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P1 Wimax heat! Lu Sudah Potong Liao Boi

05 Nov

P1

No doubt about it! When the “have you cut yet?” series of advertisements hit the street, it surely has created just a buzz in the broadband market here in Malaysia. The ads are amusing and entertaining!

Before knowing what the ads are all about, one must be thinking “Why the heck you ask everyone to go sunat!!!???”

Of course, the major (monopolized) broadband player, Streamyx strikes back after a while.

P1 is now Oversubscribed and Complaints are mounting

And thanks to P1 Wimax’s great marketing skill. I believe that they have been overselling broadband services, far exceeding their actual capability. There are lots of complaints being lodged at Low Yat Forum recently. Here’s just a few of them.

come on la P1..i pay every month..
then provide good service la..
i hardly earn the money..
and you guys easily took it by providing bad service..
please respect your customer..
i hate on using harsh words..
but the thing is… i just FED UP with the connection…
please use your brain and think if you subscribe for bad service..
what do you feel…?
will you just pay for that bad service??
will you just keep silent??
please la..i am tired of being in this situation..
i just want you guys to IMPROVE the service..
use OUR MONEY that you guys get every month to enhance your service.

AND DONT JUST JUST SAY `WE WILL GIVE U 1 DAY FREE OF CHARGE,AFTER WE GIVE U TROUBLE EVERYDAY’

I DONT NEED ANY REPLY FROM P1,COZ IM GETTING GASTRIK HEARING/READING THOSE ANSWER.
Quoted from tartputat

And this user needs to use Celcom’s broadband just to do a posting.

Here i have exactly the same problem as lot of P1 Wimax subscriber. The problem is super slow internet speed for 24/7. U can see in my signature below this speed only happened on my 1st week subscription. Then now after almost 7 months of subscription it as night mare for me pay almost rm100/month for speed around 200kbps and this happened for 24/7. For your information I subscribed for 1.2Mbps @ Rm99/month. Only god know how my feeling now. Want to terminate this account but i have contract for 2 years. Now to add this reply also i need to use my backup celcom 384kbps broadband. Pls do something… if u need my details pls pm me. I think P1 Wimax already over subscribed. The P1 tower now can’t handle for its over subscribed customer.
Quoted from mjoe

And how is it compares to 56kbps PSTN line?

have the same problem yesterday midnight…1:30am onwards the line is not responding at all, able to open my gmaill page in 15 mins…(u know, login and go to my shower then come back, the page only show rclxub.gif ) Remind me the worst time during my 56kbps generation…. well this time is worst than that moment
Quoted from taitianhin

And some users decided to fork out extra money to subscribe to another broadband service as backup when P1 Wimax is down.

Now my P1 totally out of service.. freaking slow and always stuck there even google page also!
I have no idea now.. so just purchase another prepaid broadband for temporary use!
Quoted from chung5576

Be sure that you understand the contract before ‘cutting‘ yourself. Inviting troubles and wasting money. Read the fine print in the contract. Here’s some points that you need to take note.

7.10. In the event the Subscriber terminates the Service provided after the seven (7) days
in the COP policy, Subscriber agrees and understand that the Device need not be
returned to Service Provider and Subscriber agrees to pay the sum of Ringgit
Malaysia Nine Hundred Ninety Nine (RM999.00) only being the early termination fee
as per Clause 12.1 hereto.

12.1. In the event the Subscriber wishes to terminate early/cancel the services, the
Subscriber is required to execute a Service Termination Form and forward the
same to the Service Provider by hand, postal mail, email or fax together with the
sum of Ringgit Malaysia Nine Hundred Ninety Nine (RM999.00) being the
cancellation and early termination fee
.

16.2. Subscriber may terminate any Service upon providing thirty (30) days written notice
to Service Provider subject to the Subscriber remains liable to pay all fees, costs
and charges
due to the Service Provider prior to the termination date and the early
termination fee as stated in Clause 12.1 above.

16.3. Notwithstanding the termination by Service Provider pursuant to Clause 16.1,
Subscriber shall remain liable for all fees due and owing to Service Provider during
the subsistence of this Agreement. Such termination shall not prejudice the right of
Service Provider to recover all charges, costs and interest due and any other
incidental damages incurred
thereto.

16.4. Service Provider shall not be liable to Subscriber for any claim for damages or costs
of any nature whatsoever arising out of discontinuance of the Service due to the
termination or expiration of any Service or these Terms in accordance with its term
including but not limited to any claim for loss of profits or prospective profits or for
anticipated loss.

Taken from P1 W1MAX Terms and Conditions

So, if you have already subscribed to the service and screaming like hell now. Try to lodge a complaint at the authorities like FOMCA, Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM).

If you terminate your contract prematurely, you will need to pay certain penalty fees as what I understood from the agreement. Complication.

So, you still wanna potong?

PS: I’m a proud Streamyx user. I’m getting the maximum speed as said in my package plan although it does gets to my nerve sometimes. Very rarely.

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WordPress theme goes wider and bigger

26 Oct

I’m excited to announce another wave of updates for my dedicated photography blog! This time, there’s actually 2 updates to the theme.

Photo caption fix

photo.hugolim.com

First of all, it’s about a bug fix which is actually quite unnoticeable to the masses. There are 4 columns at the bottom of the homepage whereby 2 latest photos shown. The description of the photo has been made to be the same as what is displayed in the photo slide show / stream above. Primarily, we do not want to see “Click on the photo to see larger size” appears in the caption at the homepage which is ridiculously irrelevant, isn’t it? It’s only valid when user goes into the blog entry.

Expand blog entry

photo.hugolim.com » Blog Archive » Panoramic Bayan Lepas_1256538526283

Secondly, it’s about serving better and wider range of photos.

Everything has gone wide these days seriously. You want wide wide highway to drive on to getting real big and wide screen display to play your HD videos. Heck, you can’t even buy a proper normal ratio (4:3 ratio with resolution like 1024×768, 800×600, 1280×1024) LCD panel on market as easily as 2 years ago now! Everything is wide, so do the photos and blogs. Okay, back to where we were.

For our case here, in particular, panorama. It’s a pain to the eyes when we are viewing something very wide like panorama like the scale of 5:1 (width:height). Just like the little long panoramic image that you are seeing above!

With just a click of button! Walah~

photo.hugolim.com » Blog Archive » Panoramic Bayan Lepas

The blog entry content pane is widened to as much as the template permits. This has made photo viewing much much much more flexible and satisfying. Hope you all like this little update.

Technically, of course, for those who are interested to get wide too on their blog too, read on.

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Geopress to Geotag data migration

11 Oct

Just in case you decided to try other location tagging plug-in for your WordPress today.

I have developed a fairly simple data migration script so that you won’t need to go through the pain of re-adding latitude and longitude for the new plug-in in all your posts.

Essentially, you will need a bit knowledge on how to access your database administration. Typically, you will be using phpmyadmin to manage your WordPress database.

phpmyadmin

Here is how we do it.

  • Go to your phpmyadmin
  • Select your WordPress’s database, by default, it has a suffix/prefix of ‘WP’
  • Click on the SQL tab
  • Then, execute the following queries below.

Run this for its latitude…

insert into wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) (select p.post_id, ‘_geotag_lat’, format(left(g.coord,instr(g.coord,’ ‘)-1), 5) lat from wp_postmeta p join wp_geopress g on p.meta_value = g.geopress_id where p.meta_key = ‘_geopress_id’);

And, run this query to retrieve the longitude…

insert into wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) (select p.post_id, ‘_geotag_lon’ , format(right(g.coord,length(g.coord) – instr(g.coord,’ ‘)),5) lon from wp_postmeta p join wp_geopress g on p.meta_value = g.geopress_id where p.meta_key = ‘_geopress_id’);

I have migrated mine successfully. Hope it helps for you too!

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Problem Installing Need For Speed Shift

30 Sep

I just want to post up a quick solution for those having problem installing their copy of games acquired from EA (Electronic Arts) particularly on the latest episode of Need For Speed, Shift.

If you are hitting error that says ” Cannot install to the selected directory because the path contains the following characters: \\/:*?”"<>|; ” or not having the actual game name printed on the setup window title, read on.

  1. Uninstall your copy of PhysX and get the latest version installed later on.
  2. Install the latest version of ATI Catalyst if you are running on ATI chips.
  3. Remove Microsoft Applocale if you are using one. (In many cases, you probably would have one installed)
  4. Remember to restart or else you will find yourself in no luck after attempting all steps said above.
  5. Good luck! I got mine working by following these steps.

More help/ Resources:-

Enjoy the game!

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photo.hugolim.com

06 Sep

You may have noticed the absence of updates over the past few days. I have been busy juggling with work (and repairing myself from sudden mood swing on the personal note), taking care of mylensdb.com, and designing a new brand new site!

I would like to call it, HugoLim Photography. It resides at photo.hugolim.com.

It has been years having my photography works blogged at this site and I’m feeling the need to have a dedicated one instead of mixing them with the rest of unrelated stuff like computers and geek-like programming junks.

How things started

CNN Daily Snapshot

I’m captivated by CNN’s Daily Snapshot website. It updates daily and show the most interesting event happened on the day. I like this idea. Thus, I’m thinking of its concept used to present its pictures.

The design

photo.hugolim.com runs on WordPress as it’s backbone and not on dedicated photo gallery application.

However, there’s something real cool about this site (yes, pardon me for praising my own website). As you can see from the screen shot of photo.hugolim.com below, the placeholder of the biggest picture will change itself showing the latest pictures posted.

And for every one day or two, a new photo will be posted on this site.

And at the bottom of the page, we can see the latest posts with thumbnails of featured categories (eg, landscape, nature, travel and people).

photo.hugolim.com Hugo Lim Photography

With this, I proudly announce, photo.hugolim.com is open for business! I like it very much, it’s design is so much better than this blog (shame on me). I really hope that you like it too.

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