Monday, February 20, 2012

Find the last alphabet of Singapore Registered Vehicles

Always been trying to remember car number plates to check the vehicle model.
Remembering the first 3 letters + number is easy but the last alphabet tends to slip the mind!
Finally found the formula to generate the last alphabet, in short the checksum of the license plate~! It will be good if there is a website so there is no need to be dependent on anything, just go to website, input and be done with it but till then, the excel file will have to suffice for it.

Excel file here - http://www.mediafire.com/?281rvor0tii2k47

The website to check is https://vrl.lta.gov.sg/lta/vrl/action/pubfunc?ID=EnquireTransferFee

Just key in the licence plate number and a future transfer date. Any date is fine since it is fake.

Anonymous and you

No, I am not talking about the hacker group Anonymous but the many Anonymous Key Board Warriors in front of the computer screen.

After the hit and run incident, Remy Ong's wiki article was under attack. Tried to clean up thinking it could be just some vandalism but it persists after a while. I requested for semi-protection and seems like some people pulled some strings and a few administrators come along to clean it up.

Once Anonymous could not operate, as registered accounts can be banned and anonymous IPs cannot edit, the article settles down. From the attacks, some are knowledgeable in editing wikis and hiding behind an IP address. Shame on you. Rant on the forums but do not attack a neutral place like Wikipedia. Due to the name-callings, lots of change history was redacted.