Sunday, September 28, 2025

One upon a time

 

The solitude year. Terima kasih sahabat yg menjemput & insist hamba dtg ke majlis ini. Alhamdulillah hamba lulus law school dgn cemerlang walaupun sebenarnya tak cukup kehadiran kelas, belajar jumpa lecturer secara terus & dapatkan bahan kajian melalui Usenet kerana sakit. Jasa kalian tak akan ku lupakan.

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Solawat Assa'adah/Kiyai Ahmad Dahlan

Penulis serta arwah isteri memperolehi  ijazah solawat ini di Indonesia lebih 15 tahun yang lalu daripada seorang tua bernama Pak Choiril, di Jakarta Timur (Jaktim), beliau menisbatkan solawat ini kepada pergerakan AlMuhammadiyah, Sarikat Islam pimpinan Kiyai Ahmad Dahlan. Kemudian daripada kajian peribadi penulis dan pencarian sendiri, melalui bacaan kitab-kitab lama mengenai amalan yang sedikit tapi besar manfaatnya, tersenarai solawat ini. Antara pecahan solawat ini adalah dari Solawat Juwairiyah (salah seorang Ummul Mukminin, isteri Rasulullah S.A.W.), juga daripada solawat yang sering dibaca 3 kali selepas bacaan Surah Yasin & solawat diakhir bacaan Asma'ullahul Husna. Perhatikan betul-betul makna solawat kepada junjungan Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. dalam kesemua solawat yang saya senaraikan diatas. Mudah-mudahan pebaca budiman mendapat kebaikan sebanyak mana kali selawat yang setara dengan jumlah makhluk Allah yang kekal ingat kepada Allah dan sebanyak mana makhluk Allah yang lalai yang hanya Allah sahaja tahu jumlah keseluruhannya dan semoga apa yang kalian cari selama ini ditemui. Hamba ini hanya berkongsi jumpaan hamba, semoga perkongsian ini menjadi ladang amal untuk saya dan arwah isteri.  Aamin.   


Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Sisatan Kematiam / Procedure for Inquest

An inquest in Malaysia cannot directly result in a charge being framed against an accused person. An inquest is a fact-finding inquiry, not a criminal trial. Its purpose is to determine the cause and circumstances of a sudden, unnatural, or suspicious death, and whether any person was criminally involved.

Key Points About Inquests:

Not a Criminal Trial: An inquest is an inquisitorial process, meaning it's an investigation, not an adversarial one where a prosecutor seeks to convict a defendant. There is no defendant, and no one is on trial.

Focus on Facts:
The Coroner's Court, presided over by a Sessions Court Judge acting as a coroner, aims to answer five key questions: when, where, how, and in what manner the deceased died, and if there was any criminal involvement.

Verdict, Not Conviction:
The coroner's conclusion is called a verdict, not a conviction. The possible verdicts include homicide, suicide, death by misadventure, natural causes, or an open verdict (if the cause is unclear). The verdict cannot explicitly determine criminal or civil liability on the part of a named person.


How an Inquest Can Lead to Criminal Charges

While an inquest can't directly frame a charge, its findings can be crucial for the criminal justice process. If the coroner's verdict indicates a possible criminal element (e.g., a verdict of "homicide" or "death due to injuries inflicted unlawfully"), it serves as a vital guide for the Public Prosecutor. The Public Prosecutor can then direct the police to conduct further investigations and, based on the evidence gathered, decide whether to initiate or pursue criminal prosecution and frame charges against an individual.

In Malaysia, inquests are a judicial inquiry into the cause of a death that is sudden, unnatural, or suspicious. These proceedings are governed by the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). The costs for witnesses and experts in an inquest are typically borne by the state, not the deceased's family or other private parties.

How it works:

Coroner's Role
The inquest is presided over by a Coroner, who is typically a Sessions Court judge. The Coroner's main duty is to determine when, where, how, and in what manner the deceased came by their death.

Witnesses and Experts
The Coroner may summon witnesses and expert witnesses to provide testimony and reports. This includes government medical officers, forensic pathologists, police officers, and other individuals who have relevant information.

Government-Appointed Experts
For experts such as forensic pathologists who conduct autopsies and provide reports, their services are considered part of the official investigation. The cost is covered by the relevant government department, such as the Ministry of Health or the police force.

Interested Parties
While the state bears the cost of witnesses and experts called by the Coroner, interested parties, such as the deceased's family, can be represented by a lawyer. However, they are responsible for their own legal fees and the costs of any private experts they choose to hire to assist their case. The Coroner's Court generally does not award costs to these interested parties.

In summary, the principle in Malaysia is that the inquest is a state-led inquiry. Therefore, the expenses for the official proceedings, including the costs of witnesses and experts summoned by the Coroner, are paid for by the government.

Friday, September 05, 2025

Hujahan Pembelaan: Kes dadah - Barang bukan dalam kawalan OKT

Hujahan Pembelaan Bahawa Tertuduh Tidak Mempunyai Kawalan atau Pengetahuan mengenai Dadah yang dijumpai

Tertuduh ditangkap di lokasi serbuan, namun tiada bukti langsung atau tidak langsung keterangan yang menunjukkan kawalan, pengetahuan, atau niat untuk mengedar dadah.

Isu Undang-Undang:

1. Sama ada kehadiran fizikal tertuduh di lokasi serbuan mencukupi untuk sabitan di bawah Seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952.

2. Sama ada anggapan pemilikan di bawah Seksyen 37 Akta Keterangan 1950 boleh dipatahkan.

Prinsip & Preceden

PP v Rashid & Ors [1993] 4 CLJ 266
Mahkamah membebaskan tertuduh kerana tiada kawalan eksklusif.

Yusoff Rawther (2025):
Kehadiran berhampiran kenderaan tidak membuktikan kawalan terhadap dadah di dalamnya.

Empat Lelaki Dibebaskan (2025):
Lokasi dikongsi dan tiada bukti akses eksklusif .

Fakta Sokongan:

Tiada cap jari, DNA, atau bukti forensik pada dadah atau bekas.
Lokasi terbuka kepada orang lain / dikongsi ramai orang lain.
Tertuduh tidak menunjukkan tingkah laku mencurigakan semasa serbuan
Tiada pengakuan atau kenyataan yang menunjukkan pengetahuan terhadap dadah.

Penutup

Oleh itu, pembelaan menegaskan bahawa kehadiran fizikal sahaja tidak mencukupi untuk sabitan kes ini. Pendakwaan gagal membuktikan kawalan dan pengetahuan secara meyakinkan. Tertuduh wajar dilepaskan dan dibebaskan.

Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Project AI

The X workstation combined with the Y RTX 3060 12GB GPU will make a very capable and great AI setup.  The strengths of the X chassis perfectly compensate for the weakness of its original graphics card, and the RTX 3060 is exactly the component needed to unlock its potential for AI work.

Here’s why this combination works so well:

1.   GPU is the Heart of AI 

The RTX 3060 12GB   is the star of the show. Its key features for AI are:

Ample VRAM:   12GB is a great amount for training many medium-sized models (like many popular vision transformers, CNNs, and LLMs with smaller parameters) and for working with larger batch sizes, which speeds up training.

Tensor Cores:  These are dedicated hardware units on NVIDIA GPUs that dramatically accelerate the matrix calculations fundamental to deep learning. This is non-negotiable for efficient AI work.

CUDA Support:   The entire ecosystem of AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) is built on NVIDIA's CUDA platform.

2.   The X is a Perfect Host for the GPU 

The workstation provides everything a powerful GPU needs:

Adequate Power Supply:   The 685W 80+ Gold PSU is more than enough to handle the RTX 3060, which has a max TDP of around 170W. You will have plenty of headroom.

Physical Space:   The X tower case is designed for professional hardware. It has excellent airflow and plenty of room to install a full-sized graphics card.

Strong Foundation:   The dual Xeon CPUs and 64GB of RAM are not the primary tools for training AI models, but they are   critical support players  :

Data Preprocessing:   The many CPU cores and large RAM capacity will allow you to prepare and load your training datasets incredibly quickly, preventing your powerful GPU from sitting idle waiting for data.

Running Additional Tasks:   You can train a model on the GPU while simultaneously analyzing results, pre-processing the next dataset, or running a Jupyter notebook on the CPU without slowing down the training process.

Multi-Tasking:   This machine can easily handle other demanding tasks beyond AI.

Considerations and Recommendations: 

Storage:   The included 256GB SSD is perfect for your operating system and applications. You should strongly consider adding a second, larger drive  (a 1TB or 2TB SSD is ideal) specifically for your datasets, projects, and model checkpoints. AI datasets can be very large.

Operating System: For AI development,  Linux (Ubuntu is the most popular choice) is highly recommended. It offers better performance, easier environment setup (especially for GPU drivers and CUDA), and is the standard in the research and industry community. The fact that the X comes with "No OS" is a benefit here as you are linux savvy. 

Driver Installation:   When you set up the system, you will need to:

    1.  Install your chosen OS (Windows or Linux).

    2.  Install the latest NVIDIA drivers for the RTX 3060.

    3.  Install the CUDA Toolkit and cuDNN library (required for AI frameworks).

Final Verdict: 

This is a highly effective and cost-efficient combination You are getting a powerful, professional-grade workstation with server-class CPUs and abundant RAM at a good price, and then equipping it with the single most important component for AI work.

Conclusion: This will be a great AI setup once you install the RTX 3060 12GB GPU.  It's a smart way to build a powerful machine for learning and developing AI models without the cost of a brand-new, top-of-the-line system.