Torrentflux B4rt on Ubuntu Hardy

Previously I made a post on how to install Torrentflux on Ubuntu Gutsy. So here is some update on How to use torrentflux-b4rt edition on your Ubuntu Hardy. Well, you must be wondering why use torrentflux-b4rt instead of torrentflux. Well, there are a lot of new features on b4rt edition on writing and speed. Well if you really would like to know what b4rt made of, the you should really visit their site here.

So here is step-by-step on how to install the latest torrentflux-b4rt on Hardy Heron:

• I assume you have your LAMP installed on your system before running this tutorial. If you still didnt install apache, php and mysql - then I will advise you to google search on how to install them on your system.
• After installing LAMP, then we could start the procedure with downloading the latest b4rt into your /var/www folder.

cd /var/www && wget http://gunblade.fakap.net/doc/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2

• Extract the files on your webserver folder.

tar xf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2 && mv torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2/html ./flux

• Now we could install all the requirement of torrentflux-b4rt before proceeding with further installation:

sudo apt-get install php5-cli unzip unrar transmission-cli
wget http://ubuntu2.cica.es/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/cksfv/cksfv_1.3.5-1_i386.deb && sudo dpkg -i cksfv*deb

Update:
sudo apt-get install php5-gd libxml-dom-perl libxml-simple-perl libthreads-shared-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libhtml-parser-perl
*thanks to phil for the info

• After installation of the requirement ready, we may proceed on installing torrentflux-b4rt to our system. To install, open up your firefox browser, and navigate to http://localhost/flux
• Follow the instruction and remember to set the database information correctly. Mostly, people will make silly mistakes here.
  

When ready, just login to your root account, and start having fun with your machine as a Torrent Monster. I like to use 'Monster' cause it sound great.

Goodbye to my Ubuntu

Heh, there is some difficulties I encountered when trying to install windows on one of my Ubuntu partition. Why I want Windows on my laptop? Well - I had to install Windows due to my brother-in-law request to play games with me.

Well I've tried to use cedega to play games with him, but I failed to install the game because we dont have the CDs, the only way to play the game is by copying the source directly from my brother-in-law laptop to mine.

Virtualization? Nope, this one could run windows on my Ubuntu but it cannot play any games because you will experiencing a very laggy system cause by non supported graphic card on virtualbox. Plus - my RAM is not enough to run it.

So I installed Windows on one of my Ubuntu's partiton which I named it "/share" (mostly all my trash files is here) and successfully run Windows after 30-40mins of installation process. Unfortunately, during the partitioning process I do make a noob mistake where I did delete my swap partition :-P (Lame huh)

I repair my grub and everything went well except my system is not as good as before, and I do have some problem with memory management cause I have no swap on the system. Can I make a swap ? Yes I can.. But I am thinking of a Hardy Heron fresh install to replace the old Feisty -> Gutsy -> Hardy System (i'm on my way to burn the hardy CD's on my CD-RW right now).

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.

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.

LOLcode Programming

I woke up when my girlfriend sms me "morning" . So I go to my laptop and start my day with surfing. So I start surfing on my new router's modification. But I found something interesting on one of the open blog on the net, It's called LOLCode.

So I start wondering what is LOLcode is all about, I start reading and go read more on the link given. Found out, that LOLcode is actually fun to play with. It's a silly programming based on 1337-speak(gamers/hackers slang)

There is an official site for LOLcode. This language has turned into a Programming Language called LOLCode for which there are already at least TWO .NET implementations. So here is the LOLcode example:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

Funny isnt it? maybe you would like to try it for your self, but is has too many keyword that hard to understand unless someone explain it to you. So happy coding guys~!