Some expert suggest that once a year you need to reinstall your Windows XP to keep your Windows XP performance. But a normal or a beginner computer user often save their files on my document folder since my document folder is default folder. Mozilla Firefox default download folder also in MyDocument folder. And many application use MyDocument as default folder.So what happen if Windows XP break malfunction probably because of virus? Then your Windows XP need to reinstall, and unfortunately … 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...
[TIPS] Free Extract and Compress Files Tool With 7-Zip
December 3, 2009 • Leave a Comment
7-zip is the most powerful and lightweight software for files archiver. And it is open source under GNU LGPL license. The other leading company for files archiver is WinZip and WinRar, both of them are not free. 7-Zip can archive files into Zip and 7z format. And 7-zip also can extract zip, 7z and rar format. It is very light and convenient to use.7-Zip FeaturesHigh compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression Supported formats: - Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 … Read more...
[TIPS] Useful Mozilla Firefox Addons
October 29, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Mozilla Firefox is one of the best Internet browsers ever made (in my opinion). I like Google chrome and Internet Explorer 8 too. For me Google Chrome is the fastest browser and stable, i am happy using Google Chrome for open Gmail, Google Calender, Google Docs, Google Webmaster Tools, and other Google products. And Internet Explorer 7 And 8? Hmm.. for me they are the slowest, buggy and crashy, but i still need it to test some website layouts since there are bunch of end user still use this … Read more...
Hiding WordPress Stats Smiley Image In your Templates
September 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment
If you are a Wordpress user and using WP Stats service to see your blog statistics, you will notice that a little smiley image will add to your footer template. I'm using Wordpress for 1 year now and i found that sometimes annoying, but that smiley is not something you can remove since WP Stats using that image as a tracking.Since you cannot remove it (as long as you want to use WP Stats service), you can hide it with a simple trick using a css. Just paste this code into your stylesheet.css … 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...
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...
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...
Solve Yahoo Messenger Problem With Pidgin 2.5.7
June 24, 2009 • 21 Comments
A couple days ago i have a problem connecting to Yahoo Messanger using Pidgin 2.5.5. I thougt that there were something wrong with my network. But i tried using original Yahoo Messanger, it works. So i know that my networks is fine, but not my Pidgin. Then i try to google it, and i found that Yahoo upgrade their server to new version. That's why my pidgin 2.5.5 couldn't connect.Then i browse to pidgin official website, then wow... They have a new version that is Pidgin v2.5.7 that fixed for … Read more...
[TIPS] Prevent Image and File Hotlinking From Your Blog
May 5, 2009 • 3 Comments
Last couple days i found that some website doing image and file hot-linking to my website. This will steal my bandwidth and make me less visitor to come to my blog. If this happen to you too, don't worry. We can prevent those bandwidth theft by prevent hot-linking by add some lines to our .htaccess file.How do i know that my blog hotlinking? You can test by make a single html file with an image link to your blog, here is the example:if you can see the images, then your site can be … Read more...
