2008 July - Part 3

Archive for July, 2008

How to find a program’s process id (pid)

posted on July 18, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 3 Comments

Here’s an easy way to get the pid of a running process. Running the “pidof” command will return the pid(s) for a running program. See sample below, danny@pandora:~> pidof syslog-ng 2043 danny@pandora:~> pidof acpid 2045 danny@pandora:~> pidof /usr/bin/firefox 14408 danny@pandora:~> pidof /usr/bin/compiz 27164 danny@pandora:~> pidof /bin/bash 27011 17339 16792 16477 15151 14403 Simple right!?

Whoops, my Gmail’s down

posted on July 17, 2008 in google, Internet with 0 Comments

I’m receiving this after a long time. Seen the same yourself?

Firefox 3.0.1 released

posted on July 17, 2008 in Mozilla, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

Firefox 3.0.1 is out. This is the first update for Firefox 3 which was released not too long ago. ItÃ‚Â covers security, stability and bug fixes. Fixed several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch. Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did [...]

Anwar vs Shabery fuel debate

posted on July 16, 2008 in Malaysia with 4 Comments

I missed the debate last night thanks to work. But anyways, here are they videos if you missed them too. It turned out to be more of a personal attack session then what it was initial intended to be, an open debate. Anwar stood his grounds well with good facts and discreet sarcasms but Shabery [...]

WordPress 2.6 Released

posted on July 15, 2008 in Blogging, Software, WordPress with 1 Comment

WordPress 2. 6 (Tyner) is out with some new improvements. 1. Post Revisions :: You get to diff your post changes now. 2. A new Press This! button. :: Directly post from any site you are on. Plus support to automatically detect media files from sites like YouTube and Flickr. 2. Google Gears :: My [...]

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