Can you access YouTube? I can’t. All I get is “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” Mashable had an update stating that YouTube was down but came back after a 6 hour outage but somehow I still can’t get throug. Sorry guys, Mashable’s post was from 2006. My bad, totally missed that. Thanks David. Update (21:11 GMT +8) : YouTube is back up. Update (22:18 GMT +8) : You Tube is down again. It was up like 20 minutes ago. ...
Skype’s back now. The major outage experienced by millions of Skype users a few days back was a results of Skype’s load balancing algorithm not being able to coupe with a sudden surge of login requests. Why the sudden surge in login request? Microsoft had released a patch through windows update and most of the Windows boxes out set to auto update decided to reboot at the same time. Imagine. ...
WordPress 2.3 went into it’s feature freeze cycle on Wednesday August 23rd in preparation for it’s final release this September 27th. All focus has been shifted from development work into testing and bug fixing. The first beta release is due this Monday August 27th. Beta release will be release every Mondays followed by bug hunts on Wednesdays. What are WordPress bug hunts? Some of the new features coming out with this release, ...
Good news to Malaysian Ubuntu users. Inigo-Tech has setup a local Ubuntu repository mirror. " http://mirror.inigo-tech/ubuntu " To use the repository simply add it suing the Synaptic Package Manager or you could edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to include the line below, " deb http://mirror.inigo-tech.com/ubuntu/ feisty feisty-backports universe multiverse " I can’t test the performance gain as I don’t have an ubuntu box at home but I am quite sure you would see improvements since we don’t need to access the super fast (ya right!!) international gateway. ...
Sorry guys, I won’t be posting anything new today. First, freaking Streamyx has been screwed for the past 2 days. I call them up and all I got was the damn machine. " Users might experience slow access to international sites", “regular maintenance work is being carried out from 12am till 6am for 4 day”. SIGH………….. Second, I was playing around with Compiz Fusion on my NB and desktop and some how managed to screw them both up. Guess this is what happens when you try too many things and can’t remember what you changed. ...