RIP Yasmin Ahmad, you will be missed
Image taken from abinesh.com
Another good person has left us. Yasmin Ahmad, the woman who broke racial boundaries through her wonderful ads, books and movies is no more.
Yasmin left us at 11.25pm last night after spending 2 days in ICU. She suffered a stroke and brain haemorrhage.
Facebook allows username change
Taken from Mashable
Not too long ago Facebook introduced usernames. A feature that made your Facebook profile URL more meaningful. However, at the time Facebook only allowed only one user name change. So if you chose a bad user name like these people did, you just had to suck it up and live with your mistake.
Fortunately Facebook had a change of mind and now users can change their user name. Changing the user name is done from the “Account Settings” page under “Username”. However, Facebook is still not opening up the flood gates. You may only change your user name once so make sure to choose wisely this time.
From what I see Facebook has to set a limit on the number of times user name changes are permitted. Spammers would surely abuse the feature if it were left open. What do you think?
Yasmin Ahmad : Press Conference
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wy0uwZ6OWQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Plea from Yasmin’s family urging the public to give Yasmin and her family privacy and space through this hard time. Hope everyone will respect this.
Stay up to date on Yasmin’s condition on twiiter.
How to setup an OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
Here’s a simple walkthrough to setup an OpenSSH server on Jaunty together with 2 basic hardening options you should apply.
1. Install the OpenSSH server.
Fire up a console and run the command below. This will install the required binaries and packages for the OpenSSH server.
apt-get install openssh-server
2. Get some basic hardening in by disabling “root” login and restricting access to specific accounts. All changes are to the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” configuration file.
vi the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” file and apply the changes below.
Look for "PermitRootLogin yes"
and change it to
"PermitRootLogin no"
Start a new line and add the line below. “danesh” is my user name, you should replace it with your own user name. You can add multiple user names by seperating each user name with a space.
AllowUsers danesh user1 user2
3. Restart your shiny new OpenSSH server and you are good to go.
Run the command below to restart the OpenSSH server.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Fastest Firefox, the community shows off
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFpAL7Rfww&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Firefox 3.5 is fast, no doubt there. These guys are too, fast at what they do. So, it’s only fit that Mozilla feature them on it’s Fastest Firefox campaign site.
The world’s fastest clapper, Kent French. Watch the Video
The world’s fastert sport stacker, Steven Purugganan. Watch the Video
The world’s fastest benjo player, Todd Taylor. Watch the Video
The world’s fastest talking female, FranCapo. She was the lady in main video doing the intro.
