What I noticed is there is a number of promotional effort by the Linux community in malaysia. Usually by the same group. In the malay language
Here is the links for their slide show in
http://www.jomlinux.com/v1/index.php/20090208211/Artikel/Berita/Slideshow-dari-e-kedai-Jom-Linux
They also have a video on how Ubuntu linux is used in the Parliment Office in Ampang.
http://www.jomlinux.com/v1/index.php/20090203209/Artikel/Berita/Dokumentari-Mini-Ubuntu-Di-Parlimen-Ampang
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
My Adventure with Photorec
The whole story started when my cousin ask me to restore data on her broken hard disk, I don't think it is broken btw, more like corrupted partition. Either way, I still need to recover her data.
That's where photorec comes in. Photorec is a tools to recover data from harddisk, it is a program comes with testdisk. Don't be fooled by the name, it can recover documents, video, mp3 etc, not just photos.
First you need to find the partition, you can just type in terminal
Then just follow instructions.
And there you have it, it will create a folder on where you create it, with all the data. It is quite easy to use.
To install on ubuntu
On fedora
BTW there is a windows version. But i test this on ubuntu.
P.S This actually is a bit anticlimatic, I actually expect to create a disk image, and use sleuthkit. photorec is much more easier. That atchek, hehe.
That's where photorec comes in. Photorec is a tools to recover data from harddisk, it is a program comes with testdisk. Don't be fooled by the name, it can recover documents, video, mp3 etc, not just photos.
First you need to find the partition, you can just type in terminal
fdisk -lThen in terminal
photorec /dev/replace device name with sdb, hdb etc.
Then just follow instructions.
And there you have it, it will create a folder on where you create it, with all the data. It is quite easy to use.
To install on ubuntu
system -> adminstration -> synaptic package managerFind testdisk
On fedora
system -> administration -> add/remove softwaresearch testdisk.
BTW there is a windows version. But i test this on ubuntu.
P.S This actually is a bit anticlimatic, I actually expect to create a disk image, and use sleuthkit. photorec is much more easier. That atchek, hehe.
Monday, January 26, 2009
my little( cousin's) adventure with Sugar
It is the lunar new year, and I got relatives visiting us.
With them is my little cousin, which is around 7 years old. Since I got Sugar Desktop installed. I let them play with it a little. And it is an interesting experiment in a way. Because they did produce something with turtle art activity, and they seems to like Memorize activity. Either way enjoy it.
Btw, Sugar is a dekstop environment used in the olpc. And it is actually available in repository. But the thing is, not everything is there. So I actually consider to compile it.
But it is an interesting experiment
With them is my little cousin, which is around 7 years old. Since I got Sugar Desktop installed. I let them play with it a little. And it is an interesting experiment in a way. Because they did produce something with turtle art activity, and they seems to like Memorize activity. Either way enjoy it.
Btw, Sugar is a dekstop environment used in the olpc. And it is actually available in repository. But the thing is, not everything is there. So I actually consider to compile it.
But it is an interesting experiment
Friday, January 23, 2009
screwed up internet in malaysia
I rediscovered miro, like last. Which is a very cool open source apps, that subscribe to video feeds, and download it for our viewing features.
But of course, there is one problem. The thing is there is plenty of interesting stuff to watch, from feed from Revision3, Discovery, Make, TED, etc. And really the video is not small. Quite a number of it is around > 100 megabyte. And because I only have time on weekends, so I do it in batch.
That's where problem comes. You see, TMNET, is giving substandard service, worst we still stuck with slow speed, around 100 Kilobyte. So it could take me like half a day to download it. And last time, I use maxis 3g, it gives Bandwitdh limit of 3gig. My download already taken half of it already.
I mean seriously, it is about time, for someone to actually fix the ISP or network malaysia. I mean, with many (legal)content online. With organization actually provide online videos. We cannot keeping thinking that 1 megabit is enough, it is not. And we cannot actually 3gigabyte limit is enough for everyone.
With the number of media, online, it probably not enough, for most people. This is not the 90's where people just use the web for emails, and searching. Videos is online, song is online, software is online, finally even documents is online, etc.
Really I am just sick of have to wait for the whole day just to finish a video.
But of course, there is one problem. The thing is there is plenty of interesting stuff to watch, from feed from Revision3, Discovery, Make, TED, etc. And really the video is not small. Quite a number of it is around > 100 megabyte. And because I only have time on weekends, so I do it in batch.
That's where problem comes. You see, TMNET, is giving substandard service, worst we still stuck with slow speed, around 100 Kilobyte. So it could take me like half a day to download it. And last time, I use maxis 3g, it gives Bandwitdh limit of 3gig. My download already taken half of it already.
I mean seriously, it is about time, for someone to actually fix the ISP or network malaysia. I mean, with many (legal)content online. With organization actually provide online videos. We cannot keeping thinking that 1 megabit is enough, it is not. And we cannot actually 3gigabyte limit is enough for everyone.
With the number of media, online, it probably not enough, for most people. This is not the 90's where people just use the web for emails, and searching. Videos is online, song is online, software is online, finally even documents is online, etc.
Really I am just sick of have to wait for the whole day just to finish a video.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Sharing Keyboard and Mouse using synergy
Some time it is nice to actually able to share keyboard and mouse between my laptop and desktop.
The good news is, synergy actually allows such functionality, and it give the ability to share the clipboard too, meaning you can drag and drop between 2 computer.
To start using synergy
On ubuntu go to the menu
system -> administration -> synaptic to install it. Or you can just
sudo apt-get install synergy
sudo apt-get install synergy
On fedora go to menu
system -> administration -> add/remove software and search synaptic
Or you can just
yum install synergy
To start using synergy
create a text file called synergy.cond
section: screens
comp1:
comp2:
end
section: links
comp1:
right = comp2
comp2:
left = comp1
end
change comp1 into the name main computer or the server, and comp2 into the secondary computer
On your main machine, open a terminal and type
synergys -f synergy.conf
On the second machine
synergyc -f
Now you can share keyboard and mouse, with another machine.
BTW there is a windows version too.
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ this article originally in mandarin, on myclug.my, written by me
http://www.myclug.my/wordpress/?p=74
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