There are several alternatives for you to decide where you want to overnight in Cameron Highland. If you have many friends or family which tagging along, you may consider renting an apartment. We came across this apartment - Parkview, which situated in Tanah Rata. Markets, banks, restaurant, and pub were just walking distance away.
Living room - filled with a set of sofa, a TV set with satellite TV (Astro)
Dinning room 
Kitchen - Equipped with gas stove completes with an exhaust, basic cutlery, microwaves, and refridgerator. You would find most of the things you had in your kitchen back in your home.
Master room - Very spacious, consist of queen sized bed and 2 sofa chair, private balcony, and attached with private bathroom.
Medium room - Slightly smaller than master room but it is spacious too. Same as master room, it consist of a queen sized bed, private balcony, and attached with private bathroom.
Small room - 2 single bed and attached with a common bathroom.
Single room - 1 single bed
All bathroom comes with water heater as the water in Cameron Highland is extremely cold.
Given with the price of RM400 for 4 room unit, and RM300 for 3 room unit per night, I would say is quite worthy. It was clean and spacious too.
That's all for my short review.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Cameron Highland - Parkview Apartment
Monday, May 25, 2009
Password Reset for user accounts in Windows Vista
Have been inactive for blogging quite sometime, and I really wanted to share this out few weeks ago, however the bloggin mood is not there yet. Finally is here today... :P
Have you ever stucked on the Ctrl Alt Del screen and trying hard to figure out what is the password for your account? There are many people in this world who forgets their password for their own computer (wheter accidentally or on purpose) especially the administrator password which they don't even know when and why they should use it. If you've been to this situation, you know how pain it is for the process of cracking the password setup by yourself. In fact there are bunch of tools in the internet which teaches you on how to break into your own system with their smart tools. However often enough these tools comes with a price. Fortunately Microsoft is getting "smarter" as they introduced a great tools which automatically comes with every Windows Vista (with or without SP1), Server 2008 (with or without R2) or even Seven (at least in RTM) - The "Ease of Access" button. In my opinion, this time they really meant it - hard. Why? Read this to refresh your memory.
Now there is another way which is even much more simple as to achieve this, no administrator account/password required, no ownership hassle, no UAC, and straightforward in the process of backdoor creation. The magic lies in the Windows Installation DVD itself. (WinPE is an alternative) Before that, please ensures that your computer are capable to boot from your DVD drive (just to be sure :P) and is set to boot from DVD rom. Steps below might be vary if you booting from WinPE.
1. Place the DVD into your optical drive.
2. Boot into the DVD by Press any key when you've been told.
3. Wait and wait for the DVD to be booted.
4. Then it reaches the installation screen. Click "Next" even though you have the Windows installed N years ago.
5. Select the last option which is "Repair your computer".
6. Choose the first option when System Recovery Options where prompted.
7. Choose "Command Prompt" from list of options available.
8. There you get your beloved command prompt with full administrator privilege. Navigate to your system32 folder. Alright, you might be asking why not I throw in directly "Compmgmt.msc" here and reset the password. In fact, I've tried that. However the MMC just refuse to be started. Hence, move on.....
9. Using the same target "Magnify.exe", make a backup of the original copy beforehand (in case on one day you start to regret of having the door open at all times, you can easily revert back). To do this, simply rename the original "Magnify.exe" to "Magnify.bak". - ren Magnify.exe Magnify.bak
10. Make another copy of command prompt and name it as "Magnify.exe" so that it takes the roles on the original "Magnify.exe". - copy cmd.exe Magnify.bak
11. Do a final checking, ok it's there. Shut off everything you can see and reboot your computer.
12. This time, just boot into your windows straight.
13. When your computer are ready, click on the "Ease of Access" button and says "Hell yea, I am accessing this computer with ease".
14. Enable the magnify option, and click OK. Walla... the powerful command prompt is there.
15. Till this steps, I'm sure most of you know what to do next. For those who still have no idea what to do next, here is the magic begin. Open up the Computer Management console via command prompt. - compmgmt.msc
16. Just follow back the password reset routine, expand the tree on the left, expand "Local Users and Groups", click on "Users", select the user you want to
17. Click "Proceed" if prompted, and proceed to reset the password.
18. Click on "Ok" and you're done.
Disclaimers : Try at your own risk and I held no responsibility on any damage you bring upon yourself. Good for solving your "forget password issue" and bad for the rest. Thanks.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Configure Shadow Copy size for Windows Vista
Wonder why the Windows Vista system taking so much of space in your system drive? Well there are many things which can easily take up your precious space in your hard drive. Windows Vista new features, Vista search and also the backup mechanism so called System Resotre, and Shadow Copies are the main culprit in such issues.
Well we can choose to limit which folder or drive to have the Vista search features so that it minimize the indexing size, and we can also turn off System Restore easily if you don't really play with new drivers or applications everyday. Hence in my opinion it's extremely safe even without the System Restore. Shadow Copies is a very good and cool features which provided by Windows Vista. Imaging one day, you accidentally deletes a file or edited a file which you don't intended to, Shadow Copy can easily restore the files back in just a blink.
However, Shadow Copies actually occupied very large of hard disk space. In my scenario, I have a 40GB hard disk parition for Windows Vista alone, and Windows Vista "intelligently" reserve 15% of my hard disk space for this purpose. In another words, it's whopping 6GB of space.
Right click on my C:\ drive and navigate to properties, proceed to Previous Version tab, you can see that there is a long list of C:\ drive being "Shadow Copied". Initially I thought of deleting the old Shadow which I think I won't be needing it. However I realised that it doesn't not even have an option to do that.
Well... not to say that it donesn't have any option at all. Windows Vista actually do comes with a very good tools to configure the resize the amount of space that reserved Shadow Copy. This tools is called as VSSAdmin. Fire up this tools via command prompt under administrative privileges, and type vssadmin. 
To see how much space that Windows Vista actually allocated for the Shadow Copies, key in "vssadmin list shadowstorage" in the command prompt.
You can actually resize the amount of space allocated for Shadow Copies via vssadmin too. For example now, I want to resize my shadow copies size to only 3GB instead of 6GB, just key in "vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=C: /on=C: /maxsize=3GB" and immediately the older Shadow Copy will be deleted and release quite an amount of hard disk space.
Before shrink
After shrink
Hope that this tips can help you too. :)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Boring weekend
Well it is a boring Saturday, and there is no plans in my mind on what should I do. Wake up at 10am in the morning, finished up few episode of HK drama, and went out for lunch after awhile. After back from lunch, again jump into the boring mode. Looking at my dusty table fan, I decides to give the fan a good bath. See the pictures below and you'll know how dusty it is. :P
And finally it regains it's clean look.
After cleaning the fan, tidy up my bedroom, cleans my toilet, and also my computer mouse, it was already 4pm. Resumes my HK drama, and waiting for my dinner after that. That's it for the whole day. In the end, my housemates and I sat down together and plan for tomorrow, Sunday programme. We decides for a one day trip to Melaka. :P
Monday, September 01, 2008
Goodbye 932B-Plus, and Welcome T220
Yesterday my dad told me that his monitor at home was broke down so without hesitation, I offered my 1year old Samsung 932B Plus to my dad. This morning I went to Lowyat Plaza and my target was 22" Samsung monitor. As I went into the Samsung showroom, Samsung T220 draws my attention to it. The design was nice and it comes with specially designed touch-sensitive power button. However it was in dark rose color, which doesn't gain much of my interest. Just when I plan to gave up, I saw a blue color T220 in the catalogue, so I asked for the salesgirl if they have any blue color unit of T220. Too bad she told that it was out of stock and they have no idea when would it be restocked. Without giving up my hope, I walk around Lowyat and finally saw that Thundermatch in Level4 has few units left. Happily I bought this new baby home. :)
