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As usual, got this from anonymous source via email.

Ten years ago in Kuala Lumpur, when you had to fly to a domestic destination,you traveled 30 minutes to Subang Airport, where you left from the 1954-style terminal where you had to go out on the tarmac in the rain and climb up a staircase to get on the plane.

Then, the government built a multi-billion ringgit global hub terminal 75 minutes away from KL with world-class everything. Then, they built a high-speed rail connection so it takes only 30 minutes to get there. Despite this, the global hub terminal remains a deserted ghost-town with far more gate capacity than flights.

AirAsia then starts up. Everyone can fly and the global hub terminal begins to come to life. So the government decides to build AirAsia far, far away terminal at the other end of the airport, one that replicates the old 1954-style terminal. It doesn’t connect to the high-speed train.

Then, almost all domestic flights are shifted over to AirAsia. So now you have to take a 75 minute bus ride to the far, far away terminal and walk out in the rain and climb the stairs just
like back in 1954, while the global hub terminal is once again deserted.
Oh, and if you need to transfer from an overseas flight to a domestic flight, you have to take a half-an-hour bus ride from the global hub terminal to the far, far away terminal.

Is this back to the future or back to the past? Or is it just ‘terminal stupidity’?

If you are a spammer, you can leave now: you know that already.

If you are an entrepreneur looking for email solutions, here is a few advices on why NOT to host your email server, on your DSL broadband.

If you own a fixed IP, make sure your server send a greeting with proper host name that resolvable back to your IP. It is even better if the IP reverse name can be changed according to your host name – some ISP may be willing to do that (It is sometime referred as ARPA domain). If the IP has a proper reverse name, and you don’t want to bug your ISP for the change, use that name instead. You lose your branding here, but this will ensure higher chance of getting your email thru.

If you are on dynamic IP, the situation can be nastier when the peer MTA perform a name lookup based on your server greeting. A good workaround is to use Dyndns.

So first thing first, make sure you have a proper name for the IP, be it fixed or dynamic. Second, get the reverse name for the IP to match your host name if possible.

If you can’t fulfill both of the host name requirement, try not to use a valid hostname on the greeting. Something like “localhost” and “null” would be fine.

Even if you have all the above done, many of the broadband IP being blacklisted by ISP mail server, you’ll be still doomed.

So, it might be “cheaper” to hire a dedicated email hosting provider to keep your email service running – if you do care about your business.
Try this list for free email services, some even willing to host your domain for free.

In short, hand it over to the pro!

4 weeks in a row. Pathetic right? The turtles and cat fish are losing steam, the kids no longer enjoy feeding them.
I am planing to skip this botanic thing, and go to some please else.

Any good suggestion?

I’ve got RSI on my left hand, but it wasn’t triggered while typing. It hurts when I was trying to move somebody else motorcycle on the road side.

Being a motorcyclist many years ago (on a Honda you know.. 70 cc lar), I didn’t expect motorcycle these days are so much heavier. So it hurts a little tweaking the steering, and later growing into major pain.

It was quite painful if I try to carry things or kids, but I can still drive – luckily my old metal is automatic transmission.

Maybe I should quit typing for a few days, just use my right hand for mousing and browsing, not a bad idea eh? Maybe I should dig out my insurance policy on RSI compensation, even a better idea.

Ok, enough nonsense. How you guys overcome it? Any better idea instead of tying up the wrist with some rubber belts?

If you are using any of the prepaid services from any of the celcos here, you probably know that you can dial the following number to get your balance report:

Maxis 012 and 017, dial *122#
Digi 016, dial *126#
Celcom 013 and 019, dial *124#

Can you spot the odd? Celcom!
Why *124#?

Why not *129#? That should be a more logical choice right?
Also, 014 own by Digi, not Celcom. Same question, why Celcom decided to pick *124#?

You wouldn’t get the answer from me. I am confused too.

Celcom own by TM, TM has multiple colocation centers and endless network points, but strange enough Celcom web site is located within Jaring facilities at Bukit Jalil.

It has been more than a year since TM acquired Celcom, no one will need that much of time to move a few boxes from one place to another.

Maybe TM already own Jaring?

# traceroute www.celcom.com.my
traceroute to www.celcom.com.my (202.190.116.139), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 219.93.218.177 (219.93.218.177) 170.732 ms 100.852 ms 70.370 ms
2 219.93.216.21 (219.93.216.21) 27.217 ms 20.528 ms 20.606 ms
3 210.187.129.139 (210.187.129.139) 22.600 ms 26.919 ms 20.141 ms
4 58.27.124.1 (58.27.124.1) 20.525 ms 58.27.124.17 (58.27.124.17) 20.801 ms 202.188.126.139 (202.188.126.139) 21.886 ms
5 so-1-2-1-mix-cbj01-eastgate.tm.net.my (219.93.171.50) 24.384 ms 202.188.126.139 (202.188.126.139) 21.827 ms so-1-2-1-mix-cbj01-eastgate.tm.net.my (219.93.171.50) 25.250 ms
6 202.71.96.45 (202.71.96.45) 169.112 ms so-1-2-1-mix-cbj01-eastgate.tm.net.my (219.93.171.50) 144.195 ms 202.71.96.45 (202.71.96.45) 51.637 ms
7 202.71.96.45 (202.71.96.45) 44.009 ms 20.591 ms atm5-1-0-mix-brf01-eastgate.net.my (202.71.96.78) 27.558 ms
8 atm5-1-0-mix-brf01-eastgate.net.my (202.71.96.78) 40.219 ms 218.100.18.17 (218.100.18.17) 23.202 ms 62.997 ms
9 218.100.18.17 (218.100.18.17) 23.990 ms srp6-0-0.bkj17.jaring.my (61.6.3.249) 31.314 ms 218.100.18.17 (218.100.18.17) 22.345 ms
10 srp6-0-0.bkj17.jaring.my (61.6.3.249) 28.196 ms ge0-0-0.bkj4.jaring.my (161.142.173.3) 31.094 ms 33.150 ms
11 fe0-0.bkj150.jaring.my (61.6.163.150) 29.518 ms ge0-0-0.bkj4.jaring.my (161.142.173.3) 29.949 ms 37.661 ms
12 * 161.142.32.82 (161.142.32.82) 26.383 ms fe0-0.bkj150.jaring.my (61.6.163.150) 29.591 ms
13 161.142.34.190 (161.142.34.190) 30.858 ms 161.142.32.50 (161.142.32.50) 28.147 ms *
14 * * *

Here is some testing out of Celcom 3G. Not really scientific test, so don’t tell people you got it from here
From the traceroute result, it seem the 3G service has pretty good local network connectivities. The latency stay at around 100 milliseconds.

But the oversea destinations really suffer. Hitting 500 milliseconds or more. Although still usable, but the experience will not be smooth.

So here you go with some traceroute specimen attached. I am not telling you to stop using 3G or not to invest in one. Maybe holding a little while, wait till the clouds are clear would be a good idea.

The fast local link, 100 ms is pretty good for wireless broadband:

# traceroute www.celcom.com.my
traceroute to www.celcom.com.my (202.190.116.139), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.221.1.174 (10.221.1.174) 196.797 ms 233.399 ms 220.837 ms
2 10.221.1.197 (10.221.1.197) 200.181 ms 192.516 ms 199.892 ms
3 219.93.152.1 (219.93.152.1) 222.082 ms 184.805 ms 193.278 ms
4 219.93.153.49 (219.93.153.49) 210.659 ms 175.535 ms 179.615 ms
5 210.187.133.50 (210.187.133.50) 178.523 ms 201.246 ms 198.661 ms
6 brf-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my (210.187.135.1) 220.935 ms 194.010 ms 179.307 ms
7 210.187.142.1 (210.187.142.1) 181.052 ms 301.372 ms 357.770 ms
8 219.93.151.104 (219.93.151.104) 217.494 ms 225.619 ms 215.090 ms
9 202.71.100.9 (202.71.100.9) 217.595 ms 239.999 ms 198.624 ms
10 218.100.18.13 (218.100.18.13) 221.525 ms 235.967 ms 216.029 ms
11 srp6-0-0.bkj17.jaring.my (61.6.3.249) 222.612 ms 194.251 ms 246.175 ms
12 ge0-0-0.bkj11.jaring.my (161.142.173.11) 210.889 ms 196.495 ms 205.341 ms
13 fe0-0.bkj150.jaring.my (61.6.163.150) 197.238 ms 221.809 ms 201.089 ms
14 161.142.32.50 (161.142.32.50) 198.549 ms 200.013 ms 161.142.34.190 (161.142.34.190) 216.023 ms

The slow:

# traceroute www.yahoo.com
traceroute: Warning: www.yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 68.142.197.88
traceroute to www.yahoo.akadns.net (68.142.197.88), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.221.1.174 (10.221.1.174) 210.736 ms 193.327 ms 203.131 ms
2 10.221.1.197 (10.221.1.197) 200.071 ms 191.117 ms 194.002 ms
3 219.93.152.1 (219.93.152.1) 196.471 ms 222.377 ms 202.131 ms
4 219.93.153.49 (219.93.153.49) 204.578 ms 216.932 ms 204.038 ms
5 210.187.133.49 (210.187.133.49) 181.450 ms 197.322 ms 197.989 ms
6 brf-odsy02-srp1-0.tm.net.my (210.187.135.2) 193.344 ms 199.323 ms 192.728 ms
7 210.187.143.1 (210.187.143.1) 222.911 ms 193.361 ms 200.983 ms
8 219.93.174.154 (219.93.174.154) 198.863 ms 219.93.174.155 (219.93.174.155) 191.033 ms 219.93.174.154 (219.93.174.154) 194.969 ms
9 202.188.0.9 (202.188.0.9) 196.690 ms 219.93.151.227 (219.93.151.227) 210.328 ms 189.666 ms
10 219.93.168.230 (219.93.168.230) 400.531 ms 384.778 ms 407.784 ms
11 exchange-cust1.lax.equinix.net (206.223.123.16) 402.608 ms 396.738 ms 388.265 ms
12 vl174.bas1.dal.yahoo.com (216.115.96.90) 445.227 ms 453.658 ms 450.389 ms
13 ge-1-1-0-p420.msr2.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.109) 502.038 ms ge-1-1-0-p400.msr1.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.105) 558.272 ms ge-1-1-0-p420.msr2.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.109) 502.239 ms
14 ten-9-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.31) 488.257 ms ten-8-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.25) 493.795 ms ten-9-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.29) 510.364 ms
15 p25.www.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.197.88) 504.149 ms 505.887 ms 493.320 ms

My home broadband is finally back after a 4 days hiatus. This should be the longest record yet.
As usual, no words nothing from the ISP.

Uptime chart here.