Wishlist - Dec 2009

1. PS3EyeFor 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. EarphoneNew 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 ~ RM150Review 3.SGP Case for iPhone 3G/3GS Neo Hybrid [White]Lyn member sell this one for RM110....

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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...

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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)...

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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-editor2.head to apps > brasero > config > priority3.change...

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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. :DThere 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 screensh...

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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...

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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.rpmAbove 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/extensionsSo far,...

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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...

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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. LOLUpdate Instead of buying Apple Magic Mouse, I bought Apple Mighty Mouse. Guess what, it works OOTB with Fedora 12. I'm happy with...

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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. LOLSetup 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-imsrefresh_pattern...

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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. :PBeen 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. LOLAnyway, 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/8jLjFythx to flisterz.It's...

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