This come out during an IRC session with a friend from Malaysia, currently on extended holiday in Chile. I asked him to make a comparison because he subscribed broadband internet connection during his holiday. Suprisingly he told me that Chile internet connection is far more superior than the one offered in Malaysia (read: Streamyx), mainly […]
A couple of months ago I’ve posted an advertisement about a double storey house for rent in Kedah . I receive quite a few feedbacks from my contact page about the houses. One of them even ask me where to get a similar house in United States. While this is not suprising since the majority […]
One of the things that I love about Ubuntu is it offers a wide choice of packages. Ranging from basic administration utilities (apt-get, yum,adduser, atop,cpuid) to Networking (apache2, 6tunnel, bind, xchat) and Games (nethack, ppracer, crack-attack). The official software repository of the latest release of Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) has at least 20,231 packages, the number […]
I guess by the time of this writing, almost everybody is already aware about the earthquake in Taiwan that distrupts communication lines from Asia to United States. I wrote this because I’ve grown tired of waiting for my Ubuntu Linux to finish its software updates. Currently my surfing speed is somewhat very limited with only […]
After doing some surveying and looking around the internet for a decent Linux VPS service provider, I finally settled with RapidVPS.com. What is VPS ? Virtual Private Server (VPS) is similar to Dedicated Server, except it runs on the same machine as other Virtual Private Server, this made possible by virtualization technology. Because it is […]
A quick tip on how to shutdown your GNU Linux computer automatically, Suppose you need your Linux pc to shutdown automatically at certain time, you can use this command line : shutdown -hP 23:55 which instructs your box to power down at exactly 11:55 pm. The ‘h’ parameter instructs the program to halt the computer […]