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Smiletag Shoutbox is the shoutbox that I have on my website’s sidebar. I’ve been using it since I was using Joomla for my website, and now that I moved to Wordpress, Smiletag is still my shoutbox of choice.
Installing it in Joomla is very straightforward, while it’s not really the case with Wordpress, as it requires [...]

I received a package earlier today, and was very happy to find out that it’s the Huawei E220 that I ordered few days ago. This Huawei E220 is a 3G card that supports speed of up to 3.6 Mbps, using HSDPA technology, and it makes me can’t wait to have it work with Gutsy Gibbon. [...]

Part of a project I’m into requires me to dig for some details on IP addresses. Normal whois query (default to whois.apnic.net) don’t give me the information that I really need for, and upon searching I came to the Prefix Whois Project. They have came up with whob, and from the website I get to [...]

I’ve been using Nikon D40X on my previous trip to Jakarta (and Bandung). For this I need to update my previous script as there are few differences, as the following:

I set the camera to use RAW format rather than jpeg
Data transfer is through the laptop’s built in MMC card slot, rather than USB
I’m now a [...]

I was just watching a movie while suddenly all the files except the hidden ones in my home directory were gone, just as someone issued the command
sudo rm -rf /home/shakir/*
To avoid further data loss, I quickly power off and boot into my Ubuntu live CD to create an image of my /home partition. Here’s how [...]

I’ve suddenly lost all the files in my home folders, and I quickly do these to not let the impact to be as bad, if it ever recurs.
Say 192.168.1.10 is my backup server (anduril), herugrim is my laptop’s name, these are the steps I did to let my laptop automatically rsync to the backup server.
Configure [...]