression.... “SLOW!!!” After finish install the Windows XP, the memory usage roughly about 100 MB. But after install the VSTS 2005, it increased to 300 MB!!... Since my desktop only have 512 MB. Then all seem to be slowing down. In this case, better buy an extra RAM before I get fed-up...

101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005

Finally Microsoft 101 samples for Visual Studio 2005 is ready for download. It available in 2 languages，which is VB 2005 and the VC# 2005. I hope that microsoft will consider the VJ# too.

It is quite surprising me that the "logic" coding is so simple. I even have feeling that one day all the developer will become a software designer.

Ruuuuunnn !!! The Sky Is Falling

I felt this animated movie is the best i ever watch in cinema. It is short, but it is entertainable. For those like it very much, you can download the ScreenMate, WallPaper, Screen Saver from the official website http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/chickenlittle/. Enjoy.

The Fair Is Coming, PC Fair....

Hah... the final PC Fair for the year 2005. Hmm... This time I think I will purchase few more blank DVD ROM, since i need to free some space on my hard disk. I also hope that AMD will show their Multi-Core technology during this event.

Launch of the Visual Studio 2005

It must be very excited to see VS 2005 is finally launch in Malaysia. This event is even more interesting when the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is came to the Malaysia launch.

But the organizer is downscale the developers in Malaysia due to the hall prepared is quite pack, even there is no one standing behind. I thought this is a big event for Microsoft since these products has been delayed more than a year.

Visual Studio 2005

Finally the long awaited Visual Studio 2005 is arriving. Based on my testing of the BETA2 Team Suite, this version of Visual Studio 2005 gave me a mixture of good and bad impression.

The good one is Microsoft has reduced further the programming coding needs, this help the programmer focus on their own solution logic than non-related bugs. They also build in few hundred of "templetes" (called Snippet) easy for user to developing software.

The bad side, ofcourse is the memory usage. By first load of the IDE (BETA2) it took my PC almost 400 MB of memory, it is huge since there has not load any code yet. The other bad thing happen is the memory "management" bugs. The memory usage is kept on increasing while you compile and re-compile the code. This make me feel lazy to testing further more on this BETA 2. I hope the released version will solve these problems.

Age Of Empires III, The Game.

I have tried this game. And found out that this is also a very good game produced by Ensemble Studio. Again, the game engine is very good (at least not crash like EA). The game performance is also good as i tested on the Atlon 1800+ 512 MB RAM and 128 ATI RADEON 9550 Graphics Card.

Game Playable ? Ofcourse. The game seem more "intelligent" than before. The Graphics, Performance and the Stability is much more better than previous. Anyway I am still "beginning" in this AOE 3.

Rate : 4 of 5

Serious Sam II, The Game.

I was able to play this game (DEMO) in my pc. The game engine is very good which compare to EA. The 3D is so realistic and sometime I felt myself is in the game. Anyway i gave this game 75 marks out of 100 (or 4 out of 5 stars). The cheats is not same as last time that we used to press "~" during gameplay. This time they has make it as menu, and the score will wiped out if you using the cheats.

Cheat: [Left Shift][F3][F4][F3][F4][F3][F4][F1] (during game play)

Happy playing

Files organizer project.

I am starting the new project will help me to organize my files so that no need to search thro' the whole hard disk for a single file using the Windows Explorer Search. This idea is coming thro my mind when my files inside the hard disk is getting more and became very hard to maintain..

This project will using the database as the "metadata" of the files for easy searching. The interface will using the VB.NET (most probably)..

Reaching the capacity...

My storage space will be run out again in few weeks time. This time I will purchase the bigger storage, maybe 200 - 250 GB hard disk. So my total storage size will be more than 500 GB. :p