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We are none of us alone
We are none of us alone.
Even as we exhale it is inhaled by others.
The light that shines on me shines on my neighbour as well.
In this way, I’m connected to my friend even as I’m connected to my enemy.
Even as we exhale it is inhaled by others.
The light that shines on me shines on my neighbour as well.
In this way, I’m connected to my friend even as I’m connected to my enemy.
Courtesy of Detective Cruise from NBC’s “Life”
Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part4
Awesome! I got suspend and 3D graphics working fine on the Dell E6400!
Searching the Fedora / RPMFusion repositories revealed this:
[izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum search nvidia | grep -i ‘driver’ : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary display driver for NVIDIA : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-beta.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary display driver for NVIDIANVIDIA proprietary display drivers … hrm … my laptop has an NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 160M.
Get some more info:
[izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum info xorg-x11-drv-nvidia Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Installed Packages Name : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia Arch : x86_64 Version : 177.82 Release : 1.fc10 Size : 9.2 M Repo : installed Summary : NVIDIA’s proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards URL : http://www.nvidia.com/ License : Redistributable, no modification permitted Description: This package provides the most recent NVIDIA display driver which allows for hardware accelerated rendering with NVIDIA : chipsets GeForce6 series and newer. GeForce5 and below are NOT supported by this release. For the full product support list, : please consult the release notes for driver version 177.82.Installing this with yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia enables 3D acceleration (Desktop Effects now works) and suspend works perfectly now.
I now pronounce the Dell E6400 as sufficiently “Linux Friendly” for use. My only remaining hardware issue seems to be the Bluetooth device, and I haven’t tried the memory card reader (I’m not a photographer).
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
Riiiiiiiiight …
Showcasing Brunei talent … 2008 Asian Beach Games
I recently Dugg this article on the 2008 Asian Beach Games.
I’ve never heard of these 2x awesome pesilat … Eddy Ratno Haji Abu Bakar and Mohd Khairul Bahri.
And boy! It’s really funny that these guys are being showcased in an online website from several timezones away (www.boston.com, LOL?), but what have our local media done to showcase their talents?
Try google their names … of the top 10x hits, only Mohd Khairul Bahri’s name comes up with just one hit from one of Brunei’s traditional media outlets. Dayum people … go interview these guys and more killer shots like the below!
New online social media, FTW (For The Win)!
Image comes from www.boston.com
Brunei in the Mbps per capita rankings
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/int_int_int_ban_mbp_percap-international-bandwidth-mbps-per-capita
some comparative rankings:
- Singapore #16
- Brunei #70
- Malaysia # 75
- Thailand #79
- Vietnam #99
- Philippines #103
- Indonesia # 132
- Laos #150
- Cambodia #161
- Myanmar – not listed
These statistics are a little dated – they list Brunei as having 60 Mbps and 101k internet users as of 2001 … ~.^
Reboot!
Rebooted my blog today and decided to experiment with the latest WordPress for a change. My old blog was good but it had some issues – I was tracking an “in-development” content management system straight from subversion to get certain blogging features to work the way I wanted it.
Well, playing around with Silverstripe was worth it, IMHO. I’ve now got experience managing most of the Open Source CMSes – Joomla, Drupal and now Silverstripe. I dunno if WordPress can really be considered a “CMS”, but I guess it’s a web-based application to add to my list of experiences.