Monthly Archives: December 2009

Electrical train with Diesel

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This is what they are doing on KTM Commuter trains recently-the public transport service which provides the routes covering the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor to link to the city centre.

As what I know,the frequency of the service hasn’t been changed for more than 5 years,with at least 20 minutes of waiting time.However,during the years,the population in such areas has increased many times and still going up.So the fact is,trains are crowded in most of time,but the service quality is decreasing because the trains are always overused with bad maintenance.In order to keep the normal service,KTM has to utilise Diesel locomotives on some electrical cars.

KTM train with Diesel locomotive Is that a quite unique scene?

Disappeared for some days

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I’m so sorry I didn’t update the blog recently as I was quite busy on some personal matters.

Firstly,I prepared the list of all guests in Malaysia who are willing to attend the wedding celebration in Shanghai,China.

Secondly,my fiancée and I took one day to take photos for pre-wedding album and took another day to choose the preferable pictures to be processed as sets of albums.

Thirdly,I visited PC fair in the last weekend and bought a handsome HP laptop.

And finally I’m going to pick up the pair of wedding bands in the coming weekend.

I still have a long to-do list for the coming 2 months.That means I may not come to post the updates so frequently.However,I promise I will not leave the blog alone.Stay tuned! :)

Google Public DNS

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Google throws out a new stuff to the public-Google Public DNS.Somebody may not know what DNS exactly is.Here’s the simple explanation:

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide. An often used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, www.example.com translates to 208.77.188.166.(Wikipedia)

In the real world,every website/server will have an IP address.However,in order to easily access the site,we normally type in the domain name to visit it and the domain name server will translate it into that specific IP address.After all,we could get what we want to get.

Many ISPs will always provide some DNS service to their customers,even automatically configured.However,Google Public DNS could give more compared to other DNS service:

Google has a broader network all over the world.Thus,it will direct you the closest DNS server once you set Google Public DNS as your priority DNS.

To try it out:

  • Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or
  • Read our configuration instructions.

I previously tried OpenDNS for some while.It is also an independent service provider with quite a lot of credits from the clients.But the DNS servers are mostly located in Europe and America,the users in Asia would have delay because of the geographic conditions.Google eliminates the issue since it has several DNS servers in Asia.

I have used Google Public DNS for 3 days.It works as well as what it says.I’m so happy to see that we are having more alternatives.Thumb up!

Malaysian local banks need to improve the efficiency

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All are starting from my fresh story.I’m a Maybank user for more than 7 years because I like Maybank2U-the online banking service very much.Thus,I normally save all my funds in my Maybank account and withdraw from ATMs when I need some cash.

Ambank    Maybank

Today I just past through Amcorp Mall and found that I only left very few money in my wallet.So I went to the nearest Ambank ATM to withdraw some cash.The terrible thing was there.I inserted my Maybank card into the ATM and followed all instructions as normal.The card returned as well as the receipt,but no cash out.

I stayed there for 5 minutes and yet nothing came out.I decided to go back home first to check the balance of my account online.It was bad that the amount had been credited from my account.Instantly I called to Maybank 24-hour customer service to report this incident.However,the phone was caught after I enjoyed waiting for 20 minutes.This is not the worst.After I got my report number,the staff told me that the fund will only be transferred to my account after 2-4 weeks until the investigation being done.

Oops,I feel I’m so lucky that I didn’t withdraw a big amount at that time.Otherwise,I have to eat bread during this month perhaps.I doubt that as what I know,banks check on the balance every day and furthermore a lot of work in the banks have been electronically.That means all information should be in real time.Why do I need to wait for that long to get my money back?

From this case,I realize that Malaysian local banks don’t know what the efficiency is yet.I’m so surprised!

I just had an invitation of Google Wave

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I  saw a lot of articles about Google Wave,a creative tool which helps to make some communications to friends easier than ever before.It’s still on the progress of beta stage,so it could only be tried upon invitation.

I got one invitation from Google recently and I went to use it immediately.I think I need some time to watch the video clips of know-how in order to use the service smoothly.Share with your guys here!

I could provide 8 invitations to the friends who are interested in it.If you want to try the fresh stuff,please just drop the words to me.

Google Wave invitation Ok,I’m going to start my learning program.See you guys! :)