Well, on the previous post I do give tutorial on how to compile custom kernel on your Ubuntu box debian way. But it seem like it's hard for beginner to start compiling, and stripping the kernel and choose a appropriate driver to be compiled along.
So here is the easy way for Ubuntu users to upgrade to latest kernel 2.6.25 which has been release on the launchpad by the development team.
sudo vi /etc/apt/source.list
Edit the source.list file and add the following line at the end of the files:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/ubuntu hardy main
Save and exit the text editor, and run:
sudo apt-get update
After finish updating your apt list, you need to install the new kernel by running this command:
This command will install the 2.6.25 kernel with the Ubuntu Patches already been implement. So no need to wirries about your drivers and etc. But this isnt a stable release yet. I've been reading about kernel 2.6.25 to be included officially on the hardy repo as this 8.04 is a LTS.
I wanted to be free from all the IT world including from all the Ubuntu things for a moment due to my life difficulties. I need to sit back and relax for a while. I'll be back as soon as possible if manage to sort things out. I hope you all will stick with the blog as this blog has a lot of information on linux/ubuntu.
To all my friends, I love you guys. But this is not the right moment to have plenty of commitments and I cant handle a lot of things at the vary same moment. But I promise that I'll rejoin the group when I'm ready.
I've been experimenting to use aircrack to test out Access Point(AP) security for about a month and a half now, and i used to do it with 3 wireless card that I own which is Broadcom(Built-in on my laptop), rt73usb(which is a USB wireless Device) and ZD1211rw(also a USB device).
Formerly, I have to patch my modules in order to make the cards to go into monitor mode so that it could be used with aircrack suite. All the hard work will paid out if you successfully patch your cards. But to find the right patch is the most hard part as not every patch is suitable with your chipset.
But, i notice somthing different on the latest linux kernel(maybe it might be working too on BSD's kernel), you dont have to patch your card to change your wireless mode into monitor-mode. But this is only tested on Mac80211 cards only. As far as I'm concern, b43(latest driver for broadcom), rt73usb and zd1211rw - all of this card happened to be mac80211 cards on kernel 2.6.24 and higher.
So al you need to do is install the iw application. So how to install 'iw'? It took a few steps to install 'iw'. But even a new linux user could install this without any problems. First all you have to do is install all the requirements needed by 'iw' in order to function.
Then when all the requirements has been installed, we may proceed to gathering the 'iw' source:
mkdir iw && cd iw wget http://gunblade.fakap.net/tool/wireless/iw.tar.bz2 && tar xvjf iw.tar.bz2
And now proceed to the final step:
make && sudo ln -s iw /usr/sbin/iw
And we are done. So now you may try to install the aircrack from SVN by using subversion. There is a simpe tutorial on how to install this latest version of aircrack from by using subversion. But first you need to install subversion first by apt. More tutorial on how to install aircrack is on my previous post.
I've been waiting for this plugin called "Video DownloadHelper" for a few weeks. Formerly, this plugin work out of the box on Firefox 2.0 where this plugin help me a lot on downloading videos from Youtube, TV3 website and many more which I would reveal on this post.
The main purpose for this plugin is to make it possible for Firefox user to download the Flash Videos (.flv) files by a point-and-click procedure. It's rich in features where else, it could make a download queue and download one by one your queued files until it finish eventhough you have close the Firefox.
And about couple of days ago, the new version of Video Downloadhelper has been release especially to support Firefox 3. The plugin working fine without any problem as far as I'm using it. So now I can download youtube files on point click.
For those who interested to try this plugin, you must have firefox installed on your system(luckily, all ubuntu OS used firefox as default browser). All you got to do is click on the link here, and the installation popup will appear, just click install and you are done!
SopCast is a streaming player for all ubuntu user who is interested to watch a show online/streaming. It contain a lot of channel such as HBO, EuroSports and many more. Plus this SopCast also have online movie to entertain the viewer.
For thos interested to have this application running on your Ubuntu Box, please follow this site on how to install QSopCast on Ubuntu. I follow this tutorial and it's working out of the box. No need to have TV Card to watch TV. All I need is a SopCast and I can get a lot of channels.
Did I mention it's a streaming media? Yes, you need to have internet access in order to play the TV online. Surely you will need at least a broadband connection to play a streaming television to have a good quality of video. For me, 1MB of streamyx line is good enough to watch HBO and Sports Channels.
This tutorial is for those who would like to compile X-Chat 2.8.4 on their Hardy Heron. And learn to apply patch on the files manually. What is good about compiling application manually from source?
Binary Compatibility means that when something is updated, you continue to work without needing to even recompile.
Source Compatibility means that you need to recompile to keep things working, but you don't have to actually change the sources.
One is not a superset of the other. Here are some examples in each combo.
Compatibility generally doesn't just mean that the change is discoverable, but that the change has some significant breaking implication that would cause a reasonably client to need to adjust their behavior. (Of course, you always find afterwards that's some important client did something unexpected and you need to compensate. Hence the heroics of the AppCompat folks). For example, with C# + reflection, any change is discoverable, so any change could technically break a client; but if a client breaks because they're relying on the names of private methods that you changed, they're hard-pressed to complain.
Yes Binary + Yes Source:
Renaming private methods. Changing a method body in a way that continues to behave the same.
Yes Binary, Not Source:
Adding new method overloads. Since overload resolution is determined at compile time, adding new methods won't affect already-compiled binaries. But if you recompile, it's possible that you may bind to the new overloads. (For example, see float.Equals)
Not Binary, Yes Source:
In this case, you just need to recompile your sources to keep working. The compiler will respond to the change in a corrective way. For example, consider removing a method overload. At a binary level, the method you're bound to is removed and so things fail. But if you recompile, the compiler may bind to another overload that's semantically equivalent, and so things keep working without you having to change any source.
Not Binary, Not Source:
A real breaking change. This requires clients to update their sources and recompile. For example, removing a method.
So, now you know the pro and cons of compiling an application from source. But if you are lazy to recompile on every version updates, then i'll recommend you to use binary installation, cause this will automatically do the updates for you.
Here is the way to compile X-Chat 2.8.4 in your kernel. First you need to get the source from the official x-chat website. Then, just extract the source tarball and run '.configure' , 'make' and 'sudo make install' . This steps will be enough to install the x-chat on your current ubuntu.
wget tar xjf cd ./configure make sudo make install
And you can see the differences at your ctcp version when you ctcp yourself on the irc server. Normal Ubuntu X-Chat(installed using apt-get) will only reply "VERSION xchat 2.8.4 Ubuntu" but in a manual compiled version of X-Chat, the ctcp reply will give also your current kernel version and machine type like this "VERSION xchat 2.8.4 Linux 2.6.25-gunblade [i686/1.46GHz]" .
On previous ubuntu release, to get connected to Active Directory need a lot of work to do. But in Hardy release, all this step has been simple as a new package name "likewise-open" is being uploaded into Hardy's repository. Likewine Open is an application to make Linux to Active Directory easier to setup. Only a few clicks needed in order to make your linux ubuntu to get connected to Active Directory.
Likewise Open enables Linux, Unix and Mac authentication on a Microsoft network using Active Directory. A user can now interactively log in to the Linux, Unix or Mac machine using Active Directory credentials, and can access any kerberized services that the non-Windows machine hosts.
I was really pleased with the action taken by ubuntu to include this package into official repository as this is an important application being used by a lot of ubuntu user in order to access Active Directory which previously need to be setup my intermediate linux user.
You can download the package name 'likewise-open' by using your apt-get service by using this command:
sudo apt-get install likewise-open
As now, everyone could do the setup easily. And no more worries to get the files needed from your Office Active Directory server. But if you have encounter some problem using the new package of 'likewise-open' feel free to launch a bug report in launchpad.
I've been experimenting to use aircrack to test out Access Point(AP) security for about a month and a half now, and i used to do it with 3 wireless card that I own which is Broadcom(Built-in on my laptop), rt73usb(which is a USB wireless Device) and ZD1211rw(also a USB device).
