2008 March - Part 4

Archive for March, 2008

Wal-Mart drops gPC from it’s stores

posted on March 17, 2008 in Linux, Software, Tech with 0 Comments

Wal-Mart have decided to drop the “Green gPC” Linux based low cost desktops from it’s stores. However the gPC will still be available through walmart.com “This really wasn’t what our customers were looking for,” said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien. Consumers today are not into low end PCs which was the whole idea behind [...]

Hulu opens to public

posted on March 16, 2008 in Cool Stuff, Internet, Tech with 0 Comments

After bout 5 months of invite only beta testings hulu has opened it’s doors to the public earlier this month. hulu is an online video streaming service but unlike youtube and other video services hulu will only be publishing premium content from prime time TV like full episodes of popular tv shows, fulllength movies and [...]

Poll: 12th Malaysia Election, did the internet help?

posted on March 15, 2008 in General, Malaysia, Surveys with 4 Comments

Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin aka Zam seems to think otherwise. According to him the Malaysian citizens only believe in the mainstream media, our one-sided news shows and newspapers and alternative media like the internet, blogs, mobile phones and other new age communication media had nothing to do with the shocking outcome witnesed during [...]

Webinar: Control a World of Computers from Your Linux PC

posted on March 14, 2008 in Internet, Linux, Tech with 0 Comments

A new O’Reilly webinar is coming soon. Carla Schroder, author of the book “Linux Cookbook” will be presenting. She will be talking about GUI based secure remote administration via the Linux desktop. Some of the key points covered will be; 1. Running remote graphical applications. For example the Oracle installer which requires X. 2. Common [...]

Malaysiakini extends free service and upgrades servers

posted on March 13, 2008 in Blogging, General, Internet, Malaysia, Me with 0 Comments

Malaysiakini is extending it’s free service till this Friday 14th March. However after that it will be switching back to it’s subscribers-only model. Malaykini.tv their video site will also be transitioning to a subscriber-only model due to the high cost of bandwidth. Lower resolution videos will however still be uploaded into YouTube as they have [...]

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