Berawal dari sebuah kebutuhan untuk mengetahui kapan DHCP Client memperbaharui IP Address, saya akhirnya malah belajar Ruby dan jadilah scri...Read more »
Quick&Secure Complete Network Tunnel over SSH
See this howto .Read more »
What's New in Linux v. 2.6.28
Heise's got a nice article about what's new, what's hot, what's not in the not yet quite released 2.6.28.Read more »
Printer Tip: Cleaning your Print Heads the Cheap&Smart Way
If you use the printer's internal cleaning utils (if they are available for Linux at all), you are likely to lose a lot of ink down the ...Read more »
How to connect to the internet using Celcom Broadband Modem
Luckily, I got my hand on my friend's Celcom Broadband USB HSDPA Modem. The model is E220. Fortunately on Mandriva, you don't need t...Read more »
An Overview of Assorted Linux Games
http://www.dedoimedo.com/games/linux_games_all.htmlRead more »
How to Speed Up your Website's Page Loading Times with Apache and .htaccess
http://bobcares.com/index.php/blog/?p=211Read more »
Linux Video Editing Tools - Overview
Check it out here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-free-open-source-video-editor-for-linux/Read more »
Logitech Mouse at Full Speed / 800 dpi
Alexios Chouchoulas wrote a little tool called lmctl to help you use your Logitech mouse more comfortably in Linux. In current ubuntu intr...Read more »
How much does Google know about you?
Check out this review of a book with that title.Read more »
What to do if your Linux system stops responding?
Here 's the answer.Read more »
Queuegraph - a RRDtool frontend for Postfix queue-statistics
queuegraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix that produces daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of Postfix&...Read more »
Open Source Forensics
Linux-Tip.net has a little article about forensics with open source tools .Read more »
Google Really is Going Towards the Browser OS
Google just released the native client , a browser plugin that helps to efficiently use the CPU of a machine accessing a web page. Availabl...Read more »
Auto Start Applications at Login to GNOME Desktop
It may sound trivial, but for the longest time, I, being an avid CLI fan, did not configure GNOME to auto-start certain applications after l...Read more »
"Top 10 Things You Forgot Gmail Can Do"
" Top 10 Things You Forgot Gmail Can Do " at LifeHacker.com. It's a good one.Read more »
Default File Permissions on Creation - Umask
With the umask command you can set, what permissions a file will normally have when it's first created. It's a bit complicated, thou...Read more »
OSS Week di ITB
Saya membaca info rilis OpenSolaris 2008.11 dari blognya mas Alex Budiyanto . Di akhir tulisan blognya, ada link mengenai OSS Week yang dia...Read more »
Opera 10 alpha
I'm right now trying out the newest browser (update) out there: Opera 10 alpha . This is Opera coming back into the league with a speedi...Read more »
Check for Viruses Online
There's not only the Kapersky Scanner (32-bit only, Java required), but also VirusTotal , which scans a file with several engines at once.Read more »
Google Cutting the Costs
While Google's attention to costs may sound good on the first view, I also see dangers of going to far, thus loosing the valuable elite...Read more »
Hotkeys in KDE4.1 are broken
If you wondered why it doesn't work for you... it doesn't work for anyone. ;-) They hope to have it fixed in KDE 4.2, says someone i...Read more »
Blanking External Monitor to Save Energy with Xorg
I've just found out that my external monitor remains on for quite a while in the suspend and off modes (xset dpms force off). The only o...Read more »
Use Dbus in Shell Scripts
http://foss-boss.blogspot.com/2008/11/ride-d-bus-control-your-linux-desktop.htmlRead more »
Open Source Business Model
Stuart Cohen, former CEO at the Open Source Development Labs, published an interesting arcticle at businessweek which says that as an open ...Read more »
Digital Traces
The New York Times has a very interesting article about the digital traces we leave and a completely new generation of Big Brother approach...Read more »
How to increase number of disk mounts before next fsck at system boot
Many home users often power off their computers when they are not being used. Some do it to be green: turning idle computers off saves ele...Read more »
The Hitchhiker's Online Game
I accidentally just found out about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy online game by Douglas Adams. And it's full of his witty a...Read more »
Is the World Ready for a Cyberwar?
After reading a lot in the media about the so called cyber war, I wonder: How well prepared are the nations? In the media it seems as if R...Read more »
The Infallible Ticket Machine - When Machines Do Make Mistakes
The LinuxJournal posted a great article about good and bad consequences of technology . I have had similar thoughts. What people may forget ...Read more »
Easily Receiving Big Files via Droopy Webserver
There's a nice little python script named droopy available which let's you receive big files quite comfortably over a simple web br...Read more »
List Open Files of a Process
lsof -p `pifof process` provides an exhaustive list including libraries. ls -l /proc/`pidof process`/fd provides a list of only the "pl...Read more »
Intro to Linux Virtual Memory
LinuxPlanet has a really good article explaining how the Virtual Memory System works in Linux . I think it's nicely done and considering...Read more »
Introduction to SSH
LinuxPlanet has a nice short intro to ssh . I have her on one point, though: The example ssh terry@host2 ls ~ is just badly quoted/escaped....Read more »
Sed One-Liners
Catonmat has a nice overview of sed one-liners .Read more »
sdparm: a utility for SCSI device
You may have heard of hdparm - a utility for getting info and changing certain parameters for IDE-type hard disk. It can't be used for S...Read more »
Panduan Instalasi modul OCI8 pada PHP5 Ubuntu
Pada tulisan ini saya akan mencoba menerangkan langkah-langkah menginstall modul OCI8 untuk PHP5 sehingga PHP bisa melakukan koneksi ke data...Read more »
Brain Training
The Linux Journal has a nice summary of open source brain training games .Read more »
More About Being a Good Citizen in an Open Source World
After looking into the source of Android, Metthew Garrett tells us about his disappointment with the underlying code . And with his example ...Read more »
NVIDIA Brings Fast GPU Video Acceleration to Linux
It's been a while. I've sat here on my chair for a long time and thought to myself: Hey, if you want to do it, video acceleration wo...Read more »
Customized Linux Message Notification, I Wish I Had
After writing an alias that shows me what's currently going on in my system ( tail -f /var/log/..., ~/.xsession-errors, ... ) I've w...Read more »
Mengatasi firefox berjalan di modus offline di ubuntu terbaru
Pengguna Ubuntu sejak rilis Hardy Heron dan sekarang Intrepid Ibex, yang terkoneksi Internet menggunakan modem, atau tidak menggunakan Inter...Read more »
How to Scroll Back in Screen
Ctrl + a + [ + j/k Or Ctrl + a then Esc and then use the cursor keys. Esc to leave the mode again.Read more »
Google Finds the Flu
Google just released a tool to track the spread of flus by statistical analysis of their search data. And it seems to work , too.Read more »
Prepare JPG Files for Fax
This script prepares your scanned Jpgs for using them e.g. with the sipgate fax. Or you can simply join them together in a small (black&...Read more »
Publish tulisan ke blog menggunakan OpenOffice
Saya baru saja menemukan extension Sun Weblog Publisher di halaman ini . Extension ini akan membantu pengguna OpenOffice untuk mempublish t...Read more »
How to open and close the CD DVD tray
You can open/close the CD, DVD disk tray from the command line. Many Linux users already know about the eject command for opening the disk ...Read more »
"Begging the Software Gods"
" Begging the Software Gods " is an interesting read about what choices we make in Software and what they mean. A nice work of ope...Read more »
TV International?
I still wonder why TV is not really international yet. We have endless countries with interesting TV channels. Especially US channels would ...Read more »
Setting up NX
A tutorial how to set up the IMHO best remote desktop connection: NX.Read more »
WPA Encryption Cracked
If you haven't already read about it, it seems to be true : The Wifi encryption protocoll WPA has been compromised. The method will prob...Read more »
A Tiny Backup Script with Rsync
This script lets you easily mirror a local directory to foreign computers that have rsync installed - securely via ssh. It assumes you have ...Read more »
Find Bots in your LAN with BotHunter
BotHunter is a pretty cool software that helps you detect bots through passive network monitoring. Their webpage has just gone offline. I...Read more »
Apple's Lock-In Syndrome
Apple is locking iPhone users into their rigid software framework through the App Store: They would not let people develop interfaces to Gma...Read more »
DVB-T in Linux
There are two great program for watching DVB-T in Linux: Kaffeine if you want it really comfortable (including scheduled recording, instant ...Read more »
OpenOffice 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.10
Here's a quick guide . It's all about downloading it and installing the deb files... ;-)Read more »
Interesting readme files
Who ever reads those readme files coming with the software? Well, someone did . And he's posted some funny quotes.Read more »
Ask a Spammer for Ubuntu!
Someone already did it. Check out what happened .Read more »
Fixing Wake On LAN in Ubuntu 8.10
I've already spent a few hours to finally get this working again. There are several problems in Ubuntu 8.10 considering Wake on LAN: 1. ...Read more »
List of Ubuntu Intrepid Bugs
There's a nice list of issues in Intrepid after upgrading. And there's more from other users in the comments. So read this post bef...Read more »
Linux Memory Statistics
Find out a lot more detailled how memory is used in your Linux system with these tools .Read more »
Introduction to WINE
Here's a nice little intro on what to do with wine. For help with wine, checkout Frank's Corner .Read more »
New Layout
I've changed a few things in the layout. Let me know if it works for you!Read more »
My Software Favorites
FileZilla (ftp client) FUSE KDE 4, esp. Plama, Okular, Pauker, KTeaTime, Kopete, Kaffeine Nomachine NX (the best remote desktop solution o...Read more »
Googling for Something Linuxy
Sometimes when you talk about things as a Linux user, people look at you oddly. For example when you tell them about installing software int...Read more »
I've got Sun Java Working in my Browser in 64-Bit Linux!
I've been trying to get java to work in the browser for me for a long time now. And I've got two final results for you: First, it...Read more »
Automatically Boot Different Kernel on Fail With the Grub Fallback Options
Did you know you can configure grub to automatically fallback to a different boot entry if one was not successful? A pretty neat idea, espe...Read more »
NAT and ip forwarding
NAT (be it SNAT or DNAT) relies on ip forwarding. You enable it, they are effective. I forgot to think about it last time ( I think 3 months...Read more »
Two additional ways to tail a log file
I want to revisit a topic: how to tail a log file. My earlier posts discussed the use of tail and less commands to tail a log file, and m...Read more »
Funny Bug Report Misuse
Ever been annoyed the Bugzilla or a similar software to report bugs online? Here are some funny examples for bug report misuse: http://linux...Read more »
Find Out Which Operating System is the Best
The Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter will tell you.Read more »
Rude Linus Torvals
If you ever wondered why people say the kernel developers are sometimes very rude, check out this article , referring to a post by Linus hi...Read more »
Funny Linux Shirts
Check out these funny Linux T-Shirts .Read more »
32 Bit Software in 64-Bit Debian-Based Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu)
There's a wonderful script named getlibs , that makes the annoying process of installation 32-bit libraries really comfortable.Read more »
Canon Printer Tips
Did you know there are original Linux driver from Canon? Now you know that, why not get the hacked and enhanced version .Read more »
Famous Flame Wars
Check out this summary of Famous Open Source Flame Wars .Read more »
Preacher of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Here's a funny video about a FSM preacher.Read more »
Microsoft Office 2003 with Wine
Check out this howto install MS Office 2003 with regular Wine: http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsoft/running-ms-office-2003-under-linux-wit...Read more »
Backup with Rsync
There's a nice article about backups with rsync at Linux.com. I shall leave the explanations to it and just post my script as example h...Read more »
Disabling Touchpad on Demand
There's now an alternative to using the shared memory of the synaptic driver to enable and disable the touchpad: xinput set-int-prop &q...Read more »
Workaround for Screen Flickering in Kubuntu 8.10
Okay, I've got a dirty hack for now to work around the flicker problem in Kubuntu 8.10. You can edit /usr/bin/startkde and comment out t...Read more »
Google's Lack of Response to Security Threats
Google criticized a security researcher for publishing information about a security vulnerability in the android platform. They had no reaso...Read more »
Arora - A Webkit Browser
Today I accidentally stumbled about Arora , another simple webkit based browser. And I'm very pleased. It's quite fast, renders webp...Read more »
Apt-Get Tipps
TuxArena put up a nice summary of some useful apt-get commands. I have to correct them in one point: For dpkg -L to work, the package needs...Read more »
Free CrossOver - Today Only!
You can download full versions of CrossOver Linux and Mac for free from their webpage today!Read more »
FOSS.my 2008
What is FOSS.my ? (excerpt from the website) FOSS.my 2008 is Malaysia’s premier Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. Whilst this is o...Read more »
Ubuntu 8.10 No-Go for Dual Head
Don't upgrade your Ubuntu to 8.10 if you want to use a dual head setup. There second screen will reguarly turn off for a second while ...Read more »
Ubuntu Getting Slower
After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 (release candidate), I've recently noticed stuttering in video playback. That might very well also be rel...Read more »
Mode Setting with IntelFB
Let me begin by stating that the intelfb driver is very old already. And there are issues. Mode setting with "non-CRT" devices us...Read more »
Trouble Uninstalling a Package?
Sometimes you're trying to install or uninstall a package, but the process aborts, because the installation script fails. I think there ...Read more »
Encyclopedia of Life
A website mapping (or trying to) all life on our cosy little planet Earth. Why go to other planets to find life if you need not go father th...Read more »
Flash 10 in Ubuntu 64 Bit
There's a nice little script that does the entire installation automatically. Worked great for me. Make sure you check the contents of ...Read more »
Automatic Monitor Brightness Control
Why isn't there a software that controls your monitor's brightness level automatically. E.g. if you have a webcam, you could use it ...Read more »
Canon Printer Problem "pstocanonij write error,32" Solved
I just had the error message "pstocanonij write error,32." when trying to print something with the Original Canon Printer Driver a...Read more »
How to disable SSH host key checking
Remote login using the SSH protocol is a frequent activity in today's internet world. With the SSH protocol, the onus is on the SSH cl...Read more »