I have just finished upgrading this blog and 6 others maintained (not owned) by me. The transition from 2.2 to 2.2.1 is generally very smooth, as there’s no database changes involved. I simply uploaded only the changed files as listed here.
I am rushed to upgrade to 2.2.1 since there is a lot of security bugs [...]

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Hooray! Google Desktop has finally reached Linux users. It is the first release, and contains a subset of features from the Windows version.
Obviously no source is provided, but two package types is ready to be downloaded - .rpm for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva x86, and .deb for Debian/Ubuntu x86
No 64 bit version yet, though.
However I do think [...]

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Have you seen or used Windows Vista? Like the eye candies and effects that it provides? Wished that something like that is available on your other favorite *NIX OS? Wish no more, Compiz Fusion is here.
This project is a merger between Compiz and Beryl. Beryl was a fork of Compiz, where there was some history [...]

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In my previous post about passwords, I wrote about why you should not use shared passwords. One thing after another, in the comments section password storage became a topic and I suggested KeePass and at all cost avoid online password managers. I had a reason in mind, and you have guessed it right - security.
While [...]

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I have been subscribed to TechRepublic’s newsletters for quite a while but never had many chance to read every article. However today’s article caught my eyes: Five e-mail habits that waste time and cause problems
As someone who is very dependent to emails, and hates using phones I agree very much with the content of the [...]

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Advertlets is not working for me, so I am dropping it this weekend. This does not mean that you shouldn’t try it out, go ahead it might just work for you. For me the most revenue I am receiving from this blog is through AdSense and Kontera.
Someone from Advertlets did make a comment on my [...]

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For quite some time Streamyx has been quite stable for me, no complaints. However starting from a few days ago it has become really painful to access the Internet, and to even access my own blog. I guess the problem is with international connections again as accessing a local server hosted in Netmyne is not [...]

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I have been terribly busy lately and my energy seems to be drained out completely once I reach home. It’s time to write something.

For no apparent reason I was browsing the Internet when my eyes caught on the words Intel and Penryn. I was curious. Really curious so I Googled the words.
The results of my [...]

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From other Malaysian and Singaporean bloggers I can see that they experiencing very good performance with Advertlets. Unfortunately it is not the same case for me. Since having the widget for quite a while, and I remember that I am in the first batch of advertisement as well when it started but I only received [...]

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Recently in Malaysian TV there are several commercials with very cool music. One of them is the Nokia 5700 Express Music commercial with a very funky music performed in a foreign language. Googling around I found out that the song titled Solta O Frango is performed by Bonde Do Rolê, a band from Brazil. The [...]

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For the skeptical, here’s a post as a simple proof that you can indeed make money online. During early March 2007 I introduced my better half to Pay Per Post. Since then she has been happily blogging and earn around USD15-25 per day. Within two month’s time she accumulated more than USD1000 in her Paypal [...]

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Yeah, you heard it right. Yahoo! has finally disabled the storage limitation for all users!
As a long time Yahoo! Mail Plus user with 2GB max storage I was surprised to see that my limit has been decreased to 1GB and only 35% of my email exists where it was at 50% level before. Of course, [...]

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