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I’ve been wanting to use Google Gears since the first day it was released, but no luck for me as I’m using 64 bit Linux, which is currently not a supported platform for it. I kept waiting until today, that I really wish to try Wordpress, the blogging application for this blog of mine on [...]

02 Sep, 2008

Prison Break is back!

Posted by: shakir In: Information Insemination

Just for an announcement, Prison Break is back on its fourth season today, and torrents of it’s season premiere has already been made available..

31 Aug, 2008

Golden Axe in Linux

Posted by: shakir In: Information Insemination

I was browsing the net today and a keyword popped up in my head, "Golden Axe". Golden Axe was an old game I remember playing when I was a kid. Google brought me to Abandonia, the lair of old (and abandoned) games.
When downloaded, I tried to run it using wine but presented with the following [...]

I recently published an article titled Create SSH SOCKS proxy tunnel for secure web browsing at TechRecipes. Feel free to read and comment at that site.
The article is about creating a SOCKS proxy using SSH, which when configured on a web browser can be used to secure HTTP traffic through tunneling and can be used [...]

I recently published an the article Bypass CPanel’s jailshell using PHP at TechRecipes. Feel free to read and comment at that site.
The article is about using simple HTML and PHP to execute Linux commands at the web hosting server. In shared webhosting environment, this can be very dangerous as it can be used to do [...]

I was doing some work with many terminals open, and in one terminal I typed the following to access my MySQL databases;

$ mysql -u root

and I’ve been granted access, as I don’t set any password for my local MySQL account. I was somehow surprised however when I run the following command

mysql> show databases;

as I’ve been [...]

01 Jul, 2008

Outstationed..

Posted by: shakir In: Information Insemination

I’m on my travelling spree, from Kuantan, Penang, and then to Miri for some site visits. It’s only my second day now but I’m already missing my 4 months old baby at home, and my other baby, which is my wife of course, sigh!

21 May, 2008

Using GPG with GMail in Firefox

Posted by: shakir In: Information Insemination

Gmail is my favorite email client, that I use it for all my email accounts. It’s web based, and package features that other email clients don’t have (or at least not as good) such as its labels and spam filter. It somehow doesn’t have GPG support to sign and encrypt email.
This is where Firefox and [...]

24 Apr, 2008

Photo gallery updated

Posted by: shakir In: Information Insemination

I was at Kelantan a while ago, and have uploaded photos of my visit to my online photo gallery. Find them here.

19 Apr, 2008

Enable Vim Line Numbering

Posted by: shakir In: Information Insemination

Line numbering is a very useful feature in a text editor, especially for programmers. Being a full feature text editor, Vim also have it supported, but not enabled by default.
To enable it, simply add this line to /etc/vim/vimrc or ~/.vimrc

set number

or just type

:set number

while you’re already in Vim.



  • tebu: nak tanya sikit, untuk maxis punya kenapa dia ada keluar error +CME ERROR: SIM PIN required. user: maxis pass: wap betui ka..sim pin tu nak ke
  • shakir: Ditesh: I'm still able to download the game here from my end, but anyway, I've emailed you the game. p/s: The new Golden Axe game is in the making
  • Ditesh Gathani: Hi, I've been trying to download the said software but the site keeps timing out. Would it be possible for you to share the software through email?
  • apis: he he T Bag....
  • apis: cayalah
  • achoi: Salam, Buku tentang network security xde ke bang. Klu ada nk tempah awl² skit.hee :D
  • shakir: I blog about this actually because I was frustrated when I got no reply from the hosting company after reporting to them about this, though there was
  • Danesh: Talk to the hosting company and get to sponsor you a co-hosted package for your discovery... :D
  • shakir: Thanks for the invite bang. But then, I'm just a (PHP) script kiddie, tak layak nak masuk competition ni.. :)
  • shakir: I've already updated the firmware, and I don't keep copy of it. Sorry.

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