Recent Posts Tagged With '2009'

• Twitter Hacked

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 01:39 in internet, Web 2.0, social networking, twitter, 2009, hacked, defaced

  Reports are coming in that Twitter was hacked ealier today by an Iraninan organization known as the “Iranian Cyber Army”. Twitter was defaced and the image below is what you got when you accessed Twitter. Negative publicity like this is n...

• Astro goes HD with B.yond

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 00:10 in malaysia, TV, Free, General, hd, 720p, 2009, astro, 1080i, satelite tv, b.yond

  If you are like me then you have an HD LCD TV with crappy Astro viewing quality. Not for long! Astro just launch their HD service, yup Astro doing HD!!  The official launch was last week and the HD broadcast starts Friday. The B.yond service wil...

• Google Chrome for Linux is Ready

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 06:00 in Software, google, download, Linux, open source, chrome, web browser, 2009

  Google Chrome for Linux is finally out!! It’s in BETA for now so expect to run into a few bugs here and there. 23 developer builds 2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, ...

• Namecheap Coupon for November 2009

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 03:41 in internet, web hosting, cheap, coupons, domain names, namecheap, 2009

  Latest NameCheap domain registration coupon. Coupon: AUTUMNLEAVES Discount: Save $0.88 for 1 year new domain registration only Source: WL Similar Posts:Namecheap Coupon for July 2009 Namecheap Coupon for February 2009 Namecheap Coupon for August 20...

• Ubuntu 9.10 released

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 10:51 in malaysia, download, Linux, ubuntu, open source, operating system, cd, release, canonical, 2009, iso, karmic koala

  Ubuntu 9.10 codenamed “Karmic Koala” was released 2 days back. Grab a copy from a local Malaysian mirror listed below or from the official download page. OSCC MMU ByteCraft alternatively if you’re a Kubuntu user, grab your copy he...

• FOSS.MY 2009 Fees updated

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 23:18 in malaysia, event, events, open source, opensource, conference, registration, 2009, foss.my, fossmy, foss.my 2009

  The FOSS.MY 2009 fee structure has been updated. It looks good now, accessible to anyone now. Here’s the breakdown of the update structure. Bare Bones Price (RM 20) NEW! * Full access to talks and side sessions * No lunch and tea * No shirts (...

• FOSS.my 2009 open for registration

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 13:22 in malaysia, event, events, open source, opensource, conference, registration, 2009, foss.my, fossmy, foss.my 2009

  FOSS.my 2009 is back and is coming your way this 24th and 25th of October . The registration page is up and accepting registrations now. Check out the pricing below. Registration Type Closing Date Price (RM) Early Bird Price 30th September 2009 ...

• PS3 Slim

  Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 23:10 in Tech, ps3, Slim, sony, cool stuff, release, 2009, ps3 slim

  The PS3 slim is almost here. I’ts coming out in September and prices at USD 299. It’s slim, has a tough looking black finish, weighs in at 7.05lb and comes standard with a 120GB hard disk. All squeezed into the new slim form factor. Check...

• Cheap domains from Shinjiru

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 09:00 in internet, web hosting, malaysia, cheap, promotion, domain names, 2009, merdeka, shinjiru

  Hunting for cheap domains? Make sure to check out Shinjiru’s Merdeka promotion. I’m quite sure they are the cheapest in town now. Know of a better promotion? Please share. Source: Shinjiru Similar Posts:Cheap hosting at Shinjiru Negarak...

• Namecheap Coupon for August 2009

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 in internet, web hosting, cheap, coupons, domain names, namecheap, 2009

  Use the coupon below to register a new .com, .net or .org domain for only $8.81 on Namecheap. Coupon: SOLARSEA Discount: Save $0.88 for 1 year new domain registration only Thanks WingLoon Similar Posts:Namecheap Coupon for February 2009 Namecheap Co...

• PIKOM PC FAIR 2009 (II)

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 12:39 in Computers, event, events, General, sale, pikom, 2009, pc fair

  The PIKOM PC Fair is in town again. Might be dropping by on Saturday to shop for a Mini. Not for me. 31 July – 2 August 2009   (11:00am – 9:00pm) · KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur – Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lump...

• Microsoft submits GPLv2 code to the Linux Kernel

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 19:00 in windows, Tech, Microsoft, Linux, community, source code, open source, opensource, kernel, release, drivers, 2009

  Yup, you read that right. Big boy Microsoft  submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community for review and inclusion into the Linux kernel tree. All under the GPLv2 license. The code, made up of 3 Linux drivers will  enable all flavo...

• Namecheap Coupon for July 2009

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 19:00 in internet, web hosting, cheap, coupons, domain names, namecheap, 2009

  Here’s the latest Namecheap coupon for July 2009. Coupon: INTERFACE Discount: Save $0.88 for 1 year new domain registration only. Thanks WingLoon Similar Posts:Namecheap Coupon for February 2009 Namecheap Coupon for April 2009 Burger King dis...

• Yin Yang by downrodeo on TEEFury

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 05:12 in malaysia, design, cheap, t shirts, cool stuff, tee, 2009, alan bernard

  Alan’s got a new shirt out on TeeFury titled Yin Yang. The design’s a Ying and Yang depicting a dragon and a tiger on it with vibrant colors. O ya, the design’s hand drawn and finished with water colors. If my sources are right, Ala...

• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is out!!

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 12:00 in Software, Firefox, downloads, download, open source, mozilla, release, web browser, 2009, firefox 3.5

  The long overdue, super fast, super secure, super cool Firefox 3.5 is out. Just a few of the popular features to look forward to in version 3.5. Full feature list 1. Private browsing – porn mode for many 2. Performance improvements. Really!!...

• H1N1 shuts down 3 schools

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 04:03 in health, malaysia, General, flu, swine, 2009, h1n1

  SRJKC Jalan Davidson , SRK Assunta 2 and Cempaka International School have all been ordered to close for a week or more following confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu (swine flu) amongst their students. SRJKC Jalan Davison has 3 confirmed cases, Assunta r...

• Red Hat updated RCHT and RCHE exams

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 in training, Linux, update, redhat, certification, 2009

  Thinking about getting your RHCT/RHCE certification soon? read up. Red Hat has started rolling out new exam structures for the RHCE and RCHT certifications starting 1st May 2009. RHCE is now a single session lasting 3,5 hours. The old exam sturcture ...

• Linux market share gone up!

  Posted on Tuesday May 26th, 2009 at 00:56 in Stats, Linux, ubuntu, open source, release, opensuse, 2009, market share

  Based on W3Counter’s April report, Linux’s market share has grown over the past year to a steady 2.16%. At around the same time last year that value stood at 1.89%. The number’s surely to go up as the Linux desktop environment conti...

• P1 WiMAX Signal Strength - May 6th 2009

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 13:09 in internet, malaysia, Flickr, wimax, 2009, p1, slow internet, p1w1max

  My P1W1MAX signal strenght. Pretty pethatic!! RSSI: 63dBm –> Other are getting 30 +- dBm CINR: 13 dB –> Others are getting 60 +- dB TX Power: 5+- –> Other are under 10. (Not too important) Called P1 up, need to call them...

• Tattoo Convention Kuala Lumpur 2009

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 23:26 in art, malaysia, event, events, competition, tattoos, tattoo, convention, 2009

  Good news to all local tattoo fans. We gonna have our own convention come this November. Tattoo Convention Kuala Lumpur 2009 will be at PWTC (Hall2) from the 6th till 8th November 2009. All thanks to Borneo Ink and gimmelovetattoo for sponsoring the ...

• Twitter’s being hammered

  Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 at 21:02 in internet, Web 2.0, social networking, twitter, 2009, outage

  Looks like twitter’s being hammered today. I got the odd whale quite a few times today. Hopefully not because of @oprah Source: Twitter Status Similar Posts:Oprah’s coming to Twitter DownForEveryoneOrJustMe site checker Twitter client...

• Namecheap Coupon for April 2009

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 10:56 in internet, web hosting, cheap, coupons, domain names, namecheap, 2009

  WingLoon’s monthly Namecheap coupon for April. The coupon code below will entitle you to purchase a new domain at USD 8.81. Coupon Code: 7tulips Similar Posts:Namecheap Coupon for February 2009 How to change the system date in Linux Hindu fes...

• Streamyx Internet disruption to US and Hong Kong

  Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 11:47 in internet, malaysia, twitter, broadband, 2009, streamyx, outage, slow internet, international link, submarine lines

  Bet your Streamyx has been slow the past few days. Streamyx reported that the SMW3 and APCN2 submarine lines are experiencing service faults. Another anchor maybe? As a result, access to US and Hong Kong based sites are extra slow…… Accor...

• We saved 550 Megawatts through Earth Hour Malaysia 2009

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 23:23 in malaysia, General, wwf, earth hour, 2009, earth hour 2009

  500 Megawatts or 14 million fluorescent bulbs at 40 watt each. That’s what Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 managed to save according to TheStar. Yes TNB lost some money, but do they really need it? Earth Hour was good, I had a BBQ at home with my fami...

• Earth Hour on DBKL Building @ Dataran Merdeka

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 03:07 in malaysia, General, earth hour, 2009, abinesh, earth hour 2009

  Pretty cool ha, Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 being projected onto the DBKL building down by Dataran Merdeka. Pictures taken from Mr. Abinesh Similar Posts:Earth Hour Malaysia 2009, One more day!! Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 | Turn your lights off! Ea...

• Earth Hour Malaysia 2009, One more day!!

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 22:29 in malaysia, environment, General, green, earth hour, 2009, 2009 earth hour 2009

  Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 is one day away. Mother earth has a fever and it’s been going up, not sure how much longer she’ll last. We are the aibiotics but somehow forgotten our purpose. It’s time to step up and own up to our purpose ...

• Earth Hour Malaysia site down

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 23:55 in malaysia, General, downtime, earth hour, 2009, outage

  The Earth Hour Malaysia portal / website earthhour.org.my is currently unreachable. Looks like they are moving to a larger hosting provider.Last minute rush to pledge causing the spike I guess. Follow the progress on their twitter. Update: The site&#...

• FOSS.my February 2009 meetup

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 10:15 in malaysia, event, Linux, FreeBSD, open source, opensource, facebook, visualization, meetup, foss, 2009, fossmy

  Topic; FreeBSD Jails - Lightweight Visualization If your limited processing power is preventing you from running full virtualized environments then this might just be what you need. The basic idea is to have individual jailed environments which have ...

• Gong Xi Fa Cai , Xin Nian Kuai Le

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 06:15 in malaysia, holidays, Chinese, General, festival, new year, 2009, chinese new year, seasons greeting

  Gong Xi Fa Chai, Xin Nian Kuai Le !!  to all my buddies and readers celebrating the Chinese new year!! Here’s a KFC coupon I received from iCalvyn. He wanted to share come CNY love and I thought I’ll so the same. Similar Posts:Gong Xi...

• Live Streaming Video of the Swearing-in of Barack Obama

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 10:36 in internet, video, live, photos, obama, General, Flickr, usa, streaming, twitter, 2009, inauguration

  http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/live. Also, you could follow on YouTube, Twitter, flickr, tumblr. Watch Live traffic cams from around Washington DC at TrafficLand. Similar Posts:Design Coding Rap by The Poetic Prophet Follow the 2008 presidenti...