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		<title>Linux Bible for 2010 Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.icalvyn.com/linux-bible-for-2010-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
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Good news for those linux lover, the latest linux bible for year 2010 is here for download. This linux bible include boot up to ubuntu, fedora, knoppix, debian, open suse, and 13 other linux distributions.
Hot topic such ask turn your PC into linux desktop system, learn to use linux as a system administrator, find and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/2moa7pz.jpg" alt="Linux Bible for 2010 Edition" /></p>
<p>Good news for those linux lover, the latest linux bible for year 2010 is here for download. This linux bible include boot up to ubuntu, fedora, knoppix, debian, open suse, and 13 other linux distributions.</p>
<p>Hot topic such ask turn your PC into linux desktop system, learn to use linux as a system administrator, find and install thousands of free linux software application.</p>
<p>Download Linux Bible for 2010 Edition here<span id="more-2825"></span></p>
<p>http://rapidshare.com/files/414782491/Linux.Bible.2010.Edition.rar.html</p>
<p>(Recomemded Download Link for Linux Bible for 2010 Edition)</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>http://hotfile.com/dl/63711235/d09b725/Linux.Bible.2010.Edition.rar.html</p>
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		<title>Free Antivirus and Anti Spyware for Genuine Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have come across an adverstising on managazine during I have my borders parasiting at Starbuck, QueenBay Mall.
For those who are using Genuine Windows 7 without install any anti virus and anti spyware, (I am one of the user as well for my HP netbook, but the antivirus software bundle together has been expired) Microsoft has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have come across an adverstising on managazine during I have my borders parasiting at Starbuck, QueenBay Mall.</p>
<p>For those who are using <strong>Genuine Windows 7</strong> without install any <strong>anti virus and anti spyware</strong>, (I am one of the user as well for my <a title="streamyx hp netbook" href="http://www.icalvyn.com/my-hp-netbook-has-arrive/" target="_blank">HP netbook</a>, but the antivirus software bundle together has been expired) Microsoft has provide a free security essentials for Genuine windows 7 user download.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img1.imagilive.com/0210/ms-security-essentials-header.jpg" alt="security essentials" /></p>
<p>This software provide real time protect again viruses, spyware, and other malicious software for your computer, it is a comprehensive security package available only for genuien windows 7 user with no extra cost. The best of this software is no renewel fees.</p>
<p>I really need a protection software for my HP netbook because currently the symantec antivirus is already expired.<span id="more-2829"></span></p>
<p>You can get the Microsoft Security Essential here http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/</p>
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		<title>Advantage and Disadvantage of RAID 0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAID, is Redundant Array Indenpent Disk, what is RAID 0?
For RAID 0, is a technology which split the data evenly across 2 or more hard drive (striped), with no parity information for redundancy. RAID 0 is not an original RAID levels and it provides no data redundancy.In RAID 0, minimum hard disk will be 2.

Advantage:
To [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RAID, is <strong>Redundant Array Indenpent Disk</strong>, what is RAID 0?</p>
<p>For RAID 0, is a technology which split the data evenly across 2 or more hard drive (striped), with no parity information for redundancy. RAID 0 is not an original RAID levels and it provides no data redundancy.In RAID 0, minimum hard disk will be 2.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/RAID_0.svg/150px-RAID_0.svg.png" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong>Advantage:</strong><br />
To create a larger virtual hard drive with a lot of smaller physical hard drive. <span id="more-2809"></span>Meaning that if the market current largest hard disk size is 2 Tera Bytes, while the server can shows 20 tera bytes hard as a single hard disk, but originally is combine of 20&#8217;s 2 tera bytes physical hard drive.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, if you using different size of hard drive, only minimum hard drive space will be apply. Example, you using 1 Tera hard drive striped with another 2 tera hard drive, the final hard disk space will be 2 tera only.</p>
<p>Other then this, according to the theory, RAID 0 also improve performance. How to RAID 0 increase performance?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/RAID_0.svg/150px-RAID_0.svg.png" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As we can see on above diagram, the data are split to different hard drive. The minimum hard drive is 2. Lets imagine if a file with 1000MB, write to 1 hard drive require 10minute, with using RAID 0, imagine there are 4 physical hard drive, now require 2.5minute to write this 1000MB file into the hard drive.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Same to reading the file or copying the files.</p>
<p><strong>Disadvantage:</strong></p>
<p>No data redundancy, since the data are evenly split between all the hard drive, once of the hard disk fail, will bring all your data to hell.</p>
<p>Suggestion:</p>
<p>Some said purchase another external hard drive, and schedule a weekly or daily backup of the data to the external drive.</p>
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		<title>Worst Trip I ever have at Pulau Jerejak Resort</title>
		<link>http://www.icalvyn.com/worst-trip-i-ever-have-at-pulau-jerejak-resort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iCalvyn Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have visit Pulau Jerejak few years back for a day trip, that time I saw the resort very nice, plan to stay at Jerejak resort 1 days in the future.
Month ago, I visit Matta fair, Pulau Jerejak resort do have some nice offer, I have purchase 2 rooms and went with my friend few [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have visit <strong>Pulau Jerejak</strong> few years back for a day trip, that time I saw the resort very nice, plan to stay at Jerejak resort 1 days in the future.</p>
<p>Month ago, I visit Matta fair, Pulau Jerejak resort do have some nice offer, I have purchase 2 rooms and went with my friend few week ago. This is the worst resort I ever meet. The reception give me <strong>late check in for 2 hours</strong>&#8230; <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">5PM</span> only I get my room</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://a.imageshack.us/img695/8516/dsc66670001.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p>We have arrive Pulau Jerejak at morning 9am, reception told us that day have more people, so we unable to early check in. As usual, we keep out thing at reception, and went for some activity. No doubt, some of the activity are awesome, the person incharges are very friendly and helpful.</p>
<p>1pm we came back to the reception, and the reception told me only 1 room room available at the moment, another room still not finish cleaning, ask me to come back again at 3pm. We check in 1 room and bring all our stuff to the room 1st and continue our activities.</p>
<p>After having a tired jungle tracking, I reach the reception at <strong>3.30pm</strong> to check in my room. The worst thing is the reception still told me the same thing, the room not yet clean, ask me to wait.<span id="more-2819"></span></p>
<p>Initially we plan to take shower, rest a while, probably have an hour afternoon nap, after that continue our cycling session at 5pm. Due to no room, we all have to stay at 1 room. We feel very uncomfortable because 4 person stay in 1 room, we unable to have a good rest.</p>
<p>After half hour later, I call to reception, still the same asnwer, I start to lost my patient, every 10 minute I give them a call, but they still give me the same answer until 5pm. When I check in my room, I found that the pipe in the toilet, beside the toilet bowl was broken. Furthermore, compare my room with my friend room, the 1st room we check in at 1pm are much more bigger, so to the bathroom.</p>
<p>According to the sales person at Matta fair, they mention the room is deluxe room,very big and comfort , but I don&#8217;t feel so when I check in to my room.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://a.imageshack.us/img801/6314/dsc65750001.jpg" alt="jerejak room bathroom" width="525" /></p>
<p>Pulau Jerejak Resort is the worst resort I ever meet. I have talk to the manager, I am trying to complain but the manager told me &#8220;<strong>We unable to do any thing for you</strong>&#8220;! What a worst asnwer from Jerejak resort!</p>
<p>When I came back from Jerejak resort, I share my <strong>bad experience</strong> with most of my friend, they will ask me: &#8220;Did the resort give you any thing for compensation? Any complimentary voucher?&#8221;</p>
<p>I just can share my experience if friend asking me is Jerejak a nice place? as people said &#8220;<strong>Bad publicity is also a a publicity</strong>&#8220;, Mr.Google will shows my experience to those visitor who search for jerejak resort!</p>
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		<title>Lye Huat Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have organize a kedah trip month ago, and visit Lye huat garden, this garden located at Jitra, approximate 20 minute from alor setar city.

Lye Huat Garden openning hour at 9am to 7.30pm every day exclude monday. Entrance fees will be RM10/person. You can get a group discount from them if you manage to bring [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have organize a kedah trip month ago, and visit <strong>Lye huat garden</strong>, this garden located at <strong>Jitra</strong>, approximate 20 minute from alor setar city.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs080.ash2/37329_405844628398_548178398_4316019_2191390_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p>Lye Huat Garden openning hour at <strong>9am to 7.30pm </strong>every day exclude monday. Entrance fees will be<strong> RM10/person</strong>. You can get a group discount from them if you manage to bring a bus of 30 to 40 people.</p>
<p>What special in this garder?<span id="more-2801"></span> Actually this garden is a pretty good place for photography, and a lot of animals there, can consider a mini zoo too.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs101.snc4/35416_405845438398_548178398_4316052_1781924_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p>You will have a over view of the garden infront of the entance there, but no worry, you will get a small broucher or so call mini map with some introduction during you enter.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs140.snc4/37329_405844633398_548178398_4316020_5024359_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs182.snc4/37426_405847903398_548178398_4316226_875700_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs182.snc4/37426_405847898398_548178398_4316225_307337_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs132.snc4/36941_405955888398_548178398_4319872_1528462_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs117.snc4/36232_405849563398_548178398_4316339_7389542_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs055.ash2/36107_405853083398_548178398_4316506_8234879_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs110.snc4/35873_405853623398_548178398_4316521_6547332_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs057.ash2/36207_405854683398_548178398_4316594_1385948_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs013.snc4/34023_405855098398_548178398_43165&lt;img src=" alt="" /><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs068.ash2/36775_406325888398_548178398_4329449_3826707_n.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs148.snc4/36775_406325893398_548178398_4329450_1812668_n.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs095.snc4/36121_406700098398_548178398_4339493_8310490_n.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs115.snc4/36121_406700108398_548178398_4339494_4584483_n.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>99_7518687_n.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;" width=&#8221;525&#8243; /&gt;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs013.ash2/34023_405855108398_548178398_4316601_5705236_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs013.ash2/34023_405855113398_548178398_4316602_1878411_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs013.snc4/34023_405855118398_548178398_4316603_1675338_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs152.snc4/36941_405955893398_548178398_4319873_2096778_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs072.ash2/36941_405955898398_548178398_4319874_4135895_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs141.snc4/36415_405957023398_548178398_4319910_1940752_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs141.snc4/36415_405957028398_548178398_4319911_2101000_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p>Lye Huat Garden do display some fake <strong>terra Cotta</strong>, althought is a fake terra cotta, but at least you can have some feel how how this terra cotta was.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs063.snc4/34489_406150873398_548178398_4325313_6520767_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p>A lot of fishie on the Man make lake, you are allow to feed the fish there.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src=" http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs043.snc4/34489_406150888398_548178398_4325316_7810290_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs115.snc4/36088_406153713398_548178398_4325439_3312407_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p>In Lye Huat Garden, also have a lot of mini garden between, here is another mini garden we enter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs121.snc4/36420_406291858398_548178398_4328907_1202587_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs121.snc4/36420_406291863398_548178398_4328908_4098519_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p>Art Gallery available at Lye Huat Garden, unfortunately, that time was close, we did not enter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs281.ash1/20839_406292943398_548178398_4328913_3169390_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p>Aquarium available, and a lot of different fishes, and some are famous and expensive one</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs068.ash2/36775_406325898398_548178398_4329451_5743800_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs201.snc3/20839_406292948398_548178398_4328914_1169075_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The fish look at us like not really happy</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs221.snc3/20839_406292953398_548178398_4328915_5441939_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs128.snc4/36775_406325883398_548178398_4329448_1704598_n.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;">Pity fishie die in the aquarium</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs068.ash2/36775_406325888398_548178398_4329449_3826707_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Friend come to visit him. The lye huat garden keeper never find doctor for the fishie</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs148.snc4/36775_406325893398_548178398_4329450_1812668_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs095.snc4/36121_406700098398_548178398_4339493_8310490_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs115.snc4/36121_406700108398_548178398_4339494_4584483_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs055.ash2/36121_406700113398_548178398_4339495_6325523_n.jpg" alt="" width="525/" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I have too much photo on lye huat garden, I will post more on the animal on the next post.</p>
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		<title>Functional areas and business functions</title>
		<link>http://www.icalvyn.com/functional-areas-and-business-functions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A business organisation often includes functional areas such as administration, human resource, finance, MIS (management information systems), production, marketing, sales and purchasing. An enterprise function is a group of activities and processes put in place to support a specific part of the mission of the enterprise, and each activity or process is usually supported by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A business organisation often includes functional areas such as administration, human resource, finance, MIS (management information systems), production, marketing, sales and purchasing. An enterprise function is a group of activities and processes put in place to support a specific part of the mission of the enterprise, and each activity or process is usually supported by a set of procedures.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.campusaccess.com/images/business-school.jpg" alt="business functions" /></p>
<p>Be warned that enterprise functions may appear to be the basic building blocks of a business enterprise, yet the business structure may not be based upon them. Is a city’s commerce based upon the number of buildings that can fit into its grid of roadways?<br />
Obviously not, yet the roadways permit many of the exchanges that commerce depends upon. In the same way, enterprise functions must be performed, no matter how the business organisation is structured. The focus should be on what is done by the functions rather than how or where it is done. In this section, you will become familiar with looking at a business in this way by reviewing an outline of what is meant by the functions grouped under the different headings of marketing, human resource, finance, management information systems, production and purchasing.<span id="more-2787"></span></p>
<ol>1. Marketing is a functional area that takes care of marketing research to identify and determine what products and services customers want. The marketing department must therefore act in close liaison with the production department. It starts, plans and follows through with new products and services. This is supported by advertising and promotional programmes working together with advertising and public relations agencies and the media. Marketing specialists are employed in an increasing number of public enterprises. In government, research and evaluation projects, often by independent contractors, provide a similar perspective.</ol>
<ol>Human resource is a functional area that provides services in support of the following enterprise functions: recruitment, selection, training, appraisal and promotion of staff. It also administers staff records, payment and reward systems, and fringe benefits and makes sure that the work practices stay within the limits laid down by law. This department defines and revises job specifications and, when needed, hires new staff. Human resource departments in medium and small organisations often perform the<br />
administration function, but administration could be a separate department in large organisations. That function is responsible for all support services that include clerical, typing, filing, maintenance of the office accommodation, transportation, reception, telephone, telex, facsimile and communications systems, collection and delivery of documents, security, advertising and other activities that are necessary for ensuring the smooth running of the organisation. In certain organisations, administration may have to deal with all relevant legal matters, MIS, purchasing, insurance and share registrations.</ol>
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		<title>Advanced XML regular expression features [Part 1]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular expressions are sets of special characters or character sequences that are used to match string values in text data. XPath 2.0 offers improved support for regular expressions. This is useful because it enables you to search for particular string patterns and return nodes that match those string patterns.

XPath 2.0 functions
In XPath 2.0, three new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regular expressions are sets of special characters or character sequences that are used to match string values in text data. XPath 2.0 offers improved support for regular expressions. This is useful because it enables you to search for particular string patterns and return nodes that match those string patterns.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7808/xmllogo.png" alt="xml regular expression" /></p>
<p><strong>XPath 2.0 functions</strong></p>
<p>In XPath 2.0, three new functions provide support for regular expressions:</p>
<ul>
<li>tokenize()</li>
<li>matches()</li>
<li>replace()</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>tokenize()</strong></p>
<p>You use the tokenize() function to split a string into substrings. For example, you can use this function to split a sentence into separate words. The syntax for the tokenize() function is<span id="more-2793"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>fn:tokenize( $input as xs:string?,</p>
<p>$pattern as xs:string,</p>
<p>$flags as xs:string) as xs:string+</p></blockquote>
<p>The fn prefix is used to identify the function as belonging to the XPath 2.0 function namespace – http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-functions. The $input parameter represents the string you want to split, $pattern represents the regular expression you want to use on this string, and $flags is an optional parameter representing a number of predefined options that determine the way the function operates, such as whether it works case sensitively.</p>
<p><strong>matches()</strong></p>
<p>You use the matches() function to return a Boolean value – true or false. If a match exists for the regular expression, a value of true is returned. Otherwise, a value of false is returned. The syntax for the matches() function is</p>
<blockquote><p>fn:matches( $input as xs:string?,</p>
<p>$pattern as xs:string,</p>
<p>$flags as xs:string) as xs:boolean</p></blockquote>
<p>The following code example uses the matches() function in an XSL template to identify people with Boston area codes in a list containing customer details. It does this by using a regular expression to test whether a customer&#8217;s phone number has an area code of 617. It then outputs those customers&#8217; names in a results table.</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;xsl:template match=&#8221;customer&#8221;&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;table&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;xsl:if test=&#8221;matches</p>
<p>(address/phoneNumber, &#8216;617-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}&#8217;)&#8221;&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;tr&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;td&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;xsl:value-of select=&#8221;name/firstName&#8221;/&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/td&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;td&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;xsl:value-of select=&#8221;name/lastName&#8221;/&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/td&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/tr&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/xsl:if&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/table&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>replace()</strong></p>
<p>The replace() function enables you to search for and replace a string. The syntax for this function is</p>
<blockquote><p>fn:replace( $input as xs:string?,</p>
<p>$pattern as xs:string,</p>
<p>$replacement as xs:string,</p>
<p>$flags as xs:string) as xs:string</p></blockquote>
<p>The function accepts an input string, $string, searches it for values represented by $pattern, and replaces these with whatever you specify in the $replacement parameter. As is the case with the tokenize() and matches() functions, $flags is an optional parameter that determines how the function operates.</p>
<p>For example, say you want to ensure that US addresses in customer lists are always displayed as &#8220;U.S.A.&#8221; rather than &#8220;USA&#8221; or &#8220;US&#8221;. The following XSL code searches for alternative address formats and replaces them with U.S.A..</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;xsl:for-each select=&#8221;address/country&#8221;&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;xsl:value-of select=&#8221;replace</p>
<p>(., &#8216;[Uu]\.?[Ss]\.?[Aa]?\.?$&#8217;, &#8216;U.S.A.&#8217;)&#8221;/&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Examining an XBRL taxonomy [Part 2]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>calvyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After getting know on examining and XBRL taxonomy part 1, let continue the rest of the topic.
The structure of an XBRL GL document

This diagram shows the basic structure of an XBRL GL document.
The top-level element of an XBRL GL document, which appears directly after the XBRL instance document root element, is accountingEntries, which is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After getting know on <a href="http://www.icalvyn.com/examining-an-xbrl-taxonomy-part-1/">examining and XBRL taxonomy</a> part 1, let continue the rest of the topic.</p>
<p><strong>The structure of an XBRL GL document</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5247/xml1.jpg" alt="XBRL" /></p>
<p>This diagram shows the basic structure of an XBRL GL document.</p>
<p>The top-level element of an XBRL GL document, which appears directly after the XBRL instance document root element, is <em>accountingEntries</em>, which is a tuple.<span id="more-2709"></span></p>
<p>The <em>documentInfo</em> element appears directly after <em>accountingEntries</em>, and provides information about all the data in the file.</p>
<p>The<em> documentInfo</em> element has several child elements. One of the most important is <em>entriesType</em>, which has several predefined values that specify the purpose of the XBRL GL instance document, such as whether it is a ledger or a list of assets.</p>
<p>The <em>entityInformation</em> element holds information about the reporting organization and the entryHeader element is the parent element that describes all the entry or journal entry headers, as well as containing the elements that hold the financial data in the document.</p>
<p>The <em>entryHeader</em> element has a number of child elements. The most important is <em>entryDetail</em>, which is the parent element for each ledger entry. It, in turn, has several child elements, including account, <em>documentType</em>, <em>debitCreditCode</em>, and amount.</p>
<p><strong>The instance document</strong><br />
XBRL GL instance documents may vary in structure depending on whether they use the XBRL GL 1.0 or 1.1 taxonomies. Whereas the XBRL GL 1.0 taxonomy uses a single schema and three linkbase documents, the XBRL GL 1.1 uses four additional schema and many additional linkbases. So although it uses the same core elements as version 1.0, it also defines new elements and requires the use of additional namespace prefixes to<br />
qualify these. For example, instead of using glc as the XBRL GL recommended namespace prefix, it uses gl-cor, which identifies elements from the core schema. Here is a section of an XBRL GL instance document based on the version 1.1 taxonomy. Because the XBRL specification used by this taxonomy is version 2.0 rather than version 2.1, the root element is group rather than xbrl.</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;?xml version=&#8221;1.0&#8243; encoding=&#8221;UTF-8&#8243;?&gt;<br />
&lt;xbrli:group<br />
xmlns:link=&#8221;http://www.xbrl.org/2001/XLink/xbrllinkbase&#8221;<br />
xmlns:xbrli=&#8221;http://www.xbrl.org/2001/instance&#8221;<br />
xmlns:xhtml=&#8221;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221;<br />
xmlns:gl-plt=&#8221;http://www.xbrgl.com/gl-plt/&#8221;<br />
xmlns:gl-cor=<br />
&#8220;http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/cor/2003-08-29/&#8221;<br />
xmlns:gl-bus=<br />
&#8220;http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/bus/2003-08-29/&#8221;<br />
xmlns:gl-muc=<br />
&#8220;http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/muc/2003-08-29/&#8221;<br />
xmlns:gl-usk=<br />
&#8220;http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/usk/2003-08-29/&#8221;<br />
xmlns:xsi=&#8221;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221;<br />
xmlns:ISO4217=&#8221;http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217&#8243;<br />
xsi:schemaLocation=<br />
&#8220;http://www.xbrlgl.com/gl-plt/ XBRLGL.xsd&#8221;&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:accountingEntries&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:documentInfo&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:entriesType nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
entries<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:entriesType&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:language nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;</p>
<p>ISO693:ja<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:language&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:creationDate nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
2002-06-18<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:creationDate&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:entriesComment nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
XXX-FI<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:entriesComment&gt;<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:documentInfo&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:entryHeader&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:enteredBy nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
001<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:enteredBy&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:enteredDate nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
2001-04-01<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:enteredDate&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:sourceJournalID nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
se<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:sourceJournalID&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:entryNumber nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
4<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:entryNumber&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:entryDetail&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:account&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:accountSub&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:accountSubType<br />
nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
division<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:accountSubType&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:accountSubID<br />
nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
001<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:accountSubID&gt;<br />
&lt;gl-cor:accountSubDescription<br />
nonNumericContext=&#8221;s1&#8243;&gt;<br />
Tokyo Head Office<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:accountSubDescription&gt;<br />
&lt;/gl-cor:accountSub&gt;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Summary</strong><br />
As summary, An XBRL taxonomy is a document or set of documents defining a specific information set that can be reported using the XBRL specification. Financial reporting taxonomies are created specifically for individual regions or companies but the XBRL General Ledger<br />
taxonomy (XBRL GL) is a widely applicable standard taxonomy. XBRL GL provides a structure for presenting any accounting information in an XBRL report, collecting all general ledger receivables and payables, and presenting them in a traditional reporting format.</p>
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		<title>What is Enterprise Concepts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this section you will review the basic concepts of a business organisation, particularly with respect to the nature of the business, its mission, goals and objectives, and business environment. You need a very good understanding of the nature and characteristics of the business of an organisation before you can address the important issues of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this section you will review the basic concepts of a business organisation, particularly with respect to the nature of the business, its mission, goals and objectives, and business environment. You need a very good understanding of the nature and characteristics of the business of an organisation before you can address the important issues of its business planning and Management Information Systems strategic planning processes.</p>
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<p>Every organisation has a purpose. This course does not assume that the purpose underlying all organisations is profit-related, as many non-profit or charitable organisations exist. Nevertheless, an organisation can be defined as a socio-technical system whereby people work coherently to accomplish specific goals that evolve from the organisation’s purpose. From a systems approach, organisations are open systems. Which means that they interact with the surrounding environment.<span id="more-2785"></span></p>
<p>For example, take a religious group in which the members have a common goal of discussing their beliefs and perhaps promoting them to non-members. The members comprise the social component of the organisation. The members gather regularly in the meeting room that serves as a catchment area for all people with a common aim. They interact with each other not only in the religious activities but also socially. They develop their friendship, and they share a common vision in seeing the group grow. In addition, the leaders of the group may aim at providing community leadership through organising other branches. The meeting rooms, notices, literature and activities represent the technical components of the organization.</p>
<p>An organisation’s purpose leads logically to a vision and a mission statement of the way in which the organisation plans to realise its stated purpose, and business organisations in particular usually set certain goals and objectives to guide their operations. For instance, the purpose underlying a software vending organisation is to sell software, but the vision of the software seller may be to become the most profitable company in the software industry. This will be achieved through top quality programmes and after-sales service (the mission).</p>
<p>Goals or aims are general statements that say what is going to be done to serve the mission. Following on from these, the objectives are more specific statements usually set out in ways that allow us to measure them — and so see whether we have got there or not. For instance, a mission might be to outsell the competitors in 2009; an objective might be to increase sales by 10% each month in 2009. A business organisation has a set of goals and objectives to be achieved. Hence, a business organisation should be structured in the most effective and efficient way to fully utilise its resources — capital, human resource, and knowledge in products and services, and both external and internal information — to achieve its strategic goals. Organisations can be structured in many ways, and there are many ways in which communication networks (and communication is the ‘glue’ that holds an organization together) can operate within them.</p>
<p>The structure of an organisation is usually depicted by its organisation chart, which identifies its management structure according to the organisational units, locations, functions and their reporting relationships. You find the (formal) reporting relationships or chain-of-command within the organisation from the organization chart. You can see from the organisation chart whether an organisation is a centralized organization (tall structure) or decentralised organisation (flat structure).</p>
<p>1. Decision-making authority is usually tightly controlled by top management in a centralised organisation, but decision making itself is often delegated to middle or lower management who are constrained by often exhaustive policy and procedure packages. Not all organisational decisions must be made every time at the top level — top management pre-empts this need through delegation and regulation of certain types and levels of decision.</p>
<p>2. While decision making is often delegated to middle-level or lower-level management in a decentralised organisation that does not mean that the top management does not make decisions. In fact, coordinating decision making in flat organisations is essential, as no part can become ‘greater’ than the whole. Decisions in the units of a decentralised organisation must be kept in line with the purpose, vision, mission, goals and objectives of the entire organisation. You may observe, however, that the departments in many flat organisations often operate in a ‘tall’ mode, as many middle managers seem uncomfortable with decentralization.</p>
<p>What has been briefly described above represents some of the formal characteristics of organisations, but apart from formal structure and organisation, informal organizations based on personal interactions and relationships among employees (which are not shown by the organisation chart) also exist. An informal communication network called the grapevine, which carries gossip and other information throughout an organisation, often supports this.</p>
<p>This has been a very brief snapshot of organisations. Rather than a still camera, perhaps the right instrument for capturing the dynamic nature of organisations would be a video camera. Organisations and the business environment in which they fight to achieve their purpose are not static. The purpose, vision, mission, goals, objectives, organisational structure, chain of command, and especially personnel (managers and subordinates) can change in response to changes in the environment. In a healthy business organisation, the only constant is change — in ways of responding to the business environment at least.</p>
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		<title>My HP Netbook has arrive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to my application on Cool Uni Pack few week ago, I have receive the wifi modem few days after I submit my application form. According to TM, my netbook will be arrive approximate 2 week later.

I have receive my netbook around 2 week plus as promise. A person call me up, said that will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to my application on <a href="http://www.icalvyn.com/streamyx-cool-uni-pack/" target="_blank">Cool Uni Pack</a> few week ago, I have receive the wifi modem few days after I submit my application form. According to TM, my netbook will be arrive approximate 2 week later.</p>
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<p>I have receive my netbook around 2 week plus as promise. A person call me up, said that will deliver my netbook at evening. After sign some document, I get my HP netbook already&#8230;<span id="more-2779"></span></p>
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<p>As usual, the netbook will come with few accessories</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9581/image011qi.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p>Charger, extra power cord and battery</p>
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<p>Here is my netbook, it is very small and handy&#8230; no wonder people said MINI netbook.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/3374/image013w.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7518/image014k.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
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<p>Manual and CD sure will be include.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately&#8230; 1 thing was missing, should said usually will come together when we purchase notebook. Guess what?</p>
<p>How can I carry when I bring my netbook out from my house? I need to headace to find a bag for it right now <img src='http://www.icalvyn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>When I power up</strong><br />
I found that the speed of loading is slightly slow compare to others laptop, no doubt, it is only atom processor&#8230;Only 1G RAM as well, and unable to upgrade.</p>
<p><strong>When I access Internet</strong><br />
Found a bit slow on loading the page, and also downloading files. I have download the firefox browser installation file, the data transfer rate took averge 4kbps to 5kbps, on the other hand, I using my company notebook to download the same file, it took average 15kbps to download the file. </p>
<p>What I haven touch?<br />
Actually I not really &#8220;deeply&#8221; touch and explore on this netbook due to the exam I face recently. Probably will explore more after this week.</p>
<p>The advantage for this netbook to me is I never have a chance to touch on Windows 7  yet <img src='http://www.icalvyn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  Looking forward to try windows 7</p>
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