Archive for July, 2009

Italiannies Sunway Pyramid

Friday, July 24th, 2009

This is an overdue post that I wanted to write right after I came back from there on Tuesday, but I couldn’t.
That day, I went back home earlier than usual as my other half was craving for pasta. Pizza Hut and Kenny Rogers pasta were also candidates but we like the Carbonara at Italiannies best [...]

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Do I need to reboot the machine after increasing the maximum number of open files at /etc/security/limits.conf?

Friday, July 24th, 2009

No, you don’t need to. This morning I struggled to convince someone that the server does not need a reboot. It was because of this: Increasing the number of file handles on Linux workstations.
ulimit - Provides control over the resources available to the shell and to processes started by it, on systems that allow such [...]

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Allianz Auto Assist

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

My car refused to start on Sunday, and as a car dummy I didn’t expect it was the battery. I thought the maintenance-free dry cell would last longer than acid lead batteries. That incident caused me to miss a friend’s wedding, but I am happy to see the pictures posted in many other blogs as [...]

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Yahoo! Mail is Down

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

I am unsure whether this is only effected Plus users, or everyone. When I failed to fetch my emails using Thunderbird, I tried the web interface and received this:

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