Retreat at Sentosa

Shortly after working in my first job, me and some other newbies were assigned by the HOD to make arrangements for the department retreat at Sentosa. As it turned out, the company had some chalets available for use at Sentosa, and all we had to do was to inform HR.

It was quite fun to take time off from work to go to Sentosa to make arrangements and set things up for the retreat. Although it was still considered “work”, it was nevertheless more fun!

Those days of such staff benefits are long gone. A year or two after the retreat, the chalets were all returned to Sentosa.

Lenovo Power Manager Memory Hog

Not sure if this is a unique problem, but I’m experiencing issues with the Lenovo Power Manager where it can consume memory in excess of 100MB! I’m quite sure there must be a memory leak somewhere as it is inconceivable that a mere power manager can take up so much RAM!

Anyway, what I did to resolve it was to kill the rundll32.exe that was running the memory manager and restarted it. The command-line to start it up is:

“C:WINDOWSsystem32rundll32.exe” C:PROGRA~1ThinkPadUTILIT~1PWRMGRTR.DLL,PwrMgrBkGndMonitor

Jpg Program Problem

Back in University we were all supposed to work on this JPEG encoder/decoder program that could compress an image using a JPEG algorithm that we had to write ourselves.

I normally do not need help with my programs, but this very one time, no matter how much time I spent, I just couldn’t get it right. I tried till it was just minutes before the deadline and I had no choice but to get some serious help from LJ.

Thanks LJ! Never forgot that save…