Bypass MegaUpload

Have you ever:

Feel happy and overjoyed when you found a download link to your favorite songs/clips/movies.. and then... Frustrated when MegaUpload tells you the available slots for Malaysia has been used up and prompted you to download their so-called toolbar?

I have no idea why MegaUpload is so popular among the Internet users. Most of the songs, especially those Japanese, Korean, programs are uploaded there but unable to download unless you are willing to take the risk of downloading and installing their toolbar onto your system.

Blame yourself for being in Malaysia!

Well, there is a way to bypass this slot limitation and toolbar installing. I've tried and and it worked! Just follow the instructions below:

FOR MOZILLA FIREFOX

1. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
2. Install the add-on
3. Restart Firefox
4. Go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options
5. On the left tab, select User Agents
6. Click on Add button
7. On the Description, type "MEGAUPLOAD" (without the quotes)
   On the User Agent, type "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar)"
8. Click OK and OK
9. Restart Firefox

FOR INTERNET EXPLORER

Tested using IE7. Note: Steps below navigates through the Registry, please follow the instructions carefully. I will not take the responsibility if you navigate to other sections and messed up with your registry.

1. Got to Start > Run, type "regedit"
   This will prompt your Registry Editor
2. Navigate through the tree-list.. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform
3. Right-click and select "New > String Value"
4. Type "Alexa Toolbar" and click OK
5. Restart IE

Done! Try to download something from MegaUpload, they will never ask you to download their toolbar anymore. Once in a while there will be pop-up but you'll still able to download.

Surname

The Origin of Surname - Su (蘇)

三苏是文坛上的名人，关于苏姓的族谱，在苏洵族谱的后录上交代得非常清楚：“苏氏之先，出于高阳，高阳之子曰称，称之子曰 老童，老童生重黎及吴回，重黎为帝喾火正曰祝融，以罪诛，其后为司马氏，而其弟吴回复为火正，吴回生陆终，陆终生子六人，长曰矾，为昆吾，次曰惠连，为岑 胡，……为彭祖，次曰来言，为会人，次曰安，为曹姓，季曰季连，为芈姓。六人者，皆有后，其后，各分为娄姓，昆吾始姓已氏，其后为苏、顾、温、董。当夏之 时，昆吾为诸侯伯，历商而昆吾之后无闻。至周有忿生为司寇，能平刑以教百姓，周公称之，盖书所谓司寇苏公者也，司寇苏公与檀伯达皆封于河，世世仕周，家于 其封，故河南、河内皆有苏氏。”

实际上，这一段苏姓姓源考据，是可以适用于天下的苏姓的，因为，《姓纂》上关于苏姓的来源，也做了同样的介绍。《姓纂》是这样说的：“颛顼祝融之后，陆终生昆吾，封苏，邺西苏城是也。苏忿生为周司寇，居河内、扶风、武功。汉，苏建目河内徙扶风。”

由此可见，头一个以苏为姓的昆吾，是颛顼帝的后代，他们最初的发源地，则在今河南省临漳县的西方。到了周朝初年，官拜大司寇的苏忿生被周天子封于河 内，所以这个家族也就是迁移到今为甘肃省的河内地方，继续繁荣滋长，以后子孙才逐渐遍布于各地，四川眉山那个光辉灿烂的苏家，自然也是从河内所迁移出来 的。

苏姓，真可以说是一个光耀史册的古老姓氏，从3000年前的春秋时代，便已大放光芒。大家都知道，楚庄王是春秋五霸之一，而他之得成霸业，主要靠的是他的大夫苏从。

苏秦，名气更加响亮，他与张仪同被称为纵横家，他提倡合纵以抗秦，结果身佩六国相印，荣宗耀祖，显赫异常。

到了汉武帝之时，苏氏又出了一位名垂千古不朽的伟大人物，那就是三尺孩童都晓得的苏武。

宋代的文坛，似乎是苏姓人士的天下，除了苏洵、苏轼、苏辙父子之外，尚有以文章知名，宋太宗曾御笔题赠“玉堂之署”4个字的苏易简；以及慷慨有大志，好为古文诗歌，曾佐欧阳修变文格，晚年自号“沧浪翁”，隐读以终，著有《苏学士集》传世的一代高士苏子美（舜钦）等。

(extracted from 福建鄉音）

Genius Mom

My parents are going to meet my future sister-in-law's parents tomorrow. It would be the first time both meeting up. My mom asked me if I want to go. I jokingly answered, "If she has a brother to introduce, I wouldn't mind going." Such a boring meeting, I would rather die. My mom will too but she is very clever. She invited Aunt Shirley along to the dinner and Aunt Shirley is not stupid either. She asked, "I'm not meeting my in-law, why should I go?" But she's going anyway. I asked my mom why and she said in case there is nothing to talk about, at least she has someone to talk to. =.="

No wonder I am so clever! (pun intended)

Quit?

First day of work since my not-very-long CNY holiday and I am thinking about quitting! LOL.. what kind of employee am I?
In fact, I have been hunting for a new job for some time already.

Since Chinese New Year, everyone has been telling me that I can't quit my current job this year. They said, if I quit and found a new job, the new employer will treat me like how my previous employer did. Well, I told them nevermind because my current boss has been treating me good except for his inhuman (in the sense that he's not behaving, think or talk like us - the normal human) behavior. Wahahaha~

I'm seeing a lot of rotten mandarin oranges flying towards me.. ;-p

Technical Support

I hate technical support.. the job.
I salute technical support.. the people.

It is part of my job function to help and guide my clients on certain things. I wouldn't want to tell you what am I doing exactly. Sorry for being so secretive. It's P&C. Hee..

It is a project that I am handling which involves some technical things. It gave a lot of troubles to my client.. and also to me. I had been receiving calls from them for 2 days straight. E-mail messages had been flying between both parties. The problem: the solution we offered does not meet the client's requirements. This is when I understand why SDLC is so important and lecturers had been emphasizing this so much.

All I was doing.. apologising, repeatly, everytime I picked up the phone. At the end, we had to revert everything back to its previous state and the client had to consult its previous supplier. If you ask me, I'd put 99% blame on my boss. He made assumption too soon. I'd say he is a very self-centered bloody salesman who knows nothing about IT and yet is in IT business. He never listen when people are explaining to him.. technically. Back to topic. He should at least enquire about the client's current infrastructures and their network configuration before jumping into conclusion.

When everything was set and running, clients.. at the end, are yelling at us and NOT him. The most thing that he's most capable of - praise (aka shine their shoes) the clients and then call them fuckers or bitches behind their back. I was so frustrated that I had to go all the way to their office in Kota Kemuning. For what? Just for show, that we did try to solve the problem when we are very certain that everything will be revert back to previous state.

That's why I hate salesman!