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...
[HowTo]Filter Some Website During Work Hour With Squid
September 5, 2009 • 23 Comments
In most of case, a company want to efficient and maximize their bandwidth use. In which you know you can speed up your loading time when browsing by using squid as a web cache. I'm not gonna tell you how squid do it or how to install it. For more details about squid you can refer to my old post about how to install squid and monitor it. Now the next case is you feel your internet connection is slow, even you using squid as web cache.After take sometimes to the squid log, you know that some … Read more...
[HowTo]Open Microsoft Word 2007 (docx) Format With Open Office
August 26, 2009 • 11 Comments
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...
[TIPS] Mount/Unmount ISO In Ubuntu
July 24, 2009 • 5 Comments
Mount and Unmount an ISO CD/DVD in Ubuntu without burning them is a very useful way to check or see what is inside the CD/DVD without waste your CDs/DVDs. I got this trick from this website, and i would like to share it for you.The simplest way to do that you can use this nautilus script and follow this steps:Download this mount-unmount and extract to your home folder Give execute permission to those files. You can use this command: sudo chmod +x /home/username/mount.sh … 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...
[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...
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...
