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Finally afte 8 hours, i’ve finished upgrading my laptop computer to Intrepid Ibex, it’s nice to see my hamradio application gets its own menu category.
Good news everyone, Canonical is going to announce the latest edition of Ubuntu line up, Ubuntu Mobile next month. Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition which runs on a new type of mobile computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Some features of Ubuntu Mobile device are :GPSDigital TVEmails, Instant Messaging, Web BrowsingMultimedia PlayerVoIP applicationsIntegration with ...
I've decided to share my PHP Detector library to the public which I've coded somewhere around 2006. The library does wonders in detecting IP address geo-location, operating system and the type of browser used based on its user-agent information. The ip address->geo-location information is provided for free from ShowIP fakap webservice.The library is handy for ...
Hi there people! I think most of this blog readers are familiar with half-wave antenna such as the 2 meter dipole which I’ve built as a side project (with height about 1 meter by itself). But do you know the height of the tallest and biggest half-wave antenna ever built in the world? is it ...
This website upgraded has been upgraded to wordpress 2.5.1 to ensure quality content delivery for its reader. Thank you for subscribing and reading this blog after this long years. I’m planning to continue to write in the blog again some time after next month. So stay tuned!
Ever come accross corrupted gzip or tarball which couldn’t be uncompressed? No worries, The gzip Recovery Toolkit make it possible for you to recover those files.Here’s how to recover gzip (or tarball .tar.gz) file in Linux operating system :First download and compile gzrtrun gzrecover on corrupted gzip — “gzrecover corrupted.tar.gz”extract the …
Maybe my viewpoint is a little biased, but I find using GNOME in Ubuntu is a little bit natural for my reflexes than to wade around with fancy Windows Vista’s window manager. Plus, I hate to deal with hundreds of spyware/malware/worms/trojans/viruses combined threats everyday, it just eat away my productivityTags: windows, vista, windows xp, microsoft, ...
surface from Linux by Examples has written two ‘getting started for SVN’ articles that I find it interesting and useful for beginners. The article covers important SVN operation (checkout,diff,update,import, check in) necessary for managing a software project.Here’s the link to the article :SVN command line tutorial for beginners 1SVN command line tutorial …
Following recent announcement from Technorati about Wordpress security vulnerability issue and the fact that there are a lot of Wordpress sites that has been compromised. It is recommended those who are running Wordpress blog to upgrade and tightens their Wordpress site security to prevent it from being injected with malicious or spammy code.Here are few ...
Finally after spending some precious time procrastinating, I finally upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.5. New features that I immediately found helpful are :Multiple file uploadClean interface designAdministrative panel loads fasterEasier for me to load up media files (video, audio, photos)This could mean that I’ll be posting more regularly. Btw, sorry for the hiatus, ...
This serves as a continuity from my previous post, I got myself a new and flexible Printer - HP Officejet 5680 All in One.HP Officejet All-in-One Under UbuntuIts all seems rather easy at the way I left off, the printer is fully functioning by just plugging it to my Ubuntu pc, the scanner works well ...
It’s been raining all over Malaysia today –That was Malaysian map taken over Google Earth, notice the cloud covering almost 70% of the Malaysian region? its been raining all over Malaysia! woohoo!
I just discovered today that Google (street) maps is now available for my hometown - Alor Star! Upon checking further I discovered that the street level maps is also available for various other places in the northern part of Malaysia too, including remote areas in Perlias and Kedah, w00t.Here’s sample of the street map taken ...
Here’s the way to configure Ubuntu to autostart your favorite application upon startup (like Microsoft Windows ‘Startup’ folder). This how to assume you are using the default GNOME windows manager.From the Desktop, Go to System > Preferences > Session,Select Startup Programs, click “New”, and type in the command of your favourite application. …
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol responsible for keeping your computer time in sync (Standard Time) with the rest of the world. Keeping up with standard time with the rest of the world proves to be useful when you’re interacting with the rest of computers across the world.Here’s how to manually update your computer time to syncronise with NTP, from the …
A friend from #fakap asks me to create a dead simple FLV to 3gp converter to help him convert multiple FLV (and avi files) to 3gp format supported by the popular Nokia phones. As a result I complied, and created flvto3gp bash script to do the job.UsageUsing it is simple, just run this script on inside a directory full of FLV (or any video files supported by ffmpeg) using …
I would like to extend my congratulations to nbliang and fenris for them being officially accepted as Ubuntu Members. Hope that I’m going to see lots of contribution from both of you.
That’s true. I blew up a teaching job today solely because I forgot to ass kiss one of the interviewer, supposedly a great teacher who really cares about the well-being of his student (Let just say his name is Cikgu Noor from Beseri). Poor me. Yeah, rediscovered that in order to get what you want; ...
Tired of spending hours in front of a dull and boring desktop? Then I suggest that you spice up your workspace by installing Hot-Babe. Hot-Babe is a unique application which displays CPU utilization using images of a hot babe on your desktop, which is a nice addition to your desktop. Ubuntu Linux users can get Hot-babe application from GetDeb.net click and run software …
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