Some fun pics I got in my mail. Only in Malaysia. Awesome street sign. Let’s say it in English and BM in the same sentence. This is what happens when it rains in KL Astro in Johor Clown on Kesas Don’t litter, the right way!! Ah long!! Cicak Man!! Rempit Crew in action..sigh…. GPS tracking? Is it worth it or is he just dumb? ...
I use the command line everyday at for work and home. Command switches a part of life but the problem is remembering switches. The man files have always helped and always will continue doing so. Bash-completion came along to help in this area. It displays a list of a available switched for a specific command by simply hitting the TAB key twice. See screenshots below for clearer picture. Download the rpm . Currently no packages available from the CentOS repos. #“wget http://www.caliban.org/files/redhat/RPMS/noarch/bash-completion-20060301-1.noarch.rpm" ...
Being in Malaysia don’t expect the best speeds when running “yum -y update”. I recommend installing the yum fastest mirror plugin to see some better results. The plugin basically goes through the list of mirrors and determines which mirrors have the best response time. The results are then sorted and stored in a local cached copy. Installation is simple, “yum install yum-fastestmirror” for CentOS 5 and “yum -y install yum-plugin-fastestmirror” for previous versions. “vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf” ensure the settings described below and set properly. [main] enabled=1 verbose=0 socket_timeout=3 hostfilepath=/var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt maxhostfileage=1 ...
An awesome book for the average Windows user who is thinking about getting started in Linux or maybe just curious about what Linux looks and feels like. The book will show you how, where and what is needed to get you started on you Linux journey. The book is authored by Scott Morris from openSUSE Linux Rant. 25 versions from 5 different OS platforms and 20 years of experince is what he bring to the table. Read his bio. ...
Antivirus applications are installed on almost every computer today. The threat of virus attacks is always growing and the technology evolving. The best defense anyone can have today is a good antivirus application. PC World has published a list of the top performers in the antivirus space. This is helpful information for those looking to get antivirus application to secure their computers. The Top Performers are; Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2007 ...