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I was shopping for my airline ticket through Airasia.com for my next holiday back to Muar, Johor in March 2008.

The booking process was smooth, up until the end - when I realize that my HSBC credit card cannot be used to complete my transaction online - due to browser problem. It seems that HSBC is NOT Firefox compatible. I am not sure. Or is it VISA incompatible?

Screenshot:

Clicking on their T&C will not give you an answer about any particular compatible browser.

Luckily I have my good old Maybank Mastercard and I managed to complete my internet transaction. So far, my Maybank Mastercard never disappoint me.

P/S: HSBC use Internet Explorer??? Sigh…

drizad :: Dec.10.2007 :: Browsers :: 3 Comments »

I have experienced the same problems few months back. Somehow or rather, I received this annoying “HTTP Error 403” every time I tried to log in to my admin site of my blog.

Upon investigating, the problem lies on our Malaysian internet provider, Tmnet Streamyx, as they provide random dynamic IPs that apparently was blacklisted.

The solution for this problem was just restarting the ADSL modem/router and create a new connection. Tmnet Streamyx will then assign your computer with a new IP that (hopefully) is not blacklisted.

Yesterday, the same problem happened. Every time I tried to log in to this blog, I received another “HTTP Error 403” message. I thought the problem lies with Tmnet again, but after restarting my router few times, I still got the same problem.

I could also not be able to access my blog from my desktop PC at home.

One of my colleague, said it may be because of Sabah IP address which are blocked due to some technical problems with Tmnet.

Anyway, this morning, I tried to log in again, and now I found out that there is another additional technical support information from Bad Behaviour:

This may also occur with old versions of Bad Behavior. If you do not see any blacklist providers listed below, and you are the site administrator, try updating to the latest version of Bad Behavior.

Aah… That might be the cause for my problem for merely 24 hours!

True enough, when you head to Bad Behaviour website, they confirmed that the problem are caused by their plugin:

Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently began sending false positives for any IP address queried, causing everyone using Bad Behavior to be blocked. This issue is fixed in Bad Behavior 2.0.11.

So, if you have the same problem, just head to Bad Behaviour, download their latest fixed plugin, and replace the folder in your Wordpress plugin folder.

I got my admin site of my blog almost immediately!

Cheers!

drizad :: Dec.07.2007 :: Security :: No Comments »

When I found bugs with my PCLOS last week, I decided to take a good look back with Ubuntu. I did found a bug with Ubuntu installation cd with my current notebook set-up, but I found out the solution from Ubuntu forum.

#The bug: it seems that Ubuntu installation did not recognize a small partition (fat16, 8MB) that was left by my Xandros, 2 years back.

Did a new installation on top of my existing PCLOS, and now, I am dual-booting my notebook with Ubuntu!

Tried to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon, but unfortunately,I didn’t have enough disk space to squeeze all in (Gutsy needs 4GB of space, but the existing partition was only 3.2GB). Sigh…

Anyway, I managed to convert my Ubuntu to Ubuntu Muslim Edition. With Ubuntu Muslim Edition, I now have Zekr (Quran Study) and Minbar (Prayer Times) in my notebook.

drizad :: Dec.03.2007 :: Linux :: 4 Comments »