(My new motorbike, 2008 Yamaha Nouvo RC) Well, I replaced my aging 4 year old red 2003 Yamaha Nouvo RC with the 2008 red Yamaha Nouvo RC. Trying to get my hands on one took nearly three days. I thought I would just go to one Yamaha dealer and just buy the red Nouvo that I wanted. That's what I did back in July, 2004, when I bought my first Nouvo. Nope, it was not that … [Read more...] about Got myself a Yamaha Nouvo RC
Archives for July 2008
Amazing Thursday Morning Bandwidth
I was using pacman to update my Arch Linux Desktop this morning. As it was downloading OpenOffice, I was shocked to see how fast the downloads were. The average was roughly in the low 200s KB/s but I would see short spikes to 600 KB/S and then to 700 KB/s. It went has high as 1100 KB/s which was something I had not seen for a couple years. I headed to Speakeasy which … [Read more...] about Amazing Thursday Morning Bandwidth
Asians getting fatter? :-)
Interesting, today there are two news reports about Asians getting overweight. The BBC published a news report today mentioning that one out of four Chinese adults were overweight. In Vietnam, the rate of obesisty among the Vietnamese is about 16 percent. Both the BBC and Thanh Nien News attribute the rise of obesisty to the rise of economic development and the decrease of … [Read more...] about Asians getting fatter? :-)
Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Released Today!
This is big news if you are a fan of Gentoo Linux such as I am. Though I have used Unix and Linux for about a year before trying Gentoo back in September, 2003, Gentoo was the one Linux distro that got me to switch fully to a Linux environment. Gentoo forced you to learn how to do things in the command line. Completing a Gentoo installation itself was considered a major feat … [Read more...] about Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Released Today!
Arch Linux added to Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror
Arch Linux has been added to the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror at the following URI's: 1. ftp://ftp.indochinalinux.com/archlinux/ 2. ftp://202.78.230.5/archlinux From Distrowatch: Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686-optimised Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses 'pacman', its home-grown package manager, to provide updates to the latest … [Read more...] about Arch Linux added to Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror