Today most of company already use Microsoft Office 2007 with their new file format, and for the Microsoft Word 2007 you will see .docx format rather than .doc format. You will have no problems to open .doc format in open office (most of the case), but you can't open it if it is in .docx format.I know that Microsoft Word 2007 have a backward compatibility that you can still save your document to Office 2003 format. But still you need to ask the author of the file to save it into .doc format. … Read more...
[HowTo] Install Chromium (Open Source Google Chrome) On Ubuntu
July 31, 2009 • 7 Comments
So far Mozilla firefox is the best for me with the useful plugins such as: Firebug, Greasemonkey, Google Toolbar, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Google gears. Those plugins is safe me lot of time and fun when do browsing and working.And second comes Google Chrome. I also like Google Chrome, because it fast in load time. And the most important thing is it won't freeze the whole tab when one tab is frozen or not responding. And in Mozilla Firefox you need to restart the whole applications, even … Read more...
[HowTo] Run ASP.NET on Linux With Apache Web Server (Mono + Mod_Mono)
July 18, 2009 • 46 Comments
Update Sep 18, 2016: This was my very old article. It might not work anymore. And it is obsolete with today technology. Please use other technology rather than using this. Thanks.Mono is an open source project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant, .NET-compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.With Apache mod_mono we can … Read more...
[TIPS] Show Squid Log Continuously – Squid Web Proxy
July 13, 2009 • 1 Comment
From the last post i show how to install Squid Cache as intercept (transparent) proxy. So i expect your squid already running smoothly right now. Ok now i want to share how to see the squid log. Usually by default squid log is in /var/log/squid/access.log, and you can see the log by open the file.But the next question is, how to see your squid log continuosly, if you want to monitor your squid? I believe there are tons of program to this, but i prefer see it on shell because it really simple … Read more...
[HowTo] Install and Configure Squid as Transparent Proxy
July 12, 2009 • 200 Comments
Squid Cache is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.[quote]An intercepting proxy (also known as a "transparent proxy") combines a proxy server with a gateway. Connections made by client browsers through the gateway are redirected through the proxy without client-side configuration (or … Read more...
Pidgin v2.5.8 Update Fix Yahoo Messenger Problem
July 3, 2009 • 5 Comments
Today my package update manager update my Pidgin from v2.5.7 to v.2.5.8. There are lot of fix especially with the Yahoo Messanger problem from v2.5.7. Like buddy refresh, v2.5.7 have a problem with buddy refresh, so your buddy list never update when they are signing in or signing off. This bugs was really annoying, and thanks for pidgin to fix this bugs. And the other fix i feel is, buddy picture or avatar, pidgin v.2.5.7 didn't show avatar, and now it shows up.Before i knew this problem and … Read more...
[HowTo] Install ImageMagick/Imagick For PHP On Ubuntu
July 2, 2009 • 23 Comments
Installing ImageMagick on Ubuntu with PECL is really simple. But i want to share with you how to install it beside to remind myself someday, if i forget how to install it. ImageMagick is a php library for image processing. But they are not developed just for PHP library only, now they have library for Ruby, Perl, Phyton, etc. You can visit their official website here.Let's continue to how to install ImageMagick/Imagick on Ubuntu:Open your terminal Install php-pear if you don't install … Read more...
Linux Spam Filter With SpamAsassin
June 26, 2009 • 6 Comments
Are you tired of being spam in your inbox? If the answer is yes you can reduce spam in your inbox by install SpamAsassin on your mail server. Or you can show this post to your networks/web server administrator to install spamassasin at your mail server.Here we will use SpamAssasin with Postfix to handle email spam filter. Postfix is a widely used mail transport agent (MTA) used on many popular Unix/Linux systems. And SpamAsassin is one of the apache project is to filter the email. Below is … Read more...
[HowTo] Fix Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) Intel Graphics Problem
June 3, 2009 • 105 Comments
From my last post about the disapointing performance from Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty Jackalope, now it's fixed. But not really fix, but much better in performance especially in graphics. Now my firefox is not slow anymore, my CPU resource consumption is much lower and Compiz working much better. And flash player in firefox now can fullscreen.For you who have the same problem, i think you will if you have Ubuntu 9.04 with Intel Graphic card, you can follow this steps and and enjoy the … Read more...
[Tutorial] Convert Xvid or Avi to DVD Format in Ubuntu
May 31, 2009 • 17 Comments
Today i want to backup all my tutorial videos into DVDs, but the problem is all my videos are not in DVD format. Some are .avi, .flv, .mov and these type of file cannot be convert to DVD video. You need to convert them to .mpg format first then compile to DVD format.First you need to install these tools: mencoder ffmpeg If you don't have that yet, you can install with this command:If you already have then continue with this step:Convert media to .avi format (if your file … Read more...
