Archive for July 2007

Do you read blogs via RSS?

Personally I tried using RSS readers and follow up with the news and blogs via RSS. For me, I couldn’t keep up with RSS subscription, some of the reasons include what Mani from Blogging Tips has blogged.
Here’s the list of RSS readers I tried using:

Google Reader
Liferea
SharpReader
Opera
Thunderbird

If you are reading blog via RSS, you lose the [...]

System Administrator Appreciation Day

A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
Every year on the last Friday of July, we recognize their contribution and appreciate their contributions.
So if [...]

A laptop for $150 running Linux

I recently found out that there’s a laptop for only USD$150! The more interesting part is it’s running Fedora Linux. The specs of the laptop as follows:
Intel® Celeron 1.5 GHz CPU
14″ Widescreen X-bright LCD
256 MB Ram memory
40 GB Hard Drive
802.11g Wireless LAN
Optimized Linux operating system
Pre-installed office and multimedia applications
I think it’s difficult to find even [...]

Are my posts better than Microsofts

I’m a happy user of 103bees so far, it has some advantages and disadvantages but that’s a topic for a separate post.
Using 103bees I found out that some of my posts are ranked pretty awesome by Google. For example if you search for how to setup an office infrastructure my blog will be the first [...]

Don’t throw old DVDs, VCDs, Games and Books!

You can now exchange those old junk to your choice of old junk! On SwitchPlanet.com you can exchange your old stuff and have some new old stuff.
This service is totally free, allows you to start right away. Previously it was private beta stage and recently it went public.
You can browse through categories and [...]