Informatix

Reunion

Admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:39:00 +0000

Last night, i was attending Erika's wedding party. She was my elementary friend and we went to the same junior high school, so we have many similar friends. She invited lots of her friends (which i knew), so we met each others finally. Some people didn't change at all while others have dramatically changed.

Before splitting, we decided to held an elementary reunion today. Since we usually did this every year and it turns out that last year, i couldn't attend it due to family event, i asked them whether they wanted to make a reunion for today and they agreed. I was originally planning for tomorrow, but one of them will have a family dinner since she was leaving back to Singapore on Tuesday morning, so i re-scheduled it for today. I hope it will be a great time today

By the way, congratulations to Erika and Ferry for your wedding

Testing Google Chrome OS

Admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:53:00 +0000

I have a chance to test Google Chrome OS, thanks to people at gdgt who have packaged an image for VMWare for Google Chrome OS. You can download the image here and the instructions for using it here.

It boots very fast and it uses your Google accounts (don't have one? ). In seconds, it will load up with GMail by default and you can access more web applications after cliking on the Google Chrome icons on the top left (you may have to sign in again with your GMail accounts in order to show the applications below)

Here's the screenshot on my VMWare:

Solution for DNS Problem

Admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:57:00 +0000

Finally i'm able to browse the Internet today with Speedy by using OpenDNS. The idea is quite simple. DNS will try to resolve an IP address of the page you are trying to search by looking at it's database. If the DNS server can't fulfill your request, it will ask another DNS server which they know and the story goes on.

Normally, you get two DNS entries by your ISP, a primary and secondary DNS server. On Speedy, the entry varies across Speedy accounts since they may have lots of DNS server. One problem is that when DNS Server is not working well, then you may not be able to find the page you are looking for, unless you know exactly the IP address and type them directly at the location bar in your browser.

Since they never published their DNS entries, it's better to find an alternative DNS server on the Internet. There is an OpenDNS project which can fix this problem. All you need to do is register your accounts and add their IP to your nameserver entries.

On Linux, you can just put the line on your /etc/resolv.conf. Here's an example:

nameserver 11.22.33.44

After adding OpenDNS' nameserver, i can browse normally again. Thanks to them.

Other option for Indonesian users is to use Nawala project. It can also be used to protect children for accessing inappropriate websites, such as websites that contains adults material.

DNS Goes Mad

Admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:17:00 +0000

with Today, i had a DNS problem with my Speedy account. My modem can connect to Speedy, but i had some problems when browsing or connecting to Yahoo using Pidgin. The error message was related to name resolving, which is usually caused by DNS problem.

Let's just hope it will be fixed soon, since i need to download my students assignments which was sent to my email.

Google Chrome OS Preview

Admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Probably the hottest news in IT world for yesterday was about the preview of Google OS. Many news site reported this and some of them came up with videos and also screenshots of the future Google OS release.

Here are some of them:
- TechCrunch (Google Chrome OS Event)
- TechCrunch (Google Chrome OS Interface)
- TechCrunch (Google OS for Dummies)
- Engadget (Google Chrome OS Revealed)

GIMP Removed From Ubuntu 10.04?

Admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:54:00 +0000

There has been rumors that GIMP will be removed from default package installation on the next Ubuntu release, 10.04 (and probably in the future release as well). Fedora 12 has also dropped GIMP as well.

The reason for this removal is because many users doesn't seem to use it, it took too many disk space, and the interface is too complex. Besides, they have supplied Ubuntu with F-Spot, an alternative for photo management which takes less space, less complexity, and simpler.

Fear not, since it's still available on the repository. All you need is to use apt-get to install it from the repository.

What do you think about this?

Source:
Digitizor
OMGUbuntu

Upgrading Forum

Admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000

I have just completed an upgrade for Indonesian Linux Forum. It's now running the latest phpBB version, 3.0.6. At the beginning, i was kinda worried, since phpBB 3.0.6 contains lots of new features and some of them are major changes compared to 3.0.5. Luckily, the upgrade process works just fine and no issues occurred during the upgrade process.

Please enjoy the forum again and please post any problem on this thread.

I'm sorry for some inconvenience during the upgrade process.

Deadline and Time Management

Admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:24:00 +0000

In the next few days, i will be busy handling students who wanted to go to final presentation about their field work. The deadline for presentation registration will be on 23rd of November, which will be next Monday. Before that, they would need to get approval from their supervisors (which is me and other lecturers).

There are students who followed their own schedule for this field work, but the others didn't follow their own schedule which was defined by themselves at the beginning of the semester when they made the proposal for the field work. It's a shame that they couldn't finish it this semester, because if they have followed their own schedule, they would have completed the field work this semester and continue with final project next semester.

Let's just hope most of them can finish the reports and the program at the deadline due date.

Ubuntu 9.04 Keyboard Mapping Problem on Tight VNC

Markus — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:39:10 +0000

After logged in to VNC server, I get problem with the keyboard mapping on Ubuntu 9.04. When I type "abcdefghij" I get "asdfghjkl;". After searching on Google, the problem was submitted as a bug and the work around is by adding: export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 In VNC’s xstartup file: $HOME/.vnc/xstartup You have to add the line export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 before /etc/X11/Xsession [...]

Install Tight VNC Server on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Markus — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:22:09 +0000

Previously I installed TightVNC server on Ubuntu 8.10 which I posted the tutorial here. Today I setup a new Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Ubuntu 9.04 installed (still haven’t got Ubuntu9.10 Xen template, so I didn’t install the latest version). (Note: before you install TightVNC you have to install a window manager first, I use GNOME [...]