2008 September

Archive for September, 2008

Yet another Malaysian Ubuntu repository

posted on September 9, 2008 in Linux, Malaysia, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

Found this yesterday. It’a another Ubuntu repository for Malaysians and it’s hosted by MMU. http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/ Source: FOSS-SM

Google turns 10

posted on September 8, 2008 in google, Internet with 4 Comments

Google turns 10 today. I never realized 10 years passed so quick. From a US100 thousand dollar startup company operating out of a garage to a 160 Billion dollar company operating from the GooglePlex. See the old Google page. Today Google has it’s hands in almost everything. Ads, docs, search, groups, images, maps and the [...]

Dropbox client now available for Linux

posted on September 6, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software with 5 Comments

The folks at dropboxÃ‚Â released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon. The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closedÃ‚Â source. Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need [...]

Malaysia Today alternate URLs

posted on September 3, 2008 in General, Malaysia with 1 Comment

Alternate URL to Malaysia Today http://mt.m2day.org/2008/ To check the status of Malaysia Today and get alternate URLs go here.

Google Chrome

posted on September 3, 2008 in google, Internet, Open Source, Software with 1 Comment

Google released it’s own web browser “Google Chrome” yesterday.Ã‚Â Why the need for a new browser? Google felt that the browser has not evolved too much since the old days and to support today’s web applications browsers will need to be re-engineered. Google decided to wipe the slate clean and start over with Google Chrome [...]

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