Siu Lun

WARNING to all entrepreneurs and small business owners and in general, the people of Hong Kong who needs broadband and phone services.

Do not EVER get broadband or phone line from PCCW.

They’re an evil company that is out to only cheat you out of as much money as possible.

Story:
I’m closing down my office after a few months of operations as I’m joining a multi-national company. I phoned to ask for my contract to be terminated.

THEN they informed me that those ‘free gifts’ they give out they’ll charge me for it.

There is a whole lot of wrongs with that.

1) I’ve never signed anything to agree to that term.
2) Their terms specifically states that any ‘outstanding’ free gifts would be forfeited in case of early termination. But does not mention you have to pay for any free gifts already sent.
3) One of the free gift they’ve given to me was due to the fact that they’ve messed up my plans and my installation date had to be rearranged so I had no business broadband in the office (which is critical to the running of my company) at a later date.

Now they want me to pay for it? I feel utterly cheated and it is absolutely wrong to force free gifts to others but then charge for it later. Reminds me of some those ‘beauty centre’ scam that was on the news a few months ago.

I’ve got no issues with paying for the rest of the contract to terminate (though I’m very unhappy with that as it is) but they charge ‘on-top’ of that for early termination? WTF. How much free money are they getting with people doing that?

I will _NEVER_ use PCCW or netvigator again. They’re dishonest, untrustworthy and overall crooked.

GitHub, the open source repository, is moving to Rackspace.

How do they have so much money?

Rackspace for those who don’t know are expensive premium hosting, of course you get what you paid for and they’re excellent, but none-the-less. GitHub who offers free repos for OpenSource projects can actually afford it?

How much paid GitHub hosting do you need to afford that? Even if we assume all their customers take the “Giga” plan @ $200 per month. The cheapest Rackspace server I’ve seen is still $600 per month with 1TB raid 1. I suppose their $200 plan is only 60GB. which means they can fit around 10 giga plan at least in 1 server, so $2000-$600=$1400 profit.

Though to be perfectly honest, I did thought about moving my repository to github as git is the new and hip version control system. Though I had a look at the prices and instantly knew they’re more than in reality it would cost.

Chrome 3.0 for Windows is out. Google is so awesome. What would make them even more awesome is if they get normal people to actually use it.

Oh… and come out with a final Mac version.

Get it while it’s hot!
http://www.google.com/chrome