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This is the first day that I have the mood to blog since Eidul Fitr (Hari Raya).
What really caught my attention since the last few days I was away-from-keyboard is the startup time of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 browser on my 7 years old pc (Pentium 4 1.8 GHz) running Ubuntu 7.10, it was noticeably slow, giving me the impression it’s bloated. Was it only me? or does anybody else notice it too?
Currently I use Epiphany to write this post…
Usually I don’t post things such as promo codes and offerings on my blog, but I’ll make an exception for this case.
Dreamhost has made available 5 promo codes that gives you special offer on their already generous hosting plans, which includes :
Oh they have a Dreamhost Wiki page too
The Promo codes gives you :
Here’s the list of Promo Codes (to be entered in “Promo Code” field when you sign up) :
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204341432012
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Alternatively, you may choose to enter “KIROSTUDIO” promo code, to get USD 70.40 discount on their web host offerring!
All promo codes except “KIROSTUDIO” expires on 15 October 2008, so hurry up!
Since I’ve been into twitter recently, I’m was looking for a twitter client that is suitable for my operating system. Thank god that search ended when I found mitter.
Among mitter features are :
Bonus for Ubuntu users : mitter is also available from GetDeb.net one-click-install portal
What are you waiting for? catch me on twitter (id: mypapit)
For some odd reason, the organization that I work with currently blocks del.icio.us (now delicious.com) social bookmarking service. It categorizes the website as porn (wtf?), they seems to use SquidGuard in combination with websense to block the website.
Oh well, I guest I’ve to reexport all my local bookmark to delicious once I get back home for syncronization purposes.
Looks like I’m the last person to write about Chrome, the latest browser from Google. This is because I do not own a Microsoft Windows machine to test Chrome early on.
I’m sure you can find a lot of great reviews floating around the internet about the latest lightweight browser, so I will not waste your time by rehashing those information here.
What actually caught my attention is the “Create Application Shortcut” found in Chrome, a functionality similar to Mozilla Prism which I’ve reviewed a while back in my blog. This would enable users to create Desktop shortcuts of their favorite Web Application without relying to external application like Prism anymore, everything can be done neatly within a single interface.
With Chrome, Javascript execution (read: ajax’ed website) felt a lot more faster while using much less memory, it looks like this new browser is going to give Mozilla a run for its money.
p/s: Eagerly waiting for Chrome to be available on GNU/Linux platforms.
Read Googlebooks Chrome Comic for more insight about Google Chrome
After discovering Linux Hater’s blog from Google Reader and Technorati, I decided to subscribe it as it was a funny and hillarious blog. It make fun of people who are using Linux for the wrong reasons (such as trying to act cool) and how some things in Linux are not better than any other operating system.
Other than that, it contains criticism of the Linux community in general, mainly directed towards fanboys and developers, although one can easily surmise that the author himself is a Linux user who has experience in writing applications, and presumably using a Debian-derived Linux distro.
Well I might be wrong, but Linux Haters Blog is a must read if you are a Linux user yourself because it offer insights of the overall of how GNU/Linux operating system compare to other OS and what would make Linux a better OS