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Moderator's Power Trip

sanook — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:02:24 +0800

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RBR Warned on Yesterday, 07:30 PM
Added to warn level Behaving immaturely and persisting in conduct despite being asked to rescind.

power corrupts.. absolute power corrupts absolutely.. looks like a moderator getting off on a power trip. wooo, "I am the man here. you must listen. you must comply. it is non-negotiable, arbitrary. yield now."

Inbox being spammed repeatedly by bigot

sanook — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:47:40 +0800

seijisemura84 has been spamming my Inbox repeatedly with the same message, in clear violation of forum rules

"Action: PM Spamming – the sending of unsolicited PMs constitutes PM spamming. A single PM can constitute spam.
Result: A minimum 3 day suspension. "

I believe an appropriate warning is in order, in the spirit of fairness and equality.

POST DELETED FOR NO REASON AT ALL

sanook — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:59:03 +0800

[addedon]April 22, 2009, 9:54 pm[/addedon]THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS... I SPENT OVER 10 MINS TYPING OUT THE RESPONSE TO DONMYTY AND IT WAS DELETED WITHOUT SO MUCH ANY JUSTIFICATION.. I KNOW FOR A FACT I BROUGHT UP VALID POINTS IN MY POST... AND IT IS RIDICULOUS THAT THE ENTIRE POST IS DELETED BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH ONE OR TWO TERMS BEING USED..

I DEMAND TO HAVE MY ORIGINAL POST REINSTATED OR AT LEAST MESSAGED BACK TO ME.. IT IS WRITTEN BY ME, MY OWN ORIGINAL TEXT AND I DESERVE TO BE GIVEN IT BACK, IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM. AND I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO DELETED IT.. DON;T HIDE BEHIND YOUR MOD AND ADMIN STATUS. JUSTIFY YOUR DELETION. I CAN SENSE A PRIVATE PERSONAL AGENDA HERE, DIRECTED AT ME, BECAUSE I DARE TO QUESTION AND CHALLENGE AND MOCK SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN ON LOWYAT FOR A LONG TIME, JUDGING FROM THE POST COUNT. DON'T HIDE.. JUSTIFY YOUR ACTION AND YOUR DELETION OF MY POST..

let my post be re-instated and judged by other mods and admins whether it merit outright deletion. i am utterly confident it is not and whoever deleted it is biased and has personal private agenda to prevent me from voicing out against DONMYTY...

Selective enforcement of forum rules

sanook — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:18:06 +0800

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QUOTE(tech_frix @ Jun 5 2008, 12:05 AM)
n u r soooo highly educated???
bravo!!!
we got a winer here...oops...winner... doh.gif doh.gif
if u are Pak Lah's supporters, read my bottom siggy...
thanks.... notworthy.gif notworthy.gif notworthy.gif
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the continued existence of posts of such nature in this section of the forum and the fact that its posters are not even warned, much less denied access to the forum, speak volume about the quality of moderation and admin in this forum. admin and mod routinely persecute and punish different people based on whims and fancy and depends more on who is complaining to them rather than on the actual merit of the complaint and the exact nature of the offense. and the mods and admins also routinely ignore PM and appeals despite claiming to be fair and just. how can they claim to be such when they can't even bother to reply. it is sickening for them to claim higher moral ground and preaching to others to be tactful and diplomatic and to follow the rules while at the same time, selectively and arbitrarily enforce the forum rules at their whims and fancies. Such gross misconduct is an offense in itself and the admin and mod deserved to be punished and warned for blatant negligence, dereliction of duties and for whimsical discrimination, no less.

Intel Express Installer

sanook — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:45:01 +0800

""The application failed to initialize successfully (E0441203) ."" It happens after I attempt to reinstall all the drivers following a reinstallation of Windows XP.

Googling the error code only turns up two pages. Do anyone know what could be wrong or has encountered similar problem?

Apple sued over colours hype

sanook — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:05:36 +0800

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/...e.mediabusiness.

Apple should get sued more often for its shitty hype. in particular, Iphone should get sued for claiming to be revolutionary.

Samsung U600 LCD cracked

sanook — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:57:26 +0800

The LCD of my Samsung U600 has a large crack after it was accidentally sandwiched between some books. The screen is a total blank now. Does anyone know where I can get it fixed and how much? Urgent help needed... eternal gratitude for any info provided..

StreamyX limiting FTP bandwidth now?

sanook — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:50:49 +0800

my FTP download speed could not go beyond 20Kbps anymore and on average, it will drop below 10Kbps if the file is large and the download duration is longer than a few minutes. Since the speed was fine even one week after the Taiwan earthquake incident, I suspect StreamyX is now moving on to limiting the bandwidth available for FTP, which if it is proven to be true, is probably one of the first for any ADSL ISP anywhere in the world. really farking Malaysia Boleh then...

and I remember some StreamyX cocksucker here claiming that ISP the world over is only blaming P2P and Bittorrent users for hogging all the bandwidth and all other form of protocols and traffic are left well alone. well, cocksucker, your farking bleeding-heart excuse for StreamyX, "oh poor old farking TMnet for doing their duty to the country and provide unlimited bandwidth and being victimised by P2P users" may soon be proven wrong as StreamyX continue to refuse to upgrade and move on to crippling other services and protocols.

Digital audio setup for car

sanook — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:39:15 +0800

Anyone has experience setting up digital audio system for his or her car? What is the specification of your setup? I have been doing some research and market survey and found that there are only two broad options available to Malaysians. One is changing the CD player to one that can playback MP3, WMA are prevalent but the storage capacity is limited to the 700MB CD capacity while players with USB input can only access capacity of up 2gigs, regardless of whether you are plugging in a thumbdrive or a external harddisk with bigger storage capacity.
The second option is buying a digital car audio adaptor, which mainly support Ipod and none that can support an external harddisk. I hate Ipod but I want a setup which can easily link, access and playback over 20 or 30 GIG of digital music on compact portable digital storage device. Any suggestion, fellow Lyn audiophiles?

Digital audio setup for car

sanook — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:38:17 +0800

Port Forwarding on Dynamic IP

sanook — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:13:22 +0800

a recent post in another thread has made me realised that port forwarding is essential for the ability to download from as many peers as possible on BT regardles of whether I am behind a firewall or not.
I have been using BT since 2003 and as I have been getting fast and decent speed most of the times, despite being connected to only dozens of peers, as opposed to hundreds of peers, I assumed that portforwarding is a meaningless extra step for me. I have always been able to see connections to hundreds of peers but most of the time, there are only download and upload activities from 10 to 20 peers.
But after learning that I can download from more peers if I port forward, I have decided to read up on port forwarding. all port forwarding guides stated that a STATIC IP is essential for it to work. I have tried port forwarding on my AZTECH ADSL305E but as
I need to SAVE SETTINGS after I have entered the portforward setting, the modem will reboot and I will be disconnected from the Internet. My IP will be obviously be different when I reconnect, which rendered the Portforward setting I have entered instantly useless.
Since most of the people here are on the RM88 package with DYNAMIC IP, how do you guys go about doing your portforwarding?

JARING BROADBAND

sanook — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:34:59 +0800

Anyone using the Jaring Broadband service now? please share your experience if you are a Jaring Broadband subscriber here.

http://www.jaring.my/broadband/index.html?...package#package

for 1Mbps, its prices is cheaper by RM10 compared to farking TMnet Streamyx and its wired coverage area is rather extensive compared to other alternative providers. combined with its wireless coverage, Jaring Broadband could grow to become a potential competitor the farking TMnet, who ruthlessly monopolise the last-mile network.
Since it is relatively new, it should be quite some time before they face congestion and resort to traffic-shaping. By that time, a few years down the road, we may more, better, cheaper or faster broadband alternatives.

Exchanging a newly bought notebook

sanook — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:07:13 +0800

Have any ever exchange a notebook they have just bought for a few days due to dissatisfaction with the notebook keys, LCD quality, harddisk noise, insufficient amount of connection ports etc? This could be an exchange of a notebook of the same model or a totally different model. Do outlets in Malaysia allow such exchange? Please share your thoughts and experience....

Notebook VGA output to TV

sanook — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:06:32 +0800

For notebook without S-Video output, I understand there is an adaptor or device that connect the VGA output port to the TV via either the component input or the S-Video. The device will perform the necessary signal conversion to component video or S-Video as well. I found this device via google.

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/review/57_0_2_0_C/

does anyone know if such a device are available for sale in Kuala Lumpur? or alternatively, if there is another way to connect a notebook without S-VIDEO output to TV? thanks for any help provided

Sep 15: Streamyx User Group meeting confirmed

sanook — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:24:58 +0800

the famous Jeff Ooi of www.jeffooi.com is organising a meeting with TMnet management to discuss the various technical problems that TMnet user has with their broadband connection. for those who have the time, please make an effort to get an invitation to the event and give constructive opinions or simply rant your heart out !

http://www.jeffooi.com/2006/08/september_1...ro.php#comments

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Sep 15: Streamyx User Group meeting confirmed
UPDATED VERSION. After several false starts, the Streamyx User Group Meeting for Klang Valley that was first mooted in this blog in May is finally going to take place.

This is the schedule:

DATE: Friday, September 15, 2006
TIME: 5.00 - 7.30pm
VENUE: Serunai 1 & 2, East Wing, Hilton Petaling Jaya.
DRESS CODE: Office Attire

TM Net staff has also agreed to assist in the logistic by putting together an RSVP mechanism. You are requested to email -- download and fill up this template and send as email attachment -- or telephone the RSVP team on your attendance before September 8, 2006.

RSVP contact persons:

Wan Mariani
Tel: 03-83188148
H/P: 013-3975031
Fax No: 03-83185066
E-mail :wan_mariani @ tmnet [dot] com [dot] my

Busairi Mahfudz
Tel: 03-83194454
H/P: 013-3996082
Fax No : 03-83185066
E-mail: busairi @ tmnet [dot] com [dot] my

I will be very grateful if you also copy your RSVP email to me at jeffooi.screenshots@gmail.com.

We have the commitment from the TM Net senior management team, and CEO Michael Lai will be accompanying them to the event.

Among the heads of department invited to attend are from Sales, Technical Operations, Content & Digital Homes, and Customer Relationship Management, among others.

TM Net has graciously agreed to provide logistics support, and pick up the hotel bill with refreshment thrown in.

Please mark a date for this event -- it's not easy to organise one of this magnitude. Please download the invitation card here.

Here'sthe programme line-up:

5.00 p.m. - Arrival of TM Net Management and Guests 5.30 p.m. - Welcome Address by Mr. Michael Lai, Chief Executive Officer, TM Net Sdn Bhd 5.45 p.m. - Presentation by En. Ghazali Omar, General Manager, Sales, TM Net Sdn Bhd 6.00 p.m. - Presentation by En. Badrul Hisham Ahmad, General Manager, Technical Operations, TM Net Sdn Bhd 6.15 p.m. - Presentation by En. Shahrudin Ibrahim, Acting General Manager, Content & Digital Homes, TM Net Sdn Bhd 6.30 p.m. - ( 1 ) Unveiling of TM Net User Group Website by Mr. Michael Lai, Chief Executive Officer, TM Net Sdn Bhd ( 2 ) Committee election & formation ( 3 ) Photography Session 6.45 p.m. - Q & A session 7.00 p.m. - Refreshments 7.30 p.m. - End

We expect to have a meaningful session to dialogue issues close to the hearts of Streamyx users, like Quality of Service (QoS), customer education on trouble-shooting, the 1300-88-9515 Call Centre, service availability in matured and new housing areas, CRM perspectives on Top 5 customers issues, pricing, reliability and throughput of international links, HotSpot coverage, and network latency related to P2P applications, Streamyx's corporate strategies in keeping up with broadband service benchmarks in the First World countries... etc.
We hope to have a free-flow of customer feedback and ideas, and later, to structure them into sustainable forum with the setting up of a Streamyx User Group for the Klang Valley among the attendees. This User Group will meet regularly besides managing a Streamyx User Group website set up for the sole purpose of user interaction.