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Freakin’ awesome ~ “I do NOT owned by Google”

HawkEYE — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:06 +0000

Well, if we were to ask everybody that online today, more than 60% of them might tight to “Google” or at least use one of google product.
Either the search engine, email, sites and any of other various product provided by Google.

But have you realize, most of the data that have been put online are under “Google” ownership unless it GPL’ed or licensed under creative common.
Let’s if one day google ever decided to put an end to blogger.com (one of Google services product),
what would think of the user data that has been hosted there ?

some might answer.. “Oh.. Google is a big company.. ” .. “it never had such intention.. ”
“its not going to happen.”..

and what if “something like this” were to happen ?

Impossible ?

Helloo… can you please take a look at what is happening to geocities.com that were used to be providing Free WebHosting..
How it got bought by big company such as Yahoo.. and yet got discontinued few days back ??

If still can’t get the idea , just read this post and try replacing the word “Yahoo” with “Google”..

Back to Google..
Yes.. in this short lifetime, we might not be seeing Google to say “get off” to their user..
( if we are lucky enough to survive another round of economic hit ).
But , have you ever consider.. having Google account been suspended for whatever reason?
and all your data would be inaccessible up to certain level ..

how well prepared are we ..?

like what been said by this videos.. ( view with YOUR own discretion ) [youtube].

again… this is not something that i am against the “Cloud Computing”..
But really , when come to think about it..
to have data hosted and used at the “cloud”
and having it off-load to some local backup is perfectly nice.
.
but to have depending 100% to the “cloud”. .. is really NOT a good idea.
is NOT under any of TOC to say , any of them will protect/safeguard YOUR data..
( point it to me if you can find one.. ).

It is YOUR data , is YOUR responsibility to protect/safeguard it ..if it important to you anyway.. hahahaa
unless we are posting crap to those .. nothing valuable.. Hmm.. then i rest my case lah..

and how the online news media had fast-forward spread this without further delay.. as per here..

p/s : just think bout it.. before you ever start to jump like above dramas…

EyeOS as a demo of Cloud Computing.. yes or no?

namran — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:32:34 +0000

Someone pointed to me about the EyeOS .. few days ago , i think.. or is it previous weekend ?

hehe..
anyway.. I managed to get it up and running at.. another subdomain. (drumroll please.. 8-))

http://i.namran.net

well.. i don’t know if this really mean a cloud computing though..

as from the first test..

i open “Navigator” in the EyeOS…
.. the try access my home pc website at http://home.namran.net/

and while doing this.. i monitor the log with..

monitor httpd access log

tail -f /var/log/httpd/access.log

to see where did it really come from..

interestingly .. it shows that it had serving to a request my own laptop ip address..

ip address

192.168.1xx.250

var log httpd access log

192.168.1xx.250 - - [19/Jul/2009:22:42:51 +0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 5043 "http://i.namran.net/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061613 CentOS/3.0.11-2.el5.centos Firefox/3.0.11"
192.168.1xx.250 - - [19/Jul/2009:22:42:51 +0800] "GET /icons/apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 2326 "http://home.namran.net/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061613 CentOS/3.0.11-2.el5.centos Firefox/3.0.11"
192.168.1xx.250 - - [19/Jul/2009:22:42:51 +0800] "GET /icons/powered_by_rh.png HTTP/1.1" 200 1213 "http://home.namran.net/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061613 CentOS/3.0.11-2.el5.centos Firefox/3.0.11"

so .. it could be just a “Camouflage” interface..
not really the thing from there.. like what we had in the “torrentflux” thing..
where it would be the originating from the hosting IP address.. so that we can get ’stuff’ downloaded pretty quick.

I was thinking/dreaming to use it to download something stuff from rapidshare.. trying to download some files simulatanously ..

hahhahaa..

well.. here is the screenshot from that EyeOS..
Login screen..

User Desktop..

.. Application.

.. Document writer.. interestingly can open both from windows(.doc) and also from OpenOffice (.odt)

.. System Preferences for user.

.. for super user.. (root). can see something like this.

.. after done playing.. logout..

anyway .. the registration for new user is still open.. can register yourself and get in here ..

have a feel by playing with and put your comment below..
… user can change also change themes, send msg, add email account client..bla..bla.

Finally,the installation process of EyeOS quite straight forward..

extract the file..
change permission for some 3 files / component.. namely the folder installer, index.php, eyeOS package file
run the installation script from the web browser..

that’s it.

.. it reset back the permission to suit operational of eyeOS accordingly after install..
.. the files uploaded by user to the eyeOS is stored in some folder under eyeOS ..
“with some random number and alphanumeric” appended to the filename and folder name..
such as cookies
.. no need mySQL table or whatsoever..
.. i don’t think security was the best.. however it got some session based on IP address locking thing .that can be enabled by administrator.

Except it couldn’t do a ‘character-by-character’ on-the-fly update during conversation between user (like Google Wave),
the rest of it.. i think is okay provided the very small footprint of this OS .. hehehe

p/s : I don’t really know if this would really mean a cloud computing..
enlighten me please..

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New Electric Bill in an envelope

namran — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:02:20 +0000

Is it just me, or everybody else also got this ?

I have been receiving “Electric Bill” in a white envelope, today.

The envelope look like this..

While the letter inside is something like this.

Look like the old one.. but with extra white spacing on the left.

Hmm..
the content inside there come with additional info, i think.

Got internet URL !!

see..

It read as
“Switch to be energy efficient, log on to www.switch.org.my”

I can’t help to read as .. “suis untuk orang ramai” at the first glance..muahaaha..

Further exploration.. i visited that website..and there is a link at the left menu to tnb.com.my
went there.. and saw the “new tariff”.. is it new one ?

http://www.tnb.com.my/tnb/tariff/newrate_domestic.htm

p/s : To pre-phrase someone at RedHat Seminar (Open Source..bla..bla.)’s speaker ,
“When i switch on the light,
you better get the light turn on..
else we will get into trouble..

I don’t care about :

what type of bulb it is using..
what type of socket it is..

what generator are you using..
what cable are connected to my house..

how long is the underwater cable that it went through..

or whatever you’re using to generate it..
be it coal..
diesel somewhere..
or even you’re using Nuclear..
I don’t even care..

I just need to get the light on.. whenever i switch it on..”
~ that is what “Cloud computing..” defined ~
many of us don’t even care what the heck server
is using..
“just when i saved my data there today..
the next day..when i need it again..
it better be there..
i don’t care where , what, who.. taking care of my data…
i just know when i saved it ‘there.’..it shall be ‘there’ ..”