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 has Linux software repositories setup for you to easily stay up to date with their Linux softwares. Their repositories support 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 repository in openSUSE but for other distros refer here.
1. As root add the repository.
For 32 bit
pandora:~ # zypper sa -t YUM http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 google
For 64 bit
pandora:~ # zypper sa -t YUM http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64 google64
2. Test the repository
pandora:~ # zypper se picasa
pandora:~ # zypper in picasa
Done!!
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
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 I still prefer openDNS.
To improve performance, I put together a local DNS caching-only server that forwards to openDNS. Now I have openDNS with lighting fast response.
Let’s walk though the steps to get your own local DNS caching-only server setup. I’m using openSUSE 11 so the steps might vary depending on your distro.
1. Install BIND
pandora:~ # zypper in bind
2. Edit /etc/named.conf
pandora:~ # vi /etc/named..conf
Uncomment the forwarders section. Update the default values with the values below.
forwarders { 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };
forward only;
Add the line ” forward only; ” This will tell BIND to only forward to the forwarders and not the ROOT servers.
3. Start the service.
To have the service start automatically run ” chkconfig named on ”
pandora:~ # service named start
4. Let’s make sure your caching server is running fine.
pandora:~ # nslookup google.com localhost
Server:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â localhost
Address:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:Â Â google.com
Address: 64.233.167.99
Name:Â Â google.com
Address: 72.14.207.99
Name:Â Â google.com
Address: 64.233.187.99
pandora:~ # nslookup yahoo.com localhost
Server:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â localhost
Address:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:Â Â yahoo.com
Address: 68.180.206.184
Name:Â Â yahoo.com
Address: 206.190.60.37
5. Update your /etc/resolv.conf file.
This will tell your system to use the local DNS server which we just setup instead of the external ones.
Add the lines below to the file.
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 127.0.0.2
That’s it. You now have local DNS caching. Enjoy!!
Beijing 2008 Closing Ceremony
!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.
