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We at BolehVPN would like our readers to keep abreast of the latest IT technologies and when we do find something interesting, we would like to share it!

Now it seems that many people don’t know what Eyefinity is which is a shame as it is an excellent piece of technology and shows a lot of innovation on AMD/ATI’s part. Basically, it allows you to use multiple screens as a single display in games! This is different than your regular multi-monitor setup where games will not span both screens.

And as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words:

Source of image is from Grumpybeard from Overclockers UK thread.

What do you need to use Eyefinity? 3 monitors with the same resolution (preferably one with a DisplayPort or otherwise you can get a DVI-DisplayPort adapter) and a reasonably powerful modern ATI card that supports EyeFinity. This also works with 2 monitors but may be annoying for FPS games where the bezel is blocking your centre view. Most recent games support EyeFinity too including Empire Total War, Call of Duty 4, World of Warcraft among many popular games.

With certain versions of ATI cards, they have cards that can support up to 6 monitors!

To read more, head over to the official Eyefinity site.

IPTorrents password is being changed and new login details will be out within the next 2 hours.

This change is long overdue!

We have now officially launched BolehFiles, an add-on service to BolehVPN that will help you use Rapidshare/Hotfile/Megaupload at faster speeds! Great for those rare files that aren’t seeded!

To order, just make payment to the same bank accounts or Paypal and specify that your desired username and password. The rate is RM10.00/month. Please note that you cannot subscribe for a period longer than your VPN subscription (though we can allow small extensions to take into account that the expiry of your VPN account may not be exactly synced).

This service is also only open to subscribers of 30 days and above (non trial users). The reason for this is that BolehFiles is currently not making a profit and will not be for the forseeable future due to the hardware and premium accounts needed to support such a system.

We also accept Rapidshare Premium accounts as payment to be used with BolehFiles in which we will not charge you a cent .

Please note that Rapidshare downloads should be used sparingly and only if there is NO ALTERNATIVE due to the premium quota limit. IPT should still be your first point of call!

There are quite a few people reporting problems with uTorrent 2.0 with their implementation of the uTP protocol.

You may view the complaints here:

1. uTorrent 2.0 SLOW
2. uTorrent 2.0 fail?
3. uTorrent 2 speed problem

If you don’t wish to fiddle with these and wish to downgrade, we have provided you a link to download the old version of 1.8.5 which is still supported on most private trackers and works well with BolehVPN:

1. Official Site
2. BolehVPN Mirror

Until the uTP protocol’s issues are fully hammered out, we still recommend the use of uTorrent 1.8.5

How did you spend your Valentine’s? Pit Boss was busy with the family, Reuben was hanging out with his relatives. To make up for the lack of excitement in your geek lives, we would like to know how YOU spent your Valentine’s! (and also an excuse to try out this nifty poll plugin) .

We had a lot of confusing membergroups which we decided to remove to streamline permissions management.

As such we have deleted the IPT Verified User, Newbie (limited), BolehSurf Beta Tester and also Regular group. Unfortunately, SMF forums has no facility to move all users from one group to another and as such, they may have defaulted to having no Group and therefore restricted permissions.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused but this is a one-time move. Please re-apply for Support Access which is now a lot simpler:

Step 1:

Go to the Group Membership page as linked.

Step 2:

From Available Groups, select BolehVPN Subscriber by clicking on Request Membership.

Step 3:

In the text box, please enter your BolehVPN username (that you provided to us during the e-mail you sent to us when ordering!) and the date that you ordered.

Step 4:

Click Submit Request. Now wait for an Admin to approve your membership request.

Our servers in Luxembourg have gone offline for an unknown reason all at the same time. The provider’s main website is down as well so we suspect a failure on the provider side.

If you are using Colossus (GUI Seedbox), BolehRoute 3, Mystic, Gurren, you may be unable to contact your servers until this has been resolved. We’ll keep you posted.

*Update 11 February 2010 4:05 PM* Service has been restored.

Pandora is a new kind of radio service which helps you find songs similar or have a similar fit based on the songs you are listening to. Pandora relies on a Music Genome that consists of 400 musical attributes covering the qualities of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, composition and lyrics.

Now this service is only available in the USA and as such if you try to surf to Pandora outside the USA, it will return you with a warning saying that you cannot use this service.

Not anymore with US-Surfing Streaming!

Steps to get Pandora Working

1. Connect to US-Surfing Streaming
2. Clear your browser’s cookies (only if you have tried accessing Pandora before and it blocked you)
3. Restart your browser.
4. Surf to http://www.pandora.com
5. Enjoy!

Always remember that you should connect to US-Surfing Streaming before accessing the Pandora site or it will insert a cookie that will identify you from your original country. If you have accidentally does this just repeat Steps 1-5 and all should be good!

Found an old post in 2008 that tickled me…Either the reporter heard it wrong or TM’s Sarawak General Manager doesn’t know the difference between a megabit and a megabyte. For those not in the know, there are 8 bits to a byte hence the speeds he’s quoting are 8 times faster…which is highly unlikely. Minimum of 10 megabytes a second is basically almost maxing out a 100 mbit connection. That means downloading a typical 25 minute TV series at around 350 megabytes will take approximately 35 seconds? Dream on! And 1 gigabyte a second??? Even a SSD would not be able to write fast enough to keep up.

It will take only one minute to download a video once Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s High Speed Broadband (HSBB) programme takes off end of this year.

“If you are downloading a video on one megabyte per second, it might take hours. But now with HSBB, it will only take one minute on 100 megabytes per second to download the video,” said Telekom Malaysia Sarawak general manager Omar Zaki Mustafa.

“Customers can experience and enjoy high speed broadband service with a minimum of 10 megabytes per second, and that can go up to one gigabytes per second,” he added.

He said this was one of the new technologies and services that Telekom Malaysia would be introducing to its customers, and it had been given the mandate by the government to implement it throughout the country.

“Sarawak has been very fortunate in that it has been given the approval to roll out the HSBB in Miri, Bintulu, Sibu and Kuching while in other states except for Klang Valley, Johor Baru and Pulau Pinang, they are only allowed to implement the programme in one area,” said Zaki.

“Our Internet services are the normal one like Streamyx that can be upgraded to four megabytes per second.

“We also have a lot of customers who are demanding that TM Direct be upgraded from two megabytes per second to 145 megabytes per second,” said Zaki.