Archive for February, 2008

Google Sites Missing?

After reading Techcrunch ‘It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot’, I just did a search “Google Sites” in http://www.google.com and found something weird.

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Best Buy Sells Asus Eee PCs

Best Buy, once a Windows-only PC distributor, now sells Asus Eee PCs, which run the Linux distribution Xandros on its website.
Last year, Asus sold more than 300,000 copies of the small Linux laptop. The company has a very optimistic view for this year, predicting to sell several millions of copies. Best Buy sells the subnotebook [...]

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New MacBook Pro part numbers leak

The seemingly endless wait for a new line of professional notebooks from Mac maker Apple Inc. appears to be nearing an end, with part numbers and pricing for new MacBook Pro models cropping up in inventory systems worldwide over the weekend.
AppleInsider has been able to confirm that three new Apple-formatted part numbers — MB402LL/A (Good), [...]

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Windows Server 2008

Personally, I have download Windows Server 2008 codename Longhorn from MSDN but yet to install and test it(My colleague installed as a VM guest in one of the VMware ESX 3.5 farm and it’s worked).
According to Yahoo and Inforworld, Windows Server 2008 enhancements work pretty much as expected such as restartable Active Directory Domain [...]

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Pakistan blocks YouTube

Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.
Pakistan telecommunications authority ordered internet service providers to block the site until further notice because of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have outraged many Muslims, an industry official said on Sunday. The cartoons, published in Danish newspapers in 2005 [...]

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