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Dell Factory Visit
04.28.06 |IT, Information, Penang, Technology| Permalink | 5 Comments

Yesterday, a few of us from my work place made a trip to dell factory in Prai. That factory produces 80% of the Dell notebook world wide. I am very impress with their supply chain. It is very efficient and no inventory storage that drive cost up, meaning maximize profit at the end of the day. All the notebooks are build to order. A lot of checkpoints, to make sure no missing parts.

Each operator can produce at least 6 units per hour. You do the math to see how many they produce in a day. The factory runs 24×7. All testing on the notebook is automated and softwares are dowloaded in the same way. They have this huge racks, probably 5-6 notebook per rack for this purpose. I notice that the operators who assemble notebook are mostly female. Those in the server lines are male. Probably servers are much more ~~complicated~~ heavier.

Actually Dell does not produce anything, mainly assemble the parts together to make the final product and name it DELL. By the way, if you want to purchase a notebook, order at the end of the quarter. If they run out of the specification you want, they probably bum it up for you to meet the orders. For example, if your notebook has 40G hard disk and they ran out, they probably give you a 60G or next higher in stocks. It doesn’t work all the time, ok, only if you are fortunate enough.

Sorry no pictures for the visit because no camera allowed. However I did take back with me a lot of value added information and a great eye opener. Who knows, I may open up a MELL factory.

P/S I did get some door gift.

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Genuine or Not Genuine
04.26.06 |IT, Information, Technology| Permalink | 4 Comments

I am not sure how many have read TheStar yesterday. Starting today, Microsoft will put an annoying pop-up on your screen if you are not using a genuine copy of Microsoft.

Read here:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/4/25/nation/14053230&sec=nation

By the way, I heard it was crack within 24 hours of the first release.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/microsoft_genuine_ad.html

or

other suggestions:

http://earendur.blogspot.com/2006/04/windows-genuine-notification-updates.html

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Photoshop Tip
10.28.05 |IT, Information, Technology, Tips| Permalink | 4 Comments

Everyone is into Photoshop, let me share a very useful tip that my hubby used, to do the picture above. This is the easiest way to select a person or an item in the picture. You can throw away the magnetic lasso after learning this.

Instruction here: Photoshop Cropping Object

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SPAM
10.20.05 |IT, Information, Technology| Permalink | 5 Comments

Don’t you hate it? Now blogs are hit by SPAM. I wonder why people will go all the way out to create junks that people do not read. It is like creating more garbage. At the end of the day, who benefit from it? The software company that produce anti spam ware. It is so annoying.

My blogs just attracted SPAM a few weeks back. Initially it was 1 or 2 in a week, slowly increasing to 5 per day. Last week, it was worst, it went up to 10 per day. I decided to put a stop to it.

I upgraded my blog software, Wordpress to 1.5.2 (not sure now whether it is the latest) and install a third party anti-spam ware called SpamKarma2 by DrDave.
(Source: http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/).

It has been catching spam up to 50 per day and allowed genuine comments to go through. SpamKarma2 only work for Wordpress 1.5.1 and above. If you have an old version, I suggest you upgrade. For this upgrade, it only takes 5 minutes to do it. Remember to backup before changing.

I am not sure whether there is any anti spam ware for blogspot, anyone out there know? I have lots of friends who are using blogspot who wants to throw spam to the garbage bin. If you know of any, please comment.

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Penang Bridge Traffic Camera
09.06.05 |IT, Information, Penang, Technology| Permalink | 3 Comments

This is a cool website to show you, the real time traffic in Penang Bridge via camera. Don’t do any hanky panky on the bridge…

Source: http://www.penangbridge.blogspot.com/

Camera Here: http://penangbridge.info/15.html

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