From my last post about how to rescue your system with Hirens BootCD. It's specially to recover Windows system. Even it can restore your harddrive but it cannot restore your linux system.If you are using linux and your system crashed, you can use SytemRescueCD. It's small linux with many recovery tools provided. And of course it is free. You can visit their official website here.Not like Hiren's BootCD, SystemRescueCD is only 200MB, you can make it boot it from a flashdrive with … Read more...
Vi and Vim Editor Cheat Sheet PDF
May 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment
Vi editor is a lightweight text editor on linux and derived from name visual. The original vi program was written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD Unix release. Some current implementations of vi can trace their source code ancestry to Bill Joy; others are completely new, largely compatible reimplementation.[quote sourceurl="http://www.vim.org" sourcename="VIM Official"]Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi … Read more...
[HowTo] Join Audio Or Video Files In Ubuntu
April 29, 2010 • 14 Comments
Sometime you want to join a couple of files to be 1 file. You can do that really easy in Ubuntu or any Linux. But in this case i will show in Ubuntu only, since my pc is using Ubuntu. You can join files with "cat" command. What file type can be joined with this command? Well as far as i know you can join text files, audio files and video files. haven't tried for other files like ISO files. If you tried it and successed please let me know by leave the comment.Well "cat" command is really … Read more...
[HowTo] Find Keyword In Files With Grep In Ubuntu
April 21, 2010 • 4 Comments
Most of the time when you want to debug your code or someone code which separates in many files, you need to know or locate where this function is defined or where this function called. You will waste so much of your time when you open your files one by one. So what is the solution then?Most of Linux distribution will have "grep" function installed. You can use grep to find a pattern of string contain in files. Let's say you want to find a function named "my_defined_function" in folder … Read more...
Ubuntu 10.04 Codename Lucid Lynx Release April 29th 2010
April 20, 2010 • 1 Comment
Ubuntu will release the next version 10.04 with codename Lucid Lynx. This new version will based on Linux kernel 2.6.32. There a re lots of improvement in this new version specially for graphics card driver. Lots of Ubuntu user have a problem with the intel graphics and nvidia graphics card. It will need special patch and tweak to make it properly functional. This new version will give lot of improvements for nvidia graphic card and it will use Nouveau as the default graphic card for … Read more...
[HowTo] Install Apache, PHP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Ubuntu
April 13, 2010 • 31 Comments
After a while i haven't write on my blog. Now i'm ready to start writing again. Probably you notice that i changed my theme. Yes i was busy redesign my theme from the start. Anyway i will tell you the story on the next article.Now i want to show you how to install Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 as a perfect server with Apache, PHP, MySql and Phpmyadmin. Since Ubuntu have a great repositories and the magic application called apt-get then it shouldn't be hard to make Ubuntu as a perfect … Read more...
[HowTo] Make Apache User Directory on Ubuntu
January 8, 2010 • 17 Comments
On system (in my case is Ubuntu server) with have multiple user and each user permit to have their own home directory, then you need to install mod_userdir on your apache. So you can have the address like this: www.anyurl.com/~username/. Each user will have their own subdirectory specified by UserDir driective in the configuration.To install userdir module in apache on ubuntu server is not hard. Only need a couple steps and change directory permission.Follow these steps below:Open … Read more...
Nice And Steady Ubuntu Karmic Koala
November 9, 2009 • 4 Comments
After 2 days being play around with new Ubuntu version 9.10 with code name "Karmic Koala", i find that this version is nice and steady. Not like the disappointed Jaunty one. I'm pretty happy using this Ubuntu version. It is much faster, steady and stable. And i like the new Gnome too.Now everything is working fine. The compiz is working great. Sound never stop working. The performance is much faster and less resource consumption. My PC is Intel based with Core Duo processor @2.0GHZ, 2 GB … Read more...
Create, Resize and Delete Partition Easily With GParted
October 22, 2009 • 6 Comments
Gparted is a GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing and deleting disk partitions. GParted is free and open source software under GNU General Public license. GParted also release a livecd, so you can boot it from media like CD or USB, and you can manage partition which have another operating system on it such as windows. GParted is easy to use and it is safe even for beginner like me, i didn't have hard time when first using it.Here is the GParted feature: 1. Create a … Read more...
[HowTo] Recover Root Password In Ubuntu
September 8, 2009 • 32 Comments
Some people say you won't need to use root account anymore in Ubuntu. That's why Ubuntu doesn't activate root account for default install. In my opinion they want to make Ubuntu more secure. Since Ubuntu now is user-friendly and not just for developer or other computer geek, end-user or even a newbie can use Ubuntu. But not for me, i need root account, because it's more convenient for me to configure or and do setting on an Ubuntu machine. Imagine if i don't use root account to configure an … Read more...
