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Tired of being throttled by your ISP? Here’s some hope, ImageShack, the media hosting site has now pulled out a new service from it’s bag of tricks. Free torrent download service using their servers. You find a torrent, upload it into ImageShack and wait. The torrent will be downloaded onto their servers and all you have to do is download the completed file one the download is complete. It’s not a new idea but what’s cool is ImageShack is providing the service for free with some limitations. The allocated space is 5GB and bandwidth is limited to 10GB. If you need more then you have the option to subscribe to their paid service. 10GB Disk/15GB Bandwidth for $10/month 25GB Disk/50GB Bandwidth for $25/month 100GB Disk/200GB Bandwidth for $75/month ...

Is it just me or has the internet been freaking slow at nights for the past weeks. Streamyx has not come up with a explanation as usual. Calling them is just a waste of time….. F U Streamyx, what am I paying RM100 for?

Seen this around lately? Yup, Flickr has gone video now. They don’t just host your photos anymore but now your videos too. However, Flickr is not here to take over from YouTube. 90 seconds videos and pro users only. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2412204725_5ea04db1ef1.jpg" alt="" width=“500” height=“376” srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2412204725_5ea04db1ef1.jpg 500w, /wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2412204725_5ea04db1ef1-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />][2] The Flickr team refers to videos as long photos thus their decision to limit videos to 90 seconds in length. Photos are personal, that’s what Flickr is. Now with the introduction of video the team feels that personal videos should not exceed 90 seconds to have the best impact. ...

Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 yesterday. Loving the automatic update and install feature for my plugins. However, the Popularity Contest plugin and Popularity Contest Widget are not compatible with WordPress 2.5 yet. Get WordPress 2.5

A friend needed help changing the system date on his Linux box today. This is usually a simple task for Linux users but newbies tend to get confused by the "date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]" line in the man page. To simplify, this is how you do it. Set the current date to April 7 2008 8:42:45pm. The easy way, #date -s "7 April 2008 20:42:45" The harder way, #date 040720422008.45 The break down: MM DD hh mm YYYY ss MM = month = 04 DD = day = 07 hh = hour = 20 mm = minute = 42 YYYY = year = 2008 ss = second = 450 ...