The Danesh Project

I’m a registered voter now.

Finally today I decided to register myself as a voter for my country, Malaysia. Register at the Post office in KLCC during lunch.

Things need to change and the only way to get the ball rolling is by registering yourself as a voter and voting for who you believe(hope) in. Even if you don’t vote, that will still send a message out saying you are not happy with the choice.

Please register as a voter as it’s your duty as a citizen. 5mins at the nearest post office is not that much to ask now is it?

Don’t bitch and whine if you not gonna at least register cause nothing will change and also don’t hope for othes to do the work for you. Believe in what you want and go for it.

Merry Christmas

Scheduled Maintenance

There was  scheduled maintenance work  carried out on the servers hosting The Danesh  Project these past 2 days.  The servers were getting  new IPs and better infrastructure.

The outage was planned for the 22nd but somehow the hosting guys got the notification mails mixed up which explains why you did not see a post from me regarding the outage beforehand. The notification mail’s subject line read 22nd but the mail body stated 23rd.  My mind was set on the 23rd. See below.

Subject:  Shared Server ***.***.***.*** IP Migration on 22/12/2007 at 8AM (GMT+8)

Dear Customer,
Please take note that we will be performing IP migration on 23/12/2007 at 8AM (GMT+8). This means that we will switch IPs for the server. After the steps taken, there will be 5 to 10 hours of downtime period and propagation.
If you encounter any problems after the IP migration, please reply to us in this email.
Alternatively, you may submit a ticket to us at https://247livesupport.biz/.

Thank you.
247 Ticket Support Department
- http://247livesupport.biz -

Well, I guess it was a genuine mistake that I would have made myself under pressure but what got to me was the 30hours outage that was initialy suppsed to only be 5-10hours. Apparently the DNS servers were propagating slower then expected.

Good thing is the site’s back up with improved performance now and I have my smile back.

Upgrading RubyGems 0.9.5 to 1.0.1

Upgraded my Rails to 2.0.2 and RubyGems to 1.0.1.

1. gem –version to check your gems version.
2. sudo gem update –system to update your gems.
3. sudo gem install rails to update rails to the latest version.

See outputs on the next page…..
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Malaysian toll rates from Jan 1 2008

Get ready people, the increase may look small but for those who use these routes daily it’s gonna cost them dearly over a long period.