Archive for November, 2008

Filed Under (My Mini Howto) by pierce on November-28-2008

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.



Filed Under (General) by pierce on November-25-2008

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……….



Filed Under (General) by pierce on November-25-2008

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



Filed Under (Internet) by pierce on November-24-2008

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.)

Have questions? Please visit our help center or contact us anytime.

Best regards,

The Yahoo! Small Business team

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

300% increase!!!!!!



Filed Under (Windows) by pierce on November-18-2008

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.



Filed Under (General) by pierce on November-18-2008

Everyone is a credit card user nowadays. I have paid of late some credit card payment to one of my spare cards here in Malaysia. Without knowing that the supplementary card which is held by my brother in Cambodia is also making transactions. To the short of it, some oversight was made and I didn’t realised that I have no access to his card and he being out of the country for couple of months can no longer use the card anymore. How irony when the bank called up chasing after the payment and due to the fact that he has been out of the country, he is unable to make any payment to the card right now. What should I do? I told the caller to make a balance transfer from the supplementary card to the principal card and I was told that it can be done. So, because I trust the camel too much, not realising that they didn’t do any balance transfer at all, The amount owed has topped up too much and causing the cards been blocked by them. Right now they are having some problem realising how to make payment of the card from cambodia as he didn’t keep any money here in Malaysia. It also seems that my hand is tied as I cannot make any payment from my card to his.

Unlike other bank where the supplementary card amount is automatically transferred to the principal cards, This bank operates at a different level of understanding. What an irony that one without the card number cannot see the card transaction details at all whilst also unable to make any payment to the card. I think they should rethink about the transactions rather than just their simple work process to inconvenience the customer. So, Good luck to the Camel – Ambank.



Filed Under (General) by pierce on November-7-2008

Dear Careline and Celcom CEO,

I wish to express my dismay over the design of your web site which is too heavy to load even with your so called Celcom Broadband. Though its nice to look at with the all blue themes, its navigation is of 1980’s and is so backdated. Plus the total download of more than 11Mb for a clean load is really daunting and discouraging. What more to say user friendliness that is next to nothing.

You strife to call yourself the most experience network but in fact, you are the least accommodating one. All that you have done for customers is headache and more headache. I still recalled during the first day of Celcom Operation here in Kuching, I was among the first of your reseller and that was the time celcom can do everything the customer have asked for. However, nowadays, that sort of service remains just a vivid memory of history that was all so true.

I am currently a heavy celcom user and I found myself in the situation liken to an ASTRO subscriber. The condition of the package that I have subscribed to has changed numerous times without any sort of notifications and occasionally, I have to deal with the bombardment of unsolicited SMS from Celcom. Even more painful, Celcom has short sell me on the SMS services on services that has violated the MCMC guidelines which I had brought to the attention of the CFM several years ago.

To top it up, Celcom has blamed countless problem it doesn’t want to solve on parties other than Celcom. Probably this is the Standard Operation Procedure celcom gave to VADS for the call center operation. Some complaints of mine was left unanswered. Of late, I have lodge a complaint to careline and all I get was a beef of buying time for celcom asking me to try it in another hour whilst I have told the telephonist that it has been several hours of such situations and forced her to lodge a call. However, I would see that she did not follow any procedures as there were no follow up since.

My inquiries of merging all my Celcom service in a consolidated billing (all in one bill, not all in one billing address!) has until now, remains an untold story. Though there were several calls from the center telling me this and that but no one can offer me a true consolidated billings and I was told to wait for “Management Decision” on that. This is really irony in situation where even your CSM would require Management decision for such a small thing that usually would not require any executive order to carry out in other companies such as Telekom and etc.

Celcom has also short charging the customer based on my analysis. Firstly, Celcom offers any calls that goes to the telemanager to be FOC provided that the call hung up within 4 seconds of the call. I have notice a change in the timing of the telemamager. The first two second of the telemanager message is blank and the hang up command, if a call is in telemanager, took more than 2 seconds whereas if a call gets through, the call is answered immediately and the hanging up is immediate. This is also on top of the 250ms delay for feedback cancellations; thus giving the user less than 100ms to hang up upon hearing greeting message.

I was amazed by how much Celcom has deteriorated its services since the start in 1992 here in Sarawak and I think celcom should do something about it before all its customer started to run away to other telco.

I do sincerely hoped that Celcom can exert to excel rather than derailing its service to such extend that customer would think low on your service. Please proof that you are the “Most Experience Service Provider” and not the public perception of being the “Worst Service Provider” in the market.

Cheers,

Chairman
TM User Group
Prof. Dr. P Wong
Now, Faith is the substantiation of the things hoped for, the conviction of
the things not seen. -- SP