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I’ve able to obtain Malaysian cities and places geo location file while working with one of my projects. The file is tab-separated and contains city names and it’s geo location given in Geographic Coordinate System (longitude, latitude).
I publish this in my website in hope that it would be useful for others out there. I find the list is very useful and quite comprehensive, save for a few “fancy” places in Kuala Lumpur which i couldn’t find.
Download the file here : bandar_geolocation.txt.gz
I found this website while surfing the Ittutor.net forum, the Linux Distribution Chooser tries to determine what kind of GNU/Linux distro is best suited for you through a series of easy to answer questions. Suprisingly, the results are fairly accurate, my personal result was Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mandriva, Mepis and Debian.
IMHO, based on testimonials from ittutor forum, this website can help users to determine the right GNU/Linux distribution for them.
Which GNU/Linux distro is best for you? You can try Linux Distribution Chooser here : http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Original Ittutor forum thread : http://forums.ittutor.net
Microsoft decided to embrace Python by releasing IronPython 1.0 (now in Beta 1) in order to encourage developers to use .NET platform. It is unclear whether Microsoft is going to integrate IronPython with it’s Visual Studio products, but it’s speculated that open source developers are more likely to consider using Visual Studio if it support Python.
There’s no release date set for IronPython 1.0 yet, but the Beta can be downloaded at Microsoft’s Website
From : UK Builder
I’ve forgotten that I’ve geotag my feeds and website months ago until yesterday when I came across this Mozilla Firefox extension.
What’s Geotagging?
The GeoURL provide service to geotag your website which helps people to find you geographically only by your web url. You can also find urls which are approximately close to your position. Here’s the list of websites “near” me :
How to add Geo Tag ?
Simply go to Adding yourself to GeoURL at the GeoURL website, and follow the instructions there. You have to know your longitude and latitudes in order to do this, which can be obtained through one of these websites. My personal favorite is Multimap, which i’ve already bookmarked for Malaysian users.
You can proceed to include this meta tags in between of your head tags of your website.
Finally, proceed to GeoURL ping form to tell them that your website has been geo-tagged.
GeoURL Mozilla Firefox extension
You can install this Mozilla Firefox extension, and a globe will appear on the status bar of your browser. The globe will light up when you came across a geo-tagged website. Clicking it will show it’s neighboring website, geographically.
Adapting to the new environment in the house is quite a chore by itself, I’ve to tell myself to get use to everything, since most of my old stuff are being thrown away to make room for new furnitures.
It’s pretty cool once I got used to the new stuff and furnitures around me, new bed, new cupboard, new rack, etc. I’ve also put up a “black box” for my use in my room. I’ve assemble it from junk stuff that i found around the house and bought some switch to put it together, by soldering up some wires and glueing the cover together. Yeah, the good old Kemahiran Menipu Latif.
But I won’t tell you what it is for, not now at least. Can you guess what does this “black box” do?
Oh, forgive me for my sloppy handywork, lol.
Google hit it again! This time, Google.com Inc. is making headlines by planning to offer a range of low-priced pc or other device that connects to the Internet.
It is rumored that the machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft’s Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap ? perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.
Whoa, a Google operating system? wonder how it would look like?
Full story here : Industry Feeling Presence of the 800-Pound Google