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I wondered what the cause of the mysterious “tempoarily out of resourse” message keeps appearing in my browser. I’ve suspected it is somekind of cache server or something, well
I dont know about TMNET, but they sure blame the fault of the slow connection on the landslide at the Lantau cable landing station in Hong Kong. This causes some delay when assessing websites hosted outside of Malaysia.
Well, there’s still a lot of room for improvement, hope that TMNET will better their service soon.
Hello there, yesterday I received 10 set of Ubuntu 5.04 “Hoary Hedgehog” CDs from my friend. He gave me the CDs to be distributed for other people who wants to use GNU/Linux.
Ubuntu is a nice distro for people who want to start using GNU/Linux. It Ubuntu is newbie-friendly and has a nice selection of applications to start over with. Ubuntu uses apt-get package management system which enables user to receive package updates and upgrades.
The Ubuntu pressed CD cover is nice each sets contains 2 CDs, the typical installation CD and the LiveCD. The installation CD can be use to install GNU/Linux inside your pc, the installation process is fairly easy and simple to follow. The LiveCD is for people who wants to test out Ubuntu without installing them, you can boot the GNOME desktop, and can start using GNU/Linux immediately.
I’m planning to give away the CDs to my friends and to my sister, as well as to anybody who really wants to use and learn GNU/Linux. They might be a couple of leftovers CD, so if you want the CD, I can send it to you also, just email me for details.
Hello, now I’d like to share my experience using ShowIP Mozilla extension with you today. ShowIP is a browser extension which display the IP address of the current page in the status bar.
While this seems not to be helpful at first glance, this extenstion might be handy when you want to test the webserver you’re accessing is using IPv6 or not and test out your own IPv6 configuration.
The extension supports IPv6 address compression notation, so it’s nicer and cleaner to the eye.
You can download the extension from : Mozilla Update website.
I guess that’s all for today folks!
I’m announcing now that Debian has become my official GNU/Linux distro. Previously I’ve use Mandrake (my first distro) as my official GNU/Linux distro, then Slackware, and finally SuSE. Fedora Core 4 actually was on my candidate list as my next official distro because it’s spiffy package management system, but in the end i chose Debian over Fedora.
Debian is more flexible than Fedora because I can download only one CD out of 12 CDs to perform complete installations. Well, people might argue that Fedora can do the same, but the way Fedora did it wasn’t obvious. And you apparently have to end up downloading the entire 4 CDs, which turn out not enough to fully enjoy the distro (Fedora people assumes that most people code in Java, and put a lot of java things inside the CD)
Well, Debian is a nice distro for me, it isnt too bloated, easy to configure, and it has a good package management system. I like Debian.
p/s: I’ve installed countless of other distros before this, but the “official” status is only given for distro that i use for my production purposes and usually meant to last more than 9 months on my pc.
Somehow, I got response from an anonymous poster concerning my previous post.
You can download most of the patriotic song here at Kementerian Penerangan site. You need to have ReaPlayer because all of the songs are encoded in the Real proprietary audio format..
Happy Merdeka Day!! ;)
The National Day is around the corner! And I can see advertisement around for the National Day although based from my observation, it certainly less exciting than the previous year, but it’s National Day nevertheless.
Which brings me to a quest to find patriotic and National Day related-songs. Well after spending almost an hour searching for those songs on governments servers (*.gov.my), I finally came up to a conclusion, the Malaysian Government did not host any of the songs!!!! Or at least they make it hard for an average user to find it, and i do mean very hard…
Well I do found those songs scattered around the Net along with a good description about it, but none of them are from an Official government site.
Maybe some people will think “hey, it’s not a big deal, everybody knows the National Song”, or “Why are you complaining about this? Government have done so much… (insert typical politician-like speech here)”.
To me it’s just plain weird, just weird, that Malaysian government have a lot of *.gov.my site, but none of them seems to offer National Song/Patriotic to download. So what’s the use of all those ICT infrastructures are for?
Which brings me to another question, how would people know the official Negaraku song sounds like right now? I maybe not sensitive about it’s tempo, etc.The song have been officially altered before, but I’m still listening to different version of the National Song through the various radio stations, tv station, etc. How can I be sure which is the “Standard”.
Is there a standard copy of the song? How can I obtain it, economically and practically speaking? How can you be sure that the National Song distributed by non-governmental site have not been altered (tempo, rhythm, etc) ?
One more point, Malaysia is a federation consisting of 14 states and each state have their own unique state-song. Aren’t you curious about this state songs? How does it sound like?
Well here’s the collection of Patriotic/National Songs I’ve collected through the internet. But be advised, none of it came from Official Government website :