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The past few days have been quite hectic for me and it’s all related to servers!

• The database server at work suffered from a faulty processor on Awal Muharram (10th January, a public holiday in Johor) and the maintenance agreement for that particular server had expired. Luckily, it’s sorted out within a few hours and a replacement processor was installed.
• I’ve also taken on a project to set up a Linux web server for a medical supply company which needed to be delivered by the 11th. I manage to meet the deadline and the server is up and running right now.
• I’ve purchased a VDS to host some web sites including HTNet and there were some complications in the delivery. However, it’s all sorted now.

Touching on the last point, I’ve moved the content of HTNet onto this new server and if you’re reading this then you’re seeing the first post published on the new server

If you happen to find something strange when browsing HTNet, please let me know by commenting here. Thanks!

KUALA LUMPUR, OCTOBER 30, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its WANJet® Wide Area Network (WAN) appliance is now available on F5′s powerful TMOS™ architecture. Integration with TMOS enables customers to implement high performance WAN optimization and acceleration functionality, and builds on F5′s broader Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solution portfolio. Along with the new 5.0 software release, customers now have a TMOS-enabled WANJet hardware platform, WANJet 300, to address branch office-to-data center optimization needs.

F5 is the only networking vendor that has taken a holistic approach to application acceleration, designing its products to work seamlessly with its entire application delivery infrastructure. Now running on the industry-leading TMOS architecture platform, WANJet inherits the benefits of F5′s iControl® open API with the 5.0 release enabling customers, partners, ISVs, and system integrators to develop unique application delivery solutions. As an additional benefit of this integration, WANJet appliances can be easily managed by Enterprise Manager™, F5′s centralized network device management appliance.

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KUALA LUMPUR – October 17, 2007 – SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today launched a new initiative intended to accelerate SonicWALL’s ongoing move into the enterprise market. The broad-based global initiative is based around SonicWALL’s E-Class solution set, a premium-performance line of secure networking, email security and remote network access offerings engineered to drive down the cost and complexity of deploying a secure infrastructure. Igniting this initiative, SonicWALL today launches a new family of multi-core processor firewalls that combine enterprise-class protection and performance in a single appliance: the NSA E7500, the NSA E6500 and the NSA E5500.

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen something from Palm; but it seems that they haven’t been sitting idle. They’re about to release Palm Centro, at a sub US$100 price! Let’s hope that it’ll be priced similarly when it reaches Malaysian shores.

From the looks of it, the Centro seems much more livelier than the Treos. It runs on Palm OS 5.4.9 and comes with a built-in 1.3MP camera. The Centro also has 64MB of built-in memory. You can add up to 4GB more with a MicroSD card.

Connectivity does not seem to be a core strength of the Centro. It only has Bluetooth 1.2 connectivity and it’s not WiFi-enabled.

I think that the Centro could be a pretty decent first smartphone for non-techies.

Kuala Lumpur, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new release of its BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager (LTM), intelligent traffic management for multimedia services provided by service providers/carriers.

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