You might have seen this already at Digg. But for those who missed it, Google is now hosting package repositories for their apps for all major distros (Ubuntu,...
... Hash: SHA1 Hi Harish, Thank you so much ;-) From now on I can have fast mirror to download & install packages for my beloved Ubuntu & Debian. Great week...
Hmm, There seems to be a worm gg around in the form of a msn block checker. My friend got infected when she used meebo. Poor thing. So basically, she claimed...
Hey guys, Matric fair will take place on 30th Jul (Mon) till 2nd Aug (Thur). Due to some miscommunication, it seems that the status of our booth is not...
Hi Lu Feng, Thanks for the note. Infections through MSN/Yahoo IM and other IMs seem to be very common these days. The worms always have something to catch ...
Hi Ruiwen, That's great idea to have a booth in Matric Fair! If coms/clubs/societies are eligible so is linuxNUS! I hope that you can get the booth soon ;-) I...
Hi Viet, Tks for the quick summary on the worm. Well, interestingly, my friend just told me that she did not follow the tedious steps of uninstalling the prog...
I suspect that its not a worm per se more like a way to get u to give up ur msn name and password so that the website can login as ur msn account and send out...
... We hope so =) ... This would be nice, especially if we had a nice huge poster to put up.. Though just a thought: Price, Security and Interoperability might...
Hi all, ... I agree. It freaks people out. ... Make the decision for the freshies. Show them one, and let them discover others. I see Ubuntu being very popular...
... Another suggestion I've heard (and we've thrown this around before), is to create a NUS Live CD with all the necessary stuff in it to help freshies around...
... Hash: SHA1 Hi Ruiwen, Hey I was just kidding about the banner ;-) We need to brainstorm more on the theme & banner. I can't disagree with you on the points...
Hi Viet, I like your ideas. Tks for contributing =) Well I do have a few too, but will pen them in greater detail later, when I am more awake =p But for now...
I have another idea, let's put a Windows machine at the fair too. Argh, hold it, dun whack me yet! See ah, I put a Linux machine and a Windows machine side by...
... Hash: SHA1 Hi Lu Feng, I live just nearby NUS and also moving to campus. I think that I can order ;-) 100 is good enough rite? 200 would be too many... I...
... For impact factor, maybe a Sabayon LiveCD demostration will be impressive enough. Anyway, Canonical ships CDs on a fixed schedule, most often right after a...
... got ... and ... Hi Viet, Tks for ur offer! Well, as Junhao mentioned there may be some schedule issues. So I have emailed the Ubuntu Shipit pple to see if ...
... systems ... Well I think so too Junhao. But no harm contacting Dell. Even if they don't have anything to offer us, the contact could come in useful when...
http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg/suse/44/compiz-fusion-cube-aquarium-first-look/ Check out the screenshot... well that is some cool stuff =) Btw would...
http://blogs.sun.com/malte/entry/more_details_about_sun_s Sun's ODF plugin has been released. Here's a useful FAQ on it. Well the plugin could be useful to...
Hehe, I don't mind helping design stuff if we do get a booth... even then there could be places to put up posters etc.. I won't be able to come by to man the...
Heh so it looks like we're settled on doing something flashy for the audience.. Was thinking we should concentrate on coming up with some Quick 'n' Dirty (tm)...
Hi guys, It's great to see so much active discussion for the upcoming matric fair. Here's my 2 cents worth: We may want to segment the freshies into two main...
... Hash: SHA1 Hi Lu Feng, That's great if Acer also ships laptops with Linux. I'll ask the Sponsorship team of S@S if they have some contacts from Acer. The ...
... Hash: SHA1 Hi Lu Feng, Wow cool! Planned to install Beryl & Compiz for very long time but was so lazy :P Maybe now is good time ;-) Vista desktop is...
... hM seem to remember that the distro Acer ships with was not too mainstream though. Dell might have the advantage in using the more well-known Ubuntu. But...
... Well, Novell was giving out Tux softies a few years ago... =p -- Regards, Junhao junhao82@... http://www.jmarki.net/ "Oops, what happened?", said...
... cool but I ... personally ... http://distrowatch.com/4334 Hi Kheng Hui, you are in luck. Elive 1.0 has just been officially released. And you can check out...
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/making_gnash Well I am not sure how 64 Bit and PPC Linux users watch youtube since I believe there is no 64 bit and...