Archive | January, 2005

General Midweek Geekery – Malaysia Ebay and more

Posted January 18, 2005 at 10:18 pm in Hacking & Infosec

So what’s up in the tech world?

One big thing I only just found out yesterday…is Ebay[/url] has finally reached Malaysia! Wow!

https://www.ebay.com.my/[/url]

I used to use Ebay quite a lot back in the UK, you can get some cheap second hand computer parts, things that are no longer produced or in circulation (useful when stuff burns)..

You can also pick up some weird and rare collectors items like special edition DVD’s and various other film related nerd stuff (signatures, signed shirts/posters etc.).

Also useful for selling off random crap that is worth something but you don’t want any more..

Let’s hope it’s takes off as Lelong[/url] IMHO is a piece of crap, but it’s busy.

Apparently it’s been around since 24-Jun-2004 according to the whois record..

MYNIC Registration No.: D1A043173
Record created on 24-Jun-2004
Record expires on 24-Jun-2005
Record last updated on 17-Aug-2004

And it was registered by High Options Sdn Bhd, active since November apparently.

There is a good article from the Star on it HERE.

There has been no press release, and very little awareness AFAIK, so well I’m just trying to spread the word a little.

On another note, if you have a digital camera, and you have problems organising photos, you probably need Picasa!

Google has bought out Picasa 2 (which used to be $29.95) and is now releasing it for free, it’s a great piece of software.

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you know. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.

Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures — you can email, print at home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Helloâ„¢, and even put pictures on your own blog.

If you want to be scared, depressed or feel like punching your boss in the face..

Check out the Salary Clock[/url]..

In the time it takes me to earn $1 (That’s RM aswell), Michael Dell has earnt about $4000USD…

Also if you have a web-page, business site or blog you should check out this..

Biggest Web-design Mistakes in 2004

Along with the 10 Pillars of Web-mastery you should be ok.

I would mention aswell probably the best resource for all around web-stuff including programming, HTML, look and feel, search engine optimisation and the whole package is https://www.webmasterworld.com/[/url]

Hope you learnt something new or found something interesting in this post..any new stuff to share?

Post it in comments. Cheers!

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Malaysian Bureaucracy and the Summons Fiasco

Posted January 18, 2005 at 12:40 am in Ranting

Well the clampdown has finally begun as reported by The Star today..

KUALA LUMPUR: Ong Tze Chiang was rudely awakened at about 1pm by his father who told him that a group of people wanted to meet him outside his house at the Sri Johor flats in Cheras here.

Clad only in his shorts, the 26-year-old man came out to greet his “visitors,” but was shocked to be met by blinding flashes from the cameras of photographers, a horde of journalists and police officers.

Not knowing what they were there for, Ong was momentarily stunned until police informed him of his outstanding summons for a traffic offence.

Chief Insp Badrul Azham Baharom from the city traffic police headquarters identified himself and said: “Encik Ong, kami ada waran tangkap atas nama Encik Ong kerana gagal menyelesaikan saman kemalangan kereta yang dikeluarkan pada 2hb Oct 2004.”

“Encik Ong dikehendaki datang ke balai bersama seorang penjamin.”

(Mr Ong, we have a warrant of arrest under your name for failing to settle a summons in relation to a car accident which was issued on Oct 2, 2004. You are required to come to the police station with a bailor.)

Ong was the first person to be arrested under Ops Warta IV.

Source: https://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/18/nation/9926600&sec=nation

If you’ve been following my posts, you’ll have noticed I had some summons, and I had to work my ass off to get them paid…they make it so fucking difficult.

Now this whole shennanigan hasn’t exactly been well publicised, I’ve seen one tiny 1/4 column text only piece in the paper mentioning the fact that summons need to be paid before January 2nd or you might get hauled off to prison..

I wonder why they would do that? Oh yeah…if they publicised it, people might actually pay, there would be less opportunity for bribes and getting people into court for ridiculous crimes such as parking in the wrong places, or in my case exceeding the speed limit by not more than 30km/h…

The paper also published the fact that all counters would be open ’til 6pm so people could pay easier, I mean wtf? Most people finish work at 6pm, some of us work in a freakin jungle (Cyberjaya) and are miles away from the nearest Balai (Police Station)..How exactly are we supposed to pay?

Even though that was complete bullshit anyway as I went to the PJ police headquarters and was duley informed the counter had closed at 3pm….waste of time or what.

There are counters in shopping malls too, I’ve visited the one in 1 Utama about 5 times, all of which the computer was ‘offline’. For anyone who’s interested, it’s in the old wing, Eneos car centre..I mean for the love of monkeys, I am trying to give them money, it’s like they don’t want people to pay, they want us to be arrested and beaten on the soles of the feet with bamboo canes.

So, what’s the deal here in Malaysia..

Deal 1 – Common Occurence (see Mr. Ong above)

1. You do something naughty, like going a bit fast
2. Some(one|thing) sees the naughty act
3. You get a summons
4. You get 0 notification, yes I mean NONE
5. Unless you check yourself, online you don’t even know you’ve gotten any summons
6. You don’t check online, you get some fat officer knocking on your door wanting to arrest you
7. Rinse and Repeat

Deal 2 – My Case

1. You do something naughty, like going a bit fast
2. Some(one|thing) sees the naughty act
3. You get a summons
4. You get 0 notification, yes I mean NONE
5. You check online and find you have summons against your car
6. You spend 2 weeks trying to pay the damn summons and waste like 2 days of annual leave
7. Eventually persuade someone else to pay the summons because you have a job you wish to keep
8. Have the summons paid with the realisation you will have to go through the whole shitty affair again
9. Rinse and Repeat

In UK it’s like this.

1. Speed
2. Get Caught
3. Get a notice through the post 2 days later with the location and offence
4. Have 30 days to pay with discount, 90 days to pay before court appearance
5. Pay by cheque through the post, by credit card over the phone or cash at the nearest police station
6. Don’t speed again because you’ll get 3 points on your licence (12 is a 1 year ban)

Don’t get me wrong, I love this country I really do, but there are still a lot of things that have to change…the bureaucratic system, customer service (or lack of it), racial bias in the education system and in general (both positive and negative racism), sexual crime, business attitudes and various others things such as the attitudes of civil servants and other workers Tidak Apa, which means never mind or it doesn’t matter (stems from other issues previously mentioned).

Will blog about all these topics as they unravel in my mind..

The lesson to be learnt is, don’t get summons, check regularly online just in case you did, keep your ears open for clampdowns (I heard about this one on IRC) and finally don’t expect to be able to pay your summons easily..

For those who want to check their summons online you can do so via Rilek/Catcha HERE.

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DOTA Wallpaper

Posted January 17, 2005 at 8:34 pm in DOTA Classic

Well I’m gonna go ahead with the smallerseperatepoststhing and see how that goes. This will be the first, have split yesterdays post up aswell.

Just discovered a neat DOTA wallpaper, so nice in fact I am using it on my laptop now.

Nice eh?

Was made by raydex2000 the original skin-master (no that’s not a p0rn term) from TWC.

3 versions are available in the Gallery HERE.

Played some hardcore inhouse DOTA games last night at home with the faggot, my PD needs a bit of work though, out of practise I guess 🙂

Will post again later..

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Link to me – New Banners

Posted January 17, 2005 at 8:23 pm in Site News

I made a cheesy animated banner too for usage on BlockClicker and BlogExplosion to see if I can get my click-through rate above 1%…which would be nice.

I also have the small one which you can use to link to me.

Or just a plain text link something like:

<a href=”https://www.shaolintiger.com” TARGET=”_blank”>ShaolinTiger – Kung-Fu Geekery</a>

So link to me, now you can do it and look all at once, you know you want to 😉

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Chat with Google, interesting facts about Google

Posted January 17, 2005 at 8:22 pm in Hacking & Infosec

On another search engine related note, there was a recent evening with Marissa Mayer, one of the top players in and product manager for Google[/url].

Nice highlights from Alan Williamson include..

1. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

2. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.

3. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

4. Gmail was used internally for nearly 2years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.

Full notes are HERE.

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Weird Search Terms

Posted January 17, 2005 at 8:21 pm in General Nonsense, Site News

Regarding the search terms…have been having some weird ones lately, people who come here searching for cum eaters and pictures of naked malay men, you need help really.

My favourites, each is a link to the actual search that returns my site somewhere on the page..

[list][*]Asian Cum Eaters
[*]Naked Malay Man Pictures
[*]Cum Shots
[*]World Biggest Penis[/list]Strange what search engines turn up eh?

For phrases I get:

cum shots 11 7.2 %
dota maps 5 3.2 %
download dota 4 2.6 %
dota 4 2.6 %
tamakeri 3 1.9 %
shaolin show 3 1.9 %
girls tatoos pussy 3 1.9 %
kung fu hustle torrent 3 1.9 %
kung fu 3 1.9 %
dota download 3 1.9 %

For single words:

dota 34 6.6 %
fu 26 5 %
kung 26 5 %
cum 20 3.9 %
shots 17 3.3 %
download 17 3.3 %
hustle 12 2.3 %
the 11 2.1 %
in 10 1.9 %
maps 8 1.5 %
pics 7 1.3 %
movie 7 1.3 %
pussy 6 1.1 %
torrent 6 1.1 %
world 5 0.9 %
penis 5 0.9 %
biggest 5 0.9 %
tatoos 5 0.9 %
shaolin 5 0.9 %
girls 5 0.9 %
show 5 0.9 %
it 5 0.9 %
naked 5 0.9 %
asian 5 0.9 %
male 4 0.7 %

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New Dials and the Infamous Blue Light

Posted January 17, 2005 at 2:01 am in Food/Eating, General Nonsense

Well what to write about today let’s see I have a whole range of pent up topics, but as it’s monday no one is into thinking too heavily…so I’ll do a menagerie of random crap.

Sunday, Sunday was a typical Sunday, I did jack shit, went to look for a big ass punch bag too, but they were all sold, only small ones left..ended up in Eneos car centre for a while, they had a phat sub on special but I am broke, like totally broke until the end of the month..

Bought a new thermometer and matching humidity meter for the car, looks pretty cool, registered average for here, 30 degrees and 40% humidity (yesterday was at 60%, damn humid).

Went to eat the lala again in SS3, and remembered my cam this time…but the stall was closed, so had a burger and a hotdog instead.

Obviously not as good as the heavenly burgers attained from SS2 mamak area, but well not bad, and presentation was good!

Malaysia has the best burgers in the WORLD.

Big, juicy and greasy…first time I’ve had a Ramly with brown sauce on it, it was good!

After that went home with a mind to go the gym, so I went…but the freaking car park was closed, so I couldn’t get in, the gym is open till 12 midnight, but the carpark closes at like 10pm, if anyone knows how to get in Celebrity Fitness at like 10.30pm let me know..

So I had some McD ayam goreng (fried chicken) and a chocolate sundae instead…healthy I know.

I did some work at home instead and ended up finishing at around 3am…I’ve gotten another module out of the way though which is a good thing!

Took a random picture of my car to demonstrate the ahbeng blue interior light everyone keeps mentioning..

Cool eh?

On a final funny note, someone got arrested for drinking listerine…How desperate thou must be..

A woman who admitted drinking three glasses of Listerine mouthwash had a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit when she was arrested for drunken driving, police said Friday.

The woman, identified by police Sgt. Mike Shadbolt as 50-year-old Carol A. Ries, was arrested Sunday night and released on personal bond the next day. She was to be arraigned late next week on a misdemeanor charge of operating under the influence of liquor, Shadbolt said.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=414051

I actually use Listerine, the original one not the pansy blue one, and it’s so hardcore it makes my eyes water..I couldn’t imagine wanting to actually drink it..

Anyway that should be enough to keep everyone happy for monday..

BTW what is the consensus, is it better to have 1 long post with loads of random crap, or loads of small posts relevant to each topic?

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Clubbing, Prawns and Pwns.

Posted January 15, 2005 at 4:06 pm in Food/Eating, General Nonsense

Well it’s been a good weekend, and it’s not over yet!

It’s past 5am and I’m sitting here listening to some old school best of Otis Reading (yeah I got eclectic tastes), chatting complete bollocks to some random stranger on MSN and well writing my blog (duh).

You can consider the below Dim Sum post the first of a series of my favourite things to eat in KL mostly, probably the rest of Malaysia and the rest of the world too (when I go back to UK).

Friday night, had some good lala (mussels/clams) cooked with curry powder, curry leaves, garlic and some other magic ingredients…will take pics one day as it’s one of my favourite foods.

After that had an offer to join a party in KL, haven’t been drinking or clubbing or dancing for quite some time, so I collected my hombres and off we went.

Also picked up FireAngel[/url] on the way, I can confirm she is hot, and can dance REAL good..

So good in fact she got picked up by a hot chick that unbuttoned her shirt and waved her (non-existent) cleavage at our dear FireAngel[/url].

I on the other hand, got picked up by some scrawny sausage jockey who I wouldn’t even want to fuck if I was into uphill gardening.

Suan[/url] turned up late, and pissed as usual.

We drunk quite a lot of beer, as either they mispriced it, or it was just really fucking cheap, but it only cost $62RM for 2 jugs…which is the price of 1 jug in most clubs.

KY and TheGreatFaggot graced us with their prescence too….and pigs can fly, the faggot danced.

Kimberly[/url] was also there, as chun as always..hubba.

And we finally got to meet the infamous super hot Jayna, yes, indeed folks, she is hot.

Got a bit drunk, danced quite a lot, had fun anyway was a good crowd, decent music and for once we were somewhere that wasn’t too packed.

The joint was named La Casa (Yeah classy I know ‘The House’ I guess they think it’s cool or something..), it’s just behind Passion, which was surprisingly empty, I guess it’s because of the new kid of the block, Rum Jungle, will have to check it out some day…but that night it was totally packed.

Got home pretty late, slept at 5am I guess, and woke up some time in the afternoon to read FireAngels rant which I totally knew would be there.

Got up and grabbed myself a prosperity burger…3rd day in a row, sad I know but I’m kinda hooked, when they are really fresh they are REALLY good.

Had my car washed, they still can’t get the rims totally clean…stupid racing brakes.

The faggot finally got himself a car, quite a neat looking car too..

Imagine that…it’s even got a freaking LCD screen inside so you can watch VCD’s in the back (Pr0n anyone?)..

Congrats dude, it’s about fucking time.

We headed to the Asam Prawn place again, this time hoping they actually had some prawns (last time they sold out, so we ended up with Asam Fish).

We had ourselves some phat drinks, that’s phat with a capital P and H.

And ordered up a storm with the normal veges and tofu, and Braised Pork Belly (Kao Yuk)..

Yeah baby, we finally got the freaking Asam Prawns we had been yearning for since last year 😉

As usual when we are hungry and attack a table full of food…it’s inevitable you will see this..

We had some side bets aswell regarding the faggots ability to finish his giant Orange Juice (he normally can’t)..

But well he did it, congrats again dude.

Full pics in the Food Gallery as always.

After that headed to USJ to catch Liverpool vs Man Utd….first half was good, action tailed off in the second half, Liverpool couldn’t even put a goal in against 10 men..

And no, this doesn’t mean I’m a football fan, I can just tolerate watching now and then 🙂

When the game was over, it was time for some hardcore DOTA, mostly came up against noobs though and ended up pwning everyone left right and centre..

Hard to get a good game nowdays.

On another note a random hot chick (Flirt in a Skirt[/url]) made a link button for me, feel free to use it if you wish to pimp my blog (DO IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!).

On another random note, I wanted to post this..

100 Things we didn’t know last year [i]BBC[/i]

Those of note for me are…

8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam. (Dumb fuckers)

31. Herrings break wind to communicate and keep the school together. (Imagine THAT, synchronised farting as a means of communiation)

38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein. (I did wonder)

63. Just one in a hundred workers goes to the pub for their lunch, according to a study. The same proportion spend lunch having sex. (Lucky bastards – that goes for both..)

74. Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons. (I always tell people curry is the national dish of the UK, looks like the worm has turned)

100. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president. (Damn Luddites)

And well here I am, back to reality back at home, feeling stoical and much better than I did for the last couple of days.

Life is good.

Thanks for participating in this particularly long and pointless post.

Cheers my dears.

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Dim Sum Breakfast at Dawn

Posted January 14, 2005 at 3:42 am in Food/Eating

Well yesterday and today was a bit weird timewise..

After dinner last night I got home and passed out on the sofa at about 8pm, I woke up around 1.30am and didn’t feel like sleeping any more…so I didn’t I did some hardcore work writing documents about attacking networks, firewalls and routers (packet sniffing, session hijacking, fragmentation attack and so on).

I worked till about 5.30am then felt hungry, decided it would be good to have some hardcore Dim Sum, as I love it, I haven’t had it for ages and it’s best served fresh around 6am.

I called out some other crazy eejits that happened to be awake at that ungodly hour and off we went to Taman Megah for some Dim Sum loving.

Most people have probably had some experience of Dim Sum at some stage, it means something like ‘Little things that touch your heart‘.

The key to good Dim Sum is variety, decent places often have 100 varieties or more of these tiny treats, the common ones being Siu Mai (Pork Dumplings), Har Gow (Prawn Dumplings), Lo Mai Gai (Glutinous Rice) and Fung Jow (Phoenix Claws). These kind of resturants also usually serve Chee Chong Fun (Rice Sheet Rolls), Juk (Congee or Porridge) and various Baos or Buns such as my favourite Char Siu Bao (BBQ Pork steamed bun).

Most of the stuff is steamed and made of either Pork or Shrimp wrapped in rice sheet, tofu skin or wantan skin. There are a few fried things and a few crispy deep fried things like the gorgeous Wu Gok (Yam Puffs) and Lo Bak Kou (Fried Carrot Cake).

Without doubt my favourite thing is the Jing Pai Quat (Small Pork Ribs).

When we left it was totally pitch black, like the middle of the night, we ate during sunrise, which is a nice feeling..

Dim Sum resturants would typically look like this..

As you can see on the right a big stack of Baos, and on the left a huge stack of giant Steamers.

There is no western equivalent really, the ‘waiters’ come round with huge trays of steaming fresh goodies like so..

We enjoyed some good Chee Cheong Fun..

And we had quite a spread, as can be seen by the aftermath..

Dim Sum is typically accompanied by lots of coffee or tea and talking a load of crap. This morning was no different. Full pics are HERE.

In the ‘olden days‘, used to go clubbing, go play DOTA till the early hours then go eat Dim Sum, go home and pass out till sunset the next day.

Have been feeling a bit down the last few days, I guess it’s being tired and work stress, I blame it on biorythms or something like that (I have no reason to be down whatsoever, everything is great at the moment..)

Oh well such is life, at least I get good food 😀

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The Aviator & Leonardo DiCaprio

Posted January 12, 2005 at 10:32 pm in Movies

Well I went to check out this movie last night, it’s been fairly well hyped and apparently Leonardo put his heart and soul[/url] into the part and really did the whole method acting thing.

I discovered Mr. DiCaprio could really act well in the olden days of What’s eating Gilbert Grape and The Basketball Diaries.

He can play harrowing roles very well, drug addicts, people with mental problems and is a serious method actor.

It’s a shame his reputation got ruined by the crappy epic known as Titanic followed by the flop that was The Beach.

After this his was only known for being a floppy haired pretty boy in some crappy films, totally lost his reputation.

He’s come back with avengance recently though with great movies such as Gangs of New York[/url], Catch me if you can[/url] and The Aviator[/url].

Also coming next year is The Departed[/url], a Western remake of the Hong Kong series of movies called Infernal Affairs (Wu Jian Dao).

Anyway back on topic, The Aviator is an excellent movie, well acted through-out with a stunning support cast, a mesmerising performance by Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and excellent performances from William Baldwin (Trippe), Gwen Stefani (Jean Harlow) and Kate Beckinsale (Ava Gardner).

The film was a touch on the long side and but didn’t really drag, it didn’t detract from this being a great movie. Probably due to the genius director Martin Scorsese, his classics such as Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas are still watchable today.

The Aviator was framed to show the good sites of Howard Hughes as he was indeed a genius and a great man in many ways, most people would remember him as the dishevelled, long-fingernailed recluse stuck in his hotel room surrounded by tissues, but well he revolutionised Movies and Aviation and should be remembered for that..

The Hercules for example in some form is still in use by the military today.

DiCaprio and the film captures hughes as the genius, the paranoid, the obsessive, the womaniser, the film-maker and of course the aviator.

The film is beautifully cast, beautifully shot and beautifully directed, it tells the gripping story of a troubled dreamer who ignores advice and shoots for the stars, sometimes he falls..but he always carries on. It shows his troubled love-life, his fears of germs, the public, his deafness and many other elements of his life.

All in all it’s well worth watching.

I’d give it 8.5 out of 10.

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