Xiao P moves again

Xiao P has upgraded once again from the AB Cage to the AB Deluxe Bungalow. He must be very happy. At least I hope so.

He was a bit nervous at first. First he missed his house which I have no choice but to give him back for a while. Anyway he was also not used to the tube system for getting up and down... for a day anyway. Now he is happy with all the things he have. In fact he is now very fast to get to what he wants now. From the running wheel to his bathroom and the food tray. In fact he loves the artic also... Well anyway for those few days before the earthquake anyway. Did he knew it was coming and was climbing to "higher" grounds?

Owe $ Return $ or Else 2 : The Last Name

Yes, finally its time for the answer. Let me say that this is my answer. There is no way to be 100% sure until you catch that guy/gal.

First a few clues. Got the name from the telephone book. Thats the last place anyone will need to look to threaten people for money. You never know who you might hit (Like me).

Next, there is a stupid mistake. Phone number. Ah long will never want to be contact. They will contact you... Sound like one of those job I did where the customer will say, "Don't call us, we'll call you.". :P

Given the 2 facts, there is one clear answer. I am not the victim, but the tool. The victim is the guy/gal with the phone number. Let's look at the real story.

Guy A hates Gal B cos she was bitching around with other guys or watever. So Guy A grab the phone book and wrote tons of message threating people for money with Gal B number. Guy A expects the people to call and harass her, report to police and watever that gets Gal B into trouble.

Sound like a possible answer? OK, maybe except the bitching around part. But anyway, I believe that was what happended.

The day there was no internet...

It finally happened. The most horrifying movie of the year turns reality. The Internet was down for the whole of asia for like 2 days now... 6 submarine pipes where broken during the 7.2 scale earthquake in Taiwan.

2 death. 32 injured. MILLIONS of people crippled by the internet.

Haiz. What can I say. There was a time when Xmas is about giving present and enjoying turkeys. Now its about disaster and internet problems. I wont be surprised if Bin F-cking Laden will come out and claim that he caused the Internet failure (or even the earthquake itself)... Funny... but I find it hard to laugh.

The Internet has became so a part of our life that we cant live without it anymore... I can only hope that everything get fixed soon. But FAT hope that is. According to Starhub (you know what SingNet has not even made an annoucement about this yet...) has claim that this will take like 3 weeks to fix. 3 WEEKS!!!

Its time for a long vacation I say. Somewhere cold and no need for Internet perhaps. Syberia? Hehe :P Or maybe its finally the right time to down all my servers and perform the OS upgrade they had long due to perform. Maybe with a compliment AV scan and defrag. Now will be the good time.

Hell, I should spend less time on the Internet. This is clearly an addiction. I should not evne be writting on this blog now. I am going for a cup of coffee and a slow walk in the rain.

HD Regenerator vs Spinrite

It's time again to bring out a old tools. Spinrite. I am not sure how many of you have heard of this. Back in those days, this tool was one of its kind. You basically use this to non-destructively rewrite your whole HDD. Why you want to do that is clearly explained at http://www.spinrite.com

Now, Spinrite has many mode. The fastest is the test mode which I ran against my other HDD. HDD Regenrator sure saved my HDD. Fact of life. But Spinrite ran at like 100x the speed. It took like 30 minutes to complete where HDD Regenrator took 16 hours. OK, not 100x, but you get the idea.

However, do keep in mind the test level is probably different. And leaving this to run over the night 7 hours and 7 minutes has no difference. I say, both these tools are great things to keep and run at as good periodical testing. Audits should include a question that check if the HDD is periodically tested :) Rather than waiting for it to go bad sector and fail on you. You agree?

Owe $ Return $ or Else...

This is fairly common to see on walls and lifts...
We all know what this is about...
But what if you received one of these in your mail box addressed to you?
Strange right? It say :

Owe $ Return $ or Else you will see...
9xxxxxxx

He even left you a handphone number...
OK, I know he gotten the address from the phonebook. How I know, I am not going to tell, but this is so. So what do you think is actually going on? Make a guess.
Hint : I did NOT owe any money. So lets not guess along this wrong direction.

Chaos vs Order

When is there a time when Chaos is better? Think harder...

In Singapore, there is too much order if you ask me. Everything must queue. So Singaporean can easily win any contest as far as queuing is concerned. There are people who queue for like 1 week just for a place in school, queue overnight for Hello Kitties, queue for flats that hasn't been released yet... And you ask whose fault is it? My question is WHY they let these people queue?

Is queuing better? Suppose all is by ballot. Just lock in your tickets and picked by random. There will be no queue. As long as you lock in before the end of period. Will this be a better system? Everyone is equal. It does not matter if you queue first or come at the last minute. It does not matter if you heard about it and started queuing 1 week ago... Will this be better. Less crowds. Less people crowding in small places waiting for a disaster to happen. Well, I know you will think of terrorist, but even a stampede could at killed many.

If you do agree random picking is better. Then you have agreed with me that this is a time when chaos is better than order. In Chaos everyone is the same. There is no someone is "more" equal than others.

Chaos Cultist :
"We are Chaos and Chaos is strong!"

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Yes, finally gotten by MCTS for SQL2005. To be dead honest, its probably a close one. I got a fright when I found out there was simulation questions. Its like practical, they give you the real SQL2005 interface with parts disabled and ask you to implement some things...

Phews... I suppose I probably screw a few up. But still managed to get a near perfect score... :)
This must be a sign that I should study harder and not take luck for granted.

Now, I am waiting for my new gen welcome kit from Microsoft... Need to print new name cards too. :P

Dominoco HDD down with bad sectors

My poor computer Dominoco has been struck down by bad sector that resides in a critical application zone. Hai.. What a series of unfortunate events. I had been debugging it whole night and was not able to even copy out the file. Now I have to do bad sector recovery...

I remember the good old Spinrite which I kept somewhere... But was not able to find it... Then I realized I also bought this piece of software sometime back called HDD regenerator. Better give it a shot.

Was start since last night 12am.... Going... 50% this morning at 7am... I estimated it compleleted by now... Lets hope so.

另一首歌, 另一首傷心的故事

Performed by : 梁文福，潘盈

(A)
我總是忘記怎樣地不去想起你
我總是懷疑你依然相信我的心情
每一次傷的是你
每一次刺痛的是我的心
我緊擁著你 卻經已失去我自己

(B)
一條漫長路經已走到這裡 (不能停止的想你念你)
走下去我就不再是我自己 (望著你就忘了我自己)
然而望著你的背影
究竟我有勇氣幾許
回頭去走那無盡無止的記憶

Repeat (A)

(C)
一條漫長路經已走到這裡 (不能停止的想你念你)
走下去我就不再是我自己 (望著你就忘了我自己)
然而思念不是當年
沒有一絲牽掛的你
寂寞也不是最初的我自己

Repeat (B)

Repeat (C)

Repeat (A)
每一次傷的是你
每一次刺痛的是我的心
我緊擁著你 卻經已失去我自己
Another Sweet Song
Another Heartbreaking Story

Meaning of Fuck

Great question. Nobody understand the real answer because nobody f*cking want to talk about it!

Here is the f*cking answer btw :

1. The universally recognized "F word"
2. N. Implying complete and utter confusion
3. N. a really stupid person
4. V. To procreate
5. adj. Can be used to modify any word for more passion
6. Int. Expresses disgust
7. Int. Expresses complete suprise and joy
8. adv. Can be used to make a command more urgent

Example :
1. I do not accept the "F word" as your name
2. What in the fuck?
3. You stupid fuck!
4. I suggest we go fuck in your mothers bed while eating crackers and petting a cat name mittens!
5. This fucking guy was so fucking weird. He asked me if I was fucking insane.
6. Aw, FUCK!!
7. Holy fuck! You guys rock!
8. Just fucking jump before I fucking kick you in the balls!

Actually we all uses FUCK as in VERY... Example : He is fucking rich. She is fucking poor. She is beauti-fucking-ful. Well that last example is a way to instead fuck into the middle of a adj to enhance the effect.

Well, hope you dun fucking faint on me after reading this.

绝世雄才 ("楚汉骄雄"主题曲)

绝世雄才 ("楚汉骄雄"主题曲)
作曲/编曲:无量光
填词:郑国江
演唱:郑少秋

雄才绝世天生有几
狂情傲态万年稀
力拔山独有吞山川豪气
天亦疑忌

凌云大志冲天飞
良才善制造时机
群雄逢变天楚汉骄雄斗
成败看捕捉先机

用两手天将塌下都撑起
用斗心一生霸业没法比
雄才能绝世功高可霸天
天命难欺

无言独对乌江水
成王败寇悟前非
未问人与天因我只问责
高风歌赞千世纪

人逢绝处总得转机
豪杰亦有被人欺
人如逢困境不短英雄气
荣辱贵贱担得起

用两手天将塌下都撑起
用爱心一生爱人如爱己
常怀人共说分担喜与悲
天地无欺

无言独对乌江水
成王败寇悟前非
未问人与天因我只问责
千秋功过平常事
力拔山勇哉不过一出戏
无限壮烈千古悲

A Test of Fate

It has been like this 3rd or 4th time I encountered this situation. What situation you may ask… Imagine this :

Sitting there on the bus and a girl on the oppo seat facing you, crying her out.

Yes, has been seeing this lately much. Another case was near my place in front of the mosque and another time on the MRT. I have no idea why I am meeting such sadness around me lately.

I really have no idea what is the RIGHT thing to do? Ask her what happened? Err… Might not be a great idea. And I NEVER carry a pack of tissue with me!! Well, it’s not that easy to pretend that this is not happening either. In fact, that’s what I did for the past few times. The latest one was with this mother and small girl. It’s after a phone call. I can only imagine it’s that they must have lost someone very dear. At times like this I really do not know how to handle it. Talk about DRP!

Suddenly I kinda feel that it’s a test from fate herself. I feel that this might continue to happen again and again until I can figured out what is the right thing to do and do it. Its really strange because everytime I did not do anything I felt something not right about it. This really kinda sound like a butterfly effect. IF you are reading this, give me a suggestion!

Bini and Ashley

Bini is a bear from the Cool Bear Factory and she is quite happy with her new clothes! Here is a photo of her and the run away pig, Ashley. Maybe I will get her a Xmas cloth this coming festival.

Xiao P and his new home

The first home was simply too small even for a hamster. Its more like a pet taxi to him. I finally had upgraded his home to something a bit more decent. Its a AB cage that comes with a house, a wheel, drinking bottle and a food tray. He is damn happy with it I can tell.

Another view here, but the toilet din't come with the cage, I bought it seperately. Xiao P is qutie happy with his new home!

Hasta La VISTA, Windows!

Ya, it must be mad to go into vista now! This is a follow up to the hardware (in)compatible post. NO sound works probably in Vista, except than those on boards one… What a satire right? And guess what? According to the latest DirectX 10 specs, there will not be EAX, A3D or whatever. Basically, DirectX drops the whole sound acceleration idea. What’s the reason behind this I can only guess. Does it has something to do with Xbox 360 and loust gaming PC… Emm

Anyway, I guess for soundcard its just the same like scanner. Lets wait and see...

The Executive Desktop

At a recent computer fair, you won a Executive Desktop in a lucky draw for buying some few hundred dollars of products. Now, how many of you actually have any idea what “The Executive Desktop” is?

1. Microsoft Executive Desktop Keyboard Suite
2. Some desktop computer system
3. Some sort of palm size electronic device

Well, I suppose that covers all right?
You will be very surprise my friend. To collect the item, you will have to go to another place somewhere in Macpherson. The catch is that when you collect it, so does you warranty starts. I am sure we remember Philips tried to pull this, times after times. Giving away electrical goods like coffee makers and stuff. But at least that quite worth it! Its your choice to take it or not.

Anyway, I was there to collect it. There is a list to sign and everyone practically got The Executive Desktop. I saw like 10 person listed with address, hp and whatever you want you name it… Then the office girl brought out The Executive Desktop…

The following item may be scary to some people, please do not proceed if you feel that you can stand the urge to find out what it is…


Hint : Its got nothing to do with computer...


Still want to see?


It not worth much...


Its not very useful either, you can't connect it to anything...


Damn, its not even worth collecting...


OK, here is it :

To tell or not to tell?

Just in the evening, J saw a strange package on the MRT and asked me what to do about it. I simply told her take a look what it is and then decide. If it’s a bomb, it’s probably better if you leave it there, anything else of value might as well take it. But seriously, we all saw the advertisement telling us that we should report anything suspicious. What most people did not know is that there is an alternative ending to the advertisement.

“There was no bomb found. The woman was charged for falsely reporting of a bomb and disruption public transport. She is sentence to 12 year imprisonment and … “

Well, what do you think of it? The biggest problem I find in this society is that it does not reward those we would stand up out the crowd. This has to be changed or else who would ever risk their neck for others. Its not that nobody realized there is a package there. Everyone saw it. But nobody is willing to take the risk of reporting it. The law here favors the punishment more than the reward so to speak.

Therefore, I still think although I did not mean it, what I advised is probably the right thing to do except I should add that if it’s a bomb, you should just leave it alone and leave the train ASAP. Bomb is after all not out business and we do not know if it’s a real bomb. Reporting it and proven a fake one will still end you up in jail. So what’s the point?

My 2 cents. To be honest, I saw a laptop left behind before and it was the biggest temptation I had faced. But I left it alone. Damn, must be mad I am not? I hate myself sometimes...

Britannica is now on Vista!

I had torn down the Win XP OS from Alphonso and reinstalled. Now I had rename the machine to Britannica and its running .. YES, Windows VISTA RTM! I actually dint even bother to migrate my settings (can also say I overlook and forgot to backup before I wipe). I thought, new OS, lets start anew then. Just need to backup my old photos, old emails and stuff all put on CDs and start a fresh. Its been like 10 long years of Internet anyway. I still have those Eudora emails and Lotus Notes emails from my hospital jobs FCS.

Now, there are some MAJOR hardware issues as well. I had to put out the soundcard. Hercules is not likely to continue to support the Fortissimo 7.1 anyway. Guess it may be a good time to let go. I had to let my 5 years scanner go as well. After all those years, I guess time has finally forces me to move on.

Well anyway SITEX is coming so I guess its a good timing.

Welcome to a new member of the family - Xiao P!

Xiao P is a gift from J. He is now a part of the family. Xiao P is a Pudding Hamster. He is about 2 months old now. I hope he will have a good time here being part of the house.

Already here for 2 days, we have found his bad habit : SLEEPING!

Who waste the most paper?

Simple question : Who waste the most paper sending you spam mail?

The answer :

All these came in 1 single letter. Let me see, its about 15 pages of A4 paper or so... We have our winner! Thank you so much for killing our forest, Reader Digest!

Old man stealing from the Recycle Bin!

On one hand we try to recycle all the papers, bottles etc... There are nice bins for us to put those in so that they are recycled... But what wrong here? In the middle of Raffles Place MRT, this man is taking all the paper out of the bin. And guess what, he leaves the rest alone. That clearly tells us this man is NOT the collector for the bins! He collects alright, but for his own profit!

And why is that wrong?

He is making all of us a fool and a tool for his profit. We recycle, he make money out of it. Well, he might not even recycle it at all. Someone will say, sure we dun want them anyway, whats wrong with letting him have it? EVERYTHING is wrong. The recycle company will not be able to collect their recycle item and as a result lost of revenue. This is exactly why everyone does not want to recycle. Its costly, labour intensive and now we have scavenger like this stealing the stuff. This is same as the galan guni who steal the recycle bags!

Well, to think that I will be make use by this old man, I say I rather now recycle. Lets us all burn in hell then.

Britannica Down for Vista!

Brittannica is taken down for upgrade. This is the first of the many to come to upgrade to Windows Vista after it was finally realized to MSDN members. I had it running on RC1 before, but that even took me quite some trouble. Well, good luck to me and here I goes...

Masters of Horror Season 2 Lineup

http://www.horror.com/php/article-1249-1.html
Yes, I can't wait to see season 2. Season 1 was really great! But still even till today, this is all the info we can get.

Upgrade Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10

Many of the upgrade guides has presumed you did not have the CD.
Well this is the one that presumed you do.
Download the CD from www.ubuntu.com and then burn it out.

Run :
apt-cdrom add

to add the CD to your source.

Next, you will want to upgrade immediately with :
apt-get dist-upgrade

This will take a while to get all the new updated modules into your Ubuntu from the CD.

Then now, run :
sed -e ’s/\sdapper/ edgy/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list

to modify your source to take from 6.10 instead of 6.06 in the future.

To complete, make sure you run :
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

to fetch and update the rest of the stuff from the web.

We are Shinobi!

There are people like me who works in the shadows. Customer comes with a job, we do it. Nobody to tell about, nobody else needs to know. Its just the job.

Simply comes down to a few simple rules.

1. No names.
2. No questions.
3. We forget EVERYTHING after it is completed.

And there is no package if thats what you are asking. :P

That really kinda comes to make me feel like we are Shinobi of feural Japan. We live to battle, to conquer our enemies. We are warriors of the shadow.

The only fear that I can think of is one day, just maybe, the whole security thing is over. Everything on the internet is safe. No more hackers, no more fraud or phishing. Maybe crooks find some better way to make a living such as selling souls or something. Then what will happen to the shadow knights who protected the internet? Are we then no longer needed? We live to fight, when there is no war, we cease to have a reason to live. In fact, our existance then might perhaps threaten the very thing that we were out to protect today. Did anyone think of that when they ACTUALLY said they wanted a SAFE world to live in...?

In conclusion, hackers and crooks are good. They are the reason why we exist. If one day they disappear, we will have to disappear into the darkness once again...

Yahoo Auction Revolution

I give up... Yahoo is simply not going take care about it... But being polite, I just wrote them a Thanks for nothing note :

Forget, I presumed you just want to ignore me and hope I will just give up. Will I will. Looks like I put to much hope that Yahoo will do anythign about it.

Thanks for nothing.

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: Winston Avalon
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:46:17 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82935251V43955L0KM)


Hello Winston,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Singapore Auctions.

If Yahoo! believes, in its sole discretion, that there is a violation of
the Yahoo! Auction Terms of Service, Yahoo! reserves the right to edit,
refuse to post, or remove any content in Yahoo! Auctions -- immediately
without notice and for any reason.

For further information on the Yahoo! Auctions Guidelines and Terms of
Service, please visit the following links:

http://sg.yahoo.com/auctions/guidelines.html

http://sg.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Regards,

Alexie
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore
http://sg.yahoo.com

Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

Again, let me stress its not about the honoring and the bidding terms.
The fact was he bidded, did not response. End of auction.

BUT the issue was that this is the rating he left :

Here is the feedback the buyer, holy2001sg2000, has left on you
(you are not modifying this it is just here for reference):

ORIGINAL Sony NOT Sandisk Memory Stick Duo 64MB (Sep 11 21:34 2006
SGT)Buyer gives Bad Seller rating.Comment:hey
i alr told that i alr brought from ppl n i apologise n wat the f u
talking about?use yr brain n think ,is it i hav to wait for u came bk
from yr holiday stupid ass (Oct 15 16:53 2006 SGT)
PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE TONE AND WORDINGS USED BY holy2001sg2000.
IF Yahoo find that this is ok, then I rest my case and I should just
post an insult back to him if Yahoo feel this is the right thing to
encourage. I feel that the least you can do it to at least discourage
people from leaving this type of ratings!!!

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: Winston Avalon
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:54:12 AM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82922385V36422L0KM)

Hello Winston

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

The Yahoo! Auctions Abuse team has reviewed your rating and we have
found no violation of the Yahoo! Terms of Service at this time. For this
reason, we have determined that the rating will remain.

For further details on Yahoo!'s policies, we invite you to visit the
Yahoo! Terms of Service along with the Yahoo! Auctions Guidelines at:

http://sg.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

http://sg.yahoo.com/auctions/guidelines.html

Yahoo! Auctions expects its users to honor their commitments. If you
offer an item for sale and a winning bid is made, or if you bid for an
item and you win, we ask that you complete the transaction. Yahoo! is
not a party to these transactions and is not in a position to force
bidders or sellers to honor their commitments. However, sellers and
bidders who do not complete transactions may be subject to negative
feedback and/or termination of their Yahoo! ID.

Yahoo! seeks to discourage bogus bidding. If you should encounter a
bogus bidder, you have a couple of options. You can cancel their winning
bid and sell to your second place winner, or you can resubmit your
auction.

Here are a few things you can do to try to avoid bogus bidders in future
auctions:

1. Yahoo! Auctions provides sellers the ability to cancel bids in their
auctions at their own discretion. Because you cannot reverse this step,
we advise you to use this tool carefully and only as a last resort. Once
you've removed a bidder, they will be gone from your auction.

** When Should I Use this Feature?

-If you have had repeat problems with someone bidding your auctions and
not following through, you can now delete their bids.

-If you are unable to contact someone because they have changed their
email address, you can cancel their bid.

** How Do I Use This Tool?

-Click on "Manage this auction" on your item page.
-In the Auction Manager, you will see a link to remove bids.
-Click on this and it will take you to a list of all the bidders in your
auction.
-Click on the bidder you wish to remove.

Once a bid has been cancelled, that bidder can no longer participate in
that auction.

2. You may want to check the box to Blacklist this bidder, to prevent
them from bidding on all your future auctions.

3. You can also set the minimum bidder rating when you submit an auction
to prevent bidders from below that rating level from being able to bid
on your auction.

4. Finally, you have the option of leaving negative feedback for the
winning bidder if they do not follow through with the transaction.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Singapore Customer Care.

Regards,

Zoey
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore


Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

I understand you cant edit or remove the post, but he buyer is clearly
breaking the rules by insulting and using bad languages? Shouldn't you
at least ban or suspect the user the this type of behaviour? IF not,
everyone will be doing it because its ok.

I am just asking that Yahoo act accordingly to what you have stated in
your rules and not be leniant about upholding it.

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: wavalon@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:50:56 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82912748V67824L0KM)


Hello Yahoo! user,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Singapore Auctions.

We appreciate your comments. Your ratings are a permanent part of your
Auctions profile. In the interest of impartiality, Yahoo! does not edit
ratings or feedback. We encourage you to contact the party that has
given you the negative rating and try to resolve the situation.

If you feel that you have been unfairly rated by a buyer/seller, you can
respond to their rating of you and explain your side of the story. You
may also wish to post feedback regarding that Auction member, as this
will warn others of the potential risks of dealing with them.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Regards,

Alexie
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore
http://sg.yahoo.com

Original Message Follows:

Yahoo Auctions Resolution 3

This time I am a bit mad. The Yahoo people is getting nowhere. All of them seems to be standard answers. I am starting to guess that Yahoo is actually run by robots. They just reply with standard templates and hope you will give up...

But this doesn't answer my question at all. I want an answer whether Yahoo is going to do anything about it at all. If not, then I should just post an insult back to the user because Yahoo! is OK about this. I will repost the question here, please READ it and don't just reply me with an automaticed answer :

Again, let me stress its not about the honoring and the bidding terms.
The fact was he bidded, did not response. End of auction.
BUT the issue was that this is the rating he left :
Here is the feedback the buyer, holy2001sg2000, has left on you
(you are not modifying this it is just here for reference):
ORIGINAL Sony NOT Sandisk Memory Stick Duo 64MB (Sep 11 21:34 2006
SGT)Buyer gives Bad Seller rating.Comment:hey
i alr told that i alr brought from ppl n i apologise n wat the f u
talking about?use yr brain n think ,is it i hav to wait for u came bk
from yr holiday stupid ass (Oct 15 16:53 2006 SGT)
PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE TONE AND WORDINGS USED BY holy2001sg2000.
IF Yahoo find that this is ok, then I rest my case and I should just
post an insult back to him if Yahoo feel this is the right thing to
encourage. I feel that the least you can do it to at least discourage
people from leaving this type of ratings!!!



----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: Winston Avalon
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:46:17 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82935251V43955L0KM)


Hello Winston,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Singapore Auctions.

If Yahoo! believes, in its sole discretion, that there is a violation of
the Yahoo! Auction Terms of Service, Yahoo! reserves the right to edit,
refuse to post, or remove any content in Yahoo! Auctions -- immediately
without notice and for any reason.

For further information on the Yahoo! Auctions Guidelines and Terms of
Service, please visit the following links:

http://sg.yahoo.com/auctions/guidelines.html

http://sg.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Regards,

Alexie
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore
http://sg.yahoo.com

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Again, let me stress its not about the honoring and the bidding terms.
The fact was he bidded, did not response. End of auction.

BUT the issue was that this is the rating he left :

Here is the feedback the buyer, holy2001sg2000, has left on you
(you are not modifying this it is just here for reference):

ORIGINAL Sony NOT Sandisk Memory Stick Duo 64MB (Sep 11 21:34 2006
SGT)Buyer gives Bad Seller rating.Comment:hey
i alr told that i alr brought from ppl n i apologise n wat the f u
talking about?use yr brain n think ,is it i hav to wait for u came bk
from yr holiday stupid ass (Oct 15 16:53 2006 SGT)
PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE TONE AND WORDINGS USED BY holy2001sg2000.
IF Yahoo find that this is ok, then I rest my case and I should just
post an insult back to him if Yahoo feel this is the right thing to
encourage. I feel that the least you can do it to at least discourage
people from leaving this type of ratings!!!

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: Winston Avalon
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:54:12 AM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82922385V36422L0KM)

Hello Winston

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

The Yahoo! Auctions Abuse team has reviewed your rating and we have
found no violation of the Yahoo! Terms of Service at this time. For this
reason, we have determined that the rating will remain.

For further details on Yahoo!'s policies, we invite you to visit the
Yahoo! Terms of Service along with the Yahoo! Auctions Guidelines at:

http://sg.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

http://sg.yahoo.com/auctions/guidelines.html

Yahoo! Auctions expects its users to honor their commitments. If you
offer an item for sale and a winning bid is made, or if you bid for an
item and you win, we ask that you complete the transaction. Yahoo! is
not a party to these transactions and is not in a position to force
bidders or sellers to honor their commitments. However, sellers and
bidders who do not complete transactions may be subject to negative
feedback and/or termination of their Yahoo! ID.

Yahoo! seeks to discourage bogus bidding. If you should encounter a
bogus bidder, you have a couple of options. You can cancel their winning
bid and sell to your second place winner, or you can resubmit your
auction.

Here are a few things you can do to try to avoid bogus bidders in future
auctions:

1. Yahoo! Auctions provides sellers the ability to cancel bids in their
auctions at their own discretion. Because you cannot reverse this step,
we advise you to use this tool carefully and only as a last resort. Once
you've removed a bidder, they will be gone from your auction.

** When Should I Use this Feature?

-If you have had repeat problems with someone bidding your auctions and
not following through, you can now delete their bids.

-If you are unable to contact someone because they have changed their
email address, you can cancel their bid.

** How Do I Use This Tool?

-Click on "Manage this auction" on your item page.
-In the Auction Manager, you will see a link to remove bids.
-Click on this and it will take you to a list of all the bidders in your
auction.
-Click on the bidder you wish to remove.

Once a bid has been cancelled, that bidder can no longer participate in
that auction.

2. You may want to check the box to Blacklist this bidder, to prevent
them from bidding on all your future auctions.

3. You can also set the minimum bidder rating when you submit an auction
to prevent bidders from below that rating level from being able to bid
on your auction.

4. Finally, you have the option of leaving negative feedback for the
winning bidder if they do not follow through with the transaction.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Singapore Customer Care.

Regards,

Zoey
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore


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I understand you cant edit or remove the post, but he buyer is clearly
breaking the rules by insulting and using bad languages? Shouldn't you
at least ban or suspect the user the this type of behaviour? IF not,
everyone will be doing it because its ok.

I am just asking that Yahoo act accordingly to what you have stated in
your rules and not be leniant about upholding it.

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: wavalon@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:50:56 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82912748V67824L0KM)


Hello Yahoo! user,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Singapore Auctions.

We appreciate your comments. Your ratings are a permanent part of your
Auctions profile. In the interest of impartiality, Yahoo! does not edit
ratings or feedback. We encourage you to contact the party that has
given you the negative rating and try to resolve the situation.

If you feel that you have been unfairly rated by a buyer/seller, you can
respond to their rating of you and explain your side of the story. You
may also wish to post feedback regarding that Auction member, as this
will warn others of the potential risks of dealing with them.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Regards,

Alexie
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore
http://sg.yahoo.com

Original Message Follows:

Yahoo Auction Resolution 2

So, its like I got bounce here and there by different officers. Here is the next response :

Again, let me stress its not about the honoring and the bidding terms. The fact was he bidded, did not response. End of auction.

BUT the issue was that this is the rating he left :

Here is the feedback the buyer, holy2001sg2000, has left on you
(you are not modifying this it is just here for reference):

ORIGINAL Sony NOT Sandisk Memory Stick Duo 64MB (Sep 11 21:34 2006 SGT)Buyer gives Bad Seller rating.Comment:hey
i alr told that i alr brought from ppl n i apologise n wat the f u
talking about?use yr brain n think ,is it i hav to wait for u came bk
from yr holiday stupid ass (Oct 15 16:53 2006 SGT)
PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE TONE AND WORDINGS USED BY holy2001sg2000. IF Yahoo find that this is ok, then I rest my case and I should just post an insult back to him if Yahoo feel this is the right thing to encourage. I feel that the least you can do it to at least discourage people from leaving this type of ratings!!!

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: Winston Avalon
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:54:12 AM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82922385V36422L0KM)

Hello Winston

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

The Yahoo! Auctions Abuse team has reviewed your rating and we have
found no violation of the Yahoo! Terms of Service at this time. For this
reason, we have determined that the rating will remain.

For further details on Yahoo!'s policies, we invite you to visit the
Yahoo! Terms of Service along with the Yahoo! Auctions Guidelines at:

http://sg.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

http://sg.yahoo.com/auctions/guidelines.html

Yahoo! Auctions expects its users to honor their commitments. If you
offer an item for sale and a winning bid is made, or if you bid for an
item and you win, we ask that you complete the transaction. Yahoo! is
not a party to these transactions and is not in a position to force
bidders or sellers to honor their commitments. However, sellers and
bidders who do not complete transactions may be subject to negative
feedback and/or termination of their Yahoo! ID.

Yahoo! seeks to discourage bogus bidding. If you should encounter a
bogus bidder, you have a couple of options. You can cancel their winning
bid and sell to your second place winner, or you can resubmit your
auction.

Here are a few things you can do to try to avoid bogus bidders in future
auctions:

1. Yahoo! Auctions provides sellers the ability to cancel bids in their
auctions at their own discretion. Because you cannot reverse this step,
we advise you to use this tool carefully and only as a last resort. Once
you've removed a bidder, they will be gone from your auction.

** When Should I Use this Feature?

-If you have had repeat problems with someone bidding your auctions and
not following through, you can now delete their bids.

-If you are unable to contact someone because they have changed their
email address, you can cancel their bid.

** How Do I Use This Tool?

-Click on "Manage this auction" on your item page.
-In the Auction Manager, you will see a link to remove bids.
-Click on this and it will take you to a list of all the bidders in your
auction.
-Click on the bidder you wish to remove.

Once a bid has been cancelled, that bidder can no longer participate in
that auction.

2. You may want to check the box to Blacklist this bidder, to prevent
them from bidding on all your future auctions.

3. You can also set the minimum bidder rating when you submit an auction
to prevent bidders from below that rating level from being able to bid
on your auction.

4. Finally, you have the option of leaving negative feedback for the
winning bidder if they do not follow through with the transaction.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Singapore Customer Care.

Regards,

Zoey
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore


Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

I understand you cant edit or remove the post, but he buyer is clearly
breaking the rules by insulting and using bad languages? Shouldn't you
at least ban or suspect the user the this type of behaviour? IF not,
everyone will be doing it because its ok.

I am just asking that Yahoo act accordingly to what you have stated in
your rules and not be leniant about upholding it.

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: wavalon@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:50:56 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82912748V67824L0KM)


Hello Yahoo! user,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Singapore Auctions.

We appreciate your comments. Your ratings are a permanent part of your
Auctions profile. In the interest of impartiality, Yahoo! does not edit
ratings or feedback. We encourage you to contact the party that has
given you the negative rating and try to resolve the situation.

If you feel that you have been unfairly rated by a buyer/seller, you can
respond to their rating of you and explain your side of the story. You
may also wish to post feedback regarding that Auction member, as this
will warn others of the potential risks of dealing with them.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Regards,

Alexie
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore
http://sg.yahoo.com

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Mail-Id: 1160977310-9746

Auction ID Number or URL?
http://ratings.auctions.yahoo.com/sg/rconfig/leavefeedback?cc=sg&cc=sg&t=holy2001sg2000&aID=101132272&logininwinnerslist=0&targetinwinnerslist=1&role=0&catid=2092063498&endtime=1157981684&starttime=1157344216&curprice=20.00&author=wavalon&title=ORIGINAL+Sony+NOT+Sandisk+Memory+Stick+Duo+64MB&cacheid=8fRoZ8uDbUMzdlpuCzV7w&;;;

What do you feel is the violation?
Excessive Profanity

Type your feedback here:
I find the buyer very rude and the calling of
names and insult is truly unacceptable. I hope
Yahoo will look into this and deal with it
accordingly. Please update me on the follow up.

Yahoo Auction Resolution

I understand you cant edit or remove the post, but he buyer is clearly breaking the rules by insulting and using bad languages? Shouldn't you at least ban or suspect the user the this type of behaviour? IF not, everyone will be doing it because its ok.

I am just asking that Yahoo act accordingly to what you have stated in your rules and not be leniant about upholding it.

----- Original Message ----
From: Yahoo! Singapore
To: wavalon@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:50:56 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse - Excessive Profanity (KMM82912748V67824L0KM)


Hello Yahoo! user,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Singapore Auctions.

We appreciate your comments. Your ratings are a permanent part of your
Auctions profile. In the interest of impartiality, Yahoo! does not edit
ratings or feedback. We encourage you to contact the party that has
given you the negative rating and try to resolve the situation.

If you feel that you have been unfairly rated by a buyer/seller, you can
respond to their rating of you and explain your side of the story. You
may also wish to post feedback regarding that Auction member, as this
will warn others of the potential risks of dealing with them.

It is very important to us that Yahoo! Auctions is a safe place to
participate in Internet commerce and we appreciate your writing to us.
Please feel free to contact us again if you experience future problems
or if you did not find your answer in this message and need further
assistance.

Regards,

Alexie
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Singapore
http://sg.yahoo.com

Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

Mail-Id: 1160977310-9746
One of hte user had used bad languages and was very rude about the comments after I gave him a bad rating... So I thought this is a good chance for me to test out Yahoo service to see if they tolerate this type of BS. So, here is the first response to Yahoo about the comment:


Auction ID Number or URL?
http://ratings.auctions.yahoo.com/sg/rconfig/leavefeedback?cc=sg&cc=sg&t=holy2001sg2000&aID=101132272&logininwinnerslist=0&targetinwinnerslist=1&role=0&catid=2092063498&endtime=1157981684&starttime=1157344216&curprice=20.00&author=wavalon&title=ORIGINAL+Sony+NOT+Sandisk+Memory+Stick+Duo+64MB&cacheid=8fRoZ8uDbUMzdlpuCzV7w&;;

What do you feel is the violation?
Excessive Profanity

Type your feedback here:
I find the buyer very rude and the calling of
names and insult is truly unacceptable. I hope
Yahoo will look into this and deal with it
accordingly. Please update me on the follow up.

Mozilla is definitely (not) safer!

A pictures say a 1000 words. Where is IE?

Virus at Play during lab lesson

Recently I attended a security related vendor lab training session and to be surprise I got a nasty present from the network when I am connected. There was a virus running loose in the classeroom and it has attempted (actually managed) to write itself to whichever share it can find. Not bad at all. I got tons of the same file in different folders and name all 81,920 bytes. OK, lets not worry what virus this is because my AOL (actually its Kaspersky) Antivirus has found it and killed it on the spot. It was fortunately I was armed even though this was my crappy P3 1.0Ghz office notebook. Imagine what if I wasn't.

Anyway, the point was that it was a strange incident becaused I had never attended a class with virus infection running around. I must bear this in mind that I will take extra caution when it comes to my turns. Hai, thats not a virus, its just Ethereal... What? No la, I am just doing you a favor by scanning your computer for you... What? Oh, Internet banking? Can, can. No problem, there is internet here...

( Hee, Hee, Hee...)

So far I have watched till Episode 20. Some of the concept is pretty cool, especially if taken from the point of view of the creator of Macross. Anyway, some of them are pretty funny as well. For example, the one episode about dieting. However, I would like to comment on Episode 19, which the artwork is horribly. Yes, not just the virtual world, look at the real world part, the drawing are like fan arts! They must had tried with their students or something. Anyway, that was the worst episode so far. So let me finish this and I will have more to say about it.

NanShin! Gataii! Go~AQUARION!!!

The sound of Silent

I had talked so much about it and now I really have some thoughts about the script for this movie. It will definitely be something very new for me. The title suggests, its already a very controversial movie about the world of a deaf boy and how he imagine sound in this world will sound to him.

The story will probably be so much more peaceful than the other ones I had planned. So, you can say this is a big shift from my normal violent style to a more artistic kinda of view of life.

Of course you can rest assure I would take this chance to bash the world about how noisy and everything this world has become today. Then again, just answer me this question : When was it you last had silent? Did you not hear the sound of silent then? If you cannot remember, then is deaf a penalty? Or perhaps was it a gift instead?

SE K800i RMA

Yes, unbelievable. Its dead. Can't turn on. Tried pulling battery out, try another battery, try with and without M2, with and without SIM card. All cannot. DEAD.

It all happened when I was receiving a phonecall, then suddenly WHITE screen of death and the phone turn off. Then I tried to on again, got white screen. Then nothing else since then.

I must say I m rather disappointed at the quality of the SE phone now... So sad... :(

Maybe I should have reserved the "Goodbye My Love" for this phone as well... :(

Win XP NoSP, SP1 and SP1a will stop support on 10 Oct 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps

Read the above. Yes, its true, not a myth or anything. IF you are still not using XP SP2, this is a good time to consider moving on. If you are daring enough, go for Vista. But do expect 70% of your software will break.

For my poor friends who are still using dialup, you know who you are! You may want to pick up the SP2 CD from me.

Back from HITB 2006 Conference

Was a tiring and rush trip. Not to mentioned -$ for hotel, -$ for shopping in KL, -$ for no-apy leave and finally -$ for the conference. :P

BUT its well worth it. You know why? Cos I learned so much this time. And also lots of new faces and technology there. To mention some, got SCAPY (throw away netcat), IPv6 Hack from THC and others and other stuff.

This time round, we get to really hack something loh... Yes, I know... The bloody hotel internet charging system. Was a big mess I tell you. Well, in any case, since we are not basically bad guys, we still honestly pay for what we use. YES, with money, what do you mean with what?

Well, also get to see Anthony again, he is one of my favorite speakers. Others include Joanne who wrote the Vista Blue Pill (Well, finally I get to see her in personal, but anyway I was too shy to introduce myself :P) and a very interesting individual, Window. Yes thats her name. Ok, she was from Microsoft, but anyway she is the Chief Security Something-Or-Other (hei, thats the REAL designation ok?) of Mozilla now.

Coming to that we had decided to make some changes to our company front as well as some logistic things such as fancy email. Well, I actually would want to propose we have company designation like "The Tech Guy", "The Sales Guy" etc... It doesn't sound so stone. But this is Singapore... I am not sure how the locals takes that.

Well, I will post more on the conference later. Meantime, its rest and to disgest these stuffs.

Windows Vista RC1 5728

Another public release came out. The main difference is that this is not so well tested, but should contain more stuff and drivers because this version is meant for compatibility testing.

32 Bits
64 Bits

Go get it!

Nihon Chinbotsu 日本沉没 2006

For those of you who remmeber, Nihon Chinbotsu has been made into a TV series in the 80s. I very much enjoyed it. Now, its on the big screen.

I caught the trailer while watching another japanese movie today. The filming is completed and it has been shown in several film festival. I just hope I can catch this soon.

Anyway, here is the trailer :

http://www.nc06.jp/trailer/nc06_trailer3_l.mov

Lighting slot just got a bit cuter

Yes, this is the fitting slot for the lamp inside the bus stop advertisement panel. It does remind you of a bear does it not...

Bread Factory Horror

I think you might find thgese somewhere online, but those site are not what I recommend you see. Stanson Bakery in Malaysia is raided for non-HALAL compliance. But that is the least I care because what was shocking was the condition of the bakery. Also that is nothing I need to care unless I purchase these product. I took a spin at my kitchen and fainted....

(20 minutes later)

Ya, got those bread here. Was selling at 70cents per loaf last week. Must be due to this raid, clearing stock. Maybe change name and restart or what. Brand affected : High5, Sure Value.

So what sort of problem are we looking at...

1. Illegal Workers
2. Factory Hygiene Problem
3. No face mask and gloves

Well, better feed those remaining pieces to the cats downstairs now...