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![](/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/chart_total_alltime_2009_06-500x344.gif" alt=“chart_total_alltime_2009_06” width=“500” height=“344” srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/chart_total_alltime_2009_06-500x344.gif 500w, /wp-content/uploads/2009/06/chart_total_alltime_2009_06.gif 560w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />]1 The best DNS service on the net, OpenDNS, receives 14 billion DNS request a day now!! Yup, 14 billion hits a day!! At pick time they process about 200,000 hits/sec which is mind blowing. A new location is planned for Amsterdam in a few months and also Asia hopefully. We need a location in Asia to speed things up. With our slow international links even OpenDNS can sometimew feel slugish. This could be the reason why companies here have yet to switched over. ...

Kingston’s rolled out a new flash drive, the [Data Traveler 200][2]. At 128GB it’s the largest flash drive availalbe today and also the most expensive with a price tag of USD 550. There is also a 64GB model priced at USD 215 and a 64GB model priced at USD 120 if 128GB is too much for you to handle. With so much storage capacity squeezed into such small form factors, are portable HDDs going to be something of the past? Pricing will be the major arguable point but looking at how hassle free thumb drives are compared to portable hdd drives, it’s gonna be an interesting adventure. ...

This is awesome. Was going through my Google Analytics reports today. Most of my visitors run Firefox and not IE. Looking at my stats from the past month. Firefox’s at 59.70%. IE was only at 27.75 % coming 2nd, followed by Chrome at 4.34%. Looking at my stats, I guess most of my visitors are internet savvy else Firefox would not be on top. Not that Firefox is a pain to use but the fact is that most non internet savvy users generally just stick with the default browser that comes with their OS which in most cases is IE 🙁 ...

SRJKC Jalan Davidson , SRK Assunta 2 and Cempaka International School have all been ordered to close for a week or more following confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu (swine flu) amongst their students. SRJKC Jalan Davison has 3 confirmed cases, Assunta reported 1 case so far and Cempaka International School reported having 2 confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu. If your child has the flu, make sure he/her gets looked at by medical personnel. Keep them indoors, prevent any contact with others and drop school till the flu blows away. ...

If you’re running grep on a large file with multipled results, highlighting your results would really easy on your eyes. Here’s how; Export the “GREP_OPTIONS” environment variable to include “-color=auto”. Run the export command below. export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' Once you’ve executed the command, run a simple grep to see the highlights in action. Red is the default highlight color. I’ll cover setting custom colors in a future post. [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2009/06/grep-with-color-1.png)