RedAsh's Blog

Nothing much at work today, pretty much nothing much... keke...

Spend the entire day reading up stuffs over the WWW to equip myself with more knowledge so that I can market myself to the market better.

Learnt alot from the WW today, esp. about disk formatting
1> low-level formatting - a physical level where the formating take place down to the disk sectors,
2> reinitiation - a disk-formatting where even the unreadable sectors are analyse and identified (i.e back to factory setting)
3> Zero-fill utility - a process where all readable sectors are fill in with zero per byte
4> high-level formatting - an OS File System level formatting where the index Table is "resetted" (for Win NT) or the data files sectors are set to "Available" status where it is ready to be overwritten. This is also known as "quick formatting" (but scanning the disk for error bytes or sectors can take up to hours).

I am also expose to Gorton, a data recovery agency. And I also got to know, the difference between disk formatting, disk destruction and data recovery. A whole nice new information set.

The day at ICA is over all too soon, and this evening is my first day of lecture CIS 316 for my degree final term. The lecturer is an interesting guy and is very passiionate as well. The class is highly interactive and learning is fast. Learnt a new term from him, "Sitting on the fence" = in the middle of nowhere.

Also got to know that in our course, there is this girl who works in Neopets as a Flash Game Programmer. Oh my Holy Cow, that is my dream post, a Gaming Programmer. Argh, I do envy her, she is heading the direction I been dreaming of but yet still nowhere in sight. She is pretty quick with Mathematical operations, and I was FULL of mistake and was pretty lost, she makes it as if it is SOoooo obvious.

BRILLANT, finally someone where I can look forward to complete with. This feeling has been so long last felt since my secondary days... days that seem to so distant ever since the disaster strikes... I miss you Mum...