I am on the moves and of late, web check in is a in thing for traveller. If I being using a windows OS on my laptop, I would have a big headache borrowing printers to print my boarding pass. I’m using Ubuntu Jaunty and it has made my day.  Just took the USB connector of any printer, plug in and start printing in seconds. Imy friend however who is a fanatic fan of MS windows Vista is having a hell time printing. He even boot to Windows 7 RC to print but it doesn’t seems to jive with the printer. What I did was plug in any printer, an icon pop up on the panel and I can start printing. As simple as that. Way to go Linux!

Been wondering what has happened to the old uruguay’s project I was involved in before…. And the Web OS project oso…..

Here are the list of dissasters for TM Retails on their Streamyx Services recently.

1. Mail Server Problem X 4
2. Load Balancer down - Northern, Eastern, Sarawak, Sabah
3. Link down X 4 (Egypt, Sabah- Kuantan, Tawau - KK, Tatau - Sibu.
4. W32.downadup Virus infection on some equipment powered by MS OS.
5. Cloak at International Gateway tonight.
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Yesterday (7 Jan 2008) at approximately  4:00pm Malaysian Time, The DNS server of TM Net has lost its uplink and therefore served the catchall DNS entries of all known web site with a timeout of 7 days in cache to its default DNS Not found page causing a lot of confusions and panic to websites owners all over the nation. Though no official news from TM Net has been released on this matter, things has got slightly out of hand at the press room when the press web site seems to be offline all over the nation. Their web site www.streamyx.com.my is still affected from certain connection in Kuching and a lot of .gov.my site is still not accessible from the town of Tawau. This problem will persist until the DNS cache has timed out or the modem been switched off.

There were nothing official from TM regarding the problem which could have been caused by a human error.

The Public-Funded Deconnexion operated by Naim Candera Sdn. Bhd.’s subsidiary Danawa Resources has been popping up all over the towns of Sarawak. However, Of late, there seems to be some problem with their services, such as:

1. Wifi Connected, No IP assigned
2. Wifi Connected, IP Assigned, not DNS active.
3. Wifi Connected, IP Assigned, DNS is serving but no web data coming through.

Out of 300+ tries I made last couple of months, It has no Internet serving whatsoever. Last we knew was that they have signed an agreement with CAIS, a Hong Kong based ISP to provide the bandwidth needed. However, it looks more and more like Tax money going into the companies’ owner’s pocket rather than benefiting the Internet users of Sarawak.

Maybe PAC should look into this project before more Tax Payer’s money is spent unnecessarily.

Here are the steps to obtain email header from yahoo.com mail as example in 3 simple steps.

1. Obtain email header.

2. Find the origin IP

3. track the IP.

Tracing the root of it, I believed when Michael Lai was still in TM, I created a stir in TM by asking TM to look at repackaging of TM product to suite users’ need instead of creating product and choke it down consumers’ throat. The result is that I’ve heard that TM started a new department headed by Ghazali Omar (so I heard) called “Product Marketing”.

I am currently hunting this group of genius idiots called Product Marketing of TM and wanting to let them know how dinosaur they are right now.

I am a bit worried that we, as a nation of IT is loosing its stance. For instance, in Malaysia, You pay for 1 Mbps speed, but in actual fact, you are only getting 350K like what I am experiencing right now. Our packages has yet to evolve since 2004 which still stuck a below 8mbps. In China, Broadband there means that the speed is 100mbps and not our little thing called 8mbps which is not available everywhere… I am pondering……….

Dear CEO of Celcom,

Just reading my latest phone bill from celcom and noticed that you are starting to charge people to call to your call center at RM 1 per call!!!!!!! This is outrages!!

Dear valued customer, effective 1/11/08, all calls made from your Celcom mobile phone to Short Codes 100 and 103 will be charged @ RM 1.00 and RM 2.00 per call respectively.

What a blood sucker. You did advertise your call center as 100 and there were no further advertisement on update of the call center number to 1111 thereafter… Are you really expect customer to believe you on your billing system which couldn’t even address simple billing requirement properly?

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. P. Wong

Dear Pierce Wong,

Thanks for using Yahoo! Domains. We’re writing to remind you that it’s time for the annual autorenewal of your service.

Your Domains plan, associated with the domain piercewong.com, will renew on 08/15/2008. If your billing information is up-to-date, there’s no need to do a thing (except keep enjoying your service).

Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!’s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year.

You can verify your billing information by visiting https://billing.yahoo.com/ and clicking the Update link next to your plan. Click the gray Edit button to the right of your payment method to review your payment details.

(Please note that the billing center will not reflect the new $34.95 domain-renewal price until July 1. Until that time, you will continue to see the old renewal price next to your plan.)

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Best regards,

The Yahoo! Small Business team

What the $@)#!#$*)%#*$%)#$!!!!

300% increase!!!!!!

I got to know this of late that sometimes when your windows is loading like “siput” (slow), you may wanna try to remove two registry keys

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}001

There is the Master Checksum and the slave checksum. Remove it and reboot and your windows will realy fly.

Give it a try.

** Disclaimer: Don’t come to me if you have data lost. Use at your own risk.