Streamyx Internet disruption to US and Hong Kong

Bet your Streamyx has been slow the past few days. Streamyx reported that the SMW3 and APCN2 submarine lines are experiencing service faults. Another anchor maybe? As a result, access to US and Hong Kong based sites are extra slow…… According to their announment, restoration work should have been completed by today but as of now there is no announcemnt nor improvement in browsing speeds to US and Hon Kong....

2009-04-05 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to restart RSH in Linux

The rsh service is controlled by the “xinetd” super daemon. If your rsh service stops working simply run the “service xinetd restart” service to restart rsh. Sample output; [root@pilon~]# service xinetd restart<br /> Stopping xinetd: [FAILED]<br /> Starting xinetd: [ OK ]

2009-04-01 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

We saved 550 Megawatts through Earth Hour Malaysia 2009

500 Megawatts or 14 million fluorescent bulbs at 40 watt each. That’s what Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 managed to save according to TheStar. Yes TNB lost some money, but do they really need it? Earth Hour was good, I had a BBQ at home with my family while watching the lights go out. What made it even better was the fact that my neighbors, not the “save the earth” kind (I WAS SO WRONG 🙁 ) had their lights out too....

2009-03-31 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 released

Mozilla has released a new version for Firefox. Version 3.0.8. It’s a security release so make sure you get it. Download Here. Firefox 3.0.8 release notes

2009-03-31 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Installing Novell Moonlight on openSUSE 11.1

First, make sure you have the PackMan repo added. Bring up a console and su to root or use sudo. Run the commands below; zypper -v search moonlight zypper -v install moonlight-plugin Sample output; pandora:~ # zypper -v search moonlight<br /> S | Name | Summary | Type<br /> --+------------------+-------------------------------------+-----------<br /> | moonlight | Novell Moonlight | srcpackage<br /> | moonlight-plugin | Browser plugin for Novell Moonlight | package<br /> | moonlight-tools | Various tools for Novell Moonlight | package...

2009-03-29 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan