Carpe Diem - seize the day

BE THE BEST VS DO THE BEST

2011-11-01T19:01:00.000-07:00

Most parents tell their kids to be the best in school, do you think is that the right statement ??

Well for me such a statement is more toward pressuring the kids, make them stressed up and end up to do cheating in order to score the best. I can’t say most of the kids but I’ll say some of the kids having bad attitude to relieve their stress became bullies in school. It’s because kids misunderstood the meaning “be the best”.

As the parents, we should encourage them not giving them any pressures and give them all the positive energy (the positive thinking), e.g. by saying “do all your best in the exam” instead of “I want to see the perfect score in your exam”. You all might heard about the kid's psychology about how do they absorb and practice their words. Kids tends to follow/copy exactly every single word that came out from other people's mouth because they are still pure and innocent. They don't really understand how to interact with other people out there so what they normally do follow their role model / idol, whoever that they think is someone they trust, able to listen their stories / complaints and care about them. Such a person is not a must from family; it might be a close friend from school or someone from the neighborhood. And that person plays a very important role during the growth and development of the kid. Once your kid admire or close with some particular person, we need to be aware of it.

We want our next generation to be someone who able contributes something good / useful to the society. It doesn't mean they need to be number one (the best), as long they do their best during their lifetime to improve the society then it's all good. If you said you are the best then you didn't give yourself a chance to improve. Do your best in everything you do so you could able to do things better and better.

Choosing the right computer

2011-10-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

Previously I revealed the secret how to detect fake or real Luwak Coffee, and now I going to explain how to choose a computer that fit your needs.

1. First thing first before you look for any computer you need to think how much is your budget that you willing to spend?! Do not over your budget!!

2. Think what kind of computer do you need? If you are often on business trip / travelling or move your resident then you needs to think getting a laptop instead of desktop. But if you are more likely using it as home computer or office computer then get a desktop. Reason: a) because desktop is much cheaper comparing to laptop. eg, By spending 300-400 USD you could get a desktop which having same specification of 800-1000 USD laptop. b) because desktop is more durable and easier to fix than laptop. eg, If your desktop monitor having some dead dots or it’s totally dead you could easily replace it with the new one without even thinking to fix it because most of the time the repair cost is not worth the money. But with laptop, when the laptop’s monitor has problem, you got 2 solution either repair/replace the monitor or buying a new laptop. Due to the price of laptop’s monitor is really expensive most of the people replace it with normal desktop monitor. By replacing to normal monitor then you’re losing a very big asset of laptop feature which is the convenient to travel with your laptop because it turns into a desktop because of the monitor.

3. When you decided which type of computer you going to buy, then start to make a checklist what kind of things do u want to do on the computer. eg, graphic design, gaming, writing paper, do your assignment, etc.

4. After you done with the checklist, start from the most priority things on the list. Example: my lists are watch movies, write articles, read emails, chatting, and gaming. Then I’m going to search on internet what kind of graphic card and sound card do I need to make me feel good while watching my movies. If you think the movies you going to watch are not necessary to have a very good graphic card and sound card then don’t buy any of them yet because the motherboard itself already have a basic built-in graphic card and sound card. Go to the next item on the list, writing, reading and chatting doesn’t really need any additional hardware to do it. Next is gaming which need better graphic, sound effect and ram then search on internet which type graphic card required to play your game, because nowadays there are certain graphic requirement to play them. Otherwise the display on monitor for that game is going to be terrible or it might black out.

5. So far we only discuss about graphic card, sound card and ram. Now we go into processor which is the most important hardware in the computer. For processor normally we saw about few Gb speed. The speed their talking about is the clock speed which is determine how fast they process the data. And number of the core is means how many cpu process the data. Eg, dual core 2.5 Gb means when they process a data X, they will split data X into 2 then process each of the part with 2.5 Gb clock speed. So total about 2.5 Gb times 2 = 5 Gb. Let’s say quad core 1.7 Gb means the data split into 4 parts and with the speed 1.7 Gb. Total about 1.7 Gb times 4 = 6.8 Gb. A lot people misunderstood concept about the speed, they only compare the speed but not total speed. For current situation only those graphic design software especially the rendering part and some game have the capability to use quad core processor. So I personally recommend people to buy dual core for now till most of the software is able to process using quad core. It’s also because of the price different between dual core and quad core is huge so I don’t think such a huge different price worth to buy.

6. After all the specification of computer, we are going to the brand. For hardware inside the computer, the most important thing are to check what the brand is and where it is made from. For building a desktop computer, we able to choose by ourselves. But for laptop we can’t do it ourselves because the component inside the laptop is smaller than much complicated compare to desktop. For laptop brand, I recommend to buy Toshiba / HP / Lenovo. Those brands have much better build of laptop compare with other brand but make sure you order them from official website not buying from retailer. Because some retailers intentionally change the hardware inside to lower quality and causes the laptop broke down easily.

That’s it for now. I’ll update if there is any new product out there with a nice specification and reasonable price.

Changing the internet bandwidth for windows os

2011-10-19T15:21:00.000-07:00

I’ve been using windows for almost 15 years, so far as I know that most of windows os default bandwidth setting for internet connection up to 20% from the total bandwidth. These setting can be changed to maximize the internet bandwidth which allow user to experience better internet connection by removing the limitation.

These are the step :

1. Click “Start”

2. Click “run” (windows xp) / type on the search area (windows vista and 7)

3. Type “gpedit.msc”

4. Click “Ok” (windows xp) / type “enter” (windows vista and 7)

5. Choose “Computer Configuration” >> “Administrative Templates” >> “Network”

6. Click “QoS Packet Scheduler”

7. Click “Limit Reservable Bandwidth”

8. Change the setting to “Enable”

9. Then set the bandwidth limit to “0” (zero)

10. Click “Apply” then “Ok”

11. To make these changes applied, you need to restart the computer

Hope this instruction able to help those people in area with low speed internet connection.

LUWAK COFFEE

2011-10-18T01:28:00.001-07:00

Luwak Coffee is one of the most expensive types of coffee in the world. It was originated from Southeast Asia region. Due to the price and the demand of Luwak Coffee is really high, some of the supplier / seller tried to scam people by blending the normal coffee bean with the real Luwak Coffee bean. We hardly detect them if it is in powder form but we could easily notice when it was still green bean (unroasted green bean). These are few steps to analyze whether the coffee bean is real or fake Luwak Coffee.

1. Real Luwak Coffee green bean tends to have a nice smooth surface without any flaws. In here, flaws mean the green coffee beans have some black dots and sometimes it doesn’t appear as a whole bean (broken bean). The real Luwak Coffee bean usually have a perfect physical rarely have black dots or broken, because the animal (Luwak) have strong instinct to choose only the very best coffee fruit. Therefore, the green bean of Luwak Coffee tends to be in perfect condition.

2. Another physical different between normal coffee and Luwak Coffee green bean are the color and the smell. The real Luwak Coffee green bean has yellowish color and better smell (stronger aroma). Those people who mixed/blended normal coffee into Luwak coffee bean will be obviously noticed because the yellowish color is not evenly distributed and having some greenish color. The yellowish color was from the perfect fermentation inside the animal’s (Luwak’s) stomach.

**warning about the color, some people use paint to color those beans in order to meet the requirement of physical luwak coffee bean.

3. Husk of Luwak Coffee easily fall off during process while the normal coffee’s husk harder to fall off or stay with the bean.

Besides physical form, we could also detect fake or real Luwak Coffee by tasting it. Some people who has low caffeine tolerance normally will get stomache, cold sweating, feeling to puke and some even faint. Those people are the one able to detect instantly whether it is real or fake Luwak Coffee, because Luwak Coffee has very low caffeine almost consider zero caffeine (tested in the lab).

time schedule for healthy lifestyle

2011-10-15T01:15:00.000-07:00