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General thoughts and ideas

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StudioTraffic downfall?

I’ve stumbled upon my long-time irc contact today, whose also a StudioTraffic user. Suprisingly, he’s complaining in his blog about StudioTraffic poor quality of service and low-response time lately.

He also states in his blog that, if this trend continues, StudioTraffic might just be another Ponzie, and announce that he’s going to withdraw from the scheme, quite unbelievable!! I’m talking about a guy who advocates ST for so long and have almost a hundred of referral membership under him!!! Well, something really Bad ™ must have happened…

What about you? Do you have any positive opinion about StudioTraffic lately?

p/s: StudioTraffic is a surf-for-money program which requires you to leave your browser windows open while surfing the internet. You commision will be paid according to your money invested in the program.

References :
MyInvest.us

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Redirect (301 Permanently) without using .htaccess

Want to redirect your website to another place but can’t create .htaccess file?

Well this might be a solution to you, if your webhost supports server site php scripting.

The codes below will tell web-client (including search bot) that your website have been Moved Permanently to a new location and redirects them to a new location

The PHP version :
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: http://newdomain.com/');

The ASP version :
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location",\ "http://www.newdomain.com/"

What’s wrong with META Refesh tag? Well, firstly, it isn’t supported by all web-client (including bots). Secondly, the search engine will ignore the META Refresh tag and stops indexing your webpage.

By sending server response code 301 Moved Permanently, will inform that your website have been moved to another location and search bots will note that and index the new location instead. :)

p/s: This tip is useful in an event you can’t create a .htaccess file in your webhost.

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Red Hat to funds patents for OSS developers

Red Hat has taken steps to prevent software patents from dragging open source into a mire of patent-infringement lawsuits, by funding developers to obtain patents.

Although completely different case, I couldn’t help but wonders if Malaysian government would offers aid to encourage developers to patent their invention?

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My Computer’s Going Haywire

Argh…. My computer’s going haywire today for no apparent reason!! At first my GNU/Linux flashing me with error kernel messages and kernel oops, then my Windows 98, Windows XP and Freebsd!

I’ve seen the case where all operating system could go haywire at the same time, just a matter to confirm it.

I inserted my home made diagnostic cd which i carried around just in-case, and boot off a memory test program from http://www.memtest86.com.The diagnostic reveal a screenful of memory error only in 17% completing the second test.

Damn, my computer got bad memory, I need to get my data’s out to print it somewhere. So I use my home-brew KrazhBoX rescue Linux system, and boot the floppy base GNU/Linux system.

To get away with “bad memory” kernel oops i use this boot parameter :
boot: rescue mem=16M
To limit the RAM usage up to 16Megabytes only (the first bad memory block position reported by memtest86 was 97MB), but heck KrazhBoX could run with less memory than that.

I’ve copied all my data out using my USB Flash Drive just in time, and print out my works in another PC. All went well today when I’ve manage to replace the bad memory stick. :)

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They really do it! Petrol and Diesel price hike, oh no!

Petrol and Diesel price rise again today, oh my god. The petrol price rises by 10sen and diesel by 20sen. I think 2005 is a memorable year because of the petrol price rise.

I didnt question about the petrol hike, every nation in the world are suffering from this, the result of fossil fuel burning out. And I also know that the government can’t handle the burden of subsidizing the fuel to common people people like me

I only hope that the official can announce the price hike “officially”, and be specific about the price hike, or else people will begin speculating about the price hike and you need to give them some silly warning not to speculate the very thing that is going to happen….