by nazham on
December 25th, 2008
I finally embrace Twitter. Yeah, I know. Sometimes I’m a little bit behind on the social networking trends. So, I finally giving it a go today, and I’m liking it so far.
What is Twitter?
From Twitter.com:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to [...]
Tags: Twitter
by nazham on
December 2nd, 2008
Usually router looks ugly. They’re boxy looking and has only monochromatic color with a splash of black. But a few days ago I stumbled upon a fellow blogger’s post (credit to Pinoy Web Surfer), about a prettiest router round. Check out the design below.
The router, STC Livebox Router, is from Saudi Telecom.
Tags: Wireless Router
by nazham on
November 10th, 2008
Found a really good Wordpress security tips a while ago:
Directories should not be left open for public browsing.
There is a potential problem letting people know what plug-ins you have, or what versions they are. If there is some known exploit that is linked to a plug-in, it could be easy enough for someone to use [...]
by nazham on
October 23rd, 2008
FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted/junk/lint files on your Ubuntu filesystem. For example, one form of unwanted files it finds is duplicate files, bad names, temporary files, files with bad symlinks, empty directory, and others.
To install:
sudo apt-get install fslint
Using Fslint:
If you want to open goto Applications—>System Tools—>FSlint
Screenshot:
by nazham on
October 8th, 2008
I had trouble getting my Dell XPS M1530 track pad/touch pad to work when I updated the BIOS from A07 to A09. However, it is fairly an easy fix.
Edit your ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ file with:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then add:
i8042.nomux=1
at the end of the ‘kernel’ line. It may look like below:
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=446ea0c-57b1-4112-939c-
3f1d74be9f5f ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic [...]
Tags: Dell XPS M1530 . Touch pad . Track pad . Ubuntu
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