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iman & kasih sayang...

2010-03-16T17:30:10+00:00

"Iman itu ucapan dengan lidah dan kepercayaan yang benar dengan hati dan perbuatan dengan anggota." (Ali bin Abi Talib)

"Iman kepada Allah itu mengakui dengan lisan dan membenarkan dengan hati dan mengerjakan dengan anggota." (Aisyah r.a)

"Pengakuan dengan lidah (lisan) membenarkan pengakuan itu dengan hati dan mengamalkannya dengan rukun-rukun (anggota-anggota)." (Imam al-Ghazali)

sebagaimana IMAN adalah ditakrifkan pengakuan dgn hati dan lidah dan amalan dgn anggota.. saya percaya kasih-sayang juga begitu... rasa dalam hati...ucap dgn lisan dan tunjukkan yang kasih-sayang itu ada... jika lengkap ketiganya..maka ia kasih sayang yang sempurna dan membawa bahagia... insya Allah xkan tergugat dek panas, hujan, ribut taufan mahupun sebarang godaan... :) bahagia pula bukan di muka..atau di perbuatan kite..bagi saya bahagia di hati.. pada indahnya rasa dan tenangnya jiwa... :)

just my 2 cent...

sushi king....

2010-03-16T17:30:10+00:00

makan-makan befday sara di alamanda... si befday gal ni lah ajak.. (tp xbelanja pun..ehhehe) xpela.. actually befday die adalah 143 day.... happy befday sara..hehehe.. tp ko adalah memilih sushi king untuk makan..oh nooo.. aku bukan penggemar sushi.. tp xpe demi kawan2 sesekali laaaayan aje.. huhu.. sedap gak..walau xsesedap sakae sushi.. huhu.... jalan2 n gossip keliling alam dgn cda n sara was fun too (nana kene balik awal ade futsal training la plak..) lenkali kite g PADI pula okeh... ermmm spagettinye sgt enakkkk... :p byk plak celebration ye bulan Mac nie...huhuhu... sara nanti kamu dpt claim jgn lupe kami ye... lalalalala.....

cda & sara...sorang perth sorang mexico...

eksyen...hehehehe

miss nana & miss jaja...

dormmate b2-1 1994-1998

bedmate juge.. :p

ingat nana..kerajaan bagi katil sorang 1 ok...

hahaha...ingat ko sgt suke keropok sira mak aku hantar..

skrg ko anak 2 dah...

yg aku lak.. hmmm...harapkan tgn je kurus skrg..

tp emo xabes...banyak pikir.. pikir -ve...

IQ oklah kot..EQ fail sungguh!!

patutlah xde org nak...hehehehe.. (jgn hina makhluk Tuhan.. :p)

p/s: malam ni tido nak pakai kino macam anies..kan cda kan??

hehehe..mari lawan toksin sape paling meletop...

huhuhu

double celebration...

2010-03-16T13:20:05+00:00

suka boss di apit dayang2 cun UKG..

hehe..hepi befday boss..

moga panjang umur + murah rezeki

and stay cool..

(boss mmg cool.. :))

joe malu2 nk tiup lilin dgn boss..

seb baik xmakan durian sebelum tuh..

hepi befday joe...

hadiah thn lps masih terpakai utk arini...

KPP LG bersama boss LG...

ni plak perpisahan legend ridha dan zizie...si drama queen ukg..
hahaha..zizie mmg suke drama..mengong mung..huhu..

di taman warisan..

makan mcm xmakan 2 minggu..hehehe

menci muke aku berminyak+gemuk..eiiii...camane nk kurus nie..

aduihlaa..apepun asal hepi dgn kawan2 makan sate 7 pun xpe..

(tibe2 lidi sate aku jd berbelas2...herannn...haha)

to all kawan2 UKG :

dimana pun anda berada..kita berada..

kita ttp bersaudara..

yg masih di UKG, marilah hadapi bersama

dengan senyuman dan ketabahan...hehe..

yg dah kuar UKG...

hamboi hamboi..sukelah korang kan.. :p

hahahahahah

PDF Converter

2010-03-16T12:30:15+00:00

PDF Converter

Im looking for a PDF converter in Linux specially in Linux Ubuntu that can do one particular thing. Convert the link to symlink that can be click in the pdf converter file. My search lead to tools that really usefull but not has function that I want.

(1) Gnome-print

http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-print/home/about.html

In print dialog "Print To File"

(2) Using cups-pdf

Cups-pdf

http://www.cups-pdf.de/welcome.shtml

Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine

http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/61826

For Ubuntu 9.04 I'm install cups-pdf from Synaptic Package Manager, search for cups-pdf. One problem, you need to create directory in your home directory called PDF. Example /home/haris/PDF (PDF capital letters)

ps. This bug already reported

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/224365

(3) OpenOffice.org

$ unset DISPLAY

$ soffice -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;" -nofirststartwizard

Extending OpenOffice.org: Turning OpenOffice.org into a document conversion tool.

http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/61713

jodconverter

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jodconverter/

http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter

(4) Others

pdftops by xpdf (used with cups)

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Dive into Java

2010-03-16T10:13:00+00:00

Recently a friend of mine asked me to help him develop a small web application to be run on a tomcat server. So that would mean I have to develop the application using Java, which I have not used ever since my student days. But because the requirements were pretty small, I took up the challenge just for the opportunity to learn something new.

The system was meant to capture the answers of a questionnaire and calculate the score they got. Then display back the past scores. It's pretty small involving just CRUD and a small amount of business logic to calculate the scores. Could probably be done in a bit over an hour if using tools I'm already familiar with like CakePHP or Django. But with Java, it was a completely different story.

My experience with CakePHP when developing MyMeeting made me quite reluctant to ever not use a framework ever again. Unless it's just a small trial program to understand a new language, it's better to use a framework. In the framework usually there is already quite a lot of thought put into how things should be organised and what's the best way to achieve our goals. So you get the benefit of quite a lot of wisdom without having to go through acquiring it. So that was the first thing I did. I googled for a 'java framework' and BOOM. Despair. There was tons of them. So many I had no idea what to choose. So I started to search for reviews and comparisons. You basically can't read about Java framework without struts being mentioned. Tapestry was pretty popular too. But they all seemed to have quite a high learning curve and you read a lot about the DREAD of configuring xml files and all. Finally I tumbled on wicket. Reading reviews and presentations about it got me pretty excited. And when I started developing I realised this framework is just for the UI. It made it pretty easy to do quite ajaxy stuff, but there's nothing about database connection and stuff. And there was no tutorial on how to get CRUD even. So after more googling I finally found Databinder. It is basically using Wicket as UI framework and either Hibernate, ActiveObjects or Cayenne for the database abstraction and interaction. Alhamdullillah. With plenty of examples to copy and paste from (hey, I didn't have a lot of time okeh.. :P) , I was finally able to get simple CRUD working.

Of course by then I met with a lot of the things which made programming in Java a pain. The dependencies, all the declaration, putting in setters and getters for almost every variable. UGH!!!! But in the examples they showed how to set up your project to easily work in Eclipse. And I followed it. And now I understand why Java developers swear by their Eclipse IDE. It's way freaking cool. I mean want to put in all the setters and getters for every variable even though you've got around 50 of them? Forget about typing it, how about just right clicking on the file and choose 'source->generate getters and setters' and it will all be done for you. How cool is that? What's it? You just copied from one file to another a bunch of lines which declared types you've got to import? No problem. Eclipse will automatically copy the imports too if it's already resolved. It's way seriously cool. If only it had vim keybinding.. :P

Anyhow. That took most of my weekends recently but it was very well worth it. I'm not 100% comfortable with it yet, but at least now I can do dev in Java. And if someone was to read my resume and ask me do I know Java I won't have to answer 'Well.. I did a few assignments with it when I was a student'... :P So now the only languages I'd really really like to have a serious go at it is ruby (probably with Rails) and Lisp. Maybe the opportunity would present itself in the future. In the mean time, I still got to polish my Java-fu.

Network media status and settings

2010-03-16T03:04:21+00:00

Most of us now work with relatively large amounts of data, whether it be media or data. I've been on a Gigabit Ethernet switch now for a few years, because transferring data or virtual machine images of several gigabytes over the network is painfully slow at 100Mb/s (12.5MB/s max). If you see this limit when transferring files with GigE equipment and Cat5e/6 cables, chances are auto-negotiation is setting a conservative limit.

One usually thinks of wired connections as relatively plug and play, and that's true for the most part. Unfortunately, I found out recently, that at least on my Ubuntu Linux workstation, with cheap networking equipment such the RealTeks, the Lantecs and what not that you have at home, the defaults may set your media speed to 100Mb/s (Fast Ethernet) and not 1000Mb/s (Gigabit Ethernet).

These days you do not need to look at blinking lights to see if stuff is connected (usually).

Checking and Ethernet setting media status on Linux

sudo ethtool eth0 (or your ethernet device):

Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: MII
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
    Link detected: yes

You'll notice that Speed here is at 1000Mb/s. Initially it was at 100Mb/s by default on mine.

Setting it is rather straight forward, with speed defined in Mb/s:

sudo ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000

The man page for ethtool is actually friendly with examples, something that often isn't the case in Linux.

You probably want to set this as default on startup, in something like rc.local.

Checking and Ethernet setting media status on FreeBSD

ifconfig command on FreeBSD generally provides all this info for you:

re1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 7200
    options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
    ether 00:13:f7:3a:80:f3
    inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.1.255
    inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.2
    inet 10.1.1.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.3
    inet 10.1.1.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.4
    inet 10.1.1.5 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.5
    inet 10.1.1.6 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.6
    inet 10.1.1.7 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.7
    media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
    status: active

No problems here, 1000baseT as default.

A bit of tuning and jumbo frames

More on jumbo frames (Wikipedia) and their benefits.

By default in this case I get an increase in speed from Fast Ethernet (~25MB/s), but you can tune things further. One of these is to enable jumbo frames. The default MTU is only 1500. Most of us at home are likely to be using some sort of RealTek card. Usually MTU of jumbo frames is 9000, but RealTek cards only support a max MTU of 7422. On Linux the max is 7200 and on FreeBSD 7422 for RealTek. So I set both at 7200.

Setting the MTU can be done graphically or via ifconfig on both operating systems.

Now I'm getting around 40MB/s which is about 330% increase in speed from initial default setting of 100Mb/s on Linux.

Logging your terminal activity

2010-03-15T10:10:13+00:00

When typing on the terminal, sometimes we need to record what commands we have typed for later reference. Sure, we can simply copy the .bash_history file, but that file only shows what you have typed and not the result of the commands that you have typed. To do these kind of jobs, there are two applications that you can use:

1. script

To use script, simply run script before you start using your terminal

# script -f logfile.log

where -f is to flush output after each write, and logfile.log is the file to write whatever script has recorded.

After finish using script, simply type exit or logout to quit script

2. rootsh

Please install rootsh first if it is not installed. To use rootsh, run rootsh before start using your terminal similar to script

# rootsh -f logfile.log --no-syslog

where -f is to show which file will be used to record the session, in this case logfile.log and --no-syslog is to tell rootsh not to log to /var/log/messages. To quit from rootsh, type exit or logout. All the commands and output will be written to logfile.log.closed to show that rootsh has closed the session.

To view the output file of rootsh and script, more command can be used.

gasing raju...

2010-03-14T23:31:58+00:00

cuba sedaya upaya buat muke kiut di depan rumah

makcik pakai kaften kaler kuning ni...

dengan harapan die ada anak lelaki bujang yang ensem..

hahahaha..

walaupun hakikatnya mcm ilang kaki penatnye

menakluk bukit gasing itu..

(xdelah penat sgt cume part hopeless tu mmg hopeless sangat la..

plusidung yg sroksrek nie..mmg xtahan..

tpi zil kalau idung aku dh ok..

nescaya kite boleh buat new record..bawah 1 jam ok?? heheheh)

muka puas dapat menuju puncak..

(series shit aku xtau mane puncak die...
sbb die xde view mcm broga

atau terisik atau perfume pagoda...hahaha)

muka puas no 2...

sila perhatikan kasut gadis berseluar hitam...

hehehehe

ni muka puas + hepi yg sebenar-benarnya..

yela..ade org tu turun laju siap menjerit2 nama raju..

nmpk sgtla yg mane major yg mane minor interestnye..

huhuhu..

turut excited di raju.. :))

terbaek dari raju!!!

yang dirindui.....

2010-03-11T23:20:33+00:00

yang dirindui teh ais sharipah..

rasanya dah mcm 3 bulan kot tak minum...

di zaman2 kejatuhan yang sebulan tu mmg xjengah langsung la..

sebok bersedeh..huhuhu...

lgpun sebulan tu jugakla si sharipah ni nak renovate nye..

adehhh..xde time lain ke..

n sebulan tu jugakla futsal asyik kensel..

hmm...mcm malang bertimpa2..huhuhu...

lantas (wuhuu lantas tu...) malam ini..

dengan tekad tabah dan kentalnye abih futsal 915..

menapau teh ais sharipah secara solo..gigih nie..

kurang ais kurang manis...

perghhh bestnye...

TAPIIIIIIIIII

sungguh agak keji..HARGA TELAH MELONJAK NAIK!!

aku tgk menu die pun semua dah naik!!

average 50sen ke RM1...cehh..

sape suruh korang pasang airkon..ktrg xsuruh pun renovate

pasang airkon..pastu saje je naik harga.. nk byr airkon la tu..hehe..

kitorang pemain2 futsal yg busuk ni xkesah pun la bang/kak

xde airkon..aishhh...xleh jadi nie..

kembalikan hak kami...cewahhh...

teh ais sharipah kini RM2.50!!!

TAPIIII..seb baik msih kelasss dan meletoppp!!!

fewwww...bestttt!!!

(xsedar diri batuk!!!)

seman si transformer

2010-03-11T22:49:04+00:00

for me transformasi adalah suatu proses evolusi, penambahbaikan yang berterusan yg lahir dari inisiatif dan kesedaran diri yg tinggi... ermmm bukan nk citer pasal transformasi sektor awam yg mampu duk buat tu ye.. ni cerita kedai kopi je..ttg seorang sahabat baek.. yg esok akan berangkat pergi menunaikan umrah... seriously, kalau saya tgk die mase die jadi anak buah saya dulu..hmmm..mmg tak terlintas dlm pikiran ni at the age of 29 ni die akan pegi umrah.. ya Allah..dulu dielah setan.. opsss xlah setan sangat.. mcm ali setan tulah.. nakal xhengat... melawan lak tu.. minum air bungkus sangkut tiang..(hahahaha) pastu mmg mcm xde hala tuju laa..(budak mampu yg kenal seman taulah die mcmane kan..heheh)

tp sejak kawin mak aii.. mmg transformasi.. series seman..(opsss tersebut nama plak..) aku sgt kagum dgn ko.. mmg jelas perubahan2 positif dlm idup ko lepas ko kawin kecuali ko ttp suke ngata aku...hehe.. and sejak jadi ayah org ko laaaagi transform...huhu.. syabbass bette.. mmg ko boleh jadi idola kecil laa.. :p and siapa sangka, esok ko dah nak berangkat ke tanah suci.. sedangkan orang2 yg kite nmpk lebih baik.. lebih ade mase dpn dr ko (dulu laa) masih terkontang kanting.. hehehe.. contoh plg dekat, nihaaa x-superior ko nie.. camni lagi.. idup xde arah tuju lagi...huhuhu... tapi xpe man.. aku doakan ko dgn maz sekeluarga selamat menjalani ibadah and selamat pergi & kembali ke tanah air... :) jgn lupe doakan aku ok.. :) insya Allah satu hari nanti aku ikut jejak ko dgn azral nie... Insya Allah..mudah-mudahan dipermudahkan.. :)

VOIP Project Using Trixbox

2010-03-11T00:58:08+00:00

Friends VOIP Project using Trixbox. He shared this document for comments and feedback If you have any interested about the VOIP project contact the author directly, organizer and leader of the project by email address sheikh1976@gmail.com

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28092403/Project-VoIP-2010

and

http://www.slideshare.net/sheikh1976/project-voip-2010

hari yang terang....

2010-03-09T18:51:36+00:00

pagi td rasa mcm ade bob ku2 atas kepala.. rasa sangat xlarat dah... sungguh unstable.. tp 1 thing that i always kagum dgn diri sendiri adalah kerana saya tidak tahu marah/geram/sedeh/kecik ati/kecewa dgn lama... maybe sbb i know life worths more than that and i learnt a lot from experience and semua mistakes made before.. so i just decided to move on and malas la nk pk benda2 yg x best tuh kan.. lantakla..as i said b4 hidup ni mmg karma.. what goes around comes around.. so..mcm..biarlah... mak xkoser nk layan noqqq..nak fitnah ke ngata ke membusukkan mak ke,menikam mak ke.. mak xlayan tu semua noq...huhuhu..

but itu bukanlah story that i want to highlight arini... arini maybe hari ini dalam sejarah for me.. i fight for this silently for about a month.. i really wanted to gather all those big gun and make them listen to what i did here and support all the efforts been done.. sgt usaha utk make sure the top 1 dtg..and Alhamdulillah.. despite of her hectic schedule, die sudi luangkan masa...TQ Dr.. and all the jusa also sangat supportive..

and my presentation..adi kata bagus despite of tekak yg gatal giller and menahan batuk and hingus.. bukan nak puji diri sendiri..tp mampu has taught me alot la kot dr segi self confident and communication skills.. tq mampu juger.. :) it was going so well.. tot akan ada byk perdebatan dan hangat.. tp semua seems so supportive and bg komen2 membina untuk penambahbaikan..which is so mcm +ve.. and the moment my superior open his mouth.. i just could write to adi who sat next to me.. "sangat hebat en.A" and "kagum!!".. series sangat ada karisma, point yang teratur and sangat bernas... wahh...i adore la my boss.. :) tq juga boss kerana always bimbing kami and believing in us...

so, kesimpulannya.. hari2 dlm idup kita ni mmg mcm cuaca.. ade mendung ade hujan ade ribut petir ade panas terik dan ade banjir juge.. nak tak nak kite kene harungi jugak.. kitelah yg kene adapt dgn perubahan cuaca ni semua... kalau hujan pakailah payung.turn off astro (sbb xde siaran..hehehe)... kalau panas sangat pasang kipas sampai maximum and pakai sexy2 bile tido..hehehe.. tp idup ni putaran.. kite akan lalui setiap satu tuh sepanjang bernyawa.. saya sgt harap.. saya akan sentiasa cube jadi manusia yang boleh adapt.. akan sentiasa cuba jadi lebih baik... sbb kebaikan mcm magnet.. bila kita buat baik.. akan dtg kebaikan pada kita...walaupun bukan dr org yg kita buat baik tu.. mungkin dr org lain... :) tapi sesekali org balas buruk pada kita.. terima ajelah.. adelah hikmahnya.. or mebi karma jugak utk kite..huhuhu.. peace!!

ThunderBird 2.0 Add-ons

2010-03-09T15:34:00+00:00

Thunderbird 2.0 reached EOL Aug 2009 but Thunderbird 3.0 still does not have all the stuff and attractions for an upgrade, so here I am still using Thunderbird 2.0. What is Thunderbird?

Its an Email client, Calendering, Task and Contact Management. Allows access to Email accounts via POP or IMAP. It also supports GMail accounts, Unix mailbox and Newsgroup account access. A really great application to work with.

Some of the must have add-ons for my Thunderbird 2:

Contacts Sidebar 0.7 - Allows me to forward VCards and access via F4 the addresses, copy and paste info of the VCard into email.
Lightning 0.9 - The calendar and task Manager
FG Printers 0.4.4 - Format printing if the calendars
VCS Support 0.6.3.1 - Allows me to import/export VCS calendars
Automatic Export 0.3.0 - Allows automatic backup of the calendars

Other optional add-on:

Provider for Google Calendar
Bidi Mail UI
PGP
Thunderbrowse

There is a great forum at MozillaZine for updates and help.

harapan jaja....

2010-03-09T09:41:02+00:00

harapan jaja minggu lepas...

isnin : puasa + badminton (7-9)

hmmm...puasa tidak...badminton yess...

selasa : puasa + jogging

tidak dapat buat ape2 kerana bz giller..balik pun 730..

rabu : jogging

yess...tercapai..

khamis : puasa + futsal (8-9)

futsal yesss...puasa tidak....

jumaat : jogging.
tak tercapai...huhuhu...

kan dah kata ambitious xsalah... atleast half tercapai...huhuhu.. tp skrg berat kepala spt ada Bob Ku2 atas kepala... demam dan rimas dan sesak dan pening dan rasa nk balik tido...tp xboleh.. petang ade meeting besooooo... aduihhhhh!!! mau rehatttt!!

Paper Collection

2010-03-08T06:36:16+00:00

I follow some aspects of Getting Things Done (GTD) and one of the most important concepts for me is having a reliable mechanism for collecting new things that need some sort of action, and then filing into appropriate systems to manage and review. I only have two review systems, Trac and Datebk on my Palm phone.

If a task is not added to one of these systems, its unlikely to be reviewed, and likely to be forgotten.

I'm generally ok with getting a tasked filed for digital collections (email/Skype etc.). Palm on a phone has greatly helped in quickly dealing with filing phone related tasks such as text messages and calls. My paper collection mechanism sadly such as mail, has been woeful. It's been one two many times, in which I've missed due dates because it's hidden in a pile of stuff (stack of papers) and not reviewed.

Being sick for most of last week, creating a system and sorting out paper was a good mindless yet productive exercise.

Inbox Tray

I organized it into three simple trays:

Top: Stuff that has not been reviewed and filed into my review systems.
Middle: Stuff that has been reviewed and filed as a task. This means that this stack of paper isn't a mindless pile of stuff. When I do my review and management of tasks I'll get to one of these in right order of priority and urgency.
Bottom: Filing and archiving. There is a low priority file or archive task attached to them, just needs to be filed to relevant folder.

Transparent folders

In the middle tray, pieces of paper often need to be grouped together. I refer to these as current project folders. Invoices with checks and receipts, contracts with amendments and so on. Transparent plastic folders are perfect for this task, as it's very easy to quickly put them in, and also see at glance what's in it (saves time on labeling). I use sticky notes within these folders for additional reference information.

When you're done with them, some like the one shown here, even have binding holes to easily file them into a proper binded folder.

Finally these plastic folders are a lot easier to deal with then binded folders when you need to pull them out and reference it quickly to take some action. You can easily pull them out of the tray, or have some sort of container within easy reach. The most important point here is that what is contained in these plastic folders and trays is not "stuff". Except for the top box, they're already organized in my trusted and often reviewed systems.

Report For SCO 505 System Tuning

2010-03-08T00:05:40+00:00

Report For SCO 505 System Tuning

Report summary for SCO 505 System tuning. A job that I had done on 10th and 14th December 2004. Share this for reference to others. I will write detail about each items and compare it with Linux commands.

The report

The system has been monitored on one day basis at approximately on 6 hours and below the finding:

a. Run the sar command to monitor memory utilization, CPU load and Hard disk cache and write buffer.

b. Checking the root file system / and found inadequate disk space for virtual disk buffer to spare for any spooling process like printing services.

c. Cheking the log files and log rotation as well as the cron (task scheduler) jobs.

d. Check the network LISTEN state to identify any unusable ports and services.

e. Check the backup on offline system and found the tape drive could not be read and suspected the tape drive malfunction and also likely the device may not perform fully functional on the task to write to the tape.

f. Prepare the backup for / and /etc and any configuration file for easy future recovery task.

Tuning and Improvement Done

1. System File Cleanup

dfspace

/var/adm

/var/spool

- Null log files and spool file which are not necessary

/tmp and /var/tmp to be checked for any large unnecessry file that exhausted the / root directory.

2. Processes

- Stop non used services and remove from auto startup

- it is recorded that previous service from 31 open port and services has been reduce to 18 ports and services.

3. Kernel Tuning (NBUF)

- change from current default 6652K to 268288K

- reason for kernel tuning (increase the buffer cache) to the recommendation of the physical memory, that likely reported by SCO Unix for better performance.

- Recompile the kernel

4. Installed the monitoring Utility Using SCO Skunware 98 CD

- Installed top (to view and monitor active process in text mode)

- Installed the sarcheck to monitor hardware performance

kompiussss

2010-03-05T11:06:19+00:00

kompiusssss...

nak beli blackberry bold2 RM1850 ke
nak bayar student visa autsralia RM1550..

aduhhh...susahnyeeeee...huhuhu....

(do i have choice actually??? kekekekeke.... bengong jaja....)

Linux driver in use

2010-03-04T07:10:00+00:00

From a terminal window;

To view all device drivers and the module names
$ lspci -k

To view a specific device (e.g. 03:00)
$ lspci -vv -s 03:00

To view all the loaded modules (The letter 'K' is uppercase in Kernel)
$ lsmod
$ lspci -k |grep Kernel

ZFS on FreeBSD and Benefits of Software RAID

2010-03-04T02:27:59+00:00

This was an unplanned journal entry. I wasn't planning on an upgrade and update to my home server which runs on FreeBSD. Bad things seem to happen all at once, and soon after I got a nasty throat infection, my home server motherboard died. During installation of the motherboard one of the mirrored disks of the main file storage device failed. Time to make lemonade I guess.

A few lessons here:

Always have RAID-1 or RAID-5/RAID-Z, even for workstations. In this case, no priceless family photos or videos were lost. For workstations, you don't lose any time from work, and can grab a replacement disk later.
Software RAID is flexible for commodity hardware which often does not have 1 to 1 replacements at the shop a year or so after you bought it. You can usually just connect the old drives to a new motherboard, controller or another PC and it will just work. For desktop users, Fedora Linux you can do it via GUI during installation. Hopefully Ubuntu will have it too, as I think it's a good thing if it's easy for home users.
The RAID-1 of most motherboards works as it should, and you can disable the RAID setting and the drive(s) will still be easily accessible as a normal drive. As per the previous point, software RAID is recommended.

Time for ZFS

The two failures, conspired to forcing this upgraded setup earlier than anticipated. FreeBSD 7.1 had problems booting up on the MSI KA70VM as a PATA drive, forcing me to do a FreeBSD 8.0 binary upgrade from CD (totally trouble free I might add). Current best bang for the buck drives are 1TB and it's painful with UFS2. With ZFS production ready on 8.0, it's time for a modern storage layout.

ZFS Man (YouTube) is a funny and informative introduction to ZFS on FreeBSD.

These resources will get you going:

Some more tips here:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6230

RAID-Z or Mirror?

Constantin Gonzalez has written an informative blog on this.

Your options are more space for cheaper (more space/drive) in a more inflexible setup (RAID-Z) or less space, with a more flexible and faster performance mirror setup. With 6 SATA ports, and the Antec P182 case having a 4 + 2 drive cage case, it makes more sense on commodity hardware to have a mirror setup where data loss is more of a factor than space.

Here is my list on why mirror makes more sense for commodity hardware:

I don't need that much space. I don't have large media requirements for critical shared data. None-critical data can also sit safely on my mirrored workstation drives.

You need boot disks, which should be mirrored. Curently I'm using 2 x 80GB PATA drives, but this won't be feaseable in near future. So that leaves you with 4 SATA ports.

Another SATA port is taken up by your DVDR drive

So you're left with 3 slots. With this amount, it doesn't make sense to run RAID-Z for me. Especially more so with the option to have 3-way mirror and swapping up larger drives to seamlessly upgrade your mirror. That makes sense on a household budget, where it's hard to justify buying 5 disks.

More drives = more heat and power usage = more noise.

Since commodity drives are likely to fail anyways, I grabbed a pair of the cheapest 1TB drives available which currently are the Samsung Spinpoint F1. Performance surprisingly was not bad for these drives.

Setting it up

This part blew me away.. ZFS rocks.

I find out that my two new drives are ad0 and ad1, with atacontrol list:

ATA channel 0:
    Master:  ad0 <SAMSUNG HD103UJ/1AA01118> SATA revision 2.x
    Slave:   ad1 <SAMSUNG HD103UJ/1AA01118> SATA revision 2.x
ATA channel 1:
    Master:  ad2 <ST380023A/3.33> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
    Slave:   ad3 <Maxtor 6L250R0/BAH41G10> ATA/ATAPI revision 7
ATA channel 2:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 4:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 5:
    Master: acd0 <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212/1.21> SATA revision 1.x
    Slave:       no device present

So let's create our mirror pool:

zpool create data mirror ad0 ad1

That's it, data is the pool name I used and it's automatically mounted at /data (no need to mess around with fstab and such).

Let's find out our new pool status:

[kaeru@xavier ~]$ zpool status
  pool: data
 state: ONLINE
 scrub: none requested
config:

    NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
    data        ONLINE       0     0     0
      mirror    ONLINE       0     0     0
        ad0     ONLINE       0     0     0
        ad1     ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

And where it's mounted and how much space is available:

[kaeru@xavier ~]$ zfs list
NAME                  USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
data                  105G   808G    27K  /data
...

I've snipped some data here on some other mountpoints, hence some space is used already. This is immediately usable like any other filesytem.

Here is where some clarification is needed. The pool can act both as a device and filesystem. So by default data is the name of the pool and also the filesystem.

You can already copy files and such this /data filesystem, however everything in it will be treated as if its a single partition, so you can't do fancy stuff like set quotas, additional copies, compression and so on for subdirectories.

In order to do that, you need to create additional filesystems using the data pool:

zfs create data/jails
zfs set mountpoint=/jails data/jails

This is going to create a jails filesystem in the data pool, and automatically mount it as /jails. The mount command will show how this works:

mount
...

data/jails on /jails (zfs, local)
data on /data (zfs, NFS exported, local)

...

ls /data/jails is going to say no such file or directory, because there is no directory there. You could mkdir /data/jails if you wish but that's a directory but not the filesystem.

By default, without the mountpoint option, data/jails would have been automatically mounted as /data/jails. In the above example the difference between a filesystem and normal directory is clear. This difference is important when you export filesystems and wonder why /data is empty.

Automatic exporting of NFS/SMB shares

Exporting filesystems can now be done automatically using zfs commands:

zfs set sharenfs=on data/

This will export any "children" datasets (or filesystems) automatically like data/jails:

[kaeru@xavier ~]$ showmount -e
Exports list on localhost:
/data/videos/family                Everyone
/data/videos                       Everyone
/data/photos                       Everyone
/data/music                        Everyone
/data                              Everyone

You can set better security options of course. Back to the filesystems vs directory. If you NFS mount /data on a remote PC, you won't see /data/music or /data/photos. This is because they're not mounted in the /data filesystem(as a directory). If you want them available as /data/music on the client you'll have to mount them again, maybe as an nullfs mount on the server or as additional mounts on the client. Hierarchy here applies to datasets, not subdirectories, which work as normal POSIX filesystem. This should not be an issue in future with NFSv4 namespace support.

You can use old way of configuring /etc/exports if you want, but I like this way better, it makes sense.

Quotas

Similarly, no need to mess around with quotas anymore in fstab. One of the reasons for having jails dirs on MD disks, is a hard filesystem quota. With ZFS pools this is now no longer an issue:

xavier# zfs set quota=100GB data/jails
xavier# zfs list
NAME                  USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
data                 97.1G   816G    27K  /data
data/jails           1.80G  98.2G    19K  /jails
data/jails/kaeru.my  1.80G  98.2G  1.80G  /jails/kaeru.my
data/music           55.6G   816G  55.6G  /data/music
data/photos          21.4G   816G  21.4G  /data/photos
data/videos          18.3G   816G    19K  /data/videos
data/videos/family   18.3G   816G  18.3G  /data/videos/family

data/jails filesystem is now limited to 100GB, and now we want to limit kaeru.my jail to 20GB:

xavier# zfs quota=20GB data/jails/kaeru.my
xavier# zfs list
NAME                  USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
data                 98.8G   815G    27K  /data
data/jails           1.80G  98.2G    19K  /jails
data/jails/kaeru.my  1.80G  18.2G  1.80G  /jails/kaeru.my

kaeru.my jail is now limited to 20GB, whereas before it inherited jails limit of 100GB. Neat huh? Oh it's no longer UFS2 or and file backed MD disk.. no more long bgfsck's on unexpected reboots, no more double overhead of an MD file backed disk for performance.

There is a long list of other ZFS features, of which snapshots and the ability to send snapshots over pipes and ssh look the most interesting.

Some tuning needed

ZFS by default tends to eat up a lot of memory, and this can result in poor performance. After reboot, r/w performance was reduced to around 5-10MB/s after several minutes of use. I had to reduce the ZFS adaptive replacement cache (ARC) usage, to 512MB on my 4GB server.

In /boot/loader.conf:

vfs.zfs.arc_max="512M"

After this change, performance was closer to the limit of the drives and stayed there.

FreeBSD 8.0 Errata

FreeBSD 8 has a ton of new features, which will take a long time to explore. The good thing is that the performance features are immediately available such as the new scheduler. Here are some of the errata:

Dummynet used for bandwidth shaping seems to have some bugs, but patches are available: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org/msg02261.html especially the "dummynet: OUCH! pipe should have been idle!" messages.
Wifi setup has changed a bit, you need to setup wlan pseudo devices now.
jails has new functions, and command options including multiple ip's per jail, ipv6 and jails within jails and network stack virtualization.

half way done...

2010-03-03T22:19:21+00:00

half way done.....road to the new segment of life...

tunggu visa application..by 15th March boleh apply..

then apply CBBP dgn BMI..and setel e'thing dgn BMI..

then tunggu masa pergi...

moga Allah SWT permudah semua urusan.. :) Amin...

cantek..

hopefully this bring me all the great things

in my life.. a new journey will begin..

cemas jugak tp excited pun ada..

but happy to hear that buddies will be coming

only after 4 months i go...

hehehe... xleh blah la korang... :p

hmmm...

half way done..

and no turning back...

p/s : would everything be ok before my departure?? really hope so..

virtualenv

2010-03-02T02:24:37+00:00

I kept getting back to virtualenv and every time I would totally forget how to go about it and had to start googling. Every time. Frustrating. This is usually when Plone is involved.

So.

$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.4 /home/cawanpink/python2.4
$ source /home/cawanpink/python2.4/bin/activate
(python2.4)$ deactivate

That’s

install
create the Python 2.4 virtual environment
activate the environment
to get out of the environment

Installing Kubuntu 9.10

2010-03-01T15:27:00+00:00

Just did a fresh install for Kubuntu 9.10 based on my previous install. Here is a list of steps I took to get my most common applications working.

Post installation recommendations
Start the Kubuntu software(package) installer by Kmenu ->Application ->Systems ->KpackageKit

Choose following packages:

openjdk-6-jre-hotspot
mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.23
lightning-extension
flashplugin-installer

Install Firefox web browser
Choose Kmenu ->Internet ->Firefox Web Browser Installer

To allow Java applications to run in the web browser, open a terminal and install the openjdk plugin;

$ sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

To get the wireless working, run at terminal this command and reboot. My wireless router for WPA, TKIP did not connect until following steps were taken. Open a terminal and type

$ sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart

Install the other stuff for common applications to be used. At the terminal run

$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

For multimedia, fonts and assorted codecs support

This will add JRE, mp3, mpeg, odbc, unrar and other useful support.

$ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

This allows the disk to be encrypted and manage passwords. Additional encryption can be downloaded from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads or mediafire.

$ sudo apt-get install gdecrypt password-gorilla

Allow secure SSH connection to and from SSH servers.

$ sudo apt-get install ssh sshfs ksshaskpass kdessh

Install the VLC video player to watch CD and DVD movies.

$ sudo apt-get install vlc videolan-doc mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-sdl libvcdinfo0

Install basic Thunderbird add-ons to enhance its usage. From a web browser enter the URL https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird

Download and install the following;

Automatic Export
Bidi Mail UI (not needed if installed as earlier)
FG Printers
Lightning (not needed if installed as earlier)
Provider for Google Calendar (not needed if installed as earlier)
Thunderbrowse

To improve web browsing, these are my download addons from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

FoxTabs
Speed Dials
Zotero
Server spy
Video download helper
Firebug

harapan jaja...

2010-02-26T22:58:33+00:00

harapan jaja minggu depan ...

isnin : puasa + badminton (7-9)

selasa : puasa + jogging

rabu : jogging

khamis : puasa + futsal (8-9)

jumaat : jogging

owhhh...adakah saya terlalu ambitious?? atau anda rasa ini adalah over...?? hehee.. insya Allah boleh buat... kalau tak dapat 100% at least 50%.. sbb tu kene aim high kan...hehehe..

ini adalah KERANA... sangat x berhenti makan ini sejak hari Selasa...aduihh.. ape nak jadi nie... :(( baru je kene puji ahad lepas... :(

jaja boleh!! boleh jaja!!! +ve!!

(huhuhu... memotivasikan diri sendiri.. :))

Additional repository for CentOS 5

2010-02-24T15:31:53+00:00

Below are a few additional repositories that are available for CentOS 5:

1. dag wieers

Website: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/

Installation howto: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B2

2. elrepo

Website: http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

Installation howto: http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

3. EPEL

Website: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Installation howto: h ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse

That's all :)

Ubuntu ROCKS!!!

2010-02-24T01:41:00+00:00

ROCK!! Ubuntu really rocks!!

I've spent quite sometime even getting the wifi of this acer timeline 4810tg to work in archlinux, but in ubuntu 9.10, even the live CD was able to detect and use it. But that's not the best part. The best part is that I've finally got my Samsung SCX-4300 to work in Linux.. Wooohooo!!!

Followed the steps shown here. Installed the samsungmfp stuff from repo and walah.. scanner up and running. Oh.. and don't worry about the printer. It was detected and able to be used almost without any effort.

Sweet.. :) now I guess I'll need to buy a new toner for it, it'll be under heavy use from now on.. :D

How a small office can switch to open source?

2010-02-23T16:18:00+00:00

During small talk sessions the topic of having offices switching to Open Source Software (OSS) intrigued me to write this piece. Its in no mean very deep but gives you considerations to start the office moving towards a secure, efficient, cost saving and almost virus free environment.

Must have apps for the office hard working staff:

Office productivity suite (prepare letters, reports, spreadsheet and presentation slides) - OpenOffice.org
Email clients - Thunderbird + Calendar
Document viewer - Acrobat Reader
Desktop publishing tools such as flyers and posters - Scribus
Financial tool - GnuCash
Project management and monitoring - OpenProj
Graphics and photo editing tool - GIMP, F-SPOT, GwenView, XSane Image Scanning, Mobile Media Converter
Backup data to CDROM or DVDROM, network - K3B, Simple Backup
Web browsing - Firefox
Encryption of files/data - GDecrypt, TrueCrypt, Password Gorilla
Internet calls/VOIP - Skype
Multimedia player - VLC
Base apps/interpreter for other programmes to run - Java Runtime Environment, Flash, Wine, PHP5

If you need to have an office with Linux, consider the above as your checklist of must haves. The next question would be, which Linux would you install? There is already a good write up at Tuxradar. All of the above can be installed on Fedora and Ubuntu without much hassle but final choice of desktop is yours.

Once you have gotten all of the staff interested and comfy with the Linux desktop you can then start integrating with linux services in a networked office.

An office of 4 or more people should have a server or more with the following must have services:

Printer sharing - CUPS
Cetralised file/document sharing - PLONE or Open Atrium
Global address book - LDAP or Customer management suite (see below)
Local DNS - BIND
Customer management - vtiger or SugarCRM Community Edition (Asertiva)
Automated networked backup - Bacula
Centralised time server - NTPD
Local email server? Most small office use public email services.

There are loads of other projects that can be done once you have the above in order and your tech guy is happily getting used to OSS.

2010-02-22T23:30:16+00:00

new entry at art-tease...

pasangan duet baru 'The Jakarta Girls"

2010-02-21T21:29:02+00:00

painting itu sangat cantik.. xsangka Nilai3 skrg ada painting yg sangat 'shantek-shantek'...huhuhu... kalau dah ada rumah kang.. harus memborong nie.. oil painting sgt cun...

tp yg xcun nye.. sampai je kat shell seri kembangan....menci menci menci... ZIL PAKAI BAJU SAMA!! after all the clothes yg saya ada and zil ada.. boleh tak..pakai baju sama..gaya yg sama??? arghhhh...kite nk g Nilai 3 beli hadiah utk opis teman cd..bukan nk wat show zil...hehhehehe... and kejadian ni bukan sekali dua berlaku... dah byk kali!! hehehe.. jadi moral of the story, jaja sms zil pakai baju ape.. zil sms jaja pakai baju ape pls... e'time mau kuar same2... hehehe... sungguh spt kumpulan sister sister ok...hehhe...

Nilai 3 = spt biasa.. panas... carpet.. frame.. kain.. langsir.. perabot jati.. barang kawin... standardla... tgk aje kedai2 barang kawin kat Nilai 3 tu hati ni meronta2 (cewahhh) nk kawin..hehehe... bukan ape.. syokkk wooo membeli belah.... :)) kawin tu belum tentu la syok kan.. hehe... despite of demam2 pun ttp enjoy.. IN giller g Nilai 3 nie...hehehe...

esok keje... tp kuatkan hati...tabah skit je ja.. 4 hari je.. Jumaat cuti lgi...yahooo!! bulan 2 adalah bulan cuti... nti bln 3,4,5 rasakanla ko... xde cuti lgsg ha... esok nk pose sbb partner lunch adalah cuti.. :( lgpun arini makan mcm tiada esok bagimu.. nk jogging lak xjadi sbb memegang watak puteri lilin kerana takut panas.. insya Allah esok boleh b4 bukak pose...huhu... azam menggunung nie...

other than that.. 1 thing i learnt from Valentine's Day...

"bila kita sayangkan seseorang..kite kene sayang dia secara keseluruhan.. baik buruk cantik huduh die.. barulah kita akan dapat berbahagia bersamanya... kene terima whole package.. lgipun dalam dunia mane ade org yg perfect... or hampir perfect sekalipun... :) betul kan kawan2?? "

Cheap cheap

2010-02-19T19:21:57+00:00

RM19.90 only! Where else, MPH Alamanda Putrajaya where the shelves for English fictions are the same size with their Malay counterparts.

After sooo many moons, I got this book.

I have quite a long list of books to read but have been resisting the urge to buy any coz I know they’ll end up on the shelf collecting dust. I like going to bookstores. I love looking at the bestsellers and new arrivals. Books price here is considerably expensive for me. Average for those 300-pagish is around RM40 where in US it’s only USD3.99. What a world would it be if they cost RM3.99 too here. Hmmpphh you wish!

I miss the feeling after reading a good book. I have no idea yet when to start reading this one, I bought it coz I’ve read Empress Orchid by the same author, and I liked it, and RM19.90 is cheap.

..trophy wife... (ewww)

2010-02-19T17:20:17+00:00

hmmm...akhirnya saya buat ape yg saya nk buat.. and akhirnya saya rasa lebih tenang..lebih lega.. yelah kan kadang2 benci tu lebih indah dari sayang.. xsemestinya sayang tu yg terbaik.. :) (jap..nak pasang mp3..bilik ni sunyi giller teammates 4 org semua xde.. i mean bilik guru nie..hehehe) nak pasang lagu pun kene pilih2.. kang xpasal2 banjir bilik guru ni sbb masih mood berkabung nie.. huhu..

tadi luncheon dgn nana & sara at PADI.. *hello korang..aku xnangis2 k nk g PADI tu..cume teringin menambah kalori dgn cheese baked spagetti bolognese itu...* best giller weyyy... cerita2 all the girls stuff mmg best.. selalu menambah rembesan adrenalin ..bahasaaaa..hehehe.. (sara..kita patut 'sembah' bahasa kebangsaan kita just like the Mexican does...hehe)

sbnrnye sangat boring nie..semua org g team building la..cuti kawin la..cuti main farmville laa.. bosan giller.. dahlah bilik guru ni sejuk nak mampus.. saya siap bawak glove lagi...huhuhu... x sabar nak berjolian di alamanda after 630 nie dgn zil & tipah.. walaupun xsehat tp demi berjolian..saya adalah sanggup..wish can have coffee at starbuck before movie...*hint*

tadi at padi was talking about the guy issue.. how guys today are really unpredictable and unbelieveable.. walaupun mereka hanya spt Jalil Hamid (bkn nama sebenar) mahupun Din Beramboi (bkn nama sebenar jugak) tapi ttp inginkan TROPHY WIFE... cas mereka adalah brad pitt.. sangka sgt precious dan bagus juge sumtimes... hmmm.. bukanke ade pepatah kata (pepatah ke?? errrr...apepe jela..) "jangan impikan isteri sebaik Fatimah jika anda tak sehebat Saidina Ali " and dalam Islam pun cakap, cari pasangan biarlah sekufu.. bukan ~~sekufur~~ yer...hehehe.. tak taulah tapi saya dr dulu mmg lembab bab leaki ni.. mungkin sbb belum khatam buku Why Mars & Venus Collides tu.. or mungkin sbb mmg xnak faham.. hehehe.. helooo i tried..and i am trying tp kdg2 sgt xfhm... mereka adalah lebih complicated dr perempuan...ego and secretive giller...

for me.. i am not a kinda trophy wife... obviously!!! not even a bronze medal wife pun..huhu.. and mebi org kata i am also not a good friend.. sometimes i don't appreciate my friends.. sometimes i do not support them whenever they need me... and sometimes i'm kinda of confuse... tp atleast saya adalah sedar diri ini and tak hipokrit...and fixing myself to be a better one.. soal hati mmg saya xpenah tipu.. kalau sayang mmg ckp sayang.. kalau dah menci (setakat ni xpenah lg menci org betul2) saya akan ckp menci...urmm.. jika anda mintak masa... silakan.. masa itu bukan saya punye.. amiklah sebanyak mana pun anda mahu.. kerana saya dah tiada masa...masa bukan lagi milik saya... (will produce a poem on MASA soon at art-tease)

motif entry nie : merapu merepek meraban mengisi masa sebelum 630 tiba... :p

KLCC Wading Pool and Playground

2010-02-18T07:24:55+00:00

KLCC is now very easy to get to now via NPE (Pantai Highway) and SMART Tunnel from Subang Jaya. There is also Kinokuniya and Isetan, which provides some unique reasons to visit the shopping mall. Another good reason is that as part of the park there is a large public wading pool and playground for kids.

The wading pool is usually quite crowded, but only with small kids. It's large enough that you can always find a quite place for younger kids to splash around without being disturbed by the other running and screaming kids. There are toilets and change rooms nearby, but it's easy enough to change kids with a towel outside. There are security guards posted, so the area is kept clean (no shoes near the pool) and generally keeping it for small kids only and their parents or minders. There is also enough shade and sitting places for parents to keep watch from further away. It's great for toddlers, though my daughter at 3 doesn't find shallow wading pools fun anymore.

Right next to the wading pool is a large interconnected playground suitable for older kids (3 years old and above). Makes a great place for games like tag, cops and robbers etc.

The great thing about the park being part of KLCC is that it's easy to grab food and there are clean toilets and nursery rooms. One of the parents can be on kid duty, while the other shops. It's also free, whereas play areas for kids in other shopping malls charge a bomb for weekend rates.

So if you're wondering about places to entertain kids in KL, give KLCC park a try.

TQ Allah....

2010-02-17T00:19:37+00:00

1st of all..TQ Allah for the listening to my prayer... and I just want to tell all my friends.. what ever I do after this.. this is because I'm not that strong anymore.. i just do it..listen to my heart...and just do it.. i can't take it anymore.. korang boleh ckp aku lemah..aku bodoh.. tp berat mata memandang.. u'll never know what I feel.. and kita semua xsama.. xsemua org begitu tabah dan kuat... i want to be strong..want to be soooo tak kesah.. tapi kita boleh tipu orang tapi tak boleh diri sendiri.. sakit macamana pun kite je yg rasa... audience will just say keep holding on.. chin up etc... but the tears is in ur heart...they'll never know...hope korang semua ttp sokong aku..apepun jadi lepas nie.. and cuba fahami ape yg aku rasa, aku telan, aku hidu dan aku bau....cuba fahami aku kawan.... Terima kasih semua...

wiken CNY yang terlampau....

2010-02-16T09:44:07+00:00

hai peeps!!

sebelum nak ckp panjang.. nk ckp je..saya jatuh centa sama FT... Maha Besar Allah yang telah mengurniakan bakat yg sangat besar sama itu mamat.. and Aizat too!! tapi Aizat suke budak gedik..hehe...so kurang sikit centa.. hehe.. tapi serious ni.. Tipah and I giller enjoy their Satu Suara Concert.. and kembali remaja rasanya... FT nyanyi semua lagu yg saya suke dan saya sangattttt hepi!!! Aizat's part soothing and feeling.. FT's part rocking & touching.. masuk aje CT rasa nak baling ke dinding...hehehe ( i dun like her..) kalau jd organizer, organize jela..sebok nak interprem...haiihhh..marah nie..over lak tu.. fake joke.. fake face..ayyooo..cube loosen up skit Dato'.. jadi diri sebenar.. xperlu fake ok..tgk FT & Aizat selamba je riang ria...hehehe...btw..it was fantastic!! mase Aizat & FT duet lagu ALWAYS..meremang bulu wooo.. mase FT nyanyi lagu CUBA.. menetes makkk noq!! suke suke suke... and Happy Belated Befday Tipah.. ni je hadiah befday yg saya termampu... a tix! :)

(saje bagi kepala senget..hehehe...dengki..ahakss)

and semalam 15th Feb was a 'once of a lifetime' experience.. giller punye budak perempuan ber3.. lagak tourist kalah orang Vietnam.. having a Hop On Hop Off adventure round KL.. BESTTT giler! went to Muzium Negara, Tugu Negara, Central Market (CM best, dah lame xpegi..rasa 'in' giller smlm..hehe and ade abang ensem cam Zain...ahaks...) and passing by so many interesting places in KL... dari 10 pagi sampai 8.30 malam kitorang Hop On Hop Off.. giller tourist!! heheheh.. adik jage bas siap tanya dr mane..ahaks.. xnmpk kah muka Melayu giler kami nie.... anyhow, it such a great day!! i did enjoy myself to the fullest!! tq kpd 2 perempuan giller mcm saya.. zyll and my sista, emy...hehehe..should do lot more crazier things such as..urmmm...let think about it.. :p

come back to me...

2010-02-14T17:37:40+00:00

You say you gotta go and find yourself
You say that you're becoming someone else
Don't recognize the face in the mirror looking back at you

You say you're leaving as you look away
I know there's really nothing left to say
Just know I'm here whenever you need me I'll wait for you

So I'll let you go, I'll set you free
And when you've seen what you need to see
When you find you, come back to me

Take your time, I won't go anywhere
Picture you with the wind in your hair
I'll keep your things right where you left them
I'll be here for you

Oh and I'll let you go, I'll set your free
And when you've seen what you need to see
When you find you, come back to me

And I hope you find everything that you need
I'll be right here waiting to see
You find you, come back to me

I can't get close if you're not there
I can't get inside if there's no soul there
I can't face you, I can't save you
It's something you'll have to do

So I'll let you go, I'll set you free
And when you've seen what you need to see
When you find you, come back to me
Come back to me

So I'll let you go, I'll set you free
And when you've seen what you need to see
When you find you, come back to me

And I hope you find everything that you need
I'll be right here waiting to see
You find you, come back to me

You find you, come back to me
When you find you, come back to me
When you find you, come back to me

sebelum pergi membuat urusan duniawi yang best mlm ni dengan Tipah.. yang sehingga Zyll kecik ati (tp Zyll ko dh balas ok..0-0 ok skrg..hahaha) saya tinggalkan alam cyber dengan lagu yang bermain2 di otak saya sekarang.. (sampai CD ckp..xde lagu lain ke Jaja? asyik pasang ini di opis..ehhehe) dengan ucapan..."urmmmm"... :)

p/s : gambar2 itu tidak ada kene mengena dengan David Cook tapi those were the dishes yang i COOKed for my lunch tadi.. sangat healthy and best kerana ada brokoli..tempe, ikan bakar and kuah kicap...yummy!!! heaven maaa...

unbelieveable super JAJA...huhuhu....

2010-02-13T23:33:28+00:00

rasa sangat bangga dgn diri sendiri petang td..and hari ni basically.. dan dan rasa nk nyanyi lagu standing in the eyes of the world ni... arini sabtu started with breakfast @ RAJU with Cda, Ninie and Botte.. heaven memakan roti kosong garing dan ayam dalam suasana 1Malaysia ok..walaupun drg sebok cucuk aku dgn BB mereka..hehe.. then melepak sebentar di rumah Cda..sambil berborak ttg The Secret and seminar yang kami nak attend this coming Mac (harap2 xde halangan...)

baliknya singgah opis sbb saje nk bace balik handout yg rahsia tarikh lahir tu sambil print 1 bab of The Secret.. balik umah terus dgn xsabarnya membaca... :) sangat bagus and sangat baru sedar.. how I had made so many mistakes in my life... patutla itu..patutula ini..hmmm..insaf nie...

then tertido sat..(ni yg paling best nie..hehehe..) bangun kul 545..terus solat n siap2 nak g jogging.. mmg dr pagi niat nak jogging sbb kat Raju makan roti 1.5 ok.. rasa sgt bersalah.. and Sen slalu kata kalau sedey, kuar pegi jog... and td bace kat fb status fera pun kata exercise bleh buat kite happy... hmmm.. dah lame nak jogging tp ptg2 selalu malas...ehehe... dgn niat membara.. i drove to Kelab Komuniti Tasik Cyberjaya... and i started the 1st round at 6.55 gitu.. best sbb xde org..

fyi, saya adalah seorang yg xsuke jogging..xsuke lari2 nie.. saya more to sukan spt badminton, basket, netball n ofcourse futsal.. kalau suruh lari2 ni mmg malas.. plus I am fat la kan.. bontot besar..mmg malas la nak lari.. selalu kalau jogging 5 minit pertama je..then ...ahaks.. jalan daaa... tapi so UNBELIEVEABLE arini.. saya adalah sangat rasa ringan, happy, excited and positive.. i jog and jog and jog sampai 2 lap of that tasik sampai pukul 715 gitu... rasa mcm xnak berenti pun ada.. sangat pelik.. sbb rasa de-stress giller and sangat relief and happy.. this is so miracle.. budak gemuk lari dgn gembira..heheheh... tasik tu luas ok... tak caya tanye Tipah..rasa dlm 3km jugak kot 1 lap...hehehhe...

bagi korang yang kaki jogging mmg xheran la kot..yelah.. gelakkan saya.. lalalala... tp bagi saya yang pemalas + x fit + gemuks..adalah mengkagumkan ok...hehehe... terus rasa hari2 nk pegi Kelab Tasik Cyber tu.. ahaks..

tu jelah sebenarnye perkara yang sungguh unbelieveable yang terjadi arini.. xdela ape sangat pun.. tp i realized 1 thing.. its not ur physical which determine either u can do it or not..it's in ur head... and from The Secret, i found out 1 important thing.. kadang2 kita mmg nak sangat something to happen, tapi gaya kita, minda kita, reaksi kita, kelakuan kita tak menggambarkan kita nak benda tu pun.. that's y kdg2 kita tak dapat apa yang kita nak... sbb kita tak bersedia sebenarnya for that thing.. and saya sangat setuju.. and no doubt, saya selalu begitu.. :)

one more thing I learn today is.. kita takkan tau potensi diri if kita tak cuba and push ourselves to the limit... hmmm.. belum khatam The Secret dah byk belajar ni.. hehehe... so good.. thanks to Cda yang sudi berkongsi ilmu... :) selepas jogging td, balik pas solat terus kemas bilik plak.. mmg sgt +ve and semangat rasanye.. hilang semua rasa sedeh.. bohongla kalau tak ingat langsung.. rasa sedeh,rindu, ingat tu ttp ada, mmg takkan boleh buang tapi kita cube minimize kan and keluar dari kepompong itu.. cuba fokus pada benda lain sbb benda itu kalau diingatkan sangat pun...xde bezanya...kita jelah yang sakit beriya... :) what a day... harap esok luse seterusnya..saya akan terus +ve dan tabah... :)

inilah nikmat dunia..hehe...

2010-02-12T15:40:10+00:00

jumaat selalunya mmg boleh buat plan baek punyer sebab

waktu lunch panjang.. selalu kuar dgn kawan2 mengabiskan

gaji sekangkang kera..eheheh..

tapi arini decided to buat kelainan dengan tipah..

balik umah saya...and guling2...heaven!!

tipah tapaukan spagetti PADI..saya tapaukan teh ais..

heaven berganda!!

buang tebiat plak beli majalah hiburan tempatan..(ewahh)

hehehe..saya rasa last time beli Hai and URTV adalah

back in 2002 gitu..zaman2 ukm...hehehe..

sungguh remaja rasanya beli majalah begitu..

saje je nak buat keje giller... guling2 sambil mengenal

artis2 yg xpenah kenal..sungguh exciting...

ditambah pula siaran ulangan konsert finale af5..lagilah remaja..huhu

tengah hari jumaat yang sangat efisyen and fruitful...

i like...should do it more often... :)

sungguh nikmat dunia!! hehe

heavan sangat teh ais di kala panas membara tengah hari jumaat...

best best... :)

tapi ttp miss teh ais sharifah..hmmm...

ade org penah kata nak teman.... hmmm...

stop jaja stop :)

spagetti PADI yang mmg feveret saya...

terima kasih tipah... :)

(tapi xnmpk dah spagetti nye..tggl bekas je..)

ade dessert pule.. baeknye tuan umah...ehhehehe...

apepun semoga hari2 indah terus indah...

semoga sedey itu beransur pergi.. huhuhu

bila sedey ingat gadis malang itu..

yg dirogol dan disimbah cuka getah oleh bapak tirinye...

pasti rasa bersyukur dan insap...

setakat terluka hati dan rasa disisihkan...

taklah seteruk gadis itu yang sudah tentu gelap masa depan..

sian die.. :(

Happy HOLs and Happy CNY....

Add PATH in solaris 10

2010-02-12T10:52:02+00:00

To add /usr/local/bin to PATH in solaris 10 permanently for root:

1. Edit /.profile

# vi /.profile

2. Append below items to the end of /.profile:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

export PATH

3. Save and exit

4. Activate the changes by using .

# . /.profile

6. Test it out. You can see that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH already

# echo $PATH

/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R/sbin:/opt/sun/bin:/opt/SUNWexplo/bin:/opt/SUNWsneep/bin:/opt/CTEact/bin:/opt/rsc/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

To add the directory temporarily, you can use command "export" if you are using bash:

1. Check your shell

# echo $SHELL

/usr/bin/bash

2. export the directory to PATH

# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

3. Test your new PATH using step no 6 as above

# echo $PATH

That's all :)

Upgrade ubuntu server from jaunty to karmic

2010-02-12T09:31:26+00:00

To upgrade ubuntu server jaunty(9.04) to karmic(9.10):

1. Update repository

$ sudo apt-get update

2. Upgrade current package

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Install update-manager-core and do-release-upgrade

$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core do-release-upgrade

4. Run do-release-upgrade

$ sudo do-release-upgrade

5. Follow the instructions, and wait until complete :)

For Syah anak Pak Hilal

2010-02-12T07:32:44+00:00

She’s just soooo in angau right now that’s it has become fascinating to read her FB status sometimes heheheheh… If only I can see the guy’s picture. It seems like he doesn’t realize that someone likes him that much. Syah kalau dia tu celebriti sori la aku takleh tulong… Yang lain aku leh usahakan ahaks! Bukan aku je, Elin, Jenet n geng aku rasa diorg akan beria-ria nak tulong nak hook you up girl. Teehee.

So what made me want to write this post? Just now on the way back to the office, Smile was playing on the radio and just like that, it reminded me of her.

You’re better than the best
I’m lucky just to linger in your life
Cooler than the flip-side of my pillow, that’s right
Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where you send me
Lets me know that it’s okay, yea, it’s okay
And the moments when my good times start to fade

You make me smile like a sun, fall outta bed
Sing like a bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile

Even when you don’t
Somehow you come along
Just like a flower pokin through the sidewalk crack
And just like that
You steal away the rain
And just like that

Don’t know how I lived without you
‘Cuz everytime that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile

Install webmin in solaris 10

2010-02-11T12:06:45+00:00

1. Go to /usr/sfw/bin

# cd /usr/sfw/bin

2. run webminsetup

# ./webminsetup

3. Answer all the questions, press "Enter" every time for default setting though.

4. If using default setting, you can access your webmin using this url: https://localhost:10000

Zoo Negara

2010-02-11T01:43:10+00:00

Continuing along with enjoying weekends with kids theme, is Zoo Negara.

Zoo Negara is Malaysia's national zoo and has been around ever since I can remember. At least all of us has been there at least once way back when.

Zoo Negara is quite easy to get to via the Middle Ring Road with clear signs as you get near to it. It can be quite jammed, but generally the traffic was moving. The website is quite informative, and you'll get an idea of what's there and ticket prices. The place itself is not too big, yet large enough that it's quite tiring for the kids. Strollers are strongly advised. There are shuttle buses going around.

On the animal side, there was more variety than I could remember, with tigers, lions, bears, hippos, giraffes and local animals and birds. There is a lot less concrete now, and like most modern zoos, the enclosures are via trenches or moats, and not bars. The reptile area and aquariums are the same as they have always been, and quite small and not varied. For a lot of the fish and reptile displays, they were empty.

For activities, unlike most other zoos, you're allowed to feed quite a few of the animals (extra cost for the food at RM3 per portion). You're allowed to feed the deer, elephants and a few other animals. Good for photos and for the kids to get very close experience with the animals. There is a kids area also with some volunteers to pet goats, rabbits and miniature horses. Twice a day at 11am and 3pm there are free shows. Too much talk, only a few animals and very simple tricks. If you've gone to Sea World or the circus you're going to be disappointed.

For food and drinks, I would strongly suggest bringing your own in, especially drinks. As is usual in parks, prices are marked up considerably and you don't have much choice.

Even on weekends it is not crowded. It's mostly outdoors so it gets very hot in the afternoon, despite the shade. I would suggest going in the morning, when it is coolest. You should be able to cover all the attractions before noon, and then find a nice place outside of the zoo for lunch.

There is not enough there to keep you going back often, but if you have kids who have never been to the zoo, it's worth taking them here at least once, just like our parents did for the experience of seeing animals close up that they've only seen on TV and in picture books.

GRAND OPENING : art-tease

2010-02-09T23:52:38+00:00

compartment hati yang happy tgh melonjak2 happy.. compartment yang sedey, lihat saja...diam tak terkata...hehehe...

GRAND OPENING ....

ART-TEASE

akhirnya impian nak ada blog yang memuatkan karya-karya sendiri tercapai jua.. atas dorongan teman2...here it goes.. semoga saya terus berkarya.. dan semoga anda dapat menghayati...menghargai dan enjoy reading it... coz.. life is full of emotion..and this is the way for me to interprate it and i just love it... writing is my passion!! definitely! :) enjoy friends!

Installing chrome web browser on fedora 12

2010-02-09T07:32:20+00:00

I will show 2 ways to install chrome on fedora 12

1st way

1. download rpm file from here. Choose the rpm file according to your OS architecture and click "Accept and Install"

2. Wait until the download finish, then install the rpm file

# rpm -Uvh google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm

3. By installing this rpm, a yum repository file will also be created in /etc/yum.repos.d with the name google-chrome.repo

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

[google-chrome]

name=google-chrome

baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

Done.

2nd way

1. Create a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d with the name chromium.repo

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

2. Copy and paste settings below into the newly created file

[chromium]

name=Chromium Test Packages

baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

3. Save and quit vi

4. Install chromium

# yum install chromium

Done.

Note that by using the 2nd way, you will get later version of chrome compared to the 1st way

hati ada compartments...

2010-02-08T23:19:34+00:00

hati ade 2 compartments...susah giller nak syncronize kan both of them.. 1 hati rasa happy.. rasa biasa saja.. 1 lagi mcm kaca yang jatuh dari umah flet tingkat 12...berkecai dah hancur tak tinggal ape.. dah takde rasa..sbb sedeh giller... haa...korang jgn tanye kenapa saya emo.... kalu ni semua jadi 5 tahun lepas..xperlulah nak emo kot..sebab...mcm..'ade aku kesah??' but when it happens now..everysecond count...everysingle thing means a thing...

feel like nothing more left... workplace sgt s%&$ skrg..isu parking.. isu pindah.. isu annoying.. isu zizie (sedeh...) isu isu isu isu...arghhh... politik sangat okeh!! sape yg dtg kerja ceria kalau camtuh keadaannye... yuck sangat okeh....

isu hati...mmg dari before Hanoi dah diperam... sepanjang Hanoi ditahan2 dipujuk2... dan skrg dah terang lagi bersuluh la... bak kata akak Britney..out from under... serious... kalau org dah xsayang..xsuke..xrindu...there's no point of you to be there... sgt spt melukut di tepi gantang okeh...adatlah.. manusia mmg camtuh.. sudah dapat gading bertuah, tanduk mane nk guna lagi..campak ajela... gading kan sangat bertuah... :(( sad... tapi saya xnak jadi mcm balkis..mcm intan (drama indon yg 400 series tuh...annoying giller!) asyik2 nangis..asyik2 cengeng... saya nk jadi kuat.. srikandi kene macho.. kene hati kering... saya boleh!!! kalau boleh nk makan pil ilang ingatan.. tp ilang tu bab2 tertentu jelah kot...hehehe...xmorlah semua ilang..mati i noq...hehehe..

kalaulah hati ni boleh di tune kan mengikut kesukaan minda dan impian kita..alangkah indahnya...bila kite suruh lupa, die lupa.. suruh jangan sayang, terus stop sayang...alangkah indahnya... hmmmm... mau mau mau...

tapi..xboleh... kita bukan mcm avatar... bukan robot.. bukan doraemon... bukan spongebob..huhu... tp ade org boleh je buat... senyum sekilas boleh jer buat org lupa budi segunung... :( (ermmm..kenapa byk sgt peribahasa digunakan nie..hehhe..bangga Pn.Nik..huhu)

xpela..saya doakan yg baik2 sahaja..utk saya, utk dia..utk semua.. suatu hari nanti...pasti kebenaran kan terserlah jua... :)

MCRYPT module for PHP (RHEL5)

2010-02-08T03:35:00+00:00

RHEL5.3 did not have support for the MCRYPT module that many PHP applications use to create basic security. Well, anyone could download mcrypt from sourceforge and recompile PHP to support this module. I found another way which I hope also will work for you;

Step 1: Login as admin and install MCRYPT
yum install mcrypt

Step 2: Install epel
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release*.rpm

Step 3: Install the module
yum install php-mcrypt.i386

Step 4: Restart Apache
service httpd restart

Confirmation of the installed module can be found from the phpinfo() page. The module I had included cipher for
cast-128
gost
rijndael-128
twofish
arcfour
cast-256
loki97
rijndael-192
saferplus
wake
blowfish-compat
des
rijndael-256
serpent
xtea
blowfish
enigma
rc2
tripledes

No title for this one.

2010-02-07T16:07:14+00:00

Had a very good sleep (the meds the doctor prescribed me knocked me out for a good 12 hours, twice). Fever is gone, headache’s gone. I woke up fresh and relaxed. Thanks Dr., I like your clinic btw.

In the light of recent event, I admit that I’ve wronged my housemates. For that there’s nothing I can say except I’m sorry. For the curious, sorry dear friends, I’d like to keep this to myself please. I have been selfish and inconsiderate, that I only realized recently. I will keep my self invisible as much as possible around the house for the time being. That’s the only thing that I can think of at the moment that I can do to say I’m sorry.

Let me tell you about my housemates. I’ve never blogged about them, haven’t I? Not once. Well I’ve been staying with them for 2 years now. Kak Yatie messaged me on the phone on the availability of the room. I quickly came over to have a look at the house. Physically she’s tall, fair skinned, and she always has smiles on her face whenever she’s talking to me. She’s a neat and organized person, and such a gentle human being. The way she rearranges stuff in the fridge always made me smile. She come across as a very quiet person at first but after a while, I found out that heyyy… she’s quite a talker. Sometimes, I overheard her talking on the phone in her northern accents, just remineds me of home. There’s a high chance she’s good with the kids too since I often saw she brought her nieces over for a visit. Siti came and joined us right after I settled in. As opposed to Kak Yatie, Siti has a strong character. Fair skinned and is of chinese descendant, she’s one emotional person, and opiniated one at that too. She cracks jokes most of the time, sometimes even without her realizing it. She’s honest and she can be the light of a party. Both of them like to have a good laugh, make fun of tv shows, share the same interests. That’s how I’d describe them. We’re not that close but yes they are good people.

Anyway, while I’m sad at the way things have happened, I can’t help myself getting upset too. You know when people get angry and the say all this hurtful things to you? It is bound to happen no matter what and in my case there’s no exception. That’s why I prefer a more calmer, diplomatic way of approaching issues. I know that if I break out I’ll say all those things I’ll regret later. People are going to get hurt.

As wrong as I may be to you, it doesn’t give you the right to judge me, who I am or who I am going to be. More importantly, it certainly doesn’t give you the right to insult my friends. You have no idea to what length these people has gone for me. Insulting them is like insulting me.

A private person that I am, I only share minor details randomly with people. Somehow, people manage to connect the dots. While it may be true, it also may be wrong. When it’s wrong it hurts.

Did I deserve to be yelled and shouted at? Yes, because I made a mistake. Talking bad about my friends? No.

I understand all is said while in anger, but I’m a human nevertheless. After all is done, I only believe in a more calmer approach to all of world problems. It may not solve the problem, but it won’t create new ones unnecessarily.

I have been thinking to sit with them and talk this through. But I’m having second thought. After weighing the options, maybe not.

life after Hanoi.....

2010-02-06T20:57:27+00:00

dekat Hoan Kiem Lake..

at Old Quarter Hanoi.. 1st day sampai...

in the junk at Ha Long Bay...

view Masya Allah..sangat cantek...

pelayaran yg sangat mengujakan.. :)

ni plak odw ke Perfume Pagoda..

yang sangat popular di Hanoi..

2 jam naik van..1 jam naik sampan..

and 1 jam trekking up the mountain...

penat but it worths every sweat!!

and ni hari ke-5 di Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (wiki)

sangat rasa tak di Vietnam..kerana bersih dan sejuk

dan best.. view juga sgt menarik...

Hanoi...hanoi..berakhir sudah... jangan tanya pasal seronok ke tak...kerana jawapannye ade di setiap gambar yang rakan2 seperjuangan uploadkan di facebook..average joe..edika arjuna dan jae hashim.. kami yang lain2 belum sempat upload kerana kami tiada iPhone..huhuhu... kecik ati kami...hehe.. TAPI..daripada gambar2 di atas...cume 2 perkataan jelah kot boleh dijadikan konklusi nye.. SANGAT BEST!!

series shit i am becoming to miss everything bout this exotic city called Hanoi.. the horn..the hectic and dusty Hanoi... the people who doesn't know the word 'excuse me' or 'sorry' and the killing traffic in Hanoi...mula2 mcm annoying giler.. lame2 dah hari ke-3 cam dah xde pape..we blended well with them... hehe.. dah lali dan sebati gituh...huhu...and boleh plak sepelik2 Hanoi tu terserempak dgn junior STF, B2-1 Nadiatul Erma.. siap 1 flight balik lagi..huhu..ganjil giler..huhuhu...

and now being alone in my room.. i feel sad..lonely and lost.. 6 hari ko dikelilingi lawak yuyu pelawak firaun si average joe.. pose2 maut jae hashim.. kegarangan 'kam-eng' edika arjuna..tipah my lovely roommate yg sgt supportive and pendengar yg paling setia dlm dunia..zyll the tourist guide and map reader.. eavay, adek kecil the talented photog yg blur + sentiasa cemerkap..hehe.. and bard also the photog yg sedia amik pose menarik kami.. and not forgetting..mfirdaus aziz...the coolest one :) (tp skrg dah pandai lucah..huhu) SAYA SANGAT LOST sekarang.. rasa weird giller duk diam2 camni.. MISS THEM SO MUCH!!! si joe tu saya rasa bila die tido je kot die stop buat lawak...huhuhu... it was such a wonderful trip!! and maybe 1st dan last la kot yg seumpama dgnnya... tp kawan2...korang kalu ade rezeki aku pegi Melbourne..korang dtg tau... aku akan sangat miss korang... i mean it!! especially bebebs.... :)

and about my decision...soal yg lagi 1 tu.. insya Allah, moga Tuhan berikan kekuatan for me to move on and let it be... uisshh..harus lebih tabah daripada pendayung sampan di sungai nk g Perfume Pagoda itu.. harus sangat kuat!! mampu ke nie?? scary dowh.. sgt xyakin dgn diri sendiri... bebeb pun kata aku xpatut decide that 1st..but it is more scary utk sakit lebih dalam di kemudian hari.. jadi better skrg buat something to prevent the disaster... hmmmmm...ayuh saje jaja..u got nothing to lose.. (other than to lose weight la kan...hehehe)

and paling best..Hanoi berjaya menurunkan weight saya bout 2++kg.. best!! rasa sgt kagum..huhuhu... hopefully boleh maintan setiap minggu ilang 2kg nie sampai bulan 4...huhu..nk gambar cantik bulan 4 nanti..yeyeah!! :) skrg nk g tengok Buletin Utama.. miss juger tv Msia... dh lama xtau khabar berita negara sendiri... till then... i end up with..

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

yang pasti life after Hanoi..would never be the same again.. i become to look the world from different perspective and cube accept my fate dgn sangat xkesah and redha..hmmm....pray for me :) decision made can't be broken...

Caching-nameserver quick howto for centos 5.4

2010-02-05T18:38:10+00:00

To setup caching-nameserver:

1. Install bind, bind-chroot and caching-nameserver (bind is the nameserver, bind-chroot is to make bind operate in chroot environment and caching-nameserver is the BIND default setting for caching nameserver)
# yum install bind bind-chroot caching-nameserver

2. All bind configuration files will be stored in /var/named/chroot because of the bind-chroot package. A file named "named.caching-nameserver.conf" will be created in /var/named/chroot/etc. Rename the file to "named.conf"
# cd /var/named/chroot/etc
# mv named.caching-nameserver.conf named.conf

3. Edit named.conf until it become like below and save:
options {
listen-on port 53 { any; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";

allow-query { any; };
allow-query-cache { any; };
};
logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};
view localhost_resolver {
match-clients { any; };
match-destinations { any; };
recursion yes;
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
};

4. Set /etc/resolv.conf to point to localhost
# echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf

5. Restart your nameserver
# /etc/init.d/named restart

Done :)

Print repeat header in Calc

2010-02-05T11:09:00+00:00

Calc is a great electronic spreadsheet and have lots of functions to create a diverse range of apps.

Since my upgrade to OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, I have not explored Calc much. When I tried to print a spreadsheet that ran across 40 pages. I tried to have the first 2 rows repeat as headers in every page, an error appeared "Invalid Sheet Range".

Solution:

Open the Calc spreahsheet.
In the menu choose Tools ->Option ->OpenOffice.org Calc ->Formula
In Formula Syntax, it shows "Calc A1". Click on the dropdown box and choose "Calc A1".
Click "Ok".

Some trigger must have failed to detect the values as "Calc A1". Thank you Arnel for giving the solution in Oct 2009.

Hanoi...4th day....

2010-02-04T08:10:05+00:00

4th day at Hanoi...hmmm...hati masih sama..nekad masih jua...and makin yakin itu pilihan terbaik yg ada buat mase nie...and hopefully sudah cukup kuat untuk tarikh itu...untuk saat itu yang pasti akan sangat pilu dan rindu... huhuhu...hidup mmg perlu adventure sedikit kadang2 mcm idup di Hanoi ini..Bak kata pujangga, kalau xberani nak lintas jalan, jangan bercuti di Hanoi..hehehe..pujangga manelah tuh ek...

Hanoi ni for me la sesuai utk org2 muda giller spt kami yang tak takut mati tapi takut anjing di pinggir kaki lima..hehehe..series..kene sgt redha..adventure and gamble saja...jauh sekali dari Bangkok, Jakarta, Bandung and ofkos Kuala Lumpur...ade ke tengah2 jalan2 yg paling sesak di Hanoi ni depan Tasik Hoan Kiem (if i spell it correctly) boleh buat pertunjukan acrobatic..mcm buat konsert amy search kat bulatan Putrajaya pukul 7.45 pagi hari Isnin dowhhh....huhuhu....

gambar tidak dapat update sekarang..tp untuk preview boleh tengok facebook rakan2 saya...sangat banyak okeh...sila abaikan gambar2 yang memalukan plssssss.... derang saje xnak kasik org ngorat saya... DENGKI!!!!!!!!! hehehehehe....

arini..going to the Perfume Pagoda... kalau tak wangi..siap kooo...huhuhu..dahlah trekking up the mountain nie..haruslah BTN kedua aku nie...heheheh..tapi sekali datang ape salahnye cube je ape yg ada.... :) hopefully bestla hendaknya... soal hati??? biar terus jadi tanda soal.... tidak mahu pedulik sangat.. jika dia mahu..silakan...jika tidak..silakan jua....aku??? redha sahaja..... :)

Updating Awstats

2010-02-03T08:13:23+00:00

Update in Crontab

/pathto/awstats.pl -config=mirror.oscc.org.my -update

Build static html page

perl /pathto/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -awstatsprog=/pathto/awstats.pl -update -config=mirror.oscc.org.my -dir=/pathto/awstats/webroot/

Build report in pdf

perl /pathto/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -awstatsprog=/pathto/awstats.pl -update -config=mirror.oscc.org.my -dir=/pathto/awstats/webroot/ -buildpdf[=/pathto/htmldoc] -month=11 -year=2009

*p/s: before u build report in pdf, your system need to have "htmldoc"

vietnammmmmm

2010-02-02T08:48:34+00:00

betullah kata orang hujan emas di negeri oang..emas betol kat vitenam ni...hahahaha... xbest wey.. bak kata tipah.. ni first and last la dtg...huhuhu...tp arini going to Halong Bay..besttt!!! zil suruh name die jugak dlm blog nie...eavay pun ade ni...btw, thanks kak ct & achik hantar ke lcct...muahhhhhssss..jae, cd, fesal, bard dan dasu pun ade...(ceh..semua nk glame...ehheheheh)

Bagan Lalang, Sepang

2010-02-01T06:05:53+00:00

Bagan Lalang, is a small public beach about an hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. It's very easy to get there as it's on the same highway to get to KLIA and LCCT. You basically take the turnoff to the Sepang F1 and LCCT from the KLIA highway and then take the road to Kuarters KLIA. From the roundabout, keep going straight. After that just follow the signs to get to Hotel Sri Malaysia, Sepang and Sungei Pelek. You'll end up at the beach.

The beach is rather clean with white sands, though the water is muddy as a lot of the west coast of Malaysia consists of mudflats, and there are mangroves and a river nearby. So expect to dig up little crabs and clams when building your sand castles. At high tide, it doesn't get deep and is relatively calm so kids can play close to the shore.

There are shady trees all along the beach, so you can lay picnic mats and such and stay in the cool of the shade.

Along the narrow beach road, there are stalls that sell the usual snacks, toys and floats and t-shirts. If you're not into swimming, you may want try kite flying and all sorts of kites are available at reasonable prices.

Unfortunately there are no good public facilities, especially toilets, showers and changing facilities. There is only one small shack where you have to pay about 0.80sen for a shower with very low water pressure and only two shower stalls. It's not very clean. Simple public showers by the beach with changing rooms would have been much better.

Food, there are a few seafood restaurants. Unfortunately these seem to be poorly managed. There didn't seem to be enough places for the amount of people on the weekend, and the restaurants seem ill equipped to handle the weekend crowd. Since there are no table numbers, menus and apparently staff, you're going to have to chase people around and check whether what you've ordered is really coming and figure out the system. We had to wait over an hour for our food and drinks.

Overall this place has much promise, since it's very accessible now due to the KLIA airport. It's a shame though that there isn't better support from the local government. If the restaurant owners got some assistance in basic F&B management they could be doing much better. Similarly improving the public facilities, including the water-front shops would do wonders in getting more people to come back and improving business opportunities for the local folk. This is where the BN government has really failed in terms of "development". While a few folks probably got millions, from the highway development, the lives of the local folk could do so much better with a little bit of assistance and guidance.

For now unfortunately it's not worth a return trip. Without good facilities, it's hard to come with kids, and if it's faster to drive home to eat, might as well eat at a good restaurant in the city. Hopefully things could be improved to warrant a return trip in future. Lumut Jetty is a very good example of how things can be improved with a little bit of government support.

Installing dimdim 4.5 on Centos 5.4 x86_64

2010-01-31T22:43:03+00:00

Dimdim is a web meeting software. From http://www.dimdim.com/products/what_is_dimdim.html: "Dimdim lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet - with no download required".

There are few versions of dimdim, and the one we are going to install is the open source edition.
The steps are:

1. Download dimdim rpm from here
You have to provide email , first name and last name before you can download.
2. Once downloaded, unzip the file (Dimdim_RPM_Package_CentOS_5.2_v4.5.zip) and you can find one dimdim rpm file for Centos 5.2, one readme file, one web meeting user guide and one web meeting server integration guide.
# unzip Dimdim_RPM_Package_CentOS_5.2_v4.5.zip
3. Follow the installation guide in the Dimdim_SF_CentOS5.2_RPM_Readme_v4.5.txt file. After finish with all the pre-requisite check, proceed to installation process.
4. If you have error stating that you have failure in OS check, change your /etc/issue from 5.4 to 5.2
# sed -i 's/5.4/5.2/' /etc/issue
5. If you got an error in missing libpcre, install pcre
# yum install pcre
6. Once installed, open your browser and point your browser to http://localhost/dimdim
7. Start meeting using your newly installed dimdim :)

Oracle takes out the Sun

2010-01-31T13:05:00+00:00

Oracle has finally taken over Sun Microsystems. Days of darkness are here but how long will it be?
Sun is not only about hardware. What will happen to OpenOffice.org, Java and MySQL? How about the Sun and MySQL Certifications?

How will Jonathan, being the last Sun Microsystem's CEO end his career there?

All the debates are ongoing in the internet but I look forward to Oracle making clear statements on these concerns.

Random musings..

2010-01-29T11:09:00+00:00

It seems I haven't written anything for quite a long time. In regards to tech, there wasn't much to write home about lately. I've tried out a bit of android programming (ok, actually only got to the point of running the SDK examples on the emulator.. :P), I've dabbled a bit more with django and learned how to create form generated from the models, and of course learned a ton of things about plone. Currently my focus is more on attempting to port PloneMeeting over to be used on Plone 3. Still learning a lot more about this. I'm very excited about Plone 4. It's fast and it runs on Python 2.6. And that's basically it for tech more the less.

Apart form that, the current state of the country is pretty messed up if you ask me. I can't talk about it without feeling depressed. So I'm not going write anything about it here. It'll make me even more depressed.

On a happier note, my new house is almost ready to move in. Just have to unpack and organize all the stuff which we just brought back from Sepang Putra last week. There was quite a lot of things not to like about the house at first, but after a new coat of paint, some fans, a new sink and some pipeworks, it's turning to be pretty sweet. I'm hoping to finally be able to sleep at my own house by next week.

I really should try to write more often. My ideas are just not flowing anymore now.

Oh and one more thing. If you are in an organization which needs an easy to use intranet where members can share information, upload files, mark events easily, do contact us (ie Inigo Consulting). Manage & share your organizational knowledge. For more information go to http://www.inigo-tech.com. And once I can get PloneMeeting to work, you can even manage your meetings in your intranet too. Contact us now.. :D

opsss i did it again!!

2010-01-28T16:39:19+00:00

it happened again today...hehehe.. kuar umah dah kalut2 giller ni.. sbb jam decoder astro dah 750.. haaa..abihla.. kang lambat xdapat parking... haru.. yg tambah kalut sbb semalamnye g keje 630 ok...awal sangat!! dh kunci pintu umah, saya jenguk la dr rumah..tmpt park kete semalam... dup dap dup dap!! mane kete saya? kenari itam itu mane? smlm saya park dpn kancil putih tu bawah pokok tepi selekoh parking tengah.. (amik ko..spesifik sgt!!) mane mane mane?? hati dah cam cuak giller.. nak nangis dah ni...dlm otak kata " org curi atau perbadanan tow sbb park merata...tp knp kete lain yg merata ade..." abisla... then seb baik kali ni belum dial no.police... hehehe.. tibe2 je cam..betul ke park situ smlm...hehehe..jeng jeng jeng... park dalam kotak rupanye.. lupekah jaja smlm mase dah park tibe2 ade kete kuar and telah selamat parking scara halal??? hehehehe... pagi-pagi dah bikin rembesan hormon cuak.. ntah ape2 saya nie...hehehe.. dah 2kali camni nie... bkn ape sbb saya ni penahlah beberapa kali TERtak kunci kete.. dibuatnye org sebat... merana... tu je harta saya....hehehehe... Alhamdulillah xde ape2...

Fixing Packman Repository error for openSUSE 11.2

2010-01-27T09:45:00+00:00

For a couple of days now, when ever I do a zypper operation (and the resulting repo refresh) I get the following error message:

Repository 'Packman Repository' is invalid.
Can't provide /repodata/repomd.xml : Can't hardlink/copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/repodata/repomd.xml to /var/cache/zypp/raw/ftp.skynet.be-suseMUwvKg
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Warning: Disabling repository 'Packman Repository' because of the above error.

Since I added the Packman repo via Yast (Yast -> Software -> Software Repositories -> Add -> Community Repositories) I was scratching my head trying to find out why. Then it hit me that Packman does not use a redirector URL like download.opensuse.org.

To resolve it I added another location for Packman (with autorefresh enabled):

zypper ar -f http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/packman/suse/11.2/ Packman

Then refresh the repo

zypper refresh Packman

For a list of additional repos you can add to openSUSE 11.2, do refer to http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

Penang oh Penang...

2010-01-27T01:31:54+00:00

Penang ooohh Penang.. one of the states yg mcm jauh dr hati nie.. hehe.. selain Kedah dan Perak...negeri2 lain mcm taulah jugak kedudukan geografinye...Penang?? i have no idea.. jgnlah tanya saya Bayan Lepas tu belah island or mainland.. or Sg. Dua kat mane.. or Bukit Mertajam tu which part of Penang.. mmg blur...huhuhu.. kalau campak saya kat Penang, sure mmg menetes la menangis sbb mmg blur and tak tau ape2...huhu.. kawan2 dr Penang pun x ramai.. adelah dlm 5 org kot.. huhu.. So, bile out station ke Penang mmg cam gelisah la..sbb mcm out station ke Vancouver..hehe.. no idea.. seb baik ade Ilyia & Zaki... :) TQ guys.. sbb koranglah..aku berjaya pergi dan balik dgn jayanya ke kem Balik Pulau tu.. kalau tak sure aku 'Balik Terus' bak kata puan..huhu... will update more bout my BTN.. skrg mau tido... esok kene g keje awal stlh berjaya EL for the 1st time in my service...huhuhu.. Nite Malaysia...

p/s: xmor kawin org Penang, sbb Penang panas sama macam Trg..hehehe... (apekah??)

What a nice day to begin with, reading these lines

2010-01-27T01:23:03+00:00

Got it from forwarded email. It made me feel good at where I am now. Anything better, it’s a privilege. Anything less, I don’t feel like I’ll lose anything. I already have what I want.

Siapakah orang yang sibuk? Orang yang sibuk adalah orang yang tidak mengambil berat akan waktu solatnya seolah-olah ia mempunyai kerajaan seperti kerajaan Nabi Sulaiman a.s

Siapakah orang yang manis senyumanya? Orang yang mempunyai senyuman yang manis adalah orang yang ditimpa musibah lalu dia kata “Inna lillahi wainna illaihi rajiuun.” Lalu sambil berkata,”Ya Rabbi Aku redha dengan ketentuanMu ini”, sambil mengukir senyuman.

Siapakah orang yang kaya? Orang yang kaya adalah orang yang bersyukur dengan apa yang ada dan tidak lupa akan kenikmatan dunia yang sementara ini.

Siapakah orang yang miskin? Orang yang miskin adalah orang tidak puas dengan nikmat yang ada sentiasa menumpuk-numpukkan harta.

Siapakah orang yang rugi? Orang yang rugi adalah orang yang sudah sampai usia pertengahan namun masih berat untuk melakukan ibadat dan amal-amal kebaikan…

Siapakah orang yang paling cantik? Orang yang paling cantik adalah orang yang mempunyai akhlak yang baik.

Siapakah orang yang mempunyai rumah yang paling luas? Orang yang mempunyai rumah yang paling luas adalah orang yang mati membawa amal-amal kebaikan di mana kuburnya akan di perluaskan saujana mata memandang.

Siapakah orang yang mempunyai rumah yang sempit lagi dihimpit? Orang yang mempunyai rumah yang sempit adalah orang yang mati tidak membawa amal-amal kebaikkan lalu kuburnya menghimpitnya…

Siapakah orang yang mempunyai akal? Orang yang mempunyai akal adalah orang-orang yang menghuni syurga kelak kerana telah mengunakan akal sewaktu di dunia untuk menghindari siksa neraka..

Siapakah org yg KEDEKUT ? Orang yg kedekut ialah org yg membiar atau membuang email ini begitu sahaja, malah dia tidak menyampaikan pula pada org lain.