I tried to get the latest Ubuntu on the kids PC at home but somehow I couldn’t get the monitor resolution to go beyond 800×600. Weird.
As I am getting too old for Gentoo :-), I went ahead with Debian plus Xfce as the desktop environment. I haven’t used xfce for a while, but its looking good allright.
Too legit to quit!
written by adli
Screenshots!
I was going through some old images using Picasa and found some old desktop screenshots. They definitely bring back good and funny memories.
RedHat days (1999-2000ish)
If you look close enough you can see my nikah video played using Real Player. That was the pre-youtube era. (Shakir pay attention, mmkay). The following screenshots are probably from RedHat 8 (or 7 ish?)
Gentoo
I got Streamyx at home and plenty of time :-). That was the time when I started to use fluxbox. Gentoo stayed on the desktop until the mid 2006. I’m pretty much on Debian these days.
written by adli
Don’t forget to update your OS. Even if its running on a virtual machine 
written by adli
Salam smua,
Sejak kenal linux, saya menconfigur pc/laptop kepada dual boot, windows dan ubuntu(of course). Untuk itu saya akan pecahkan harddisk kepada 3 partition.
1- NTFS untuk windows
2- Ext3 untuk Linux
3- Fat32 untuk data agar kedua-dua OS boleh baca dan tulis ke partition ini.
Sebenarnya saya kurang selesa dengan partition ke tiga kerana Fat32 tidak memberikan kawalan capaian data seperti yg terdapat pada NTFS dan ext3. Tetapi kerana tiada pilihan, terpaksa dikekalkan begitu.
Tetapi kini dengan adanya Ext2IFS saya boleh membaca/tulis ke Ext3 dari OS windows(seronoknya). Cuma walaupun ianya boleh baca ext3, namun ia tidak support journaling.
"The Ext3 file system is the Ext2 file system which has been extended by journaling. Ext3 is backward-compatible to Ext2 - an Ext3 volume can be mounted and used as an Ext2 volume. Just as older Linux Kernels which do not know the Ext3 file system can mount Ext3 volumes (as Ext2 volumes), the Ext2 file system driver ext2fs.sys for Windows incorporated in this software package can do it without any problems, too. Of course you do not take advantage of the journaling of the Ext3 file system if you mount it as an Ext2 file system.
If you mount an Ext3 file system as an Ext2 file system and the file system is not cleanly dismounted, (e.g. due to a system crash), you have to run the e2fsck tool. (Linux does it automatically.) Running e2fsck can take several hours on large volumes. You do not benefit from journaling the Ext3 file system, because you have to run e2fsck.
If you mount an Ext3 file system as an Ext3 file system (journaling) and the file system is not cleanly dismounted due to a system crash, things are much better: When the volume is mounted next time as an Ext3 file system, a replay of the journal will be done, after which the file system will be consistent. You need not run e2fsck. (If you run e2fsck nevertheless, it won’t find any errors of the Ext3 file system, because there will not be any errors after replaying the journal.)
If a volume is mounted as Ext3 file system, any new data is first completely written into the journal, and then into the file system. This is also called a transaction. Finally, the data is removed from the journal. So a journal only contains data when you are writing to the file system. After a clean dismount of the Ext3 file system, the journal is empty.
When the Linux kernel mounts an Ext3 file system, it first checks whether the journal contains complete transactions (not written yet due to a prior crash). If there are any, it does the already mentioned replay of the journal, which means that all data of the journal is written to the file system, and any data will be removed from it. So a replay always repairs any damage caused by a prior crash.
With the described way of writing the journal and the file system’s data and with a replay of the journal after a crash, consistency of the file system is always achieved. Thus, e2fsck will not find any error.
The Ext2 file system driver of the Ext2 IFS software will refuse mounting an Ext3 file system which contains data in its journal, just like older Linux kernels which have no Ext3 support. In this way data loss and damaging the file system is avoided when the journal is subsequently replayed. So you can access only those Ext3 volumes with the Ext2 IFS software which have been cleanly dismounted beforehand."
oh ya hampir terlupa nak beri url
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
ok, selamat mencuba….
written by cperdana
I started buying the LinuxforYou mag last year after a fellow 3bosser introduced us to it. "Cheap one ah, made in *.in. Got dvds of xyz distros some more :-)". Last month they gave out the latest Slackware DVD and this month Sabayon & Vector Linux. Of course you can read and download everything from the net, but its nice to have something to read in your bag in case you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Up until March this year, it was still priced at RM 14.50 (MPH and some other places).
Last week I was at MPH and notice the price has been increased to RM19.00. I’m sure they have reasons. At that price is still a lot cheaper than LinuxFormat and some other imported OSS magazines. I’m pretty happy with the content so far - interesting technical write-ups, local (*.in) linux scene stuff, and distros overview. I just have to more disciplined at keeping receipts for tax purposes.
written by adli
Salam everybody,
#!/bin/bash
kp=$1
if [ ! `echo $kp | wc -c` -eq 9 ]
then
echo "sila masukkan 8 angka pertama kp anda"
exit
fi
last4=5000
while [ $last4 -lt 6000 ]
do
kpfull=$kp$last4
echo $kpfull
# ./muatturun $kpfull
last4=`expr $last4 + 1`
done
skrip di atas akan menjana semua kebarangkalian no kp yg mungkin bagi tarikh dan negeri lahir yg sama. skrip ini boleh digunakan untuk memeriksa samada rekod kp berkenaan atau tidak dari laman web spr. Saya sengaja comment pada baris "./muatturun $kpfull" kerana kita belum lagi hasilkan skrip tersebut. bersambung lagi di posting akan datang.
written by cperdana
Assalammualaikum,
Half of the battle is already won. Dell to sell machines with Linux Ubuntu pre-loaded. OK guys, head to the nearest bank and buy that DELL laptop with the shining Feisty Fawn installed. Small step for Dell but a huge step for Linux on the Desktop. The full story is reported here and there.
Ripped off from desktoplinux website:
"Dell also is saying something else that’s equally important about the desktop world. It’s saying, for the first time in more than a decade, that standard x86 PC users have a choice. For the first time since OS/2 mattered, users have a choice again. No more are users stuck with Windows. No more are they forced to pay the Microsoft tax"
Life is my friend, after all, is about having choices and choosing the right ones. You can quote me on that 
written by teleforce
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