I am Legend preview December 15, 2007

Last Tuesday I got a chance to attend a press preview of I am Legend. The truth is, I expected a lot of things to come out from this movie particularly because Will Smith starred in this film and lately I have watched a lot of end-of-humanity, diseases and zombie kind-of-movie.

The story revolves around Robert Neville played by Will Smith, a US Army scientist who battle weird killer disease. In 2007 a scientist have found a cure for cancer by modifying and manipulation a strain of unknown virus. At first, all seem to work fine but not until one after another cancer patient cured using this treatment method start to die. Cut the story short, almost 90% of world population was wiped out from the face of the earth because of this and Neville, since he’s immune to this virus, battle to survive alone in Manhattan, New York.

Hook up Maxis wireless broadband connection with wireless router December 6, 2007

Yesterday my boss gave me a wireless maxis broadband modem and a TP-Link TL-WR542G wireless router and asked me to hook-up those two devices so that our wireless maxis broadband connection can be shared throughout the entire office. My office currently using Streamyx Enterprise 1.0Mbps package and this maxis wireless broadband serves as a backup and emergency Internet connection plan.

 

The task was quite important given that we have encountered so many problems and downtimes on our streamyx connection. Most recently was just last week when we had almost no Internet connection for almost 4 days as a result of bad luck and mishaps that among others are unreliable technical support, faulty modem and also faulty splitter (can you imagine all of that happened in one week?)

Hitman screening at GSC Mid Valley November 28, 2007

One of the perk that staffs in my company enjoy are free screening of latest movie. Usually it’s held one or two days before the official release at the cinemas nationwide. That’s why I enjoy working here

Last week, I got a chance to watch the quite anticipated movie based on a popular PC game published by Eidos, Hitman. I must admit I’m not a fan of game-turns-into-a-movie mainly because most them sucks (no thanks to you Mr. Uwe Boll). To name a few like Doom, DOA, Resident Evil (except for the latest incarnation, Extinction) failed to make box-office collection.

Even my colleague who writes movie review warned me not to bring my gamer’s mentality when watching this movies or else she said I wouldn’t enjoyed it much. Luckily for me, I never played Hitman not even once in my entire life (blame it on my aging Radeon 8500le graphic card ), so I don’t have any expectation whatsoever when I step into the screening hall.

BOOTMGR is compressed November 26, 2007

Last Thursday, I’m doing a routine disk cleanup on my office’s PC C: drive, as the current free space is reduced to only 516MB. This time however, I did checked the box for compressed old files, as doing so will save me approximately 4GB of space. Found out later that my choice wasn’t a very good one.
Next day, when I switched on my PC, I was greeted by an error message right after POST screen. I got this error message on my screen,

BOOTMGR is compressed. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart

Well pressing ctrl+alt+del didn’t helped much, it’s just restrted the PC again and the same error message is displayed when POST is completed. So I turn to the trustworthy Uncle Google for help but mostly I found out this problem happened on Vista installed PC, while my PC is running Windows 2000 Professional as a primary OS with Microsoft Longhorn (that Vista in beta version) as a secondary OS in a dual boot configuration. So none of the solution offered worked for me.