Ubuntu: Vmware Server On Hardy Heron

I've been looking for vmware on the repository for the whole day but could find it. There are still no vmware on hardy repo for sure. It's still not supported on Hardy. So here is a few tips on how to setup VMWARE:

• Download the source from http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
• Download the patch from Patch
• Now we could start installing the VMware on our new Hardy Heron.
• 1st Step: Extract the .tar file and go to the directory.

tar xvf VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
cd [Directory created when extract]

• 2nd Step: Run the installation.

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

• You will recieve an error like this. But that's normal.

include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only can be included directly
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o]
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory \`/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-4-generic\’
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory \`/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only\’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

• Then here come the patch to save your day.
• 3rd Step: Extract the patch and go to the directory.

tar xvf vmware-any-any-update115.tar
cd [directory created when extracting the patch]

• 4th Step: Run the runme.pl script and this will continue the installation and fix the previous problem.

sudo ./runme.pl

• Final Step: Now, we need to copy some files so that the vmware will run smooth without any problem.

sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/
sudo cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/

And now we have just finish installing our VMware Server edition on our brand new Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I hope this tutorial can help you to solve the problem.

Link to refer: aldeby | vmware | ubuntuforums.org

Ubuntu: Hardy Problem with Wireless (b43,iwl3945, madwifi etc)

I have been helping one of my fellow Ubuntu user from my neighbours country - Indonesia regarding his problem with Intel 3945 wireless chipset on Hardy Heron. Well, to be honest Intel chipset doesnt have any problem on the previous version of Ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy Gibbon). But the problem arise as in Hardy, the driver have change from ipw3945 to iwl3945.

Some people will have/encounter problems to setting up the intel chipset in order to make it work properly. Well, from my experience dealing with the problem(on helping my friend), there is a simple solution to this problem. There are several ways to solve this problem. And it will work on other chipset too including b43, madwifi and etc.

So here is the step to configure Intel 3945 Chipset on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron:

1. Open up terminal
2. Code : sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
3. Edit : Add at the end of the file "blacklist ipw3945" then save and exit. (You could use any text editor you like. I'm using gedit so that it could be more newbie friendly)
4. Then you need to edit the rules. Type : sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
5. Then delete all lines related to wifi interface. Leave only line which define eth0 which refering to your wired interface(ethernet). Then save and exit.
6. Now we need to remove the modules: sudo rmmode iwl3945
7. And add the modules back: sudo modprobe iwl3945
8. Now to check either the wifi is working do: ifconfig
9. If you see a device called 'wlan0' and 'wmaster0' then it means your wireless is working. Please check your network manager applet for access point signal. But please make sure you do have access point nearby if not you wont see any signal in network manager.

So that's it. If you are using bcm43xx formerly on Gutsy, then change the iwl3945 to b43. And you'll see what i mean. I hope this will be helpful. If any problem occur, please leave me a message either by comments or emails. Thanks

Ubuntu: Epiphany For Ubuntu Hardy

I've upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy two days ago with not much problem occurs during the installation process. One of the main features in Hardy is Firefox 3 beta 5 which is the default Internet Browser in Hardy Release. Unfortunately, the Firefox 3 Beta 2 isn't in stable release yet which we could tell from it's version - 'BETA'

So from now until the Official/Stable release of Firefox 3, I would encourage Ubuntu users to use an alternatif lightweight browser which has been in Ubuntu Repositories for such a long time - Epiphany Browser. How to install Epiphany Browser? Just two steps:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions

This command will install Ephiphany Browser with an extension for gnome. Adds extra features to GNOME’s Epiphany web browser, including action, adblocking, auto-reload, auto-scroller, console, extensions manager, find, greasemonkey, javaconsole, mouse gestures, move tabs between windows, python-console, pushscroller, rss extension, error viewer and validator, certificate viewer, sidebar, smart bookmarks, page info, CSS Stylesheet, favicon.ico, tab states and a GNOME Dashboard interface.

Epiphany Web Browser

How to install Flash Plugin?

Simple, Flash plugin can be setup the same way as Firefox setup. If you would like to manual install the flash plugin, then you could download the flash installer at flash website and have it installed. But for a newbie, I will advise them to learn and use 'apt' service as much as they can.

Here is some tips on Epiphany Browser:

• Quick search if your home page is not a search engine page : CTRL-L, enter keywords in the URL area, and ‘Search the Web’. By default, epiphany performs a Google search. If you wish to change the search engine, change the keyword.url in about:config
• To open a link or a bookmark in a new tab, click with the mouse middle button after enabling /apps/epiphany/general/middle_click_open_url in gconf-editor
• 
  
To enable the spell checker, set layout.spellcheckDefault to 1 in about:config
• Language for spell checking is set in spellchecker.dictionary in about:config. “en_US” for US English, and “fr” for French. Sorry, I have not checked other languages
• My favorite extensions : Ad Blocker, News Feed Subscription, Smart Bookmarks, Tab GroupsEnter about:epiphany in the URL area, and enjoy ;-)
• To enable smooth scrolling, go to about:config and set general.smoothScroll to true

I hope You will enjoy using epiphany as I do right now, i'll wait for the Firefox 3 release to have another try with firefox. Till then, epiphany will be my default browser :)

Ubuntu: '.3gp' Files Won't Output Sound on Hardy Heron

I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy couple of days ago, and it started good except for some minor problem which I always had from the previos version. Thank god my wireless got no problem at all to load on startup using b43 firmware driver which is still in experimental version during Hardy first boot.

But unluckily, I found out that VLC do not output any sound on .3gp files on hardy. I wonder what's the problem causing VLC to stop output the video's sound. So I open up terminal and try running the video by using terminal to look at the error message. Here is the error I got:

VLC media player 0.8.6e Janus
[00000366] pulse audio output error: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused
[00000366] pulse audio output error: Pulse initialization failed

So, obviously the problem is with the Pulse audio plugin which is being introduce into hardy release. I cannot find a better way to solve this problem at the moment.

For, all Hardy user who having the same problem may try to play your 3gp files by using realplayer 11 which can be download here. Realplayer 11 is the latest release from Realplayer.

How to install? First you need to "chmod +x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin" and then just run it with "./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin". And it will install on the default folder in /opt/real/realplayer/ . I hope this will solve your problem.

Ubuntu: ATI crash on hardy upgrade.

I just upgraded from gusty to hardy heron about 3 minutes ago. And I reboot my machine and hoping that my new hardy heron will load smoothly without any errors. And suddenly, my boot time took forever to load the login screen :(

I reboot my laptop back to it's original state and look for any reports regarding boot crash, and guess what? there's a lot of ATI user who encounter with the same problem as I had. Why?
Well, after doing some google and reading, I notice that ATI driver has change from restricted to envy, ao all you have to do in order to login to hardy, is resetting your driver(graphic) to universal(VESA).

How to change?

Simple, just boot into single mode, and do "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" and this will load the default xorg setting to your xorg.conf. It will replace "ATI" with "vesa" so that you could login into hardy and try installing ATI driver using envy.

Step to Install ATI driver on Hardy

• Open up terminal and update the aptitude: sudo apt-get update
• Install restricted driver application(normally already install by default, but in order we dont have, so better we try to install first): sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic restricted-manager
• Install the driver from repo : sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
• And load the driver : sudo depmod -a

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• After setting up everything, no we need to configure xorg.conf to use fglrx instead of mesa. Open up xorg.conf and find Driver "mesa" and replace with Driver "fglrx".
• to make sure everything is set, run: sudo aticonfig --inital -f
• reboot in order the driver to make effect.
• after reboot, if you wanted to look either the driver work properly, use : fglrxinfo

Now everything is done, and good to go. So I dont think there is problem to setup your ATI card anymore. The step is veri simple and easy to follow, but in case you would like to use envy to install your ATI driver, please read tutorial here.

Gutsy Gibbon
Boot Time: 52 secs
upgrade : Not recorded

Hardy Heron
Boot Time: 40 secs
upgrade : 2 hours 15 mins (Update Manager)

Ubuntu: Hardy Heron Official Release Later Today

This is what I've been waiting for the last few months - Ubuntu 8.04 codename Hardy Heron Official Release. It's been a while since the LTS Ubuntu version comes out since Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. So from the date given on the Ubuntu Website, the release should be on 24th April 2008 and it's today.

This Pictures taken from Jabz Gallery

So what do you expect from Hardy Heron Release?

Well this is the latest changes I've search on the net for past few days which is the most exciting things to give a try:

• Ubuntu LTS raises the bar on the linux desktop usage/experiences. This LTS version will include the latest stabil core products such as Mozilla Firefox 3(beta 5) which is Ubuntu is the first distribution to include it on an official release.
  
• It also has enchanced photo experience: F-spot with upgraded camera and phone recognition.
• Music sharing and download.
• Better video. The new Movie Player will have capabilities to browse youtube video on the fingertips and easier to share videos with the rest of the internet users.
• Clock and calendar enchancement to manage time across the globe with a single click to set, attend and receive alerts about appointments.
• Slick desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS combines the latest GNOME applications with desktop visual effects, giving users a smoother, better-looking and more intuitive experience.

More over, I heard from one of my friend who has been using Hardy Heron beta release, the wubi application is a major changes on Ubuntu Installation. It's working great with windows currently(full support for Windows XP NTFS). What is wubi? - Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way.(taken from wubi official site).

So it's a great new release for Ubuntu Linux and I'm eager to be among the first person to have a try on the official release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Happy downloading later~!

Information Source:Ubuntu Official site | Ubuntu Forums | Fenris | Wubi Official Site |Mypapit's Blog

Bill Gates Hate GPL?

I was surfing early this morning when I stop by a blog and read about the Microsoft current Chairman giving speech on a Pharmaceutical. As I read the post, I was a bit surprise of what Bill Gates said about GPL.

“there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with.”

Open source, he said, creates a license “so that nobody can ever improve the software,” he claimed, bemoaning the squandered opportunity for jobs and business. (Yes, Linux fans, we’re aware of how distorted this definition is.) He went back to the analogy of pharmaceuticals: “I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them,” he said, adding with a shrug: “That may seem radical.”

taken from "Wired Blog Network"

He also said about retirement from Chairman Post in Microsoft and will be focusing on Bill & Melinda Foundation later on. He will be more on public and try to support scientist on finding cure for some illness such as HIV.

What a day huh, he seem to not understand the GPL at all. But by the way, it's nice to see him thinking about retirement, and maybe it will give a good improvement on the Windows OS itself. Business is not wrong, but client should received products according the the price. RM 300-RM600 for a troublesome Operating System? I'd say "NO WAY"

*Updated: You can read the original article about this issue here. Sorry for the difficulties.

CWIRC is fun to play with

Yesterday I know nothing about Morse code but after installing CWIRC plug in on my X-Chat, I learn a few of Morse code and the ethic of sending Morse.

What is morse code actually?

Morse code is a character encoding for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a given message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks or pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs".

"Taken from Wikipedia"

What's fun playing with Morse?

Why it isn't fun? that's the best question i think. Actually there are a lot of people all around the world still using Morse code everyday to send message between themselves. And the CWIRC made it possible to send Morse code through the Internet. It's a step forward in the Morse Code World.

How to Install CWIRC on your linux X-chat?

Well basically it's a simple process. First you need to download the source file from CWIRC website or you could just simply click here to download. Then you need to extract the file tar.gz (if you still dont know how to extract tar.gz file, please refer here) and move into the directory created when extracting. Then you need to edit 'Makefile' file and put your OS type, if it's BSD just put there BSD, and so goes for linux. After done editting the 'Makefile' then compile the source by doing two commands:

• make (dont require root access)
• make install (require root access)

And done. Restart your X-Chat client, and once restart, type "/cw" on the input box to activate the cwirc plug in and start playing with morse code. How or where to other people gather and play morse? You should visits #cw(freenode) and #hamradio(free node) on the irc to get start with. And here is some guide of the code itself:

Your Access Point being sniff?

As I wondering just how easy someone could break into your protected WEP Access Point(dont use WEP), so i google more in order to look for other application that is fun to play with. And suddenly I stop at one page called WifiZoo.

What is it ?

Well - WifiZoo is tools to gather Wifi information from AP to client details. It could gather all the information about the bssid and eesid also the client connected to it. So to be simple, WifiZoo is quite similar to Airodump-ng. It could gather all sort of information and turn it into .cap files.

Right now, some of the folks on BackTrack currently developing the current wifizoo to intergrate with aircrack and working as info gathering. It'll be a great combination if this tools come in bundle with aircrack.

Capabillitites

Well this WifiZoo could well integrate with kismet to do channel hopping. Default wifizoo can't do channel hop but could easily do the hopping with kismet helps:

• run kismet
• run wifizoo
• wait - it'll work

It can also do channelhop, channelvelocity, channeldwell, defaultchannels and sourcechannels. You just have to edit configuration in kismet.

Requirements

• It need python
• It need scrappy
• and kismet if you want to do channel hopping.

So it's not secure anymore to use wireless connection to do online banking or even chat with your friends about any personal issue cause you will never know who's listening to your conversation.
Maybe next morning, you'll read your own conversation on the net as soon as you woke up.

A New Domain For this Blog

Hey, I have some comments from my friends to change and use my own domain instead of using http://blablabla.blogspot.com to my domain. So I accept their advise and buy a new domain for a cheap price from Sumardi.

So now I would like to announce that my blog has minor change in URL which formerly http://gunbladeiv.blogspot.com has change to http://blog.gunbladeiv.com. So please change all the feed subscriber and bookmarks from blogspot to gunbladeiv.

"Hope For A New Beginning"

Yeah, I would like to start over again to promote my blog for people to recognize and know my blog existence. Even though I'll lost all my traffic history when changing to own domain, but i hope it will be better in the future.

Thanks for those who read my blog and subscribe it through feeds and thanks for those who read my blog just to gain information. So please remember to change to:

http://blog.gunbladeiv.com

Update: Numbers Combination Creator

I did make a post about my script to generate numbers combination depends on user input to set the number of digits a few weeks ago. And I was thinking to make it more clean and user friendly after received a comments from "Pak Leman".

So here is the update of the scripts. The script will asked user to input the digits of combination to generate. And will asked user to give the output filename. So no more "sh script 8 > huhu.txt" . To run the script just run "sh script" and it will ask you all the details using script.

So here is the full codes of the script, and also pictures of the output:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Please give the digits for combinations[8-63]: \c"
read digit
echo "Please type the output file name: \c"
read OUTFILE

FINISH=`expr "10^"$digit"" | bc -l`

if [ $digit -lt 8 -o $digit -gt 64 ]
then
clear
echo "The digit you specify is ' $digit '. "
echo "Please enter a valid digit [8-63]: \c"
read digit
else
break
fi

COUNT="-1"
while [ $COUNT != `expr $FINISH - 1` ] ; do
COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1`
printf "%+"$digit"s\n" $COUNT | sed s^\ ^0^g >> $OUTFILE
done

So any opinion on how to improve the script are most welcome. Somehow the script still allow digits more than 63. Still looking forward to repair this script. Any thought or advise are welcome. Please drop some comments.

Off Topic: Nice site to visit

I've been looking for a site which can make me wants/eager to visit everyday. So I found out there is one which is a little bit interesting and keep updating each and everyday. I wonder if you've visit the site or not. But here is my oppinion.

About the site:

Josh and Nina are two friends. Every day, they each take a photo. Operating under a pact of absolute secrecy, neither knows what the other is working on. Each morning, they post their photos on Minty Forest side by side. The results are often surprising — not least to the photographers themselves.

An experiment in blind-collaboration, the coupled images of the MintyForest project are explorations of both creative and personal synchronicity — as subject matter, color palette, and technique are compared and contrasted anew with each day. (It’s also an excuse for Josh and Nina to use their shiny new cameras more often.)

Taken from Minty Forest

Here is the sneak peek of the website if you would like to have a look. I recommend the site for people who like to see beautiful shot taken by two person side by side. Are they a good photographer? Nope they dont - But they do took a lot of nice pictures about anything surround them.

Here is the link to the Minty Forest Site. And keep up the good work you guys.

UBUNTU: SVN aircrack version (1.0 Beta 2)

Sorry for the late follow up on my previous tutorial about aircrack. Life been busy with some programming work and also web designing at my practical company. So here is a quick guide on how to install new version of Aircrack 1.0 beta 2 for ubuntu users.

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk/ aircrack-ng

Now to install the aircrack:

cd aircrack-ng/trunks
make
sudo make install

So this will install the new aircrack to work with latest SuD patch. Some will have errors after applying SuD patch to run Aircrack 0.9.3 on ubuntu. So here is the solution.

As far as I've been using this, still got no problem with the patch nor the aircrack itself. Here is some review I post previously on running aircrack with bcm43xx.

So I assume that this SuD patch is a stable patch for bcm43xx running under Aircrack 1.0 beta 2. Thanks to SuD for the patch, and please leave a comments if any left out in steps given.

Generate blog traffic with Blogsphere

Erm, I was looking for a good tips on how to generate extra traffic to blog to get better ranks in google. So I come upon one web which is blogrush.com. I saw one of my friends been having a blogrush widget on his site and his site generate better traffic than me, so I wonder how can this blogrush help my blog to get more traffic.

So this is the review of what blogrush can do for you:

1. It will automatically promote your post on related blog which is also a blogrush members.
2. BlogRush users earn "syndication credits" (the right to have their blog post titles shown inside a widget on another related blog) based on their own traffic (loads of the widget) as well as the traffic of other users they refer to BlogRush. Users can automatically refer others to BlogRush via special links on the widget, as well as through the promotion of a special referral URL they are given. (taken from blogrush.com/about)
3. BlogRush is a "Cooperative Syndication Network" that rewards its users for their contributions to the network -- from the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget to the referral of other users through 10 'generations' of activity and the impressions of the widget that they provide. BlogRush was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content (onto related content blogs) that they could never achieve on their own; at least without a massive advertising budget. (taken from blogrush.com/about)

So I give it a try with blogrush and put the widget on my blog so that in return, some people will have a link to my blog with related post being promoted. Yes, I have to admit that it did help me a bit in traffics.

So I hope this will help you guys too to generate traffics for your blogs. Happy trying and look at your traffic increase each and everyday.

Script to generate Numbers Combination

This is a script to generate combinations of numbers from 0-9 depends on how many digits you specify when running the scripts. It's a simple script that took me 5 minutes to write. Plus I got the idea of writing this script from one of my friend.

This script is useful for those who wants to generate a wordlist for bruteforce. Here is the scripts:

#!/bin/sh
# Usage:
# sh [script name] [digits specify] > [output file] &
digit=$1
FINISH=`expr "10^"$digit"" | bc -l`
COUNT="-1"
while [ $COUNT != $FINISH ] ; do
    COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1`
    printf "%+"$digit"s\n" $COUNT | sed s^\ ^0^g
done

Why do I only write scripts for numbers combination? The answer is simple, if I wrote a script that will create a combination of all ascii letters, then it will be too much for a single machine to generate and also will took you a long long time to generate.

If you want to calculate how much time it will take to generate a combination of digits with quantity of letters(ascii) then you can do calculation on this website, Generator Calculator.

Look at the time needed to generate a full ascii password list. It's not worth your time to do that. If you ever need a full ascii generator, than you can download it right here.

* The script will be update soon to be more user friendly.