Archive for February, 2009

Solve Operation Timed Out Error When Upgrading Wordpress

by nazham on February 14th, 2009

Wordpress 2.7 comes with a built-in automatic upgrade utilities, inside the control panel. Recently, Wordpress has just released version 2.7.1. I would like to upgrade it automatically, to save me the hassle of downloading, ftp-ing or installing it manually.
However, many times have I experienced “Operation Timed Out” followed by “Installation Failed” when doing so. Below [...]

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Indispensible Unix commands

by rizal on February 6th, 2009

The first lab session of my Computer Science course consisted primarily of learning the following Unix commands: pwd, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, more, man. Although I’ve been using nothing but Windows throughout my career – from Windows 95 to 2000 to XP – these commands have proven to be indispensible for those [...]

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Moonlight: Microsoft Silverlight in Linux

by nazham on February 4th, 2009

Need to view Microsoft Silverlight enabled sites, but you’re on Linux, and running Firefox as the web browser? Have no fear, Moonlight is here.
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix or Linux platform.
The current release version is 1.0. All you have to do is, just go to their site, and install [...]

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Detect ISP Throttling with Google’s M-Lab

by nazham on February 2nd, 2009

Need to test your Internet connection? Wonder if your ISP is truly capped or throttling your Torrent downloads? How to be sure if TMNET Streamyx (Malaysian ISP, if you’re wondering) really give it’s “best effort” speed? Get your answers via Measurement Lab (M-Lab) by Google.
Announcement were made from the Official Google Blog, introducing the measurement [...]

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