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<WTS> YUiN PK3 - Used

klystorm — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:14:04 +0800

Item(s): YUiN PK3 (Used)

Package includes: All in the package except the cushions.

Price: RM90

Warranty: None

Dealing method: COD around MidValley, OneUtama or other major shopping malls at KL

Location of seller: Petaling Jaya

Contact method/details: PM

Age of item: More than 2 years

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Item(s) conditions: Good with some fading on the markings of YUiN and PK3

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Reason for sale: Not using it anymore

<WTS> Huawei K3565 and ZTE MF110 (Both Used)

klystorm — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:51:15 +0800

Price: RM140 for both, either one RM75

Condition: A bit wear and tear for Huawei's modem, ZTE's modem condition good but not as white anymore

Reason for sale: Not needed and they are collecting dust in my drawer

Warranty: Nil, check on the spot

COD around Petaling Jaya.

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[WTS] HAME MPR-A1: Power Bank, 3G Hotspot, 3in1 AP

klystorm — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:15:25 +0800

Hame – 3G Modem Personal Hotspot Router, WiFi Relay / Repeater, Power Bank

Signed up a 3G broadband? Want to share the Internet service with your iPad, Galaxy Tab and computer at the same time? Find it difficult to create an ad hoc connection to share your Internet from your PC?
Use this.
“If you own this device, you can easily share your 3G broadband Internet service with any WiFi supported device in seconds. Absolutely no setup required, unless if you put a password in your SIM card which could complicate things.”

Phone out of battery? Need some juice fast?
This can help.

Hame MPR-A1, as what we would like to call it – near-Swiss Army Knife device, is an innovative product from China that solves a few of the problems we faced in our daily mobile lifestyle with one device.

Some of the key features (Copy Paste from Box):
1. Built with a 1800 mAh battery, last for 4 hours* of continuous usage.
2. Charges iPad, iPhone, iTouch, Android tabs and et cetera. (So long as your device can charge with a USB port, this will work.)
3. Supports HSPA/HSPA+, EVDO A/B, TD-SCDMA wireless broadband modem.
4. Works as a relay / repeater.
* Battery performance, as usual, varies depending on your usage, operator network strength and other factors.

Specifications:
1. WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n @ 150 Mbps with up to 20 simultaneous connections
2. Connection Port: RJ 45 (LAN), Micro USB, USB 2.0.
3. The rest you can read the box when you buy this.

Price: RM80
Contact Method: PM / Reply in this thread
Dealing Method: Preferably COD (around PJ, One Utama, MidValley), postage is possible but buyer bears the risk.

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Embarking into Start-up / New Company

klystorm — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:39:41 +0800

Once in a while a small company called you up and offered you a position. They promise stock options and a vision. Working environment is rather fun (or you can interpret it as stressful due to limited workforce high work volume), high potential to become rich (or you might ended up with nothing) and the freedom to wear slippers to work.

We know all company started somewhere, if not in a garage (some red fruit? I mean white..) perhaps at least with 3 to 4 peoples. They need people to grow their company, and you could be one of those first batch of warriors.

But is it worth taking the risk to quit current company that I am working in (a MNC) to join a startup?

A little background about myself, I am working in a MNC. My gut told me and still telling me that staying in this MNC means it will take more than 3 years to go to senior level (MNC always got lots of rules), perhaps another 3 years to a lead position (should the current lead left and granted no other seniors on my head or I overthrow all of them). Looking at such scenario I can basically tell is that half of my golden period of life will be spent in this company.. Shamefully, I tried to gosok kasut and perform like a heaven-sent employee, boss love me, but they just have to give the chance to senior due to seniority.

I have a little car that needs petroleum feeding and paying bank the money I used to own that car. My family doesn't depends on me though..

Also this MNC was like my third job, I have been involving in one startup company previously with friends that eventually failed due to lousy ideas. Thus starting as a fresh in this MNC.

There's a startup called and interviewed. The CEO told me convincing facts and ideas, offered a position. And the field is totally what I liked!

But I am at lost as to whether should I take this quantum leap or find a better MNC (is there any such companies) or stay. The problem at hand it seems is that "I wish I can know will this be successful and I would become a millionaire after that or else I am outta here" kinda doubt. And I know that if anyone would have known the answer, they would already be a millionaire, sorry..but it is a vital point to consider.

But the question I find really interesting to ask is that, what is your take on joining company that just started 6 to 8 months back while you have a good stable job in a company that never fails to pay you your salary (at least the chances of MNC to not able to pay you is much lower compared to a startup)? What do you think?

iWorry:
1) In 1 year time the startup don't work out. I quit it, and start fresh. Again. This scares me the most!
2) Salary will back to freshie, it will be harder to realize other need such as buying a house / getting settled down
3) When the funding stops, iNoSalary.
4) I fear that the enthusiasm the CEO has and the RDF he emits would cloud judgement and misinterpret the ideas that the CEO presented wrongly.

Generally not much people would join a startup? I guess? Please voice out your opinion. Thanks a lot!

iTunes Sync Error - Unable to establish session

klystorm — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:43:08 +0800

It was a moony night, I thought of plugging in my iPhone 4 - 16GB Black to sync with my PC (Windows 7 Home Premium) since I did not do so for quite some time. Sadly, once I plug in my iPhone, iTunes (64-bit version) shows unable to read contents of the iPhone and requires a restore. (OMG!!! FYI: I have not jailbreak my iPhone before...)

Then I restore it lo, but it took from 11pm of that night until the next day 1.30pm to get it done............. ( what's wrong?)

Later that night, I hand itchy plug in again to sync, then (damn it!) it ask me to restore again!! Okay, fine, but this time it requires update to iOS 4.3.1 (just yesterday 26 March 2011). By morning it is done (Yay, happy!) but then after breakfast, which is now, when I plug in again..it ask for restore...........again.............

May I know what's happening to my iPhone and is it just me facing this problem? Am going to gone mad trying to restore it everyday....

Please advice and help!

Updated: Print screen added of error reading iPhone size...4GB capacity???

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PHP Chinese Characters HELP!

klystorm — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:39:22 +0800

Hail master coders and pros,

Am working on a PHP web project that requires dealing with chinese characters: 1.) Able to take in chinese (traditional and modern) from form input and 2.) Create directory as well as file name with chinese character.

So far I have tried to mess with PHP Mbstring:

==== php.ini ====
mbstring.language = Neutral
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = pass
mbstring.http_output = pass
mbstring.encoding_translation = Off
mbstring.detect_order = auto

Though now variables are able to store chinese characters, output of files and folder names are all "å®¶æˆ"

Is there a better way to deal with character encoding that's safe? Oh..also these files are to be read and opened in a Windows environment.....so will the PHP code be resides in a Windows server...

Please help.......

[WTA] Vostro 3700 @ RM2000

klystorm — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:05:58 +0800

Hi guys,

I am being offered with an opportunity to buy a Dell Vostro 3700 @ RM2000. Below is the specs:
1.) Processor - Intel Core i5 430M
2.) RAM - 1GB (667 MHz) +2GB (667 MHz)
3.) Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 1GB
4.) Harddisk - 320GB 7200RPM
5.) Windows - Windows 7 Home Basic

Being used for about 7 months now. Warranty should be the same as what Vostro get. On-Site Support.

And that's it. Is it worth it to buy @ RM2000? If not what is the best price you think it should be? Also would it be better to invest in another new lappy than this? Please help..thank you in advance!

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edited: added usage period and warranty.

ASP.NET and Outlook Calendar

klystorm — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:53:00 +0800

Hi all pros, masters and anyone. I have a challenging question to ask..

Objective: To obtain heavenly stems and earthly branches from a date.

Method proposed: Connect to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003/2007 through ASP.NET and get those elements out from Outlook.

Question: How do I connect to Microsoft Office Outlook from my ASP.NET's codes? Is it possible? I have been searching around for APIs and connectors, mostly doesn't seems to work..in Microsoft Office Outlook, Chinese calendar can be enabled and they have all the stems and branches listed clearly. Such information of heavenly stems and earthly branches are used to calculate BaZi and et cetera which is what my project is about.

Is there any solution to this? Please help me!

I had found several python's open source code that is related to Chinese calendar, but another problem arise is that can I execute python from ASP.NET? Would there be any free connectors?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Edit: Problem solved. Thanks!

Searching your own website

klystorm — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:27:17 +0800

Hail to all programmers and all code master and web master,

Straight to the point, may I know how did websites like en.wikipedia.org did their internal website searching?

These kind of searching can be found in many forums or websites but not all are really that nice in terms of returning any relevant results.

I've tried to google and wiki for some information regarding this kind of searching that is effective in finding a particular page on our own website but only to find that there's a lot more to do before we can search efficiently, one thing is indexing.

Can anyone tell how indexing was done and how do we actually retrieve these results?

Thanks for helping!~