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For those getting the error message “unable to validate game version”. Please follow these steps to update yourself to the newest WarCraft III 1.20e.

1. I do recommend that you uninstall your WarCraft III and reinstall it from your fan ban CD/DVD. *Do not* install any patch and updates from your fan ban CD!!!

2. Download WarCraft III 1.20e Universal Patch from here. (If you can’t download from this site, you can download from here under “Version 1.20e Universal Patch”).

3. Install It. (now you can’t start the game because it will look for the original CD in your drive, which you the fan-ban-kia don’t have!)

4. Download the 1.20e NO-CD Patch. It is a ZIP file. Before you extract the files to your WarCraft III folder, *backup* the file war3.exe! (a small insurance policy which 99.9% you don’t need.) After that extract them to your WarCraft III folder, it will overwrite the original war3.exe which you have just backup. Now you should be able to launch WarCraft but you still can’t connect to Battle.NET.

5. Reinstall the MiniDota Package, especially if you have uninstall WarCraft on Step 1! Refer to the original post here. (Quick Step: Uninstall the files to your WarCraft folder, double click on minidota.reg and load it, launch WarCraft from the file ‘w3l.exe’ from now onwards!!!)

* If you get the message “Unable To Validate Game Version” when you try to connect to Minidota, here is how your insurance policy *might* come to rescue. Delete the file war3.120e and rename your original backup of war3.exe to war3.120e. If this doesn’t work as well and you have skip step 1, you have to really do step 1 now. You might have apply some fanban patch early on. kekeke.

6. Celebrate!

Update: MiniDota is no longer with us, although he can’t survive for even 2 weeks, but he is happy to have serve us for the 2 week. RIP.

Yes, we are crazy. We are trying to bypass hamachi as we are having our new WarCraft server! Wow! To get yourself wet, please follow these instructions.

1. Register an account here. A valid email address is required for activation.

2. Download the MiniDota package here. It contains 3 files, i.e.w3l.exe, w3lh.dll and minidota.reg.

3. Extract all the 3 files to your WarCraft game folder. Double click on minidota.reg to load the registry to your system. This will save MiniDota server details to your system.

4. Double click on w3l.exe now to launch WarCraft. From now on you need to launch WarCraft from this file in order to connect to MiniDota server. You can create a desktop shortcut by right-clicking on the w3l.exe, select Send To and then Desktop (create shortcut).

5. When you are in WarCraft, click on Battle.Net button (Not “Local Area Network” anymore!)

6. Sign in using your username and password you get from step 1. Now you can choose to enter the Chat Room (”ENTER CHAT” bottom right button) or straight away to the Game Room (”CUSTOM GAME” upper right icon).

As you know, virgin sucks because they have no experience. I am a virgin on setting up this server which I feel is 1,000,000 times more difficult than my Uni final year project! So please keep on giving me feedback on this. It won’t be as easy as Hamachi but once you get it. You Get It!

CibaiFu (soufulow) has make a great tutorial with TONS of screen shots here! Please read that post to get a VISUAL feel on what the heck I am talking about.

Update: I’ve noticed something different and it is posted in Now 219.x is a Good IP and 60.x is Fucked Up IP. But this post remain useful as it explains to you the importance of your connected IP and how it will affect the quality of your Streamyx connection.

It is very important to know about your IP when you are using Streamyx because you will get VERY DIFFERENT connection quality if you are in different IP range.

I have been an unlucky one when come to Streamyx because I always get assigned the 219.x.x.x IP. 219 is a fuck up range that is over congested and deliver slower-than-turtle connection speed. Packet Loss are significant and loading up a page is consider fast if it can finish in 30 seconds. Sometimes it takes me 120 seconds to load up a page! Just a single page!

Once a while I will be having exceptional internet speed. Page loaded in less than 10 seconds for all sites and bandwidth test return 800kbps even to a US test server. It happens like twice a month. I thought that streamyx has fixed their fucking problem and my curse is over! Then out of curiosity, I actually want to confirm if they really have fix their fucking problem. So I actually go and DISCONNECT and reconnect. What The Fuck! My good connection is gone and I am back to the old shit days. %*(#!@#$^%

It took me a long time to actually find out what is causing this! When I am in rocket speed, I am actually connected to 218.x IP range. If I am connected to 219.x range, I am in deep shit! After knowing this, I really go and keep redialing until I can get 218.x and keep my router alive as long as possible even when I go to sleep.

This is confirm true when I try to search in the internet about this. Many people known this little secret for a long time (I am late!) and they are using this trick to get good connection. However, even knowing this trick doesn’t help much because it is very very very hard to get 218.x especially at night. I remember one night I dial almost 100 times before I can get it.
After that sohai technician went back and do a report that say my connection is ‘OK’, another staff call me to inform me the status of my report. We have a really long chat talking on points and facts. He is indeed a polite guy and not like the sohai. And it is from here that I know a lot more about streamyx problem and the IP thing. First let talk about the IP thing.

1. All streamyx users will get either 219.x, 218.x or 60.x

2. 218.x is VERY FAST because it is not streamyx line! It is actually TM-NET special dedicated line. This product is called TM Direct. I call to TM Direct and ask about the pricing. 384kbps dedicated line is RM52,000 per year and after discount is RM40,000+. He said if I subscribe I will be the first home user to do so. haha.

3. The reason we get into the 218.x is because of ‘accident’. TM-NET is working now to fix this hole and will block streamyx users for ‘accidentally’ connected to the 218.x in September/October. Damn It! By that time you can’t even get 218.x even if you redial 1,000,000 times.

4. 218.x is only use by a small amount of dedicated customers, so it is fast. 219.x is over congested by ordinary streamyx users.

5. 60.x is streamyx new IP range and many users will start getting it. It is a lot better than the 219.x and people who have 1mbps package can easily connected to this IP range. I have never get this myself! My friend do get it.

6. In the coming 2 months, most streamyx users will be directed to the 60.x IP range. The use of 219.x will be reduced.

Now let’s talk about the streamyx problem.

The guy do admit that they have problem connecting to international sites and they can’t do anything about it. So even if I bombard them will emails or keep calling, they can’t do anything (i will continue still do so to release my frustration). They say they can control the connection speed within Malaysia only, anything else is up to the foreign ISPs.

But my point is simple, if good connection can be delivered via 218.x.x.x without any problem, that simply means good connection are ARCHIEVABLE! Don’t give lame excuse and push your responsibility to foreign ISPs! The best cause for our slow connection is that TM-NET is overloading their streamyx line.

Look at this image, it is a bandwidth test to US Virginia server using the IP 218.x.x.x. The download speed is 806kbps! What a fantastic speed! This is what streamyx should be delivering on all time. This is what we are paying for!

Here you will see the same bandwidth test done to the same US Virginia server, using the same computer and modem but under fuck up 219.x.x.x IP. See the differences!

The poor result is only 49.6kbps which is lower than dial up 56.6kbps! And notice that upload speed is actually higher than download speed! My God.

Now let’s go more technical into Traceroute. Traceroute can tell us a lot of thing regarding the condition of our connection. One important thing is PACKET LOST. Which tell us the amount of data that is ‘leak’ out when it is being transfer. Let first look at the traceroute to US JP Morgan bank website using the fuck up 219. Inside the red box, you can see that large amout of data is LOST (i.e. missing in action, leak away). If 10 packet of data are sent to you but 9 is missing half way, how can you be able to get a good bandwidth?

Let’s look at the same traceroute done to the same website using the 218 IP.

Did you notice the differences? There is absolutely now data LOST and thus it can achieve a very high bandwidth!

Conclusion

Streamyx is wasting our time, money and energy. They give us a lot of frustration, stress and dissapointment. My explanation on the 219 and 218 shows that it is really TM-Net problem itself and they can’t blame the foreign ISPs.

Last point, 70,000 subscribers in Malaysia with RM88/month = 6 million ringgit. I think if we can just contribute 1 month of our streamyx fee, we can easily file a class law suit to them. Suing them OVER PROMISE and UNDER DELIVER! Suing them lying to their customers saying that they don’t have any connection problem.

Update: I have decided to stop blogging anything related to Streamyx to allow myself to live longer. Please read my final conclusion post on how to solve your slow TM Net Streamyx. Commenting for this post is now closed.

TM-Net sent a sohai to my house today. This is what the sohai did.

He said, “I come here to confirm your bandwidth, please do me a bandwidth test”.

I turn on MySpeedPC and do a bandwidth test to US Viginia server and it look like this

This is consider a ‘good’ result out-of-the-bad because I get < 10kbps most of the time. And remember I am using RM88 1mbps package, that is 1024kbps!

He said, “No No, we don’t care about your bandwidth test to the US server, you need to test it at TM-NET site.” …*@#$&*!…

So I have to go to TM-Net site and do a bandwidth test. Of course I get 850kbps. I get that everyday!

I said, “What is the use of having 850kbps in Malaysia only but 10kbps when connecting to international sites?”

He answered, “We don’t care about that, we only look at bandwidth test from TM-Net site. Other than that we don’t care”.

I said, “Then why call it INTERNET and not LOCALNET or MALAYSIANET? Since we can’t connect to the international sites?”

He said, “You call TM-Net, don’t tell me anything. It has nothing to do with me”. I answered with something and before I can finish, he repeat, “You go call TM-NET, that’s not related to me.”

He then leave my house immediately. That’s less than 5 minutes total from coming to my house to leaving my house.

TM-Net! Why send a sohai to my house who just want to waste my time?

LISTEN SOHAI

If you subscribe to 013 mobile line, and you have no problem calling other 013 BUT always disconnect when you call to 012, 016 and 019. Is That A Problem?

If you buy a car and you can drive within Ipoh without any problem BUT you cannot drive it to Penang or Kuala Lumpur. Is That A Problem?

If you pay for 1024kbps and you can connect to local sites at fast 850kbps BUT you can only connect to international sites at 20kbps. Is That A Problem?!

The SCARY Truth IS

TM-Net already know that they have slow connection problem to international sites. There is nothing new to them. It is not a secret, not a surprise and not a special isolated case to them. The management staff know it, the technicians know it, the phone operators know it. There are millions of complaints in the internet and they receive thousand of calls each day about the slow connection. We are all doing our complaint alone, on 1-to-1 basis. If you total up all these complaints, you will know that almost everyone is having problem.

The problem to the slow connection is simple - The line is over congested. They blame people for using torrents and things like that. I do think it is correct. BUT users do nothing wrong at all because Streamyx has promised the bandwidth that we pay for and they need to deliver it! They need to take into consideration all of this before promising us anything?!Now I am paying RM88 for 1024kbps but is only getting 20kbps! That’s a shame because it is slower than dial up!

They have no resolution to the problem and is unable to fix it. So they use the ‘local bandwidth test‘ and ‘by best effort only clause‘ to ’solve’ it. Telephone operators are well trained up nowadays to listen and ignore complaints (promise to do something but do nothing, kick you like a ball from here to there). Technicians are trained up to use the local bandwidth test tool and tell you, “Hey see, no problem” and then ’settle’ it in 5 minutes.

Management/Marketing team close their eyes because they are happy with the money pouring in each month (RM88 x 70,000 subscribers = RM6 MILLION). Engineers also do nothing because NOTHING CAN BE DONE, unless TM-NET really willing to allocate money to upgrade their facility.

I have written a great post to explain What is SOHAI?. If you already understand the meaning of the word, do read it too to see if my explanation is good. :p

Update: AhYap has stop complaining about Streamyx so he can Live In Peace. Please read his final post on what do do with your slow streamyx connection and improve your torrent speed for his final episode. Commenting for this post has also been closed.

As my title says, cibai kia looking at cibai.

As all my friends know, I always invisible in YM and they can always buzz me if they want to talk to me. And there is one weird guy (give some face lar, call him ‘cute’ guy) who always send me weird messages (even he never see me online nor I will talk to him).
Today is the best

awak? awak rasa saya ni perlu ke dalam list YM awak? so kalau taknak tengok saya ader dalam list YM awak.. sila DEL .. tapi kasi tahu saya dulu .. so saya pon del awak… okay?

My response is the same, no respond.

I search though the history and here are some others

- Saya nak kasi tahu kat sesapa yang duk sebarkan petua petua .. ayat ayat suci … kata kata hikmah dan sewaktu denganya… JANGAN LAH DUK KATA send untuk 10 org dapat pahala .. send 100 org dapat masuk syurga… apa kejadah ni… u nak send… u taknak send terpulang… benda baik dibalas baik benda jahat tunggu lah hari pembalasan.. setakat nak send send ni .. korang kata hapuskan 100% dosa. tu nama nama yer menipu diri sendiri.. sekian…
- hah .. okay aku kalah .. aku minta maaf.. hati guwe tak sedap pagi ni .. manyak benda berlaku … go go go . NO MORE MASS MESSAGE FROM ME .. SORRY yaa ..

awas pemberian CD free bertajuk AHMAD’DREAM motifnya memurtadkan melayu islam.watak lakonan oleh org melayu yg berjaya dimurtadkan.Sebarkan kalu sayang pada islam mdc cekda: BAHAYANYA KARTUN POKEMON– korang tau x maksud POKEMON dan BINATANG2 yang ade dalamnya??? POKEMON bermaksud saya yahudi, PIKACHU bermaksud jadilah seorang yahudi, CHARMANDER bermaksud ALLAH itu lemah(subhanallah)….. jadi…. tolonglah SEBARKAN kepada rakan2 chat korang semua…….

Al-Fatihah buat arwah Mohammad Suhaimi Bin Othman a.k.a Lordraptor [nick di IRC] yg telah meninggal dunia pada 3.20 pagi tadi.Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat.Amin !! sebarkan pada mereka yang mengenali nya .. [Saya terpaksa MASS msg untuk berita ini . Mungkin anda yang terima ini kawan baik suhaimi suatu ketika dulu]

to all ym members outhere.. beware of conman using id : rikky_ib . and Lim Kian Siang is not involved. This con man involving 2 middle man to con ppl. Saya sangat kecewa . Saya menjadi mangsa. Rm1888 .Hilang. got many things to pay. Got Many things to settle. just add on RM1888 to menyakitkan kepala ai lagi.

Although I get A2 in Malay (SPM), I really don’t understand many of the words like memurtadadkan, mdc cekda, korang (kau orang?), duk kata (datuk kata?), pahala, name yer (yer?). The one I think I get is “so saya pon del awak” which should mean “so saya pun diu awak”. hahaha. Not diu lar, delete lar.

BEST MESSAGE - follow the link to read the article

http://www.meranti.org/meranti2/readarticle.php?article_id=18 << read carefully . Islam is not punishing ppl but using a really bad tactic of changing someone's religion is bad . (my english is not perfect)

I don’t want to comment too much about that article because it is about religion and I do respect people’s religion. Do read it yourself, esp on the ‘holy water’ part. The only thing I would say is that there are really a lot of weird (cute lar I mean) people in this world. And we really need to open our heart wider to accept them. And I hope they will accept us too because we will be weird too in thier perspective.

A quick comparison table is available at BankingInfo. But this table is limited to the following tenure, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. More than 1 year is available here.

Direct links to the specific bank’s website to check for their current fixed deposit interest rate

Local Banks

MayBank (Winner of AhYap’s “THE SLOWEST MALAYSIAN BANK”. ATM, check deposit and cash deposit machines doesn’t seems to improve their counter services AT ALL)
AmBank
Public Bank
CIMB Bank (Previously Bumiputra Commerce & Southern Bank)
RHB Bank
Hong Leong Bank
EON Bank
Alliance Bank
Affin Bank (Winner of AhYap’s “THE MOST UGLY BANK’S WEBSITE”. I will never put money in a bank that can’t design a good website! BCB & Southern bank websites are also very ugly. No wonder they are taken over by CIMB now!)

Foreign Banks

UOB
OCBC
HSBC
Citibank
Standard Chartered

AhYap’s Knowledge Zone

Why do some banks offer higher interest rate while some are lower (esp. foreign banks)? Higher interest rate means the bank need your money. Foreign banks are usually financially stronger and has strong backup from their mother company. So they are not worry about the money too much.

How do banks make money? Lim Goh Thong put $1,000,000 in the bank and the bank give him 4% interest. The bank then loan the money to Ananda Krishnan and charge him 7% interest. The bank make the difference 3%.

Let’s say now Ananda has a choice to get the loan from either AmBank or UOB. AmBank offer him 7% while UOB 6%, which loan do you think he will take? Foreign banks are smart, they want to get more customers. And customers are those who loan money and not those who deposit money! In order to lower the loan interest rate, the deposit rates must also be lower. Else they can’t make good money. This explains why foreign bank don’t offer good deposit rates but VERY GOOD loan rates.

So if you are smart, you will put your fixed deposit in 1 bank and get a loan from another.

I help them to fix their typo. Hopefully their webmaster will update their homepage soon.

Experience the Internet like never before

With tmnet streamyx, you get broadband access service, which stays perpetually connected to the Internet with speed bandwidths of 8k 512k up to 50kbps 2mbps.

So, now when you download your favourite songs, movies, music videos and even accessing your favourite websites, you will won’t have to wait for ever and ever, leaving you with more time to enjoy everything except the Internet as you like.

Broadband your life today and experience the World Wide Web like never before.

Shame on Streamyx!

I am having problem connecting to my site today. Usually I won’t have any problem because my site is hosted at CyberJaya (very near compare to USA). But today 90% of data packets are lost when I connect to AhYap.com! And I do not know why streamyx route my connection to Australia half way?! Pandai betul streamxy routing facility.

Oh, it takes me 30 minutes to login to my blog, upload my screen capture and write this post. Streamyx Sucks!

All saman rate for car is RM70 except accident & running red light (RM150) and not using seatbelt (RM50).

So use your brain next time when you want to bribe a police, don’t believe in the bullshit, “Ini Saman Tiga Ratus Ringgit!”, and let the police scare the shit off you and end up you need to beg them to take your RM100! Use the following formula when calculating the amount of kopi duit.

Bribe Amount = Number of Police x RM10.

So,

1 Police = RM10

2 Police = RM20

3+ Police = RM30 (maximum)

Remember that price are always negotiable! These are the HIGHEST price you can pay.

Things that you should remember when you get caught.

1. Don’t look like a virgin even if you are one! Pretend that you have been caught many times and you are their loyal customer. If they know you are a little virgin, you will be raped.

2. You need to continue talking! Don’t keep quiet. Keep talking shit and they will always talk back to you because they want to find a way to get to the point.

3. Don’t talk like a lawyer! Talk like you are talking to your best friend. Must Kawan Kawan Tau!

4. Make your first offer using 50% of the bribe amount (i.e. RM10 if 2 police). This is very important because they will say no to the first offer. Then you act like it is very hard for you and you talk cock that you are very poor, you then increase it to the bribe amount. They will happily accept it because all people want to bargain a bit than only feel happy.

If you are good, this should be settled within 10 minutes guaranted.

What if you do not have enough money or your ringgit notes are too big (i.e RM50/RM100)?

Negotiate the price *first* before telling them you don’t have the money or small notes! Then, let them hold your IC/Driving License so they know you can’t run away. You can now

1. Go withdraw cash at ATM or go back house to take if near.

2. If notes are too big, simply go to 7-eleven to buy a condom or you can go pump petrol at the nearest petrol station. (kopitiam, shops will also work! Use your brain)

This method is based on the concept, “Making a new friend is better than making a new enemy”.

Disclaimer: These are my little bullshit and for laughing purposes only, don’t use it as I am not responsible if you burned your ass with it.

The following is a list of the new compound rates (old rates in brackets):

Accidents not involving non-compoundable cases

• Lorry/bus - RM200 (RM300)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM150 (RM300)
• Motorcycle - RM100 (RM300)

Speeding

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM150)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM150)
• Motorcycle - RM50 (RM150)

Not using seatbelt

• Taxi - RM50 (RM150)
• Van - RM50 (RM80)
• 4WD/Car - RM50 (RM70)

Not using helmet

• Motorcycle - RM30 (RM70)

Making an illegal U-turn

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM200)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM100)
• Motorcycle - RM50 (RM70)

Overtaking in a dangerous manner/Cutting queue

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM200)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM100)
• Motorcycle - RM50 (RM70)

Running a red light

• Lorry/bus - unchanged (RM200)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM150 (RM200)
• Motorcycle - RM100 (RM150)

Using a cellphone while driving

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM200)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM100)
• Motorcycle - RM50 (RM70)

Not giving way before turning

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM200)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM100)
• Motorcycle - RM50 (RM70)

Driving license-related offences

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM150)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM80)
• Motorcycle - RM30 (RM70)

Road tax-related offences

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM150)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM80)
• Motorcycle - RM30 (RM50)

Driving in an emergency lane

• Lorry/bus - RM90 (RM200)
• 4WD/Car/Taxi/Van - RM70 (RM100)
• Motorcycle - RM50 (RM70)

Warrant-related cases

• All vehicles - 1X the offer rate, not exceeding RM300 (RM300)