Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Maxis Transparent Proxy is Causing Problems to Developers

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

I had to transfer 2 WordPress blogs to another hosting provider last night, as the free one is going to expire today. It should be as easy as:

Transfer the files
Transfer the database
Change DNS servers in registry to the new DNS servers
Configure the new hosting location

In a few hours after the DNS propagation is finished I [...]

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Maxis SysAdmins Are Rookies?

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

If you’re one of the SysAdmins working for Maxis, and you celebrated the recent System Administrator’s Appreciation day, you should really think about your future. SysAdmins are supposed to make people life’s easier, not the other way round.
Maxis has been implementing transparent proxy for some time now, I think to save on bandwidth usage as [...]

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Mudah.my Is Annoying Me

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

I was trying to post 3 used items for sale yesterday, but managed to do only 2 because I still don’t have access to the 3rd item’s photographs.
I posted 2 items:
1. Polygon Zero 2007

Region: Selangor
Name: Ady Romantika
Email: adyromantika@XXXXXX.com
Telephone number: 01XXXXXXXXX, not shown in the ad
Category: Other Vehicles, For sale
Subject: Polygon Zero 2007
IC Number:XXXXXXXXX
Post code:63000
Text:
Selling my [...]

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Bank Simpanan Nasional Should Provide Better Service

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

I was instructed by my financial advisor to apply for the Al-Aiman credit card because of the low cash advance fee, to execute in a financial program, so I did and I got approved.
However I received 2 cards (both Visa and MasterCard) although I only applied for a Visa card. Something fishy is going on, [...]

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Sakae Sushi Lets Mothers Starve On Mother’s Day

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Technology is great, indeed but human interaction is also important.
We are sushi lovers, yes. Our favorite sushi outlet in Malaysia is Sushi King.
Passing by Sakae Sushi for many times and looking at the rows of computer screens, we decided to try it out on Mother’s Day at The Curve. While other eateries provide promotions for [...]

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Amway Sucks

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Due to the ranting nature of this post, reader discretion is advised. Some language may be offensive.
More than a year ago, I became an Amway agent just because I needed to buy some recommended products from them. This was done by contacting an agent in the forums, in the Internet. When explained that I needed [...]

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Forex Trading In Malaysia

Friday, March 5th, 2010

It was an interesting morning today, when a friend told me that his brother received a job offer in a Forex trading company in Shah Alam. It was great news that he was able to get something after searching for opportunities for quite a while. However since my niece experienced this more than once, I [...]

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Review: The Picture Company @ One Utama

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Due to the ranting nature of this post, reader discretion is advised. Some language may be offensive.
We found The Picture Company in One Utama some time ago and decided to try it out. We were out of time and unable to look for more options. We called the place to make an appointment and asked [...]

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Funny Phishing Attempt

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

I received an email with no text but contained just an image as attachment, and the whole image is a hyperlink to a phishing site:
Notice the casual language and a spelling mistake (find out where!), plus the Copyright year is 2009. The email was sent to someone without the Internet banking facility, and a dormant [...]

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Malaysia PayPal Users Can Now Add Local Bank Accounts

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

My better half told me yesterday that we can now add our local bank accounts in PayPal. It was too good to be true so I decided to check. I went to check my PayPal emails first just in case I missed an announcement. However, I don’t see any. It’s kinda weird that when a [...]

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Is 5GB Per Month Enough? Fair Usage Policy

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I don’t think so. Last week, I was on leave for the whole week and did some light browsing at home. To avoid contamination with other PCs in my house, I conducted this test while purely tethering on my BlackBerry device. WIFI was turned off.
The only objective is to see how much data I am [...]

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Secret Recipe at The Curve Damansara

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

My other half and I have always loved Secret Recipe. Among our favorite dishes are the Thai Fried Rice, Vietnamese Beef Noodle, Singapore Laksa, and not forgetting the cakes. It’s a Malaysian brand, and it provides good food.
However we have not been visiting any outlets since a couple of months ago because we had a [...]

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Tips When You Know I Am Going To Interview You

Monday, August 17th, 2009

If you by any chance, by any way find out that I am going to be the person interview you for a job you need to know the following:

Don’t come late. 1 minute late and your resume or CV will end up in the shredder or the trash can. Do your location research the day [...]

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Italiannies Sunway Pyramid

Friday, July 24th, 2009

This is an overdue post that I wanted to write right after I came back from there on Tuesday, but I couldn’t.
That day, I went back home earlier than usual as my other half was craving for pasta. Pizza Hut and Kenny Rogers pasta were also candidates but we like the Carbonara at Italiannies best [...]

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Maxis Customer Support Email

Monday, June 15th, 2009

It annoys me quite significantly when big corporations publish emails which does not even exist. Here’s what is displayed in Maxis BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS) website:

And here’s what I got when I tried to email them about a not so urgent problem:

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