memory of nobody

FOSS.MY 2009 Lama dah tak update blog ni, sebab takde benda nak cerita. FOSS.MY kembali lagi. Kali ini saya akan hadir sebagai speaker, sila rujuk jadual . Bukan pasal localization (l10n), tetapi internationalization (i18n) . Saling berkait tapi tak sama. Profile

Bot Saya mencuba bermain-main dengan IM bot .... menggunakan imified. sekiranya anda ada akaun Gmail dan biasa menggunakan Gchat, add id najmi@bot.im dan boleh berbual pendek dengan robot tersebut... Skrip backend adalah skrip PHP yang diubahsuai dari templat asal imified.

Gettext dan i18n Saya sudah maju setapak lagi dengan mencuba "Hello World" dengan fungsi gettext() dalam C (bukan susah pun). Rupanya, penjanan fail Portable Object Template (POT) sangat mudah, dengan menggunakan tool xgettext (extract gettext). Patutlah ada tulisan baris berapa dan berapa pada fail POT tu! Muat turun tips ringkas di sini... saya akan cuba buat tips dalam bahasa Inggeris untuk "pengantarabangsaan" di dalam bahasa Arab pula.. tunggu! PDF HTML

Tersepit Salam, Aku kena sambung study(majikan wajibkan) dalam tahun ni. In fact kalo dalam bulan September ni aku tak sambung majikan akan mula potong elaun rumah RM450 sebulan (dari RM700 jadi RM250). Dalam tu jugak biasiswa pergi oversea limited, aku ni memang selama ni study local, nak merasa pergi oversea. Ada apply pergi Australia tapi offer letter tak dapat lagi, 2 bulan lagi baru tau jawapan. Sekarang ni Julai 2009, maknanya bulan Sept baru tau jawapan, tapi tak semestinya bulan Sep kene sambung.. mungkin October, mungkin Nov. (tapi elaun tetap kena potong sebab exceed). Dan takde jaminan dapat tempat sebab berebut allocation dengan orang lain . Last time kontek HR sini kata tinggal satu je oversea allocation. Kalo buat local, takde masalah (USM) anytime. Tapi kalo pergi UTM utk research kena masuk Disember(dan elaun rumah tetap kena potong sampai tarikh admission, AFAIK). Memandangkan aku ada wife, dia pun kena tempias mana-mana keputusan aku buat, samada pergi USM, UTM ataupu...

Nak guna duit Since every single lecturer only allocated RM800 per month, I have to choose whether to attend this or this [PDF] Satu USD300, satu lagi RM2000 (but kena kawtim ngan bosslah). With RM800 boleh pegi course apa pun... too small.

MSC Open Source Conference It was long time a go when I did present something during FOSSCON, now the FOSS people are really happy to welcome the 2009 OSCONF ... I will talk about something... well, which relates to the job that I am into now, but with the same flavor. here

Panduan Melanjutkan Pengajian Doktor Falsafah di Amerika Syarikat Monolog. (ni aku tulis sendiri, bace je le) Kalo ko nak pi US sambung MSc/Phd ke bace je ni. Check USNews, refer pada CS school. Univ kat US kalo bab research ada tier-tiernya. Top univ in research tentu le Tier 1 seterusnya sampai Tier 4. Univ yang ngetop banget dalam Tier 1. Kat US private univ conquer top ranking, dan selalu top univ ni guna nama orang. Macam Cornell, John Hopkins, Purdue. Kan ke nama orang tu. Then, application guna online apps je most of the time. Senang,tak payah gune liquid paper. Then kena appoint 3 recommenders(usually prof yang kenal kita/aptitude for research). Biasenye kena bayar application fee, range dalam USD30-USD70. Untuk consider for admission usually cut off CGPA ialah 3.0, tapi tu je tak cukup, since kalo nak masuk utk good grad school kena ada decent GRE score, total yang bagus untuk both Quantitative & Verbal ialah dalam 1100 ke atas. Q dalam 700, V dalam 400 ok dah kot. Harga t...

Re: Phd in Computer Security @ DTU Dear Najmi, I have worked a bit on using machine learning in intrusion detection, but one of my colleagues has more recently done more extensive work in this area. I have therefore forwarded your proposal to him (I may possibly act as your co-supervisor). You may find information about the procedures regarding Ph.D. admission and much other useful information about doing a Ph.D. at the Technical University of Denmark at the webpage: http://www.dtu.dk/English/education/Phd_Education.aspx I will let you know as soon as I hear from my colleague, but it probably wont be until after the Easter holiday. Best regards, C p/s: Terpaksa gi tempat lain la ini macam, Denmark. Hoh! Dah tak kasi gi US/UK/AU nak buat macam mana!

Indecisive meeting SSLC 30 Apr, tiket Air Asia X 29 Apr, kalo nak tukar tarikh = burn RM1.4K, kalo tak gi meeting ntah dapat gi luar ntah idak. adeh, why it is so difficult, all at once. grrr

Bye bye States I just wanna say good bye.. also good bye with my USD380 (TOEFL USD150, GRE USD170, IU Application Fee USD60). I am still waiting for the admission decision of IU.. actually thinking to choose another university (perhaps Univ of Missouri Kansas City or Univ of Missouri Rolla), but since for some reasons, this will be just my day dream. *sigh*

Awk, sort and friends Najmi@Najmi ~ $ cat fileasal.txt #436 UMKC #446 Charlotte #353 QUT #325 Kent State #259 Missippi State #278 VCU #202 Wayne State #100 U New Mexico #27 Indiana University #1003 Missouri University of Science and Technology #265 University of Idaho Najmi@Najmi ~ $ awk -F# {'print $1,$2'} fileasal.txt 436 UMKC 446 Charlotte 353 QUT 325 Kent State 259 Missippi State 278 VCU 202 Wayne State 100 U New Mexico 27 Indiana University 1003 Missouri University of Science and Technology 265 University of Idaho Najmi@Najmi ~ $ awk -F# {'print $1,$2'} fileasal.txt |sort -n 27 Indiana University 100 U New Mexico 202 Wayne State 259 Missippi State 265 University of Idaho 278 VCU 325 Kent State 353 QUT 436 UMKC 446 Charlotte 1003 Missouri University of Science and Technology

Ranking http://www.webometrics.info/top4000.asp?offset=400 #436 UMKC #446 Charlotte #353 QUT #325 Kent State #259 Missippi State #278 VCU #202 Wayne State #100 U New Mexico #27 IU #1003 Missouri University of Science and Technology #1444 International Islamic University Malaysia #845 Universiti Sains Malaysia Ranking Webometric

Pendokong PPSMI dianggap biadap? Memang aneh! Tolak tepi pendirian politik samada PAS/PKR/DAP/UMNO dan lelainnya. Selepas dilabelkan sebagai "celaka", kini projek PPSMI dianggap kebiadapan pula. Dan yang anehnya (suppose, as expected), latar belakang penentang PPSMI ini kebanyakannya bukanlah penutur/pengajar yang menggunakan medium Bahasa Inggeris. Saya ingin kemukakan cabaran ini, cuba anda ambil peperiksaan IELTS/TOEFL/GRE, berapa skor anda. Jikalau anda dapat skor yang baik, untuk TOEFL contohnya 110/120 untuk IBT, maka alhamdulillah. Tetapi sekiranya Atau sekurang-kurangnya, saya pinjam perkataan seorang profesor di mana URL nya sudah saya lupa "We don't want the reader to be amused with your writings, not because of the contents but it was because the language that you used" Things to ponder. WA.

Things that you regret in the past... Allah, if I remember correctly dislike us given we use the word "if", such a way you use it this way.. "If only I did that before ..." when it happens that something negative had happened because you chose action B, instead of Action A. The word "fate", though exist in dictionary, hardly to be accepted in term of reality. Meaning to say, sometimes even we plan so hard, so detail, things may gotten screwed up for reasons. I have something which I regret not doing it, either because of my maturity level that time or because of the chance of getting it done. -When my late father passed away in 1993, I just a week enrolled in my secondary school back in Kajang. What was happened during that time I got a week break because of CNY, and my grandma(now she cannot even move) told that my father just pass away due to kidney failure -When my late brother, who was 29 at that time back in 1996, passed away. I do not really have cha...

PPSMI PPSMI!! Itulah perkara yang paling hangat buat masa ini. Ribuan umat Melayu berarak untuk membantah penggunaan BI di dalam pengajian Sains & Matematik. Kalau ditanya pendapat saya - perlu atau tidak? Saya katakan saya mahukan peratusan sebenar jumlah pelajar yang lulus setelah hampir 10 tahun PPSMI dijalankan. Ya, saya suka melihat anak-anak Melayu kita pintar berbahasa Inggeris, tetapi saya juga tidak mahu melihat mereka GAGAL di dalam pengajian kerana masalah bahasa. Tapi ya, selaku anak kampung yang membesar di kampung, bersekolah di SBP Agama, dan kemudian ke IPTA yang menggunakan medium English baik Bachelor dan Masters, saya berpendapat fungsi English amat penting, dan mempunyai level kefasihan yang tinggi di dalam pertuturan, penulisan amatlah penting. -akan bersambung, jika ada masa.

Memilih conference yang berbaloi (IT Security). Bayangkan anda menghabiskan masa anda untuk melakukan sesuatu yang dikira "The Next Big Thing", tentunya ada mahukan penghargaan di atas sumbangan anda, dan diarkibkan ke dalam sesuatu yang bertaraf tinggi juga. Dalam seminar/persidangan keselamatan komputer, ada ranking yang ditetapkan atau sekurang-kurangnya acknoweldged oleh komuniti penyelidik Klik sini

Indexed My former supervisor Dr Azman, will give his conference keynote soon in Jordan, looking at his CV, my name is among the person that he put within his work supervision (I am still contacting him, especially when it came to referee stuff PDF

If you asked me.... Well this blog sounds monotonic, means, something which being written right from my heart. If you asked me, which school that you may consider for computer security research, I may share with you my findings, based on (not so) careful readings and email interactions with prospective professors. In network intrusion, malware analysis (sensor), you may look into these schools: -SUNY Stony Brook -UW Madison -Purdue (CERIAS) -Mannheim (Germany) -UC Davis -U Southern Calif. While for security protocols, cryptographic related: -Purdue -U Notre Dame -Cambridge -Holloway and some other schools (I'm not concentrating into this!). I am waiting to pick up my wife, so this writing is junk another piece of junk. Ignore it for real!

Virginia Commonwealth University I contacted a Prof in VCU, telling my interest and he did checked my papers, credentials and so. Seems that he interested to take me as his apprentice, given I made through the normal application procedure. His approach on security is different, since he is also teach computational inteligence subject. Well, I admit, I love to know about machine learning on malware detection - it may suit under his supervision. It just that I wondering whether KPT/MOHE will allow an admission to this school, it is Tier 3 though. Also there are professors whom advised me to apply, after I asked them to pre-screen my credentials and paper (reputable schools won't have much time to do this due to competitive admission). -NC Charlotte - The professor was a Purdue Phd grad -Missouri Univ of Science and Technology (MUST)- The prof was Ohio State phd grad. I just stuck now ... well it is my future, so decide!

How to conduct home brew sanity check for your potential supervisor Memandangkan di zaman gawat ni peluang TA/RA di universiti di US mungkin berkurangan, potensi anda mungkin lebih mudah jika anda datang dengan scholarship (tak semestinya!). I created my own quotable qoutes ... "We are just cheap labor, come to you sire at our own disposal" Ni macam cerita Merlin da... taking all the trouble to become a "Knight" (+low paid, + expecting loyalty much like a dog etc). Anyway, for security based research, basically what I think of for now, look at reputable conferences such as RAID or NDSS . And see whether or not that particular faculty is among the committees. In my case, I got several names, but you have to get through the admission process first, since the admission is not being decided by them. This needs you to have a competitive result for GRE and your academic credentials *sob*. Looking at those names, as you can see, those faculties came from either high tier...