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Google talks…. well it does now!

Google Talk

Phew, I’m very busy for the last two days, and that includes updating my Google-talk contact list.

Google-talk is yet another Instant Messenger client. Much like MSN, Yahoo or AOL/ICQ instant messenger, a clear rival to Google. So Google apparently doesn’t want to be left out in the IM business and launched Google-talk (still BETA).

Google-talk official client is small and neat, without much eyecandy (including smilies), but hey, it does the work. Another addon feature is the ability to use voice-chat with your IM buddy which now almost becoming a de-facto standard in IM clients. Adding contact list to your IM client is as easy as putting their gmail id and wait for their response (much like yahoo’s and MSN).

But the interesting part is Google-talk uses Jabber/XMPP protocol instead of closed-protocol like other popular IM-providers. Unlike other IM service providers, Google actually is open about people using 3rdparty clients to connect to their servers.

The good news behind all of this is people now can connect to their google-talk accounts without worrying much about the availability of the IM clients in their respective platforms ;)

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I’m tempoarily out of resourse

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.

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I’ve received Ubuntu CDs!


My Ubuntu CD

Mypapit Ubuntu CDs

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.

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IPv6 and ShowIP Mozilla Firefox extension

ShowIP Description

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.

IPv4

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.
ipv6

You can download the extension from : Mozilla Update website.

I guess that’s all for today folks!

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I’m Officially a Debian GNU/Linux user now!


Debian Logo

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.