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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZkNrh4Bn7NM&w=450] Malaysia finally gets it first GPS based taxi booking service, Unicablink. Its part of the Sunlight Taxi group of companies. You have 3 ways to book a cab. Call the call center at 1300-800-222, book online or through the mobile app. The mobile app is the best way and is available for both the Android and iPhone. When a booking is made, the nearest taxis will be notified and they can then bid on the job. Just like the cabs in SG. The company claims booking time has dropped from 20 minutes to only 5 minutes. The next phase will be to introduce alternative payment methods. Credit / Debit cards and Touch n Go. This is something many of us are waiting for! Especially travelers. Go grab the app on Google Play or the AppStore and take it for a spin. What about Taxi Monger you ask? If I’m not wrong, that’s sms based and the response time is slightly longer. I’ve yet to book a cab through Unicablink, hopefully soon. Have you tried Unicablink yet? ...

Quickly set the current date and time in Archlinux. Check the current time. [root@atom ~]# timedatectl status<br /> Local time: Mon 2013-01-21 08:57:21 MYT<br /> Universal time: Mon 2013-01-21 00:57:21 UTC<br /> RTC time: Mon 2013-01-21 00:57:21<br /> Timezone: Asia/Kuala_Lumpur (MYT, +0800)<br /> NTP enabled: no<br /> NTP synchronized: no<br /> RTC in local TZ: no<br /> DST active: n/a Set the correct date and time. [root@atom ~]# timedatectl set-time "2013-01-21 00:59:00" ...

I was running Debian for sometime and in Debian the UID starts at 1000. Now I moved to CentOS 6 and the UID starts from 500. Simply changing the UID/GID seemed like an quick way to get my file permission back in sync. Here’s how to easily change the UID and GID for a user in Linux. Check my current UID/GID [root@atom ~]# id danesh<br /> uid=500(danesh) gid=500(danesh) groups=500(danesh) Change my UID to 1000 [root@atom ~]# usermod -u 1000 danesh ...

Google has released the official Jelly Bean 4.2 images to its servers. If you can’t wait for the OTA like me then the manual method will get you 4.2 now. See how below, I’m doing this on Fedora 17 NOTICE: Do this at your own risk. There is a chance of things going wrong and you might end up with a brick. ...

Google’s Nexus 7 was recently launched in Malaysia. Priced at RM999 for the 16GB model. Want one? Here’s a list of retail outlets where you can pick one up. ...