"Mafia not allowed in Kitchen"
Argh.
Oh. Just found out that Im giving the keynote at foss.my ... hopefully not much to update on the slide! (yes just one). 4:09 PM yesterday (7 Nov) from TwitterFoxFor more tweets on foss.my, click here.
@aizatto just one slide, remember? 5:09 PM yesterday from TwitterFox in reply to aizatto
@angch OK! Good luck in setting things up. Make sure xrandr works with the projectors. 5:18 PM yesterday from TwitterFox in reply to angch
Checking the slide for fossmy. about 24 hours ago from TwitterFox
Awake! Bleary eyed, but off to fossmy now. about 17 hours ago (8am Saturday 8 Nov) from TwitterBerry
Alright! At #fossmy now! My keynote shd be on soon, after the registration queue gets shorter. about 16 hours ago from TwitterBerry
30 speakers at #fossmy, and OLPCs to be given out! about 16 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Heh @rajdylan's guitar skills abit rusty, but it was fun! about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@brianritchie ah, its always cheesy, but brings a smile all the time. about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to brianritchie
Whoah, Twitter is busy at #fossmy about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@brianritchie ill be here both days! about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to brianritchie
Hmm @seraphine, maybe we need a BOF for twitter at #fossmy to add them twits. about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@aizatto just 30 hours to go! Eat sugar. about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to aizatto
Bought a Inkscape sticker at the foyer of #fossmy. Cute! Get your own, you call the price. about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry
#fossmy "customers should have a choice" - Microsoft about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry
"Windows is a framework to support DRM. Novell is working on it for Linux" - Microsoft about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Accessibility talk by @kaeru at #fossmy. about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Fadlin will be demoing how a blind user uses the gnome desktop with assistive tech at #fossmy about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Not everyday you can drop off Dylan to a guitar lesson about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Malaysian Association to the Blind will be rolling out Linux desktops to their members in 2009. #fossmy ftw! about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Anybody with old DDR1 ram is required to upgrade Mal Assoc for Blind computers. If u have any old PCs, please contact @kaeru about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Earth247.tv by @cerventus. - "Drupal has a high learning curve, but everything else is sucky after it" about 11 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Darn u @cerventus and your audience participation! I'm running around passing the mikes to people at #fossmy about 10 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@brianritchie I was the sneakernet! about 10 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to brianritchie
30k mysql queries per second with memcached instead of 6k on a good day without. Mixi tech talk by Toru @tmaesaka at #fossmy about 10 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Mixi is beta, but corporate thinks its "better"! about 10 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Ruby talk by @aizatto. He doesn't need the mike. about 9 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Aizat gives love to OSX filesystem events. I thunk it was #fossmy? about 9 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@seraphine @cheeaun - with 20% less pay? about 9 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to seraphine
@kagesenshi good work dude! Thanks for carrying the boxes up for me. about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to kagesenshi
Blender Inkscape and GIMP - BIG stack for digital content creation! Lightning talks at #fossmy ftw! about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@fossmy - GOD wins with lightning talks. Zeus maybe! about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to fossmy
"Regularity is important to keep the community growing." - @piawaugh at #fossmy about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry
@cheeaun where are you, we haven't met. about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry in reply to cheeaun
"Linux Australia is a terrible name because its more than linux" - @piawaugh ... "Change your NAME!!!" - @rms about 7 hours (6pm) ago from TwitterBerry
"Hacking with your friends on FOSS is a legitimate career move!" - @piawaugh at #fossmy about 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry
"New South Wales is rolling out 250k OpenOffice.org to their teachers." - @piawaugh at #fossmy about 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry
"Mad Dog Hall totally inspired me at the first LCA, for me to contriute" - @piawaugh ... Hopefully someone here at #fossmy will be inspired about 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry
"A dozen good journalists in Australia who are clueful about FOSS. There is interest now in the Biz and Govt community" - @piawaugh #fossmy about 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Cambridge 5 Card Mao ftw!!! Thanks @piawaugh! about 3 hours ago from TwitterBerry
awk ' { line[NR] = $0 }]
END { for (i=NR;i>0;i--)
print line[i] }' twitter.txt > rettiwt.txt
'Wang' means money in malay, however combining it with 'Package' certainly gives it a whole different spin. This poor combination is definitely a branding fail for TMNet.Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book ... (read it)This will certainly evoke horrible imagery when you next go to Sungai Wang.
Me: Please don't park in the handicapped bayFine! So I took this picture:
Doofus: Huh?
Me: Are you physically challenged?
Doofus: No?
Me: Then why did you park there?
Doofus: Cannot ah?
Me: No!
Doofus: Who are you?
Me: Just a concerned citizen.
Doofus: So? ... Do what you have to do lah
Some may say that technically he is "correct", because the sign says handicapped to the left and right. It doesn't say anything about parking in the middle! Hah. But driver of BJD 8282, you are a true pillock.
Drivers of BHW 262 and WMB 4425, you too must be mentally challenged to be so totally inconsiderate. Shame on you. Parking Cretins.Driver of car BJD 8282. Pray very very hard that you never ever officially qualify to use these parking spaces. It is no fun for a disabled person to travel twenty kilometers to run errands only find all accessible parking spaces taken up by inconsiderate people like you and leaving us no place else to park.Update: 31 Oct 08: Eleanor of "Freewheeling" wrote a post "Being caught parking in disabled car parking spaces" and featured our SYN.net smugfaced friend.
"... its one way for them to catch notoriety and be marked by their behavior and be splattered over different blogs for being shown to be inconsiderate. Shame on them!"]
In continuation of Khairil's meme for foss.my, "I love OOo!"#sudo apt-get install unoconvAnd then running it may get you this error:
# unoconv -f pdf TC4-*.od?The reason is because you need to have OpenOffice.org running in the background (or in a remote server) first. Launch soffice, and run the command line again, and everything will succeed quietly.
Error: Unable to connect or start own listener. Aborting. javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
# hcitool scanTest that the phone has the required features, and find out the Channel number:
Scanning ...
00:1E:37:E5:FB:xx n/a
00:21:06:FD:5C:AB yky phone
00:1A:6B:87:EE:xx HP-IMD-10042A
00:1E:37:0B:85:xx HP-RSM-10046A
# sdptool browse 00:21:06:FD:5C:ABEdit the /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file with the appropriate values
Browsing 00:21:06:FD:5C:AB ...
Service Name: Dialup Networking
Service RecHandle: 0x10000
Service Class ID List:
"Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
"Generic Networking" (0x1201)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 1
Profile Descriptor List:
"Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
Version: 0x0100
rfcomm0 {Resetting the /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart may or may not have rfcomm0 registered. To manually do so, use this command:
bind yes;
device 00:21:06:FD:5C:AB;
channel 1;
comment "yky phone";
}
rfcomm bind 0 00:21:06:FD:5C:AB 1This will create the /dev/rfcomm0 modem file.
--> Initializing modem.I noticed that whenever a command is at Init3 in the /etc/wvdial.conf file, the dialer will fail, and the modem will never return a "OK". So remove all Init commands except for the single most crucial one, which is the AT+CGDCONT one at Init2:
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATM0
ATM0 <-- here is the error: No "OK" received
--> Sending: ATQ0
ATQ0
--> Re-Sending: ATM0
ATM0
OK
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: Transport endpoint is not connected
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
[Dialer Defaults]I have added two more lines in the config file. "Stupid Mode" is required. Otherwise for some strange reason, the authentication process will not start. "New PPPD" is optional, it starts a new PPP Daemon on connection.
Phone = *99#
Username = maxis
Password = wap
New PPPD = yes
Dial Command = ATDT
[Dialer BB]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0
Baud = 115200
Dial Command = ATDT
Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","unet"
FlowControl = crtscts
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Stupid Mode = 1
New PPPD = yes
# wvdial BBWhoopedoo.
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","unet"
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","unet"
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Oct 3 19:14:00 2008
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
--> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
--> --> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky.
--> Pid of pppd: 31565
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local IP address 121.123.102.115
--> remote IP address 169.254.1.1
--> primary DNS address 10.213.17.1
Connection name: maxisYou dont have to modify anything else, so click OK.
Phone number: *99#
Authentication: PAP/CHAP
Check the "Store Password" checkbox
Modem name: BBIn the Modem tab, click on "Modem Commands ..."
Modem device: /dev/rfcomm0
Flow control: Hardware [CRTSCTS]
Line Termination: CR
Connection speed: 115200
Use lock file: checked
Modem timeout: 60 sec
Just add in Initialization string 2: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","unet"You can try out the modem by clicking on "Query Modem..." but I just got blank fields for AT1 ... AT7.
The other default values should be OK. Click "OK"
Login ID: maxisIt should work, sometimes it hangs at setting the modem volume, but a quick reconnect knocks it into order. You should then be rewarded with a screen like this:
Password: wap
and click on "Connect"
So a nice GUI dialer also works too!
:
Retrieving video webpage... done.
Extracting URL "t" parameter... done.
Requesting video file... failed.
Error: unable to download video data.
Try again several times. It may be a temporary problem.
Other typical problems:
* Video no longer exists.
* Video requires age confirmation but you did not provide an account.
* You provided the account data, but it is not valid.
* The connection was cut suddenly for some reason.
* YouTube changed their system, and the program no longer works.
Try to confirm you are able to view the video using a web browser.
Use the same video URL and account information, if needed, with this program.
When using a proxy, make sure http_proxy has http://host:port format.
Try again several times and contact me if the problem persists.
#!/bin/bash
i=1
fname=`date +%F-%H%M`
result=1
while [ $result = 1 ]; do
echo Attempt $i "$fname".flv
trap "echo User killing the download; exit" INT TERM
youtube-dl $1 -o "$fname".flv
result=$?
let i=i+1
if [ $result = 1 ]; then
sleep 10
fi
done
Of course, when I first knew about it, it was in Malay, and I never really found out what the long and grand words like 'kesusilaan', 'keluruhan' and 'kedaulatan' (with regards to undangs) really meant. Even if I did, would you expect an 7 year old to differentiate between the Constitution and the Rule of Law?
- BELIEF IN GOD
- LOYALTY TO KING AND COUNTRY
- UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION
- RULE OF LAW
- GOOD BEHAVIOUR AND MORALITY
Our nation, Malaysia, being dedicated :I really like, and can related to these original Rukuns; Unity, Democracy, a Just society, Equitable Shared Wealth, Liberal, Celebrating the diverse Cultures and Traditions, Progressive Society, and orientation towards Science and Tech! Who cannot like that?
- to achieving a greater unity of all her peoples;
- to maintaining a democratic way of life;
- to creating a just society in which the wealth of the nation shall be equitably shared;
- to ensuring a liberal approach to her rich and diverse cultural traditions;
- to building a progressive society which shall be oriented to modern science and technology;
The Malay version:BAHAWASANYA NEGARA KITA MALAYSIA mendukung cita-cita hendak :
MAKA KAMI, rakyat Malaysia, berikrar akan menumpukan seluruh tenaga dan usaha kami untuk mencapai cita-cita tersebut berdasarkan atas prinsip-prinsip yang berikut :
Once selected, copy and pasting is fully integrated between machines!
# sudo mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.old
# sudo ln -s $(which kde-open) /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith
{ USB_DEVICE(0x0572, 0x1328), /* Aztech UM-3100 */Save, and that's all with the source code modification. No big deal.
.driver_info = NO_UNION_NORMAL, /* has no union descriptor */
},
# yum install uucpOnce 'cu' is available, use '-l' to speak directly to the line.
# cu -l ttyACM0You can then reset the phone, and try to call out.
Connected.
atz(9 is to get a dialtone from my PABX, and the comma is to wait).
OK
atdt9,012xxxxxxx
ats0=1However Hylafax controls the pickup process, so make sure this is not set. Reset the modem with this:
atzAnd quit from 'cu' with this tilda command:
~.Conclusion
Disconnected
set mime_forward=yesDone. Less hassle.
set mime_forward_rest=yes
It took about 7 minutes to download the CABs and run through the installation. The binaries are kept in a ~/.ie4linux folder. Running a user friendly symbolic link from ~/bin/ie6 displays ie in all its glorious splendour:
"Master, It Lives!"
BarCamp was held in Kuala Lumpur for the first time over the weekend. I didn't expect much of it, thinking that it would be a lame attempt to for pseudo web2.0 wannabes to 'network'. I was pleasantly surprised, as at the end of the first day it was encouraging to see a good sharing community growing here OTHER than the MyOSS one.
What I realy like about Inkscape is its a real quality software. It has never crashed on me yet. The output to png is impeccable. It has great blur effects which makes for good drop shadows. The gradient tool is useful and usable. I also found a hidden feature, which is to embed bitmap images within the svg. By default, images are linked from external files.
Whats good about EOG is that it worked really well with my eeePC's touchpad. The vertical and horizontal scroll edges worked smooth and consistent scrolling, and pressing Control and manipulating the vertical scroll allowed me to zoom in and out effortlessly. It was surprisingly easy to manipulate the touchpad standing up and infront of the few people in the room.
Hasan explained that this song was featured in our first blog post at openmalaysiablog.com, and it represented the changing times we are currently experiencing. I apologised for the bad transcript which was projected, as I left out 2 verses of the song, which left the karaoke afficiandos in the lurch (Aizat, it was reported that they could hear you 3 rooms away). However I made sure that this verse was in:"Come senators, congressmenWell done to the BarCamp organisers, the two Daniels, Kamal Fariz and many others for holding a quite spectacular event which brought together a community willing to share.
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
Theres a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your Windows (tm)
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
There were many questions from the audience, most seemed to be awed by the level of dedication the OpenMalaysia people seemed to have put in to promote openness and transparency in Malaysia’s government ICT policies.Yuen Chi
I liked how Yoon Kit's presented the stories in a mind-mapping-like diagram.Yondie.
... how OpenMalaysia Blog got started ,how the reaction from .MY Goverment in Opensource. Yeah how the big company starts lobbying around ... IMHO, this is to ensure the future of country is control by our own wills not other.Meng Wong
The opensource guys related the story of ODF versus OOXML; not only that, they whipped out a guitar and, in a slightly cheesy but earnest moment we sang "The times, they are a-changing."
"The worst kind of enemy is the one that is within," he said in a statement, noting the Sabah Progressive Party's "persistent flirting with the opposition to bring down the Government".I guess nowadays language like this is of the norm for Malaysian politicians, where 18SX words are exchanged on a daily basis. I wonder what it must be like to be a kid reading mainstream papers today. One would have to be exposed to words like sodomy, anal sex, rape, bugger, bitch, homo, etc, and have its explanations skirted around.Maximus, who is also Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, said in doing so the party renders itself being viewed as nothing more than a political bitch.
# sudo apt-get install timidity[Downloads about 29MB worth of stuff]
# timidity opening_pocoyo.mid -Ow -o poco.wavIt then displays a mapping of midi instruments, and warns if there are no appropriate instruments. For this case, I got 3 missing ones:
# lame poco.wav poco.mp3LAME 3.97 32bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
# mplayer poco.mp3I then sent this file over to my phone, and its my new ringtone!
What is this suppose to mean?
... an this student started shouting ...
... and threw eggs at the most powerful CEO in America ...
... and made Ballmer look like he was cowering in fear ...
... and while the student was taken away ...
.... Ballmer strikes back!!!
.....
.... "heh, you don't mess with the best baby!
The problem with the WebUI when you view the History tab is that it displays ALL the emails which pass through the system. This would be a normal requirement, but if you really are just interested in reviewing the False Negatives, i.e. SPAM that got away, it really takes ages to scroll through the pages one after another. If your domain has attracted alot of spam, over 70% of the entries are spam anyway, and you arent really interested in that information.
Notice how the Spams are ignored, giving you a clear view of what to retrain or allow. I also skip through Whitelisted emails so that means less lines to review. I use Firefox's tab browsing, and just middle click the entries which I want to flag off as Spam. The process is very fast, and I probably need to click through about 3 pages of history to mark off any significant growth in spam.
This worked well to a certain extent, but when you have over 10K entries, refreshing the page 500 times is certainly not an option. There MUST be a better way. And there is ...
Modification #3: Marking Dead meat the elegant way.
Blindly selecting the first 200 entries isnt really an efficient way of culling the confirmed spam. I needed an almost automated way to handle this. So I embedded more information from dspam into the WebUI and written some Javascript to make this process alot more bearable.
The first requirement is to remove all the marked spam of a given percentage of certainty. Throughout the entire production usage of DSpam, I have yet to see a False Positive with a certainty score of more than 70%. What would be great is to check off all entries given a score automatically. This is now possible by entering a confidence number, and simply clicking on the "Mark Rating" button.
What the script does is that it uses XPath to query out all rows which have a rating of more than what is entered. The Javascript code looks something like this:
var pRate = parseFloat( document.getElementById("rating_val").value ) / 100;I have also added an extra feature in that it will also mark of similar items which may have less of a confidence than provided. This will be elaborated below, in the "hash" I generate with all the entries later. Because of this 'recursive' behaviour, the script will take a while to complete, so you may need to increase the timeout for Firefox (otherwise it may complain with a "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script right now, or you can continue to see if it completes.") To do so, type about:config in the URL bar, and adjust the dom.max_script_runtime from the default of 10 to something larger like 500.
var xpath = document.evaluate( "//tr[\@rating > "+pRate+" ]", document, null, +XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null );
As you click the button, the Javascript will scroll through the checked list, and when it compiles 25 entries, it forms a query back to dspam.cgi to execute in the background. It will alert the user by stating it is currently "deleting 25". When the call is successful, it will state "deleted 25". It will then repeat the process if there are still items to be checked.
This makes marking off spam almost ... fun!