Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd song cover by Marty Casey. This song reminds me to my family and my home town.

So... so you think you can tell, Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.. Can you tell a green field.. from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade.. your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange.. a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.....

Pidgin


I like pidgin for chatting when ever I'm running Linux.

add debuntu repo and gpg key:

slash@shaolinint# echo 'deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse' >> /etc/sources.list
slash@shaolinint# wget http://repository.debuntu.org/GPG-Key-chantra.txt -O- | apt-key add -


update repo and install pidgin:

slash@shaolinint# apt-get update
slash@shaolinint# apt-get install pidgin

And that's it, simply 1 2 3 :)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Hackers On A plane

2007 is a very special year for the global hacker community. Thanks to cooperation between the organizers of DefCon XV and the Chaos Communications Camp 2007, the two largest gatherings of hackers from around the world happen only a few days apart!

This is where "Hackers on a Plane" comes in: The Hacker Foundation has put together a complete travel package to help bring together hackers from around the world for ten days of fun, culture and community. We see it as the first step to building a truly global hacker community.

More information here.

Peribajau 2: Angenda' Bunga Ros Ma Langit

Peribajau power ni beb, baru nak di masukkan dalam kamus bahasa Bajau:

"Angenda' Bunga Ros Ma Langit" atau dalam bahasa melayu "Merenung bunga ros di langit"


PeriBajau ni bermaksud insaflah wahai insan, banyak-banyak lah beribadah dan berbuat baik sesama manusia. PeriBajau ini juga biasanya di kuatkan lagi dengan firman dan hadis.


Antara tanda-tanda kiamat, Allah S.W.T berfirman:

"Selain itu sesungguhnya (ngeri) tatkala langit pecah-belah lalu menjadilah mawar merah, berkilat seperti minyak"

Gambar ni di rakam secara tidak sengaja oleh NASA (buat-buat tak sengaja pula), terdapat objek di langit yang pecah dalam beberapa bulan yang lepas dalam akhbar Al-Ahram dan laman web NASA.

Korang janganlah buat kerja-kerja jahat lagi, hentikanlah kerja menggodam-godam dan mengurat awek-awek tu.. tak baik, berhentilah sekarang sebelum korang di berhentikan. Dah sudahlah, aku report nanti kat mak korang, korang tak takut ke mak korang sebat dgn rotan? Sakit beb! Aku dah rasa dulu masa kecik, selalu kena sebat dengan rotan sebab selalu main lumpur. Lagi satu, mak aku selalu cubit kat paha, pergh! besh giler beb, rasa macam nak lagi, bukan apa, awek ni dah tangkap syok kat aku, tapi aku plak yang kena, hehehehe....

PeriBajau

Hidup di Riyadh ni bosan sikit beb. Eh silap, bukan bosan sikit tapi bosan gila tahap Din Beramboi beb. Silap-silap boleh jadi unta padang pasir kalau tak pandai sesuaikan diri. Jadi, aku nak buatlah peribahasa aku sendiri untuk mengisi masa lapang aku selapang padang pasir Saudi ni. Kalau korang tak ada masa lapang, special yang kerja kuat sampai lupa anak bini tu, korang bolehlah ambil seberapa byk masa lapang aku ni.

Kalau tak suka tak apa, sebab peribahasa ni aku cipta ikut suka hati mak bapa Din Beramboi yang sebelah mana aku pun tak tau, tapi seingat aku sebelah tepi kanan sikit, kalau jalan terus sampai lah ke rumah Dato' K, tapi kalau korang jalan belakang aku rasa bolehlah korang jumpa unta-unta padang pasir. So, korang jangan pandai-pandai nak betulkan aku punya istilah peribahasa ni. Istilah peribahasa ni aku bagi nama "PeriBajau".

Aku kenalah bagi nama bahasa ciptaan aku, kalau aku tak bagi nama siapa lagi! Nak tunggu korang bagi nama bukan boleh pakai dan harap langsung. Tapi, aku tau nama tu memang besh... korang tak payahlah nak puji and bodek-bodek aku. Aku dah buat survey dah, 110% yang kata best gila istilah ni, kalau tak percaya korang cuba tanya arwah sebelah rumah korang tu. Tambah lagi peribajau aku ni susah nak create dan develop beb, mau pecah kepala batu Bill Gates di buatnya.

Okay, aku harap korang faham lah kan peribajau ni. Kalau tak faham juga, alamat nak pergi jauh lah tu. Bak kata arwah P. Ramlee, kalau ikut kira-kira, Juma'at ni lah. So, kalau tak faham, buat-buat faham je lah.

PeriBajau aku yang pertama ialah "Mag Parking-parking Ma Padang Pasir". PeriBajau ini bermaksud parking kereta ala-ala unta rehat di padang pasir. Kepada yang tidak pernah tengok unta rehat di padang pasir tu, peribajau ni maksudnya "aku punya suka lah parking macam mana pun, aku yang drive kereta dan korang bolehlah parking jauh sikit ataupun block kereta aku". Contohnya macam dalam gambar ni:


Aku harap korang boleh lah mula guna pakai peribajau ni.

Lastly, aku nak ucap syukran jazila kepada bro Helmi, gambar ni bro Helmi yang tangkap. Tak tau lah dia tangkap macam mana, yang pasti dia takdelah panggil polis macam korang, nak tangkap je panggil polis, nak tangkap je panggil polis, ketinggalan betul! Sekarang ni moden beb... semunya di hujung jari je. Faham-faham jelah kan. So, yang kuku panjang dan hujung jari tak sampai papan menaip tu, cepat-cepatlah potong kuku. Kalau tidak, jangan harap lah nak guna pakai teknologi generasi kita orang ni.

Okaylah, cukup untuk hari ni, aku ada 24 jam setiap hari bukan 25 jam. Jangan lupa komen! komen jeee.. jangan nak pandai-pandai kutuk, aku belasah karang! Dah! Pergi buat baby, banyak cekadak plak! Aku nak tido, besok nak sarapan at Al-Malas Restaurant, pekena teh tarik. Apa nak buat dah takde tempat lain, sekarang ni pun dah mula meleleh kari kat ketiak aku! hehe..

Monday, July 30, 2007

MacOS fans

For some reason I don't like the default compiz that came with Ubuntu, so I removed and install a new one. Of course Ubuntu developer doing a great jobs, it's just about having fun by imitating and finding the limits of Gnome desktop.

slash@shaolinint# apt-get remove compiz
slash@shaolinint# apt-get install compiz compiz-manager


Added this lines to my apt sources.list:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator

Download the gpg key and updated the repo.

slash@shaolinint# wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/8434D43A.gpg -O- | pt-key add -
slash@shaolinint# apt-get update

Install the AWN, Tracker and Affinity:

slash@shaolinint# apt-get install avant-window-navigator-svn
slash@shaolinint# apt-get install tracker
slash@shaolinint# apt-get install affinity-svn

Installed Mac fonts, login screen and Macos theme:

macfonts

login screen
themes

Configured my desktop to use Lucida Grande and MacGrande. Finally, I ran the Avant-Window-Navigator and start my compiz from the main menu and preference. That's it! My brand new Ubuntu Feisty MacOS look, sexy just like Jessica Alba :)

Monday, July 23, 2007

Makkah Schoolgirls in Memory

After a year living in Saudi's, I found that Muttawa has a different power. They can do whatever they wants according to their law. Like this one:

In Memory of the lives of 15 Makkah Schoolgirls, lost when their school burnt down on Monday, 11th March, 2002. The Religious Police would not allow them to leave the building, nor allow the Firemen to enter.

"Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.

In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.

About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred.

According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam.

One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya".

The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out.

"Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," the newspaper concluded.

The religious police are widely feared in Saudi Arabia. They roam the streets enforcing dress codes and sex segregation, and ensuring prayers are performed on time.

Those who refuse to obey their orders are often beaten and sometimes put in jail."

- bbc