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Facebook the movie

posted on August 29, 2008 in General, Malaysia, Web 2.0 with 0 Comments

Aaron Sorkin creator of West Wing is planning to make a movie about “Facebook” togather with Sony and procuder Scott Rudin. The one single word that is common amongst every single person I know today is Facebook. What other advertising would they need for the movie? Source: BBC

Google Linux software repositories

posted on August 29, 2008 in google, Linux, Software with 0 Comments

Google has Linux software repositories setup for you to easily stay up to date with their Linux softwares. Their repositories supportÃ‚Â APT, YUM, YaST, urpmi and RPM. However, only Google Desktop and Google Picasa are published on the repositories. Google earth has to be downloaded and installed manually. I’ll show you how to add the [...]

Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as MP today

posted on August 28, 2008 in General, Malaysia with 1 Comment

Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in today as an official member of the parliament.The grass is starting to look greener now. Finally he is back!! Source: Politickler

How to build a local DNS caching server

posted on August 28, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 2 Comments

Being in Malaysia we are gifted with superior Internet speeds. NOT!! Services like openDNS are awesome but the lag between us and them often results in sluggish performance anyways. One way to improve performance is to use local DNS servers. I don’t use Streamyx’s DNS servers because they SUCK!!. TIME’s DNS servers are ok but [...]

Beijing 2008 is over

posted on August 27, 2008 in General with 0 Comments

!2 years spent planning and execution. The Chinese have done it. They WOWed the world for over 2 weeks. Beijing 2008 will surely go down in history as a proud moment for all Asians. Check out these awesome pictures (from Boston.com) to look back at Beijing 2008.

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