2012 Malaysia Public Holiday

Malaysian State & National Holidays 2012

Dates	Occasion	For
1 January Sunday	New Year	All states except Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis & Trengganu
14 January Saturday	Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan's Birthday	Negeri Sembilan only
15 January Sunday	Sultan of Kedah's Birthday	Kedah only
23 January Monday	Chinese New Year	Nationwide
24 January Tuesday	Chinese New Year (2nd Day)	All states except Kelantan and Trengganu
1 February Wednesday	Federal Territory Day	Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan & Putrajaya only
5 February Sunday	Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (Maulidur Rasul)	Nationwide
7 February Tuesday	Thaipusam	Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Penang & Selangor only
4 March Sunday	Anniversary of Installation of Sultan of Trengganu	Trengganu only
6 April Friday	Good Friday	Sabah & Sarawak only
15 April Sunday	Declaration of Malacca as a Historical City	Malacca only
19 April Thursday	Sultan of Perak's Birthday	Perak only
1 May Tuesday	Labour Day	Nationwide
7May Monday	Hari Hol Pahang	Pahang only
5 May Saturday	Wesak Day	Nationwide
17 May Thursday	Raja Perlis' Birthday	Perlis only
30- 31 May Wed & Thu	Harvest Festival Pesta Kaamatan Sabah	Sabah & Labuan only
1 - 2 June Fri & Sat	Sarawak Harvest Festival Hari Gawai Sarawak	Sarawak only
2 June Saturday	Malaysian King's Birthday Harijadi Agong	Nationwide
17 June Sunday	Israk & Mikraj	Kedah, Negeri Sembilan & Perlis only
7 July Saturday	Georgetown Heritage Day	Penang - but not a 'paid holiday' for private sectors employees.
7 July Saturday	Penang Governor's Birthday	Penang only
20 July Friday	Sultan of Trengganu's Birthday	Trengganu only
21 July Saturday	Awal Ramadan Start of Muslim fasting month (bulan Puasa)	Johor, Kedah & Malacca only
6 August Monday	Nuzul Al-Quran	Kelantan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Selangor & Trengganu only
19 - 20 Aug Sun & Mon	Hari Raya Puasa *	Nationwide
31 August Friday	National Independence Day Merdeka	Nationwide
9 September Sunday	Sarawak Governor's Birthday	Sarawak Only
16 September Sunday	Malaysia Day & Sabah Governor's Birthday	Nationwide Sabah
14 October Saturday	Malacca Governor's Birthday	Malacca only
24 October Wednesday	Sultan of Pahang's Birthday	Pahang only
26 October Friday	Hari Raya Haji * Hari Raya Qurban	Nationwide
27 October Saturday	Hari Raya Haji (2nd Day) * Hari Raya Qurban	Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis & Trengganu Only
11 November Sunday	Sultan of Kelantan's Birthday	Kelantan only
13 November Tuesday	Deepavali or Diwali	Nationwide, except for Sarawak
15 November Thursday	Awal Muharram (Maal Hijrah)	Nationwide
22 November Thursday	Sultan of Johor's Birthday	Johor only
11 December Tuesday	Sultan of Selangor's Birthday	Selangor only
25 December Tuesday	Christmas	Nationwide

* Subject to change - depending on the sighting of the new moon

Malaysia School Holidays 2012 Cuti Sekolah Malaysia 2012

1st Term Holidays
10 March - 18 March	Mid-Term Holiday
26 May - 10 June	Mid-Year Holiday
2nd Term Holidays
18 - 26 August	Mid-Term Holiday
10 November - 2 January 2013	Year End Holiday

Virtualization Comparison Chart

VM Comparison

Hypervisor Attributes	VMware ESXi 5.0	Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V	Citrix XenServer 5.6 FP1
Small Disk Footprint	144 MB disk footprint (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)	>3GB with Server Core installation ~10GB with full Windows Server installation	>1GB
OS Independence	No reliance on general purpose operating system (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)	Relies on Windows 2008 in Parent Partition	Relies on Linux in Dom0 management Partition
Hardened Drivers	Optimized with hardware vendors	Generic Windows drivers	Generic Linux Drivers
Advanced Memory Management	Ability to reclaim unused memory, de-duplicate memory pages, compress memory pages	Only uses balloning. No ability to de-duplicate or compress pages.	Only uses balloning.No ability to de-duplicate or compress pages. Does not adjust memory allocation based on VM usage.
Advanced Storage Management	VMware vStorage VMFS,  Storage vMotion,  Storage DRS	Lacks an integrated cluster file system, no live storage migration	Lacks an integrated cluster file system, no live storage migration, storage features support very few arrays
High I/O Scalability	Direct driver model	I/O bottleneck in parent OS	I/O bottleneck in Dom0 management OS
Host Resource Management	Network traffic shaping, per-VM resource shares, set quality of service priorities for storage and network I/O	Lacks similar capabilities	Lacks similar capabilities
Performance Enhancements	AMD RVI, Intel EPT large memory pages, universal 32-way vSMP, VMI paravirtualization, VMDirectPath I/O, PV guest SCSI driver	Large memory pages, 4-way vSMP on Windows 2008 and Windows 7 VMs only	No large memory pages, no paravirt guest SCSI device, Requires inflexible SR-IOV
Virtual Security Technology	VMware VMsafe™ Enables hypervisor level security introspection	Nothing comparable	Nothing comparable
Flexible Resource Allocation	Hot add VM vCPUs and memory, VMFS volume grow, hot extend virtual disks, hot add virtual disks	Nothing comparable	Nothing comparable
Custom image creation and management	VMware Image Builder allows administrators to create custom ESXi images for different types of deployment, such as ISO-based installation, PXE-based installation, and Auto Deploy.	Nothing comparable	Nothing comparable
Auto Deploy	vSphere Auto Deploy enables faster provisioning of multiple hosts. New hosts are automatically provisioned based on rules defined by user.	Requires in-depth setup in Systems Center Configuration Manager	Nothing comparable
Management Interface Firewall	ESXi Firewall is a service-oriented and stateless firewall that protects the ESXi 5.0 management interface. Configured using the vSphere Client or at the command line with esxcli interfaces.	Nothing comparable	Nothing comparable
Enhanced Virtual Hardware	32-way virtual SMP, 1TB virtual machine RAM, Non hardware accelerated 3D graphics, USB 3.0 device support, Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI).	4-way virtual SMP only, 64 GB RAM per virtual machine	8-way virtual SMP only, 32 GB RAM per virtual machine

Note:  some of the ESXi features included are not available with vSphere Hypervisor

Windows 8 Fastest Boot Time compare to Windows Client OS Family

Windows 8 Fast Boot
The winner of the first Windows 8 vs. Windows 7 boot performance measuring contest is clear, and I doubt that we’ll ever see a comeback from Windows Vista’s successor in future comparisons.

An important aspect of Windows 8’s evolution is the fine tuning of the start-up process. Technologies such as solid state drive (SSDs) and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) aside, the next iteration of Windows comes with optimizations which will let Windows 7 in its boot dust.


Featuring a new start-up mechanism which combines cold boot with resuming from hibernate, Windows 8 delivers unmatched speed, drastically reducing the time it takes toreach Metro-ready or desktop-ready.

The next version of Windows closes user sessions on shutdown, but makes sure to hibernate the kernel session.

Only a small portion of memory is actually written to disk, it’s what the Redmond company calls, session 0 hibernation, as opposed to full hibernation.

“If you’re not familiar with hibernation, we’re effectively saving the system state and memory contents to a file on disk (hiberfil.sys) and then reading that back in on resume and restoring contents back to memory,” explained Gabe Aul, a director of program management in Windows.

“Using this technique with boot gives us a significant advantage for boot times, since reading the hiberfile in and reinitializing drivers is much faster on most systems (30-70% faster on most systems we’ve tested).”

The two graphics included with this article, courtesy of Microsoft, reveal the comparison between the new Windows 8 start boot and the old Windows 7 cold boot.


It’s rather obvious, that no matter the actual device customers will be running, it will deliver superior boot performance if it’s running Windows 8 as opposed to Windows 7.

“It’s faster because resuming the hibernated system session is comparatively less work than doing a full system initialization, but it’s also faster because we added a new multi-phase resume capability, which is able to use all of the cores in a multi-core system in parallel, to split the work of reading from the hiberfile and decompressing the contents,” Aul added.

Users can watch a video of Windows 8 booting on an EliteBook 8640p (Intel Core i7-2620M, 8GB, 160GB SSD) in just 8 seconds below.

For Older Hardware to Run on Windows 7 How to Install intel 82845G graphics driver on Window 7

To Install any legacy Video Driver like intel 82845G

• Download the driver for previos OS (Window XP)

• Download Link: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=8344&lang=eng&OSVersion=Windows%20XP%20Professional*&DownloadType=Software%20Archives

• UnZip it.
  
  
• Go to Device Manger. If there is already 82845G Display adapter, then uninstall it.
  
  
• Click on "Action"..."Add Legacy Hardware"
  
  
• Select "Display adapters". Click on the "Next" button.
  
  
• Click on the "Have Disk..." button and then the "Browse" button.
  
  
• Enter the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded, and then enter the "Win2000" subdirectory. Highlight the "ialmnt5.INF" file. Click on the "Open" button.
  
  
• Click on the "OK" button. A window listing all of the available display types should open. Select the display adapter that your system contains and then click on the "Next" button.
  
  
• Click on the "Next" button. The operating system will install the driver. Click on the "Finish" button when done.
  
  
• Click on the "Close" button and then click on the "Yes" button to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.

(Get it via the other blog post : http://techiesrahul.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-install-intel-82845g-graphics.html)