Ubuntu Malaysia New Planet

Well this post is just an announcement of a new Ubuntu Malaysia site which is called Planet Ubuntu Malaysia. Well basically this is the official Ubuntu Malaysia Planet which will gather all the Ubuntu-my member's blog to be review on one site.


I would like to encourage all of the Ubuntu Malaysia's members to help and try to design a new logo for our planet. Well basically the logo should reflect our community logo. I hope I will have better response to this one. All idea's and artwork are very welcome.

By the way, please visit and subscribe to our LoCo planet via feeds. And please let me know if you would like your blog to be publish on the planet. For any request to be syndicate with the planet, please refer to Ubuntu Malaysia Forum as I have made a post there.

Sphere Desktop Cube

I was reading the Ubuntu-id's planet when I found this post which caught my attention. I would like to share with other Ubuntu User who visits my blog with this Earth Desktop made by One of the Indonesian Ubuntu Members.

Well It use compiz as the engine and yes, I found out that it is easy to install. What nice is, he even have a snapshot of the Earth Desktop. Here is the snapshot:


And you could always download the compiz-fusion ccsm at the owners blog. Nice one huh. A good one from Indonesian members.

Jokes On Linux

Well, i'm in a mood to laugh tonight and I searching google for all kind of funny stuff. Suddenly I came upon one jokes about talking programmer, here is the jokes:

Three male programmers were in the bathroom standing at the urinals.
The first programmer finishes, walks over to the sink to wash his hands.
He then proceeds to dry his hands very carefully. He uses paper towel after paper towel and ensures that every single spot of water on his hands is dried.
Turning to the other two, he says, "At Microsoft, we are trained to be extremely thorough."
The second programmer finishes his task at the urinal and he proceeds to wash his hands. He uses a single paper towel and makes sure that he dries his hands using every available portion of the paper towel.
He turns and says, "At Intel not only are we trained to be extremely thorough but we are also trained to be extremely efficient."
The third programmer finished and walks straight for the door, shouting over his shoulder, "At Sun, we don`t piss on our hands.
Courtesy of Syid Arif

Yeah, It was funny. But the most important thing is, this jokes just made my day! Nice one.

Install msttcorefonts on Hardy

Have you ever wondering why every webpage that you surf by using browser on Linux operating system seem lack in fonts presentation? Tired and bored with all the fonts on the linux system? Then you should be looking for something like msttcorefonts package for linux. What is msttcorefonts? Basically msttcorefonts is a package for linux user to install windows fonts. Well this definition taken from linux.about.com:

Definition: msttcorefonts: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts This package allows for easy installation of the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts for the Web including: Andale Mono Arial Black Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Comic Sans MS (Bold) Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Impact Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Webdings You will need an Internet connection to download these modules from Microsoft's Web site.

It's mostly the best package for linux user to have Microsoft Fonts installed on their linux Operating System. Here is some simple steps on how to install msttcorefonts on Ubuntu Linux Operating system:

• sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

This command is enough to install all the basic fonts based on Microsoft fonts to make your font presentation better than before. Here is some example of before and after using 'msttcorefonts'

Before using msttcorefonts

After Using msttcorefonts

Nice improvement right? isnt that font look smoother than the original one? yeah it will make your web fonts better than before. Happy surfing~

Ubuntu Repo Using Windows IIS?

Well, I am a bit surprise when one of my friend gave me a link and ask me to take a look. As soon as I open the URL given, I can see clearly that the server stated that they are using Windows IIS. Moreover it's a repositories server for Ubuntu Linux.



Why in the world they would like to use Windows as Server while they keep on improving their Operating System to beat Bill Gates product. Heh, you do the calculation and make your own judgment. Surprise huh. LOL~

New malaysian Warez - Register Now

Hey, I'm quite busy lately doing my report for my intern period which just finished on 14th Hune 2008. So It's hard to make a quality post on Ubuntu. So here is some update which might be useful for my readers.

Well this post is about the latest warez site which being develop by our fellow Malaysian. This warez site got a lot of useful application which provide the crack for a shareware software. So no need to search for crack and being infected by spyware on the cracks site.

Here is the link to the Malaysian Warez "Download Fridge". Keep up the good work. If you would like to contribute to the download section, feel free to contact the admin himself. We would like more contributors to share the golden softwares.

Happy downloading~!

100 Post: Firefox 3.0 is out~!

Yeah, I'm not pretty sure when it has been released, but I notice that my Firefox 3.0 has been officially release. Here is my firefox about us screenshot.

Make sure to update your firefox using apt-get services on your Ubuntu Machine. I hope that all the bugs reported earlier has been fixed!

What is happening to my 'Melayu'?

Off topic, well I guess a lot of people wouldn't expect me to write anything on Malay Dilemma. Well, this is being seen by our former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in his book "The Malay Dilemma" .

Well nothing much about the latest trauma hit by Malay people here in Malaysia. Well to be honest, I'm sick and tired reading about all those nonsense what is happening here in Malaysia regarding my race which is Malay. I'm maybe not the right person to have a voice on this matters, but believe it or not, I need to help my race in what ever method I'm capable with.

The First Issue: Sex, Video and Socializing

Well, this is what matter the most. Why is my fellow Malay would like to have pre-martial sex and have it recorded for public sharing? Why in the first place, they were thinking about having a pre-martial sex? This is what torment me. Almost all Malay are Muslim, and as a Muslim, we are forbid to do a pre-martial sex no matter what is the reason. Unfortunately, nowadays - Malay people think that it's legal and it's happening everyday.

We are not Jewish, we are Muslim. Maybe we are not a good muslim, but I'm pretty sure all Malay/Muslim know the Hukum of Zina. And why record the sex scene? Is it because of trend? If it is the trend, then the reason is unacceptable.

The Second Issue: Drugs

Well this is the latest issue I've been reading for about couple of years. There are several Malaysian and most of them are Malay who was caught in foreigner country due to illegal drug Smuggling. Why it is always be Malay? As far as I know, this is being plotted by International Syndicate who gain profits from Drug Smuggling. And the best question is, why always Malay student get caught? Are they dumb?

So I urged all my fellow Malay, please use our brain before act. We are a Muslim and we still have Quran to guide us to live a happy life ever after. Everyone made mistake in this life, but it is never too late to turn back and change the way we live.

Format Existing Partition On Ubuntu

Well, I encounter a problem where I would like to gain back my 80GB hardisk space which I allocate for my Windows and I dont have a direct access to the machine. So all I got is a SSH access to the machine. And I desperately need the space back. So here is some tips on how to format, and allocate back your partition to ext3 FS on Ubuntu Machine.

• Login to your box using SSH(remember to login to user account which have sudoers privileges).
• Then the first thing is to do a 'fdisk' to delete and recreate a partition.

sudo fdisk for example:
sudo fdisk /dev/sda

• Then a wizard will appear, and you just need to follow the instruction. For help on command to use, please use 'm' .
• After finished configuring and recreating the partition, then you need to make the partition. Quit the fdisk by using 'q', and do this command:

sudo mkfs -t [filesystem type] [location]

• For this example, my filesystem i need to create is 'ext3' and the location is '/dev/sda1' , so here is my command:

sudo mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1

• And this will create my partition based on 'ext3' filesystem. To make effect, you need to reboot.
  

This simple tutorial will be useful to use with symlink and other command if you really want to resize some folder. Well mostly I used this for my webserver.