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