Can you live outside KL but work in KL ?
I try to analyze the data. Are we able to work at KL but live outside KL? Well given that house price in KL is too expensive to buy, more than affordable for rental. But the prices is way lower should you go far out of KL. For example like the place I am living now, Rawang.
But does the cheaper price of houses justify the travelling cost included?
Lets do the math.
For example the current job that I applied, the work days is 6 days a week. That means working on saturday. Lets take out our calculator.
First is travel by car. Assuming you already own one. The cost involve is:
- Fuel: RM10 daily (back and forth about RM60/week)
- Toll: RM7.20 daily (back and forth)
- Parking: RM3 ~ RM6 daily/entry (depend on where the parking lot is)
- Total daily is: RM20.20 ~ 23.20
- Total monthly: RM464.60 ~ 533.60 (assuming 23 days work per month)
Second is to travel by public transport
- Bus: RM2.40 daily (back and forth to Rawang KTM station)
- Train: RM6.60 daily (back and forth Rawang – KL)
- Total daily: RM9.00
- Total monthly: RM207
But if you were to take normal road and find free parking, the cost by traveling with car is just RM10 for fuel. Unless you stuck on long hours jam and risk of empty fuel tank… You’re force to re-fill petrol and it will cost more than RM10 daily. So the monthly cost is around RM230++ but you got to go early to grab the free parking space.
The other things is you can’t predict anything to happen everyday. You could be facing on heavy traffic jam. You also could be facing with problematic KTM train. Both will make you arrive late for work. At least in your own car, you still looks ok. In tin sardine KTM and delayed, you would looks like…. uh! And smell… (especially going back home).
Parking in KL is terrible. If your company got adequate parking at the building, maybe driving your own car wouldnt be a problem. Or you could just paid for monthly parking at any parking lot.
I would say taking public transport is the cheapest way to go. But once reach KL, you need to walk a bit to go to your workplace. It does help if your workplace is closer to any train station. On bright day I will enjoy walking to my office. On a rainy day… Not as much. Need to bring extra shoes… And umbrella of course 
Utorrent 2.0.1 Slow in Download
Before this I am using UTorrent 1.8.5 and download speed is great. Max out my 2Mbps DSL connection (around 200kbps++). So when new upgrade available, I happily upgrade to new version. Little did I know what it come with…
The download speed is very slow. Rarely reach even 100kbps. Most of the time around 50kbps only. I am tired of waiting… I try to download torrent with more seed. But it still wont go up to the old speed. Now I start to Googling around.
I found the tips in UTorrent own forum.
Go to your Preferences (Options -> Preferences or Ctrl + P)
Then change the value in Advanced.
bt.transp_disposition from the default 31 (default value on mine) to 5 (as suggested by one of the forumer).
After that, the speed of download increase to a bit around 150kbps… But still drop back to 50kbps sometimes. So this one does not solve the problem totally.
Then one more forumer suggested that change the value of net.calc_overhead. From True to False.
The new version of UTorrent is somehow limit the download speed to the rate of limited upload rate. So if your upload rate is 5kbps like what I said, you’ll get 50kbps download speed.
This setting will disable that options. So you will get your full download speed Nice!
Or you can just increase the upload speed limit to get more download speed. Or you can always downgrade to older version of UTorrent.
Done Final Exam
Finally done.
Not so bad, but not that good either. Just look at my previous post, last minute trying to remember all those stuff. Haha. At least I did remember lah.
Next task is project presentation.
Next week got 2 job interview. Wuhuu!
Type of Middleware
RPC
- Remote Procedure Call
- Asynchronous and Synchronous
- Client make call to procedure running in remote system
Message Oriented Middleware
Message sent to client is collected and stored until they’re acted upon
SQL-Oriented Data Access
Between application and database
Embedded Middleware
Communication service between embedded application and real time operating system
Middleware
What is middleware?
Software layer that lies between the operating system and the application on each site of the system
Middleware Functions:
Hiding distribution
Make of many part running in distributed location
Hiding the heterogeneity of various hardware components, operating system and communication protocol
Provide uniform, standard, high level interface to the application developer and integrator
Application can easily be composed, versed, ported and made to interoperate
Supply set of common service
Perform various general purpose functions such as
- Avoid duplicating effort
- Facilitate collaboration between application
