Archive for September, 2008

Air Crash Investigation

by rizal on September 16th, 2008

I’m not sure why, but I love watching Air Crash Investigation on the National Geographic Channel. Maybe I’m fascinated with how passenger airliners can be both awesome and fragile at the same time. They’re huge, majestic, and chock-full of gizmos and gadgets and instrumentation; and yet, a small glitch or mistake can cause them to [...]

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Guest-Host Connection in Vmware through Firestarter

by nazham on September 10th, 2008

Following my previous post on VPNC, after modifying the user-pre file in Firestarter, it somehow screws-up my guest-host connections in Vmware. The host, running on Ubuntu 8.04, no longer be able to connect to it guests, and vice-versa. The following is what I did to make the connection works. I had to post this up [...]

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VPN Connection in Ubuntu using VPNC

by nazham on September 10th, 2008

I’ve been using VPNC in my Ubuntu to access my company’s VPN for quite some time now. The story is, I’ve tried using Cisco VPN, but it will only get me as far as connecting to the VPN server. When I’m trying to access the company’s intranet, I’ll get a “page not found” error slapped [...]

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Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router Firmware Upgrade

by nazham on September 7th, 2008

Recently I have a problem where my wireless connection sometimes getting dropped. My Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router having intermittent reboot, especially when there’s a lot of connections, like when BitTorrent is running on one of my machine. I’ve figured out that maybe it’s time to upgrade my router’s firmware. The current version is the initial [...]

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HTTP Request using cURL for Windows

by nazham on September 5th, 2008

There’s a variety of ways to perform http request without using your web browser, i.e. using your command prompt. We could use wget for most major Linux distributions, but what about Windows? Recently I’ve found out that cURL might get the job done.
cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. It [...]

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