always up-to-date pidgin and yahoo messenger connection problem solved

yahoo, msn, aim, icq, etc... always changing their protocol and always causing connection problem for third party messenger apps like pidgin. while linux distro always stick to one apps version at their release and do not upgrade to latest release. then, recently yahoo change their protocol again. all these causing all ubuntu users cant connect to yahoo messenger. you can use getdeb and install the current version. but then you need to manually update pidgin everytime new version released. o

12+ linux docking launch bar

it seem like a docking launch bar that really catchy for everyone started by apple osx. since then, everybody want it... there're lots of launch bar for linux. not only 5 or even 10. 1. Avant Window Navigator 2. ksmoothdock 3. cairo dock 4. kooldock 5. kiba dock 6. engage  7. menu bar 8. xqde 9. tuxbar 10. simdock; it's fast & simple. doesnt require xgl 11. wbar; another fast & simple dock. 12? kxdocker; discontinued. replaced by xqde. 13? gnome-dock; another dead one. 1

hardware virtualization cpu check

tools to check if your cpu support hardware virtualization: cpu-z   secureable AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Utility or, in linux use this oneliner: egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo -- tips & tricks on computers and gadgets denny on IT ; let's doIT documenting the brain

automount samba - windows network neighborhood

how to automatically mount windows/linux samba shares? that is the question... currently, there're two apps that i know can do this. use only one of them. or if you use both, make sure you use it on different folders. 1. fusesmb quick start: sudo aptitude install fusesmb sudo mkdir /mnt/Neighborhood sudo chown yourusername:fuse /mnt/Neighborhood fusesmb /mnt/Neighborhood -o allow_other 2. smbnetfs quick start: sudo aptitude install smbnetfs sudo mkdir /mnt/Neighborhood sudo chown yourusername

what you use for twitter image signature

many ways you can show your twitter as image signature on email or forums: twisig: twitsig: twittysigs: dynno: tweetbars: tweeterized: twitstamp: multisig: twittersticker: which one you use? -- tips & tricks on computers and gadgets denny on IT ; let's doIT documenting the brain

non javascript frame buster

there're so many javascript you can use to break out of frame. but javascript will not work if your visitor have javascript turned off. just add this in your html head section: < base target="_top" / > and all clicks on your site will gets your visitor out of any frame. works on all browser i know and works without javascript. -- tips & tricks on computers and gadgets denny on IT ; let's doIT documenting the brain

opensuse lxde minimal desktop livecd

now that tested and runs correctly, i dare myself to announce this public beta release of my opensuse minimal desktop livecd. features: openSUSE 11.1 LXDE with all its components Firefox 3.0.10 + Flash Player 10 huge thanks to all testers for the feedback. download here. all comments, complaints and critics are welcome. -- tips & tricks on computers and gadgets denny on IT ; let's doIT documenting the brain

cpanel addon domains - better way?

usualy, cpanel automatically add addon domains to /public_html folder. say i want to add dennyhalim.com as addon domain, cpanel will put it into /home/username/public_html/dennyhalim.com this way might give few problems. first, if search engine find it, it will hurt your SEO. because you have duplicated content and your domain could be marked as spam. so, if you do this, dont let search engine knows it. second, management problem. if you add few dozens domain, now you public_html folder will

install grub4dos, make usb bootable from windows

actually this already posted a lot and easily found if you google. yet, it seem not so obvious that everyone keep asking about this... so, i try to give extreme short guide to make usb bootable by installing grub4dos from windows (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista). i just assume those who use linux already knows about grub and grub4dos or at least they can google... make sure you login as administrator and you only have ONE single usb flashdrive plugged in to avoid any possible mistake. make sure you hav

postfix + postgrey + clamsmtp + sanesecurity = easy, clean & light email server

what's wrong with spamassassin? everybody else are using spamassassin for their mail server spam protection. nothing wrong with it. it just use up too much resources. that's all. what if we can built lighter system on lower resources system (think vps) with as good spam protection as spamassassin can provide..? here's my attempt... first thing first. install all at once. sudo aptitude install postfix postgrey clamsmtp wget curl rsync gzip then, configure postfix to use postgrey and clamsmtp.

make sure syslog rotating your system log files

just check a computer i got and see huge system log files at /var/log. it was last rotated september last year. it's running everyday between 8am to 8pm. so why suddently (after sept 2008) it's stop rotating the log files? first, see when syslog run. syslog should be executed by cron.daily so, when this cron.daily runs? $ cat /etc/crontab # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this f

boot .iso image file on usb / hdd with grub4dos

nowadays, there're too much livecd you can choose from. everyone have their own favorite livecd. mine, was puppy, now grml. the easiest way to use livecd is to burn it and reboot your computer with it. or, you can also run it on emulator like qemu, virtualbox, vmware, etc... then, you can also do 'frugal install' by copying the .iso file content to usb/hdd and boot it from there. this works best with linux livecd. now... this is another way to boot your .iso livecd. especially works best with

localepurge to Automagically remove unnecessary locale data

this very easy and simple trick can save you few hundreds megs of spaces. if you like me, still make use of old legacy computers hardware, like the old 4gigs harddrives with debian or  ubuntu minimal desktop, few hundreds megs spaces is very precious. each and every apps/packages that you installed on your system do have lots of unused locales that is not the language you understand or use daily. these locales data is installed by default and can takes up to few hundreds megs of spaces, d

antivirus for grml / debian / ubuntu linux / LiveCD

yeah i never use antivirus for my linux desktop. but i always carry grml in my usb flash to clean up friends/family's dusty, infected windows. i used to use puppy linux with antivirus for this. but i'm tired keep downloading and reinstalling stuffs. with grml, all i need is aptitude upgrade to get the latest updated version. there are many good antivirus for linux. the ones i choose are f-prot and avast. the main reason i choose these are for their size. others antivirus usually at least twice

install latest cherokee webserver without compiling

one thing i hate when i need the latest version apps and it's not in official repo is compiling. actually, it's ok doing compilation on your desktop pc. you can have all the build-essential installed and have all your cpu, ram and perhaps time to compile everything and all will run just fine. but... if you're on a budget vps with very limited ram and cpu, you need every single bit of them to serve what your vps was supposed to serve. though installing build-essential wont waste any ram/cpu when

install ubuntu apps on debian

there are some apps available on ubuntu repo but not in debian repo. but ubuntu is based on debian. so i think.... i can just download the packages from ubuntu and install it on debian. here's how i do it... first, install gdebi for easier .deb packages installation: sudo aptitude install gdebi then, search the packages you want. example, i want to install pyneighborhood, so i open this link: http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/pyneighborhood make sure your debian have correct dependencies. ex

linux automatic login, startx and shutdown

making linux easier for noob and kids by automatic login into linux, then startx and then shutdown the computer when they quit. first, setup mingetty for automatic login on debian minimal desktop: # sudo aptitude install mingetty # sudo nano -w /etc/inittab # then comment this line and add the next line: # 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin replacewithyourusername tty1 or, on ubuntu minimal desktop: # sudo aptitude install mingetty # sudo nano -w /

replacing kdm/gdm/slim with qingy

qingy is not getty. and surely it is not x display manager. but it's a getty replacement. just like getty, it ask you for login and let you access your linux according to your login. beyond login, qingy can give you X session in addition to text/console session. you can even start multiple X session at once. so, it's (almost) a perfect replacement for any x display manager like kdm/gdm/slim/xdm/wdm. especially usefull for ubuntu / debian minimal desktop installation. save you a lot of system r

Google Chrome on Ubuntu Hardy

thanks for stumpleupon on this. ref: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13635 first, get latest wine: # use wine repo by inserting this into /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt hardy main # then do # sudo aptitude update # sudo aptitude install wine # or, if you got wine already installed: # sudo aptitude safe-upgrade then, do some winetricks to prepare for chrome: rm winetricks wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks ms

boot & install debian / ubuntu from ntfs

so, when other distros fail me, i always return to debian. it's a little bit harder to setup, but it (almost) always works on any hardware i have. first i download this debian installer mini.iso i dont burn it. coz, i cant use the cd drive anymore. extract 2 files from the iso into (say) c:\debinst: linux and initrd.gz edit c:\menu.lst and add this: title install debian kernel /debinst/linux acpi=off initrd /debinst/initrd.gzreboot on boot, choose grub. then choose install debian that's it. i in

apt-get freevo on Ubuntu Hardy with packages from Intrepid

this is how i install freevo on ubuntu hardy using apt-get to get packages from ubuntu intrepid. First, from Freevo Apt Ubuntu Doc # Add Medibuntu sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update # Mandatory dependencies sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-dev libimlib2 libimlib2-dev libdvdread-dev python-xml python-pygame python-twisted

ways to configure Linux X display driver

continuing my popular howto easily configure x display, here are other ways to configure X display driver in Linux. first, we should backup the original xorg.conf, just in case... cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup1and when we need to restore: sudo cp xorg.conf.backup1 /etc/X11/xorg.confyou might also want to backup xorg.conf from each step result and then choose the one that satisfy you most. so here's many ways how to configure your X display driver: sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf # jus

Atheros 5007 wifi (AR2425 chips) Linux Driver Installs

i got a laptop with built-in Atheros 5007 wireless LAN (AR2425 chips). and the driver came with ubuntu is not working at all. i also tried ndiswrapper that works but causing a lot of crash. so, after google a lot i found many (somewhat outdated) solutions to make this wireless works but not working anymore... until i found a ticket at madwifi, then follow this guide. but it's so very long conversation to digest... so, here i try to summarize it in case i need to repeat the whole steps: wget h

remove old ubuntu kernel

after few times you do aptitude full-upgrade, you will end up with many kernel images. many people new to linux dont even know it's there. but it's there. and it can be many of them. wasting quite some spaces, especially if you're on old small 4gig harddrive, it matters a lot. well... there're many ways you can remove old kernel on ubuntu. and here's my way.. first... find out which kernel installed: aptitude search linux- | grep ^i that will also show installed old linux-header (source). you

let's roll the blogs

Blogger Buzz: Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog Listblogspot now have a new gadget that allow us to put our blog list to our sidebar. you might already have blogrolls using some other services. maybe the google reader's or others.but all that mostly using javascript! you get what i mean? js means only browsers can see it and search engine bots cant see your blogroll.and you can guess it already. this new blog roll is 100% SEO and it can even raise your other blogs pagerank.let's see it in

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Blogger in Draft: New feature: Search Box

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just have to wait google fix this bug.

update: the bug is accepted with medium priority.
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Linux in Virtualbox
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Description: at last... something not for vmware. some Linux preinstalled for Virtualbox use...Sheer convenience is the purpose of VirtLinux.com; and consistent with the GNU and Open Source tradition everything is completely Free of charge. With Virtual Linux Operating Systems ranging from Debian based distros to Red Hat, VirtLinux is stepping up the game of the open source community making it that much easier to get a taste of the Linux scene. * Almost everything comes pre-installed with guest additions* Al
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Mandriva Directory Server Virtual Appliance
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Description: now you can replace your active directory server with opensource alternative. Mandriva Directory Server is an enterprise directory platform based on LDAP designed to manage identities, access control informations, policies, application settings and user profiles. If you already use Samba, Postfix, Squid or CUPS, you can benefit from MDS today to manage your infrastructure.--Virtual Machinez blog on Virtualization
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Linbox Rescue Server
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Description: Linbox Rescue Server can be your disaster-recovery plan. The Linbox Rescue Server is an asset management software including 5 modules : system backup for emergency crash recovery, hard disk cloning or deployment using a PXE network boot. This module was fully developped by Linbox FAS. file backup, based on the famous BackupPC, to which we have added a configuration interface, inventory, based on ocs-inventory agents, and on an agent which runs during the PXE network boot, Software deployment mo
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RestoreVM
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Description: Backup and Restore your networked computers with this VMWare Appliance.Restore is an enterprise server-based backup and data recovery system. Restore can backup servers on any operating system and restore your files with just a few mouse clicks. You can backup or restore your files simply by navigating a directory tree.RESTOREVM is an Ubuntu Server based Virtual Machine appliance with RESTORE running in it. If you are familiar with VM appliances and want to test RESTORE out this is a great solut
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Perfect Linux Servers
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Description: howtoforge not only details on how to setup the perfect linux servers. it's now also provide downloadable VMWare images. too bad... it's for subscribers only.--Virtual Machinez blog on Virtualization
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openQRM Virtual Appliances
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Description: a ready to run VMWare Appliance to monitor your datacenter.Advantages of openQRM Maintains efficient data center operations; handles failures smoothly and automatically.Customer-proven in critical business environmentsManages physical servers and virtual machines, seamlessly and automaticallyOpen source systems management software:Saves money in both the short and long termAllows both system administrators and data centers to tailor a solution to fit their needs – as opposed to utilizing a pr
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Free Network Monitoring with CommandCenter NOC
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Linux VMWare Appliances
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Description: Now, you can test more than few dozens Linux distros as VMWare Appliances easily.they have it (almost) all, from Archlinux to Zenserver/Zenwalk. just download the appliances, extract and 'play' the vmx files.now, i'm downloading and trying myself few linux i never heard off...--Virtual Machinez blog on Virtualization
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Nagios Virtual Appliances
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Description: Network Monitoring System as VMWare Appliance let you easily monitor your networks with ease.it's a preconfigured VMware appliance for easy use of NagiosOnCD. Nagios,NagiosGrapher and Apache2 are running out of the box. Start the virtualmachine, find out your ip address (see README.NagiosOnCD-VM (http://www.nagiosexchange.org/fileadmin/featured_projects/nagios_on_cd/README.NagiosOnCD-VM))how to find out) and connect with your browser: http://your-ip/nagiosThe appliance uses "NAT" for virtual ne
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PBXware free SOHO PBX Appliance
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Description: Bicom Systems offering PBXware for free with 4 extension SOHO PBX VMWare Appliance.PBXware supports a wide range of PSTN and VoIP technologies. Creation of national/global voice networks, Least Cost Routing, Enhanced Voicemail, ACD Queues, IVR Auto Attendants, Conference Bridges, Music on Hold and much more... all deployable as a single unit or redundant network. A real cost saving sulution!!! PBXware is delivered either in CD, Tarball, Appliance or SERVEREware delivery formats each with an eas
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