Archive for February, 2006

It has been quite a while that I didn”t update my blog, and here”s just to update on what have been doing lately;

1. Website revamp
As can already be seen, my website has gone through a major revamp, and that had cost me a considerable amount of time and effort, and for those who don”t even notice it, you can read from the many announcements and such that I put everywhere in the website. This is probably the main cause that I was not able to update the website”s content”s, and I”m sorry for that. The revamp is mostly complete by now, and I have great days to come to spend with this website as there many plans that I have in mind. Anyway, what good is a plan if it”s not executed, and for that let”s just see how things go..

2. Usrah
We”ve had 2 sessions of Usrah Linux (this is just a temporary name since we still couldn”t decide on a name for our weekly Linux discussion group) already that I didn”t cover in this blog. During last week”s session, we had a lightning round but since everybody has too much to say, only 4 of us manage to come forth and share with others. I started it with my website”s internals (joomla and components, SEO, robots, htaccess etc2.) and Mahmud @ Yomud followed with a demo on using memgrep to see memory”s content. Bro Adli later showed us GPG and as usual, he come with good explainations which most of the time is much more than just a brief. Fadli ended up the session by sharing some KDE tips; ssh -X kicker to ease remote X session, running kdeinit to speedup kde program”s initialisation / execution, remote printing using kprinter and lastly using fish on konqueror.

Last night we had another session and during that Bro Adli shared with us his experience in using snort, with some demos and explained on how to write snort signatures. The session ended with late night dinner at Bangi Bistro as usual.

3. Joomla and PHP
Ever since my manager told me that I”ll be taking over the role of our resigning PHP/Portal developer, I”m getting more serious into PHP, and Joomla in particular. This website by itself is a training ground for me for that purpose, though initially the existence was for me to share what I think is useful, apart from improving my writing skill, which is bad at this time.

When someone actually said that I’ve been tagged, the only thing that came to my mind at that time was WWE (though I dont really watch it). After I’ve learned that what she meant was just to copy and paste the questionaires and have it posted in my blog (with my own answers for sure), here’s my short entry to that.

1)What is the total number of books you own?
Most of my books went MIA, and I don’t really keep records of what I own (and who borrow my books). I can say it’s over a hundred, and if it is to include comics that I use to collect, then the number counts to over a thousand.

2)What is the last book you bought?
As in previous blog, I bought 10 books at once and haven’t bought myself any new ones afterward. And among these 10, I don’t know which one goes last to the counter when I actually bought it.

3)What is the last book you read?
I finished reading The Search, a business book by John Battelle.

4)What are you currently reading?
If it’s a book, then my answer would be the MySQL book that I recently bought. Taking some time since it’s not just for read, but also to try what it contains. But I actually read online contents a lot more than books, but I’m not sure if it counts in this ‘book’ tag.

5)What are the 5 books that mean a lot to you?
1- Al-Quran
2- Tafseer
3 – Can I skip this part?

6)What book(s) do you wish to buy next?
Whatever that I might find interesting when I’m at the bookstore.

7)What book(s) have you owned for so long but never read them?
Some ‘jawi’ based books that I actually pay attention to the one giving the lectures rather than the book. Bought the books since the lecturer request everybody to personally have the books, and didn’t read it since I’m not good with ‘jawi’.

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
Can only think of 2 for now;
1. Bro Adli; borrowed some interesting books from him and I believe he has a lot more in his collection.
2. Bro Shaiful; he has a library at home, but now since he’s at cardiff pursuing his PhD, I don’t know what books has he added to his collection.

9) Your books collection in one picture:

 

 

A collection of mostly unpopular and boring computer books, which fails to attract people to borrow them and in the end, being safe from missing at other people’s hand as most of it’s counterparts..

 

 

Newer and oftenly used books has their own places, not on this shelves and not shown here for some reason

A bit off-topic:
Some 5 months collection of scrapped papers, which I believe were part of my reading, to be sent to the recycling centre. Recycle, keep the environment safe for us, and our childrens.

p/s: Buy original books. Don’t make illegal copies. I have this on the wall at home, and I can make copies of it for whoever interested

It has been mentioned by bro Adli in his blog and last nite we had another meeting, though most of the group members are still on with their holiday. It was supposed to be a lightning round but since there were not many people around Yomud started with some extra heavy rain apart from just the lightning with over an hour of motivational stuff (not really OSS related though). It was later followed with some kernel patching stuff and followed by my eclipse and subversion story telling.

These are shots from some of the sessions that we just had.

Some wi-foo in action

Rosli and his gadget.

Yomud explaining CARP (not carp the fish)