Aug 27, 2004

Java = uncool ?

Really ? Basicly I like programming in JAVA. It's well, easy, and well documented. Speed wise, it has been proven that the modern JVM run as fast or even faster than C compiled programs, thou the startup is slower. I only started programming in JAVA when my college switch most of the subjects programming language to JAVA from C . Well, to me its almost the same, programming is programming, :)



Some guy actually wrote something about it here ....

http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=46095

Aug 24, 2004

Reiser4 is released!

Reasons why Reiser4 is great for you:

- Reiser4 is the fastest filesystem, and here are the benchmarks.

- Reiser4 is an atomic filesystem, which means that your filesystem operations either entirely occur, or they entirely don't, and they don't corrupt due to half occuring. We do this without significant performance losses, because we invented algorithms to do it without copying the data twice.

- Reiser4 uses dancing trees, which obsolete the balanced tree algorithms used in databases (see farther down). This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other filesystems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do. It also means that Reiser4 scales better than any other filesystem. Do you want a million files in a directory, and want to create them fast? No problem.

- Reiser4 is based on plugins, which means that it will attract many outside contributors, and you'll be able to upgrade to their innovations without reformatting your disk. If you like to code, you'll really like plugins....

- Reiser4 is architected for military grade security. You'll find it is easy to audit the code, and that assertions guard the entrance to every function.


Wanna read more ?

http://namesys.com/

Dynamic DNS

Dynamic DNSes rules, as long as you can keep them updated, haha.

I've tried dyndns and noip, however, now I've switched to freedns. I'm tired of dyndns' rules and regulations about update and their money minded campaign, no offence to those whom are already using it. I just found a better one ... freedns, :). It is hosted on FREEBSD servers, and offers more domain names and features, and yet, its all free .... All they ask for is for a small link to their site in your site.

Now, thanks to my new dynamic DNS account, I still need to fine tune my update script .... something which I have yet to do, ;p

Expect hiccups on my site once in a while until I perfect my script, :)

http://renyi.kicks-ass.org

Aug 22, 2004

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Another prove that Google's page-ranking formula can be fooled. Pretty funny too, :)

http://www.google.com

In the search box type "Weapons of Mass Destruction", and click on "I'm Feeling Lucky".

For the meaning of google, you can try this
"googling"

LINUX is an alien word to Windoze users ......

Micro$oft word doesn't recognize "linux" or "BSDs" in its dictionary, haha. I noticed this while I was writing some documentation on one of the linux distro on my work place computer.

Maybe its only politics, like how http://hotmail.com is never saved in Netscape and Opera browsers' shortcuts, ;)

Aug 17, 2004

Weeee !

I fixed my servers boys and girls.

Here are few things you kids should remember when setting up a http server,

1) Remember to do the correct chmod, (chmod 711) :D

2) Cut and paste from GUI browsers (FTP) might spoil the permissions and ownerships !

Moral of the story ? Don't be lazy, do it the leet way, and ftp/ssh to your server.

Aug 16, 2004

Funny letters from users requesting THC to teach them to hack, ;p

http://www.thc.org/root/phun/mails/


Server down ! arhhh. Maintenance suks, I'll be busy the next few day, hope I can fix it by this week, :/