Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Make your own cheap charlie CDN
Saturday, June 28th, 2008CDN stands for Content Delivery(or Distribution) Network. It is a network of servers usually located in various geographic locations to improve the availability and access speed of a website (or webapp or other media). The main use of CDNs were during the nineteens when inter-continental access was slow, scarce and ...
Open letter to Thailand’s Software Bullies
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Kind attn : Microsoft Thailand (Sorry I cant read your Thai only website) Kind attn : Lenovo Thailand (Sorry cant find name of contact on your site) Kind attn : Prasert Charoonpaisal - General Manager - Personal Systems Group (PSG) - HP Thailand Kind attn : Corporate Communications Dept. - Sony Thai Co., ...
My history
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Stolen idea from Sugree... [sajal@localhost ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 239 ./autofollow.pl 149 ssh 96 ping 56 df 51 cd 43 ls 36 su 23 GET 22 ./gtalk.pl 18 whois [sajal@localhost ~]$
Why cant FOSS succeed in India?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Recently Julie posted an interesting article called "open source development: women and Asians last". This attributes the main reason for Women and Asian people's lesser involvement in Open Source development to be its confrontational nature. It does make sense to an extent as far as Thailand is concerned, Thai people ...
Yet another PC - Mac video
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Seems some people just wont stop making us laugh and bring out the truth. A couple of months ago I showed my Fedora 7 loaded notebook to someone (who has both mac and a windows workstations). She immediately commented.. "ohh that looks like a mix of mac and windows.". ...
Linux at NYSE
Thursday, January 10th, 2008This would be one of my favourites at UserFriendly Click to Enlarge
Secure Proxy using Squid
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Had originally posted this on Friday, September 29th, 2006 during the peak of Takhsin's rampant blocking of websites and the blocking proxies were messing up often blocking un-blocked pages also. It is very important to use a secure proxy if you browse the web from unsecure Networks. The basic requirements are a ...
