好奇怪，集会就有损国家形象？

马青总秘书蔡金星说集会有损国家形象，尤其是非法集会。更说道由马华4部长陈情。

蔡总秘书应该说说什么是非法集会。

联邦宪法已经说明集会是公民的合法权利，那警方引用警察法令来阻止公民合法集会，怎么说的过去？

再有，通过马华部长陈情，向谁陈情？内阁？马华不是当家的一份子吗？为何还要陈情？为何不直接告诉内阁其他同僚马华要内安法令废除？

党团响应周六反内安法集会 马青团唱反调说损国家形象

作者／本刊记者 Jul 30, 2009 04:29:30 pm 【本刊记者撰述】由废除《内安法令》联盟（GMI）发起的废除《内安法令》大集会即将在后天举行，社会主义党柔佛中努沙再也（Nusajaya）支部秘书朱信杰呼吁柔佛子民踊跃支持该集会；不过马华公会青年团今天唱反调，表示不认同民间以非法集会方式表达看法，因为非法集会有损国家形象。 马华公会青年团总秘书蔡金星今天发表声明，表示支持政府重新检讨甚至废除《1960年《内安法令》》，但不认同民间以非法集会方式表达看法。 蔡金星（左图）说，检讨《内安法令》是大部份人民的意愿，很多人也认为废除《内安法令》才是最佳的解决方式。 “我认同检讨甚至废除《内安法令》，并以其他法令如《防止恐怖行动法令》取而代之。《内安法令》出现迄今，不少时候是被滥用对付政敌，连《星洲日报》记者陈云清都曾经是受害者之一。” 蔡金星表示，不经审讯便长时间扣留“嫌疑犯”，内政部长甚至有权力延长其扣留期，都不符合民主精神；“不管政府现在是否考虑缩短相关扣留期，都不能被接受，因为在奉行民主制度的国家里，任何人都应该享有获得审讯的机会，以作自我辩护，再由法庭定罪。” “因此，我认为必须废除这项法令，不再赋权内政部长延长《内安法令》扣留者的扣留期，而是把他们交给法院公平审讯。” 可由马华四部长陈情 蔡金星也认为，旧有的《内安法令》已不合时宜，况且翻开过去的历史，《内安法令》很多时候用作扣留政治人物，不管马华公会或在野党，都曾有领袖被扣留。 蔡金星表示，在1980年代后期，时任马青总团长叶炳汉便因带领马青团对抗教育部派遣不谙华语的教师出任华小高职政策，而遭政府援引《内安法令》扣留。 “《内安法令》不该用作对付那些因为自身公民权益受到不公平对待而斗争的人，因为他们的争取并没破坏国家秩序，也没有对国家安全构成威胁。” 他强调，民间可以透过各种管道，尤其是内部管道向内政部反映看法，马青团也能透过马华公会的四名内阁部长，把民间建议提呈至内阁。 “我们要求政府检讨《内安法令》的立场不变，甚至敦促政府废除此恶法，改以其他更合时宜的法令取代。不过，我不鼓励非法集会，也不认为非法集会可以解决问题。” “我们可以有很多管道表达看法，不一定要走上街头，去年全国大选后，我国政局一再叫外资却步，如今人民再次举行非法大集会，恐怕带来更多负面印象。” 他表示，大集会或游行抗议，是在无计可施的情况下才考虑的抗争方式，而不是动辄就办大集会，最后只会制造更不稳定的局面。 朱信杰：营造白色恐惧 另一边厢，马来西亚社会主义党柔佛努沙再也（Nusajaya）支部秘书朱信杰今天也发表声明，呼吁柔佛子民支持本周六在吉隆坡举行的废除《内安法令》大集会。 “通过这个集会，我们表达要求政府废除《内安法令》的强烈意愿，并反对任何尝试维持或仅仅修改《内安法令》的举动，因为这些举措只是在模糊人民的真正诉求。” 朱信杰指出，《内安法令》允许无审讯扣留，严重地违反基本人权。这恶法自1960年实施以来，持续成为统治集团（国阵）的打压工具，逮捕了许多来自在野党和民间组织的社运分子，包括1960年代大举镇压左翼人士、1987年茅草行动、今年逮捕兴都权利行动力量领袖等。 “事实证明，《内安法令》作为国阵政府有效的统治工具，为它铲除一切反对力量，并在人民之中制造白色恐怖以达到稳固政权的目的。” 朱信杰表示，去年全国大选中人民狠狠地教训了由巫统主导的国阵霸权，强烈要求统治集团必须以人民的权益为主；因此，《内安法令》这些只服务于统治集团利益的恶法，必须被废除。 他也说，纳吉上任首相时，假惺惺地释放了13名在《内安法令》下被扣者，其中包括有条件地释放兴权会的领袖。“但是，唯有立刻废除《内安法令》，才是真正地符合人民改革的意愿。” 朱信杰认为，相比于今年三月的废除数理英化大集会，这次人民显示废除《内安法令》的决心特别重要。 “废除数理英化大集会体现了各族人民团结一致，造成国阵政府无法镇压人民的声音。政府被迫正视人民的诉求，进而做出废除小学数理英化政策的决定。” 朱信杰透露，一个以回教徒协商理事会（Pewaris）为首的团体号召在8月1日废除《内安法令》大集会的同一天，举行“一个马来西亚，拯救马来西亚，保留《内安法令》，维护马来人特权”大集会。 “我强调各方和平集会的权利必须受到尊重，只是我们有必要曝露这些团体维护《内安法令》，等同于漠视民权及企图玩弄种族主义的真面目。” 因此，朱信杰呼吁柔佛子民全力支持于8月1日在吉隆坡举行的废除《内安法令》大集会，并严厉地谴责一切种族主义的言论。 “我们也对吉隆坡总警长莫哈末沙都（Mohd Sabtu）指示废除《内安法令》联盟取消集会感到失望。我们要提醒警方，举行和平集会是人民的基本权利，警方理应在人民集会中负责维持秩序的责任，让集会顺利和平地举行。”

Samsung SE-S084C Slim External DVD Burner

My wife's DVD burner in her Acer Power mini desktop failed to burn DVD recently. She has been nagging me to look into the problem but I have just ignored her calls, until she's away for an overseas trip.

So, I went down to Low Yat Plaza, first looking at whether able to find a replacement internal slot loading DVD burner. Found one shop, selling at RM200 per unit.

Well, judging at the price of external burners, which I found within the range of RM179 to RM289, why should I then go for an internal burner, although it is slot loading, but this is not the main concern.

The main concern is portability. Wife's MacBook Air is on her shopping list, I am using a MacBook and nothing else. She has got 2 Windows Desktops, a white label DIY stuff (by me, of course), and an Acer Power.

I do not want to have a burner, in fact I seldom use CD lately. Everything is transmitted either via network, broadband, 3G, or thumb drive. CD/DVD is already a past tense to me. Was even thinking of removing the DVD combo drive from my MacBook for a second HD :)

However, occasionally I may need to archive my work, documents, presentations, technical information, source codes, etc. Portable DVD burner comes handy.

After 2 rounds of visits to Low Yat, I finally settled with Samsung's SE-S084C external slim DVD burner.

The price, as well as Mac logo on its box, makes me decided on this unit. Although LG external burner looks better, but I am not able to ascertain whether LG works for MAC OSX.

The cheapest I found in Low Yat is RM210 for the Samsung SE-S084C, some selling at RM219, some even selling at RM249, but there are all the same make and model.

Brought home the burner, did a brief test. Burner is quiet as compare to the existing slot loading Mashita UJ-85JS on the Acer Power, and my MacBook's Mashita drive too.

Burning is surprisingly fast on my MacBook, athough the burner connects to my MacBook via USB, burning a backup DVD of 1.7GB, some 20,000 files, took around 3 minutes using Finder.

I am yet to test on the Acer Power, but I think the speed should be identical regardless of host and OS.

If you ask whether I am happy with the burner, I would say YES.

怪力乱神

有点想不通，马华在这时候居然敢敢说有外来势力誓要把翁总劈下马，让听话的人取而代之。

马华不早已在巫老大的领导下战战兢兢的“为华社争取权益”了吗？既然已事事仰人鼻息、遄摸圣意，那就干脆认了吧，又何必时时刻刻的将自己朔造成什么“悲情英雄”、被内外“十面埋伏”？

据说内阁不就是“集体负责”的吗？那内阁同意将巴生自贸区的“回顾报告” （是根据英文字眼Position Review of Port Klang Free Zone Project and Port Klang Free Zone Sdn Bhd简单的翻译，左看右看都看不出那里有讲是审计报告--Audit Report）公布,是内阁宽宏大量，集体同意将报告公开，而非单一部长、或马华全体部长一意孤行，坚持要公开“回顾报告”。

集体负责并不是我的一面之词，是廖副总在接受东方日报的访问时强调的：

“我要再次强调，政府内阁是集体领导的内阁，所以不管哪个部门，只要马华部长没有减只有加，对华社及马华来说就是加分。”

既然如此，又何以悲情英雄来赚人眼泪？

话说回头，巴生自贸区的“回顾报告”要没有巫老大点头，凭马华全体部长之力，也不敢贸然不顾一切、义无返顾。害怕的可是掉了头上的乌纱，就无颜面对“华社”父老。如不同意我的看法，请再三、反复的读读廖总以上的说话：一切尽在不言中！

好了，那怪力乱神又怎么回事？

最近看到、听到、梦到的，不是赵明福，而是马华内部互踩。当中就有一派说另一派甘为巫老大的棋子，借巫老大的权威颠覆马华。

讲这话的党内人士，想必是神游太虚，不食人间烟火。不然他就是笨蛋，又或当全世界是笨蛋。

马华要是真正的有背骨的话，就不会沦落到今天。

巫老大一直都是马华太上总会长，路人皆知，何必在这时候扮清高？

怪力乱神，恐怕是入时未深、嘴上无毛的笨家伙喊来唬唬愚民，谁是愚民？那就请别对号入座了。

Recalling another favourate - Bob Dylan's Blowing in the wind

I first heard of this song when I was teen, one of my uncle, who collected books and albums that brought me up. And I got to know Dylan from his collection.

It is Teoh Beng Hock's tragic event that made me revisit this song, and I dedicate this song to Teoh, hope that his death will end the most cruel, cold-blooded age of the country where we were born, and raised.

Blowin' In The Wind

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Copyright ©1962; renewed 1990 Special Rider Music

Will the truth be buried?

I attended the Teoh Beng Hock Memorial earlier tonight took place at the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall.

There were around 2000 packed in the hall where the ceremony took place, where speakers slammed the recent decision of the Government forming a Royal Commision of Inquiry to conduct investigation on MACC's procedure, whether it violated Teoh's human rights;

Inquest is to set up to study Teoh's death based on the investigation of the Police.


It is, for many of us who attended the memorial to pay last respect to a man who probably the last on earth to kill himself, yet the 'Honorable' Minister in the Prime Minister Department Nazri was quoted as "can't he jump himself?"

People agnry not because Teoh died. People angry because None in the Government has express sincere attitude on the inccident.

People don't really care whether you are Barisan Nasional or Pakatab Rakyat but ONE life lost needlessly (quoted Guan Eng) that nothing can be done to bring him back alive. But isn't Teoh deserves justice for his death? Isn't his family have the rights to know why he died? isn't the public has the rights to know if it is wrongdoing on the part of MACC or someone behind the whole episode of the drama, that deserve punishment fit for what they have done?

Instead of restoring faith towards the authority, we see these people keep creating unrest that only Malaysian are so patient to allow them doing what they wanted.

Back in 2007, Batu Buruk, Trengganu, a young man was shot by (who else is licensed gun carrier?) the Police and nearly die. Is there a justice for him? Is the person who shot him been punished according to our esteem Laws of Malaysia?

Earlier this year we witnessed A Kugan, a suspect found dead in Police custody that the priliminary optosy revealed that the young man died of fluid in lung that cost his life.

Kugan was later found that the young man was tortured with wounds almost every part of his body.

The Government later announced that the 11 Police officers at the scene during the death of Kugan to be transferred to the Police HQ. No action taken, nothing happen since then besides a inquest to be established to ascertain
Kugan's death.

The Government does not seems to understand after so many inccidents that the general public have lost their faith on the authority, especially the enforcement institutions, and still insist that the Police investigation to be the one and only reference for all the cases I mentioned above.

Or do they have something to hide? I dunno.


-- Post From My iPhone

When will this LDP flyover falling apart?

I received an email from a friend with the following URL

http://bolehlandconstruction.blogspot.com/2009/06/ldp-puchong-jaya-interchange-major.html

I am just wondering why there isn't any news on such a major problem that may risk thousands of life committing on the flyover, not even the LDP nor the Highway Authority issuing any alert on this.

If this is false, why no one ever counter such a problem? Except for highway operator getting their contractors trying to remedy the situation?

It is all of us to be blamed for letting an oppoturnity gone to rectify what has gone wrong since the Independence.

It is too obvious that all these were to be covered up even if it risks thousands of lives and families.

So all of you, me included, will have to take the consequences if any unwanted event were to take place. And we are all murderers for those who are unfortunate enough to hit the block.

We can already expect what will come out from the Authority: "Act of God".

Well, God is to be blamed too as far as they are concern, besides people like us, who prefer status quo worrying that rocking the boat will lead us nowhere.

But there will be no one responsible for those who approved, built, operates,and monitor the said construction, ever.





-- Post From My iPhone

HE IS GOD - He knows what's happening during the last hours of Teoh Beng Hock

Mohd Zaini Hassan of Utusan is "GOD" who claimed to have knowledge of what's happening during the last hours of Teoh Beng Hock before found death?

Or is he is merely playing the role of God and HE IS NO GOD?

If he is GOD, then why we need MACC & Police or even PM?

PS

I have no intention to smear the name of GOD but I just cannot understand why someone like this is allowed to write as if he is GOD in an influential media so to speak.

Click the link below if you want to know where this copy comes from..

Selangor Oh Selangor 2: Apa ada dalam notebookBeng Hock?

Kisah Teoh Beng Hock, 30, amat tragik. Ia jarang-jarang berlaku dalam politik tanah air.

Semuanya terjadi pertengahan minggu lalu semasa SPRM memulakan satu siasatan mengejut. Mereka memanggil beberapa orang pemimpin Selangor bagi membantu siasatan berhubung soal tuntutan peruntukan kerajaan.

Beberapa hari sebelum itu, senario politik Selangor telah pun mula berkocak. Ia ekoran kisah Ahli Parlimen Wangsa Maju, Wee Choo Keong yang membuat satu pendedahan. Melalui blognyahttp:\\weechookeong.wordpress.com beliau mendakwa mengenai 'orang yang ada kaitan dengan aktiviti underworld' di Selangor. Ia adalah mengenai kegiatan kongsi gelap yang dikatakan disokong oleh pihak tertentu.

Namun isu kongsi gelap itu terhenti seketika apabila pada hari Khamis, negara tersentak dengan tragedi berdarah yang berlaku ke atas Beng Hock, Setiausaha Politik Exco kerajaan negeri Selangor, Ean Yong Hian Wah.

Sehari sebelum itu akhbar The Star menyiarkan gambar Beng Hock bersama-sama dengan bosnya, Hian Wah bertemu dengan seorang pegawai penyiasat SPRM di SUK Selangor.

Beng Hock ditemui mati selepas selesai membantu SPRM menyiasat mengenai kes penggunaan peruntukan kerajaan itu. Beliau berada di pejabat suruhanjaya itu dari pukul 6 petang hingga 3.50 pagi.

Sepanjang tempoh siasatan itu, Beng Hock bekas wartawan Sin Chew Daily itu dikatakan telah memberi komitmen dan kerjasama sepenuhnya. Banyak dokumen yang perlu disemak satu persatu. Beliau turut dikatakan membantu menyusun dokumen-dokumen di atas meja. Malah beliau berjanji akan membawa lagi dokumen untuk diteliti di pejabat SPRM itu. Tapi semua itu tidak sempat, beliau kemudiannya ditemui mati.

Difahamkan Beng Hock, yang merupakan seorang pemuda yang bercakap lembut dan kaki buku mulai gelisah apabila komputer ribanya mula dibuka. Ia dikatakan berlaku sekitar pukul 1 pagi. Tidak pasti apa ada dalam komputer itu yang menyebabkan beliau terlalu gelisah. Tapi yang jelas bahan-bahan dalam komputer itu amat penting untuk siasatan.

Pihak forensik polis kini dipercayai telah mengambil komputer riba itu daripada SPRM untuk siasatan lanjut.

Apa sekalipun, isi kandungan dokumen-dokumen yang ada dalam komputer riba itu akan diteliti. Mungkin juga ada maklumat-maklumat penting yang boleh membongkar satu demi satu lagi cerita.

Kita tidak tahu apa ada dalam komputer itu, tapi lazimnya sesuatu siasatan polis atau pihak berkuasa lain akan menjurus kepada pelbagai elemen kejutan 'cari benda lain akan terjumpa benda lain'.

Kita juga tidak pasti mengapa pihak di luar sana ada yang 'melompat-lompat' mengenai isu ini. Kadangkala perbuatan mereka itu kelihatan amat pelik. Apakah mungkin mereka juga turut resah gelisah mengenai siasatan itu? Kita tunggu dan lihat perkembangan seterusnya.

Perlukah suruhanjaya siasatan ditubuhkan?

Walaupun banyak pihak - terutama pembangkang mendesak satu suruhanjaya diraja ditubuhkan bagi menyiasat kes Teoh ini, tapi banyak juga pihak yang tidak begitu yakin dengan hasilnya kelak.

Mereka tidak mahu ia menjadi satu gelanggang yang hilang arah dan tiada fokus. Mereka juga tidak mahu ia kelak akan menjadi gelanggang untuk pihak-pihak tertentu mengaut faedah politik, melebihi matlamat asal penubuhannya.

Suruhanjaya membabitkan isu ketuk-ketampi seorang wanita yang disebut sebagai warga China, misalnya dikatakan telah hilang arah dan tersasar sehingga akhirnya mengaibkan Kerajaan Malaysia. Tidak semena-mena, kerajaan terpaksa menghantar seorang wakil bertaraf menteri untuk memohon maaf kepada Republik Rakyat China. Walhal ia akhirnya hanya membabitkan seorang wanita Melayu. Ia juga dikatakan telah mengaibkan pihak polis sendiri melalui sebuah penubuhan suruhanjaya aduan.

Begitu juga dengan suruhanjaya membabitkan isu V. K. Lingam - ia dikatakan gagal dikawal sehinggakan prosiding suruhanjaya itu menjadi seperti sebuah open trial di mahkamah biasa.

Janganlah ulang kesilapan-kesilapan itu. Jika mahu ditubuhkan sekali pun suruhanjaya itu, ia haruslah dilaksanakan dengan teliti dan teratur.

Kita tidak mahu kerajaan terjerat dengan desakan demi desakan yang kelak akan merugikannya, dan hasilnya tidak kelihatan. Sebaliknya pihak yang mendesak pula akan mendapat keuntungan politik hasil pancingan mereka.

Dalam keadaan sekarang, biarlah pihak polis yang meneruskan siasatan itu secara telus dan berhemah. Disebabkan ia sudah menjadi satu kes berkepentingan umum sudah tentu setiap aspek siasatan akan diikuti secara teliti oleh semua pihak. Oleh itu kita berharap siasatan dapat dijalankan secara profesional.

Namun, yang menariknya isu Beng Hock ini, ia sebenarnya telah membantu meredakan kemelut politik beberapa pihak tertentu di luar sana. Ia berlaku semasa isu underworld tengah panas, isu Kampung Buah Pala tengah panas dan isu banglo mewah Ketua Menteri di sebuah negeri, tengah panas.

Downgrading iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 to iPhone 3.0

It was a pain to be one of the first to upgrade to iPhone 3.1 beta 2.

I was having iPhone 3.0 Gold Master, which is essentially the released version, about a week before the official released date.

iPhone 3.1 beta 1 came around 1 week later, and I have decided to upgrade my iPhone 3G, hoping that it will improve further the battery life.

After upgrading to iPhone 3.1 beta 2, knowingly that it is a beta copy meant for developers to take advantage of some new features on the 3GS. I was hoping that battery life can get better.

My past experience with iPhone 3.0 betas have been quite smooth sailing, only minor issues, which does not disrupt my daily usage.

This push me to try out iPhone 3.1 beta 1. It was pretty unstable, tends to hang if you are still in the midst of accessing the Internet and turn off the screen, the phone will just hang with black screen. Perhaps many times I received missed calls due to this erratic behavior.

After struggling for a week, finally beta 2 came. I presumed that it will solve the hang issue, and probably some hidden enhancement which may make my iphone 3G works better, I decided to go for it.

That was the first day of beta 2 release, there's no news on any possible problem I may have encountered. Desperate, thus I did it in the evening.

After apply the beta 2 firmware as an updates manually, I discovered that tethering (allowing iPhone to be used as 3G modem when connecting to my MacBook) is gone.

I thought this is perhaps a glitch that I did during the update process, I tried again, no luck.

Then I decided to wipe out everything on my iPhone, and do a complete restore.

iPhone restore is relatively painless. I never loose any piece of information if I need to do a complete restore earlier, except for accounts setup for Twitterific, and some apps that I frequently use.

Ok, I did a restore. Tethering not there.... I was pretty annoyed, and guess it is probably the carrier bundle settings that is causing the problem.

So I enabled iTunes to allow carrier bundles to be installed to my iPhone, built a clean carrier bundle for Celcom, my ISP.

No luck, MMS works, 3G on the iPhone works, but not tethering.

Then I tried to understand what contains in the carrier bundle and why it doesn't work.

In the midst of finding out what's going on, I happened to have a Maxis 3G SIM, of which I borrowed from my office. Maxis is the official carrier for iPhone in Malaysia.

When I pop in Maxis 3G SIM, tethering comes back. But when I turned to Celcom 3G SIM, it goes off.

Well, there must be something Apple did on the carrier bundle for Maxis and other official carriers that my custom made Celcom 3G bundle does not have.

At first I thought it may be Apple blocking non Apple carrier over the air. But I quickly dismissed this probability, since it will be stupid for Apple to block such features.

Apple's intention is to protect carriers from user abusing the tethering feature without paying, if carrier decided to charge.

This is not the case in Malaysia where carriers do not limit subscribers to only accessing internet with their phones only. All carriers here allow users to tether without additional fee.

I have practically tried all possible values specified in APN entries, APN entries are the reference to connect to different part of carrier's cellular data network, which defines the type of activities you can do with. Celcom 3G has only 1 APN to define, i.e. celcom3g

After a few nights and days over the weekend trying to solve the puzzle, surfing, tweeting, IRC, trying to find a fix but not available.

I am pretty sure after all the googling and digesting documents, web pages, etc that I can find, it is still carrier bundle that plays the tricks. And this time, I realised that I need the iPhone 3.1 beta 2 carrier bundle as a sample, to compare with what I had.

Calling for help on twitter brought @zwaldowski who sent me a link to the 3.1 b2 bundle files.

Open up, look for Maxis_my bundle, yes, I discovered there's an additional entry, i.e. signature, on each APN entries.

Open up other carrier's bundle gave me the same result. I know this is beyond my ability to try cracking the signature. Hence I started to look for ways to downgrade back to iPhone 3.0.

Apple has always warn developers not to downgrade their iPhone, claimed iPhone may bricked if downgraded.

I was very worry as this is the only phone I have now, if I screwed up, I will need to fork out another RM2K to get a new iPhone 3G or 3GS.

And for all reason I am trying to avoid using Maxis due to its performance at my home as in my previous posts.

Twitter comes to rescue again. I did a search on twitter to look for iphone downgrade and I found @SpaceFlightO mentioned that he downgraded from 3.1 b2 to 3.0.

When I asked him how he done it, he posted the instruction he created here.

Following his instruction, I got my iPhone back to 3.0 final and tethering works great now. I am in fact writing this post using iPhone tether.

Teo Beng Hock vs MACC

Tan Sri DIGP, yes, we should not speculate, but we have been going thru reports after reports, one after another died in authority's custody, and yet, there's no conclusion as to who is responsible.

If following the MACC's style of investigation, where all Pakatan representatives are investigated for alleged mis-appropriate of public fund, isn't the Police should detain all MACC staff in Selangor HQ that a person died within its vicinity?

Why there's no action when A huge Balinese Palace standing at the hillside of the Royal Selangor's Palace so visible yet nothing happened?

Why there's nothing happen to Ligam's tape? Nothing happen to PKFZ scandal?

If all done in transparent manner, the public will not speculate. The general public will only speculate when there's insufficient information, or a clear cut fraud but was deliberately covered up, or someone plays David Copperfield's trick.

Please don't tell us Teo, Kugan, and many that died under your care, or the Authority's care, are Hudini in disguise. How would you expect us to believe heartedly your report when you cannot even tell us, or tell your ownself, the truth.

Do you think God will believe your report? Let's see.

Bernama news below:

Deputy IGP: Don’t speculate on Teoh’s death

KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 – Police have urged the public not to speculate on the death yesterday of Teoh Beng Hock, police secretary to a Selangor Exco member.

Deputy Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said all quarters should wait for the investigation report and not jump to conclusion.

“We will do the autopsy this morning. Please wait until the autopsy is completed,” he told a press conference after closing a seminar for chemical diversion investigators here today.

Ismail hopes that the autopsy report would provide clues on Teoh’s death and that the investigation was done according to legal procedures.

The motive for the incident will only be known when investigation is completed.

Asked why four pathologists were involved in the investigation, Ismail said the police were using all resources at their disposal.

“It is normal for us to seek assistance from others. I have yet to receive any report on the incident from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC),” he said.

Teoh, 30, was found dead in the corridor of level five at Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam which houses the Selangor MACC office, eight hours after giving statements on alleged abuse of government allocation. – Bernama

WHO IS THE MURDERER? ACT OF GOD? AGAIN?

Tony Pua says Selangor CPO Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar is so efficient that the authorities had classified the death of Teoh Beng Hock as sudden death and do not see any evidence of foul play so far.

We can predict what will be the outcome.

I am utterly shock of what happened, but I am not surprise that this will be settled with NFA (no further action) since there's "no evidence" (read above).

This is not the first time, and it will never be the last too.

How many death before Malaysian wake up and break away this curse?

Will the "not my business" attitude that solve the problem?

If you are still ignorant, don't care, and "nothing to do with me" kind of attitude, that someone died, not me, not my family, not my friend, SO WHAT?!

May God bless that it will happen to you one day and don't then cry for help as it is what you deserved.

I CURSE YOU ALL

FOR ALLOWING MURDERERS AT LARGE

PRETENDING THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

I CURSE YOU!

broadband war - speed test round 2

Today, I tested the speed again, this time, I am using speed test sites by both Celcom and Maxis. This is to give me some insight whether cross ISP network access are affected.

Below is the test results as of 13 July 2009 03:00 GMT+8. Figures shown are best attempts running 10 rounds of the same test each.

Tests run on Maxis bandwidth test site

	Celcom	Maxis
Download speed (Mbps)	1.322	0.881
Upload speed (Mbps)	0.114	0.059
Download quality of service (%)	71.000	97.000
Upload quality of service (%)	62.000	89.000
Download test type	socket	socket
Upload test type	socket	socket
Maximum TCP delay (ms)	469.000	40.000
Average download pause	9.000	12.000
Minimum round trip time to server (ms)	99.000	105.000
Average round trip time to server (ms)	126.000	120.000
Estimated download bandwidth (Mbps)	4.640	0.881
Route concurrency	3.507	1.000
Download TCP forced idle (%)	11.000	0.000
Maximum route speed (Mbps)	5.296	4.990

Following are screenshots captured using Celcom's speedtest site:

Celcom 3GX result

Maxis 3G result

broadband war - speed test round 1

I was thinking about getting an alternative to backup our home streamyx broadband, of which has been given us miserable access speed from time to time, and worse, when it went down, Telekom, the provder of Streamyx, often took days to rectify whatever problem it may be, if not weeks.

I am using a Celcom 3GX on my iPhone, which should give me, in theory, download speed of up to 3.6Mbps. I do not have a Maxis 3G, as well as Digi and U-Mobile 3G accounts. However, I am certain that Digi 3G not reaching my area, same to U-Mobile.

Of course, besides the 3G networks, we do have Jaring here. Jaring is offering fixed wireless service similar to Streamyx, but my consideration is to ensure that the connectivity is portable thus it can be our travel companion, I mean both my wife and me.

So I started a simple test today, on the 3 ISPs, i.e. Streamyx 1Mbps ADSL by Telekom. Although Telekom does offer 2Mbps and 4Mbps ADSL respectively, it does not cover our area.

Equipment I used as follow:

1. Sierra U8775 Mini Card OEM edition

2. Apple iPhone 3G

3. Macbook with 4GB RAM running Safari 4.02 browser.

Measurement was taken using Speedtest.net web-based application.

I choose to test at local time 03:00 to ensure that there are least people on these network at my area.

First, I tested Maxis 3G SIM with the Sierra U8775 MiniCard OEM version, followed by Celcom 3G SIM on iPhone 3G.

Then I swapped the SIM cards and tested again.

The average result is as follow. Depending on what you are looking for, i.e. speed or monthly commitment, Maxis is attractive in price but urgly when comes to facts where as Celcom 3G is comfortably out-performed Maxis.

	Streamyx (base)	Maxis	Celcom	Winner
Technology	ADSL	3G/HSDPA	3G/HSDPA	N/A
Monthly subscription	RM88	RM68	RM98	Maxis
max D/L speed (Mbps)	1	3.6	3.6
max U/L speed (Kbps)	384	384	384
max data volume (GB)	5	3	3
distance from nearest cell tower (m)	N/A	140	860
Speed test results
Latency (ms)	72	225	251	Maxis
Download (Mbps)	0.79	0.88	1.63	Celcom
Upload (Mbps)	0.29	0.06	0.11	Celcom