What do you think of this news ? Get ready for blackout if you are the pirated windows user ? Oh no..please dont do that !

PETALING JAYA: Starting Wednesday, users with pirated copies of Microsoft Corp’s Windows XP Professional operating system (OS) on machines that are Internet-capable could find their computer displays going black and with no screen icons visible.

There are 8.6 million users of Win XP Pro in Malaysia and about three million are expected to suffer the “blackouts,” according to Microsoft Malaysia.

To continue working, the user would need to reset the machine’s desktop background. Everything will return to normal. But when 60 minutes are up, the black screen will reappear and the user must go through the whole process again.

This will keep happening until the user licenses the copy of Win XP Pro on the machine by going to a Microsoft reseller or getting a licence online at the www.microsoft.com/malaysia/genuine. Each licence costs RM580.

This initiative is part of Microsoft’s antipiracy campaign, dubbed Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), aimed at educating users on the benefits of using genuine software, K.T. Ng, Microsoft Malaysia’s director of client business group, told The Star on Tuesday.

Win XP Professional was chosen for the antipiracy blitz because it is the most pirated version of Microsoft’s Win XP operating system. The other version is Windows XP Home, which is for home users.

This is the second time that Microsoft is needling users of pirated copies of its operating system to go legitimate. Two years ago, it sprang its WGA initiative on local users of Win XP Pro and Win XP Home.

That time, a pop-up message showed up whenever the PC with a pirated Windows OS was switched on, with the intention of shaming business and home users into getting legitimate copies. The message said “This copy of Windows is not genuine.”

It was quite successful. At that time, there were about 5.1 million pirated copies of Windows XP Pro and after the exercise, about two million of the copies were validated, said Microsoft Malaysia.

“We are encouraged by that response,” said Ng. “So this time, we have escalated the penalty to a black screen that reappears every hour until the user validates his or her copy of Win XP Pro.”

Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, chief executive officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), lauded the WGA campaign.

MDeC is caretaker of the country’s MSC Malaysia initiative, which is working to build up the nation’s knowledge economy.

“MDeC respects the rights of companies to protect their intellectual property. It’s a reminder that software piracy doesn’t pay, especially when Malaysians are themselves putting a lot of effort into creating original software,” he said.

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Very useful and some of them are very new to  me too. Thank you HongKiat for such a nice post on 40+ most wanted wordpress tricks and hacks. I will definitely try them in this blog and will update you all later.

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If you surf adsense website now, you will see this notice. Its something scary to me, if it become unavailable forever. Anyway, the message is simple and in various language. Unfortunately, dont see any B. Malaysia listed. I paste the message for your view.

The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

Google AdSense の web サイトは一時的にご利用いただけません。後で再度お試しくださいますようお願いいたします。
お手数をおかけいたしますことをお詫びいたします。

Die Google AdSense-Website ist vorübergehend nicht verfügbar. Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal.
Wir entschuldigen uns für eventuell enstandene Unannehmlichkeiten.

Le site Google AdSense est temporairement indisponible. Veuillez réessayer plus tard.
Nous vous prions de nous excuser pour le désagrément occasionné.

El sitio web de AdSense de Google no se encuentra disponible en estos momentos. Por favor, inténtelo de nuevo más tarde.
Disculpe las molestias.

Google AdSense 网站暂时无法浏览。请您稍候再尝试。
对于造成您的不便我们感到抱歉。

Il sito AdSense di Google è temporaneamente non disponibile. La preghiamo di provare più tardi.
Ci scusiamo per il disagio.

De website van Google AdSense is tijdelijk niet beschikbaar. Probeert u het later opnieuw.
Onze excuses voor het eventuele ongemak.

Google AdSense Sayfası geçici olarak hizmet dışıdır. Lütfen, daha sonra tekrar deneyin.
Bu geçici sorundan dolayı özür dileriz.

O site do Google AdSense não está disponível no momento. Tente novamente mais tarde.
Pedimos desculpas pelo inconveniente.

The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later.
We apologise for any inconvenience.

Witryna programu Google AdSense jest chwilowo niedostępna. Prosimy spróbuj później.
Przepraszamy za wszelkie niedogodności.

Веб-сайт Google AdSense временно недоступен. Попробуйте, пожалуйста, еще раз через несколько минут.
Мы приносим свои извинения за причиненные неудобства.

Google AdSense webbplats är för tillfället inte tillgänglig. Försök igen senare.
Vi ber om ursäkt för eventuellt besvär.

Google AdSense-webstedet er ikke tilgængeligt i øjeblikket. Prøv igen senere.
Vi beklager ulejligheden.

Google AdSense 웹사이트를 일시적으로 사용하실 수 없습니다 . 나중에 다시 시도해 보십시오 .
불편을 끼쳐드려 죄송합니다 .

Google AdSense-webområdet er midlertidig utilgjengelig. Prøv igjen senere.
Vi beklager eventuelle problemer dette medfører.

Google AdSense 網站暫時無法瀏覽。請您稍候再嘗試。
對於造成您的不便我們感到抱歉。

A Google AdSense oldal jelenleg nem elérhető. Kérjük, látogasson vissza később.
Elnézést kérünk az esetleges kellemetlenségekért.

Google AdSense –sivusto ei väliaikaisesti ole saatavilla. Yritä myöhemmin uudelleen.
Pahoittelemme tämän aiheuttamaa hankaluutta.

Stránka Google AdSense je dočasně nedostupná. Zkuste to později.
Omlouváme se za způsobené nepříjemnosti. 

Stránka Google AdSense je dočasne nedostupná. Skúste neskôr, prosím.
Ospravedlňujeme sa za spôsobené nepríjemnosti.

Google AdSense sučelje trenutno je nedostupno. Molimo Vas pokušajte kasnije.
Ispričavamo se za neugodnosti.

إن موقع Google AdSense غير متوفر حاليا. يرجى تكرار المحاولة لاحقا. نعتذر عن أي إزعاج.

אתר Google AdSense איננו זמין כרגע. אנו מצטערים על אי הנוחות. אנא נסה שנית מאוחר יותר.

Google AdSense уебсайта е временно недостъпен. Моля опитайте по-късно. Извиняваме се за неудобството.

Η ιστοσελίδα του Google AdSense δεν είναι διαθέσιμη προς το παρόν. Παρακαλώ δοκιμάστε αργότερα. Ζητούμε συγγνώμη για την ενόχληση.

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Through my friend at EzzyGetACar, I managed to secure USD370 by selling advertisement space in various website. Eventhough, the owner is very new in this blogging world, but with his dedication and determination,  he managed to get a sponsor for his blog and later of course recommended me to the same advertiser who has today transferred $370 in my paypal.

What else new on me ? I am thinking to create new website similar to advertlets, offer banner advertising but the publisher will be limited to all my friends only. Targeted 100000 page impression a month for RM400 maximum of 10 advertiser. Sound kewl, but let me think first how

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For the past 1 month I am too busy and lazy to write in this blog. I just preferred to surf many politics related blog including Chedet.com

Only today, I took the opportunity to visit one of my must visit blog at least for the past 2-3 months. As usual rajawang always talk about money and nice to see his various effort to increase his online $$.

But one topic that caught my attention is on the rajawang.com clone which I believe just recently being setup ie. rajawang.net.

If you noticed, this blog domain is similar with the famous online newspaper malaysiakini.com. This is actually my second domain, and the first that I use to register for my adsense. Since I very naive on SEO etc, I thought that by using this kind of domain will get indirect hit through google search etc. without so much of hard work.

Guess what ? Yes for me its true, I get my first 100++ hit daily just within a week with very minimum advertisement. All organic hits comes through malaysiakini related search.

Whether its wrong or not, for me doesnt matter as long you dont copycat the web content. Afterall malaysia-kini.com and malaysiakini.com is 2 different things.

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E-motortrader.net is another new website for those who want to sell and buy car in Malaysia. I have been searching similar website recently, but I think this is one of the best in term of the design, functions and its free too.

With a proper marketing and also SEO technique I strongly believe that this will hit other paid website like OntheRoad and the famous Motor Trader as well. If I were the buyer, I would prefer to search online first before go for live ones.  And in term of online system, out of these 3 website, of course e-motortrader.net is very much better. Perhap the other 2 big guns should consider improving their website.

anyway, we shall return after 1 year to see  E-motortrader.net progress

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What a great debate by both of them. But I personally think that Dato Seri Anwar is very much experience and better compared to Dato Shabery Chik.

Hope we can post the video clip soon for this debate.

More after the jumps

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This article was taken from our ex-Prime Minister, Ybhg Tun Dr. Mahathir blog. We might too lazy to read, understand about this, but please read what Tun has written here. It might help us to understand better.

1. Before there was Malaya and Malaysia the peninsular was known as Tanah Melayu, or Malay Land.
2. Saying this alone would result in accusations of being racist.
3. But I need to go back in history if I am going to be able to explain about Malaysia’s social contract.
4. Through treaties signed by the Rulers of the Malay States of the Peninsular the British acquired the right to rule the Malay States. These treaties obviously recognised and legitimised the States as Malay States. No one disputed this. Even the aborigines accepted this as shown by their submission to the rule of the Malay Sultans.
5. Initially the peoples living in the States were divided into indigenous Malays and aborigines who were subjects of the Malay rulers and foreign guests who were not subjects of the rulers. There were no citizenship or documents about citizenship status as in most countries.
6. The foreign guests prospered in the British ruled Malay States and in the British colonies of Penang, Malacca and Singapore. The Malay subjects of the Rulers and the Rulers themselves did not feel threatened by the numbers of these non-Malays and the disparities between the general wealth and progress of the foreign guests and the subjects of the Rulers. They did not think that the foreigners who had settled in the country would ever demand citizenship rights.
7. When Japan conquered the Malay States and the colonies of the Straits Settlements, the Chinese felt insecure as the Japanese were their historical enemies.
8. Read the rest of this entry »
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Many kind of products laying around the net recently with focus on fuel saving. Since I have one turbocharged car, I need this kind of product badly. With high fuel price and I believe will never stop increcase, I have to pump in RM50 for every 2 days. That really hit my financial badly, (before this that RM50 can last for 5 days).

Rebet minyak is another product claim to be effective in improving your fuel efficiency thus give you more mileage. It can save you up to 45% ! I haven’t try this yet, but with the testimonial that they have, it something that I must try and its only RM50 anyway.

View the product review in TV3.

Join the programme now and start saving.

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What a big news this week, Saiful Bukhari Azlan photo has been released by PKR. For those who still wonder who is Saiful Bukhari, we attach his photo many months before he made a police report alleging sodomy by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

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