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

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 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

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

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:
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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?