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Barisan National suffers worst defeat ever

It’s 2 am and the counting is ongoing but one thing is clear to me: the Barison National has suffered its worst ever defeat in the electoral polls. The opposition has gained control of Penang, Kedah, Kelantan, Selangor and possibly Perak and Wilayah Perseketuan. We may see Badawi resigning in the near future, paving way [...]


The Malaysian Twitter SMS Gateway

So, it’s been a while since I blogged. Good reason for that: I’ve discovered Twitter, that addictive micro-blogging tool which packs a punch in its insistence on brevity. Now, as cool as Twitter is, there is one sucky aspect to it: sending an SMS to Twitter’s international SMS number works out to be bloody expensive: [...]


El-Cheapo Community LPI Exams on 15th March 2008

We’re happy to announce that we’ll be organizing an LPI certification session. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is a non-profit organization geared to provide professional certification for the Linux Community. This would be an excellent opportunity for working professionals, students and interested individuals to get certified at a low cost.
(More information about LPI available here: [...]


FOSS.in Conference Day 2

This is day 2 of the conference. Reports for previous days are as follows: Project Day 1, Project Day 2, Conference Day 1.
Union Mount: VFS based Filesystem Namespace Unification for Linux
Bharata B. Rao from IBM spoke on union mount, a filesystem namespace unification (ie, the concept of merging the contents of two or more directories/filesystems [...]


FOSS.in Project Day 2 (Day 2)

Here is a report of FOSS.in Project Day 2 (day 1 report is available here):
Fedora: Freedom is a Feature
Rahul Sundaram spoke on the importance of Freedom (as in free speech). He gave a great example that insisting on Freedom drives innovation and interoperatibility, as in the case where SUN opened up the Java platform (as [...]


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