WING LOON

I owned a dot matrix printer some time year 2000. I was a student at that time and I can’t afford to purchase an inkjet printer or a laser printer because the ink cartridge and toner cartridge is expensive. However, I so lucky to own an inkjet printer from a lucky draw during a company annual dinner but I am having hard time paying for the high price ink cartridge manufactured by the printer manufacturer. Today, I stumbled upon a website offering premium ink cartridge with an affordable price.

Carrot Ink was founded by John and Amy Howard in 1998 where they have the belief that quality inkjet cartridges shouldn’t cost more than the printer itself. With the continuity support from the consumers, Carrot Ink will continue to sell its high quality cartridges from 30% to 70% lower than the printer manufacturer’s cartridges. In fact, they keep on challenging themselves to do better everyday to compete with the printer manufacturer’s cartridges. With the 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed on low prices, high quality and fast delivery from Carrot Ink, they meet the ISO 9001/2000 standard manufacturing. With this commitment, you can count on them.

At Carrot Ink, they offer wide range of inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges that compatible with major printers available in the market such as Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, Lexmark, Apollo, Apple, Compaq, Genicom, IBM, Kodak, Okidata, Panasonic, Pitney Bowes, Samsung, Sharp and Xerox. You can shop online easily at Carrot Ink for your cartridge by finding the printer brand, printer family or printer manufacturer part number. What you need is just head to Carrot Ink website, create your personal or corporate account and you have the flexibility to track your order online. If you are looking for a Epson ink cartridges like me, you can save up to 60% over MSRP and the same goes to other brand cartridges like Canon ink cartridges. I am sure you are looking for one too like me.

Besides affordable high quality inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges provided by Carrot Ink, they also offer refill kits, batteries, thermal fax film and paper. Be sure to visit Carrot Ink website for more information.

Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the Texas-based information technology outsourcing company and Hewlett-Packard (HP) confirmed they are in advanced discussion about a possible business combination involving the two companies but both gave no details. The Wall Street Journal reported HP is willing to pay $12 billion to $13 billion for this acquisition. This would be HP’s biggest since its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq in year 2002.

With this HP acquisition, do you think it help will EDS? Perhaps, let’s just watch for this acquisition to announce to deal.

Source: BBC NEWS | Yahoo! News

Not again… Advertlets website is down due to database connection lost between their database server and web server. Referring to the screen shot above, looks like their database server is having an public IP address of 202.46.116.101 and why in the world they put it on public IP address. Strange huh…

No news update from Advertlets Blogspot. I guess Josh and the team is busying troubleshooting it or busying preparing emails to reply. Hmm…I can’t check my daily earnings and statistics now. Luckily the ads is still working.

Time really flies. She is 9 months 1 weeks 1 days old now.

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OpenSolaris 2008.05 is now available for public. OpenSolaris 2008.05 is a Live CD. This allows you to experience it instantly by simply boot up the Live CD to a fully functional desktop environment. After you satisfied with it, you have the option to install with a single click using the new improved easy-to-use installer.

You can download the OpenSolaris 2008.05 ISO image or you can also request a OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD for free deliver to your doorstep. I had request for a free CD copy. Unfortunately, the delivery may take longer time depending on the country. You can refer to the approximate shipping times below: -

• US - 2 to 5 days
• Europe - 5 to 7 days
• Latin America - 2 weeks
• Asia/Africa - 4 weeks

However, there is no free lunch in this world. So, I have to wait patiently for the arrival of the free CD copy from Sun Microsystems. Thank you very much.

Source: OpenSolaris.com | OpenSolaris.org

I know this is too late. Happy Belated Birthday to Dell. Dell is 24 years old now on 3 May 2008. Dell has provided a list of 24 things you should know about them. Take a look here.

In recent weeks, Dell just launched two new redesigned Vostro laptops for small business ; a 13.3-inch Vostro 1310 and a 15.4-inch Vostro 1510. The redesigned 17-inch Vostro 1710 will be introduced in mid May 2008. You should also pay a visit to Direct2Dell blog to know about Dell products, services and customers.

I was shocked that Cubans are not allow to own a personal computer (PC). In recent weeks, Cuba new President Raul Castro had lifted the ban on PC ownership by the citizen of Cuba. They still can’t have Internet access at home because ban on Internet access at home has not been lifted except for trusted officials and state journalists. Luckily, the Cuba citizen still can have Internet access restricted in certain workplaces, schools and universities. After all, I hope this change is good for Cubans. Hooray!

This post will cover an installation guide for Citrix XenServer Express Edition 4.1.0 only. I will not cover XenCenter (the management console for XenServer) and Virtual Machine (VM) installation in this post. This Express Edition supports up to 4GB physical RAM and hosting up to 4 concurrent VMs in a single XenServer host with dual socket CPU. You can download the Express Edition install CD ISO from Citrix XenServer website and burn the ISO image to a physical CD.

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If you are not aware, Tom Cruise is launching his website on Monday May 5, 2008 plus he bought Google AdWords to promote his website. I am not a fan of him but I am looking forward to see whatever it is happening in TomCruise.com later today. There is a nicely done Flash-based countdown timer appearing on the website (please see screenshot above). Stay tuned and check it out yourself!

I am a fan of Slackware. I am very excited to hear the release announcement of Slackware 12.1 on 2 May 2008 by Patrick Volkerding and the Slackware team. Slackware 12.1 has many improvements over the older release of Slackware 12.0 includes supporting of 2.6 kernel. It is a must install for any Linux users that have not tried Slackware and it is a must upgrade for any Slackware users. You can read more details on the improvements from Slackware’s official announcement.

I will wait for the ISO to release and download it as soon as possible from web. If you can’t wait, you can download the ISO via BitTorrent here. I can’t afford to order a single DVD set of Slackware 12.1 for $59.95 plus shipping. If you can afford it, please consider purchasing the Slackware Linux 12.1 directly from Slackware Linux to support the continued development of Slackware Linux!

Source: Slackware