Motorola Subscriber Training

I have attended Motorola Subscriber Training held in Motorola's Customer Solution Center (CSC) in Bayan Lepas Industrial area, Penang starting from 17th until 21st October 2011. This training is jointly organized by Motorola Solutions and Axis Technology Resources for expansion project of Kerteh Wide Digital Trunked Radio System in Kerteh. I was there representing my company I worked for to learn more about Dimetra System that are currently being used in my workplace for plant-wide communication.

The participants

The 5-day course cover the Dimetra system, the infrastructure, the features of the digital trunked radio system and also their mobile radio terminals, namely MTP850Ex portable radio and MTM800e mobile radio used in vehicles. The training is also attended by representatives from other operating units (OPU's) that will be adopting the new digital trunked radio system (DTRS) in Kerteh.

Receiving certificate of participation from Motorola and Axis

I learnt a lot from this course that surely helped me to carry out my daily task as Safety System Engineer in my workplace. All of us were provided with sufficient manuals and workbook to help us understanding course delivery better.

The whole stack of manuals for system and mobile terminal

During a week stay in Penang, I stayed in Eastin Hotel Penang. It is located near to Queensbay Mall and facing Jerejak Island. Motorola CSC is located 4 kms away from the hotel and I must say the hotel's location is very strategic.

View from my room at Eastin Hotel

On the last day in Penang, I also went to Bukit Bendera. The last time I went here was when I was 10 years old. Bukit Bendera has changed since then with the new train which is more comfortable (supposedly, but the air-condition was faulty so it was like in moving sauna) and faster. To ride the train, RM8 ticket is imposed to the local tourist, while for foreign tourist, they have to pay RM30. The journey uphill only took 10 minutes. It was raining when I reached the hill top so I here are few pictures that I managed to take before the heavy downpour.

The entrance, the weather is already overcast

The train railway

The new and faster hill train

I also met some of my friend in UTP. I went to Kulim with Fitri who are currently working at 2nd Penang Bridge Project to meet Huda and Dalila. Both of them are working as engineers in Silterra and Intel Kulim respectively. We had our dinner in Monrod Kulim and the food is not so disappointing. I also met with my classmate in SDAR, Kamek at Padang Kota Lama. He is currently sitting for final exam for his medical degree and good luck to him!

With Fitri, soon he will come to work in Kerteh

Dalila and Huda from Kulim

All in all, my trip to Penang was very fun and informative. I will surely come again for holiday! :)

Tukang Potong Rumput di Lebuhraya

Kronologi Kejadian

1. Sebuah kereta dua pintu berwarna hitam dalam perjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Pulau Pinang sedang dipandu pada kelajuan 160 km/j di Lebuhraya Utara Selatan berhampiran kawasan Bukit Gantang.
2. Pemandu kemudian melalui kawasan selekoh di lorong kanan pada kelajuan sama sebelum menyedari dua orang pemotong rumput hendak melintas di kawasan selekoh lebuhraya sama.
3. Terdapat sebuah van bergerak perlahan di lorong kiri dan pemandu kereta tidak ada ruang untuk menukar lorong dan terpaksa membuat brek kecemasan.
4. Keadaan jalan yang kering, tayar kereta baru ditukar dan sistem brek anti-terkunci (ABS) yang diaktifkan membantu pemandu kereta tersebut mengurangkan kelajuan kepada 60 km/j dalam masa yang singkat dan berjaya mengelak tukang rumput dan van di sebelah kiri dari dilanggar.
5. Pemandu kereta, van dan dua orang tukang rumput yang hendak melintas tidak mengalami sebarang kemalangan.

Pengajaran

1. Walaupun masih agak bahaya untuk memberhentikan kenderaan walaupun dari kelajuan 110 km/j dalam situasi yang sama, tetapi dengan memandu mengikut had laju masih dapat mengurangkan risiko kemalangan. Pandu dengan cermat dan berhati-hati.
2. Tukang rumput sepatutnya tidak memilih untuk melintasi lebuhraya di kawasan selekoh, walhal tidak dibenarkan sama sekali untuk melintas di lebuhraya!

New Rubber Shoes for TakBolehBlah

After 34000 km old, finally the stock donuts decided to give up. So it is time for TakBolehBlah to wear new shoes on all four wheels. With limited budget, my aim is to search for tires that can perform better from the stock factory Continental SportContact1 195/50/R16.

Yokohama A-Drive R1 205/45/R16 sexy-looking tread

After googling through the Internet, I finally decided to take Yokohama A-Drive R1 as my choice. I also decided to choose slightly bigger tire size of 205/45/R16. The hunt begins and it is quite hard to find this tire. Actually the shop did not keep stock of that particular tires but he can source it from a shop in Rawang and get it delivered to his shop. I quickly placed the order as the price is just the same from the shop in KL, minus the travelling to KL so it is a very good deal! The order was placed in the morning and the tire arrived in the afternoon at around 4:30 pm.

Installing the new tires on TakBolehBlah

Finally I managed to get the rubbers from Kedai Dunlop near Jalan Morib. The shop quoted RM260/piece for that tire. The total damage was RM1100 including balancing, alignment and changing to rubber valves on all four wheels. With the tires changed, I can peacefully travel to Penang to attend training in Motorola on Sunday. I will update my simple review on this tire after returning from trip in Penang.

Alignment

HDMI display problem

Recently I just bought myself a new Samsung SyncMaster SA350 23" High Definition LED monitor to replace my old Samsung 17" LCD monitor for my PC. The old monitor will go to my hometown in Banting to be paired with unused PC there.

Excited to make full use of High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) on my Sapphire HD 5770 graphic card, I quickly connected my new monitor to the graphic card using HDMI cable. However, I was disappointed when the monitor is not displaying 100% of the screen area of the 1080p monitor as shown in the picture below:

BEFORE (click on image to enlarge)

A quick googling on the net directed me to the solution. The HD monitor is not displaying full screen problem can be solved by adjusting overscan and underscan option within your ATI Catalyst Control Center.

Here I would like to share the step-by-step procedure of adjusting overscan and underscan option in ATI Catalyst Control Center installed on Windows 7 OS:

1) On the taskbar, right-click on the ATI Catalyst Control Center icon (shown in red circle).

2) On the menu, select Catalyst Control Center ...

3) Catalyst Control Center will appear, select My Digital Flat Panel, a drop down menu will appear.

4) From the drop down menu, select Scaling Options (Digital Flat-Panel)

5) Adjust the Scaling Options by moving the slider towards Underscan or Overscan until the whole display is filling up the entire screen area.

6) Voila! The display is filling up the entire screen area of your new HD monitor connected via HDMI cable.

AFTER (click to enlarge)

For older version of ATI Catalyst, you may refer here. I have adapted his guide to match with the new interface in the latest ATI Catalyst driver I am using.

Enjoy your new HD monitor!!! ^_^