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“And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him an help meet for him.” - Genesis 2:18
I was back to attend an old friend’s wedding in Ipoh, and was the photographer for both the bride’s side of dinner and the matrimony session in the church.
After almost 2 years, and I went back to Langkawi for a short trip. This time with my new colleagues, and this was basically a teambuilding event and a short “lite and easy” trip to relax. We got a couple of chalets at the famous Pantai Cenang (Cenang Beach), which is located at the west side of the island.
Langkawi - Jewel of Kedah
Pantai Cenang (Cenang Beach ) @ Langkawi Island
Since this trip is partly a teambuilding event, there were activities to be completed. Thanks to both of our managers, whom has organized the Geo-Caching that leads us to different part of the island and accomplish tasks given in a total of 5 teams. Photos shown are the places that’s involved during the Geo-Caching.
Boy running on the beach @ Tanjung Rhu
Temurun Falls @ Langkawi Island
Temurun Falls @ Langkawi Island
Wandering cat nearby Skull Beach (Pantai Tengkorak) @ Langkawi
On top of the Geo-Caching, beach volley is a must at such a nice place.
Beach volleyball
On the last day, we’ve been to another famous attraction in Langkawi – The Seven Wells.
Seven Wells Falls (Telaga Tujuh) @ Langkawi
Seven Wells Falls (Telaga Tujuh) @ Langkawi
Stones and Water @ Seven Well Falls
Just went for a short trip to Bangkok last week, from 27th Oct to 31st Oct. It was basically a leisure trip with the idea to spend few days away from our normal working lives 
And made this a chance to meetup with our friend, whom has been working in Thailand for the past 2 years.
Thailand National Flag
Taken quite a number of photos during the trip, in various places, including Grand Palace, Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Arun…etc. we went for the Chao Phraya River Cruise as well, and taken some photos from the boat. Some photos are attached as follows.
Wat Phra Kaew
Dusit Maha Prasat Hall
Miniature Angkor Wat
Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang
In the Temple of the Dawn, Wat Arun.
Wat Arun in silhouette
Temple building within the Wat Arun
Main Prang in Wat Arun
Off we go~~~
During the Chao Phraya R iver Cruise
Wat Arunratchawararam
I LOVE U
Hotel along Chao Phraya
Great Temple
Guan Di Temple - 关帝庙
Floods at the riverside of Chao Phraya
On the go...
Auspicious and Luck - 吉祥如意
For more photos, feel free to drop by my Flickr.
This trailer was a remake by me together with a team of colleagues. It was an entry to a our 2010 IT Nite competition with James Bond as the theme.
Taken some free time to wander around Penang town area, and went to some heritage sites last week with my parents. We went to several places, including Kek Lok Si Temple, Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi, and Penang Peranakan Mansion.
Koi Fish @ Kek Lok Si
Some photos at Khoo Kongsi
Traditional Chinese Rounded Window
Hand-crafted Wooden Panel
Khoo Kongsi @ HDR
After Khoo Kongsi, we went for lunch and then to Penang Peranakan Mansion.
Traditional Peranakan Living Hall
Traditional Peranakan Bedroom Setup
Western influence @ Peranakan Mansion
Traditional Card Game - Cherki
Traditional Chinese Wooden Door
Full set of photos taken during that day is available at Flickr.
With the project going to third day, what we did is pretty much from Chapter 2 in the LFS book.
In virtualized environment, this is far more easier. Run the VirtualBox Manager and add another virtual harddisk to it before we booted up the Fedora 13 / any other host that you prefer.
Added another new disk under the SATA Controller with 5GB of size, calling it LFS.vdi. Boot up the VM and configure our partition for the build.
Create partition as usual, I use the whole 5GB space for the LFS, without any swap or different partition. Once partition is done, format it with new file system. I used ext3
mke2fs -jv /dev/sdb1
When view with the Disk Utility provided by Fedora itself, the whole 5.4GB has been utilized as a single partition with ext3 file system. This will be the LFS build environment.
After the partition and file system setup, we need to mount it to be useable.
export LFS=/mnt/lfs
mkdir -pv $LFS
mount -v -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 $LFS
To build LFS, which basically means building your whole Linux-based operating system from source code. There’s 2 ways at least, which involves using the LFS LiveCD itself as the host to compile kernel, utilities and other modules, you can use another Linux-based host to do that. In my project, I’m using Fedora 13, and I’m running it in a virtualized environment on top of Windows XP SP3. Before any compilation starts, it’s good to verify that any system requirements that the host OS must possess. A good way to look at it is double checking ur host OS specs with this web page.
First thing, fire up ur Fedora 13.
From the page, they provide you a bash script to dump all the versions and checking on the availability of a particular module. *the rights of the script belongs to LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org)
cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"#!/bin/bashexport LC_ALL=C # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4echo "/bin/sh -> `readlink -f /bin/sh`"echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-bison --version | head -n1if [ -e /usr/bin/yacc ]; then echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`"; else echo "yacc not found"; fibzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2diff --version | head -n1find --version | head -n1gawk --version | head -n1if [ -e /usr/bin/awk ]; then echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`"; else echo "awk not found"; figcc --version | head -n1/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d"," -f1grep --version | head -n1gzip --version | head -n1cat /proc/versionm4 --version | head -n1make --version | head -n1patch --version | head -n1echo Perl `perl -V:version`sed --version | head -n1tar --version | head -n1echo "Texinfo: `makeinfo --version | head -n1`"echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c && gcc -o dummy dummy.cif [ -x dummy ]; then echo "Compilation OK"; else echo "Compilation failed"; firm -f dummy.c dummy EOF bash version-check.sh
Below is the compilation of the result, and any actions I need to make sure the host environment is capable to compile LFS.
All modules that are available is either has higher versioning or comparatively same. But, a few modules is not installed.
First thing i installed was the bison, which is a GNU general-parser generator, especially useful for C development, which we need for LFS compilation.
I was using the Add/Remove Software for the installation by searching it and apply the package to my OS. I continue all this for other packages, and all manage to get the required versions easily, except gcc which has version 4.4.4 only.
Besides, to install gcc, you will be asked for more packages to be installed, as shown in the screen capture.
After all the hassle 
, i’ve rerun the shell script again, and this time no missing modules. Except, the gcc library is in version 4.4.4 instead of 4.4.3 as requested. Let’s try it out and see what happens.
This happens to me while i try to use sudo on any command, in case it happens to you, here is the solution.
1: su
2: Password: <ur_root_password>
3: chmod +w /etc/sudoers
4: echo 'raymond (ALL)=ALL ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
5: chmod -w /etc/sudoers
6: exit
What it does is to add ur account to the sudoers file by making it writable through ur root account (su = superuser).
It has been some time that I’ve touched anything on Linux environment. It came to my mind today which I wanna do a refresher crash course for myself by playing around with several Linux projects. The first thing came to me was the LFS, which I’ve stopped previously in the first few step during the compilation of GCC. Gonna build it again and this time complete it with BLFS at least. Last time I’ve tried building it from LFS LiveCD, then resorted to using Ubuntu 7.01. This time, I’m gonna use Fedora 13, which itself is a vritualized environment on top of the Windows XP SP3 as a host, running VirtualBox 3.26.
I jumped straight to where Fedora 13 has been successfully installed from the LiveCD.
First boot after installation from LiveCD.
Logging in with my credentials 
Default desktop settings, running at 800×600. To get other higher resolutions, you need to install the LinuxAdditions Package from VirtualBox
Mount the LinuxAdditions from Devices Menu on the VirtualBox
Run the Terminal
Navigate to the media, and install using the command sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
This is running in 1024 x 768.
