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Specially made post for curious people, this is where i usually blog, the approximate location is latitude 6.120, longitude 100.377.
Can anybody guess the name of the place being pointed by the blue and the red arrow?
I’m sure most of you are familiar with dot-com (.com) domain name on the internet. This is because the .com domain name is the most common domain name found on the internet and it is the largest TLD (top level domain name) in use.
The .com domain name was first established in January 1985, and currently operated by Verisign. Here is the list of the oldest .com domain name that is still active in the internet :
Rank Create date Domain name 1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM 2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM 3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM 4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM 5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM 6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM 7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM 8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM 9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM 10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM 11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM 11. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM 13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM 13. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM 15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
From here we can see that the oldest .com domain registered was by Symbolics, Inc, more than 20 years ago!
Continue reading the list here : The 100 oldest currently registered .COM domains
I know some of you might already familiar with k3b, gcombust or xcdroast for burning DVD in GNU/Linux. But this time i’m going to show you how to burn a DVD using command-line tool in Linux using Ubuntu or Debian GNU/Linux as reference.
Install dvd+rw-tools. As root (in Debian or Ubuntu) execute this command,
Do this only when you want to clear out all contents.
There you go, how to burn DVD RW under GNU/Linux.
dvd+rw-tools is also available in OpenBSD/NetBSD and FreeBSD from port contributed by Matthew Dillon.
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Slashdot.org one of the popular tech website is banned from being accessed from US Military network. Why is slashdot being banned by US Military? Does it contains dangerous/harmful information to its personnel?
The real reason for it being banned is unclear, but from an article in Newsforge, it is understood that the ban is caused by Slashdot.org being miscategorized as Newsgroups by Blue Coat, a standard web proxy tool used by the US Military.
Well to me, this is not the first thing happened with web filtering software miscategorizing websites. I had tons of problem with annoying softwares that banned unnecessary websites mostly because they use broad keyword match to ban a website, *sigh*.
I rather wait for my pc to be back online again, rather than to use a pc with annoying web filtering software/proxy.
Bad news for me (or to those who frequented this blog), my personal computer just died last night. Its final SDRAM stick just fails, I don’t have SDRAM spares anymore and perhaps this is it. I’m going to shop for a new motherboard that supports the more common and better DDR-RAM and of course a new motherboard.
I may not have enough budget to spend for a new processor though one of AMD CPU cross my mind. Hopefully I can settle for a price that I can afford since not having my own workstation really drags me out because I can’t realise my creativity and thinking to its fullest potential.
To readers who frequented my blog, please bear with me while I’m reviving my workstation. I might post an update or two here but it may not be as juicy as the usual post. :p
Introducing #fakap community blog, a blog that does not focus on a single topic but rather as a medium to voice out opinions and feelings of #fakap online community.
The blog also doubles as a news website that is frequently updated by a team of bloggers from #fakap community. #fakap community is mainly consist of frequent irc users in webchat.org and dal.net irc networks. Most of them are regular pc end-users , which makes the blog more interesting since we are reading what an average end-user would say about a particular product.
You may find that #fakap community speaks is a bit harsher than the usual blog that I maintain because it is designed to make people think of the harsher reality of lives. I wish to snap people out from their dream, out from wasting their valueable money to giant corporations, I’ll try to snap them out from it, *only* if they would help themselves.
So, hope that you enjoy reading #fakap community blog as I’m one of the bloggers there :p