Feb 28

Salam semua,
Pos ini tiada berkaitan langsung dengan open source, tapi seperti tajuknya, makluman aktiviti sukan kelab 3boss. Feel free to skip :).

Pada 27 februari malam, bertempat di fakulti kejuteraan ukm, satu sessi mengeluarkan peluh telah diadakan. Seramai 3 peserta telah menghadirkan diri bagi tujuan tersebut iaitu wakil dari niser, putralink dan detikminda. Latihan yang diadakan bertujuan membantu peserta mengembalikan kekuatan daya fokus terhadap penglihatan dan juga mental.

TEKNIK LATIHAN.
Teknik latihan yang di gunakan ialah setiap peserta di kehendaki melihat secara teliti terhadap objek bulat yang bergerak dlam kelajuan yang berbeza dan arah yg pelbagai. Dalam masa yg sama peserta dikehendaki memegang satu objek leper dan menggerakkannya mengikut anggaran arah objek pertama tadi.

HASIL
Maklumbalas dari peserta amat memberangsangkan, walaupun semuanya mengadu ketiadaan stamina yg mencukupi pada peringkat awal, tetapi masing-masing berjaya membuat come-back yang bergaya. Adalah dilaporkan semua salur-salur darah yg telah lama tersumbat kerana tidak digunakan, berjaya dibuka semula, dibersihkan dan mengikut rekod mampu mengalirkan darah sebnyk 4kb/s. Beberapa mata akupuntur utama juga dikenalpasti telah meningkat aktivitinya dan yg paling menarik pengakuan salah seorang peserta "kemampuan saya untuk menangkap/menampar nyamuk menggunakan tangan kosong telah meningkat sbyk 3 kali ganda, tak perlu lagi kepada shelltox".

Diharap pada sesi akan datang, lebih ramai lagi peserta yg dapat turut sama bagi menjana rakyat yang cergas dan produktif.

ps:/kelab 3boss akan menghantar wakil untuk pertandingan go-kart(amatur) pada 4 mac ini bertempat di highway elite, kawasan subang. Siapa-siapa yg berkelapangan silalah turun ke sana memberi sokongan moral. hehe.

written by cperdana

Feb 25

The scripts that I create for my everyday use are not as complex as the one previously posted by cperdana on automaticly changing desktop’s background. They are mostly straight forward; a sequence of commands and some variables, if there are any, and written by a shell programmer wannabe with a manual and some simple ideas.

As the theme of this post is Yomud’s crashing hard drive, I’ll just share the simple script I use to backup the important stuff in my laptop.

#!/bin/bash

HOMES="shakir svn"
MOUNT=/mnt/backup_temp
TARGET_DIR=/backup

sudo mkdir $MOUNT

# Mount my 200GB external harddisk
sudo mount -t reiserfs /dev/`cat /proc/partitions | grep 199141708 | awk ‘{ print $4 }’` $MOUNT

echo "### Backing up /etc"
cd /
sudo tar czf $MOUNT$TARGET_DIR/`date +%F`-etc.tar.gz etc

echo "### Backing up MySQL databases"
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
mysqldump -u root mysql > $MOUNT$TARGET_DIR/`date +%F`-sqldump.sql
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

echo "### Backing up home directories"
cd /home
time sudo tar czf $MOUNT$TARGET_DIR/`date +%F`-home.tar.gz $HOMES

echo "### Backup completed at `date`"

sudo umount $MOUNT
sudo rmdir $MOUNT

It doesn’t have fancy features such as incremental backup whatsoever, but it gets the job done for me. The important thing is to have backups of our years of work’s worth since who knows for sure when will our hard drives fail?

written by shakir

Feb 12

Before you get excited with kvm in the latest linux kernel (2.6.20) , please check whether your processor is supported :-)

Shakir had 2.6.20 compiled by the time I spoke to him about it. This time I used the built-in ipw2200 and ieee80211 drivers. The only patch needed was suspend2. Everything is working as expected alhamdulillah :-)

Linux an-nahl 2.6.20 #1 Sun Feb 11 14:36:29 MYT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

It’s also great to be home at last.

written by adli

Feb 10

Assalammualaikum,

OLPC US$100 laptop or now known as XO laptop has a number of innovations built-in that easily beat Vista powered laptop. Just to mention a few that can raise eye-brows:

1) Dual-mode cheap low power LCD screen that rival Sony ereader (cost US$300) for ebook viewing
2) New security platform that beat Vista (cost  US$300) security called Bitfrost
3) Innovative multi-hopping mesh network based on 802.11s standard (first commercially available in the world)

One word to describe these features and more available at a very low price, WOW! (the exclamation being used in Vista advert)

Much of them are discussed  here and you can watch the related video.

There is a rumor saying that Microsoft is interested to try run Windows on the OLPC platform.  Now this is interesting, first they laughed at you, then they join you, and finally you win.

IMHO, this Linux based laptop is more than educational laptop.  It is a trojan horse to break Windows domination.  I’ll try to write a separate article later on about this issue.

written by teleforce

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