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LinuxFilter – digg-like website for Linux News

linux, news, social bookmarking, digg.com, digg, blogging

After the introduction of SpyMy.com, now comes LinuxFilter, a news website that uses the concept of news voting by the internet users.

The basic operation of this website is the same as digg.com in which users will decide which story will be published at the frontpage through a voting system. Though it is named “Linux”, LinuxFilter does accept other news category as well such as PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua and various other topic which mostly related to computing and FOSS.

As for the uninitiated, you can participate by registering yourself in LinuxFilter website, and submit your news for users review. You can also help by reviewing other people’ news and rate it. The reviews and voting will determined if the story will be published in the front page.

Happy submitting !

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Windows users – UWIN an alternative to CYGWIN

unix, cygwin, windows, posix, computers

UWIN (Unix for Windows) is a collection of softwares created by AT&T Laboratories can be seen as an alternative to Cygwin. UWIN provides a unix-like environment for windows, complete with unix-emulation api and Korn shell.

UWIN is generally useful for developers who wants to compile certain unix applications in windows. Much like Cygwin, UWIN contains a DLL file POSIX.DLL that provides substantial unix API functionality instead of windows built-in posix layer. UWIN package also include files and unix development tools such as C compiler (but not gcc, obviously!).

The unix-environment also comes with Korn shell (AT&T ksh) and various other standard unix utilities which brings you the right unix-like environment in your Windows system.

You can download UWIN from AT&T AST/UWIN open source downloads.. UWIN is licensed under Common Public License 1.0.

p/s: this may be a great environment for those who wants to try out Unix environment without GNU stuff (even without gcc!).

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HelpFireFox and Million Dollar Homepage preparation

If you are planning to open yet another MillionDollarHomepage clone, then I suggest you to consider having a stable server before launching it. Because HelpFirefox website has been knocked down due to overwhelming response in just a couple of day.

The website has been closed with a notice “The first 24 hours of this site has been a true success, with more than 13 800 pixels being sold.”.

Beside having a stable server, I think it would be wise if “Million Dollar Homepage” operators could register their domain(s) for a minimum of 3-4 years, because that would bring confidence to the prospective advertisers.

Nobody would want to advertise on unreliable websites, for a short (unspecific) duration of time.

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The long pause

Phew, this must me the longest pause between my posts since I started this blog. Sorry guys and girls, I was just swamped out with my work that I’m too tired to write to this blog. Will resume writing after this.

Stay tune

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del.icio.us downtime

del.icio.us, social bookmarking

I can’t post my del.icio.us bookmark due to this downtime around 1:15am MYT. The page simple gives a standard 404 Not Found error. I wasn’t aware of schedule downtime announcement by del.icio.us. Now I realised how I’ve already used to social bookmarking :D