Pieces of Santus

This morning, I opened Our Daily Bread and this paragraph was the first thing I read,

If  we died tomorrow, the company that we are working could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family left behind would fee the loss for the rest of their lives. Why then do we invest so much in our work and so little in our children’s lives?

I’m stunned, for how long it has been since I …..

I missed my family…

hmm 08.00 o’ clock, better be start working…

Weird huh? That was also what I thought.

I got a complaint from a client that Sound Recorder in Microsoft Word did not work in some machines. We used Sound Recorder as one of the functionality in the Microsoft Word Add -In that we developed. Apparently this is a limitation of older version of Sound Recorder. it would not work  in the machine mith memory more than 2 GB.

According to Wikipedia this is a design fault.
“On computers with more than 2 GB of RAM, after recording (but not when playing), Sound Recorder will return an error message saying there is not enough memory. This is a design fault of older versions of Sound Recorder and cannot be resolved except by reducing the amount of available physical memory. ” more

I read more about in stack overflow forum (sorry forgot the link ), this program was created back then in windows 98.  Unfortunately the programmer use integer to store physical memory size.  Despite the fact that it could be wrong, it does explain the problem.  32 bit integer would only accept maximum value of 2,147,483,647  which is exactly 2GB.  Greater value would be evaluated as a negative number.

We couldn’t  put the blame entirely on the programmer, since back then in windows 98 period computer memory does not normally exceed this number.  Besides Windows 98 itself had problem in machine with large memory installed. Vista does not have this problem but the Sound Recorder  has less features and only able to produce wma files. In addition to that,  it does not seem to be integrated with Word anymore in some edition of the OS  (CMIIW).

Hmm interesting error  :D. What do you think?

Sometimes job can be boring and weekend is just the right time to do something different. Usually I would look forward to play volley ball every Saturday morning on the beach, but no game this week. What should I do? Working out is not an option since my body is still not ready for heavy exercise. Cooking is just too troublesome with limited utensil.

This Saturday, I was jogging with Indra and we were thinking that it should be a new routine with a vision of joining our company team for the Bali 10K which is usually held around Independence Day. Jogging was fun, but we definitely not ready for the 10K yet. We also found a new volley ball court near goodys. It is far but the court is covered by trees so no need to worry to be burned by sunlight. Shall we play here next week?

In the afternoon, Yuan and I went to Sanur. We were looking for Mangrove Forest but we went too far that we missed it. We arrived in an area which was being developed as tourist destination near Suwung. Unfortunately there was not much to see. There was turtle conservation and a beach with almost no sand? I was excited to go to the dolphin conservation but it seemed that we had to go to the sea in order to see the dolphin, besides the area was also restricted.

A beach near suwung, almost no sand.. more like a lake to me

alternate link

[Read the rest of this entry...]

Hmm it’s been awhile since my last post. I have been meaning to write something, but at the end of may my web was out of space. I decided to upgrade my hosting but the hosting company didn’t respond, so I turned to another hosting company. My order was processed afterwards, transfering the data was easy using cpanel and there was the wait to transfer my domain from the old hosting company. I didn’t know that the domain transfer would go through several steps and it usually takes about one week to finish. In my case it was much longer since it was not easy to contact the old hosting that the transfer request was failed once. In the end, I was able to get in touch with the company owner to get EPP transfer code and also have them approve the transfer request. So here I am, finally start blogging again

It is not easy for me to say that I can’t do something. I used to believe that if I say yes and try my best to get a task done, I would always be much closer to the goal even when I would fail in the end.  However, It is impossible do that for all tasks. It would just take too much time, demand too much energy that l would lose the time for myself. Then, I would start to feel unhappy and angry. Eventually the hidden emotion came out at wrong time and then I got myself additional bonus to think about. I should have known better how much effort I would willing to give.  Would it be worthed? Does it go along with my personal goal and value? I only get 24 hours a day! Oh yeah, I’m selfish, so what…