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2.5 years bond for 3 weeks training in Europe

cheeseng79 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:49:14 +0800

Would like to seek some opinion here.

My company is sending me for a 20 days training overseas in Holland sponsored by client and they are only paying for allowances and stay with condition that I have to be bonded for 30 months.

Is this a fair deal or not?

If I were to leave before the duration ends it would mean a compensation of no. of balance months X my montly salary

Malaysia Should Tell This to Unwanted Immigrants

cheeseng79 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:16:37 +0800

Australia has just recently launched their FxxK Off We're Full Campaign

Unwanted Dirty and Uncivilized Immigrants Are Not Welcomed

http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=1661

Get Out Of Here. KEluaaaarrrrr!!

Intel rehiring again?

cheeseng79 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:40:01 +0800

A few friends who recently attended some interview there.

They say life working in Intel is much relax. Quite high pay if you have experience + good degree results.

RM3k+ and everyday strictly 8 hours so you'll have lots of spare time to do freelancing or side jobs.

Good working environment too with well equipped recreation rooms and canteen.

Anyone can share some insights?

What's The Reason Of TM Packet Filtering

cheeseng79 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:23:22 +0800

It's obviously not because of anti competition because the more isps buy their wholesale line the money revenues they get .
Which landlord doesn't want all his properties to be rented out. It means business for the money potential.

Makes us rethink why is their network dropping packets and filtering/blocking controversial sites?

1) Is it because they are scared of information leaking and widespread of rumours? (Political reasons)

2)Their international connectivity is insufficient? (Turned out not true-Submarine cable operators have confirmed that their links are never congested)

3) Their staffs are really bad in managing equipments( Not true as well because it has been since 2007 and with such given long time to resolve and sack all incompetent staffs is inexcusable)

Which is true?

Watch Satellite/Cable TV Anywhere through IPTV

cheeseng79 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:04:40 +0800

With IPTV, cable TV and satellite is NO longer limited in coverage.

This is TVB Pay Vision IPTV which has a server hosted in HK for Asia, 1 in UK for Europe and 1 in the USA.

The link to HK's site for Asia is http://www.tvbpayvision.com/channels/index.php?lang=en

It's great if TVB can host a server nearer to Malaysia even in Singapore or locally. They we'll get near guaranteed speed when HSBB is ready.

More than 50 direct channels from HK Live. Got 4 nice Adult channels too

Seagate Singapore To LayOff 2000 Workers, Shutdown

cheeseng79 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:44:48 +0800

Aug 4, 2009

SINGAPORE'S already hard-hit electronics manufacturing sector was dealt another blow on Tuesday when hard disk maker Seagate announced that it will close down its Ang Mo Kio hard disk plant by the end of next year and lay off 2,000 workers.

In an statement to the media, Seagate Technology said it will 'relocate its hard disk manufacturing operations from the Ang Mo Kio facility in Singapore to other existing Seagate sites'.

Retrenched workers will get severance benefits, details of which are confidential, said a Seagate spokesman. She added that some of the affected workers will be offered work at its other sites here. 'This consolidation is necessary in order for Seagate to further increase efficiency and reduce costs by leveraging investments across fewer manufacturing sites,' Seagate said in the statement.

The Seagate spokesman said that 2,000 workers at the one million sq foot plant at Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 would lose their jobs. The company has more than 8,000 staff here. In February, it retrenched an undisclosed number of workers.

Then, it gave retrenched workers with more than a year's service one month's pay for every year with the company; staff with shorter periods of service were given two weeks of pay.

The announcement marks the end of an era for both Singapore and Seagate. Singapore was once the world's biggest hard disk manufacturing site, a place where companies like Seagate and now-defunct rivals Micropolis, Conner Peripherals and Stormedia churned out more than half of the world's hard disks every month.

And Seagate was at the forefront of this, being the first hard disk company to begin assembling hard disks here in 1982. With Seagate's exit, only one hard disk maker, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, remains.

A Seagate technician, who would only give his name as Cheong, told the Straits Times that he and his colleagues got the bad news at a meeting earlier on Tuesday.

The world's biggest hard disk maker is not exiting Singapore totally though.

Singapore, said Seagate, 'will remain a key strategic partner for Seagate, with a focus on high value activities, and Seagate will continue to make strategic investments here.' The company has a disk media plant in Woodlands producing the silvery platters inside hard disks on which electronic data is stored, as well as a research and development centre off Science Park.

In the first three months of the year, more than 10,000 workers have been laid off. Just last week, Government leaders and unionists warned that many manufacturing jobs will not return even if the economy recovers, as many manufacturers are shifting production to cheaper locales like China and Malaysia.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNew...ory_412242.html

This is just about 1/4 of the total being laid off. Total number of staffs is 8k. Eventually the factory will shutdown and move to China and Thailand.

Australian Sets Fire To His Own Home

cheeseng79 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:16:14 +0800

Rajah Theivendradas jailed after setting fire to home with family inside

A VIOLENT husband has been jailed for setting fire to his house with his wife and two daughters inside, after his lunch was not made.
Rajah Theivendradas, 54, of Endeavour Hills, has been jailed for four years, with a minimum of two years and three months.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to five charges including reckless conduct endangering serious injury and arson.

His family suffered superficial burns after being forced to run through the flames to reach safety.

Theivendradas also had a number of intervention orders taken out against him before he set fire to the staircase in the house.

Victorian County Court Judge John Nixon said Theivendradas was out of control but not psychiatrically disturbed.

“It was an inexcusable, senseless, destructive and dangerous criminal act on your part,'' he said.

The court heard Theivendradas had been drinking heavily on the day before the fire and had an argument with his elder daughter about respect.

He set fire to the house when he discovered his lunch was not made the following day.

The court had previously been told Theivendradas threatened to kill his family, before splashing petrol inside his house and igniting it with a cigarette lighter.

Theivendradas said he was “going to light this place up'' as one of the girls pleaded with him not to start the fire inside their Endeavour Hills home, court documents show.

Documents show he tried to burn his wife, Vasantha, and their daughters, aged 20 and 15, the morning after he drank a bottle of wine and argued with them on May 12 last year.

A police summary tendered to the court says that the staircase of the two-storey home immediately burst into flames and the mother and daughters “had no choice but to run down the stairs through the flames to get themselves to safety''.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...689-661,00.html

Malaysia IT Diploma holders Can Become Engineer

cheeseng79 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:03:34 +0800

Only In Malaysia.

Where they prefer to employ diploma holders to become engineers.

You can be the next Bavani Balakrishnan, only with diploma already earning RM3000+ monthly salary with all kinds of benefits.

What happened to Rediffusion Malaysia?

cheeseng79 — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:10:27 +0800

Over the years Rediffusion evolved into many top companies.

Malaysia's Rediffusion used to be very aggressive some 30 years ago. We could have cable TV today if we allowed their cable radio infrastructure to expand from that time.

Singapore's Rediffusion --> Singapore Cable Vision --> Starhub

USA's Rediffusion --> Rediffusion Cablevision --> Cable Vision IoTV(Optimum Online)

Malaysia's Rediffusion --??? 988 FM?

Deep Packet Inspection

cheeseng79 — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:54:03 +0800

I will bring to light what isps have put in place without your knowledge.
This is the same proxy filter which does deep packet inspection that injects false packets into your torrent sessions, slow down your experience and gathers all your private information?

Now guess which large national isp is doing this as we speak?
BT trialled this in 2006 while our internet sort of got throttled bigtime towards late 2007 until now.

Here is just one variant which is called Phorm.There have been more variants out during the recent years.But my intention is to create the awareness.

Please understand that this malicious spyware cannot be cleared from your computer as the application itself is in the first place DOES NOT reside in your computer but at the isps's data centre as a transparent proxy recording every bits that you send out on your line.

Big brother is reading your brilliant business proposal, your job application resumes, your love letters, your favourite websites and everything so that they can stay ahead of you.
Don't be shock if some anonymous guy comes up with your idea the next day to your boss and you kept wondering how he managed to read your mind.
As how good your hacking skills can be, you'l never be better at it.

To think that they are not taking the internets as serious business after the last elections you're ABSOLUTELY wrong!
As I'm totally NOT into politics but this is totally against people's privacy which I'm against.
It's no difference from opening up your mails to read them or peep people while they are bathing.

As stated in the isp T&C, consumers are NOT allowed to distribute illegal content, spam others as a form of advertisements and spread false information that could defame others.
Other than that it does not give them the right to peep what we do or what we see.
Again I'm not bringing politics into this but how do you feel if someone reads your personal mail and took advantage of it?
Take for example you applied for a placement in IPTA or a job. Someone saw your application and played with it so you couldn't get it?

Watch these 2 videos:

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Pls understand that you can do nothing about it even if you were to buy a brand new clean PC because the spyware is actually not in it but in your isp.