FOSS.my 2008 Payment method for registration now available

Payment options for FOSS.my 2008 are out. How to register? Register at http://foss.my/register/ Make a payment to the MayBank account: Account Name: FOSS MY EVENTS Account Number: 564-276-101-587 Email [email protected] attached with proof of purchase shown below: Screenshot of the transaction Scan of bankslip If you are a student, provide us with proof of academic standing with your Student ID Source: [FOSS.my 2008][2] ...

2008-10-24 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Petronas Deepavali 2008 advertisment

Yet another awesome ad from Petronas. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRomCSkiEp0[/youtube] Source: An advertisement that made me cry. || Petronas

2008-10-23 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out

Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out. What’s new? Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications. ...

2008-10-23 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Deluge 1.0.2 released

Deluge 1.0.2 is out. This is an important bug fix release for Deluge 1.0.0. Many bug fixes and stability improvements have gone into it. Changelog; Read more Deluge 1.0.2 (10 October 2008) Core: Fix issue where torrents will not be properly added to the session Deluge 1.0.1 (10 October 2008) Core: Change the default max global upload slots to 4 instead of -1 since libtorrent will automatically open more slots to meet the upload speed limit. Fix display of tracker error messages Fix add_torrent_url() to download the torrent file in a thread to prevent the main thread from blocking and causing the daemon to freeze. Removed the ‘Maximum Connections Per Second’ setting and replaced it with a default setting of 20. This should alleviate speed issues some are experiencing. Changed max half-open connections default limit to 8 on XP/2000 and 4 on Vista Prevent being able to set file priorities for compactly allocated torrents as it is not intended to work. Fix freezing on start-up issues on systems that do not have a properly configured localhost entry. Change max connections default setting to 200 Fix issue with invalid bencoding from some trackers Plenty of libtorrent updates that should improve core stability GtkUI: ...

2008-10-11 · 2 min · Danesh Manoharan

openSUSE repositories down due to power outage

openSUSE’s mailing list, download redirector, build services are down due to a power outage at their datacenter in Nürnberg, Germany. Restoration work is in motion but it it’s going to take a few hours to complete. [Check status here][2]. See some photos from the work site. [Markojung][3] || Beineri As a workaround use the mirrors. I’m on http://mirror.oscc.org.my/ . Find a mirror closer to you. Source: [openSUSE][2] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/10/opensuse.png) [2]: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/10/10/power-outage-in-area-where-most-opensuse-servers-are-located/ [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjung/sets/72157607907568938

2008-10-11 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan