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Installing alpha version of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 in Hardy

2008-12-01T22:49:00.003+07:00

Finally I managed to install the alpha version of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 in my Ubuntu Hardy. It runs nice on my Firefox 3

If you got confused what to do with the so file given by tar.gz package in http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html but STILL USING Ubuntu Hardy like me, just copy paste the following script after running this script (I got this from "script for Ubuntu Intrepid")

sudo apt-get install libnss3-dev -y
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so{.0d,}
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so{.0d,}
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so{.0d,}

Say good bye to heavy nspluginwrapper and have fun!

Konqueror got error when loading localhost?

2008-10-30T07:50:00.002+07:00

You got this annoying message:

An error occurred while loading http://localhost
Could not connect to host http://localhost

when using Konqueror (at least in Kubuntu)? You got to do this:

1. Go to Settings > Configure Konqueror > Cache
2. Uncheck "Use cache" then OK
3. Done!

Now you can browse localhost and run your PHP codes using Konqueror without network connection.

Perl memang jagoan text processing

2008-10-07T08:43:00.002+07:00

Kecepatan processing text dengan menggunakan bahasa Perl ternyata sangat dahsyat. Gak heran dulu waktu kuliah Information Retrieval, dosennya nyaranin pake bahasa Perl ke para mahasiswanya.

Sensasi ini gw rasakan pada sekitar tanggal 23 September, saat iseng-iseng memporting Parser project Quran di Drupal dari Shell script ke Perl. Saat itu merupakan pertama kalinya gw dan Perl berkomunikasi (baca: ngoding). Ternyata lompatannya sangat jauh. Mungkin ada yang bilang: "Ya iya lah, Shell script mau dibandingin sama Perl". Ya emang dasarnya gw gak niat membandingkan, cuma ingin mempercepat proses aja dengan bahasa Pemograman yang langsung didukung oleh Linux. Daripada porting ke Python, lebih baik ke Perl yang sudah banyak dipakai di bidang text processing.

Kira-kira kecepatan Shell script dalam memproses 114 ayat al-Quran itu adalah 120 detik, sedangkan Perl hanya 1 detik. Ya begitu lah, 120:1.

Pernah juga pakai Ruby untuk memproses xml dengan libxml Ruby tapi kasusnya tidak sama. Cepat juga sih.

Jadi Perl ini bahasanya mirip PHP, Javascript dan Ruby. Nama variabelnya mirip PHP, method scopingnya mirip Javascript dan conditioningnya mirip Ruby (if nya bisa ditaro di belakang dan juga punya unless)

Nambah pengalaman lah :D

Drupal module, Quran 6.x-2.1 is out!

2008-09-13T00:21:00.004+07:00

Alhamdulillah

Finally I released the next version of Quran module for Drupal 6.4. These are the changes:

- Now it cares about localization (locale module). Ambiguous old locale setting is now changed into browser language.
- Searching in Arabic!
- Minor fixing of misspelled words
- All database are now can be imported automatically in UTF8.
- There are one translation: Indonesian language. To others, please contribute too.
- There is an info about amount of searching result

It took a quite time to handle CVS problem (more than 4 hours). I misread the CVS instruction. May be I should use git to access this CVS. :D

I've just released the new version for Drupal 5 with the same features...... and Drupal 6 (yes, another new version) for one small feature: Localization by i18n module.

Enjoy the new version!!!

Using pg_standby for high availability of Postgresql

2008-08-12T19:31:00.005+07:00

PostgreSQL is a famous database server which can be compared with Oracle or any other commercial database servers. It is said that Postgresql doesn't care about replication because Postgresql wants to focus. But fortunately there is a simple opensource solution to this. Which is called pg_standby.

Pg Standby is used as a simple way to make PostgreSQL highly available. To make this short, I'll start the tutorial which I've been created from many scattered sites (it's really hard to find how to use pg_standby for me)

Condition: I used Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) 64-bit, PostgreSQL 8.2 (If you're using version 8.3 or more, just skip the following installation steps). Please make sure that both servers (or workstations) installed using the same Linux version (the same distro, release and architecture. e.g. Ubuntu 8.04 i386)

Installation
========
For now on, we'll do these steps in primary server.

Preparation
1. Install required packages to create PostgreSQL binary for Debian
sudo apt-get install cdbs bison libperl-dev tk8.4-dev flex libreadline5-dev libssl-dev libpam0g-dev libxml2-dev libkrb5-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev bzip2 fakeroot.

2. Install required packages to install pg_standby
sudo apt-get install sysvconfig postgresql-contrib-8.2 gcc make libc6-dev libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev libpgeasy-dev unzip checkinstall.

4. Download PostgreSql source from Debian repository
cd ~
apt-get source postgresql-8.2

3. Download pg_standby source files
Download both Makefile and pg_standby.c from http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ and put them into postgresql-8.2-8.2.7/build-tree/postgresql-8.2.7/contrib/pg_standby

Compiling
1. Create binary for PostgreSql
cd ~/postgresql-8.2-8.2.7
fakeroot debian/rules binary

2. Copy pg_standby files into PostgreSQL source,
so that we can see 2 files inside ~/postgresql-8.2-8.2.7/build-tree/postgresql-8.2.7/contrib/pg_standby:

- Makefile
- pg_standby.c

3. Compile and install the pg_standby
by using configured PostgreSQL

cd ~/postgresql-8.2-8.2.7/build-tree/postgresql-8.2.7/contrib/pg_standby
make
sudo make install

4. Make the pg_standby command accessible
Create a symbolic link so that the pg_standby command is recognized in the system or terminal

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper /usr/bin/pg_standby

*) Another way is to compile it using Debian's packaging way:
Edit postgresql-8.2-8.2.7/build-tree/postgresql-8.2.7/contrib/Makefile to insert pg_standby on WANTED_DIRS variable before doing fakeroot (I've never try this)

Configuration
==========
We need at least 2 servers. The first server acts as primary server which does logging. While the second one is acting as standby warm server ready to become primary server as soon as the primary server is down.

On primary server (server 1)
1. Create a remote directory for the archive
which is only readable and writable to user postgres. So that we'll have /psql-archive mounted from server2:/usr/local/psql-archive

sudo mkdir /psql-archive

Please googling for tutorial to mount nfs file system automatically. Or my be a bit here:

in server2 (192.168.1.202):
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
sudo mkdir /usr/local/psql-archive
sudo chown postgres.postgres /usr/local/psql-archive
sudo su -c "echo '/usr/local/psql-archive 192.168.1.201(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)' >> /etc/exports"
sudo exportfs -ra

in server1 (192.168.1.201):
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
sudo mkdir /psql-archive
sudo su -c "echo '192.168.1.202:/usr/local/psql-archive /psql-archive nfs timeo=14,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr 0 0' >> /etc/fstab"
sudo mount -a

2. Activate logging
Add into /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf:

archive_command = 'cp "%p" /psql-archive/"%f"'
archive_timeout = 120

reload the database server configuration or restart!
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql force-reload

3. Make sure it is running
You should see /psql-archive is filled with archived WAL files. Some people could only see this after base backup is created

4. Create base backup
To make both PostgreSQL server is a clone of each other

4.1 Do this
echo "SELECT pg_start_backup('pertama');" |psql -U postgres

4.2 Backup cluster database (does not need any restart)
cd /var/lib/postgresql/8.2
sudo tar zcvf ~/base-main-backup.tar.gz main

4.3 End the backup
echo "SELECT pg_stop_backup();" |psql -U postgres

On standby server (server 2)
5. Stop the server
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql stop

6. Copy the backup
from primary server into the standby server on the correct location. May be you need to backup repository first before replace with backup from primary server.

sudo mv /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main ~/main.backup
sudo tar zxvf base-main-backup.tar.gz -C /var/lib/postgresql/8.2

7. Create recovery file
Create /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/recovery.conf which contains

restore_command = 'pg_standby -l -d -s 2 -k 50 -t /tmp/pgsql.trigger.5442 /usr/local/psql-archive %f %p %r 2>>standby.log'

and symlink it into cluster directory
sudo ln -s /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/recovery.conf /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main

8. Empty pg_xlog directory
sudo rm -Rf /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main/pg_xlog/*

9. Start the server back
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql start

10. Monitor standby.log
sudo tail -f /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main/standby.log

Testing the configuration
===================
On primary server
1. Create new record
We'll test that this record will also exist on the standby server. Just create one or two tables with data on primary server

2. Shutdown db server
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql stop

On standby server
3. Standby server, now is primary server
As you see in /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main/standby.log, there is text stating 'store'. Also, the recovery.conf has changed into recovery.done which means standy server is now fully operating and ready to use.

nb: If it failed to recover which is caused by /tmp/pgsql.trigger.5442 is not triggered, touch it using postgres user

sudo su -
su postgres
touch /tmp/pgsql.trigger.5442

4. Make sure the record exists
You may login into the standby server as it already become a primary server and make sure that the last record exist

That's all

nb:
If the primary server fails and then immediately restarts, you must have a mechanism for informing it that it is no longer the primary. This is sometimes known as STONITH (Shoot the Other Node In The Head), which is necessary to avoid situations where both systems think they are the primary, which can lead to confusion and ultimately data loss.

So, switching from primary to standby server can be fast but requires some time to re-prepare the failover cluster. Regular switching from primary to standby is encouraged, since it allows regular downtime on each system for maintenance. This also acts as a test of the failover mechanism to ensure that it will really
work when you need it. Written administration procedures are advised.

Membuat Gateway Flash Telkomsel di Ubuntu Linux

2008-06-13T14:43:00.004+07:00

Dari pada pusing riset lagi dari awal, mendingan bikin dokumentasinya dan berbagi kemudahan ini ke orang banyak. Saya akan menjelaskan bagaimana membuat Ubuntu Linux kita menjadi server gateway internet dengan menggunakan Huawei modem dari Flash Telkomsel.

Cara ini berhasil di Ubuntu 8.04 karena paket wvdial yang dimilikinya mampu menkonfigurasi otomatis huawei modem. Untuk berbagi ke jaringan, pastikan koneksi komputer kita dengan komputer2 lainnya di LAN berjalan baik.

Deteksi Modem

Pastikan pulsanya Telkomsel Flash ada
Tancap kabel yang tengah (baca keterangan pada usb jack!). Karena ada 2 jack yang punya fungsi berbeda.
Pastikan Ubuntu dapat mendeteksi modem pasca penancapan usb. Biasanya baru sempurna deteksinya setelah 1 menit. Cek dengan lsusb. Harusnya ada tulisan kira2 seperti ini:

Bus 005 Device 005: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem

Konfigurasi dan dialing

Lakukan konfigurasi otomatis "sudo wvdialconf". Perintah ini harusnya menghasilkan file /etc/wvdial.conf yang berisi kira2 seperti berikut ini. Pastikan bahwa hasil konfigurasi otomatis ini menghasilkan nilai "Username" dan "Password" seperti di bawah ini, yakni { }
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
New PPPD = yes
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = { }
Password = { }
Baud = 9600

Lakukan dial dan biarkan jaringan Ubuntu dikonfigurasi oleh wvdial
sudo wvdial

Harusnya dalam waktu singkat wvdial akan mengeluarkan input akhir seperti ini:

--> local IP address 221.132.252.149
--> pppd: 3[7f]
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.74
--> pppd: 3[7f]
--> primary DNS address 202.3.218.10
--> pppd: 3[7f]
--> secondary DNS address 202.3.240.10
--> pppd: 3[7f]

Selain itu akan tampak perubahan pada perintah "sudo route"

10.64.64.74 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0

dan bergantinya dns pada /etc/resolv.conf sebagai berikut

nameserver 202.3.218.10
nameserver 202.3.240.10

Pastikan kita bisa browsing di Ubuntu kita.
Buka browser kesayangan kita dan buka sebuah situs. Kita diharuskan mengisi login ke Flash Telkomsel. Buka halaman kedua yang digunakan untuk menjelajah internet. Jika kita berhasil membuka sebuah situs, berarti kita siap melangkah lebih jauh.

Menjadikan Ubuntu sebagai gateway untuk internet di LAN.

Ganti gateway komputer2 satelit. Arahkan gateway komputer2 yang ada di LAN ke ip LAN milik Ubuntu. Jika Ubuntu kita memiliki ip jaringan lokal 192.168.1.45, maka pastikan gateway komputer2 yang akan ikutan pakai internet adalah 192.168.1.45 juga.
Ganti DNS komputer2 satelit. Pastikan dns komputer2 tersebut diarahkan ke 2 dns yang dideteksi oleh wvdial di atas. Sehingga pada salah satu komputer2 satelit tersebut, perintah "sudo route" akan mengasilkan:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.1.45 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0
Izinkan akses langsung internet oleh komputer satelit
Pada Ubuntu yang kini telah menjadi gateway, jalankan perintah berikut (sesuaikan nilai device output, apakah ppp0 atau ppp1 atau lainnya. Ini tergantung apa yang terlihat dari default gateway hasil perintah "sudo route")

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Semoga berhasil

Typing Arabic with Scim

2008-06-10T18:33:00.010+07:00

Alhamdulillah and thanks to Anjar03 my friend who has been researching and being curios with Scim and the author of the code (yes, the one who has created scim Arabic). I finally can write Arabic with Scim in Kubuntu, KDE version of Ubuntu. I want to document it here so everybody can leverage Scim as I do.

Please make sure you've installed the following packages so that KDE will automatically use Scim as default input method: scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-qt scim-bridge-client-gtk. For KDE4 may be you should install additional scim-bridge-client-qt4. After that, type "im-switch -s scim-bridge" to activate Scim. For more information see my previous post and here.

To type Arabic you don't need scim-anthy since it is for Japanese. You need scim-tables-additional package installed. Now, re-login.

To test, open kopete chat window since it automatically supports right to left typing mode. Ctrl+Space to start writing with Scim, choose Arabic Egypt from the scim popup. You should see Scim popup like the following

Adapted from this table, we can use the following rule using US Keyboard (the most common keyboard at least in my country: Indonesia).

arabic font	keyboard
ا	a
ب	b
ت	t
ث	th
ج	j
ح	h.
خ	kh
د	d
ذ	dh
ر	r
ز	z
س	s
ش	sh
ص	s.
ض	d.
ط	t.
ظ	z.
ع	'
غ	gh
ف	f
ق	q
ك	k
ل	l
م	m
ن	n
ه	h
و	w
ي	y
ة	h'
ﺀ	'2
ٔ	/2

- To type لا you can combine A and l.
- The words انّ with tashdid is typed Anx.
- To make vowel, just add a i u after the consonant.
- To make tanwin, just add an in un after the consonant.

الحمداللّه now you can type Arabic

Minbar crash on non Gnome Ubuntu derivatives?

2008-06-10T16:04:00.005+07:00

I'm currently using Kubuntu 8.04 amd64. I installed Minbar to remind me of prayer time. It worked fine except, it crashed when I tried to play athan.

I've been searching to solve this problem. I even downloaded its source code to see what happen. From it, I concluded that there must be related to audio plugin. After gooling a little bit, I think the author forgot to include some Gstreamer library as one of Minbar's dependencies since he never used other than Ubuntu. May be, ubuntu has already has that dependency. But not with Kubuntu or Xubuntu.

The solution is just install the following packages: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
That should solve your problem and make sure you to always pray on time :D

Drupal 5 Performance Tuning, Suprising way

2008-06-09T16:19:00.004+07:00

Lately, I tried to tuning up my Drupal 5-based website for one of my company's clients. And successfully achieve their requested test: more than 50 requests per seconds with only one additional PHP PECL module: APC. Alhamdulillah, finally. It was achieved by an unusual way, at least for me.

About 2 months before during development time, I had the Drupal pass the same test. This fact made me relieved that the development is on the track. But at the time, it did not load so much modules as it did lately. To, make it faster, I even activated memcache and advanced session modules. Then, I continued to add and customize additional modules. I think, without testing it anymore.

Two months later, I found out that my Drupal had gone slow. It could only handle no more than 25 requests per seconds. What?..... This made me curious over the new modules. I tried to turn they off one by one and I fired up xcache to see what was happening. After tuning up Apache2, MySQL, and others I could just only rise 2 more request.

I felt something must had gone wrong but not in the Drupal. Because fresh Drupal at the same time also never reached 50 requests per seconds but it had actually before (2 months before). What about removing just (since 2 months before) installed PHP memcache.ini and xcache.ini or renaming it, so that PHP assumes that there is no memcache and xcache.ini

Wonderfully and suprisingly, my Drupal passed the test and reached 52 requests per second. This made me think, sometimes we don't need to go far away to find solutions. The solutions may be near us.

Installing Clamav antivirus on Samba in Ubuntu

2008-04-23T14:14:00.007+07:00

Many people use Samba in their file server to let Windows users share their files there. But some people just doesn't care if they have shared virus infected files. The other users merely become the victim.

So, lets arm our Samba to protect users from viruses hidden in the shared directories. In Ubuntu and other *nix distros, we can use free Clamav antivirus plugged in to Samba which is called clamav-scan. *nix distros usually provide ready-to-install binary of clamav-scan. But Ubuntu does not. So you must compile the plug in manually.

Enough for the intro, now we'll begin arming the Samba in Ubuntu (my Ubuntu version is 7.04 feisty fawn) . Don't be rush. You must follow test instruction before proceeding the next step.

1. Prepare package Clamav and supporting packages
apt-get install clamav arj unzoo lha clamav-freshclam clamav-daemon clamav-testfiles build-essential

You may also need build-essential package

Test: Please make sure that we can scan infected files.
clamscan -ir /usr/share/clamav-testfiles

We should see lines like the following:

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 266917
Engine version: 0.91.2
Scanned directories: 1
Scanned files: 7
Infected files: 6
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Time: 3.762 sec (0 m 3 s)

2. Prepare packages to install clamav-scan into Samba
apt-get install dpkg-dev
apt-get source samba
apt-get build-dep samba
wget -c http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openantivirus/samba-vscan-0.3.6b.tar.bz2

3. Compiling
cd samba-3.0.24
./debian/rules configure-stamp
cd source
make proto
cd ../..

tar -jxvf samba-vscan-0.3.6b.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src
cd samba-vscan-0.3.6b
./configure --with-samba-source=/usr/src/samba-3.0.24/source
make && make install

Now the vscan-clamav module is ready to use

4. Configuring Samba to cooperate with vscan-clamav
mkdir /etc/samba/vfs-config
cp /usr/src/samba-vscan-0.3.6b/clamav/vscan-clamav.conf /etc/samba/vfs-config/

change some values in the /etc/../vfs-config/vscan-clamav.conf:
clamd socket name = /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
infected files action = quarantine
; By default, the quarantine directory is /tmp
; quarantine directory = /mnt/office-shared-files/.quarantine

Add some values in samba config file: /etc/samba/smb.conf. We may add this line under [global] configuration or specific directory configuration
vfs objects = vscan-clamav
vscan-clamav: config-file = /etc/samba/vfs-config/vscan-clamav.conf

5. We must recompile vscan-clamav if we upgrade our Samba. To lock Samba version from upgrading, we must do this:
echo samba hold | dpkg --set-selections
echo samba install | dpkg --set-selections

6. Now restart Samba
/etc/init.d/samba restart

7. See vscan-clamav in action

Just copy /usr/share/clamav-testfiles to shared writable directory of Samba so it can be accessed by Windows users. The files inside are harmless to Windows but make clamav assume them as infected files.
We can see that Samba has denied us from copying the file out. Instead we'll see the files has been moved to /tmp/var-*****.
Later, we can see that Samba users can not copy infected files into the shared directory of Samba.

I hope this tutorial useful to you!

References:
- http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3706
- http://www.grape-info.com/doc/linux/config/samba-vscan-0.3.6b-84.html

Quran for Drupal 5 has been released

2008-04-22T10:27:00.004+07:00

Someone requested me create Quran for Drupal 5. I thought it's a good ide since many users still use Drupal 5. So, last night I migrated the Quran module from Drupal 6 version to Drupal 5. Alhamdulillah, it's done.

You may download it in official Quran module page. The database files remain unchanged.

Thanks for your support and patients.

Quran module for Drupal

2008-04-10T11:17:00.007+07:00

Alhamdulillah, I finally released one of Drupal module: Quran, or Koran. This is my first contribution to Drupal community and my second contribution to free CMS (previously, Mambo).

This module allows you to read Quran (Koran) on Drupal. You can also search for specific verses by keywords. There is also optional block for random verses. The module includes Quran in Arabic, and English for default translation.

Currently we have more than 3 languages: Arabic, English and Indonesian. The other languages are Germany, French, Turk, etc as listed in Zekr Quran project. Please visit http://www.muslimade.com/projects/quran-drupal-module to download them

Warna Login

2006-08-03T11:13:00.000+07:00

Mengingat masa lalu waktu pertama kali kuliah di Fasilkom. Fasilkomers sering bermain shell dan warna2 biar shell gak membosankan. Kebetulan juga saya ingin melakukan ssh ke suatu system. Tapi karena gak menarik saya lihat2 lagi deh tutorial pewarnaan shell untuk login, aja :) Ini hasil sadurannya dari berbagai sumber:

# prompt text
TEXT=\u@\h:\w $
# default font width
FONT_WIDTH=0
# green (bgcolor available: 30-37) 30 (black), 31 (red), 32 (green), 33 (yellow), 34 (blue), 35 ( magenta), 36 (cyan), 37 (white)
FOREGROUND_COLOR=32
# black (color available: 40-47)
BACKGROUND_COLOR=40
PS1="\[\033[$FONT_WIDTH;$FOREGROUND_COLOR;$BACKGROUND_COLORm$TEXT\033[0m\]"
# \033[FONT_WIDTHmTEXT\COLOR_DEF2[FONT_WIDTH2m\033[0m adalah pola untuk multiple color
# jika ingin warnanya lebih cerah, gunakan 133 dari pada 033

======= jadikan ini script yang diinclude (source /path/to/this_color.sh) di .bashrc ======
# menentukan warna untuk user
if [ $LOGNAME = $USER ] ; then
USER_COLOR=37
else
USER_COLOR=32
if [ $USER = 'root' ] ; then
USER_COLOR=31
fi

# warna untuk server (bgcolor available: 30-37) 30 (black), 31 (red), 32 (green), 33 (yellow), 34 (blue), 35 ( magenta), 36 (cyan), 37 (white)
SERVER_FGCOLOR=32
SERVER_BGCOLOR=33

# prompt text
TEXT_USER="\033[0;30;"$USER_COLOR"m\u\033[0m"
TEXT_AT="\033[0;30;46m@\033[0m"
TEXT_SERVER="\033[0;$SERVER_FGCOLOR;"$SERVER_BGCOLOR"m\h:\w\033[0m"
TEXT_AFTER="\n->> "
PS1=$TEXT_USER$TEXT_AT$TEXT_SERVER$TEXT_AFTER

# iseng banget ya?

NFS Bug or Hidden Trick?

2006-05-29T09:50:00.001+07:00

I played challenge section of Need For Speeed Most Wanted last night and found this. The challenge was to play dog and cat with police at least 10 minutes. While I was doing this, I found a perfect place to save my sweat but keep the police busy. See the screenshot below

Waiting, even the helicopter was standing not far from ground above me.

Still waiting, the helicopter went up to the building. The police on the cars back and forth (remind me of random running cars when I was a kid) and keep saying "I got him", etc just like they missed me and found me again.

The police still brutally went back and forth so that the car around them hit by them selves. Now, time to evade has come.

Hiding near the location.

Recognize the location? Is it a bug?

School Rumble Term2 ED

2006-05-24T18:40:00.000+07:00

Setelah lama tak terdengar ternyata gw udah ketinggalan 5 episode dari School Rumble Term 2 yang kocak abis. Gw iseng2 ketemu ED songnya dan karena teman gw minta cariin teks romajinya, so gw cari di internet dan dengan sedikit rekayasa yang sok tahu (he3x) teks ini jadi. Soalnya susah banget nyarinya. Tapi ada beberapa yang gw gak bisa tebak tulisan Jepangnya. Jadi yang pernah dengerin dan tau bahasa Jepangnya tolong perbaiki ya.

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この涙があるから次の一歩となる
Kono Namida ga aru kara Tsugi no Ippo to naru
Because of these tears I can take another step forward
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それがへたくそで
sore ga hetakuso de
because I’m clumsy at it
なんか悔しいけど
nanka kuyashii kedo
somehow I feel embarrassed
まだあきらめない　　ね
mada akiramenai… ne
But, I don’t give up yet… right?

ぼんやりとしてる夢もそのうちに
bonyari to shiteru. yume mo sono uchi ni
I will slowly clear this slow and hazy dream
霧が晴れたようにして見せる
kiri ga hareta you ni shite miseru
clear the fog and you’ll see

この一歩進むまで　
kono ippo susumu made,
until next step
次の一歩まで
sugi no ippo made
and step after that
じっくり行くから
jikkuri yuku kara
I will go on, carefully
前に進むから
mae ni susumu kara
I will keep moving forward
自分のべ－スで
jibun no PEESU de
at my pace

小さな部屋でも
chiisana heya demo
it is small room, but
野砲をがつ待つ
yahou gatsu matteru
gun???
いちいち謂わないが。。。
ichi ichi iwanai ga...
one by one not called, but…

それぞれの時代
Sore sore no jidai
That’s the era
それぞれの人世
Sore sore no jinsei
That’s the life
だけど繋がる???模様
Dakedo tsunagateru miu ge u moyo???
But related
*
この涙があるから
Kono namida ga aru kara
Because of these tears
次の一歩となる
Sugi no ippo to naru
Next step will come (become mine)
はっきり分かるよ
Hakkiri wakaru yo
I will know clearly
前に進むんでるって
Mae ni susumu nderutte
That I’m moving forward
輝きのもっとへ
Kagayaki no motto he
Toward shining source of light
(repeat *)

Credits: School Rumble Term 2 TV-size ED song, http://show.9sky.com, JLookup, Wannabefansubs.net

AMD64 dan Debian Baru

2006-04-06T13:09:00.000+07:00

Duh, belum ada ya versi stable Debian untuk AMD64 bit? Yang ada versi testing untuk Etch (versi penerus dari Sarge). Kalo yang Sarge sebenarnya ada tapi unofficial dan basi menurut gw he3x, karena dari bulan juli 2005. So, lebih baik gw pake Etch yang weekly build lah. Sekalian ngetes2 kalo ada yang gak beres kan bisa bantu2 orang Debian di sana.

Terakhir itu versi beta2, tapi gak ada KDEnya hiks :(, karena ada paket yang belum atau gagal diporting. Makanya gw cari yang lebih baru walaupun masih testing weekly build. Siapa tau udah ada KDEnya. Paket2nya ternyata amd64 kodenya bukan i386 lagi.

Btw, kapan ya Etch direlease. Peralihan dari beta 1 ke beta 2 kalo gak salah 3 bulan-an deh. Habis beta 2, beta 3 (???), lalu rc1-3, lalu relased stablenya. Berarti 5 x 3 bulan = 15 bulan atau 1 tahun 3 bulan. Wah lamanya.....

Program Iseng2

2006-03-24T16:45:00.000+07:00

Ohisashiburi desune! Lama tak jumpa lagi ya. Gw ada berita. Gara2 gw sering kesusahan ngedit file bahasa, dan males ngurusin perkembangan file terjemahan untuk Mambo, akhirnya gw bikin tool sendiri yang GPL. He3x, kalo GPL kayaknya terlalu maksa ya? Mungkin LGPL aja nantinya. Ya, yang penting bisa kepake lah. Lumayan, selain mambo yang bisa pake adalah saudara2nya seperti Joomla. Mungkin kalo request bisa gw perbaiki lewat abstract atau interface sehingga bisa lebih general.

Oh ya project ini gw submit di sourceforge dengan manual yang mungkin belum begitu memuaskan

Iseng2 asal berguna :)

Ganbatte kudasai ne!

2005-11-15T11:45:00.000+07:00

Hidup itu penuh perjuangan. Rencanakan dengan matang dan jangan bermalas-malasan. Kejarlah mimpi untuk hidupmu sekarang dan hidupmu kemudian. Lagu ini benar2 menjadi inspirasi gw untuk menghargai waktu.

YUI / LIFE
作詞・作曲：YUI　編曲：northa+

泥だらけよ馴染めない都会で
doro darake yo najimenai tokai de
In the city I'm not used to that's full of dirt,

同じように笑えないうつむいて歩いたの
onaji you ni waraenai utsumuite aruita no
I can't laugh the same and I walked with my head down

急ぎ足ですれ違う人たち
isogiashi de surechigau hitotachi
People pass by with hurried steps

「夢は叶いましたか?」アタシまだモガいている
"Yume wa kanaimashita ka?" atashi mada mogaiteru
"Has your dreams come true?" I'm still struggling

子供の頃に戻るよりも今をうまく生きてみたいよ
kodomo no koro ni modoru yori mo, ima wo umaku ikite mitai yo
Instead of going back to my childhood, I’d rather try living well here and now

怖がりは生まれつき
kowagari wa umaretsuki
I was born a scared cat

陽のあたる場所に出て両手を広げてみたなら
hi no ataru basho ni dete, ryoute wo hirogete mita nara
If I go out where the sun shine and hold my hand tightly

あの空越えてゆけるかな?
ano sora koete yukeru kana?
I wonder if I can go beyond the sky

なんて思ったんだ
nante omotta n' da
that's what I thought

飛び立つ為の翼それはまだ見えない
tobidatsu tame no tsubasa sore wa mada mienai
The wings I use to fly away are still invisible

カンタンに行かないから生きてゆける
kantan ni ikanai kara ikite yukeru
I can keep on living because it doesn’t go easily.

濡れた子犬拾いあげただけで
nureta koinu hiroiageta dake de
I just picked up a wet puppy

ちょっと笑えちゃうほど涙がこぼれてきた
chotto waraechau hodo namida ga koborete kita
and for a while, I laughed so much that tears spilled

愛されたい愛されたいばかり
ai saretai ai saretai bakari
"I want to be loved, I just want to be loved"

アタシ言っていたよね求めるだけじゃダメね
atashi itte ita yo ne motomeru dake ja dame ne
is what I said. It's no good just to ask for it

子供の頃はママの事ひどく傷つけた日もあったよね
変わりたいいま全部

陽のあたる場所に出てこの手を強く握ってみた
hi no ataru basho ni dete kono te wo tsuyoku nigitte mita
I went to a sunny spot and tried holding your hand tightly

あの場所あの時を壊して I can change my life
ano bsho ano toki wo kowashite I can change my life
I will destroy that place, that time so I can change my life

でも心の中すべてをとても伝えきれない
demo kokoro no naka subete wo totemo tsutaekirenai
But I really can't completely express everything that's in my heart

カンタンに行かないから生きてゆける
kantan ni ikanai kara ikite yukeru
I can keep on living because it doesn’t go easily.

陽のあたる場所に出て地図を広げてみるけど
hi no ataru basho ni dete chizu wo hirogete miru kedo
I went to a sunny spot and spread out my map, but

I know… You know… 迷い道も仕方ない
I know... You know... mayoimichi mo shikata nai
I know... You know... that even the path of doubts can't be helped

I can change my life

過ぎてきた日々全部で今のあたしなんだよ
sugite kita hibi zenbu de, ima no atashi nan da yo
Because of the days that have passed, I am what I am now.

カンタンに行かないから生きてゆける
kantan ni ikanai kara ikite yukeru
I can keep on living because it doesn’t go easily.

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Oh ya Selamat Idul Fitri. Mohon maaf lahir batin.
Semoga Ramadhan kemarin tetap membekas dan kita
menjadi orang yang lebih baik dari sebelumnya Amin.

~Sesungguhnya barang siapa yang menjaga
aib orang lain 4JJI akan memelihara aibnya.

MPlayer Official Website MATII???

2005-08-02T18:03:00.000+07:00

Player kesayangan gw udah tutup websitenya ya? Gw cari2 penggantinya. Ternyata ada yang ngebackup di http://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/MPlayer. Gw gak cuma pingin buat linux doang. Gw promosi juga kali :P

Update 2 firefox 1.0.6 Ubuntu

2005-07-28T14:03:00.000+07:00

Update ke firefox 1.0.6 gampang ternyata ya

Gak usah repot2 compile dari source dan mikirin dependency. Pake aja backport dari kambing maupun dari situsnya langsung. (gw baru tau ada backports dari Mamato juga).
Jadi edit saja pada etc/apt/source.list trus tambahin:


deb http://kambing.vlsm.org/ubuntu/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

trus tinggal apt-get install mozilla-firefox deh

Cara APT lewat Proxy

2005-07-28T13:54:00.000+07:00

Tadi gw mau coba download beagle http://beaglewiki.org (thanks to Mamato/ramad101 yg ngasih tau ada googledesktop untuk linux) trus gw kalo bisa ambil paket dari kambing.vlsm.org dan kalo gagal gw bisa coba langsung di situs ubuntu.

Ternyata gw gak praktis kalo pake environment variable proxy_http, kalo lagi apt-get update susah. Karena pake kambing pasti lamanya bukan main kalo proxy dihidupin. So gw baca2 info juga bantuan dari mamat, arief, dan jefri, dan google tentunya gw tau caranya:

edit pada etc/apt/apt.conf

trus tambahin baris ini di paling atas


Acquire
{
       http
       {
               Proxy "http://snoe:rahasia@152.118.24.10:8080";
               Proxy::kambing.vlsm.org "DIRECT";
       };
};

trus bisa deh otomatis switch proxy

Compiling MPlayer 7 on Debian

2005-06-18T14:58:00.000+07:00

Sorry nih, gw pake Debian Ubuntu (maklum aja masih pemula). Tapi gw salut sama Ubuntu yang udah mengubah paradigma Debian itu cuma buat orang2 advanced.

Ok langsung aja deh. MPlayer ini bisa mainin hampir seluruh file multimedia, baik audio maupun video dan bisa melakukan ripping dsb. Mungkin sebagian kita suka mengambil paket binary langsung lewat synaptic atau apt-get. Nah gw waktu itu juga begitu Tapi program gw ternyata gak optimal, gambarnya patah2. Karena itu gw compile sendiri.

Beginilah tahapannya jangan nyengir ya! Maklum masih pemula :)

Pastikan paket2 berikut telah terinstallhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.image.gif
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- x-window-system-dev
- gtk1.2 dev (kurang lebih namanya demikian)
- fakeroot
- libconfhelper-perl
Persiapkan paket source (tar.gz atau bz2) ambil di mplayerhq.hu (buruan sebelum terlambat)
- mplayer
- essential_codecs ... (bisa diambil di situs yang sama)
- ambil skin di situs mplayer (bisa diambil di situs yang sama)
- ambil file arial.ttf yang ada (bisa diambil di windows atau linux) (Atau bisa juga ambil paket mplayer-fonts)
Extract file codecs di atas ke /usr/lib/codecs
- mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
- tar -jxf essential_codecs-121312.tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/codecs
- pastikan seluruh file library (ada dll dan so) berada pada direktori codecs
Extract file source mplayer
tar -jxf MPlayer-xxx.tar.bz2
Edit parameter konfigurasi pada file debian/rules. Mulai pada baris ke 19. Di sana Anda akan menemukan ./configure. Tambahkan parameter berikut:
--with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs --with-reallibdir=/usr/lib/codecs
Edit file debian/rules jalankan perintah berikut untuk meng-compile dan mendapatkan binary mplayerXXX.deb
fakeroot debian/rules binary
Install binary tersebut. File paket binary ini dapat ditemukan pada direktori di atasnya.
dpkg -i mplayerXXX.deb
Buat file ~/.mplayer/config. Lalu edit
vo=xv
framedrop=yes (maklum komputer gw lemot)
subfont-text-scale=4
Copy atau buat symlink file arial.ttf ke ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
ln -s /mnt/winxp/WINDOWS/Fonts/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
Silahkan extract file skin ke /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
tar -jxf AbyssSkin.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
ln -s /usr/share/mplayer/Abyss /usr/share/mplayer/default
Have fun with mplayer !!! :)

written by Ichsan

Hola Everybody

2005-06-16T04:23:00.000+07:00

Test I II III. This is my first word in this machine.

"Hello world"

Migrasi ke Linux

2005-06-15T16:33:00.000+07:00

Hola!

Gw sekarang lagi sibuk melakukan migrasi dari windows ke linux. Gw sibuk download paket-paket, belajar bash dikit2, belajar membuat paket debian. Karena gw sekarang pake OS debian. Kayaknya sebentar lagi windows 2000 gw bakal gw DEL jadi yang tersisa tinggal winxp dan debian. Why winxp? Karena gw masih gak bisa lepas dari game kuno semacam Red Alert, etc yang gak semuanya bisa dimainkan di linux pake wine.

Ternyata enak banget ya pake debian. Apalagi synaptic nya yang membuat manajemen paket debian very2x ez. Oh ya insyaAllah besok2 gw bakal tulis based on my experince about how to compile mplayer, the most powerful multimedia player.

Bye :)

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