[Note : This blog post was written several months ago]
On the previous Saturday, I experienced a disaster. My computer harddisk displayed many I/O errors when the system tried to access it. And of course at that time, I can’t access it anymore. :((
One mistake that I made during that time was running fsck.ext3 to the [...]
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Blog From The Past : The Need for Backup
Posted in hacks on August 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Upgrade to openSUSE 11.0
Posted in hacks on August 2, 2008 | No Comments »
[This article was written last month - sometime in July 2008]
Recently I got a chance to upgrade my openSUSE 10.3 system to openSUSE 11.0. This happened because Novell send me a retail version of openSUSE 11.0 (DVD Dual-Layer).
Overall there are no major problems during the upgrade process.
But after the upgrade, I found out several problems [...]
Blog From The Past : Testing Snort 3.0 alpha 1
Posted in My, hacks on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
[Update 15 Nov 2007 : I wrote this blog several months ago, but I haven't been able to publish it until now]
After a couple of weeks I have been very busy settling things up in my new field, I got a chance to play with Snort 3.0 Subsystem Alpha 1. This release is not for [...]
A Little Intro to hping3
Posted in hacks, openSUSE on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last night I installed hping3 in my system. The installation process is quite a bit challenging (as always :D).
Here are the steps to install hping3 on your system :
- Make sure you have the following packages installed on your system :
- libpcap and libpcap-devel
- tcl and tcl-devel
- Extract the hping3 tarball
- If your system [...]
Using Atheros-based Wifi Card in openSUSE 10.3
Posted in My, hacks, openSUSE, tips on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After upgrading my system to openSUSE 10.3, my wifi card (atheros-based) is no longer able to work. The kernel doesn’t recognize it anymore. In my previous openSUSE 10.1, it works flawlessly run out of the box. [Updated : I just found out that in openSUSE 10.1, I have done the same thing.]
Having been thinkering [...]
Sharing Direktori di VirtualBox
Posted in hacks on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Saya ingin melakukan sharing antara VirtualBox host dan guest. Setelah membaca manualnya, yang termudah adalah dengan menggunakan fasilitas Folder Sharing, karena kita tidak perlu mensetup jaringan terlebih dulu.
Untuk membuat folder sharing ini, kita harus menginstalasi VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Jalankan VirtualBox dan mulailah guest OS. Lalu pilih “Devices - Install Guest Additions“.
Kemudian pilih “Mount CD/DVD-ROM - CD/DVD-ROM [...]
Installing MPlayer on openSUSE 10.1
Posted in hacks on September 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Before you can install MPlayer (Packman) on openSUSE 10.1, you need several packages to be installed first :
w32codec-all (Packman)
faac (Packman)
faad2 (Packman)
libmp4v2 (Packman)
xvid (Packman)
DirectFB (openSUSE)
x264 (Guru)
After that you can install MPlayer easily.
Notes :
Packman is an openSUSE packages provider. Grab the softwares at Packman.
Upgrading TrueCrypt
Posted in hacks, tools on March 26, 2007 | No Comments »
On March 19, 2007, TrueCrypt version 4.3 is released. There are many new features, improvements and bug fixes in this release, so I think it is the time to upgrade my installation.
I downloaded the TrueCrypt package, but they only provide for OpenSUSE 10.2 system. Last time I used the RPM version, it complained about kernel [...]
Upgrading to PHP 5.2.x
Posted in hacks on March 15, 2007 | No Comments »
I have been planning to upgrade my PHP to version 5.2.1 since several weeks ago, but I couldn’t find spare time to do that until last night.
I upgraded the following packages (libedit is a new install) :
# rpm -Uvh php5-5.2.1-15.1.i586.rpm apache2-mod_php5-5.2.1-15.1.i586.rpm php5-gd-5.2.1-15.1.i586.rpm php5-mysql-5.2.1-15.1.i586.rpm php5-zlib-5.2.1-15.1.i586.rpm php5-pdo-5.2.1-15.2.i586.rpm php5-fastcgi-5.2.1-15.2.i586.rpm libedit-2.10.snap20061228-6.1.i586.rpm
After successfully upgraded those packages, I started my Apache [...]
Running A Linux System on A Windows Machine
Posted in hacks on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
If you want to run a Linux system on Windows platform but you don’t want to deal with partitioning and formatting the harddisk, fortunately you can do so with QEMU.
Here is an official information about QEMU :
QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
When used as a machine [...]
