Here’s a quick walk through to synchronize your system time through NTP.

Install the NTP package if you don’t already have it installed.

[root@abubu]# yum install ntp

Check your date.

[root@abubu]# date
Thu Jul 24 13:34:24 MYT 2008

Use the ntpdate command to poll from public NTP servers. I this example I’ll use ntp servers provided by the NTP POOL Project. The asia pool is “ntp asia.pool.ntp.org”

NTP POOL PROJECT

[root@abubu]# ntpdate asia.pool.ntp.org
24 Jul 16:02:18 ntpdate[5316]: step time server 202.144.207.222 offset -28647.175440 sec

Check your time again to make sure it’s correct.

[root@abubu]# date
Thu Jul 24 16:02:24 MYT 2008

I’ll cover the ntpd daemon in a future post.

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Negaraku Digg Style

Negaraku the local news aggregator I posted about some time back has gone through it’s evolution cycle and now emerged as a Digg clone.

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iPhone 3G

This might be old news but ya, Maxis is bringing in the iPhone 3G.

When? Not too sure, hopefully in the next months. How much? This is not confirmed but Maxis is planning to push the iPhone 3G for under RM1000. Most likely for RM999.99.

This is good news for all those who wanted an iPhone but never found the right channels to get one. Now everyone’s on the same playing field. However, current iPhone owners might be slightly pissed since they might loose their mobile uniqueness

Maxis stands to benifit from this big time, I’m quite sure many are going to switch over to Maxis just for the iPhone. Celcom and Dgi will follow but when is the question.

Source: TheEdgeDaily || Delirium

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Amarok 2.0 Alpha 2 (Aulanerk)

Heads up Amarok fans.

The Amarok team released Amarok 2.0 Alpha 2 today, codenamed “Aulanerk” after the friendly sea goddess.

If you don’t already know, Amarok is the most popular media player for Linux today. Amarok 2.0 is new and is set to replace it’s sibling Amarok 1.4 once KDE4 matures. The plan is to have Amarok 2.0 shipped with KDE 4.2 sometime in the future.

Read the changelog

Source: Amarok

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Here’s an easy way to get the pid of a running process.

Running the “pidof” command will return the pid(s) for a running program. See sample below,

danny@pandora:~> pidof syslog-ng
2043
danny@pandora:~> pidof acpid
2045
danny@pandora:~> pidof /usr/bin/firefox
14408
danny@pandora:~> pidof /usr/bin/compiz
27164
danny@pandora:~> pidof /bin/bash
27011 17339 16792 16477 15151 14403

Simple right!?

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