[Uptime Party][2] 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. ...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbwfOucET8[/youtube] 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 with the big boy. See Lively in action. Source: Lively by Google
Here’s a quick way to access your environment variables from the CLI. User the “%” key in conjunction with your “” key to auto complete your environment variables. pandora:/ # echo $J <TAB><br /> $JAVA_BINDIR $JAVA_HOME   $JAVA_ROOT   $JDK_HOME    $JRE_HOME<br /> pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_ <TAB><br /> $JAVA_BINDIR $JAVA_HOME   $JAVA_ROOT<br /> pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_HOME<br /> /usr/lib/jvm/java The traditional way is to “env | grep [variable name]”
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][2]. The site’s self-explanatory, punch in the URL in fault and your get your answer. This is a must have tool for me now. What ya think? ...
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 post. My dad spends most of his day surfing the net for inside on the local political scene. His constant thirst for knowledge drives my mom insane, especially when he skips his meals. 64 years old but the mind of a 20 year old. ...