Month: July 2004

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Unacceptable Negligence

I’m a little pissed. Well, the 30 days trial period on my webhosting provider expired. They sent me an email which I replied, asking for payment details and if there are any special prices for paying for 1 year. No news from them. Next day, I sent another email. Still no reply.


In their first mail to me, it was stated that my files will be purged on the 3rd day. It did not happen so I assumed they were busy with something else but will get back to me some time later. But on the 4th day when I found out my site went down, it felt like I had been ignored and am just-another-unimportant-customer. So I paid their website a visit, searching for other emails to contact. Found a contact form which I promptly filled up with my details and made a rather negative comment which ended with “I no longer have interest in signing up with a webhost that does not respond to their customer’s email.”


I guess my email was lost in cyberspace, cos they replied apologetically last night and provided me links to their price plan page, and the signup page which did not answer my original questions. It doesn’t seem sincere enough so I guess I’ll pass and continue my hunt for another reliable webhost provider.


I was prepared to sign up with them because they provided 500MB of storage, Unlimited data transfers, a good PHP configuration file, a good-enough control panel for me to manage my website’s configurations. There were a few minor problems which I believe, we can iron out in time. But heck, if they can’t manage customer service well, I wouldn’t take the risk.


Still a bit pissed. But thank goodness I decided to back up my files when they did not reply to my first email.

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Hardware problems go away, come again another day.

Headaches from lack of sleep. Aching shoulders from work, possible bad sitting posture. Internet Service Provider giving massive frustrations.


Apart from that, I have a few problems as well with the new computer. Not major though. As long as Final Fantasy 11 runs smooth, my anime videos play well and my cdwriter burns with passion, I’m a happy man.


In 2 months, if Singnet does not improve, I will make a switch over to Qala. In HardWareZone’s forums, it is reported that Singnet has acquired hardware that is capable of detecting what sort of data is flowing, e.g. data flowing between bittorrent programs, and then impose a speed cap on it. The device in question is P-cube, http://www.p-cube.com/index.shtml. A lot of other Singnet users are complaining about slow download speeds. As slow as 1KB/s on highly seeded bittorrents.


Singnet has reported huge profits. And those stingy people, instead of investing money on more bandwidth, chose to invest money to frustrate their subscribers.


And finally, this article says Microsoft may have found a way to render harddisks useless, and they intend to implement this into ServicePack 2 and ruin computers with illegal cd keys. Well, if poor people cannot afford to buy their expensive OS, what difference is there when they use illegal copies?

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Wonders of being anonymous

In response to…

donn – http://www.edonn.com/blog/ – 7/10/2004 1:57:00 AM
wat a lousy site you have! it’s simply a piece of shit!


Over at Donn’s blog,


http://www.edonn.com/blog/archives/funny_and_weird/make_your_wish_come_true.php


Four annoying things to do if you’re bored
1. Frame somebody by going around commenting nastily on blogs, leaving somebody you know’s website and e-mail address and their name. The owner of the blog and the framed subject wouldn’t know what hit them! Cruel, yes, but a great idea, no doubt. PS: Works best when your target him or herself has a blog allowing comments — it’d be fun to watch the exchange!

I guess it’s not fun when the jokes on you. lol. I do have the person’s IP address logged on every comment made. But it’s not worth going through all the trouble finding the culprit. Things like these are okae as long as no life is lost.


No harm done Donn. [:)]

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Yet again…

TIME!!! WHERE ART THOU???
Time flies too fast that by the time I noticed, I’m far behind in my race against it.


The past weekend went by rather fast. I watched Spiderman 2 on Saturday and enjoyed every minute of it, not just the impressive fight scenes between Spiderman and Doctor Octopus. The movie has parts that I could relate to and kept me thinking about how I should deal with my own life as of now. Towards the end of the show, I am more interested in Doc Ock as a villian rather than Spiderman. They have definitely chosen the right person, Alfred Molina to act as him. Anyways, do watch it if you have the time.


And here’s some photos of my room and the new machine.



Same old room.


My favourite mug and a tray from MOS Burger!

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Thought of the day – Piracy

“Movie companies” or whatever have reported losses in billions because of internet piracy. But, let’s say, does a portion of that sum hold true?


If I feel this movie is interesting, but not worth my money, I will definitely not pay to watch it in the cinema. If it’s available for free, I may or may not spend a few hours or even days to download it for free. If I ever download, the movie producers lose my $8.50. But if I don’t, I won’t be paying to watch it and they still don’t get my $8.50.