The long awaited Ubuntu 8.10 has been released! I’m upgrading it from my Hardy 8.04 to this new version Intrepid Ibex, 8.10, as I’m writing this post. I’m using the Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops. The method is fairly easy, provided by the Ubuntu website. 1. Start System/Administration/Software Sources. 2. Click on the “Updates” tab …
2008 October
My Alexa Traffic Rank
After 2 months, since my first post “Hello World!” on August 28th, 2008, my Alexa traffic rank now has gone below 1 million mark. Woot!!. To all readers, thank you very much for all your support! This will surely motivates me to post more quality content and valuable information on this site. Thank you all.
GrNotify: Your Google Reader Feeds Notification
I’m addicted to my rss feeds. I go over the feeds for tech news, current affairs, friends blogs, and many more. However, I don’t want to go to www.google.com/reader each time want to find out what’s new. This is where desktop applications that provides Google Reader notifications comes in. For Windows: We have Google Reader …
Open House (Rumah Terbuka)
From wiki: An open house (or “rumah terbuka”) is a Malaysian concept whereby people celebrating various holidays will invite friends to drop by for festive snacks and fellowship. Eid ul-Fitr (Hari Raya Aidilfitri): Eid ul-Fitr or Id-ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr), often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of …
Cleaning up your Ubuntu Filesystem using FSlint
FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted/junk/lint files on your Ubuntu filesystem. For example, one form of unwanted files it finds is duplicate files, bad names, temporary files, files with bad symlinks, empty directory, and others. To install: sudo apt-get install fslint Using Fslint: If you want to open goto …
