Things around Gentoo

Are you a Gentoo user? Do you follow up with Daniel’s blog? Personally sometimes I’m scared to see Gentoo degenerate. But following Daniel’s article and the comments I feel that there is still hope for Gentoo’s rise.

I liked wamukota’s comment. I’m quoting it here:

I am not at all interested in the political stuff at a higher level, nor the legal status of the project. But I acknowledge the point that such issues must be solved, and quickly, if the momentum of the project is to be maintained. But don’t play it out in the open.

So, do whatever you feel best for you Daniel but do not forget that Gentoo has been the starting point of many a GNU/Linux user and that newbies will still be trying to learn GNU/Linux through Gentoo because there is no decent alternative for us.

I think Daniel still wants to get hands on the project but can’t really do that now. May be if he is elected by users and sponsored to do his work in the project he might stay there for us?

August 14, 2007 | Filed Under Linux | 2 Comments 

Whois information for domain microsoft.com

Last week I made transfer from  ABOUT DOMAIN DOT COM SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. to Godaddy. Today I wanted to check if the transfer is complete. Doing a simple whois query I found out it still pending transfer.

I made some other queries, microsoft.com was one of them. I was surprised to see the outcome. Check out the whois information for Microsoft domain!

arstan@blacky:~$ whois microsoft.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information. Read more

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under M$, internet | Leave a Comment 

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:

If you are reading blog via RSS, you lose the personal touch/feeling that the author has put into his blog. I believe blog is popular because of this personality unlike news portals. So when you are reading blog posts via RSS you kinda miss that thing.

Although, I agree that follow up with 50 or more blogs on a daily basis is a tough thing, I think partially RSS readers would help a lot. But again, if you are reading blog posts from RSS - get out of the standard RSS layout and further more go online and leave comments on the posts!

Update:
My appologies to Kevin and Mani from Blogging Tips, I had no bad intention.

Personally, Blogging Tips is one of my top reading blog. I respect Kevin and other authors’ contributions and I do learn a lot from them. Thank you for keeping up a great blog!

And I am really sorry for my unacceptable mistake. I will try to be more careful next time.

July 28, 2007 | Filed Under internet | 2 Comments 

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 you can do your daily work - send and receive emails, surf internet, print, play your games, access your databases etc, it’s day we say thank you to these geeks!

They even setup a website for this purpose! -> http://www.sysadminday.com/

July 27, 2007 | Filed Under Life is beautiful | Leave a Comment 

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 second hand laptops for this cheap here in Lowyat, KL. They ship internationally, so I’m gonna see if I can get one of those. :) Will be an extra machine to be entertained with!

Here’s the link Medison Celebrity Laptop

July 27, 2007 | Filed Under Laptops, Linux | Leave a Comment 
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