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How to Determine Main Memory Size in Solaris

January 29, 2009

I was looking for a way to check the memory size of a Solaris machine I am working on. I found a blog post having three commands here: http://sysdigg.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-check-memory-size-in-solaris.html. I tried all three but only the following one worked for me:
# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag | grep Memory Memory size: 4096 Megabytes
Here is the machine [...]

Bitter Experience With Kuwait Airways

January 21, 2009

Kuwait Airways is the national air carrier of Kuwait. I had the opportunity to avail its service when I went to Bangladesh on the 16th December. Previously I was very impressed with Emirates, another airlines of the middle east. I was so happy with Emirates that I rated it higher than the world renowned British [...]

Bangladesh vs New Zealand ODI on the 9th OCT 2008: Bangladesh Batting Highlights

October 10, 2008

After New Zealand made 201 for 9 in 50 overs, Bangladesh emphatically won the match by 7 wickets. Here is the highlights of the magnificent batting by Bangladesh:

M.S.A.’s Iftar covered in U.T.D. Mercury

September 24, 2008

U.T.D. Mercury published a cover story about Muslim Student Association’s Iftar activities here.

Economic Incentive for Preserving Rainforests

September 8, 2008

Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo has put forward an excellent proposal to preserve world’s rainforests in 2006. BBC has published to proposal here.

Interesting idea to fight global warming

September 7, 2008

Scientist John Latham has proposed an interesting idea to counter the climate change here. He proposed to increase low-lying clouds above the oceans. These clouds play an instrumental role to reflect radiation back to the space. To create these clouds artificially, 1500 ships are needed. These ships will be powered by wind which is good [...]

World View of Global Warming

August 19, 2008

World View of Global Warming summarizes effects of global warming to some areas in the globe including Bangladesh here. It says that the predicted one meter sea level rise at the end of the century will inundate more than 15 percent of Bangladesh.

Arctic Ice Chunk Breaks Away

July 30, 2008

About 20 square kilometers of ice has broken away from the Ward Hunt shelf of Canada. The ice chunk used to reflect energy from Sun to space. The split is likely to increase earth’s warming rate.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7532435.stm

Allah’s Name on Meat

July 22, 2008

A man in a restaurant in Nigeria found the following meat when he went there to dine:

The meat has names of Allah and the prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7520149.stm

My Fedora 9 Desktop

June 9, 2008