Paul Ooi

Author: Paul Ooi

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  • Malaysiakini Temporary Offline – Hardware Failures

    Press Release from Malaysiakini

    Dear Readers and Subscribers,

    Malaysiakini would like to apologise for a series of disruptions to our services over the last 10 days. The disruptions were caused by hardware failures within the key Malaysiakini servers.

    Since Malaysiakini published the exclusive interview with Tun Dr Mahathir on May 23rd, 2006, readership and subscription have nearly doubled. In the month of June, Malaysiakini delivered over 18.9 million pageviews. During peak days, the Malaysiakini servers have delivered over a million pages a day, to over 100,000 visitors. Our current servers were not able to handle the traffic load, creating a series of failures which led to the disruption.

    In order to cope with the higher demand, Malaysiakini will be investing in more servers as well as moving the servers to Malaysia’s leading datacentre AIMS. Our technology team will be completing the move by August 20th.

    We trust that there will be minimal disruptions. Readers and Subscribers will enjoy faster access once the move has been completed.

    For further information, please contact our customer services department on 03-22835567 x 102.

    Thank you for your support.

    Premesh Chandran
    CEO malaysiakini.com

  • Why Microsoft Office is Expensive

    Yesterday, my friend said he wants to buy Microsoft Office 2003 for his office uses, and he asked me wether I know what is the price of the software. I told him it’s expensive, may be he can try to use Open Office, it’s Open Source Software and free.

    Open Office has the functions that normal word processing software has. He said, why not check out the price first and decide what to choose later. I told him, a Microsoft Office Pro is RM1070, and he needs 2, one for him and another for the secretary. So, the total would be RM2140.

    He reaction was, “Wow, so expensive, I can buy another AMD PC isn’t it?”. I said yes, it’s expensive, because…

  • Dunhill香煙囘矮子

    矮子，

    真的難以相信我們已經認識了那麽多年
    如果你忘了我們怎樣認識和開始，並不是一件大不了的事情

    很多時候，大家開始都用着戰戰兢兢的眼神看着我
    就說當年的你，一副老土的眼鏡，傻傻的模樣
    第一次的你，竟然大膽撫摸着我溫柔的身軀，然後熱情的燃燒我的需要

    還記得你當初張大雙口，狠狠地把我吸得透不過氣來
    那個第一次的感覺，到現在我還每忘掉。

    還記得剛開始時，你每次都偷偷摸摸的來探望我，
    把握帶到沒人的地方，慢慢的享受一番。

    有時因爲儅你很慷慨地和你的朋友一起享受我時，
    我恨不得把你殺掉，那種感覺是十分的難受。

    但是我並沒有埋怨你，應為每當你輕輕的吸我一口，
    我也慢慢的把你的壽命減短。

    謝謝你一向以來對我的支持和投資。

    Dunhill。

  • Congratulation Malaysiakini Chinese Edition

    Congratulation to KP for the 1st Anniversary of Malaysiakini Chinese Edition. He is the one who on the left, punching my big tummy and on the right is KK, the one and only journalist when Malaysiakini chinese edition just started. To me, both of them have put on a lot of effort to run the chinese section, they have created something special for the chinese community, some news that you can’t read from the RM1.30 daily newspaper. KP has helped me to report and follow up on my teacher accident too.

    From 2 person becomes a team of 4 people, although when you heard FOUR people, sound like a small team. But, their passion on the quality news report, the hard work they put on to bring the pure news to your laptop/computer, it means a lot compare with those giant but not solid main stream media.

    Keep up the good work, and sorry that I can’t turn up on the 1st Anniversary event. Always support you guys.