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Bonus get for 2022

ebackbone — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:30:31 +0800

Fix the correct poll for Kopitiam.

1. vote for the months obtained
2. also post reply: months and work in industry
3. post QQ cry comments

WTS AMD Ryzen 5 3400G [RESERVED-MAY2023]

ebackbone — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:16:31 +0800

Item(s): AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

Package includes: CPU with original box with screenshot for receipts MINUS original heat sink fan (will give together if able to find it) (ori heat sink fan found but not sure working)

Price: rm400 (!!!NOTICE!!!: Sellers are required to display the exact selling prices of their products. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the topic)

Warranty: end Q1 2023

Dealing method: COD, postage will need higher for insurance and packaging

Location: KL/Selangor

Contact method/details: oh want too - sex se7en nien fieh oh oh fore (whatapp)
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Item(s) conditions: Working in use. No overclock. Female owner

Picture:

Reason for sale: Help sell, ~~owner migrating~~ (update Mar 2023: owner already migrated)

~~EDITED/UPDATED: to update regarding heat sink fan~~
EDITED/UPDATED2: to update regarding heat sink fan - found original but unsure if working
EDITED/UPDATED3: item currently reserved by lowyat forumer on May 2023

[WTS] ASUS GTX 960 4GB OC Edition

ebackbone — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 01:58:48 +0800

Item(s): ASUS GTX 960 4GB OC Edition

Package includes: original box and contents and receipt

Price: rm850

Warranty: bought early 2016 so should have 1+ year left by manufacturer

Dealing method: COD only

Location: Wangsa Maju KL

Contact method/details: PM or reply this thread
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Item(s) conditions: 9/10 still working and used with 80 plus platinum PSU all the while

Reason for sale: upgrade GPU

[WTH] IT Information Technology Support Staff

ebackbone — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:15:53 +0800

Name of Company: -Reserved for now-

- located at central KLCC (<300m walk from LRT)
- one of the main branch of an international business
- 100 strong staff here in KL
- Monday - Friday work week

Role: Information Technology Support Staff

- permanent vacancy position
- benefits and insurance and medical
- mostly dealing with Microsoft Windows environment and DELL servers
- work on IT support tasks like troubleshooting notebooks, servers, network connectivity, preparing/restoring new notebooks
- you need to familiarize yourself with our various software products that is sold and in house maintained for installation and troubleshooting purposes

Remuneration:based on your knowledge of IT software & hardware support and years of experience

Requirements:
- female candidates are very welcome to join
- you are able to write and converse fluently in English (PRIORITY as MNC), and also able to converse in both Chinese & Malay to support our various in house staffs (written not so important for these last 2 language)
- you like troubleshooting and solving IT related task whether software or hardware
- you enjoy working in an international English speaking MNC staffed environment
- you possess a diploma or degree (computing/IT field will be an advantage)
- you enjoy joining various social and company sponsored activities with other staffs
- you enjoy keeping up to date with technology and hardware such that trips to places like Lowyat & PJ Digital Mall interests you

Contact Person: Please PM for more information with your availability and CV ready and your earliest interview availability

[WTS] Samsung 850 EVO M.2 / M2 SSD 250GB / 256GB

ebackbone — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:32:01 +0800

ITEM CURRENTLY RESERVED TO [@SCLIDE]

Item(s): Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 250GB (MZ-N5E250)

Package includes: Original Receipt + Original box and contents

Price: RM390 non negotiable (you can't find lower than this on the outside of retail shops so no point to ask best price)

Warranty: Same as bought from Viewnet, Low Yat Plaza

Dealing method: COD preferable

Location of seller: Wangsa Maju LRT or Wisma MCA or KLCC (lunch or after work, otherwise weekends)

Contact method/details: PM or post on this thread

Age of item: bought on 1 July 2016

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Item(s) conditions: Super Good Condition. After short use of 2-3 days, item put back properly into box and is in a dry box storage unused.

Reason for sale: have to let go of the item as the notebook it was bought for was returned back in 1st week of July 2016, so the item was effectively used for less than 2-3 days only since bought.

Picture: Album link

Beware your UNIFI/Streamyx/Maxis/Time Router

ebackbone — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:27:34 +0800

Mod: this may not be appropriate sub thread but it has highest visibility for best awareness for all

Just a friendly PSA for everyone who is using UNIFI/Streamyx/Maxis/Time to be aware and to change your default router password from the common default ones.

Reason is recently there's a bastard in Malaysia who is trying to do a dictionary brute login into your routers. He's doing it behind proxies but for sure is a Malaysian using very Malaysian usernames and passwords during the attempts.

I notice the following daily attempts logged: (have removed the time component and filtered repeated username attempts, admin is the most)

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Keep safe everyone.

If someone is connected enough, please do report and log to the relevant authorities.

Dentsu Utama - Malaysia quality level of Photocopy

ebackbone — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:14:42 +0800

Dentsu Utama, Malaysia's creative shame.

Malaysia 4As disqualifies two Dentsu Utama Kancils winners for plagiarism
Two pieces of winning work at Malaysia’s most prestigious advertising awards show the Kancils have been disqualified for plagiarism.

“Professional Man”, a campaign for internet privacy awareness firm Web Privacy Watch by Dentsu Utama, “contained almost identical images” to the work of Swedish artist Erik Johansson, an optical illusion piece called The Architect, ruled ad industry body Malaysia 4As, the organiser of the Kancil Awards.

The same is true of “Cross River Gorilla”, an anti-poaching campaign for World Wildlife Fund in Indonesia by Dentsu Utama that bears similarities to the work of a British design student, the 4As determined.

“An investigation was initiated by the 4As following various complaints of the obvious similarities to the original creations,” said Tan Kien Eng, Kancils jury chair and CEO of advertising agency Leo Burnett Malaysia.

“This action is being taken to remedy a contentious situation while upholding the principles of eligibility for the Kancil Awards,” Tan said.

The agency’s award-winning work was developed after the work created by Erik Johansson and 21 year-old designer Tom Anders Watkins, the 4As confirmed, so the awards will be withdrawn.

The original creators have shown proof that their works were posted much earlier than the work by Dentsu Utama, Tan confirmed.

Anders Watkins complained about his work being copied in a social media post late December. “Hey, @dentsuaegis @WWF I think you may have blatantly copied my design in your award winning poster,” he tweeted. His complaint was picked up by a number of news outlets.

“Cross River Gorilla” claimed won 26 bronze awards and three silvers at the Kancils, while “Professional Man” won six bronzes. The awards helped Dentsu Utama win agency of the year at the Kancils last month, although that accolade is expected to now be attributed to another agency.

The investigation followed questions raised in two stories by Mumbrella following the announcement of the Kancils winners late last year.

“We take a serious view of work that is deemed sufficiently close to works created originally elsewhere,” Tan commented. “We must maintain a high level of integrity and credibility as the industry’s official body in Malaysia. The decision to disqualify the awards for both creative works was not taken lightly as we had explored all possible scenarios. In the end, the facts were overwhelmingly in favour of the original creators.”

The ruling comes the week after the 4As decided that a campaign by Dentsu Utama for Uyee Chinese Medical Company, which won 20 awards, was “not sufficiently similar” to a project for a Chinese skateboard decoration firm
Challenge Skateboard to constitute copyright infringement and so warrant disqualification from the competition.

Dentsu Utama consulted an international copyright firm to defend the entry.

This year was the 20th anniversary of the Kancil Awards.

Source: http://www.mumbrella.asia/2016/01/malaysia-4as-disqualifies-two-dentsu-utama-kancils-winners-for-plagiarism/

[WTB] rm350 notebook/netbook

ebackbone — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:53:53 +0800

hi,

looking for rm350 or less notebook/netbook that is in WORKING condition. don't really mind if there's scratches and bumps but it must be at least WORKING state.

please post thread option here or PM me.

thank you.

DBKL increase assessment rates 2014 update

ebackbone — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:27:20 +0800

Today update 17 Dec 2013:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysi...-new-assessment

Tengku Adnan says less than 10% of property owners object to new assessment rate - Bernama

Less than 10% of about 500,000 property owners in the federal capital have sent letters of objection on the new assessment rate to be enforced by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) on Jan 1 next year.

Federal Territories minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (pic) said the number represented only about 40,000 property owners.

"We did not increase the rate to an amount that could burden the owners, although the prevailing value of properties is higher.

"DBKL is empowered to raise the rate every five years, but we had overlooked the matter all this while," he told reporters after presenting letters of offer to 50 tenants at 10 people's housing project (PPR) and public housing project (PPA) areas here today.

On the protest against the assessment hike at Dataran DBKL today, Tengku Adnan said it was political propaganda by the opposition to twist the issue.

"We are doing all this for the sake of the property owners in line with the increasing value of the properties," he stressed.

DBKL has received 60,000 applications from city dwellers for the PPR and PPA; however, only 3,000 units are currently available.

Tengku Adnan said DBKL had identified 5,000 tenants of PPR and PPA who had defaulted in their rental payment or rented out their units to other people.

"We will seize the units and give them to applicants in the waiting list. For those with arrears, please settle them. If they cannot afford to, we will assist them through our social corporate responsibility programme," he assured. - Bernama, December 16, 2013.

Old Source on increase of DBKL assessment rates

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Travel Insurance for DSLRs

ebackbone — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:05:32 +0800

Been traveling for many years and touch wood no bad incidents so far.

However, as lenses and camera bodies is upgraded, the value on hand increases as well and it feels like tempting fate so far.

So am wondering do you guys worry when traveling with such equipment and if so, anyone successfully bought any kinds of insurance for your equipment?

[WTS] Canon EOS 7D + BG-E7 Grip

ebackbone — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:45:24 +0800

Item(s): CANON EOS 7D + Canon BG-E7 (Malaysia)

Package includes: all the items that came with when new including box and receipts (bought from Boeing @ Sungei Wang) though i think the camera strap is well worn cause it was used on another camera model.

Price: PM your fair price offer. low baller won't be entertained.

Warranty: no more.

Dealing method: COD (sorry, no postage)

Location: Wangsa Maju/KL area

Contact method/details: PM only or post in thread
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Item(s) conditions: 8/10 severely underutilized to the point that the firmware is still an older version than the latest and has always been kept in dry box

Picture: will upload later tonight or tomorrow morning

Reason for sale: unused and gathering funds for lens purchase

My Past Successful Trade List

high rise security choped up like meat scary

ebackbone — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:58:44 +0800

old news but nonetheless, now crime getting worst and worst and criminals more and more bold. people buy high rise thinking the security should be much better and safer but news like this start to become more and more frequent.

what those owners and tenants here think?

pity them only earn rm1k but have to risk life until like that.

source:
http://www.lipstiq.com/2013/05/19/security...n-cheras-condo/
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...6815&sec=nation
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=n...nation/13131776 (stupid star always filter out the names)

The worst investor nightmare

ebackbone — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:27:01 +0800

What is the worst investor nightmare?

For me, i think the worst will be when government wise up and implement rule when purchasing any property requires a background check on investor's immediate family and decide whether they are allowed to buy more than a fixed amount of total property per family limit.

anyone can come up with worst?

Residensi 222 @ Setapak

ebackbone — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:36:57 +0800

Project Information
serviced residence
222 units
27 floors
1 single car park to each unit
freehold
DIBS development
south east facing direction
land size: 1 acre
min price: rm280,000
max price: rm1,585,632
permit expiry date: 24 June 2013
license expiry date: 22 June 2015
main contractor: Kerjaya Prospek Property Sdn Bhd (858791-D)
main lawyer firm: Ho, Loke & Koh (Advocates & Solicitors)

GPS Map Location
Residensi 222 Wikimapia

Facilities & Feature
- gymnasium, jacuzzi, playground, function hall, BBQ, changing room, garden
- infinity pool
- 4 tier security (main entrance, car park, lobby & lift)
- all windows in units are green tinted

Flooring Information
G - shop lots & guardhouse
1st Floor - visitor parking & shop lot parking
2nd-7th Floor - resident parking
8th Floor - swimming pool & facilities
9th-27th Floor - home units

Unit Information
KLCC facing:
Type A - 904sqft 1B1B
Type B - 1124sqft 3B2B
Type C - 1102sqft 3B2B
Type D - 1203sqft 3B2B

Gombak facing:
Type E - 999sqft 2B2B
Type F - 861sqft 1B1B

Interesting facts
- > 90% buyers are chinese (before project completion)
- during development there was a stop work order issued from complaints by diamond residences
- this is the first project by Kerjaya Prospek as a main con
- initially named 222 Residency, it was later renamed to Residensi 222

Project Related Websites
https://www.facebook.com/222residency
http://www.kpproperty.com.my/prj222r/overview2.htm

Project Development update
- Vacant Possesion in May/June 2013
- Extra car park balloting on 27th April 2013 [single unit - rm35k, tandem unit - rm53k]

Buyer/Investor List

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Complaints/Unit Defect List

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will be updating and adding to this as often as i can. PM me if there are any mistakes or anything to add instead of posting on the thread to avoid clutter of information.

(The) I'm Tired (Thread) v1

ebackbone — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:25:15 +0800

In this thread, you describe why you are tired in the following format:
age/sex/location - reason

for those shy shy, just the first digit for the age is suffice (example: 4x/M/JB - reason)

Ima go first:
3x/M/KL - tired of working because it is raining damn heavily now and right after a full meal from lunch. also cause few days not enough sleep from all the stupid driving during the recent Korban holidays. boss not around but the workload.. omai. each day seems never ending.

Klang a mini Foreigner City

ebackbone — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:08:35 +0800

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file...055&sec=central

QUOTE

THE number of Indonesians, Nepalese, Bangladeshis and Myanmars are increasing in some parts of Klang.

This is evidenced by the many foreign-owned businesses such as food stalls, restaurants, mini-markets, sundry stores and barber shops found around the town.

There is even a shop that serves as a bank.

These enterprising foreigners are carrying out businesses openly with signboards written in their mother tongue.
Common sight: Signboards in foreign languages is becoming a norm in the town.

Such businesses are found along Persiaran Sultan Ibrahim in Klang North and Persiaran Raja Muda Musa in Port Klang.

Port Klang resident Steven Pua, 60, said the situation had worsened as the number of foreigners engaged in business had increased over the past three years.

He said almost all the newly-opened food and drink stalls were being operated by foreigners.

“They have even built a structure on a vacant land that served as a food outlet in Jalan Cunggah.

“Foreigners are also operating mini-markets and restaurants along Persiaran Raja Muda Musa,’’ he said.

Another resident S. Veera, 55, said Jalan Kem in Port Klang had been turned into a red light district that was ran by foreigners.
Not local: A leather goods shop in Persiaran Raja Muda.

He said they were also operating nightclubs while foreign girls could be seen along the streets trying to lure the locals.

“The image of Port Klang has been marred by this,’’ he said.

In Klang, Jalan Pos Baru, Jalan Pos, Lorong Kepayang and Jalan Batu Tiga Lama have become the favourite business areas of foreigners.

Nepalese, Bangladeshis and Indonesians have also set up businesses along the backlanes of Jalan Raja Hassan and Jalan Batu Tiga Lama, facing the former express bus terminal.

They are operating sundry shops, fruit stalls and leatherware stores.

A Myanmar restaurant and mini-market operated by Bangladeshis are prominent businesses in Jalan Raja Hassan.

A number of shophouses on the first floor of Jalan Pos and Jalan Pos Baru have been turned into restaurants by Nepalese and Myanmars.

Klang Consumers Association president A. Devadass said the former Klang North bus terminal and its surrounding area were now “taken over” by foreigners.

He feared that the town would be soon overrun by foreigners.

“It appears to me that the authorities are not doing anything about it,’’ he said.

Devadass questioned how foreigners were allowed to operate businesses, especially when they came into the country with work permits.

“I do not understand why there is no action taken by the authorities,’’ he said.

Devadass said he had made numerous complaints to the Klang Municipal Council but had not received any reply.

as Klang becomes more and more a foreigner city, they will overrun the township. as they are not legals, they have no fear of being caught as their fingerprints or even facial identity cannot be traced since no documents to reference to. so they become bolder and bolder.

the next nearest townships are Subang, Shah Alam and Puchong. anyone fear of the future one day when the crime rate gets so high that the value of properties takes a hit because no one dare to live in the area next to them?

Ghost / Haunted Properties

ebackbone — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:19:40 +0800

For buyers:
obviously one does not wish to buy a haunted house nor want to buy a house whereby there is case of murder happened before. so how does one go about to avoid such properties? of course it is due to own effort to ask around the neighbors to find out the information. so let's say it is difficult to do so for various reasons, is it:
a. ok to put in clauses in the S&P to either indemnify the buyer from the seller?
b. enforceable to sue should there be problems with the unit that the buyer finds out later on especially if placed a clause in the S&P?

For sellers:
hypothetically if i have units which have problems of ghost or haunted, i will inform before the buyer comes to view the unit but that is just me. not every other seller will be that honest though. so in that scenario whereby you are a seller and die die of course you want to offload the problem unit, will you:
1. keep quiet about the problem? even when potential buyers ask quite directly?
2. dispute arises because you are middle man (owner didn't inform the agent that there is problems so agent tell buyer no problems but then later on find out got problems and blame the agent?) so how in the middle?
3. buyer & seller signed s&p with such a clause but owner seller to the best of his knowledge knows no such problems but buyer later complain. how to solve dispute?

Discuss? Thought this is interesting enough as can't find such thread over here

Custom Flash camera bracket

ebackbone — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:53:26 +0800

Hi there,

Firstly, i'm not a seller. I'm person interested to have a flash bracket myself. What you see is a custom version made by someone, let's call mark1. It's been tested on Canon 1D series and 5D series and Nikon D3 and DXXX series in our local photography scene, so far so good. The locking requires MYR coin from the bracket to the camera body other than that, it is pretty much standard stuffs.

Wondering anyone have any more suggestions towards improving this? Please don't suggest things that will add too much to the cost.

Reason is a mark2 is to be made and i am interested to gather feedback to give to this person for a mark2 to be made so that i can get this custom mark2 myself. If anyone else also looking to get this mark2, you can add your name here. So far estimated price to manufacture this mark2 is rm250. If you know the prices of the other known brand flash bracket, you will know that this price is a steal

But important is what do you think is needed on the flash bracket so that it can be more functional for our uses?

Note: this is not a mass or for commercial product. this is a one off custom made bracket purely for our local scene photography people who doesn't have a flash bracket but would want one at a decent price.

100mbps cat5e cable only get 10mbps full duplex

ebackbone — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:53:56 +0800

anyone experienced this type of problem before?

it is straight through RJ45 cable type and checked with network cable tester, all wires having connection but when connect from PC/any device to router, max connection is 10mbps only.

cable is under 20m length.

Unifi Port Forward Issues + WOL for D-Link DIR-615

ebackbone — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:13:11 +0800

Hi all,

Was wondering anyone encountered the same issue? Unable to forward ports on the given D-link DIR-615 router for unifi broadband. Some people reported success while some unsuccessful. Any ideas what other settings to configure other than the one in the "Port Forward" page?

Most threads in lowyat only solve for torrents or still does not have answer to this question for other application port like FTP and RDP, the few common ones.

Thanks.

Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by ebackbone

Bonus get for 2022

WTS AMD Ryzen 5 3400G [RESERVED-MAY2023]

[WTS] ASUS GTX 960 4GB OC Edition

[WTH] IT Information Technology Support Staff

[WTS] Samsung 850 EVO M.2 / M2 SSD 250GB / 256GB

Beware your UNIFI/Streamyx/Maxis/Time Router

Dentsu Utama - Malaysia quality level of Photocopy

[WTB] rm350 notebook/netbook

DBKL increase assessment rates 2014 *update*

Travel Insurance for DSLRs

[WTS] Canon EOS 7D + BG-E7 Grip

high rise security choped up like meat *scary*

The worst investor nightmare

Residensi 222 @ Setapak

(The) I'm Tired (Thread) v1

Klang a mini Foreigner City

Ghost / Haunted Properties

Custom Flash camera bracket

100mbps cat5e cable only get 10mbps full duplex

Unifi Port Forward Issues + WOL for D-Link DIR-615

DBKL increase assessment rates 2014 update

high rise security choped up like meat scary