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Merc less maintainance cost than Perdana V6

LaiN87 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:07:35 +0800

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Terengganu officials switch car brand

KUALA TERENGGANU: State exco members and senior officers started using their new Mercedes-Benz E200 Kompressor cars today.

The state bought 14 of the luxury cars for RM3.43mil to replace the Proton Perdana V6 Executive cars that had been purchased in 2004.

The new cars are for the exco members, the state assembly speaker, the state secretary, the state legal adviser and the state finance officer.

The new cars with tinted windows carry the state emblem with the wording “Exco Kerajaan Negeri” embossed on the number plate.

State Secretary Datuk Mokthar Nong said the decision to use Mercedes-Benz cars was made several months ago.

The state took delivery of the cars earlier this month.

He said the German cars were bought for the safety of the state officials who had to travel extensively and to reduce the cost of maintenance.

“After much evaluation, the state felt the Mercedes-Benz cars are more reliable for long term use. It was also time to replace the Proton Perdanas,” he added.

How to reduce cost of maintainance? Petrol already more expensive. Travel more luxurious got la I think. Spare parts too would be more pricey. Anyone can prove me wrong?

Testing Sandisk M2

LaiN87 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:42:59 +0800

Let's say I buy a Sandisk M2.. How do I know if it's original or not? I know there's lots of fake product around and they give weird ways of testing whether they are real... Like checking the font.. Look at the logo.. Look at the colour..

But I want definite way to check. And the website has no way to check.. Only to register which if I put IC as serial number it will pass as well. Means it doesn't check..
I find that if the speed matches it will prove that's original. But then the read and write speed will be bottlenecked by the USB card reader. And the shop will definitely not allow me to test the speed since it's too mah fan and don't have the right software.

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Read/write: 10MB/sec read, 3MB/sec write

Anyway you guys can help me?

Instant millionaire for gold in olympics

LaiN87 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:28:22 +0800

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wed...icle/index_html

LOL! With rising petrol costs this is what every sportsperson participating in Olympics aiming for

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RM1 MILLION is what Malaysia's Beijing Olympics gold medallist -- if there is one -- stands to receive from the Government.
A silver medal will be worth RM300,000 while bronze will fetch RM100,000 but it is obvious that for the Cabinet Committee for Sports, the focus of the 34 national athletes who have qualified for the Olympics should be winning gold.

Deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced the new incentive amount after chairing the Cabinet Committee meeting in Parliament yesterday.

In fact, it is learnt that Najib, after giving due consideration to just what the Olympics are, insisted that the Government should dangle a lucrative incentive to motivate the athletes.

It is also learnt that the initial proposal had been RM300,000 for gold, RM200,000 for silver and RM100,000 for bronze, still a hefty increase from the RM160,000, RM80,000 and RM40,000 on offer before.

Najib said the RM1 million should not be considered lavish as it befitted what the Olympics stand for.

"To win a gold medal is not easy because the competition is getting tougher.

"We can see that from one Olympics to another, the standard is increasing.

"We should therefore set a higher target, and provide a more attractive incentive," Najib said.

Timesport had reported on Jan 3 this year that the Government was considering a higher incentive for Olympic medals and had suggested a RM1 million incentive for gold, especially as Malaysia is desperate to end its gold drought.

Najib obviously agrees and he cited the huge amounts other countries are offering for Olympic gold as another reason for the increase.

Singapore is offering S$1 million (RM2.3 million), as are several other countries.

Silver and bronze medallists in Beijing have also no cause to complain as RM300,000 and RM100,000 are still hefty sums.

"The Olympics come only once every four years and I don't believe there can be any complaints about the amount we are offering."

The Cabinet Committee also decided that team sports that win gold medals at the Olympics will see each player receiving RM150,000.

Price increase...

LaiN87 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:02:40 +0800

I'm curious to see what price have increase so far. I know that McD increase price already by 1 buck and Gardenia raisins bread increase 40 cents. I never go Tesco/Giant so I donno. What somemore increase?

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LaiN87 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:36:28 +0800

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[WTS] Faulty 17" Monitor

LaiN87 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:58:40 +0800

Item(s): AOC 17" CRT Monitor *Faulty*

Package includes: Monitor itself only.

Price: Offer me

Warranty: None?

Dealing method: COD

Location of seller: Melaka/Serdang

Contact method/details: PM me if interested

Age of item: Few years

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Item(s) conditions: No green colour.. Else working perfectly. =) Anyone fancy black and white? =D

Picture: [attachmentid=486865]

Reason for sale: Raising money for my new Gcard. Throwing away soon. Too bulky.

[WTS]Must Go Garage Sale..

LaiN87 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:53:16 +0800

These items are dug from inside my computer garage and is about to thrown out =) If you find the price not suitable it's all negoable. But not too low please ^^ Trying to raise money for my new Gcard.

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Package includes: What's seen in the picture only.

Warranty: 7 days personal warranty and refund if problems found.

Dealing method: COD preferable. PosLaju post for smaller items or more items together.

Location: Puchong/PJ/Serdang/Melaka.

Contact method/details: PM me =) Reply within a day the latest.
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Item(s) conditions: Old but still usable the last time I check.

Reason for sale: Raising money for new Gcard. Throwing out items also sooner or later.

Item(s): 64MB nVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 AGP

Price: RM 30

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Item(s): Dlink LAN card

Price: RM 10

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Item(s): Unknown P3 Slot 1 motherboard (1 AGP, 4 PCI, 2 16-bit ISA slots) / Pentium 3 600 Mhz (Slot 1)

Price: RM 50 for both. Individual also can. Offer me.

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Item(s): *SOLD* ~~16MB 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP~~

Price: *SOLD*

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Item(s): *SOLD* ~~Asus TUV4X (6 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 1 AMR, 4 SDR DIMM) / Intel Celeron-S, 1000 MHz (Socket 370)~~

Price: *SOLD*

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Item(s): 64MB SDRAM PC100 / 64MB SDRAM PC133 / *SOLD* ~~Kingston 256MB SDRAM PC133~~

Price: RM 7 / RM10 / *SOLD*

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Item(s): 2x Mutsumi Floppy Disk Drive

Price: RM 5 each

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Item(s): P3's casing - Quite mini...

Price: Offer me - Test luck see anyone wants. Gonna throw anyway

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Item(s): Celeron's casing

Price: Offer me - Test luck see anyone wants. Gonna throw anyway

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Item(s): Sound Blaster Live CT4830 *Faulty* - Can't detect

Price: Offer Me

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Item(s): LG DVD Rom *Faulty* - Can't detect

Price: Offer me

Picture:
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Remember if items too small I might not COD too soon if far from my current location (Puchong or my work place - Motorola Bridge) =/ Need to collect a few people then COD together. Or not petrol also cannot cover

Knocking sound & vibration

LaiN87 — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:27:46 +0800

Just yesterday I am freaked out by my car making knocking sounds. The knocking sound is accompanied by vibration too.

To tell you when the knocking comes up.

1. It only happens when I rev up the engine to move the car. About 2k RPM the car is very scary =P Knock in interval of every 1-2 secs. Regularly. Not occasionally.
2. When I put to free gear or release the trottle then no problem already. It doesn't have the knocking sound and act like normal.
3. Sound and vibration feel like coming from middle front. A little in front from where the driver is sitting.

Extra info: Tyres all ok so far. No puncture detected. Kicked it a little to see whether it's secure in place. Confirmed no problem. Been using RON 92 for the past 1000km.

Any sifu can help me? Is this considered as engine knocking? I sense lots of money flying from my pocket when I am going to repair it on monday.

Casino

LaiN87 — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:38:31 +0800

WARNING
You are about to enter a Casino website. Please confirm you are
above 21 years of age (irrespective of nationality and race) AND
a non-Muslim (if you are a Malaysian citizen)

So Muslim that are not Malaysian citizen can enter casino? I'm counfuised.

Radio streaming

LaiN87 — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:47:01 +0800

Anyone knows of any good online radio station to stream? I like Malaysia's radio station but the streaming quality is like shit @.@ FlyFM all I hear is static.

So far I'm hearing eurobeat from http://go2id.net:8000/listen.pls

Anyone got good recommendations? Any English genre is fine with me (No heavy metal / black metal / oldies). J-Pop too is fine.

Imitation Smart Tag

LaiN87 — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:35:28 +0800

I wonder why until now no imitation smart tag from china? They pirate so many things but no one wants to pirate a Smart Tag?? I anger at those people using that fast lane while I use slow T&G lane

RM120 bucks for Smart Tag is too much.. Do something anyone!?

What is the honours in Degree cert?

LaiN87 — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:22:37 +0800

What's the difference with and without honours in Degree course? It seems like there's a difference and how do we obtain one?

Is it related to 1st class, 2:1 and 2:2?

Free Torrent Download Service

LaiN87 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:20:09 +0800

For those who prefer http over torrent, just use imageshack new service http://tor.imageshack.us/tor/
It works the same way as TorrentFlux, throw them your torrent, it throws you back a http link to download it. How fast? I'm not sure. Haven't tried it myself.

Sauce: http://torrentfreak.com/imageshack-bitorrent-080405/

PSU Mobo Question

LaiN87 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:24:58 +0800

My mobo, has a 8 pin ATX12V1 connector which is used for EPS12V power supply (according to the manual)

However, I'm going to buy a dual railing ATX PSU which will include 2 x 4 pin connector which is 12V1 and 12V2.

So, I'm wondering if instead of using a 8 pin ATX12V1 connector, can I put 2 dual railing 4 pin connector instead to supply more current to the mobo.

Thanks for reading

P.S. Opps wrong sub-forum. If any mods would be kind to move it for me =D

Baroque (PS2 and Wii)

LaiN87 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:39:52 +0800

There's a new game developing by Atlus.. Looks pretty interesting.

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Each time your character dies, more secrets about the forsaken world are revealed. Apparently death is not the end, at least not within the world of Baroque. I'm very interested to see how that concept will work within gameplay. Is there any penalty to death, or is it more of a reward?

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Every game is turning out to be like Persona 3. More in depth gameplay and freakkin nice anime based FMVs =D

ETA release on February 2008. Jap one is already out. Anyone playing it? Banzai! My PS2 won't be collecting dust soon xD

Safety belts on the rear seats

LaiN87 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:16:45 +0800

My kancil has no rear safety belts. Since the gov gonna enforce the rear safety belt rule sooner or later I was wondering how much accessory shops will charge for it? Wanna survey price first before kena chop ~.~

Gateway and DNS server timeout

LaiN87 — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:43:03 +0800

Broadband provider
ISP/package: TMNet
Location: Melaka
Have you called your ISP's helpline?: Yes

Personal equipment
Modem: TZ3200c
Router: N/A
Firewall used: Bitdefender

Problem details
First occurence of problem: Yesterday
Problem frequency: Everytime
Problem description:

Anyway, I wanna ask about the "ping"ing Gateway and DNS server timeout. If it often frequent it's bad rite? I'm pretty sure it's not my side problem. Cos I've tried it with 2 different coms, with and without the splitter, 2 different modems. I called TMNet hotline and I get some stupid workabouts.

And the FAQ didn't mention a lot about this problem.. So I should call TMNet again to do sth about it?

Due to this a few times have to refresh before webpage loads. But when I can load it , it loads freakin fast.

P.S. SNR is about 20 FYI