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FOSS.my CfP Extended

Hi!With the overwhelming talks submitted for the CfP for foss.my, we've decided to extend the CfP by a few more days. October 15 2008 is now when the closing is.Some speakers have alr...

In old blog, Oct 12, 2008

Fedora LTS?

Wikipedia migrated from Red Hat Linux 9 (WTF??) and Fedora (certainly not a wise idea for a large deployment that doesn't want lots of moving parts) to Ubuntu. Some people started rai...

In old blog, Oct 12, 2008

I love Fedora | The World is Just Awesome

4 weeks more before foss.my!!!.Joining the "I love [x]" meme from Planet MyOSSI love Fedora. I love CentOS. I love Python. And all its craziness!Come and Join foss.my!!! Register now ...

In old blog, Oct 11, 2008

FOSS.my 2008 - Malaysia's Premier FOSS conference!

For years the local FOSS community has been planning to host a FOSS conference in Malaysia. A real proper good one, by the technical people for the technical people. No marketing.Co...

In old blog, Oct 05, 2008

Code Geass: Zero Requiem

Its been a while since i last post something in this blog. A bit of a change from the usual tech posts, an anime-related post - Code Geass's R2 final episode.Since Eureka Seven, its b...

In old blog, Oct 04, 2008

Getting around slow Firefox3 URL/Address Bar

Firefox3 introduced a cool address bar improvement. However, its running way too slow on my machine, and sometimes locks down firefox. Here's a little workaround for it:In about:confi...

In old blog, Aug 14, 2008

Changing MAC Address, the Fedora way

Been a month since my last post .. mainly due to lack of idea on what to blog .. Anyway, today is a bit special.. why?, the crazy IT Management Service of PETRONAS University is doing...

In old blog, Aug 12, 2008

Brasero creates a hidden md5 checksum in Data CD/DVD

Brasero is my primary disc burning application. Today, while burning the completed anime series from my ever growing collection, I noticed something at the root of the disc. A file na...

In old blog, Jul 12, 2008

Firstname Lastname dilemma

I've been quite annoyed with the naming system Malaysian Malay use.. In our culture, normally, people doesnt use "FirstName LastName" system, but "GivenName FatherName" instead. Ok, f...

In old blog, Jul 12, 2008

OpenDocument Templates by Lotus Symphony

I browsed through Lotus Symphony website just now, just to check out what new in Lotus Symphony as the first and the last time I used it was during its alpha stage. One thing great th...

In old blog, Jul 06, 2008