2008 May - Part 3

Archive for May, 2008

Linux is like religion

posted on May 19, 2008 in General, Linux, Open Source with 0 Comments

Linux to me is like religion. Even though I am not religious but I feel that Linux in some way is like religion. It’s free, goes by many different names, it’s changes over time to suit needs but ultimately it’s personal. There will never be one “ultimate distribution”. It will always be a personal choice [...]

Disable Nuffnang Polls

posted on May 18, 2008 in Blogging, HowTo, WordPress with 2 Comments

Nuffnang recently launched it’s smart poll feature which enabled polls to be shown together with your campaign ads. Since it’s launch I’ve only seen one poll across all blogs and sites running Nuffnang ads. It’s a cool idea to run polls but till the poll questions increase I’d rather have the polls feature turned off [...]

Fedora 9 “Sulphur” Screenshots

posted on May 17, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 1 Comment

Here are some screen shots to support my previous post about Fedora 9 “Sulphur”. GNUMAN.org The Coding Studio

Fedora 9 “Sulphur” released

posted on May 17, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 1 Comment

Good news to all Fedora fans. Fedora 9 codenamed “Sulphur” is out. The new release comes with quite a few new features. To start off. Fedora 9 runs on the latest 2.6.25 kernel. There’s a new package management system included called “Packgeit” which uses Yum for it’s backend. Gnome Desktop 2.22 and KDE 4.03 are [...]

My Streamyx is screwed again

posted on May 15, 2008 in Internet, Malaysia, Tech with 6 Comments

My Streamyx is screwed again. Actually it’s been like that for a month now. The speed is nominal in the mornings but after 8pm the speed drops to 1/4 the normal. My last bandwidth test came up with 104.4 Kbits/download and 290Kbits/upload. Looks like someone’s overselling bandwidth again, you think so? Or could it be [...]

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