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Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin aka Zam seems to think otherwise. According to him the Malaysian citizens only believe in the mainstream media, our one-sided news shows and newspapers and alternative media like the internet, blogs, mobile phones and other new age communication media had nothing to do with the shocking outcome witnesed during our recent election. What do you think, did the Internet & Blogs Influence The Election Results? Vote here. ...

A new O’Reilly webinar is coming soon. Carla Schroder, author of the book “Linux Cookbook” will be presenting. She will be talking about GUI based secure remote administration via the Linux desktop. Some of the key points covered will be; Running remote graphical applications. For example the Oracle installer which requires X. Common administration tasks via popular Linus desktop environments like KDE or Gnome for example. Remote helpdesk, similiar to remote assistance in Windows . ...

Malaysiakini is extending it’s free service till this Friday 14th March. However after that it will be switching back to it’s subscribers-only model. Malaykini.tv their video site will also be transitioning to a subscriber-only model due to the high cost of bandwidth. Lower resolution videos will however still be uploaded into YouTube as they have always been. Much needed upgrades are also being put in place. Malaysiakini will be seeing 3 new high-end servers and have it’s bandwidth upgraded to 150mbps. Users will surely realize an improvement in performance moving forward. ...

I am facing the same annoying beep issue which I experienced on my Linux notebook before on my XP machine now. Most users don’ t fancy having sounds turned on their OS. In XP turning off your sound schemes will turn off all notification sounds but then all beeps get channeled to your pc speaker instead thus begins the annoyance. I read somewhere that MS claims that this is a bug with the motherboards, ya right!! ...

I finally decided to go ahead and upgrade my Flickr account from basic(free) to pro. Cost me USD24.95 but was worth every penny. Unlimited space/sets/bandwidth/etc… and now since Picnik has also gone free it just made sense to dump my other image hosting sites and consolidate everything into Flickr moving forward. If you need image hosting they are many other there to choose from. Take them for a spin and look at your requirements. Most times the basic/free services will be more then enough. ...