Most Days are fine, Some Days are tired.

updates 2: LOL...after putting in the Windows 7 disc, then realised i have XP and Vista Business for the Fujitsu, this means that i would not be able to do an in-place upgrade to Win 7 Home Premium...is this another sign that i should not recontract the broadband on mobile? LOL

updates: now that i'm reverting the Fujitsu to Vista...the notion just came back to me to attempt an in-place upgrade to try out the huawei e180 modem...LOL...

so, looks like unless i'm willing to shelf out another S$200+ for another Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade, I'd to revert the Fujitsu laptop to Vista.

i went to Challenger, and walked around Funan Centre and the shops did not seem to be selling the Family Pack!?

so far, everything i'm doing on Windows 7 on the Gateway 11" laptop seems OK.

all except this USB Huawei E180 modem, which keep "hanging" the Windows 7.

i called Singtel and they gave me the instruction to download the dashboard update, which i did, but it still hanged! :(

the longest i have so far use before hang was 12 minutes!! then the machine just freezed!!

i know of ppl who also using huawei modem and did not encounter such issues.

i let my colleague used my modem on his win 7 laptop, also no such issue...

so, why...?

it now seems clear that i should just stick to using iPhone for the internet tethering, and save my money by not subscribing to another broadband on mobile plan...

it's fortunate that i had only signed up for one year and next month is the last month...

so, looks like i shall not recontract any further...

the main difference between mine and my colleague was i did a clean install whilst my colleague did an in-place upgrade.

if i really want to satisfy my curiosity, i could roll back everything on the Gateway to factory setting, meaning Vista, and then do an inplace upgrade to win 7, and then try again. and when i need to activate win 7, probably have to call them.

i don't think i'm currently in that mood to do all these...not recontract is probably a better option for me.

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this is not unique to Challenger, why do they have to stick price tag over the instructions?

it does not matter whether i understand Japanese words or not, there are pictures for references!

there are some retailers even paste the price tag on the book cover, and then wrap with transparent plastic...for goodness sake, if you are going to wrap that book, then wrap it up first before you stick that price tag!!

this is about service, common sense!

and yes, it's always the little things that i pick on.

i got this from a female schoolmate, when i was in Primary 5 (she was in Primary 6 then), I think. there was another figurine but it got lost somehow...and even this one has got some parts chipped off - carelessness of the maid.

i had asked around, even my cousin whom i thought still had contact with her.

i got to know her most likely on that day when there was a staff meeting, and she came to our class with my cousin to ensure the class was in order. they started some kind of a word game, and i knew my cousin was going to pick on me...i still remember i wrote one word "versus", and both of them said there's no such word... :(

i only remember her english name as "Evelyn", that's was it... was "Ng" her surname...?

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my colleague went back to Malaysia, and I took over to conduct a briefing to our customers on the forthcoming new system...

actually, he was around in the morning, but it was decided that i should take over from the morning.

anyway, as i'd told the audience, the last time i stood in front of an audience was way back when i was in Primary 4 or about 10 years old, reciting a poem...

but surprising, i was not as nervous as i thought i might be.

i did however, attempted to go through his slides, and think about what to say, or add a couple of slides - actually, not very important slides, it was one slide to show my name, another slide showing "Q & A" - and i attempted to write down my thoughts as notes in the powerpoint, but in the end, i had only wrote a few lines...

i went to bed around 1am, tired, sleepy, and was hoping i would not overslept...

i was hoping i would not yawn while conducting the briefing, but i suppose when you are the person talking and thinking, you won't yawn...

and i realised the things that i had said in the morning are different from what i had presented in the afternoon...

it was a good experience...

i wanted to crack jokes by using Steve Jobs - something along the line of wearing something similar to him - but i figured this audience probably do not know SJ...

and because of the huawei modem, it hang my Gateway laptop a few times the day before, that i brought along my Fujitsu as a backup. the Fujitsu also hang, and it was then that i realised it could be the modem that's the culprit, because when i use it without the modem, the laptop was fine...

well, guess what...

it might not have been the SD Card, Readyboost...

i found today, 13 Nov 09, that it is the huawei modem that is hanging windows 7!!

this is the broadband on mobile huawei modem...shucks!

so, i probably have to rely on iPhone Tethering for a while, until there's a driver for the modem...:(

i'll put back in the SD card and see if it hangs...

so, i had started using win 7 home premium since Monday, and this morning, all of a sudden, the system started to "hang" after a while, rebooted, and hang again, and it kept repeating for the entire morning...

the first thing i suspected was hardware problem which would be really bad luck for me...but i did not connect anything, and i was suspecting if it could have been the touchpad software...

then i saw the SD card which i had created for Readyboost on Vista.and i thought, maybe the readyboost under vista could not work under win 7, and i took it out...

presto! there's no "hanging" thereafter!

and i have reformatted the SD card under win 7...

updates: the thing was, after spending that much time to get it operationally ready, and plugged in the power before the meeting, somehow, it's not charging the battery, and in the end, i did not really use the laptop... :(

so, i got started installing Windows 7 Home Premium on Sunday, after my daughter's piano lesson, i took her to Funan Centre. There, the iPaq 2210 could only fetch S$20, so I decided to keep it. And so, I bought the Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade for S$219. 

The installation on the Fujitsu laptop was quite fast, all except for the fingerprint sensor driver.

but it was not so fast on the Gateway netbook, and here's an account of it:

prior to this, while installing on Fujitsu, I tried the Win 7 64-bit edition, but because I was already in Win Vista 32-bit environment, i could not proceed, other than booting from the disc...but since most of my software are still 32-bits, i went with Win 7 32-bits.

4:51:copy temp files

4:54: copying windows files, expanding

5:04: rebooted, continue to expand

5:15: reboot

5:18: completing installation (i went out for dinner around 5:30, and by the time I came home around 6:38, it had rebooted and did some basic config)

6:38: rebooted, basic config

6:41: downloading drivers

(forgot to take note of the various manufacturers...)

(oops, lost that MS Works 8.5, it was pre-installed)

7:00: unzipping, installing win7 drivers

(network card drivers, bluetooth)

7:19: installing AVG

7:20: Synaptics

8:16: need to look for the ATI video drivers, otherwise no AERO!

8:53: Stupid! Should have just use Windows Update to get that video driver!!

9:06: Done!

9:14: installing iTunes, etc.

1:16: quite done

so, between 1:16 to 2am, i managed to get my Gateway netbook operationally ready for Monday. The key software being MS Office which I had installed MS Office 2010 Technical Preview.

However, last night, i realised that i had also bought MS Office 2007, and uninstalled the Technical Preview and switched back to 2007 version...

installation was quite fast, the major part is to get the drivers and installing the softwares.

look, i think our local publishers have really got to take a serious look at our local book scene.

first of all, i'm long-winded, this is a topic that i have blogged about before...

secondly, the number of Singaporeans, PRs, etc using a smartphone has really exploded...just consider iPhone and those Windows Mobile.

i just bought the book "Impression of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore", and while it is not like MM Lee's two huge memoirs, it is still a heavy book to carry around!

so, to our local publishers, you really have to take a good look at ebooks.