Thursday, December 23, 2010

Pasal Duit Research

Masa makan2 utk Prof R masa meeting jabatan Jumaat lepas, Prof K suruh aku bagi tau harga alat MOCVD yg aku nak tu. Tapi ari tu aku tak sempat nak email kat die details sebab aku ade appointment ptg tu ngan Dr Su & Dr Fai kat Engineering. Petang/amalm tu pulak aku pegi Sug Buloh, pg tgk rumah.

Petang Ahad, time aku tgh pegi shopping kat Houz Depo, Prof R telefon bg tau VC welcoems for proposal utk dapatkan duit. Malam tu, pukul 8 malam, Prof R & aku prepare proposal dan listkan alat2 yg perlu, termasuklah duit utk HVPE yg aku tgh nak buat, dan banyak commercial instruments utk III-V semiconductor research yg lain, termasuklah MOCVD, mask-aligner, magnetron-sputtering, RIE/ICP, microscope, etc. Lepas abis ngan Prof R malam tu, balik rumah aku revise sket ape yg perlu... sampai pukul 3 setengah pagi, baru hantar balik yg dah revised version kat Prof R. Pagi dlm pukul 10 gitu, Prof R hantar ke VC, dgn CC kepada aku, Prof WH, dan Prof S.

Petang tu aku dlm kol 4 aku pegi sign Memorandum of Transfer (MoT) utk kondominium unit yg aku bali kat Cheras kat Messrs. Zulpadli & Edham kat Jalan Semarak. Dlm perjalanan balik tu, Prof R telefon bg tau VC agree utk bagi (allocate) RM13 juta utk research centre kami (ikut proposal yg kami buat tu). Alhamdulillah, rezeki nih kengkadang datang tetiba... tapi, Alhamdulillah...

Hari Selasa, Prof WH suruh buat 3 helai slide utk part aku nyer proposal, that is for III-Nitride Epitaxy and Device Fabrication. Terus terang aku bagi tau, design template yg die suruh aku ikut tu mmg tak professional, tak cantik, terlalu kebudak-budakan. So, aku amik masa la ubah balik kaler utk aku nyer kandungan/box/line utk bagi masuk dgn background kelabu dlm slide tu. Aku selalunya pakai design background putih, so senang nak masuk. Yg ni, background kaler kelabu... so aku kena buat tulisan kaler biru, dan buat kotak2 yg ade warna (biru lembut dgn gradient) utk tarik perhatian audience yg tgk slide tu, dan buat nampak lagi menarik. The end result is really nice. Cam tak caye aku tgk, slide yg nampak tak menarik masa awal2 jadik best pulak bila ikut aku nyer design. Hehe... memang aku nih berbakar lah bab2 nih... puas hati. Kandungan slide tu? Takyah la citer kat sini...

So Alhamdulillah lah semua nih. Org USM pun tau pasal mende nih. Aku rase cam kesian gak kat derang... sebelum nih derang ajak2 aku pegi sane... tp aku rase, derang x minat pun ngn MOCVD. Derang lagi minat nak hidupkan balik MBE derang tu dan work with it for nitride. Aku pulak tak suka MBE. It's a failed growth technique for nitride. Aku tau semua. Dan aku tau lagi banyak dari mana2 rakyat malaysia! Strategi aku utk MOCVD dan HVPE. Kombinasi 2 nih mmg tersangant lah diperlukan... kat situ lah yg nak dikejar nih...

Doakan utk aku... usaha aku utk bentuk masa depan Malaysia yg lebih baik...

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

New post after a long time...

It has been a long time I didn't post here. I must assure you readers and followers that I do not, and will not abandon this blog. It's totally about my life. Some of the content here inspires people... so things are good I believe.

My current status is: Working and living in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Not much I could elaborate since I never know who actually reads this. But, people around me know a lot about me, so it's unnecessary to tell more, right?

Currently, after coming back to Malaysia, my passion is towards building vapor-phase-epitaxy (VPE) instrument/system for gallium nitride growth. People are supporting and sponsoring me money to work for this. In life, it's always good to do fundamental thing that only several people in the world are working for it. Nobody in Malaysia has the idea what I'm working on... what in my mind... how the things are working... how things are controlled... who to meet/collaborate with... etc. Some only know the chemistry/physics theoretical processes, they found it in text books.

Yesterday, I had a meeting with guys from Japanese company producing parts to precisely control gas flow which I will use for my project. The general manager from Singapore branch of its office came to my office, and, I should say that he is the guy I really need! Having experience designing VPE system for one of Japanese electronic giants, I must say that he's an expert in gas control/distribution system in VPE system! And gladly, he was in Nagoya prior assigned to Singapore, and he also actually worked with my previous university in Nagoya for CVD/VPE there. We went out for dinner together last night at The Garden (next to Mid Valley Megamall), and get to know each other further more. Through him, now, I know who to contact for other parts of the VPE system I'm working on. Nice! :)

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Designing new life...

Alhamdulillah, officially secured my unit at Astana Condominium, Cheras KL. Mine at 17th floor, with fascinating KL view. Alhamdulillah... rezeki saya... walaupun beberapa org berebut utk unit ini... (will update my blog on this later this weekened)...

The story behind...

Actually, I went to visit Adik Ilmi living at Bandar Tun Razak Cheras several weeks ago. It's just my normal visit... almost every week I go to visit him as we're not far away. But last 2 week, it's a little different. He told me that there's a new condominium development nearby. So, we went to the site. But it was late in the night and the area was dark. It's at Bandar Permaisuri, next to Mentari Condominium to be precise. The area is pretty new.

Last year, I also came to this area considering to buy a shop-office unit, and I must say that I like this area very very much! It's new, has wide roads, nicely designed area, properly maintained, a little raised land (not too hilly), many Malays (meaning good neighborhood standard, less crime or vandalism, less drunk drivers, peaceful place for a living, etc), mosque is just a block away, nearest LRT station is just 5 minutes away, easy access to East-West Link, Besraya, MRR2, Plus, etc. Don't have to stuck in traffic jam too long as entrance to East-West link is just 1 traffic light away (don't even have to go through the traffic light, just turn left at the light).

After visiting the site that night, I quickly check about new property development at that area on the internet... and I found Astana Lumayan condominium. It's exactly as I wished for! Everybody who knows me surely understand that I'm an extremely picky guy! Looking at the design is like falling in love with a girl at first sight... cinta pandang pertama la kata orang! Keke :)

Took time a little bit to think. I also searched for other development at that area... and of course, looking for comments from others on forums. Seems like all the units are fully booked. On one weekday in the preceding week, I called the developer office from the number I got from the net. Hmmm... the operator was Malay lady, and quite rude, I must say. She told me that all units are fully booked, but she asked me to go to the developer office to view the show unit. Hmmm... I've no idea, but I think it's a wise idea to see the show unit for my future reference.

Last Saturday, I went to the developer office and met one of the staffs there. It's quite late, around 12:15 noon as I picked my younger brother nearby first before going to the developer office (They close at 1PM). Saw several young Chinese families in the office as I entered... maybe coming to see any new project development... not sure though. At first, the staffs told me that all units at Astana are fully booked. They asked me to register for their future development, Casa Lumayan to be developed next year. But, I'm not interested for that one as it's a large scale development with 900 units. The Astana is just 250 units with only 2 blocks, so its quite exclusive!

When there was only me and my brother in that office, one of the staff told me that there're units picked by the staffs and contractors earlier that are available for sale, if I'm interested. Of course, I'm interested! That's what I'm looking for, right?

And the discussion goes on... first, she told me there's unit at 4th floor facing lake behind the condominium. But, I don't like that one (it's 4th floor... not a good floor number to live!). I prefer high floor instead. Then, she offered me a unit at 17th floor, facing KL city. The price is the same, and "duit atas angin" (because I'm buying from other buyer) is the same, but with premium view! Wow! Immediately I said, "YES! I want that unit!"

Afterward, she showed me the show unit next to her office. I must say that its properly designed, and looks spacious. It's different than other condominiums that I saw before developed by some Chinese companies. Even the RM650k condominium at Bangsar South don't feel spacious to me because it's badly designed! And another good thing is, all the 4 bedrooms (and kitchen, and of course dining & living area) has windows! So, there's no dark rooms like terrace houses! There's only 4 units for each floor (per column), that's why.

I discussed with Abg Wan, Abg Yie, Abah and Ma when I returned to Abg Wan's house. Everybody agrees with my decision to buy. I then called the lady at developer's office and scheduled an appointment for booking. It should be last Thursday, but then postponed to last Saturday. And, finally, it happened today... Alhamdulillah, with my own salary in it! (Borrowed RM1k from Abg Yie though to make it RM13k). Haha... RM13k get zapped in 1 day. Never had this experience before, but I'm feeling really satisfied with this purchase. It's like you're securing a girl of your dream, haha. Alhamdulillah...

Will bring Abah & Ma to the show unit this coming Friday. Hehe :) (Really hope they like my 'dream girl'!)

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Status Update...

This is my first blog post since I came back to Malaysia. A lot happened actually... but they're too personal to write in this public blog. Most are bad news... about my sister, my younger breaking his arm bone, etc...

Regarding the invited paper for J. Phys. D, Alhamdulillah (thanks God) it was accepted on May 25th after a little minor revision. I put some part of the publisher's reply here which was sent to my professor last week:


Your article for J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. - D/350***/SPE/157***

Ref: D/350***/SPE/157***

Dear ***

TITLE: High performance InGaN LEDs on Si (111) substrates grown by MOCVD
AUTHORS: ***

Your special issue article has been accepted for publication in Journal of
Physics D: Applied Physics and you now need to complete and return the
Assignment of Copyright form.

Please note that we are unable to accept electronic signatures, and that we
do require a signed Assignment of Copyright form before we can proceed to
publication. It is important that we receive all the pages of this form
from you, including any unsigned declarations, so please be sure to return
the entire form.

You can find the Assignment of Copyright form on your personal author
homepage located at http://authors.iop.org//atom/production.nsf****

Your username is: *****
You will also be asked to enter your password, to ensure security of your
personal data. If you have forgotten your password, we can send you a new
one.

Thank you for your interest in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and we
look forward to seeing the final published article.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Ryder & Christopher Mooney
Publishing Administrators
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Publishing Team
Sarah Ryder & Christopher Mooney - Publishing Administrators
Sarah Quin - Publisher
Gregory Smith, Olivia Roche and Colin Adcock - Publishing Editors
Chris Benson - Production Editor

Contact Details
E-mail: ******@iop.org
Fax: +44 (0) 117 ***0664

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Got it submitted

Today, submitted my next paper for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics published by the UK Institute of Physics (IOP).

This is actually an invited paper asked to my professor by Professor Grandjean (Ecoles Polytechniques fédérales in Switzerland) who is guest editor for a cluster issue titled "LEDs". I met Prof Grandjien last spring who visited my laboratory just after I came back from San Francisco (for MRS conference). I am only the 2nd author, but actually, only my professor and me are the only authors. Being the 2nd is OK to me this time because the impact factor is very high. With 27 pages all in Word format (MUST be around 10-15 pages when published), it's like a sum up of everything I made this recent years on LEDs.

I'm also working for another publication which has relationship to this paper, with better result acually. This one will have me as the 1st author like usual. Alhamdulillah... banyak sungguh rezeki Allah akhir2 nih.

Minggu lepas:
Rabu: pegi tgk ISPlasma kat Meijo University. Presentation dari OSRAM dan C J Sung (ITRI Taiwan) mmg penting.
Khamis: pegi utk Monbukagakusyo/ASTF Nanotechnology Cluster. Best sgt2 presentation yg sesi pagi, dari OSRAM, ITRI dan Sangyo Shimbun (Industrial Press) tentang keadaan GaN-based LED blue/white (light emitting diode) research/industry di Europe, Taiwan dan Japan. Mmg best! Sesi petang dari Japanese LED related manufacturers, tp lebih kpd business strategy, market condition/demand, design (illumination), etc.

Malangnya... aku sorang saja anak Malaysia...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Completed the entire Ph D course...

Today (Feb 18th, 2010), from 15:00 to 17:00 was my final viva for my Ph. D.

Alhamdulillah (thanks Allah (my God)), everything went so smoothly. This was actually my 4th presentation of the same slide, including in-laboratory rehearsals and previous presentation to my 3 supervisors. Actually, it's more than 4 times if all my previous international conferences are included, as each part of the entire 1 hour presentation was presented elsewhere, and already published elsewhere.

I only want to say "thank you" to all members of Egawa Laboratory (RCNDS, Nagoya Inst of Tech) for all support I received from everybody. In whatever I did, there's everybody's effort in it... from the idea, growth, characterization, process, discussions, printing, publishing, comments, helps, smiles, ... everything!

Thanks to you guys for helping me before the presentation, and the support that you gave. It was the first time in my life having people coming to greet and shake hands with me after the presentation. Having the scene made me feel so happy... didn't even have in my lifetime people called to my laboratory phone just to say "good luck". Thank you guys for helping me turning back the presentation room to its original state after the presentation. Thank you for taking so much care about me...

I wish good luck to all you guys in whatever you're doing. The entire 9 years at NIT were great, and the entire 6 years at Egawa Lab made my life rocks!

Alhamdulillah, hope that what I faced and showed along my life journey could help making your world rocks, too.

Each of us is just a small guy, in need for each other.

Thank you.

[Special thanks to Prof. Dr. Egawa, Prof. Dr. Jimbo, Prof. Dr. Sakamoto, Prof. Dr. Yasuda, Taiyo-Nippon-Sanso (Japanese largest MOCVD maker) CEO Dr. Matsumoto Koh, Toshiba/Covalent researcher Dr. Abe, RCNDS researchers Dr. Sakai, Dr. Lawrence, Dr. Chen, Dr. Zhang, etc., Matsushita Denko / Panasonic Osaka researcher, Hitachi Central Research Tokyo Nanoelectronics Department Principal Researcher Dr. Tsuchiya, UBE Scientific Analysis Laboratory, Inc. (Osaka) Prof. Dr. Fujita (also Shizuoka Univ. visiting professor), my LD group members Kawai and Tanaka, my MOCVD guy Watanabe, my best LED discussion partner Zhu, my life advisor and PL expert Pum, my Ph D colleague and the best briyani cook Josphine (including her mom), the laboratory secretary and my "fund manager" Ms Watanabe, laboratory staffs Ms Kanekura and Mr Adachi, etc. Thank you all for spending your time in attending my final viva, even though to some of you, it's far from your working place. To my Ph D course colleagues Josephine, Pum, Zhu, Freedsman, Beula, and Yazid who was the only Malaysian colleague attended my presentation, it's your turn next. Hope what I showed you today is beneficial for your future. I appreciate ex-member of Jimbo Lab Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rusop (currently at UiTM) for the inspiration in semiconductor research, my senior Mr. Ohta (currently at Toshiba Semiconductor) for giving me a good start 6 years ago. Your previous effort have created many generations of great researchers! Thanks to Malaysian government for sponsoring my study, Japanese government and companies for sponsoring my research, paper/journal/dissertation publications and all the international conferences I attended, and all people related to me, especially my family who sponsored me during my hard time without money in pursuing my vision to continue into masters degree at the current laboratory 6 years ago. I appreciate everybody's effort in producing who I am now. Sorry if I missed to mention any name. Good luck to all!]

Nagoya Soubetsukai 2010

Nagoya Farewell Party 2010 (Feb 13th, 2010) Video

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Friday, January 29, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010

OpenSolaris ROOT Pool (rpool) Mirror

I setup OpenSolaris virtual machine using Virtual Box.

Here&s how I do mirroring for the root pool (rpool) to have redundant disk for the OS partition, based on the following guide
http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/mirroring-resolved-correct-way.html
http://darkstar-solaris.blogspot.com/2008/09/zfs-root-mirror.html

Please note that the first format command is used to know the disk number/name.

Please check comments at the end of this article.

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool status -v

pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# format

Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@0,0
1. c8t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@1,0
2. c8t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@2,0
3. c8t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@3,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^C


root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# format

Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@0,0
1. c8t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@1,0
2. c8t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@2,0
3. c8t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@3,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 1

selecting c8t1d0
[disk formatted]
No Solaris fdisk partition found.


FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
fdisk - run the fdisk program
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show vendor, product and revision
volname - set 8-character volume name
! - execute , then return
quit
format> fdisk

No fdisk table exists. The default partition for the disk is:

a 100% "SOLARIS System" partition

Type "y" to accept the default partition, otherwise type "n" to edit the
partition table.
y
format> quit


root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s2

fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s2

* /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s2 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 63 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 16065 sectors/cylinder
* 2609 cylinders
* 2607 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 0 16065 16064
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 16065 41865390 41881454
2 5 01 0 41881455 41881454
8 1 01 0 16065 16064

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s2

* /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s2 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 63 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 16065 sectors/cylinder
* 2609 cylinders
* 2607 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 0 16065 16064
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 16065 41865390 41881454
2 5 01 0 41881455 41881454
8 1 01 0 16065 16064

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool status

pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool attach rpool c8t0d0s0 c8t1d0s0

invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
/dev/dsk/c8t1d0s0 overlaps with /dev/dsk/c8t1d0s2

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool attach -f rpool c8t0d0s0 c8t1d0s0

Please be sure to invoke installgrub(1M) to make 'c8t1d0s0' bootable.

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool status

pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress for 0h0m, 11.37% done, 0h3m to go
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 419M resilvered

errors: No known data errors

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool status

pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress for 0h1m, 46.50% done, 0h2m to go
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 1.68G resilvered

errors: No known data errors
root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# zpool status

pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: resilver completed after 0h3m with 0 errors on Fri Jan 15 10:57:32 2010
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c8t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 3.62G resilvered

errors: No known data errors
root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk#

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s0

* /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s0 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 63 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 16065 sectors/cylinder
* 2609 cylinders
* 2607 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 0 16065 16064
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 16065 41865390 41881454
2 5 01 0 41881455 41881454
8 1 01 0 16065 16064

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s0

* /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s0 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 63 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 16065 sectors/cylinder
* 2609 cylinders
* 2607 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 0 16065 16064
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 16065 41865390 41881454
2 5 01 0 41881455 41881454
8 1 01 0 16065 16064

root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk# installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c8t1d0s0

stage1 written to partition 0 sector 0 (abs 16065)
stage2 written to partition 0, 271 sectors starting at 50 (abs 16115)
root@opensolaris:/dev/dsk#


COMMENTS from Malachi&s Guide

I run the second format command and pick fdisk in my guide, so maybe due to that, there&s no error in my guide.
It appears that we were missing a step....

before doing the fmthard, you have to do fdisk on the new drive.

In my case, I did 'pfexec fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0s2', it complained, I said yes then everything was fine.

If you skip this step, you'll get:
fmthard: Partition 2 specifies the full disk and is not equal

and later:
"Partition 0 of the disk has an incorrect offset"


A couple things maybe worth mentioning. If you hotplug a SATA disk, and your controller supports hotswapping, you may still have to do cfgadm and check the state of the drive. (This happens on an nVidia 610i) If it's unconfigured just cfgadm -c configure SATA1/1 or whatever port it's on. Then you should be able to add it to the pool. The other advantage is it will give the address (c0t0d0 etc. of the new drive). This will not work for IDE, and I don't have any SCSI drives to try this with so I can't say if itworks the same way.

Also, I have been trying to figure out a way to find the IDE (SCSI?) disks other than using the format command. Yeah you can control C out of it but it just makes me nervous having to tell someone else to do that. Especially some of the Windows users, say the word format and they get all red nervous and itchy ;)

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Japan Society of Applied Physics Ueda Kinen Kouen (Ueda Symposium)

Went to Melparque (メルパルク) Hotel near Chikusa Station (Nagoya, JP) to listen for speeches by several professors on Japanese current and future technological education, MOS technological breakthrough by Prof. Sasaki (Tokyo University Emeritus Professor, currently at Toyota Institute of Technology), and blue light-emitting-diode (LED) by Prof. Akasaki (Nagoya University Emeritus Professor). My main reason to be there was to listen for Prof. Akasaki's speech, but Prof. Sasaki's speech was also impressive! He's a very friendly and down-to-earth guy too. I like him more than Prof. Akasaki.

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Happy New Year 2010 from Fujikyu Highland Park

Spent the new year eve at Fujikyu Highland Park in Yamanashi Pefecture (near to Tokyo).

The following video says everything about my trip there: