2009 June - Part 2

Archive for June, 2009

OpenDNS hits 14billion requests a day!

posted on June 26, 2009 in Internet with 0 Comments

The best DNS service on the net, OpenDNS, receives 14 billion DNS request a day now!! Yup, 14 billion hits a day!! At pick time they process about 200,000 hits/sec which is mind blowing. A new location is planned for Amsterdam in a few months and also Asia hopefully. We need a location in Asia [...]

Kingston releases 128GB Data Traveler 200 USB flsh drive

posted on June 25, 2009 in Tech with 1 Comment

Kingston’s rolled out a new flash drive, the Data Traveler 200. At 128GB it’s the largest flash drive availalbe today and also the most expensive with a price tag of USD 550. There is also a 64GB model priced at USD 215 and a 64GB model priced at USD 120 if 128GB is too much [...]

I get more Firefox then IE

posted on June 24, 2009 in Internet, Site News, Surveys with 0 Comments

This is awesome. Was going through my Google Analytics reports today. Most of my visitors run Firefox and not IE. Looking at my stats from the past month. Firefox’s at 59.70%. IE was only at 27.75 % coming 2nd, followed by Chrome at 4.34%. Looking at my stats, I guess most of my visitors are [...]

H1N1 shuts down 3 schools

posted on June 23, 2009 in General, Malaysia with 2 Comments

SRJKC Jalan Davidson , SRK Assunta 2 and Cempaka International School have all been ordered to close for a week or more following confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu (swine flu) amongst their students. SRJKC Jalan Davison has 3 confirmed cases, Assunta reported 1 case so far and Cempaka International School reported having 2 confirmed [...]

Linux Tip #8: grep with color

posted on June 23, 2009 in Linux, Linux Tips with 0 Comments

If you’re running grep on a large file with multipled results, highlighting your results would really easy on your eyes. Here’s how; Export the “GREP_OPTIONS” environment variable to include “–color=auto”. Run the export command below. export GREP_OPTIONS=’–color=auto’ Once you’ve executed the command, run a simple grep to see the highlights in action. Red is the [...]

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