Wishlist - Dec 2009

1. PS3Eye



For my projects. Initially, there is no support for Windows or Linux driver for the cam. User in NUI managed to setup a driver for this. Hooray~ RM150 I think.. FPS up to 30.

2. Earphone



New earphone for my iPhone. My previous earphone, Sennheiser MX 55 damaged to unknown reason. Sigh. Sampai mase da kot.

I'm a bass head. Gonna find Hippo. RM100 ~ RM150



Review

3.SGP Case for iPhone 3G/3GS Neo Hybrid [White]



Lyn member sell this one for RM110. But, no stock for white :(

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Gift from Google

Receive an email from google.



lead to..

"This gift is for someone very special.. "



$20 million eh? Thanks to them for the charity. Donate some of their revenue to the needy. $20m is a lot of money.

At least, Google try to make our earth a better place to live :D

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Community Core Vision on Fedora 12

After royal rumble (WWF?) with CCV last night, I manage to get it run on Fedora 12 with my built-in webcam running.

CCV works OOTB with my Winblows Vista except for Fedora, I had troubled compiling CCV using blockcode.

Community Core Vision or CCV for short (also known as tbeta), is a open source/cross-platform solution for computer vision and machine sensing. It takes an video input stream and outputs tracking data (e.g. coordinates and blob size) and events (e.g. finger down, moved and released) that are used in building nui aware applications.

CCV can interface with various web cameras and video devices as well as connect to various TUIO/OSC/XML enabled applications and supports many multi-touch lighting techniques including: FTIR, DI, DSI, and LLP with expansion planned for the future vision applications (custom modules/filters).

http://nuicode.com/projects/tbeta

For more info, visit http://ccv.nuigroup.com/ and http://nuigroup.com/forums/

You can visit the forum to get more info on this.

More and less, visit http://wiki.nuigroup.com/Main_Page

I will update my post tonite regarding CCV on Fedora 12.

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Uninstall Google Chrome extension

I install several chrome extension but I didn't find a basic GUI/button/method to disable or remove the extension.

Head to "chrome://extensions/"

Pick any extension that you want to disable or uninstall. :)

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Brasero ; slow burning speed fix.

Brasero is a cd/dvd writing application for the Gnome desktop manager. Its advantages are ease of use, a lot of burning options and support for plugins!

Actually, my fav burner in linux is k3b. But, k3b crash in my Fedora 12. So I switch to brasero for awhile.



As you can see the pic, the speed is so damn slow. Although I select burn speed to the "Max", it doesn't work.

Here is the fix:

1.gconf-editor
2.head to apps > brasero > config > priority
3.change wodim-burn from "0" to "-1" ; to disable it
3.change growisofs-burn from "0" to "1"
4.manuall set the burn speed. Instead of "Max", use 4x,8x etc

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Kolourpaint != mspaint

I'm not a fancy graphic editor. But I need a software like mspaint to do my basic work. I bet, you know what is mspaint. :D

There are a lot of software familiar to mspaint, but, kolourpaint gui is close to mspaint. Therefore, kolourpaint is my choice. Heh.

KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE.

For fedora, you can "yum install kdegraphics".

Here is the screenshot.

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namebench : Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility

Slow DNS servers can lead to a terrible web browsing experience, but knowing which one to use isn't easy.

namebench is a new open source tool that helps to take the guess-work out of the DNS server selection process. namebench benchmarks available DNS services and provides a personalized comparison to show you which name servers perform the best.

namebench can help you to surf net better.

namebench google code page.

I read the post *DNS* in lifehacker website. So I decide to give a try.

Fast internet is a fascinating thing. Yeah. :)



Black n white version on what namebench did. Benchmarking.





Later on, I follow the namebench recommendation. I think, it works great. It will give a sneak on what DNS you should use to surf better.

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Google Chrome on Fedora 12

Google Chrome with a "fast new browser: Now available for Linux" line. Is it fast when compare to IE and FF? I personally think, it is :)

You can get it here.
http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm
Above link is for 32 bit Fedora only.


BTW, you need to "yum install lsb" first.

Same as FF, you can addon. Meanwhile, for chrome, they call it extension.

You can get the extension here.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions

So far, I installed:
Chrome Bird
Google Mail Checker
AdThwart

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Fedora 12 (Constantine) Pyrit

Pyrit implementation allows to create massive databases, pre-computing part of the WPA/WPA2-PSK authentication phase in a space-time-tradeoff. It can generate those same hash based on the network name and passphrases.

NVIDIA GPU can actually speed up the attack on the PSK keys in modern WPA/WPA2 networks.

Technology NVIDIA CUDA ™ - is the only development environment for C, which allows programmers and developers to write software to solve complex computational problems in less time thanks to the multi-core processing power of GPUs. The world has installed millions of GPU with support for CUDA, and thousands of programmers have free use CUDA tools to accelerate applications - from video and audio encoding to oil and gas exploration, simulation products, the withdrawal of medical imaging and research.

Check either you card is supported CUDA technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA # Supported_GPUs

Pyrit Benchmark



I'm still working on it for now. As I need to compile CUDA first then work on compilation of pyrit.

I saw a blog where he do WPA crack with pipeing john to the aicrack and it take 7:39:XX. There is very long time. But not so long :P

At another blog, they crack with pyrit which use CUDA to crack and immediately get the password in 180s. Huge different there.

Will update this post once I solve the compilation issue.

.. "-lcuda missing" ..

Gonna check my CUDA path in config later on.

Wish me luck.

Update - 10-Dec



Damnt it. 2 times faster only. Now, I have doubt either to sell or not my desktop. Can reserve for cracking purpose. isk3

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Apple Magic Mouse

I want diz mouse. Apple Magic Mouse. REALLY.

Gonna cost RM229 according to Apple store website. Does it worth our money?



Well, there is a forumer from forum.lowyat.net selling this mouse too at RM110. COD at JB.

I do hate wires very much. That's why I have been thinking to get wireless or bluetooth mouse. Wires annoy me. LOL

Update

Instead of buying Apple Magic Mouse, I bought Apple Mighty Mouse. Guess what, it works OOTB with Fedora 12. I'm happy with it although the side button (pressure sensor) doesn't work at all.

I try to map the button, but, it is clearly F12 doesn't detect. IMHO, the buttons only works on Mac OS X

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Squid

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

For squid, my only interest is caching. So I don't need to load every pic ( can be anything ) each time I load specific website. Well, my internet connection is not super fast, so I really depends on Squid. Gonna cache everything though. LOL

Setup squid on my lappy. Fedora 12 on HP Pavillion DV3 2111-tx. Here is my config for caching.

refresh_pattern ^http://.*\.gif$ 1440 50% 20160 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern ^http://.*\.asis$ 1440 50% 20160
refresh_pattern -i \.png$ 10080 150% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.jpg$ 10080 150% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.bmp$ 10080 150% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.gif$ 10080 300% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.ico$ 10080 300% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.swf$ 10080 300% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 300% 40320 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern -i \.ram$ 10080 150% 40320
refresh_pattern -i \.txt$ 1440 100% 20160 reload-into-ims override-lastmod
refresh_pattern -i \.css$ 1440 60% 20160
refresh_pattern ^http:// 1 100% 20160 reload-into-ims ignore-reload
refresh_pattern ^ftp:// 240 50% 20160
refresh_pattern ^gopher:// 240 40% 20160
refresh_pattern /cgi-bin/ 0 0% 30
refresh_pattern . 0 100% 20160 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0

Reference : http://michaelboman.org/wiki/index.php?title=Squid

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KB Mall Collapse, Car fall from the sky :)

Yeah. It's true. One of my fren told me about this news. Luckily, she is okay. Paten. Whoever know her. :P

Been calling my mom, she said, one of the top floor parking was collapse. Another source, there is a car collide with post. I dun know la what post. LOL

Anyway, got picture from lowyat forum.

She told me, there are casualties. Not sure though. Will update once got any news on this.



Update :

Refer here : http://bit.ly/8jLjFy

thx to flisterz.

It's not as worse as I thought :)

Update 9-Dec

Here is the link from Berita Harian.

"Saya tidak tahu memandu kereta. Jadi, Sabri mengajar secara ringkas termasuk meminta menekan pendikit minyak dengan kuat serta memasukkan gear.

We can't blame about the tragedy but we can take the value here. Do not ever try to drive if you do not know how to.For this case, 2 victim died. Al-Fatihah to both victim.

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