A Lost To Internet Journalism

The Star today reported that MGG Pillai has passed away due to a heart attack this morning.

I do not know the man personally but have come to appreciate his hard-hitting articles at MGGPillai.com. His work there serves as a constant eye-opener for me into Malaysian politics, social life, ethics, globalisation and government responsibility. To me, he was more a critic than a journalist.

His last article at MGGPillai.com was posted just 8 days before this fateful day. Even Jeff Ooi refers to him guruji.

As many, I will also miss his criticisms and writing.

The Innocuous Genuine Advantage Notification

In case you might be wondering how MS will roll out its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) nag program, here's the windows update or patch to look out for:


However, to be given a choice on whether to download and install the WGA nagger, you will have to change the default setting for Windows Automatic Updates service. The default setting and recommended setting is "Automatic" which means you have no control over what MS updates/patches/installs on your machine. Change this to either "Download updates..., but let me choose when to install them." or "Nofify me but don't automatically download or install them." so that you may have a say in what is downloaded or installed by MS. Or if total obscurity is preferred, then go for the last option of turning off Automatic Updates, but do heed the wise warning of doing so.

As above, I prefer the latter option as if I am not going to install something, then it would make good spatial sense not to download it in the first place.

If and only if you have done one of the above, then you have a choice!

You may now choose to not download and/or install particular updates when notified of them (or even not to receive any notifications if you want total privacy through total obscurity). Also, you may choose that the Automatic Update service do not nag you about the same updates again in the near or far future:

I only hope that for those who prefer not to subscribe to the WGA notification, this post did not come too late.

Single Stock Futures (SSFs)

BSKL just reintroduced Stock futures yesterday. Here's some info from me stock broker.

1st Tranche to be launched
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1.Bursa Malaysia Bhd
2.AirAsia Bhd
3.AMMB Holdings Bhd
4.Berjaya Sports Toto Bhd
5.Genting Bhd
6.IOI Corp Bhd
7.Maxis Communications
8.RHB Capital Bhd
9.Scomi Group Bhd
10.Telekom Malaysia Bhd

Contract Specifications
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Contract Unit: 1000 shares
Contract Value: Price * Contract Unit

Minimum Price Fluctuation:
0.02 point valued at RM20.00

Daily Price Limit: None

Reportable Position:
Open Position of 100 or more open contracts, long or
short, in any one delivery month.

Speculative Position Limit:
1350 contracts, net gross open position, or
2300 contracts, net gross open position.

Contract Months:
Spot month, the next month and the next two calender
quarerly months. The calender quarterly months are
March, June, September and December.

Trading Hours:
First trading session: 8:45am to 12:45pm
Second trading session: 02:30pm to 05:15pm

Final Trading Day:
The last business day of teh contract month.

Final Settlement:
Cash settlement based on the Final Settlement Value.

Final Settlement Value:
The Final Settlement Value shall be the Weighted
Average Price, rounded to two decimal points or in the
event the final settlement value is equidistant
between two minimum price fluctuations, the value
shall be rounded to the higher minimum price
fluctuation of the underlying share prices traded for
the morning and afternoon trading session on Bursa
Malaysia on the Final Trading Day.

Visitors Data

Interesting set of visitor we got for the past week or two. Too bad the counter is no longer FOC. Thanks all for visiting. Do leave a comment or two.