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Hey !! I can see what inside that ISO's !!!

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 4:39 AM

I can't find any solution to see what inside of ISO file until i know the power of "mount" command. Simple tips does magic !!! We used to burn the ISO or used some burning tool like Nero or xCDroast in order to know the content of the image. With this little command you can mount your ISOs and place to anywhere you want, in flash drive for example. Here is the trick :

  • Log in as super user ( su ) or use sudo command
  • Create a mount point eg: mkdir /mnt/iso
  • Issue this : mount -t iso9660 -o loop .iso /mnt/iso

That's it !!! Explore your extracted ISO in /mnt/iso with nautilus ( if you use Gnome ) or Konqueror / Dolphin ( if you use KDE )

Tired of those typing commands? try Kiso , a nice GUI tool to create, edit, and see your ISOs

Creating a swap file

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 9:16 AM

Sometimes there is a case you can't make a swap partition in linux. Perhaps you've got a tiny size partition on your linux box because of that greedy vista in size. Now we're going to make just a swap file, like windows do.

Swapping on file is easy, but it has one lack. It is slower than swap partition. But if don't care about the calculation, read on.

First, make a file on your own. 256 M, 300 M, 512 M or whatever. Feel free to decide.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/500Mb.swap bs=1M count=512


a little explanation : if means input file, since we create a file from nothing then we look for zero device under directory /dev . While of means output file.

format the file as a swap filesystem by using command :

sudo mkswap /mnt/500Mb.swap

That's it. You already have an active swap filesystem. Issue a free command if you find yourself curious.

One last trick, in order your linux automatically read it at boot time is to put a line in your /etc/fstab file.

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab ( use your prefered editor )

add this line below to your /etc/fstab file

/mnt/500Mb.swap swap swap defaults 0 0




Small Tip : How to know whether your site is indexed by Google or not

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 12:57 AM

People asking me a lot about this, they just don't know whether their site is already indexed by Google or not. Here are small tip every one can do about :

Go to Google's home page. In the search box fill in " site:www.yoursitename.whateever " ( without quotes ) and voila ! Have you already indexed yet?

How about PageRank? Can i know what PageRank for my site? Yes, honey. And fortunately there is one good free tool you can use. It is called Google Rank Checker. Just fill your URL, Your Description and Location and then hit submit button. It is less than a minute to find out your PageRank.

Most frequent used firefox hotkeys

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 10:20 PM

I found that hotkeys / shortcut was very useful. But sometimes we just don't care for it Here are some hotkeys / shortcuts in firefox i frequently used. I hope it can saves your time -:) :

Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4 (Close Tab)
Instead of click red icon on the tab, just pres Ctrl-w.

Ctrl-Tab (Move to next Tab)
Move to the next tab use Ctrl-tab without using your mouse.

Ctrl-Shift-Tab (Move to previous Tab)
Move to the previous tab…

Ctrl-Shift-T (Undo Close Tab)
You can visit closed tab again…

Alt-D (Select Address Bar)
Alt-d and type the address..

Ctrl-K (Select Search Bar)
Like Alt-d, but this select search bar.

Ctrl-D (Bookmark current tab)
I think most of you known this hotkey

Ctrl-Shift-D (Bookmark all tabs)
Tired bookmark all tabs one by one, try this hotkey.

Ctrl-F (Search Word)
Maybe this is the most keyboard hotkeys that i used. It is very useful to find a word in a webpage.

Tip : Choosing The Right Distro

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 10:39 PM

People who are new to Linux® are often confused by the large number of distributions to choose from. One of the things that is very confusing to new Linux enthusiasts is the "distro," or distribution. And one of the most confusing things about distributions, for the beginner, is that there is no official definition of what a distribution is, exactly: distributions existed in many forms long before anyone cared. Based on Distrowatch , currently there are 367 distro released on the earth, errrgh.. that's sound confusing. Fortunately, we can ignore most of them. Just pick up one of these 5 big distribution for your daily productivity. They are in alphabeticaly order :

Hey, where is my Debian? Well, Debian is also a popular distro, and it's also have it's 'grandchild distro' like Mepis, Ubuntu and etc, but it's consistency in making a good quality software makes they often late for releasing new versions of the distro. While others reach a high version number of development release, Debian is still in version 4.

Besides those 5 large distribution, You may consider the following for making the right decision :

1. Support
Pickup one distro for example Ark Linux and try googling it. How many discussion forum talking about Ark Linux you got? How active are they? How fast can you get an answer if you post a question there? How about the official product support? Are they still live?

2. Documentation
I found that every large distribution offers documentation in so many languages. OpenSuSE gives a goog translation so did Ubuntu. The Docs usually can be on installation disc. Please explore the docs first before you go to installation.

3. Installation / Update Tools
How do i install sofware in linux? is it as easy as 'click next' as in windows world? Can i upgrade a distribution without a mess? Yes, you can ! Nowadays that 5 big distros has bundled its software management, and software installing and uninstalling will be simple and easy even for newbies. Let's see what we've got here. OpenSuSE hast its YaST2, Ubuntu and Debian alike has apt, Fedora and all rpm based sofware has RPM. You don't have to messed up with all of those dependencies problems.

4. Kernel Version
The newer the kernel, chances are more detectable for some newer hardware. This is important issue as not all the hardware vendor release their driver in linux version. Bug fixes should also be done in the newest kernel, so you won't be worry about any security problems as these guy in the kernel developers work hard for releasing new version.

5. If you still affraid :
You have sooooo many ways just to taste linux. Try something called liveCD distro. Linux got tons of this kind. Say Puppy Linux ( it's very small distribution ) Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu Live CD, Knoppix ( First LiveCD distro i ever know ). In most cases, it gives a personal experience in linux since you don't have to install it on your hard drive. Just boot and run linux live from your CD or DVD drive. Another option is USB drive. Visit Pendrivelinux for more



Determine what kind of file

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 9:10 PM

In Linux, file extensions are not nessesary nor do they alway tell you what type of file you have. You may have a text file named hot.jpg for instance. One way you can determine what type of file you have is the file command. Supposed you also have a graphic file named hot2.jpg. Issue following command and see what the ouput tells you... :

file hot.jpg
file hot2.jpg


Default Compiling

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 9:03 PM

Just in case you're downloading a program in tarball and gzipped. Why would we want to download the source? First of all, it can be more flexible for those who are familiar with source code. And, with source code on hands, we can customize the installation eg: Put the installation directory in some other place, make the flag and tell the program about hardware we use and also because of the nature of the linux community, virtually all of the software available for it is available in source code format. Most of it is in Tar-Gzipped Form.

In order to install software, simply follow these steps:


1) type `tar -xvzf FILENAME' (It should expand into a directory of the same name)

2) Go into that directory
3) type `./configure' (A script will execute that will check your system and prepare to compile)
4) type `make' (Begin compiling)
5) type `make install' (Installs the files in the correct place)

And that's it! You have a fresh new installed piece of software ready to go.

4 GB Storage ( 6 GB on January )

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 3:37 AM

Gmail will increase the free storage gradually in the next days. On October 23, you’ll get 4321 MB of storage, then the growth will slow down until January 4, when you’ll have 6283 MB of storage. From January 4, you’ll receive 3.3 MB every day, that’s 10 times bigger than the current rate of growth.

Another good news is that Google Apps mail accounts will have the same quota as standard Gmail accounts, while Google Apps Premier Edition will have 25 GB mail accounts. Previously, Google Apps accounts had 2 GB of storage, while the business edition offered 10 GB per account.

Gmail didn’t abandon the paid storage option, but you’ll get around 50% more storage for the same price: 10 GB for $20/year, 40 GB for $75/year, 150 GB for $250/year and 400 GB for $500/year. The paid storage will probably become more attractive when Google adds more services, like Google Docs, JotSpot or GDrive.

Links :

Gmail GmailTools GoogleSystem


Development Release : NetBSD 4.0 RC3

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 3:22 AM

Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the third release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 3. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC2. The most important ones are: build of the 32-bit sparc64 kernel is fixed, allowing the sparc release to be built; many fixes to nfe(4) and bge(4) drivers; fixed PR 37037 - kernel memory corruption due to ipnat; support for the HP ML110 G2 / Adaptec 2610SA SATA RAID added to aac(4); fix of an off-by-one error in OpenSSL; avoid kernel crashes in signal handling (PR 37004) and Linux emulation (PR 36920); fix ACPI related interrupt storms due to differences between IOAPIC and classic interrupt routing." Here is the complete release announcement. Installation CD images for a large number of architectures are available from the NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB).


Linux Tips: Find files containing text

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 10:21 PM

Because of our being forgetful in nature, we oftentimes forget the files that we have created. We can only be fortunate if we can still remember the path, folder, or directory where we have stored those missing files. If that's the case, it would never be a big deal then. However, trully this a big problem and even painful if we can't even remember where we have placed the missing files in our computer. "Simple," I'm hearing you... "find it." Yeah, we can find it. But wait, do you know the filename?

Forgetting files and forgetting the filenames are most common in us. I will never believe somebody out there have a photographic memory and has never experienced missing some of the files he had created before. For sure, we all have gone through that frightening experience especially if the file that is missing is so precious to us.

In Windows, this problem can easily be addressed just by using the find or search tool in the Start menu. Can you remember some texts or phrases in the filename? Use "find files with names" and unleash the power of the wildcard character (*). For example, if you can only remember the word "statistic" in the filename, then search for "*statistic*" and that will search for files with the word "statistic" in the filename. "I can't even remember a word in the filename," again I can hear you saying that. Well, I don't think you can't even remeber even a single word in the file content itself. If you can't remember even a word or phrase in the filename then go for the file content itself. In Windows, still you can search for files containing some texts that you specify in your "find files containing text" input box. That will absolutely solve your problem of forgetting words in the filename itself.

However, if you are in Linux, the whole thing would be more different and complex than it is in Windows especially if you are just a normal user dependent on the GUI interface. Linux is more on executing commands from a shell.

So if you are a normal user and that you are facing the "missing files" problem in Linux, don't worry, I will show you the most common methods in solving this issue:

Find files that contain a text string

grep -lir "text to find" *

The -l switch outputs only the names of files in which the text occurs (instead of each line containing the text), the -i switch ignores the case, and the -r descends into subdirectories.

Find files containing search terms on Ubuntu

To find files containing keywords, linux has a powerful command called grep, which you can use to find the lines inside any file or a list of files.

grep -i -n 'text to search' *

List files containing text

Used to recursively search a directory for files containing a string, output the names of the files and the line number. This will search all regular files in for .

grep --with-filename --line-number `find -type f`



New Firefox cousins

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 10:17 PM

What, you didn’t know that Firefox had more than a few branches off from it’s Mozilla base? To keep things simple, we can think of them as cousins (just hope they don’t start kissing). Both the Webrunner and Instantbird projects show a lot of promise and might just be the next big thing for the Mozilla team.

Webrunner - WebRunner is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). The idea behind Webrunner is to make a super light weight browser that is stripped down of all the toolbars, user interface and more so you have a lighter memory footprint and more a a base around the web application you are pointing it at.

Instantbird - This instant messenger client will be Mozilla’s version of Trillian, Pidgin and others that have come before it. That alone should gain it a lot of traction. The basic backbone of the program is up and ready to download right now - but your not yet getting anything other than the ability to say, “I downloaded Instantbird back when it first came out!”. Bring AIM, Yahoo, MSN and others all together the Mozilla way.

I welcome both into the vaguely-related-to Firefox family. From personal use, Instantbird still has a ways to go but Webrunner is looking interesting right now for simple web applications you can’t do without.

How to Increase Your PageRank

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 3:35 AM

What is PageRank?
PageRank - an exclusive technology developed by Google which can have a major impact on the success of your website. This article will attempt to explain the concept of PageRank and how your ranking can be improved without spending any money at all.

How is PageRank beneficial?
Google refers to the technology as a way of evaluating the usefulness, importance, and quality of a website. The PR of a webpage can mean different things for different people.

For a webmaster, a high PR is a sign of accomplishment. It shows that your website is moving in the right direction and has the potential to become successful. PageRank also directly effects your Google search engine listings. Acquiring a higher PR than your competition could mean more traffic for you, and less traffic for your competitors.

Visitors to your website probably won't care about the page's rank (most surfers have no idea what PageRank is). However, visitors who understand PageRank may use your PR as a sign of how credible your content is. Would you rather use the information from a website with 0 PR or a website with 5 PR and hundreds of other websites linking to it?

How is PageRank determined?
PageRank is basically determined by backlinks. A backlink is when another page links to your page. For every page that links to you, that page is "voting" for you. The more votes you get, the better your PageRank will be.

However, it gets more complicated than that because some votes weigh more heavily than others. The weight of the vote is determined by the PageRank of the page linking to you. This means that a couple links from pages with high PR may be more beneficial than hundreds of links from pages with low PR. But it gets even more complicated - each page can only transfer so much PageRank. This means that a PR 7 page could actually give out as much weight per vote as a PR 3 page if it had too many outgoing links.

Google also uses factors totally irrelevant to backlinks to determine PageRank. An example of this is how long your domain has been registered for. It would be good to look into these factors if you want to maximize your potential PageRank, but quality backlinks are still more effective.
How can I improve my PageRank?
There are many different methods to obtain quality backlinks to your website. You will find that some methods work better than others depending on the subject and popularity of your site.

Submit to Web Directories
Submitting your website to directories is one of the best ways to increase your PageRank and even get some traffic at the same time. But submitting your site to just a few directories won't be good enough. You need to sit down and spend the necessary time to submit your site to a large amount of directories. This may seem like a painstakingly long process, but you'll be glad you did it when you notice results. I have taken the time to make a large list of free directories with high PageRank which you can get to by clicking
here. Although directories with low PR may seem like a waste of time, you should submit your site to them too because it still helps and they could eventually become a high PR site which charges money to submit to.

Link Exchanges
A very common practice to improve your PageRank is a link exchange. This is simply where two people link to the other person's website. It's best that you only link exchange with someone who has at least as much PR as you and the subject of the two websites are similar. If you receive a link from a website with a subject which has nothing to do with yours, you'll find that very little if any PR will actually be transferred to you.

Forum Signatures
If you are an active user on a forum or message board, it would be wise to put a link to your website in your signature. This could help improve your PageRank if the forum has a high PR, it could help improve your traffic from the forum members seeing your signature, and your site could get spidered more often because it's linking to a forum (forums generally have a lot of new content every day and search engines love new content).

Buy Advertising
Although it isn't the best of choices, many webmasters will buy text link ads on websites with high PR. Although this can be effective, it can be very expensive and only a temporary thing. If you purchase text links for just a couple months, after the months are over you won't have the backlinks which were giving you the "votes" you needed to keep your PageRank. So you have now spent a large amount of money on text links, but in the end you're right back where you started.

Publish Web Articles
This is a method which not many people know about. Basically, you write articles about the subjects you know a lot about. You then let other people use these articles as long as they provide a link back to your site. If you wrote a quality article, you'll find many websites will want to use it, thus giving you plenty of backlinks. This method can work well with anything which you develope and give away for free such as scripts, web design, etc.

Stay On Google's Good Side
The most important thing to remember when trying to increase your PageRank is to not cheat and to always follow the rules. The people which run Google aren't fools and they have many ways of catching cheaters. Don't even think about using any of the "link farms" or trying to hide keywords on your pages. If caught, you may not get unbanned for many months.

Make A Quality Website

If you have a quality website which your visitors enjoy going to, then you will receive backlinks without having to do anything. Websites will link to you with the intention of informing people of a helpful resource, or showing off a cool new website they found, or any other reason other than trying to increase your PageRank. If you build it, backlinks will come...

Links:

Google PageRank Wikipedia CheckPageRank Alexa



Straight To Linux, You got no windows.

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 9:30 AM

Don't waste time, start using linux along with millions of people around the world. Straight to the point. You got to do these 4 things up :

  1. If you have a fast internet connection, start downloading the latest iso from one big distribution : Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva. These are the most popular distro at the moment. Or, if you don't, buy cheap CDs on OSdisc.com and toko.baliwae.com for indonesian.
  2. Install the penguins. Start your productivity machine. Linux comes with bundled of thousands of programs, and it is all free.
  3. Launch Firefox. This is the fastest browser on the earth. Surf the net, start googling any words that contains linux.
  4. If something messed up, don't worry, you're not alone. There are so many forums focusing on linux today.
Are you Linux ready?

Start Your Linux Experience now.

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 8:56 AM

An operating system is what makes the hardware work along with other application softwares. The OS is the interface that allows one to do various things on one's computer. Linux is a Unix-like operating system for computers. Linux is freely available to everyone. In order to learn Linux one has many options. Many institutes provide the certification courses and also the course can be done online.

This operating system is used for a wide variety of computer hardwares, including desktop computers, supercomputers, mobile phones and routers. As a server platform, it has been adopted worldwide during the last two decades. Many software companies have embraced this new operating system along with Microsoft operating systems. Through the process of embedding, Linux can be incorporated directly into microchips. Linux is available in various versions or distributions. A person can choose the version of Linux that is easy to install, configure and use.

To learn Linux, one needs to be clear of some basic concepts. The most important thing is to know what exactly Linux is. Basically, it is an operating system; but it is only the kernel that is called Linux, the rest of the OS is made up of GNU tools. A Linux distribution consists of a package with the kernel and the other needed tools. Some of the popularly known variants are Mandrake, SUSE, Gentoo and RedHat. Also, one needs to understand files and folders. Knowing what is a root and knowing how to open a command shell are the next steps in learning Linux operating system.

At the time of its creation, Linux was based on the MINIX operating software. But in order to make Linux kernel compatible with the components from the GNU project, some changes were done by the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds. Thus, in this manner Linux became a complete, functional and free operating system. Since then, commercial vendors and non-profit organizations like Red Hat, Novell and others have come up with various new and advanced versions of Linux operating system.

The main thing to keep in mind is that one needs to get a well recognized certification for Linux operating system. This certification is provided by various non-profit organizations and commercial vendors. The certification allows Linux skilled people to demonstrate their skills to their prospective employers. To get the Linux certification one needs to clear certification exams conducted by these entities. The organizations have different courses and the certification exam varies accordingly. Getting a certification in Linux operating system can give a shape to IT professionals as Linux is touted to be the next big thing in the IT industry.

Coal Loading, alias Loading Batubara

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 6:43 AM



Iseng - iseng daripada bengong mikirin yang nggak nggak mendingan ngeblog. Mumet nyari topik akhirnya topik yang didepan mata aja yang dipost. Ya, gambar gambar diatas merupakan sebagian dari rutinitas saya. Gambar diatas memperlihatkan excavator Komatsu PC 200 lagi memuat batubara keatas tronton. Emas hitam seperti inilah yang banyak bikin orang kalimantan kaya mendadak. Sebut saja nama H. Aman Jagau, H. Parlin, H. Herry ( amin ... hehehhehe...).

Gimana nggak kaya, lha wong emas hitam tiap hari dikeruk kayak gitu. Anda juga bisa menangguk rejeki dibisnis ini, cuma hati - hati, mafia yang bermain banyak sekali. Bisa - bisa maunya untung malah buntung. Mafia mafia ini banyak sekali bentuk dan rupa, tidak ketinggalan kategori bisnis yang dikerjakannya juga bermacam - macam. Sebut saja mafia trading batubara. Hati - hati kalau anda atau relasi bisnis anda yang baru berkecimpung. Sudah banyak korban yang melayang. Modusnya adalah mereka berkelompok sesuai tugasnya masing- masing. Ada yang tukang lobi buyer ( anda ), ada pula yang tukang jaga di stokpilenya ( Pura pura jaga distokpile, bahwasanya batu yang dijaga adalah batubara dia ).

Jadi setelah tukang lobi dapat calon mangsa, sudah terjadi deal-deal, dibawalah sang mangsa ini kestockpile, untuk menunjukkan lokasi barang dan barangnya itu sendiri. Setelah korban merasa yakin, final deal terjadi. Buyer kasih Down Payment, besarannya tergantung nego di awal. Setelah itu lenyaplah kawanan mafia tadi membawaa uang Down Payment hasil tipuan mereka. Kini tinggallah sang korban gigit jari, batubara yang distockpile ternyata punya orang dan udah diloading ketongkang hanya dalam satu malam.

Banyak sekali modus - modus mafia batubara. Jika kita tidak hati - hati dan pandai dalam memilih relasi bisnis, kita yang akan jadi korban. Semoga tulisan ini dapat menambah wawasan bagi anda semua.

Gutsy Gibbon Finally release..

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 4:24 AM



Cheers... Lets party... The time has finally come. For those who can't wait may download from ubuntu server directly. Just laucnh your best download manager and point at Ubuntu.com. For server in Indonesia you may visit Kambing , or Foss-id for repositories. For shopper freak, there is only one destination at Bali .


Untung ada Vista..

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 8:58 AM

Sekarang gantian laptop yang nggak bisa booting ke linux. Aku juga sih yang salah, kebanyakan data yang disimpan tapi kapasitas gak memadai, jadi yang diutak atik partisinya. Akhirnya kena deh MBRnya hingga akhirnya Kubuntu jadi gak bisa booting. Mana gak punya rescuenya lagi. Kayaknya perlu external storage nih, barusan liat di bhinneka yang 320 Gb sekitar 130an USD, pheuh.... Tapi untung di desktop ada dual boot Windows Vista sama Ubuntu, jadi ambil trik dari pendrivelinux.com tentang booting via usb flash disk. Manual lengkapnya kira2 begini :

  • Boot dari partisi windows ( dalam kasus ini Vista )
  • Download tools ub7convert di pendrivelinux
  • Download iso ubuntu 7.04.iso
  • Buat folder bernama USB
  • Pindahkan file2 ub7convert yang sudah diextrak bersama dengan iso nya kefolder USB
  • klik file fixu.bat di dalam folder USB
  • Pindahkan seluruh file2 didalam folder USB ke flash disk ( Min 1 Gb, 2 Gb lebih bagus lagi )
  • Reboot, masuk ke BIOS, lalu seting urut2an boot ke USB Drive / USB Zip Drive.

Memang kedengarannya terlalu makan waktu dan boros biaya karena memerlukan file iso dari ubuntu. Tapi hitung - hitung aku menikmati layanan broadbandnya speedy, maklum udah bertahun - tahun fakir bandwith..hehehhe.... Just Keep It Simple..

Top 7 Open Source Anything

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 7:16 AM

The concept of open source is perfectly American. Its foundation is built on people sharing a knowledge base and working together to create a better end product. The movement's success finally is taking a strong foothold, and now it seems no matter where users, administrators or developers turn, there is a useful, viable open-source solution waiting - and all are free!

So many credible contributions have been made that it now is time to rank these opportunities and offer the top seven open-source solutions available today for businesses and personal users. If you have not encountered these solutions yet, you soon will.

-- Ubuntu (operating system): Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system used in enterprise and personal environments for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the necessary applications, including a Web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software and instant messaging. And for administrators, this OS lacks much of the "bulk" weighing down other solutions.

-- Wiki (project): A wiki is a collaborative Web site that can be edited by anyone with access to it. Most users have experience with the popular encyclopedia-based wiki called Wikipedia; however, a wiki has important uses within the private, corporate structure as a broad-based communications tool between employees, clients and vendors.

-- Firefox (Web browser/Internet application): Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and volunteers. This W3C compliant application helps users overcome the pitfalls of other proprietary Internet navigation tools.

-- Asterisk (telephony): Asterisk is the most-widely known open-source PBX solution for VoIP telephony. It is a viable (and affordable) alternative to POTS, with broad technical support bases available online for administrators.

-- OpenOffice (word-processing suite): This office-productivity suite is comparable to MS Office, without the hefty price tag. OpenOffice comes with Writer - a word processor; Calc - a spreadsheet; and, Impress - a presentation package. Its documents can be viewed, modified and re-saved inside and out of the proprietary MS Office suite, so productivity and individual licensing are not issues.

-- PHP (programming/coding): Perl Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, is a scripting language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP applications most commonly are used with Linux servers and MySQL databases. The language provides servers with functionality similar to that provided to the Windows platform by Active Server Pages technology.

-- Zimbra Collaboration Suite (e-mail): This high-powered collaboration suite for e-mail and calendaring comes in two versions: open source, which is unsupported; and, closed source, which contains commercially supported components. The system's user interface includes tool tips, draggable items and right-click menus. It also includes search capabilities and date relations. The Zimbra server can run on a variety of open-source distributions, as well as Mac OSX.

By Aaron Wittersheim
Source : www.GoArticles.com

Apa itu RSS / XML ?

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 6:52 AM

RSS singkatan dari Rich Site Summary atau ringkasan dan bentuk sederhana dari sebuah situs. Kalau di situs, selain isi kita juga dapat melihat gambar dg segala warna warninya, sedang RSS hanya mengandung isi/dokumen dari sebuah situs.

a. Fungsi RSS Feed

Jadi apa gunanya RSS Feed? Guna dari RSS Feed adalah untuk tujuan sindikasi kandungan situs, berita yang ada di situs/blog, dll.

Sindikasi di sini maksudnya, sebuah situs yg memiliki RSS Feed dapat kita baca isinya tanpa harus datang ke website tsb. Contoh, untuk membaca CNN.com, kita tidak perlu datang ke situs tersebut, tapi cukup dg berlangganan RSS Feed CNN yg dapat kita taruh di situs lain yg menyediakan layanan RSS Feed aggregator atau RSS Feed Reader secara gratis. Di RSS Aggregator atau Reader ini bisa kita kumpulkan seluruh RSS Feed situs terkenal dan kita dapat membaca semuanya dalam satu halaman. Misalnya, Anda dapat membaca CNN, BBC, DETIK, Media Indonesia dari http://my.yahoo.com saja. Caranya? Silahkan baca pelan-pelan penjelasan berikut.

b. RSS FEED AGGREGATOR atau READER

Pemberi layanan gratis RSS Feed aggregator atau Reader yg terkenal ada dua yaitu Yahoo! di http://my.yahoo.com dan Google di http://reader.google.com .

c. YAHOO! RSS Aggregator

1. Buka http://my.yahoo.com dg id & password yahoo email Anda.
2. Klik 'Continue to My Yahoo!'
3. Ada dua kolom kiri dan kanan. Semua kolom tsb. bisa Anda delete dg mengklik tanda 'x' atau kalau suka dibiarkan saja.
4. Lihat di bagian paling bawah ada menu 'Add Content' --> klik
5. Di sebelah kanan kotak 'Find Content' ada menu 'Add RSS by URL' --> klik
6. Masukkan RSS Feed dari koran Media Indonesia berikut di kotak yg tersedia:
http://www.mediaindo.co.id/promo/rss.asp
7. Klik 'Add'
8. Klik 'Add to My Yahoo' (warna kuning).
9. Selesai.

Apabila Anda ingin menambah RSS feed dari koran atau media lain Anda cukup lakukan hal serupa secara berulang-ulang. Sayangnya, masih sedikit media di Indonesia yg situsnya memiliki RSS Feed. Untuk media barat dan India, hampir semua sudah menyediakannya.

d. RSS Feed Blog

Hampir semua blog gratis memiliki RSS Feed. Untuk blogspot, alamatnya berakhiran dg atom.xml. Contoh, blog saya http://kolom-mario.blogspot.com, maka RSS Feed blog saya tsb adalah http://kolom-mario.blogspot.com/atom.xml

e. Cara Meng-copy RSS/xml FEED

Cara meng-copy RSS Feed sangat mudah. Arahkan mouse pada RSS atau XML Feed sebuah situs, umpama di CNN.COM. Klik kanan dan copy shortcut -> klik. Terus paste-kan ke My Yahoo! seperti proses di atas. Selesai.

Sumber :
http://seo-blog-optimization.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

Tips on slow computer fixes for computer running slow.

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 6:47 AM

Is Computer running slow; it might be time to start fresh.

This can be one of your problems fragmentation of your hard disk is another cause for your computer running slow. If your computer running slow and sluggish.

Could Be Files Making Your Computer Running Slow

You see there are some dll files that are shared between programs. These can also make your computer run slow, what you could do is have an Optimizer to get rid of old and unwanted files in your register and on the computer, do a search on Google for PC cleaner.

You might have corrupted files, your computer could have faulty memory, currupt windows files, your power supply could be on its way out, however my best guess would be your RAM.

Might Be A Program Problem

You might find that programs will often set the Load on start-up feature automatically when installing so deselect this option during the installation to take control. When on the net and you go to certain web sites, little programs or tracking cookies are put on your computer. Another big no no is , if you open attachments in emails, little programs can be installed on your computer.

In Windows There Is Some Help

Did you know that within Windows includes a Disk Defragmenter program to piece all your files back together again and make them quicker to open.

This is what happens, Windows lets closed programs stay in memory; that's why you have to reboot your computer to keep the performance up. , Windows XP runs very well with 512M, and ok with 256M, but a PC runs slow with less.

Can Your Computer Be Fixed?

If your computer runs slow is very possible to be fixed.

There can be files, using resources on YOUR computer, which you never asked for. These can get there by what's called spyware or adaware.

You Should Run A Virus Scan And Spyware Scan

By running one of these free scans will mean you can decide if you need to obtain this type of software to maintain your Registry.

You'll find that most computers that are running slow, are targets of malicious software infections.

Why Is Your Computer So Slow

Be aware that there are many possible causes for a slow computer, not all are Spyware or Adware related although the majority of cases tend to be.

Another reason for slow performance issues can often be due to overheating, so if the system is faster after it has been shutdown for a while and then restarted -- that would be especially suspect.

By adding memory can be the least expensive and yet one of the most significant ways to fix slow system.

By Running Too Many Programs

This will help too, if you can reduce a few programs running in the background. What you do is click to highlight any program you don? want , (but leave ones like Systray running) Click End Task.

One good thing is if you are running Windows there are several tools you may wish to try, like Scandisk, Disk Defragmentor, and Disk Cleanup.

What Can Affect Your System

One thing that can happen is when a computer go slows it has probably been infected by several types of malicious software, and every single one of them are competing with the others for the available system resources.

Be very mindful that there are also highly destructive viruses out there that will physically destroy your system.

Next we want to cleanup any errors on the drive using Scandisk, so go to Start-My Computer-right click on the C: drive and choose Properties-Tools Tab-Error checking-click the Check Now button-check the Automatically fix system errors-click Start.

Have you or your family complained about your computer running slower than ever. Computers Software Internet Is your computer running slow, your Computer Registry may be part of the problem.

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Add your Firefox On..

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 11:28 PM

Firefox is becoming the most popular browser right now, and guess you are viewing my blog with this speedy browser. But have you ever expand your firefox abilities to its limit? Just surf to Mozilla home site. You'll find a great number of addons there. You will get hundreds of beautiful themes, plugins and numerous extension for your firefox. One popular extension is clipmarks. With clipmarks, you can clip the best part of webpages with just a few clicks !. Text, image, pages and even more videos.. Here is the snapshot:



With clipmarks, you can :



The Next Version of Ubuntu

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 11:06 PM

1 Day to go to Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon and Ubuntu announced their next version of Ubuntu. As in fridge said, this next version have The Hardy Heron as its code name. As a periodically release, The Hardy Heron supposed to be the easiest without unnecessary complexity distribution. As far as i know, ubuntu provide the best for their end user, especially in their new release Gutsy Gibbon. Many Features added in Gutsy, such as improved Hardware Detection, Compiz Fusion for 3D Desktop Effects, Office Productivity Suite, Games and Many More.

In the next version of ubuntu, Everyone is welcome to participate, everyone is welcome to get involved, and everyone is welcome to help shape the form of the Hardy Heron. Participants would log in to launchpad.net

Google Desktop 1.1 for Linux Released..

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 10:17 PM

After the first released on Last June, Now Google launch it's easy to use, fully integrated desktop and internet search program Google Desktop 1.1 for Linux. As they say in googledesktop.blogspot.com , they redefine and improve many aspects of the programs. If you are linuxer and used to find files on your computer, you might type like this in the console box : find -name '*.blah' -print blah blah. But now with Google Desktop searching is easy than ever. With one single click there you'll find what you are loooking for. Here is my screenshot :




So dont waste your time, give it a spin at http://desktop.google.com !!

Akhirnya Speedy masuk juga ke Satui...

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 7:47 AM

Setelah menunggu bertahun - tahun, uang habis terkuras untuk biaya ngenet via Telkomnet Instan dan XL GPRS serta Telkomsel Flash, akhirnya Telkom Speedy akhirnya masuk juga ke hutan belantara Satui Sungai Danau. Itu pun molor satu bulan dari rencana bulan 9 kemarin, tapi biarlah, dari pada gak ada akses broadband sama sekali. Sebenarnya wilayah Satui masuk wilayah kode area Pelaihari, tapi kenapa ya kok malah di launch di Satui, padahal disini kan hutan? Mungkin karena pertimbangan banyaknya perusahaan tambang batubara disini. PT Arutmin aja ada disini, belum lagi yang akan beroperasi Leghton, Kontraktornya PT Wahana Baratama Mining. Ditambah lagi tambang tambang kelas lokal, pheuhh... debunya minta ampuuunn....

Back to Speedy. Line Speedy yang akan dijual katanya cuman 15 dan yang nomor satu mendaftar siapa lagi kalo bukan saya.. hehehehe... Tapi sayang yang ditawarkan cuman paket unlimited aja, agak mahal juga, sekitar 700 ribu / bulan flat. Dihitung - hitung kenanya 23 ribuan sehari. Puas - puasin deh downloadnya. Saya mulai tanggal 10 kemarin sampai tanggal 16 udah download 2 gigaan. Something impossible in dial up connection.. Jadi kepikiran mau bisnis warnet nih jadinya, beli satu line lagi, trus pake LTSP aja biar murah hardwarenya. Gtg dulu, ngantuk..


The Great Wubi..

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 7:25 AM

Yesterday i messed up my linux box, i couldn't boot up into my lovely ubuntu. Well, I can do computing stuff in Windows Vista since i have dual boot system. But i miss that penguins! Even i couldn't boot from cdrom drive, i also tried pendrivelinux.com but nothing succeed. I tried googling the whole web until i found this great programs on wubi-installer.org . The main concept is Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. It's easy and simple, just download the programs from download area, after that click on it and follow the instructions. And the great news is....it's absolutely free.....

Why you can't send your wife to hardware store

Written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 5:21 AM

clipped from jo-kes.blogspot.com

Earl was fixing a door and he found that he needed a new hinge, so he sent his wife Mary to the hardware store. At the hardware store, Mary saw a beautiful teapot on a top shelf while she was waiting for Carl, the manager, to finish waiting on a customer.

When Carl was finished, Mary asked “How much for the teapot?”

Carl replied, “That’s silver and it costs $300!”

“My goodness, that sure is a lotta money!” Mary exclaimed. Then she proceeded to describe the hinge that Earl had sent her to buy, and Carl went to the back room to find it.

From the back room Carl yelled, “Mary, you wanna screw for that hinge?”

Mary replied, “No, but I will for the teapot.”

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