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...

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

Brands and Branding

Brand first, branding second

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Hitler responds to the iPad

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 ;)

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.

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:

New Year Post Card

Time is ticking out... but have to write a few new year blessing card to several friends that I know. Haha... another last minute work for another year (seems like I'm doing last minute for this job for almost every year...) Haha :)

Hope everybody is blessed in the new coming "tiger" year... :)

What is Relationships?

TRUST

TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.

A telephone operator told me that one day she received a phone call. She answered, "Public Utilities Board." There was silence. She repeated, "PUB." There was still no answer. When she was going to cut off the line, she Heard a lady's voice, "Oh, so this is PUB. Sorry, I got the number from my Husband's pocket but I do not know whose number it is."

Without mutual trust, just imagine what will happen to the couple if the telephone operator answered with just "hello" instead of "PUB".

NO POINTING FINGERS

A man asked his father-in-law, "Many people praised you for a successful marriage. Could you please share with me your secret?"
The father-in-law answered in a smile, "Never criticize your wife for her shortcomings or when she does something wrong. Always bear in mind that because of her shortcomings and weaknesses, she could not find a better husband than
you."

We all look forward to being loved and respected. Many people are afraid of losing face. Generally, when a person makes a mistake, he would look around to find a scapegoat to point the finger at. This is the start of a war. We should always remember that when we point one finger at a person, the other four fingers are pointing at ourselves.

If we forgive the others, others will ignore our mistake too.

CREATING PERFECT RELATIONSHIPS?

A person visited the government matchmaker for marriage, SDU, and requested "I am looking for a spouse. Please help me to find a suitable one." The SDU officer said, "Your requirements, please." "Oh, good looking, polite, humorous , sporty, knowledgeable, good in singing and dancing. Willing to accompany me the whole day at home during my
leisure hour, if I don't go out. Telling me interesting stories when I need companion for conversation and be silent when I want to rest." The officer listened carefully and replied, "I understand you need television."

There is a saying that a perfect match can only be found between a blind wife and a deaf husband ,because the blind wife cannot see the faults of the husband and the deaf husband cannot hear the nagging of the wife. Many couples are blind and deaf at the courting stage and dream of perpetual perfect relationship. Unfortunately, when the excitement of love wears off, they wake up and discover that marriage is not a bed of roses. The nightmare begins.

NO OVERPOWERING

Many relationships fail because one party tries to overpower another,or demands too much. People in love tend to think that love will conquer all and their spouses will change the bad habits after marriage. Actually, this is not the case. There is a Chinese saying which carries the meaning that "It is easier to reshape a mountain or a river than a person's character."

It is not easy to change. Thus, having high expectation on changing the spouse character will cause disappointment and unpleasantness.

It would be less painful to change ourselves and lower our expectations..

RIGHT SPEECH

There is a Chinese saying which carries the meaning that "A speech will either prosper or ruin a nation." Many relationships break off because of wrong speech. When a couple is too close with each other,we always forget mutual respect and courtesy. We may say anything without considering if it would hurt the other party.

A friend and her millionaire husband visited their construction site. A worker who wore a helmet saw her and shouted,"Hi, Emily! Remember me? We used to date in the secondary school." On the way home, her millionaire husband teased her, "Luckily you married me.Otherwise you will be the wife of a construction worker." She answered ,"You should appreciate that you married me. Otherwise, he will be the millionaire and not you."

Frequently exchanging these remarks plants the seed for a bad relationship. It's like a broken egg - cannot be reversed.

PERSONAL PERCEPTION

Different people have different perception. One man's meat could be another man's poison. A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home,a boy commented, "Very stupid. Why neither of them ride on the donkey?"Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, "The husband is the head of family. How can the wife ride on the donkey while the husband is on foot?" Hearing this, the wife quickly got down and let the husband ride on the donkey.

Further on the way home, they met an old Lady. She commented, "How can the man ride on the donkey but let the wife walk. He is no gentleman."
The husband thus quickly asked the wife to join him on the donkey. Then, they met a young man. He commented, "Poor donkey, how can you hold up the weight of two persons. They are cruel to you." Hearing that, the husband and wife immediately climbed down from the donkey and carried it on their shoulders.

It seems to be the only choice left. Later, on a na rrow bridge, the donkey was frightened and struggled. They lost their balance and fell into the river. You can never have everyone praise you, nor will everyone condemn you. Never in the past, not at present, and never will be in the future.

Thus, do not be too bothered by others words if our conscience is clear..

BE PATIENT

This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, " Daddy,I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?" The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with someone u love. Trucks can be repaired.. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.

People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

p/s: Got this from a forwarded e-mail. Thanks to Dr. Sumathi for giving me this.

Nishino Kana - Dear (HQ)

PV 西野カナ Dear・・・ 高音質高画質

Wow, this MV is very inspiring... with the high tone in the voice, quick music, and a very good lyric. I think, they try to show that there is love among good friends and between boy/girl couples. They take both, and also the high-school girls highlighted in the MV, to obtain good sales among young Japanese. From what I saw on TV chart, this song is very phenomenal to young Japanese girls. People made this song as ring-tone for their cellphones.

Got 'em printed

Alhamdulillah, got all my Ph. D. dissertation printed yesterday. All to be 30 pieces of books, 8 with hard cover and the other 22 with soft cover.

All those dissertation will be sent to co-op tomorrow for book publishing.

I'm so thankful to Prof Egawa for allowing me to pay all the printing and book publishing fee using laboratory money. They all cost around JPY70,000 (RM2,800). Thanks to all kind guys at Egawa laboratory... you're (we're) the best!

Alhamdulillah (thank God)...

Chris Brown - Forever

nice music and vid...

Got my new car!

Alhamdulillah, I got a new car through corporate car auction in Tokyo last Friday (Nov 6th, 2009).

Had to spare a parking space for that car too... and successfully got it yesterday (Nov 7th). It's just near to my university's back gate, near to Circle K convinient store. A pretty convenient place, indeed. But, have to 'kayuh2' my bicycle to go there from my apartment. Hmm... less than 3 minutes though. Hope that it's safe there.

Tomorrow, I'll go to Showa-ward Police Station to make Parking Lot Certificate (syakou-syoumei-syo). I'll meet the parking lot owner to get his permission letter that I need to submit to that police station. And also pay him JPY12,000 (lowest at that area) for monthly parking. In Japan, you need to have a proper parking lot for your car before they approve to register your name for that car. So, nobody will leave their car at a non-proper place, as every vehicle has it's designated place approved by the traffic police to park. Nice rule. Should also be applied to Kuala Lumpur in the future.

Then, I'll need to go to the police station again the evening to submit all the forms, and then go to Chikusa-ward Office to obtain inkan-syoumei-syo (Certified Seal Registration). I'll need it to register my car thereafter.

I really hope that all the procedures can be completed until Friday Nov 14th. Hmm... not sure though. Next week is also OK. I'm too busy with my thesis this week, I think.

Okay, good luck to everybody!

Bunkface - Through My Window Official Video [HQ]

A great song by a Malaysian group called Bunkface. See http://www.everyoneconnects.net for more!

福山雅治 最愛 PV

My favourite...

Me and myself...

I've been very rarely write new post these days. There're so many thing to do in my daily life recently. The experiments, the company management, the thesis, the journal paper, another international conference, the guys inside my company... and where should I steer the company, my love, etc. Oh, I forgot about what I need for myself in every single moment...

Been spent too much money for obtaining some new infrastructure for my company. There is cloud computing dream in me which urges me to go further and further. But, that is for my company. As I said above, it's always myself who me myself forget. Should use the money to buy a Lexus... but now, it's just a Lexus dream. I can only afford a Honda, with money pouring in from my account in Malaysia. It's worse because of the pricey Yen in recent years.

What about Abg Wan's marriage party in November? Would I be able to attend it? I never attended any marriage party in my family since I entered University Malaya... up until today, except for Kak Ra's. Shame on me. Oh God, that's too bad. But how I could attend any of it while I'm hundred of miles away... and returning is not an easy thing, with me who think "my job first, family is next". Oh... maybe I should find something to settle down and get the truth and enjoyment of life... my current condition is too bad (I think, not you think!)

Maybe this is for me...

Your Company 2.0

I like this.

Alcatel-Lucent's new strategy - Ben Verwaayen, CEO (extracts)