Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by hellfried

Carousell

hellfried — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:36:19 +0800

How safe is it buying on the Carousell app? I am looking at an item priced at 6K so wanted to hear from others about their experience.

Alamanda project in Kulim

hellfried — Fri, 05 May 2023 14:15:25 +0800

Some of you may remember in the late 90's there was a very hyped up development in Kulim. Luxury homes were promised with gated community etc. Here are a few links :

https://www.hba.org.my/news/2009/10/developer_liquidated.htm

https://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/38402

So from what I can understand the original developer was liquidated before completion of the properties sold. I was one of the buyer who made a down payment of 10K for a piece of land there. So when the company went under I lost 10K and I thought that's the end of the story, lesson learnt.

I just got a phonecall today from another company called Vintage (mentioned in the article above) saying that I owe them 36K in quit rent for the past 26 years! So I owe quit rent for a property that does not exist and that I have never used. When I queried the authenticity of their claim, they said that they are just following court orders. They also asked if I have received any statement for the quit rent and I have never gotten anything in the past 26 years.

I asked the man who called why it took them 26 years to inform me of this court ruling. He could not answer and said that he will now send me the court order and the quit rent payments made on my behalf by their company!

Has anyone ever encountered such an issue?

Digi Home Fibre down?

hellfried — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:39:47 +0800

Anyone else experiencing total lost of connection since around 5 am today? OK for the first 2 minutes then completely cut off. I am on Digi Fibre 300 MBS in Penang.

AirPods in Japan

hellfried — Thu, 09 May 2019 04:54:35 +0800

I plan to buy the new AirPods with wireless charging case in Japan. Will I be able to charge them in Malaysia?

App store in ringgit

hellfried — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 08:03:47 +0800

Got this email from Apple this morning. True? Will it benefit us consumers?

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAGnDoUGpdtLa5C8...0M9Z7SoHnRIrlTY

Audioengine outlet

hellfried — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:49:30 +0800

Does anyone know of any shop in Lowyat Plaza selling audioengine speakers?

Audioengine speakers

hellfried — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:45:09 +0800

Does anyone know if there are any outlets inside Lowyat Plaza that sells Audioengine A2+ or A5+ speakers?

No more LTE

hellfried — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 08:00:44 +0800

For the past few months I have noted that the "LTE" word on my iPhone has disappeared and is now replaced by just "4G". What does this mean for the average consumer? Is it the same thing with a different terminology?

Room for rent in Lucky Gardens, Bangsar, KL

hellfried — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:08:16 +0800

Spacious room to let in a very clean and quiet house. Fully furnished with wifi.

Within walking distance of LRT station.

No cooking pls.

Room is available from 1 Dec 2014

RM 550/month

PM me your phone number and the house owner will contact you.

Dead HD on my iMac

hellfried — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:52:14 +0800

I have a late 2007 20" iMac running the latest version of Mountain Lion. I am now unable to boot into the OS. All I get is the flashing folder icon with a ? on top of it. I am able to boot into a backup of my Macbook which resides on a portable USB drive but when I go to the System Preference I cannot find my iMac's drive on the Startup Disk option. The only options are the Macbook backup and Network disk (which I do not have). Does this mean that my HD is gone?

Can anyone recommend some place where I can get it replaced besides authorised Apple resellers? The latter usually charge a bomb. I am in Penang and my experience with Switch is that there quote a very exorbitant price. Thanks.

Room for rent in Lucky Gardens, Bangsar

hellfried — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:23:51 +0800

Spacious room to let in a very clean and quiet house. Fully furnished with wifi.

No cooking pls.

Room is available from 1 Dec 2014

RM 550/month

PM me your phone number and the house owner will contact you.

Resale value of a 2002 Camry 2.0

hellfried — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:05:19 +0800

What should the resale value of a 2002 Toyota Camry 2.0 be?

Dying HD

hellfried — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:01:46 +0800

Lately I have been experiencing slow downs, spinning beach balls and sluggish performance on my late 2007 iMac. I also get the flashing question mark when booting into the system. I suspect that my HD may finally be dying. I called up the Switch service center in Penang and was quoted the price of RM 800 for a new 1 terabyte HD replacement plus RM 180 for labour charges. Sounds pricey but would like to hear from others on this. Should I just go for a new laptop seeing how their specs are now not much behind the desktops?

Apple ID gone mad?

hellfried — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:40:15 +0800

Is anyone else have problems logging into their itunes store, mac app store and app store across all devices? Tried logging in to download a free app using mac app store and could not log in. Tried updating some apps on my iphone and no luck there as well. I can't even update apps on my ipad. What is going on?!

Problem with dead mic

hellfried — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:02:15 +0800

Bought my iPhone 4 last year around christmas which means it is still under warranty. Just found that I cannot speak into the mic on the earphones. The receiver cannot hear me when I am calling him/her but I can hear them. Tried recording a voice memo using the earphones' mic and nothing is recorded. I can still listen to music via the earphones though. Called Maxis and the guy told me that the warranty only covers the phone and not the earphones. Is this right?

Google public DNS

hellfried — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:38:23 +0800

woke up this morning to this piece of news.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

lets see if it is better than tmnet's default DNS.

Mac repair time?

hellfried — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:16:21 +0800

on the average how long does it take for repairs to be done on an imac if i send it in to an apple authorised retailer? specifically i am in penang hence cgcomputers or switch would be the obvious choice. i have applecare.

streamyx speed test on a mac

hellfried — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:41:20 +0800

i am running leopard on my imac and can't seem to do the streamyx speed test. all i see on the page is broken links. what is going on? i am using firefox 3.1b1

out of ports, out of luck

hellfried — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:47:07 +0800

2 years ago i moved down to KL from penang for work purposes. at that time i transferred my streamyx connection from my penang phone line to my line in KL. i will be moving back to penang in a few days time and i went to the tmpoint in telawi, to transfer my connection back to the original phone line in penang. to my shock the guy told me that there are no more available ports in my area in penang! he was very vague about if there will be more ports made available in the near future but did say that he will ask the technician to check it out and get back to me next week. is this possible? what are my chances of getting back my connection when i arrive back in penang?

Transmission for torrenting

hellfried — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:27:16 +0800

just wondering if anyone here has any experience with using Transmission for torrents. i have downloaded it but would like to know if anyone has problems with streamyx throttling. using deluge in ubuntu, i can get max speed. don't know about Transmission.