2007 August - Part 2

Archive for August, 2007

Malaysian Ubuntu repository

posted on August 24, 2007 in Linux, Malaysia with 0 Comments

Good news toÃ‚Â Malaysian Ubuntu users. Inigo-Tech has setup a local Ubuntu repository mirror.Ã‚Â ” http://mirror.inigo-tech/ubuntu ” To use the repository simply add it suing the Synaptic Package Manager or you could edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to include the line below, “ deb http://mirror.inigo-tech.com/ubuntu/ feisty feisty-backports universe multiverse ” I can’t test the performance gain [...]

No posts today

posted on August 23, 2007 in Site News with 1 Comment

Sorry guys, I won’t be posting anything new today. First, freaking Streamyx has been screwed for the past 2 days. I call them up and all I got was the damn machine. ” Users might experience slow access to international sites”, “regular maintenance work is being carried out from 12am till 6am for 4 day”. [...]

Top 10 Worst Company URLs

posted on August 22, 2007 in Internet with 3 Comments

Picked this up from my forum Hangout@TheDaneshProject thanks to maccaroni n cheese. What happens when you don’t put enough thought into you company’s domain name. Apprently these domain names were not examined from all possible angles before put out there for the public. 1. A site called ‘Who Represents ‘ where you can find the [...]

Remove Zenworks Management Daemon

posted on August 21, 2007 in Linux with 0 Comments

openSUSE is an awesome OS but has a few annoyance. We will look at the Zenworks Management Daemon today. Somehow every time I install or update a package through YaST or the updater the the process will stall at “synchronizing with Zen” or something like that. I am not the first person to face this [...]

Shell script scripts to restart firefox

posted on August 21, 2007 in Linux with 3 Comments

My Firefox freezes up when I have too many flash videos loading at the same time. Wrote a simple script to restart Firefox every time this happens. #!/bin/bash #simple script to kill and restart firefox #20th August 2007 #Writen by Danesh aka Danny #http://thedaneshproject.com # #look for the firefox PID PID=`ps -ef | grep firefox-bin [...]

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