[Survey] Simple survey for my assignment

The link below will direct you to the survey page. Simply answer all 5 questions and click Submit button.

Survey Link

[Personal Sharing] Short essay I wrote about myself to YTLC after nominated

‘Seek not to find who you are. Seek to find who you want to be’. Quote that I first saw in my sister’s web profile and felt that it is a meaningful quote. However, till present, I still have not completely found out what I want to be.

I was born in a poor family, but thankful it is not too bad. This caused my life from 1 year old until now is just as usual as other, primary school, secondary school then university. Thru that, I know I must earn more knowledge, get better academic result so I can join the competitive working environment nowadays. But no matter how much I study, I feel that I can’t compete with oversea student. A lot of them are able to create something new at my age.

This brought me to a road that is not comfort to walk. Every choice before I made, I will think not only twice, but more than that. After I made, I rethink again and sometimes I have insomnia. I really hope there is something, no matter a person or just object but not God, can brings me out from this confusion that caused by future.

To conclude my message, I am just a teenager that confused by his own future and do not know what I want to be.

[Technology/Game] Microsoft's Kinect, defeats Nintendo Wii?

Microsoft's Kinect, is a controller-free system for its Xbox 360 gaming console and in my opinion, it is even better than the Nintendo Wii.




Kinect doesn't has any controller for the player to hold, it uses 3 camera sensors and 4 microphones which provide the system 3D motion capture, facial recognition and voice recognition. Unlike Ninteno Wii that only reads the movement of arms, the Kinect able to reads full body movements and accept voice commands as well. It is believed that the system able to track up to six persons simultaneously, including two active players.

In addition, the Microsoft is still developing Kinect so the system can be supported by PCs as well via the future Microsoft operating system, Window 8.



For more information, you may google, wiki or go to the links below:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/11/03/kinect.video.game/ (Latest news of Kinect)

http://windows8beta.com/category/general (Information of Window 8)

[Technology/Green] ICT continues playing important role in the world

Sure you know that Information Communication and Technology (ICT) is a very important element in business world now. With the present of ICT, business procedures are now can be done in shorter time and easier. But do you think of that ICT can save the Earth?

Leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace, Fujitstu Ltd believes that the help of ICT, emissions of Carbon-dioxide CO2 worldwide can be reduced, estimated 15 million tons by 2012.

The use of satellite prediction system in fishing industry allowed fishermen lower their fuel cost by locating best fishing grounds for them.

The use of cloud computing, greatly reduces amount of servers in an organization and electric power consumption.

Digitize materials like files, books reduces materials' consumption and video conferencing reduces travel-cost.

That's all, content above is summarized version of article in thestaronline website:
http://techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2010/10/29/it_news/20101101165253&sec

[Technology] Blekko - the alternative search engine

Had been a long time since the last news about Blekko, the alternative search engine.
It is recommended for you to know about this if you are an undergraduate student.

The main advantage of Blekko is it is designed to eliminate spam search results. Example if you are using Google or Yahoo, you will see a lot of results while some of them are not related to what you want to search.

However, if you use Blekko, with the help of slashtags, a new tech developed by Blekko where its main job is to determine which category do a search query fall into when a user's search query is submitted. Hence, the results generated are guaranteed as high quality sites and it is beneficial for university students who always search for their assignment.

The Blekko is current in public beta stage. Wait until the time the Blekko is release officially, we will see how true is what they said.

For more information, kindly view http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/11/01/blekko.search.launch.mashable/index.html?npt=NP1

[Technology] Counter attack to the Firesheep !!

The world of hack yesterday can be totally different from today's. Few days ago, the release of Firesheep, which is a hacking add-on for Firefox that able to steal other people's login information of facebook, twitter and etc makes those so called 'hackers' happy. But today, with the release of Fireshepherd, those 'hackers' are again unhappy.

The Fireshepherd was developed by an engineering student, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson from the University of Iceland. The Fireshepherd is a small console program that can floods the network with packets that designed to crash the Firesheep program in the same network. However, malicious users can patch up the Firesheep's flaw that Fireshepherd exploited but the creator of Fireshepherd, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson has vowed that he will fight Firesheep until the end.

Personal advise to you all, no matter what will happen between the Firesheep and Fireshepherd, just try to avoid from connecting to a public Wi-Fi access point. Remember that there is not only Firesheep, there are few more 'not so friendly' (do not have friendly GUI) packet sniffing programs actually can be used by hackers that able to capture other people's login information.

More information on Firesheep please refer to my previous post:
http://hengchuen.blogspot.com/2010/10/technology-public-wi-fi-destroyer.html

[Mystery] Time-traveler spotted in silent firm in 1928

It is not surprising when you see a modern building in a TVB drama while the drama's settings is actually few hundreds ago, right? How about this, a woman hold a hearing device (mobile phone) in a silent firm??

Do watch this video.




For more information, kindly view http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/10/28/charlie.chaplin.circus.time.travel/index.html?npt=NP1

[Technology] Public Wi-fi Destroyer - The Firesheep

How often do you go to a coffee shop with a laptop along with you to have a taste of coffee? Will you login your facebook? or twitter or whatever that required you to enter your ID and password? Then, how secure do you think your information is?



Not really secure before October but it is much more dangerous after October. Yes, With the recent release of Firesheep, which an addon for firefox browser, it really enables a really NOOB computer user able to steal other people login information damn easily.



What the Firesheep do are just filtering packets that are not from port 80/8080 (HTTP), get the login information from the hexadecimal packet and create a GUI for users so the can get the login information of others in just a few clicks. What you really have to worry is that the program behind that actually executes the commands, the Wincpap ( or Unix Libraries). It will actually captures every single packet in the Wi-Fi network. However, the packets are basically unreadable by novices. But with the existence of Firesheep, the world of hack changed again.



For your information, the director of Firefox stated that his team will not do anything on the Firesheep since the Firesheep did not really exploit any vulnerabilities of their browser. So, it is totally on your own responsibilities to prevent your information from getting hijacked now.



After reading the post, will you still login your Facebook, Friendster or Twitter in a public Wi-Fi network in the future?

[Personal Sharing] I don't speak doesn't mean I'm stupid

" I don't speak doesn't mean I'm stupid " I believe that this is a very common quote among the Chinese.



The quote is simple to understand, but difficult to implement it in our life. This is especially important when you are interacting with someone.



When someone is speaking, the content may not be the 100% true and not that really important, you can choose to decline what he says and correct him or not. Yet, correcting other persons' mistake in a good manner is another story, which it is actually requires some skills in order to avoid conflict. Not declining guarantees peace between you and the speaker. If what he says is still acceptable, better don't decline it. You probably don't want to take risk even you are good in interacting with others.



However, if the false message, or so called "acceptable" message is important or the delivery of message to another person does really happens. You better decline it and correct them in a good manner with fact, not with your imagination or whatever. This is to avoid the spreading of false message.

[Lucky Draw Competition] Stand a chance to win the hot items in the town !!!

Stand a chance to win the hot items in the town !!

go http://www.facebook.com/CIMBMalaysia?v=app_127982550583310

1. Choose the 2 items you like the most (ex. IPHONE AND HTC DESIRE), next
2. Like the group, next
3. Enter your handphone number, next
4. Scroll down and there is a link beside 'Share link', copy the link and send to me via one of the methods mentioned below, I need the link.

example of the link: http://apps.facebook.com/cimbtoogoodtobetrue/receiving.php?h1=9520c593b732641359c84edbf0258755&h2=6b440cd1bcf3d16b57dc7d43901fcbcc&sid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Methods:
1. e-mail to hengchuen@live.com
2. send a message to www.facebook.com/hengchuen (recommended for facebook user)
3. message me in msn messenger if you will to add me as your friend in msn


Will only call you if you won the contest! Do not worry about spams.

You will have a chance of winning the 2 items you choose.

[Personal Sharing] Meaningful Day

LOL XD today is a meaningful day for me ^^
woke up at 7.30am and went to west lake to play basketball with my secondary friends( Leong Tat , Kent Pin ) and Zi Hao ( think this is his name because I just knew him yterday)..

but we are really old already..2 7points-matches continuously already made us dying..haha..

and then went for breakfast..

after that we had some good Left For Dead 2 games with them..lol..caused the CC damn busuk with our smell..hahaha !!! Sorry A Station !!!

not bad for me because there is already long time since the last time I play basketball and go da gei with my secondary friends..^^