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5 years ago
by L@iSeng® in , ,

    2006, is the year of Web 2.0. It is the year where great web innovation happens. It is the year where where AJAX flourish. Overall as far as techonology is concern 2006 is all about web. 2006 has taken the web to the next level where it held alot of promisses and potential. It has been heavily tapped by many

    Web services gain its momentum where the infrastructure are matured and the tools to created it is freely available. 2006 is where you see all the web services like flickr API, Googles API and Yahoo API freely avaialbe to those who can make use of it.

    2006 is also a year where the Open Source Software matures and started to gain recognition from the industry. Linux as grown to be a great product. OpenOffice.org 2.1 has shipped recently. It is also a year where desktop operating system are taken to the next paradigm that is 2D to 3D desktop interface. For Linux, AiGLX, XGL and forked XGL called Baryl is the answer to 3D desktop. Microsoft in the other hand has shipped it’s Vista Aero for 3D desktop experience. But most people dont know that the idea of 3D desktop started by Sun Microsystem with their Project Looking Glass (Wikipedia Article). And Project Looking Glass has just shipped their version 1.0 on December 19th 2006.

    For me, 2006 is a great year. It is the year where i graduated from Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons). It is the year where i got my 1st job. It is the year where i gain the most knowledge on nature, science and technology. And also, the year where i watch the most TV series, animes, movies and documentaries.

    This year alone, i’ve been following:-

TV Series
Lost Season 3
Stargate SG-1 Season 10
Stargate Atlantis Season 3
Eureka
Top Gear Season 1 to 8
Jericho
Scrubs Season 1
supernatural Season 1 and 2
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5 to 7
CSI: Miami Season Season 3 to 5
CSI: New York Season 1 and 3

Anime
FullMetal Alchemist
Full Metal Panic
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig
Death Note
Bleach Episode only 1-11 :)

Movies
too much don’t want to list them out

Documentaries
too much to list them down also

    So, those are the things that occupy my time this year.

    Not to forget, this incident that happen in 2006 Live Fractured

    Oh ya, 2006 is also the year where i had 2 hair cuts

    2006 is where i got the 1st job, it is also the year where i got my 1st early confirmation for this job and my 1st pay increment and i like this job a lot.

    2006 is the year where i indulge into the world of .NET

    All in all, things has been great after for 2006 (Only if Live Fractured are not added into the equation)

 

Vista Aero Vs. Beryl

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5 years ago
by L@iSeng® in ,

You think Windows Vista Aero is cool?


Windows Vista Aero shots

Wait till you see this Beryl video demo on Linux OS (Download video)


Linux Beryl shots

Think again!
 

mySeng personal guide to Fedora Core 5

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5 years ago
by L@iSeng® in

Recently I’ve installed Fedora Core 5 (FC5) replacing my Fedora Core 4. The first impression of FC5 on my first boot is wow…. Wow in terms of eye candy, wow in terms of ease of use, wow in terms of application provided, and most importantly wow in terms of speed. Installation wise hasent change much since my Redhat 9. I’ve started Linux since Redhat 6.2 and that is my first encounter with the world of true computing. Ever since i’ve learn alot about computing with Linux than Windows. FC5 boots very fast and restart fast and I’ve tried side by side with my roommate Window XP on restart and the result is FC5 restarted into desktop and ready to use while Windows XP just finishing the XP logo with loading bar beneath it.

NOTE: The system with Window XP is the same as mine except for its RAM. His is 1024 MB and mine is 512 MB DDR RAM

All application works well and haven’t encounter any crashes with application yet. All application launches like browser popup ads. Like redhat it provides all the user friendly tools to configure hardware and the OS environment itself.

I personally prefer KDE than Gnome and guess what it comes with KDE-3.5.1 and it itself optimized speed and memory consumption. Previously there is talk about FC5 which takes out more memory and requires more memory to operate is a false claim. The memory that are uses are smaller than FC4 and when you close an application you can simply see the memory used decrease quite immediately. FC4 in the other hand, when you close an application you need to wait few seconds or minutes before the memory is released from use.

Fedora Core 5 - KDE

There is still some more work that i to do that is to tweak it to make it a more personal and more user friendly for me. There is some third party application that need has to be installed. There is some rough edges on final release of FC5 that needs to be iron out. Particularly it dosent play multimedia well such as MP3, AVI, and etc. So there is some rpms that need to be installed to make it work. And the following are the rpms that you need to install to let you play all those media. Included is some of the guide that you might want to know.

NOTE before you do any of those below you need to do this first

# rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/…/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

To play MP3 on amaroK

# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

To install XMMS and play mp3 on XMMS

# yum install xmms xmms-mp3

To play video media you can use VideoLan Client

# yum install videolan-client

To get NVIDIA Graphic card support please use this guide http://forums.fedoraforum.org/……php?t=99285&highlight=nvidia+core

To install Adobe Reader v7 do this

# yum install compat-libstdc++

download Adobe reader RPM from Adober website http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

# rpm -ivh \AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386.rpm

is directory where you downloaded Adobe Reader rpm located

There is two great site for newbie of Fedora Core 5

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html

http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html

Howto use ntbootloader to boot Linux

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6 years ago
by L@iSeng® in ,

This is recommended way to dual boot Linux and Windows XP or Windows 2000 for new user of Linux who might screwed up their Linux. When you install Linux, it will erase the Master boot record (MBR) and change it to point to linux partition which contain GRUB or LILO(both of them are Linux Boot Loader). Linux boot loader will handle the booting of Linux and other OSes. One problem with this is when you wanna delete you Linux you might encounter the problem where you can’t boot Windows anymore because MBR are pointing to GRUB or LILO which you have erased or it corrupted because you have set something wrong. One way to get through this is to use ntbootloader (default bootloader for windows). You can use ntbootloader to boot linux by changing the way it works. To know more detail on how to make use of ntbootloader to boot linux, please follow the steps provided:-**NOTE you can only do this when you are installing Linux. make sure that you install linux boot loader (GRUB or LILO) in the first sector of Linux Boot partition ( /boot ) or it wouldn’t work at all

Requirement:-

  • Windows XP Home or Professional Edition
  • Windows NT 4.0 or later
  • GRUB or LILO boot loader(any other Linux boot loader) must be installed in first sector of Linux Boot partition to do you have to change make you linux installation to install the boot information in you linux boot partition (/boot) not the MBR (**Very important)
  • A Linux Boot Disk

When you have all the above requirements then follow the instruction below :-

  1. Insert you Linux Boot Disk into floppy drive then boot your system.
  2. when you successfully boot into linux then launch a console.
  3. type in this command (without the” #”)

    # dd if=/dev/    hdaXX bs-512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lin
  4. hdaXX is your /boot partition. if your /boot partition is at /dev/hda10 then you must keyin

    # dd if=/dev/hda10 bs-512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lin

  5. bootsect.lin is the file name that you wanted to create in the floppy disk and you can use anyname you like. in this case i used bootsect.lin as my file name and i will use this name throught out this tutorial.
  6. the command above is copying the 1st sector of /boot partition and turn it into a file which then you store it in a floppy disk. (NOTE: you can copy it into floppy disk or any other location where windows can access it)
  7. Restart you Operating System into Windows.
  8. Copy the file bootsect.lin from the floppy disk to you C:\
  9. Then click Start\run and keyin this line
    c:\boot.ini
  10. Add thisline c:\bootsect.lin=”My Geek Linux” in boot.ini
    THIS IS HOW IT WILL LOOK LIKE IN BOOT.INI AFTER ADDING IT

    [boot loader]
    timeout=30
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
    c:\bootsect.lin=”My Geek Linux”
     (This example that i use is Windows XP, if you use other versions of windows,it might be a little bit different)

  11. After that save the file and you can now boot into Linux using NT Bootloader
  12. You can now do anything you like to Linux and still be able to boot in Windows like normal
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