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recurring data package

Sky.Live — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:30:57 +0800

Hi,

I am using hotlink hyc package.
My data plan died yesterday midnight, those days there used to be reccuring auto subscription.

I woke up on 7am this morning and found on 6.45am there is already a sms saying my data usage >RM10.. Where my phone is connected to wifi all the time.

Quite upset as my money has been depleted quite a few times because of data plan expiry.

Example 28 Jan - 26 feb supposde to be 30 days, if I top up on 26th i will loose 1 day of validity, if I top up on 27th I will be charge of data if I am not careful to switch off data before I sleep..

Hope you can provide a solution to this.

Regarding Hotlink reload

Sky.Live — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:13:14 +0800

Hi Maxis,

Regarding top up, i always have a few queries on it.

For RM100 reload, we usually get extra RM5 credit right?
Also any idea where can I buy reload using credit card, less and lesser store accepts credit card purchases for hotlink reloads nowadays.
I wondered why your maxis pay portal limit credit up to RM80, I wouldn't eligible for the extra credit.

Thanks

Thanks.

Myvi (Old) Audio intermittent

Sky.Live — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:13:41 +0800

I come to realise both my Myvi(s) at home has got this intermittent problem on roads. It used to be only on bumpy roads / when I drove over a hump.

Lately it got worse that even on a flat road I experience such problem.

I believe it's from one of the loose wire connection, both my Myvi actually has this problem.
I believe it's a power cable because the audio woul turn off for a moment and turn on again..

Upgrading

Sky.Live — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 11:05:31 +0800

Hi,

I have tried to troubleshoot my PC a few times since 2 years back. It just gave random freezes upon start up.
I have done most of the diagnosis test I can think of but still it's giving me problem.

I am contempting to upgrade few of my components now because some of it is quite aged now.
Thinking of a Ram + GC + processor and Mobo upgrade.

I am not sure of budget yet, want to keep it as low as possible.
I am actually happy with my current system as I have no demanding usage.
Not sure if my current PSU can cope with the new upgrade as well

my current rig is in my signature.

Random Freezes

Sky.Live — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:55:56 +0800

Hi,

I have a 5 years old desktop computer that recently (not really that recent) just that it's getting more frequent now..
The computer upon boot would freeze by itself (randomly).

I used to suspect it's due to OS problem but now it appears it also freeze during bios load up too..
It seems to be the fault of SSD initially but when I remove it, the computer would still freezes.

The weirdest symptom is that, if the computer does not freeze during start-up, you can use the computer for days without having to worry about anything.

I have check the computer hardware and sure that it's not an overheat problem.

Anyone can help me out? I am clueless where to diagnose my computer.
Thank you very much

Supplement - Necessity or not

Sky.Live — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:19:02 +0800

Lately (quite sometime actually) there's a surge in taking daily supplement. It can be vitamins, fish oil, honey, spirulina and many many more. It has been claimed that our daily meal consumption does not cover full range of vitamins and minerals we requires.

It is evident that when you walk into any pharmacy, they would start asking you to drink this, eat that, to the extend the more the merrier (30 spirulina pills per day anyone??). Obviously that pharmaceutical firms are making big money. Worse when you have unknown source of supplement which claimed to have miracle effect.

So my question is that, has supplement become a must have everyday, good to have daily, or not necessary at all. My friends which is active in sport take supplement that cost them few hundreds per month, the number of pills that they swallow is even more than what I consume when I fall sick.

Due to kiasuness i also start taking royal jelly and omega fish oil as of lately, also regarding dosage it seems that supplements is not tightly control, everyone seems to claim the more the better, supplement pills can range up to 2000mg (biggest I have seen).

What is your thought on this matter.

p/s: pardon my poor English, have not write a lot since sometime

Home Network Transfer speed

Sky.Live — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:12:53 +0800

Hi there,

I just acquire a gigabit router - TP-Link TL-WR1043ND connected to pc as follow
- Macbook Air 2011, wireless (not sure which band)
- Desktop TP-Link TL-WN821N wireless N USB), around 16 feet distance
- Desktop beside router, Buffalo Pre-N 150Mbps USB wireless adapter
- Desktop via gigabit LAN (file server)
- Laptop via gigabit LAN

I am asking that what kind of speed I should be expecting if I am transferring file via

wireless N to Gigabit LAN desktop
I am getting around 5~6MBps only which I don't think rather reasonable

wireless pre-N desktop to gigabit LAN desktop
around 10~11MBps good enough for me

Macbook air to Gigabit LAN desktop
around 5~6MBps, disappointing same situation as my wireless N dongle..

Gigabit laptop to Gigabit desktop desktop
around 20~30MBps not really sustainable but very good..

Rather cannot understand wireless N seems to perform the worst.. Did I set anything wrongly?

2010 Best movie you have watched

Sky.Live — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:30:45 +0800

Not sure if it has been posted?

This is mine:
1) Inception
2) The Expandable (Lame story line but I like it)
3) Unstoppable (Same as above)
4) Kick Ass (Personally like it)
5) Burried (again I dont know why I like it, I felt suffocating now)
6) Despicable Me

Cant think of too much atm, let me refresh it tomorrow

Missed:
1) The Social Network
2) Salt
3)

Any title that I shouldn't be missing out in the year 2010?

Hardware failure

Sky.Live — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:46:15 +0800

What's the most likely component to be destroyed by a lightning strike.. my desktop just got striked.. I guess the motherboard is gone.. judging by..
there's a LED blinking on the motherboard, if the PSU is the culspirit, the motherboard should be lighting at all..

What a sad day, my router has gone all together too

Ribbon change?

Sky.Live — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:34:32 +0800

My phone LCD is not working now although phone is still perfectly workable.. The backlight is working

I bring my phone to a Nokia Care Center in Metro Kajang and they actually asked me to replace the LCD ribbon / slide ribbon instead of sending back to service center (warranty just passed last month).

I was wondering is it normal for slide phone to have problem with their ribbon? Especially with sliding units?
Anyway she claim original ribbon is expensive...

Just downloaded the service manual I was thinking to actually dismantle and replace it myself, only to know where to obtain the ribbon.,.

Reception free vacation side

Sky.Live — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:34:52 +0800

Anyone come to realised increased connectivity with smart phone, blackberry, and portable device, it's harder to get disconnect from your daily workload.

What's makes it worse is that you are already super busy with your working pressure but a phone call or email from boss would killed your entire vacation or at least put you into an uneasy disturbed mood.

I know most people would say just turn the damn phone off but some company forbid you from doing so, a reception remote vacation will make your holiday interrupt free and much more enjoyable.

Let's share your recent trip where you know it's very much enjoyable and free from any communication connectivity.

I only realised one so far:

Wineglass bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia

HDD RAID ERROR

Sky.Live — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:44:12 +0800

There's this happening again.. my harddisk is having raid error (0) again, it's the 2nd time now.. Somehow I have feeling that one of my hdd is failing (among the raid array). Therefore out of no choice (cant even login and backup), I tried to delete the raid configuration and reinstall my OS.

For some odd reason now my pc would always just stop responding middle of nowhere and even my windows setup cannot be completed. Do you think if there's a failing HDD being plug into your system it would just made your entire system being very unstable?

And also another annoying problem I had is that windows 7 setup takes forever on my pc (even before), but it seems fine over that other computer. It there a possibility that RAID made everything worse than fixing it?

Oral Care - Tongue Scrapper

Sky.Live — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:50:00 +0800

Any Idea where can I get a tongue cleaner in Klang Valley area? If possible to get from a dentist clinic it would be better since I would be eligible to claim it from my company dental benefit plan.

Do you know tongue cause 80~90% of your bad breath problem?

Hdd concern

Sky.Live — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:28:03 +0800

Hi I would like to know about something about hdd,

I am currently raiding my hdd and not sure why a error occurs now.
I am thinking to go off with the idea with raiding and just buy a hdd instead (dont really feel any differences from the raid).

Any hdd recommended? not into raptop or ssd at the moment.

and also feel like getting another large capacity hdd for my HD video collection, any hdd recommended?

Install win xp after win 7?

Sky.Live — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:04:18 +0800

I would like to know whether it is possible to install windows xp after I installed windows 7 due to the fact I am playing a game which is not possible to run under windows 7 (it would be buggy, compatibility doesn't work). I tried to install on a separate partition but there's a boot problem that I have to restore it.

Another question is that, after you put your pc to idle for a sometime, it would jump to the welcome screen, izzit possible to disable it?

No internet connectivity

Sky.Live — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:07:37 +0800

Hi there,

I need some help there. My computer had no problem yesterday, but this morning when I turn it on, the network status turn weird that network is connected but with limited connectivity (meaning no internet). I have done a check by, routing the Ethernet port to another PC, the other PC is able to connect and gain internet access.

Also tried to use another network cable to connect to this PC, same thing, no internet connectivity.
Reinstall network driver, same thing, no internet connectivity.
Tried plug in my USB wlan dongle, able to online with no problem..

Anyone have any clue what's wrong?

Nokia Car Charger

Sky.Live — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:55:55 +0800

Hey guys,

I need some help here, I just purchased a nokia car charger from Lowyat today. While surveying various shop, i found there's various model around.

When I was in Jaya One, I was told there are two type which is the original Zitron warantty and the AP warantty charger, priced at RM110 and RM40 respectively. I couldn't remember the duration period, I was shown that Zitron model was sticked with a genuine sticker while AP have a different packaging.

Today when I asked in lowyat, I was told by shop 1, RM80, original 3 months warantty, if anything just bring back to us, obviously it sounds like AP warantty. They claimed that the charger come with a circuit which prevent electrical overshoot during acceleration.
While surveying in shop 2, I was quote @ RM88 for original and RM40 for the non original.

I proceed my purchase @ shop 2, RM88 for the charger, to my surprise he took out a charger from a plastic bag and told me this is actually the loose pack, the charger actually come without a genuine sticker and sounds like second hand goods when I check back home.

Guys I would like to know if there actually a loose packaging for a car charger which is actually genuine, he also claim that you can claim your warantty in any nokia center within 6 months. What worries me is that if it's a counterfeit product which actually damage my phone in the end..

Thanks for any input in advance =)

Education Fiair

Sky.Live — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:29:32 +0800

I think I have seen an advertisement regarding having an education fair this weekend. I think it's more for post-graduate student.
Anyone have any info regarding recent education fair?

Optical output of a HDTV

Sky.Live — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:23:41 +0800

I would like to know is it that all HDTV only output sound channel in optical mode in stereo?
I am in the dilemma of choosing TV which can output a proper sound channel from my TV to receiver in surround sound as my receiver doesn't support HDMI.

Furthermore with the recent black level issues regarding Panasonic Plasma, would it be a reason to avoid Panasonic for the time being until it's fixed? I have to be quite hurry for my purchase, if possible by March. What's the other option if not for Panasonic, budget around RM6k for a 40"+ panel

Virus infected..

Sky.Live — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:18:31 +0800

I'm in my relative's house now trying to fix his pc, i realised his pc is heavily infected with virus with antivirus being disabled.. I am not sure where to start now

all file extention has been disable, gave me no access to all the files, all *.exe will not open, and almost every single extention will not work.

Internet explorer dont work, no luck of online scanner

GPEDIT, REGEDIT, CMD, all dont works either.. even viewing system properties aint possible,

This also indicate all fixer with the extention with *.exe will not work..
anyone can guide me? thanks