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doiwl November 23rd, 2007
gerhhhh！不要让人成为你的金主，能免这免。
否则这个金主迟早可以变本加厉在生活中的大小事务都箝制着你。
像我就快失去选择手提电话号码的自由了！
一张surat arahan附加威胁，实在专制！Marketing有这么多手法，它偏偏用低层次的手段，好一个不得人心的品牌！
假如服务好、够经济、口碑好，大把人心甘情愿自动转台啦。竟然要动用到一纸通令逼迫屈从的方式，反映出Celcom在市场营销的失败！好好来个介绍、给一点优惠、再加一点说服的工作有这么难吗？
惹人反感罢了。我花个RM10就放着不用，反正10块钱grace period可以耐上100-130天，你奈我何？
每一百天就只让你赚RM10也甘愿？
TM，感谢你借出的钱，但请还我消费者自由选择的权利。
Trimester 2 again
doiwl November 21st, 2007
一直都不喜欢Trimester 2。
Trimester 2总共上课7个星期，现在已经是Week 3，也就是上了43%的课，可是很多东西暂时还是茫然没有头绪。
再过一个星期就midterm，再多两三个星期就是三项project的deadline。
（顺便写一些很多人犯错的：due date = deadline！不是dateline。dateline是国际日期线，或者是新闻中写出报道地点和日期的开头。）
重点是——我还觉得挺空闲，真是一点危机感都没有。
Like these t-shirts?
doiwl November 11th, 2007
Do you like any of these t-shirts?
Selling at RM15 each. Leave a message to me 
Special thanks to Miss Choy for her fabulous artwork! Haha actually she just adding the wordings but then she said it is such a 壮举 edy…
Another 2 colours. Continue Reading »
Drastic & Dramatic (Part 3) – Tech talk continues…
doiwl September 21st, 2007
Haha, if it is hard to understand, never mind. My tech-talk continues…
This is the design of yesterday e-voting system.
LOUSY & SIMPLE E-VOTING DATABASE
OK… if this is the only thing I can retrieve from the database, can you enlighten me how you show the source of this figure?
In the lousy voting system, the database only holding the latest sum of votes for each candidate, nothing can be done to trace the authenticity of this figure. There is no way to prove the summation is right and not being tampered.
The programmer should really design a better system that allows certain degree of audit. More trails in the database means the system is more error-prone, as follows:
A BETTER E-VOTING DATABASE
- “Student ID of voter” column should be unique, to ensure that a student only vote for once (no double voting).
- Why is it being MD5 hashed? This is to protect privacy of the voter.
- The rationale of timestamp, computer ID and other columns are to make it more like traditional paper balloting.
- When more trails are left behind, at least we can trace back how many people voted in a particular timeframe, or how many people cast the vote on a particular computer, to judge whether the figure is realistic or not.
- No one can change the result or insert any data easily unless he is able to fake so many timestamps without clashing on the same time on same computer.
- Recount & audit is possible.
Aisk, MMU can do it in a professional way and not a joke like yesterday! The staffs did not pay attention on all these things, is it because of the tak apa attitude? Or the decision to use such simple system is made deliberately, avoiding the possibility of audit? No matter how this incident somehow affects the reputation of MMU, when no one pay attention to design a better computer system.
Drastic & Dramatic (Part 2) – why a ambiguous system being used?
doiwl September 20th, 2007
I suppose that this is the first time of MMU history where SRC Election have to be cancelled half way.
This is also the first time, the Election Committee decided not to use the CMEAD production of e-ballot system, and instead use a simple voting website, hosted on the Internet, called BALLOT-BOX (source) for the SRC General Election.
The Ballot Session was cancelled halfway. I wouldn’t comment on which department did wrongly. I would rather comment on this Ballot-Box system itself (if it is really being used during the SRC General Election Ballot Session earlier today.)
A major flaw exists in this Ballot-Box system that makes it intolerable for a General Election. This website is way too simple like ”main masak-masak”.
Flaw #1: The admin are allowed to EDIT or TAMPER with the votes.
Flaw #2: Or… if you choose not to edit the votes, you can edit the options (switch the names of different contestants)
At first the Candidate B is gaining 2 votes, now I can switch the names.
Flaw #3: This is according to the MMU SRC Election Rules & Regulations, if I’m not mistaken sounds like this: a voter must vote for only 5 contestants. Hah, but I can vote for 1,2,3,4,6,7 as I wish in this system.
In the traditional CMEAD built system, a voter can only vote once, and he / she can only be voting 5 contestants, more or less than it will not pass the javascript validation. (By the way, there is a minor mistakes of the traditional CMEAD e-ballot system also because it forbids the right to cast a blank vote.)
If students’ representative of MMU Cyberjaya are being chosen using this system, in my opinion I would say that it should be considered void as well!
Haih, I cannot believe that no MMU staff are able to design this e-ballot system. We still have lots of FIST and FIT academicians & undergraduates who won in various programming competitions, right?
In my opinion, the “connection down” incident happened today allowed us to look deeply into this issue. Nothing can be done if any contestants challenge the result of today’s election - such a simple design cannot allow us to audit/recount the votes.
Ok, that’s all until now. I am willing to help and share my ideas on the design of this e-ballot system. Is there anyone doing FYP on this? Maybe I should propose this title when it is my turn to do the FYP.
(I’m proud as a MMU student when I was in alpha year, the e-ballot system was great and it was very efficient.
Anyway now I would say that it is time to understand the source code.)
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这是MMU第一次弃用了引以为傲，自己编写的e-ballot系统，而去使用一个架设在国外，名不见经传的网站-BALLOT-BOX。（资料来源：http://ahchup.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-mmu-melaka-src-election-cancel.html）我是根据真不知道那些部门是怎样做出这样草率的决定。
我不谈到底是哪一个部门的疏忽。下来要说的是这个系统的根本性和程序上的根本失误！
- 这个系统可以修改票数。哇，你想想看用一个这么儿戏的东西来进行选举?
- OK，如果不要从票数那里改，这个系统还允许admin修改选项！
假设原本Candidate B得2票。我不修改票数，可是我可以修改选项秩序！
看到了吗？我可以把原本的名字和别人的名字(Candidate A & B)对调。 - 另外一点是根据MMU选举的规矩，GM1选区一定要投选5个人，多过或者少过5个在MMU传统的电子投票系统里面是完全不能通过，就是投不到票。但是在这个不知名的系统里面，完全不能知道到底谁投了废票！（另注：不过传统的mmu投票系统也是存有缺陷，就是剥夺了投废票的权利）
如果说MMU Cyberjaya也是使用这一个投票系统的话，那我只能说通过不formal，不正规的系统来投出来的人士没有公信力！
看到这么多问题了吗？是不是让人怀疑？
就算全部MMU CMEAD 或者ICEMS的职员都不会做这个系统，不过不要忘记还有这么多FIST和FIT的教授和学生，没有人不会吧。真是奇耻大辱！
总结，基本上今天的投票被取消了，我觉得是好事。因为这个系统真的太儿戏也完全经不起考验。若有任何一方对于投票结果不满而要求挑战，它完全不能够验票。这种投票方式完全没有公信力。
OK，待会儿来讲这种电子投票系统该怎么写才对！我不相信如果学会的senior都可以写到公平公正的系统，为什么做不到还要outsource？那干脆用纸笔投票吧！
RM100 MMU library fee issue
doiwl July 5th, 2007
Fees Used to Cover Services and Cyberjaya Library, by Yiow Tze Liz.
http://nexus.mmu.edu.my/index.php?sectid=1&nesect=2&artid=720
From the article, the director of library, Pn Aminah claimed that “the original plan of library was to impose RM150 library fee per trimester, and yet the Top Management only approved RM100 per year.” :O
She also says that:
This is not to gain profit, and none of this money enters my pocket, the money is for the development of the library, it is for the students.
Certainly, I believe that none of this money will enter your pocket. No employees dare to do so unless he/she wants to be sacked.
- The problem is how the money will be used? How do you calculate and come out with a RM 8,316,000 library development proposal initially? OMG, everyone must learn economy and don’t waste money.
(RM150 * 3 trimesters * 18480 mmu-ians = RM8.3 million) - What are the better services in future? More study space? new collections? new database subscriptions? new books? new computers? Care to explain?
- I wonder how MMU library survived all these years without this extra millions?
- How come the MMU ebrary ‘dilenyapkan’ few months ago without any announcements? (see, library managed to cut their cost secretly.)
- MMU Melaka students are paying to cover the cost of Cyberjaya libary!!
MMU librarians are friendly and very helpful from my past experience, but that will not exempt the management of library from being questioned by students! You really owe MMUians further explanation before asking money from students. In the mean time, let’s pray & hope for the good news from SRC when Prof. Ghauth returns.
goodbye to university first year
doiwl May 30th, 2007
好不容易，终于考完试了！这为我大学一年级的生涯画上了休止符。现在是假期咯！回到了熟悉的新山，刚刚也到了对岸（狮城）走马看花。
- 有人在JB吗？
- 趁我人还在新山的时候就顺便打广告：
有谁要买webspace或者是domain name吗？
