Data Protection Compliance

OK, somehow I am emboiled into this again and I have to place this as one of my entities is in Malaysia.

In compliance with Data Protection Act 2010 in Malaysia, you have the right to see what data we may have on you within Zyraz Technology, it's associates and related entities. However, we will charge you for that research.

We are in compliance with EU and US regulatory frameworks and due to the head office located in California and London, these data protection act 2010 in Malaysia does NOT apply to us, as you are already made aware that your privacy is pretty much useless on the web, as we use Google, Facebook and many other social networks to track you down.

We don't store data here nor will we intend to. Go scream at someone else.
We do not push Cookies into this place so, if there is any, ask GOOGLE.

Thank you for reading this.

Standard \disclosures etc etc etc are available somewhere within this website.

accident again

yeah, new year and its already the start of the rainy season, and I've been lucky that mother nature been kind to me.

however, a silly bus driver decided that a road with double white lines is a good place to do a u turn and I am unfortunate enuff to smack his side. with bruises to my tummy and body, and multiple hits to the head, I am still facing giddiness and pain all over. plus the groin is bruised up bad with scrapes and bruises.

other than that, I'm still lucky to be alive. too bad the other party might loose his driving license.

Testing my bits by spreading the word of Allah

Many knows I am a Singaporean and I am a muslim.
As much as possible, I am a supporter of charities.
So I am helping out Brother Amir with his Quran app on Google Play.

I am testing out to ease his load as a co-hoster. This is primary loaded on MyRepublic Network and hope they don't DDOS me out. That is why the load balancing is critical and I am primarily loaded thru IPv6. It's my first step into community crowd loaded hosting...so please bear with us. 50Mbps link is not that swift.. but hope it works faster on IPv6. Please enable IPv6 on your devices ya.. or use Hurricane Electric TunnelBroker to get that.

Test out the Surah Yasin by Sheik Basit : http://sg-01.azrin.info/Quran/Basit/s036.mp3

I will need some co-hosts to load this project as the server is too little.
If you wish to donate, please PAYPAL to azrin12970(AT)gmail.com

Any amount will do. SG and Malaysian Ringgit , please sms 81196830 / 017-4648814
This is to offset the power bill...and inshallah, upgrade the servers.

Thanks for reading,  Barakallah.

DO NOT CALL ME

Now there is the Data Protection Act, the consumers are now shielded from our unscrupulous pinoy telemarketing agents of Citibank, Standard Chartered, DBS , Prudential, Great Eastern and many more.. asking you to help them sign up for bank cards, loans, insurance plans etc.

The weapon is now a $10,000 fine and we can now demand COMPENSATION for the breach. Outright blackmail I would say, but hey, who did not check the list right? Courts paid a token sum few mths back to apologise for the offense, and now the DNC is up.


How does it work for you as a consumer?

First off, you need to register your phone number.
Click on the Register Online

Then Enter your Phone Number, and tick ALL the options.

there will be an OTP given.
Enter it and that's it!

What about companies?
You need to register your company UEN and Singpass. There is a $30 registration and 500 credits. I am not sure how it works, but B2B are not covered in the filter. So I can still call you to sell MyRepublic Business Broadband Services or VOIP Servers for your business... if you get what I mean.

If you run a marketing list... this is where they make money. Each number search costs 2.3 cents!
I saw somewhere the bulk scheme works to $10,000 for a Million Number Searches and you *SHOULD* get 3 million number searches in use for Singapore. Level 3 numbers are excluded.

I remember a script I used for RAS during my dialup BBS days to check for phone numbers.... and I think I should use that script soon... Outsource Checks.

Maybe we can have a PLEASE CALL ME LIST right?

LinkedIn Spam

If you received some spam from linkedin via MyBizcard.co ...then I am truly sorry. Somethings have gone wrong and if you have clicked on them, you too have got your account smacked.

Please do this...

First off... go into your Linkedin account and mouse over to your face on the top right corner.
There a sub menu will come out and click on the review privacy..

What you see here is the aftermath of me being so pissed off finding the settings but the next image will be a little tad clearer.

This is the silly part where you logged in and verify your identity first and then you click on the 3rd tab, under the Groups settings and applications. You can also remove yourself from the group there too... for yr info.

On the View Applications, you see a whole load of bunch of applications there. I even see one that says... DO NOT AUTHORISE THIS APPLICATION. Somehow someone did screw up somewhere.... and I did not check them till today.

By clicking on the applications, you can then remove them all.

Keep those you recognise and use often, and I don't suggest you keep Microsoft or Google linked to your account.

God knows what evil can they do.

And if you still get spam from me... call me!~

Cloud as an industrial sector

Everyone now is talking about Cloud or SAAS or AAS or xx as a service.

But what is the cloud and what is so special about it? Or is it just a hype?

Cloud is an array of computing processes or power combined together as one machine,either physically or virtually and reassign the processing cores into sub machines or virtual processes. It can do databas processing, graphics, encryption, web farms or application farms, all to your liking.

You might know of the major players such as Microsoft Azure, Amazone AWS, Google Apps / services and other smaller players such as parallels, cloud front , cloud flare and other hosted solutions. But these are just SAAS or Software as a service, or even Storage as a service. There are many more complicated AAS such as Storage, software, Cloud, Computing, Data Center (DCaaS) and lately Network as a service, where your IP Address networks are parked into a global switch and data and network are rerouted as needed according to your array.

There is private, public and hybrid cloud where you can push these as a local network (leased , rented or owned) and segregate the network according to your requirements, either by vLan, VPN , public IP Addressing or even Private over Public. It's darn complicated right? nope.

I am now into SAAS, NAAS now where I provide storage of the customers critical data, such as their accounting systems, into a grid, where it's backed up, mirrored and separated from the outside world. The users will then just map the drive just as their local drives, because they are actually accessing the service remotely, and no data is stored locally. With BYOD or Bring your own device coming to age, it is a critical point for any company, that any data loss is unacceptable. Hardware failure is not an option now and with computers getting too cheap, its the data cost that outweighs the hardware replacement. Even VOIP IPPbx is hosted outside the site even before the great Singtel Fire Fiasco.

What type of hardware am I using?

16 Xeon Quads with up to 2TB of RAM, 64TB of tiered storage with a combi of SSD and SAS drives PER SERVER (8u) connected to a multi tier hardware storage server of 2.6PB of data capacity per module loaded across multiple data enters worldwide, with Tier1 peerings.

Network speeds? 4x10gbe network per server or usually Gigabit links over ipv6.

my network cost? $70,000 per server and about $3.6million for the storage giant.

My ROI? 8 mths

Itchy fingers

Someone either have nothing better to do or have soms darn hatred against me which I strongkt feel idid not pissed anyone off except my fellow compadres.

Damage done gonna cost me about $150 or so...

Bugger

Courts Singapore - Full of Data leaks and inaccurate data

What I hated most is when U fire up the wrong guy at the wrong time of the day.. especially when my phone is roaming.

After me warning the agent that he is barking at the wrong tree, and that his actions are now facing criminal action, he still persisted and even calling me from another number, burn phone I suppose, to ask if I work at this Naval Base.

Even I am there (which I am not.. I hate the Navy other than NCIS..).... why do I need to disclose my location as it in itself is a criminal offense under Sec 294 of the Enlistment Act, read with the Official Secrets Act.

So I hate to say this.. Courts Singapore, you need to DESIST THIS ACTIVITIES. It's plain CRIMINAL!

For legal and formality sake, I will cross post what I said to CourtsSG  facebook account.
Will anyone who suffer the same fate get this giants a thistle to limp them with?

PLEASE VERIFY YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU SEND YOUR FRIGGING CREDIT / DEBT COLLECTOR TO CALL YOUR CUSTOMERS. I AM NOT YOUR CUSTOMER AND I WAS HARRASSED BY YOUR STAFF OR AGENT Ph No 98515055 WHILE I WAS OVERSEAS. DESPITE ME WARNING HIM I AM NOT THE PERSON HE IS LOOKING FOR, HE INSISTED I PAY.

UNDER DATA PROTECTION ACT, YOU ARE NOW FORMALLY WARNED THAT YOUR DATA IS NOW INACCURATE AND DUE TO THAT, MY PERSONAL DETAILS ARE LISTED AS SOME ONE ELSE, AND IN WHICH, YOU HAVE FAILED TO KEEP A PROPER RECORD. 

I WILL FILE A FORMAL POLICE REPORT ON THIS CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION , HARRASSMENT CHARGES AND ALSO DATA PROTECTION ACTS.

CONTACT ME DIRECTLY IF YOU WISH TO HAVE THIS RESOLVED.

Any Criminal Lawyers wishing to get them be named and shamed?

Of ethics, Business Values and lying to oneself

The meaning PAID POSTS is a term where the blogger or writer is being remunerated in some sort or form for the endorsement of product or services and I did that prior to me looking my Geeks Corner domain and me being branded Worst Blogger of All Time 2006, 2007 and 2008 outside the United States at par with Perez Hilton for being too honest and well, to many I am quite outspoken and that I am biting the hand that feeds me.

True enough, if the service is great, I would certainly endorse it, and I like the Mystery Shopper method where they are caught off guard and that they give the service without any readiness of inspection.

I am a partner of MyRepublic. I use their services which are good and reliable. Only that there have been many screw ups on the technical side as they get bigger, which is getting the customers to pay for their services aka Billing, and I find it quite a cumbersome thing to do if when they tried to debit my account, the service failed for some DBS bullcrap issue. I for one like NOT to delay payment as that mean I have to be hustled more. I like PAYPAL and I trust Moneybookers or SKRILL as they are called now as its a credit standing.

But then, having to do Internet banking,writing a cheque etc is a nuisance and time wastage.So does calling Hello Billing takes a long time to respond. Which company does NOT like to collect their customers money. Well, I found one.

Which only comes to show, they need to do some work on the back end to get it sorted. And not charging us for late payment fees.

Anyway, as long my internet does not screw up, I am still ok with it. U need premium support? I charge $75 an hour btw.

Effects of 20 cents

Twenty SEN is all it takes to cause an uproar in Malaysia or about 9c in Singapore. It's the fuel hike in Malaysia that is going to bring a knock on effect to many Malaysians Nationwide.

Funny part it, at the pumps, the govt placed the NON-SUBSIDIZED RON 95 price to be RM2.79 with duties etc whereas the selling price of RON97 which is NORMAL RETAIL Price is RM2.70 . Is that the Govt saying RON 95 is MORE EXPENSIVE than the better RON97?

Now for the knock on effect.

20sen is about 12% increase on the Petrol Pricing, meaning an average LOW EARNER drawing 3 liters of fuel per day on his motorcycle will see an increase of RM15 per month based on a 25 work day month. To his low wages of RM900, it is about 1.5% increase. However, the huge effect is felt when the cost of transportation is put into play.

Diesel also see a hike of 20 sen which puts at RM2.00 a liter with subsidy. In turn, this will incur approximately more than 30% increase in terms of fuel, oils, maintance et al and that will push prices up further. 

Compare to the neighbours, Brunei charges 53cents (RM1.20) per liter for fuel and that cause the Borneo residents to come over and fill up. Singapore official fuel price is at S$1.18 before discounts at the pump, usually dropping to S$0.81 (RM2.27) per liter at regular petrol stations such as Caltex or Shell inclusive of 7% GST and relevant duties. Black market fuel HSD or even BioDiesel is far cheaper from fleet refuelling points.

So why is Malaysia charging more for fuel when they export them and in the case of diesel, control the usage and implement rationing via the distribution points?

Mainly, the Ringgit is dropping against the USD or SGD. In SGD to MYR contrast, it was RM2.30 to the Singapore dollar whereas now, it's way over RM 2.54 at the money changers.

Weaker Ringgit means they have to pay more to service their debts which are in SGD or USD and that is bad for the economy but good for those working across the causeway. I just pity those living in rural areas as they have limited resources and income in Ringgit working far lesser than the RM900 minimum wage and with this, will cause a hefty strain on them.

Prudence yes, but this is not the way.