1. My site has no visitors
(Web developer: It is not within our scope of work. Our job is to complete your project and make sure the final payment are deposited to our bank account)

2. My online sales is slow
(Web developer: You own a restaurant. Your contractor are working on the renovation. Do you expect your contractor to guarantee your sales? We are more or less the same. Your website is a business to you, but it is only another project to us)

3. My site has never completed
(Web developer: The changes are never-ending. If you stop giving us more updates, we can get it done anytime)

4. The design sucks
(Web developer: We are designers, please trust us. If not, why would you engage our service? Anyway, you are the boss, we would still listen to you and make the design sucks for you, who cares?)

5. Why so expensive?
(Web developer: We, web developer, are dedicated to create a website with extraordinary patience. A lot of effort are spent to make sure you are the ONLY person in this world to like the website, not anyone else.)

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1. Unlimited storage & bandwidth
(Web hosting provider: We pray a lot so that none of you are hosting a gigantic MP3 download site. What? Don’t you know that we build our hosting business by over-selling?)

2. Unlimited mailbox
(This is our marketing trick to make you signing up email hosting with us. Who really cares if you have 500 email users and overload our email server! We host more mailboxes than we can afford to in each server so that we can lower down the price of your hosting.)

3. Unlimited add-on domain name
(Mixing different sites together are not a good practise, we know that from day one. But since everyone like the magic word ‘Unlimited’, why not this one?)

4. 99.999999% uptime
(Customer never ask for an uptime report to justify our actual uptime. If they do, we can come out with one which they will never understand except that if they are from Mars)

5. Reliable customer support
(Smart customers are only a step away to know that we are sucks by googling, eg ‘exabxxxxx sucks’. See, not many are doing that, we are always safe!)

6. Free domain name
(What they do not know is that we are going to make them pay it back on the next year. If that is not enough, we can send them bills for DNS, Migration Fee, Domain WHOIS update fee, you name it.)

7. No-downtime migration
(We can point our finger to countless parties when there are any downtime – TM, DNS, Dogs & Cats, Weather, etc)

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Sony VAIO J series in Windows XP

Most newer PCs are shipped with Windows 7 and provide no driver support to Windows XP. I bought one and it takes me few days to figure out how to get the Windows XP running. Just before we go into the technical details, I wish to share with you some advise from people that will DISCOURAGE you from doing that.

“I’m glad to provide you the information about the Device Drivers for the Windows XP Operating System. According to the specifications available, the Computer is preinstalled with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Operating System and does not support Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. Sony’s VAIO Computers are designed for, and supported under, the OEM version of Windows pre-installed at our factory. If you install any other Operating System in your system, it is required to contact the manufacturer of that Operating System for any and all support issues or Device Drivers and Software Utilities they may have available” said Sony Support Centre.

The following tips applies to Sony VAIO J series but I believe you can get some hint if you are on other brand or models.

1. By default, Windows XP does not include SATA driver. You need to insert the SATA driver into your Windows XP installer. To do this, use nLite

2. Sony declined to participate in the verde driver program. This is bad. To get a display card driver, use laptopvideo2go.com.

3. Other model of notebook or PC from Sony may have support to Windows XP. Since PC from same brand usually use the same hardware specs. I have got most of my drivers there. For example, I use driver from VPCCW1AGG for my VPCJ118FX.

You can email me for a list of drivers I have compiled for VPCJ118FX for windows XP. I will be more than happy to share with you and prove to you Sony support team is not there to help.

Special thanks to Aiktern from Waysoft for the SATA support.

Yes, WordPress is dying for few reasons:
1. Malware attack
2. Spam Comment
3. Less interaction
4. Fewer readership
…

It’s time to change, my fellow web developer friends :)

Too often, my customers told me ‘thank you for calling’, ‘thank you for replying promptly…’. Well, those are what we should be done, as part of the support. It makes me to think ‘they must have a lot of bad encounters with support. They are skeptical. They felt so touched when we are doing what we should have done’.

As, I do not know what happen to some of the company. Airasia, for example. They have the budget to put up the ads but they never reply your email. MSC Malaysia, do not be surprised, you hardly hear from them too after writing in. Why? Is that when the company is big and high in the sky makes you deaf? :)