Walletex’s Wallet MP3 Player is the slimmest MP3 player in the world that fits into your wallet just like another credit card.

The Wallet MP3 Player, USB flash drive-based MP3 player, is made of double laminated unbreakable plastic.

Wallet MP3 Player has a built-in double sided USB connector that is also used as a headphone jack with a small adapter. The USB connector allows easy connect to your PC for uploading and exchanging of MP3 files while charging your battery.

Available in sizes ranging form 128MB to 2GB, the Wallet MP3 Player can even be printed with custom graphics such as for marketing and promotional giveaways. No pricing information has been released yet.

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Bloomberg reports that the Nintendo Wii outsold the Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 in the U.S. last month. 666,000 Wii consoles were sold compared to 405,500 for PlayStation 3s and 219,800 for Xbox 360s.

Wii has gained popularity among people who don’t play traditional shooting and racing games. It is designed for easy-to-play games and equipped with a motion-sensitive controller that can be swung like a racquet or sword.

Six of the 10 best-selling games in June were titles made for Nintendo, including “Wii Fit,” which ranked fourth, the company said. The exercise game is sold with a balance board for use in workouts and games that simulate skiing and soccer.

Why is Wii Fit so popular? Check out our previous posts:
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Entity tags (ETags) are a mechanism to check for a newer version of a cached file. Removing the ETag reduces the size of the HTTP headers in both the response and subsequent requests.

If you have access to httpd.conf, you can add

FileETag None

Or if you can only access .htaccess only, you can add

Header unset ETag
FileETag None

Your web site Yslow performance grade should improve.

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Steve Jobs, Apple Chief Executive Officer, will announce a new product – widely rumoured to be a 3G iPhone – at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco tomorrow 10am which is 3am (AEST)

Various websites like MacTalk.com.au, MacRumors.com have reported an image of an iPhone-sized box labelled “Do Not Open Until June 10th” allegedly sent to retailers.

The new iPhone is expected to be 3G-enabled. It could also include a GPS chip, 16GB or 32GB storage capacity, a 5 megapixels camera, a second camera for live video calls.

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Fisher Space Pen, aka Zero Gravity Pen, enables you to write underwater, upside down and at any angle and lasts twice as long as other roller ball pens. It is the most dependable, reliable, and versatile pen in the world.

The Fisher Space pen ink cartridge is the key to its superiority. It is pressurized with 35 pounds per square inch of gas. This pressure pushes on the sliding float ball allowing our unique thixotropic ink to flow smoothly in the tungsten carbide ball.

The Fisher Space Pen was invented by American industrialist and pen manufacturer Paul C. Fisher and is manufactured in Boulder City, Nevada, USA.

More information on Fisher Space Pen can be found at www.spacepen.com

I think I will get myself a Fisher Bullet Bullet Pen which cost Euro $25 or US$38.57 or SGD$52.77.

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By now, all the servers in The Planet H1 Data Center should have been powered on. However there are still quite many servers with their site down.

I too have problem with the original resolver which result in a very slow loading of the web sites. I have to changed the resolv.conf file, aka resolver configuration file. It is use to configure client side access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). This file defines which name servers to use.

Third official message from The Planet CEO Douglas J. Erwin at 5:35pm CDT on 2nd June 2008:

Dear Customer,

Late last night, I told you we hoped to have power to the 6,000 servers in Phase 2 of our H1 data center by midnight, with all servers up by early morning. I am glad to say we came close, just a few hours after sunrise. At this time, 100% of our servers in Phase 2 have power, and our technicians are working with customers on any remaining server issues. We are confident all remaining issues will be resolved shortly.

I also explained the significant challenge we faced in the other phase where the actual explosion occurred. Our team came up with a creative way to restore power quicker than the 4-5 day outage. We decided not to wait for equipment for the electrical room completely, opting instead for a temporary solution to get power to the 3,000 servers. That solution involves using generator power for the next 10 -12 days until all the new equipment arrives to rebuild the electrical room for Phase 1. I explained that we expected to have a temporary solution in place by midnight tonight, with servers powered up tomorrow. The good news is that as you read this letter, the power is restored, and the temporary solution is in effect. Within the next two hours, the remaining 3,000 servers have power. We have overstaffed our data centers again to help during this initial power up.

This now leaves us facing step two of this process, which requires getting all of the equipment delivered and then rebuilding the electrical room to its original standard. To make the cutover to the rebuilt electrical room, the operations group believed it would take a maintenance outage of 24-48 hours. I have good news on that front. It’s not perfect, but at present we now believe the maintenance window will be just 4-6 hours. That’s still too long, and we will continue this week to find ways to reduce the time. Given that there will be some outage for the cutover, we will execute this step at midnight on a Saturday, either June 7 or June 14. We want to pick the most appropriate time to minimize impact to you.

I must admit that I am amazed. We are almost 18 hours ahead of schedule with this phase, thanks to our great suppliers and of course the great folks working here at The Planet. This could never have happened without the help of both, and I want to thank all of them.

There is still more work to do, but the progress is terrific. We will continue to work any and all customer issues, and we face the challenge of putting the permanent power fix in place for Phase 1. Nonetheless, there is still good news based on what I told you last night.

As each hour passes, we learn more and more. Please give us the time to continue our planning. We will provide you with information as we have it.

Until tonight’s update….

Douglas J. Erwin

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

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Finally, after 37 hours of down time due to an unexpected explosion of a transformer, at The Planet H1 data center in Houston, that knocked down three walls, Richard Palace dot Com is back online! Thanks goodness, no one was injuired during the explosion.

Luckily my server is one of the 6,000 servers located at phase 2 (2nd floor) of H1 data center in Houston that are powered up first.

The other 3,000 servers, located in phase 1 (1st floor) of H1 data center in Houston, are still down and in the mist of recovery.

Here is the message from The Planet CEO explaining why servers located in Phase 2 are powered up first.

As previously committed, I would like to provide an update on where we stand following yesterday’s explosion in our H1 data center. First, I would like to extend my sincere thanks for your patience during the past 28 hours. We are acutely aware that uptime is critical to your business, and you have my personal commitment that The Planet team will continue to work around the clock to restore your service.

As you have read, we have begun receiving some of the equipment required to start repairs. While no customer servers have been damaged or lost, we have new information that damage to our H1 data center is worse than initially expected. Three walls of the electrical equipment room on the first floor blew several feet from their original position, and the underground cabling that powers the first floor of H1 was destroyed.

There is some good news, however. We have found a way to get power to Phase 2 (upstairs, second floor) of the data center and to restore network connectivity. We will be powering up the air conditioning system and other necessary equipment within the next few hours. Once these systems are tested, we will begin bringing the 6,000 servers online. It will take four to five hours to get them all running.

We have brought in additional support from Dallas to have more hands and eyes on site to help with any servers that may experience problems. The call center has also brought in double staff to handle the increase in tickets we’re expecting. Hopefully by sunrise tomorrow Phase 2 will be well on its way to full production.

Let me next address Phase 1 (first floor) of the data center and the affected 3,000 servers. The news is not as good, and we were not as lucky. The damage there was far more extensive, and we have a bigger challenge that will require a two-step process. For the first step, we have designed a temporary method that we believe will bring power back to those servers sometime tomorrow evening, but the solution will be temporary. We will use a generator to supply power through next weekend when the necessary gear will be delivered to permanently restore normal utility power and our battery backup system. During the upcoming week, we will be working with those customers to resolve issues.

We know this may not be a satisfactory solution for you and your business but at this time, it is the best we can do.

We understand that you will be due service credits based on our Service Level Agreement. We will proactively begin providing those following the restoration of service, which is our number priority, so please bear with us until this has been completed.

I recognize that this is not all good news. I can only assure you we will continue to utilize every means possible to fully restore service.

I plan to have an audio update tomorrow evening.

Until then,

Douglas J. Erwin
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

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The Planet H1 Data Center Outage has caused 9,000 servers to go down affecting 7,500 customers and I was one of the unlucky one.

It all started at 4:55pm CDT 31st May 2008 (Singapore time 5:55am 1st June 2008) and I was unable to do anything except waiting for their updates and pray that they could get the servers up as soon as possible. No Estimated Time of Recovery was given.

Here is the official email I received from The Planet CEO Douglas J. Erwin

Dear Valued Customers:

This evening at 4:55 in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.

We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well.

There is no impact in any of our other five data centers.

I am sorry that this accident has occurred and apologize for the impact.

Sincerely,

Douglas J. Erwin
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

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Microsoft and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) jointly announced the signing of an agreement that will make Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost laptops, the XO laptops, specifically designed to introduce computing for the world’s poorest children.

XO laptops with Windows will cost $206 to $208. Only $3 is for Windows, while $15 to $17 covers the cost of adjusting the machines to run the operating system.

They are scheduled to begin their trial stage in June, but could to be released as early as September.

Windows XP will not be replacing the original Sugar Linux, they will both be available, and there might even be a model that dual boot with both Sugar Linux and Windows XP.

Here is a video demonstration of XO Laptop:

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Blackberry Thunder, aka BlackBerry Storm or 9500, will be the first RIM smart phone without physical keyboard. It’s a full touch screen smart phone and will be launch in Q3 of this year.

On the front panel will be present only 4 physical keys, instead of the usual QWERTY and there will be no slide out keyboard.

Before Blackberry Thunder, the difference between a BlackBerry and an iPhone is the keyboard.

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Now that RIM has dropped the keyboard for Blackberry Thunder, a full touch screen smart phone, the question is:

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