Skype service has been fully restored after 2 days of outage due to problems with the login system. The people at Skype will be providing an announcement on what actually caused the outage on their blog, Heartbeat, this Monday 20th August 2007. Everything is back to normal now. All my Skype calls are going through fine but quality as usual just OK due to the excellent bandwidth provided by our brilliant ISP here in Malaysia. ...
The GSC fun break promotion is back!! Print the coupon below and present it at the nearest GSC cinema to get a free ticket for every ticket you buy. The promotion runs from 18th August till 30th September. Please note that the promotion is only valid for movies marked with an asterisk(*). Each patron is limited to 2 coupons each which totals 4 tickets. See the list of (*) movies here. ...
I’ve been having trouble with skype for the past few hours. I can log in to skype, make a call but when I key in my meeting number it does not go through. I keep getting errors saying “no key was entered”. The DMTF tones are not going through. Sigh… I had to go back to my land line with no headphones or speaker phone capabilities. Apparently Skype is experience some major issues within it’s network which is going to take them 12-24 hours to rectify. Skype has posted a notice regarding the outage. See notice here. ...
This is a t-shirt design by my buddy Alan that he had submitted to Designs by Humans, an online t-shirt store recently. The design “Do The Evolution” depicts the skateboarding scene during the 80s and 90s. I love the concept, being a skateboarder my self during the 90’s, My crew always ran into issues with the authorities. We fought back every single time and won a few battles. Then, came along X-games, made all our hard work seem like a waste of time. Extreme sports suddenly seemed like the “IN” sport. Why? Tv coverage and the chance to host international events. 2 major contributors to our tourism industry. ...
RAR is a proprietary compression format widely used today. It’s supposedly has 30% higher compression rate when compared with WinZip. If you download large torrent then chances are you are are already well acquainted with RAR. I use RAR on my Windows and Linux boxes everyday and today I’ll show you how to extract RAR files from the Linux command line. In Linux, to extract a RAR file you would use the unrar command. The unrar binaries are typically not included with the default Linux install so you will have to install them either through the package manager or by downloading binaries from rarlab.com ...