Thong Kuah's blog

Walking to work today, went past Westpac Lifeflight day - Coffee and donuts was given out instead of a sausage sizzle. Coffee and donuts?! I don’t what Westpac was thinking. Maybe it’s just me and my broken knee (I injured my knee). Noon came rise to futsal in the Civic Square. Turns out it was Brazillian National Day today, and one must celebrate with samba and football! Very nice, with sunshine and all. Too bad I don’t have a camera in my phone. In other news, Fortress Sydney has been breached. Yes, breached, by some comedians! Why bother when a bunch of TV actors can just waltz in. What really rankles me is the hypocrisy of the world leaders. What kind of leader shuts down peoples’ daily lives by blocking every major road in the city? Is there an emergency? No. If they have to meet, go meet out in the desert. Plenty of space, and no-one will be able to find you there. Safe. Update: Will you look at the comments by the Aussies at the news site! (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/06/2026199.htm) They roundly support the comedians. Quite light-hearted but sensible comments. It actually made me laugh.

Short update. I have started working at ProjectX, more well known for Smaps and ZoomIn. They use Ruby on Rails. No more Java!

Hmm…Today is Merdeka. In fact, it is the 50th anniversary since Malaysia became independent. Half a century, it deserves some celebration, but definitely not in this way. I wonder. By all means, shout Merdeka, but don’t do it in such a way that it rings hollow! I guess the opposition was caught, they should have expected something like this. However, such political savvy is hard to come by, from a party that does not seem to want to form the next government. Then again, the political environment and the electoral system is against anyone but the incumbent. Some news from Malaysia (may not be online long), and Malaysia (ala BBC). Some blog postings, and one from the source of all good. On a more local note, I like the way today’s Daffodil Day was organised. National Bank even organized a sausage sizzle outside their branches. Nice. People were giving most generously, many in 10 dollar notes. I’ll end with this problem, how does society move forward without sorting out its core problems (i.e constitution) ?

I have been having problems with my Feisty for some time now. Since I started using it for work, I have found that even running just Firefox and Eclipse will sometimes cause my computer to lockup and hang. I have hunted high and low until I noticed that … I have 0 swap memory! Indeed, I have created a swap partition but top and free now both report 0 swap memory. Once the problem is found, a solution is always found in Google’s index. This bug report and this one too has helped me solve the problem (we’ll see). Basically (taken verbatim from Nick, Fiesty Swap/hibernate fix: - Check swap: $ free | grep Swap If you see the follow then your Swap file is broken: Swap: 0 0 0 - Find the device name of swap: $ sudo fdisk -l UUID support appears to be broken as far as the Swap is concerned. - Edit fstab with correct non-UUID information: $ sudo gedit /etc/fstab - Edit resume with correct non-UUID information: $ sudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume Example: RESUME=/dev/sda6 - sudo update-initramfs -u - Reboot - Check swap if you want: $ free | grep Swap - Open some apps - Test hibernate And now I can run Eclipse, Firefox, top, rake test all at once! Will have to try out the hibernate though. update: This page here describes how to fix the problem of the laptop failing to resume after suspend, for fglrx users. Now my laptop is working as it should be!

Official Google Blog: First year of Google WiFi Ah, to have free wifi, Wellington. It will be like the Wish project, I’m afraid. :P

The School of Mathematical, Statistics and Computer Sciences (SMSCS) of Victoria has released last years Honours papers (well at least for the BIT ones). One of the papers is the report of yours truly. Have fun reading them all! [http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/graduates/archives/bitt/2006] ps. I am pleasantly surprised at how relevant my paper was to this rails plugin site.

It’s been a while since I blogged but I always find that I get my ideas for blogging when I am walking. That makes it pretty inconvenient, isn’t it? Wish I had a thought recorder ;) Anyone want to suggest one?

My dearest was featured in RedBubble in their latest newsletter (Bubblewrap). Scroll down to ‘The couch’ section :)

Well, Graduation came and went. Should post some graduation pics. See here! http://kuahyeow.blogspot.com/2007/08/graduation.html

Well, there’s been two episodes of the Tale of the White Lion. (Episode 1, Episode 2). Head on over to have a look!