2008 July - Part 4

Archive for July, 2008

Monitor your servers with Uptime Party

posted on July 15, 2008 in Internet, Web 2.0 with 0 Comments

Uptime Party is new web service to monitor your servers and their services. The service went public about 2 weeks back. Services currently monitored are Web, Ping, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, FTP and SSH. Servers and services are checked every hour(free account) and notification mails are sent out to keep you updated.

Lively by Google

posted on July 12, 2008 in google, Internet, Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

Lively is Google’s answer to Second Life. An online 3D social network which allows users to interact with each other and their surroundings. Build your avatar, choose and room and you are ready to mingle. Second Life has been around for a few years now, it’s going to be interesting to see how Lively competes [...]

quick access to your environment variables

posted on July 11, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Here’s a quick way to access your environment variables from the CLI. User the “%” key in conjunction with your “<tab>” key to auto complete your environment variables. pandora:/ # echo $J <TAB> $JAVA_BINDIRÃ‚Â $JAVA_HOMEÃ‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â $JAVA_ROOTÃ‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â $JDK_HOMEÃ‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â $JRE_HOME pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_ <TAB> $JAVA_BINDIRÃ‚Â $JAVA_HOMEÃ‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â $JAVA_ROOT pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java The traditional way is [...]

DownForEveryoneOrJustMe site checker

posted on July 11, 2008 in Internet, Web 2.0 with 2 Comments

How many times have you had a site fail to load for you but work fine for your friends? I’ve had this happen to me numeros times with youtube,flickr,google and many other sites. Here’s a cool tool by Twitter developer Alex Payne name appropriately downforeveryoneorjustme. The site’s self-explanatory, punch in the URL in fault and [...]

Negaraku! – The Malaysia News Aggregator

posted on July 9, 2008 in Blogging, Internet, Malaysia, Web 2.0 with 7 Comments

Malaysia has been busy with it’s politicians since the recent elections. Murder trials, sexual harassment, misconduct in law enforcement and the list goes on. Ridicules if you ask me. Why do “upper class”, “educated”, “leaders” perform such “low class” acts? Are they no more then upper class beggars and prostitutes? Well anyway, back to my [...]

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