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Muhammad Shahriman (Yondie): UTP Web Hacking Challenge!!!

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 7:31pm BST

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When I first came to my Uni. It was a heaven nest for hackers!! Yeah truly it was fun, people exchange ideas/files using the IRC network, super cool project like ultra low bandwith video streaming (it`s not flv) etc3.

But those were the days, where most student loves to dump logs (sql etcx3.) Nowdays our junior only know how to dump babies!

But hey HITB is kind enough to bring the hacking scene inside the campus back!!

Below are the details:

-UTP Open WebHack Challenge
-Mission answer at least 4 out of 10 question in 20 minutes.
-Prizes: You have a chance to win a ticket to HITB SecConf 2008 in October
-Fees: It's damn free
-Time: 10am -3pm
-Location: Building 2 , Level 1 Multimedia Lab 3 (Opensource lab)
-Who can join: Anyone!!!

Note for Utpians:

Mr Ropie had kindly dedicated some of his space to setup a small Web Hacking challenge server for training purpose. It's accesable (internally of course) on this link:

http://165.0.4.15/

Happy hacking!!
Bakhtiar: LDAP and Plone: Losing authorization

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 12:00pm BST

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Spent a few hours confused with LDAP and Plone. Intalled Plone LDAP Plugin, configured the instance and activated the plugin. Users can log in, but then lost their authorization; i.e became unauthenticated/anonymous user. Everything looks ok. But it'weofije...
Colin Charles: Finding people from cell phone base stations

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 11:13am BST

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Picking up my mail today, there was the venerable Expat Magazine in my inbox. Out came a DiGi flyer, offering their business plans. What interested me?

Worker Finder™
Worker Finder™ will tell you where each employee is - based on the nearest base station to the location of the employee’s mobile phone. All with the convenience of an online interface.

Find out more, at their mobile enterprise page. RM40 for 200 searches (”pings”, if you must).

This is smart. I mean, the facility has existed ever since cell towers came to play, just why hasn’t anyone monetised on it before? Kudos to DiGi on finally, trying to.

Brings up questions of privacy though. As an employee, would you want to turn off your business phone, after hours, for fear of your office tracking you? If you were planning to skive off work, would you turn the phone off before leaving, in the event that this service tells you the last recorded cell phone tower?

Lots of thoughts, though I’m assuming once this is offered to parents, they’ll have an added bit of piece of mind, for their children. After all, isn’t the excuse to buying kids a mobile phone these days, because of safety?
Yuen-Chi Lian: Sliding down, Scriptaculous and jQuery

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 5:43am BST

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Haven't been hacking JavaScript "seriously" after a few years, I got myself back into doing it two days ago. I wanted a slide up/down effect on a panel when a button is hovered.

I first came across the Scriptaculous but I wasn't satisfied with the size of the JS files, Scriptaculous+Prototype+jQuery, as I use Thickbox as well (too bad, Lightview is not free).

I received some questions in Twitter and Facebook about "why both?", so I knew I needed a change unless I had a good reason. I then spent a bit of time in the morning to read the jQuery's documentation and found out that it's easier to get this done with it.

Here's the code comparison:

jQuery's Snip
```
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery("#woPageSelector").hover( function(){ jQuery("#woPageSelectorContent").slideDown(300); }, function(){ jQuery("#woPageSelectorContent").slideUp(300); } );
});
```
Scriptaculous' Snip
```
var mouseOverHandler = function(event) {
$('wpPageSelectorContent').slideDown({duration: 0.5, queue: {position: 'end', scope: 'pageSelectorsPanel', limit: 2}});
$('woPageSelector').stopObserving('mouseover', mouseOverHandler);
document.observe('mouseover', mouseOutHandler);

}

var mouseOutHandler = function(event) {
$('wpPageSelectorContent').slideUp({duration: 0.5, queue: {position: 'end', scope: 'pageSelectorsPanel', limit: 2}});
$('wpPageSelector').observe('mouseover', mouseOverHandler);
document.stopObserving('mouseover', mouseOutHandler);
}

$('wpPageSelector').observe('mouseover', mouseOverHandler);
```
By the way, if you really have to use Prototype and jQuery at the same time, you may want to read this page to prevent conflicts.

- yc, woohoo!
Danesh Manoharan: Microsoft to sponsor Apache Software Foundation

Posted: July 30th, 2008, 5:19pm BST

Tags: apache linuxopensource microsoft [edit]
Microsoft has announced that it will sponsor ASF “Apache Software Foundation”. Yahoo and Google are already on board.

Microsoft was quick to say that they will not ditch IIS as tremendous work is constantly being put into it. IIS 8 is already in development and native support for PHP is on the todo list.

As quated from MS;

Open Specification Promise: Microsoft is putting a wide range
of protocols that were formerly in the Communications Protocol Program
under the Open Specification Promise (OSP). This guarantees their
freedom from any patent claims from Microsoft now or in the future, and
includes both Microsoft-developed and industry-developed protocols.

Source: nixCraft || port25
Tags: apache, linux.open source, microsoft
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Kevin Foo (chfl4gs_): FreeBSD : Inexpensive and simple swap encryption

Posted: July 30th, 2008, 2:38pm BST

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It has been a while that I did not put up any post. Here a short note on swap space encryption with FreeBSD geom geli(8). This feature was there for quite sometimes. Enabling swapspace encryption with geli Only 2 files are required to be edited, /etc/fstab and /boot/loader.conf. Change your swap partition in /etc/fstab with suffix “.eli” [...]
Seymour Cakes: Singapore Java job?

Posted: July 30th, 2008, 11:31am BST

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Well I'm looking for a Java/J2EE/JEE job in Singapore sometime this December. I looked at the usual suspects -- Jobstreet, Monster, JobsDB -- and none seems like a place to grow or even nice place to be. If anyone of you has interesting gig in Singapore please let me know.

---

On the hand, I think job classifieds sites today are rather boring. This is definitely an area ripe to grow further. But too bad what we have is a middle-age functioning job ads site that offers the typical new job listings, resume management and job-match alerts. And lets not mention all the copy cats dressed in Web2.0 costumes but still the same boring gooey underneath it.

Lets get real. The only thing matters is the resume. Which I think somebody should come up with a kick ass simple site for just that, resume management. And that is building less.

Right now I have different copies of resumes floating around the web in different databases. It is a hassle trying to synchronize my resume data.

Now what if you mix it with social app concept and turn it into a open and public resume. Anybody interested in you will find you. Mix that with a common API to a central portal or directory for employers to find and you got a pretty good done deal in a kick ass resume management.

All that can be done easily with Google App. Probably couple of weeks of coding to make it pretty.
Harisfazillah Jamel: Skip Spamassassin DNS Check If Using MailScanner DNSBL Check

Posted: July 30th, 2008, 11:31am BST

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Skip Spamassassin DNS Check If Using MailScanner DNSBL Check

Spamhaus has the limitation for DNS queries from one host. If you are using MailScanner DNSBL Check please edit the configuration under

/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

to add

# By default, SpamAssassin will run RBL checks. If your ISP already
# does this, stop RBL checks in SpamAssassin by un-commenting the
# following line

skip_rbl_checks 1

This will make sure the DNSBL queries is only used by MailScanner not by Spamassassin to scan the same email.

We also received spam from people that used Googlegroup and Yahoogroup. For temporary solution we have disabled Auto Whitelist because it produced failed positive for this type of spam.

# The --auto-whitelist and -a options for "spamd" and "spamassassin" to
# turn on the auto-whitelist have been removed and replaced by the
# "use_auto_whitelist" configuration option which is also now turned on by
# default.

use_auto_whitelist 0

Please also check the /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf and remark those setting so that the setting inside /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will be used.

Please refer to my other blog posts

Email Spam Filtering Next Level
[blog.harisfazillah.info]

MailScanner To Used MCP
[blog.harisfazillah.info]

For Archive
[songketmail.harisfazillah.info]
Muhammad Shahriman (Yondie): Fedora 9 Repo Mirror @ V5

Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:02am BST

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With the current state of our network connection in UTP. It took us quite some time , to host back the Repo. Currently we only manage to hosted it on all villages (except V3 i guess).

Link:
Instruction for V5 users.

*Only works inside UTP
Danesh Manoharan: Malaysian GSOC student in the media

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 1:11am BST

Tags: database google gsoc malaysia mysql [edit]
Raj Kissu Rajendran from APIT, who is also a Google Summer Of Code participant gets featured in the local papers.

Raj is working on the “BLOB Streaming Support for phpMyAdmin” project which enables the management of streaming content (audio, video) in and out of the MySQL database through phpMyAdmin. keep up with his progress

This is what he had to say about the local OSS scene,

I envision a more innovation-centric industry driven by research and collaboration, especially in open source. The nature of open source is in its shared environment where experts help newbies design and implement efficient code. I think the local ICT industry needs to be more adventurous in R&D (research and development).

OSS in Malaysia is still slow due to the lake of exposure but it’s people like this who help spread the word by contributing great work.

Good job dude!!

Source: NST
Tags: database, google, GSOC, Malaysia, MySQL, Open Source, programming, Software
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Danesh Manoharan: KDE 4.1.0 released

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 12:39am BST

Tags: Community desktopenvironment kde livecd release [edit]
KDE 4.1.0

The KDE community released KDE 4.1.0 today. The second release for KDE4.

Boasting new features, new applications and improved eye candy, KDE 4.1 is managing to WOW many. Nothing but good reviews all around the net unlike 4.0.

Plasma now supports multiple panels and allows the resizing of panels like how it was with KDE3.

A new “folder view” plasmoid sees it’s way on to the desktop providing a new way to interact with the desktop. The removal of desktop icons scared many but with the new folder view plasmoid users are able to access any folder they please from the desktop instead of being locked down to the default desktop.

Eye candy. If you have a good software which looked like crap would people want it? I guess not.

KDE 4.1 includes many new improvements to it’s interface. Thinner borders, better transparencies, cleaner interfaces, new themes and plasma now has it’s own theme engine.

Plasma Folder View

From a software standpoint, KDE-PIM is back with Kmail and KOrganizer. Dragon player, the new video player comes default. New games are included, KSystemlog, KSCD CD player, just to mention a few.

However, Amarok 2.0 is still not in

KDE 4.1 is really looking more like a complete desktop now. KDE 3 users will take sometime to get used to the new interface but eventually they will get there. Can’t say the same about Vista

Wanna take it for a spin?

Get the live CD || Other Alternatives

Source: KDE
Tags: community, desktop environment, kde, live cd, release, Software, themes
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Wei Chong: kernel message log buffer

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 8:05pm BST

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Today somebody approached me and ask if it is possible to read the kernel log buffer from memory (assuming we have the means to access the memory) in the case, for some reason dmesg or /proc/kmsg is not able to output the kernel log buffer. My guess is it is definitely possible, since it is the content of a memory location. To find out, I first read the source of fs/proc/kmsg.c which lead me do_syslog(). From there, do_syslog reference __log_buf. So, I use /proc/kallsyms to find out the address of __log_buf:

Next, I use kdb to examine the memory content of 0xc042c41c:

Looks promising, but to be sure, I try to do a dmesg and grep for the string pattern:

Yeap, looks like we are lucky again! :)
Harisfazillah Jamel: MailScanner to Used Message Content Protection (MCP)

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 6:30pm BST

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MailScanner to Used Message Content Protection (MCP)

I'm testing MCP function for MailScanner. The documentation can be view here
[www.mailscanner.info]

I'm using Spamassassin Custom Rules and put it inside /etc/MailScanner/mcp and can be download here.

[wiki.apache.org]

Among Spamassassin custom rulesets used.

bogus-virus-warnings tries to pick out 'collateral spam' caused by viruses
bogus-virus-warnings.cf
[www.timj.co.uk]

evilnumbers is a collection of phone numbers, PO boxes and street addresses harvested from spam.
evilnumbers.cf
[www.rulesemporium.com]

Malware Blacklist
http://www.malware.com.br/

sa-random searches for spamware mistakes like: %RANDOM_WORD
sa-random.cf
[www.sa-blacklist.stearns.org]

Airmax.cf
Misc rules I use. Use them if you find them usefull.
Created by: Maxime Ritter
[maxime.ritter.eu.org]
Harisfazillah Jamel: Uninstall In Malay

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 6:30pm BST

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Uninstall In Malay

I need to wrap up this. Due to direct translation to Malay. We select "Dihapuskan" as the translation for uninstall. But a party do not like the word. It can mean "To destroy". You need to know, one word can have many translation. :)

I've compile this words below to replace "dihapuskan" if we need to do that. Anyone can join this discussion here

[tech.groups.yahoo.com]
- nyah pasang
- pembatalan pemasangan
- menge'nyah'
This email
[tech.groups.yahoo.com]

selain hapus / menghapus / dihapuskan

1. Buang / membuang / dibuangkan
2. Tinggal / meninggalkan / --- (meninggal & ditinggalkan rasanya macam tak
sesuai je)
3. Lupus / melupus / dilupuskan
4. Tanggal (lawan kata bagi pasang/ memasang) / menanggalkan / ditanggalkan
5. Lerai / (lawan kata bagi pasang / susun / ikat) meleraikan / dileraikan
6. Alih (move) / mengalihkan / dialihkan
7. Abai / Mengabaikan / diabaikan
8. Lepas (lawan kata bagi pasang / ikat) / Melepas (hehe) / Melepaskan /
Dilepaskan
9. Keluar / mengeluarkan / dikeluarkan
10. Cabut (unplug) / mencabut / dicabut

Contoh ayat:
==========

1. Buang - Adakah anda pasti untuk membuang perisian ini dari sistem?
2. Tinggal - Adakah anda pasti untuk meninggalkan perisian ini dari sistem?
3. Lupus - Adakah anda pasti untuk melupuskan perisian ini dari sistem?
4. Tanggal - Adakah anda pasti untuk menanggalkan perisian ini dari sistem?
5. Lerai - Adakah anda pasti untuk meleraikan perisian ini dari sistem?
6. Alih (move) - Adakah anda pasti untuk mengalihkan perisian ini dari sistem?
7. Abai - Adakah anda pasti untuk mengabaikan perisian ini dari sistem?
8. Lepas - Adakah anda pasti untuk melepaskan perisian ini dari sistem?
9. Keluar - Adakah anda pasti untuk mengeluarkan perisian ini dari sistem?
10. Cabut - Adakah anda pasti untuk mencabut perisian ini dari sistem?

Sebahagian perkataan mempunyai lebih daripada satu maksud.
1. Melepaskan = melancarkan
2. Meninggalkan = (boleh jadi bermaksud) membiarkan
3. Mengabaikan = membiarkan
4. Cabut = lari
5. Tanggal = tarikh

Seronok juga belajar bahasa melayu ni :)

Semoga bermanfaat.
Open Malaysia: Microcars Malaysia thinks the Malaysian Government should not choose!

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 3:34pm BST

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The team at OpenMalaysiaBlog just received this strange letter from a foreign MNC demanding that the Malaysian Government explain themselves on the choices this country wants to make.

It's strange, bizarre, and mind boggling. Enjoy!

===
Microcars (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Level B2 Tower 2,
Petronas Twin Towers,
Kuala Lumpur City Center,
50088 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia

3rd July 2008

Big Chief of the Malaysian Government,

Re: MAVEMPU's Migration to OpenCars

First of all, I would like to thank you for your time and fruitful meeting on 18th May 2008.

Further to our discussion, we would like to express our concern and seek some clarification on Malaysian Vehicle Modernisation Planning Unit's (MAVEMPU) recent announcement that it is migrating to OpenCars and demolishing all its Microcars by the end of this year.

Please let us assure you that we support promoting the awareness, training and skills related to locally produced cars, and we are certainly not against the use by anyone of locally assembled vehicles based on merit and cost consideration. In fact, we believe in the co-existence of local cars and imported cars and we leave it to the end users to decide or choose freely which vehicle best suits their needs.

Our position is also in line with the Cabinet's policy on "vehicular neutrality" which was reaffirmed by the Minister concerned in November 2006 that the government would not favour one technology, platform or vendor over another (unless security, safety or national interests are involved).

The Cabinet's decision on "vehicular neutrality" is also consistent with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which do not support any procurement policy that favors one foreign car vendor over another.

We are wondering, based on the announcement and feedback, whether or not the above action by MAVEMPU's goes against the spirit of Cabinet's policy on "vehicular neutrality" and also the rules of WTO.

We are particularly concerned with MAVEMPU's decision to demolish all its current inventory of Microcars cars as it does not make administrative sense and logic to do so. There is no technical requirement to obliterate the cars for any garage to service and house OpenCars. It also presents no real cost savings to the organization. Perhaps MAVEMPU should further clarify this aspect of their program and why they are doing this.

With the greatest respect, we would also like to know if there was any proper study done before MAVEMPU decided on the vehicle migration program. If such a study was done, we would like to know the content of the study and how MAVEMPU based its recent decision on it. We believe that this is not purely an internal technical or administrative matter as we feel that MAVEMPU's above decision has wider implications for the Car Industry in the country.

MAVEMPU makes and enforces policies and it also acts as the role model in promoting administrative efficiency in the government. The government is a major user and purchaser of cars and vehicle procurement policies by the government has a major impact on the development of the Car Industry in Malaysia. There should be greater transparency surrounding the basis of such decisions by MAVEMPU as it is of public interest and there are no state secrets involved.

Since the above announcement by MAVEMPU, many of our Malaysian car distributers and partners (who see this case as a threat to their transport business and livelihood) have written to us to express their worries and anxieties. Therefore, we feel this issue may have far reaching implications to Malaysians who are involved in the development and trading of proprietary and foreign vehicles.

We are also extremely concerned whether this vehicle migration program by MAVEMPU is a prelude to similar implementations in other governmental departments or agencies as well. We have also received information that PUSPAKOM is also launching the same initiative on migrating to OpenCars. We would like to hereby seek your clarification on this matter.

We hope you would view the above concern expressed by us in a constructive manner and as a genuine feedback from the Car industry.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

*signed*

Hairy Purée
Senior Director Government Affairs
For Microcars Malaysia
===

Don't you think it's rather presumptuous of this particular foreign company to question the right of a country's choice in a certain product? Maybe it's because all these foreign companies just think that it's not about choosing but about having a choice, and we poor third rate countries haven't the brains to think for ourselves.

yk.
Terengganu Linux Community: OpenSUSE zypper package management

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 3:05pm BST

Tags: [edit]

Salam Semua.

Aku nak share link utk sesapa nk belajar zypper package manager utk OpenSUSE secara express:-

http://opensuse-tutorials.com/2008/07/zypper-tips-and-tricks/

wsalam
Harisfazillah Jamel: Email Spam Filtering Next Level

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 1:31pm BST

Tags: [edit]

Email Spam Filtering Next Level

Spamhaus [www.spamhaus.org] has the limit to the DNS queries for email server. This limition hit our email server. Yep we received so much spam the we hit the spamhaus limitation.

[www.spamhaus.org]

We decided to try two methods to increase the efectiveness of our SPAM filtering.

(1) SQLgrey

[sqlgrey.sourceforge.net]

We are using postfix, by putting software like SQLgrey it will help to decrease the numbers of spam that enter into Mailscanner.

(2) Clamav

[www.sanesecurity.com]

The site above provide clamav signatures that will scan for spam in email including inside PDF files.

and now to choose between MailScanner that used Spamassassin and DSPAM.

MailScanner
[www.mailscanner.info]

Spamassassin
[spamassassin.apache.org]
DSPAM
[dspam.nuclearelephant.com]

or we just build our own DNSBL :)

[spamikaze.org]
Abdullah Zainul Abidin: Creating a postgresql database in ubuntu

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:04am BST

Tags: [edit]

According to the docs I was supposed to just type `createdb debiancedb` but that would fail saying the user cannot be authenticated. Finally after much googling I found [ubuntuforums.org] which basically says to do a `sudo -s -u postgres` first which would basically make me run the command as the postgres user. I think most probably the best solution is to add my user to the postgres group most probably. Haven't tried it yet though.
Bakhtiar: Plone 3.1.3 and arfile / aroffice

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 8:00am BST

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I'm reembarking into plone. Need to set up a C Kaeru suggested arfile and aroffice product to complement plone as a dms. However, starting zope with arfille produced: zope.configuration.xmlconfig.ZopeXMLConfigurationError: File "/opt/Plone-3.1/zinstaweofije...
Colin Charles: Raj Kissu in the press for GSoC2008

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 2:48am BST

Tags: [edit]

Whether an online comic, or not, the New Straits Times is one of the three English dailies, that still cost some amount of money in Malaysia. Their Computimes pullout, now better known as Tech&U, featured Raj Kissu, a Summer of Code 2008 participant for MySQL. While the article itself, fails to mention MySQL, he describes what he’s working on:

I’m doing a project on binary large objects in database. Basically, it is aimed at allowing people to file or stream files online. The program is based on open source.

Kudos to Raj, kudos to Google, kudos to phpMyAdmin, and kudos to MySQL. As for the reporter, as usual, old medium journalism tends to be somewhat of a fail….
Muhammad Shahriman (Yondie): Fedora Electronic Labs

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 2:01am BST

Tags: [edit]

I think i mention about this awesome spinoff during the Barcamp. If you are interested on either digital/analogue mnano to pico scale hardware design. This is the best distro that covers up all those aspect.

If you already have install Fedora in your system don't worry, all those softwares that availables on the spin is already in the upstream . Hence you can have all those softwares with just yum away. More info coming up soon.

Must read:

FedoraElectronicLab
Interview FEL Owner
Icarus Verilog Tutorial
GHDL Manual
Muhammad Shahriman (Yondie): We don`t need crossover cable anymore**

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 2:01am BST

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Starting from Kernel 2.6.2x series or WinXp SP 2 or 3. Crossover cable is irrelevent. Don't believe me? Hook up two rig together using straight cable with manual IP settings. Now you can either ping/rsync/ssh/ftp each other normally.

** On a typical x86 or x86-64 machine . Crossovercable are still needed on SBC/ARM/ . Do take note these features are OS Dependent. (If your OS doesn`t support it won`t work.
Muhammad Shahriman (Yondie): Barcamp Day2

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:01am BST

Tags: [edit]

I woke up early in the morning. It damn cold. First thing I did was hail a taxi and go to Jalan Ipoh. Bring a mechanic and starts fixing my car. It's totally borked out. The battery died, the lights goes out and the alarm is goodbye.

Owh well that's the story of the day. So here's some good points on what i had on Day 2:

Wireless Hacking

Well somebody told me this guy is CEH certified. Interesting talk. From my experience. It's not really hacking, it's rather more like tapping. If you are phone line, you tapped the line, If you are using wireless phone line, you tapped the signal and it goes the same to wireless network, You tapped into the network. Tapping doesn`t cost u a dime nor you need proper authenthication.

If you converse using secret language using phone, you can also send encrypted data using wireless network connetion. How the heck u decrypted it depends .

P/S: CEH sucks.

Open Malaysia Part 2

Ditesh presented the story of local involvment in the Open Source devel/RND . The current state of FOSS development inside our country .He also expose "RMS true nature". Some stories how goverment react on OSS . I`m quite sad to see there still a need for "special race" on getting approval on what they are trying to fight for. Yeah a great talk from Ditesh

Lightning Talk and fast

This is the most interesting sessoin of all session.

1. How to hide certain sensitve information
2. Why yum rocks!
3. Jailbreak Ipod
4. Gossip 2.0
5. Cheap way to travel
6. Social Networking stuff.
7. Exploiting Geek
8. Open Hardware and hardwarex2 stuff.
9. Life experience

Overview:

Barcamp rocks!!
Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin: Review: Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux on Ubuntu

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 11:31pm BST

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Prolog Here is the system information for this project, Workstation: HP Compaq 6515b Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS (Hardy Heron), x86_64 version Kernel Version: 2.6.24-19-generic Pre-Installation Go to Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux homepage and request for 30-day trial. You will receive a set of username and password to download the software Download Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux from http://www.sophos.com/support/updates/linux.html Installation Verify the installation file is [...]
Danesh Manoharan: How To - Execute Linux command Windows

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 11:05pm BST

Tags: Linux plink script [edit]
Most of the time, users are having a Windows Machine on their desk or laptop. Normally, we want to perform a full scale data retrieval from our Linux servers in the DC, where we don’t have a trusted Linux server to manage it….the answer to it is use “PLINK” utility.

Plink comes together with the Putty…

A simple example of usage is:

C:> plink USERNAME@SERVERNAME ‘YOUR-LINUX-COMMAND’

If you have a dozen of servers…then you probably want to write a batch script in Windows to loop through a list of servers and mention the list of commands juz like what i did…..

Here a typical windows batch script:

@echo off

for / f “tokens=*” %%A in (your-server-list.txt) ( C:pathtoplink.exe user@server -w YOUR-PASSWORD -m linuxcommandscript > YOUR_OUTPUT_FILE.txt)

There you go, i did this for my sar report data collection for root cause analysis and infrastructure load analysis….keying in a password wif every darn login is impractical and yet you dont want to generate a security key for the servers.
Tags: CLI, command line, Linux, linux commands, plink, script
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Andy Goh (hantu): Kota Kinabalu Linux User Group

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 7:29pm BST

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It was just 2 days ago when I spoke to nbliang (one of the founder of KuchingOSC), and he asked me whether there is any Open Source community in Kota Kinabalu (KK). I have no idea if there is any, because in my few years of exposure to Open Source, I have not heard of any related communities in KK. Of course, he asked me to start a community that is based in KK so we can promote FOSS. Unfortunately, I am unable to do so, due to the fact that I am currently not based in KK, so it will be a little harder for me.

So, I was reading through Google Reader, and stumbled across a post by drizad. He started Kota Kinabalu Linux User Group (KKLUG). Hopefully this effort can gather as many Linux / Open Source supporters in KK, and be one of the gateway to promote FOSS in the state. Thanks for that, drizad.

Maybe BarCamp KK?
Ruhaizad Daud: At last… KK LUG is materialize

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 3:06pm BST

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At last… I found 2 other people who are interested in Linux in Kota Kinabalu. And I straightaway create a KK LUG today.

Hope to have more people from KK joining in and be a Linux evangelist. I know it is a long journey ahead, but still, it needs to start somewhere.

Interested in Linux and you are in KK? Join us here:

KK LUG

Visit this group
Yong Yoon Kit: Barcamp

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 1:42pm BST

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BarCamp was held in Kuala Lumpur for the first time over the weekend. I didn't expect much of it, thinking that it would be a lame attempt to for pseudo web2.0 wannabes to 'network'. I was pleasantly surprised, as at the end of the first day it was encouraging to see a good sharing community growing here OTHER than the MyOSS one.

Ditesh volunteered me to speak a month back, and I thought I had ample time to prepare a presentation. I left it really late, and only started work on the presentation 2 days prior. I drew up a rough mind map on things worth talking about regarding the 2 year story of OpenMalaysiaBlog, and was figuring out how to present it. After all, a standard presentation with bullet points would have driven people insane, and a steve-jobs type one takes way too much time in preparation and rehearsals, and would severely limit audience interaction.

So the best thing I figured was to present the big picture; the mind map itself.

I was asked during the presentation on how I created it. I said "Adobe Illustrator, of course!" This brought on boos and jeers, of which I said "... kidding, I used Inkscape; a Free and Open Source vector illustration program. The source file is in svg."

What I realy like about Inkscape is its a real quality software. It has never crashed on me yet. The output to png is impeccable. It has great blur effects which makes for good drop shadows. The gradient tool is useful and usable. I also found a hidden feature, which is to embed bitmap images within the svg. By default, images are linked from external files.

To present, I just used plain ol' Eye-Of-Gnome (EOG). You will need to make sure that you set the background to white or to a solid colour:
Whats good about EOG is that it worked really well with my eeePC's touchpad. The vertical and horizontal scroll edges worked smooth and consistent scrolling, and pressing Control and manipulating the vertical scroll allowed me to zoom in and out effortlessly. It was surprisingly easy to manipulate the touchpad standing up and infront of the few people in the room.

What I liked about the talk was the interactiveness, and there were at least 4 people in the room who were outspoken, which encouraged a robust discussion. We eventually ended up taking a significant amount of time talking about Software Patents, of which I was surprised that non MyOSS members were clued up on. As a bonus it was good to know that they too understood the dangers it mounted on software development both proprietary and open source, in Malaysia.

At the end of it, was a rendition of Bob Dylan's "For the times they are a-changing'" by our resident musician and GSoC personality, Raj Deelan.

Hasan explained that this song was featured in our first blog post at openmalaysiablog.com, and it represented the changing times we are currently experiencing. I apologised for the bad transcript which was projected, as I left out 2 verses of the song, which left the karaoke afficiandos in the lurch (Aizat, it was reported that they could hear you 3 rooms away). However I made sure that this verse was in:
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
Theres a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your Windows (tm)
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
Well done to the BarCamp organisers, the two Daniels, Kamal Fariz and many others for holding a quite spectacular event which brought together a community willing to share.

yk.

Picture credits goes to Azman Saini's Flickr photostream. Thanks!

Small mentions of my talk by Ditesh
There were many questions from the audience, most seemed to be awed by the level of dedication the OpenMalaysia people seemed to have put in to promote openness and transparency in Malaysia’s government ICT policies.
Yuen Chi
I liked how Yoon Kit's presented the stories in a mind-mapping-like diagram.
Yondie.
... how OpenMalaysia Blog got started ,how the reaction from .MY Goverment in Opensource. Yeah how the big company starts lobbying around ... IMHO, this is to ensure the future of country is control by our own wills not other.
Meng Wong
The opensource guys related the story of ODF versus OOXML; not only that, they whipped out a guitar and, in a slightly cheesy but earnest moment we sang "The times, they are a-changing."
Muhammad Shahriman (Yondie): Barcamp Malaysia . My experience.

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:01pm BST

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Although by the time i wrote this entry, there`s gonna be ton of similliar posting everywhere on the Net. But i decided to write it on anyway. It's gonna be a very long post.

Day 1.

Woke up damn early in the morning since i need to go from PJ to Puchong fetch the master Kagesenshi . Don't wanna brag but my road instinct in KL doesn`t work properly so we got lost a lil bit and arririved maybe around 9:15 / 9:20 am something .

Arriving on the floor, my first thought this group of people must be a bunch of hackers and geeks . Yeah well it's partially "true" since I always restricted myself with only software/hardware hackers. Not business hackers, math hackers, freelance hackers, social worker hackers . So it's pretty interesting to meet all those kind of people over there sharing their knowledge.

Anyway here's the summary on what I learn on Day 1.

Google Androids:

Nothing to do with actual androids anyway. It`s some sort of platform on building mobile apps. The presenter, Gavin Bonk share his his knowledge on Google Androids development, the limitations , the controversy etcx3.

The OpenMalaysiaBlog

Here is the story of the unsong heroes of Malaysia who fights to protect our country from some sort of ruthless foreing business invasion!! Yoonkit presents an excellent mindmap (or was it roadmap?) how OpenMalaysia Blog got started ,how the reaction from .MY Goverment in Opensource. Yeah how the big company starts lobbying around . Or Kisah seorang tetamu yang tidak tahu malu lagi adab. Yeah I must admit everyone in the crowd agreed that software pattern is bad. There's a mix reaction from the crowd too, some says why bother since you won't get Datukship from doing this or profits anyway. IMHO, this is to ensure the future of country is control by our own wills not other.

Monetizing Youtube

Althought it says youtube actually it was refering to any online video streaming content management on the web. Roni from UerekaLab show us the potential of advertisment directly inside a Video. For example a babes holding an empty can in Video can be "edited" realtime to show that from Malaysia it will shows Yos Soya Bean , in the States maybe Kickapoo. This idea is superb since maybe in the future there won`t be any commercial break to spoilt your day!!.

Entreprenuer and Developer Gangb***g.

Arzumy ,Kris, Khailee and Joel starts talking bout the power of freelancing. How to become a good freelance etcx3. It's an interesting talk, but at the current moment, sadly I haven't got any interest on starting up a business ship yet!.

Well that was the talk that I went during Day 1. Urmph. there's an Internet connection but the speed is as bad as a typical day in UTP. So Kagesenshi (again) setup an IRC server and we start bitchin and critizing around any talks that we found bored. It's damn fun since somone accidently slip out his password i have no idea why. Met Soonyik from UTM who travels very far from south.

Owh yeah at first i dint't really one to camp out in the building. But when i went to the parking lot and found out that my car was fscked up.!! The car batts died in the middle of the city. It so horrible. I got no choice but to stay there .. Damn it stupid car. and maybe silly me.

So yeah i spend the night in the building talking discussing with Doni, Fadhil, Alex and several other peoples. During the night suppose we should wathing Red Line, Somehow even the sexyness of the babes in the movie make us more sleepier. So Doni i think switch up the movie with The Big Bang theory series and we laugh all night until I don`t know .

Suddenly it`s Day 2.. To be continue.
Colin Charles: Failure - we can’t spell failure without U

Posted: July 27th, 2008, 4:40am BST

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Sparse notes, from An Open Source Project Called “Failure:” Community Antipatterns to Know and Avoid. Both lists of panel members are inaccurate (and I seemed to have forgotten to take the list down, myself).

Blocking anti-pattern
feature you really want implemented, someone blogs it saying they’re going to do it, and a few years later, there’s nothing done

Docs? We don’t need no stinkin’ docs!
Look at SQL-Ledger and their documentation… this is our hero… Project around for 10 years, and most people end up using a fork of it instead.

Don’t screw around with licenses. Licenses are a social contract defining what people can do with your code and what you expect from them when they use it. Most open source license enforcement is done via peer pressure, not court order.

Community members have emotional attachments to licenses and responses to changes in them.
Ditesh Kumar: Barcamp, Day 2

Posted: July 27th, 2008, 12:33am BST

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So Day 2 of Barcamp started off late again for me. Or if you have been following my twitter messages, perhaps you may argue that it was early for me. Oh toh-mah-toh, toe-mae-toe. In any case, I was in time for my talk at 11am, “The Malaysian Free Software Community”. Well, almost. While I was driving to the venue, I realized my X.org was b0rked. Fortunately, a call to @allenpais assured me that I could use his laptop for the presentation.

So, I was late to my own presentation, but no matter, most people were still in the WiFi-cracking talk. There was no projector, but @sweemeng quickly procured one. Then, we realized @allenpais’s X.org config was unfortunately b0rked too thus resulting (in true open source fashion) having four laptops out in the open with geeks trying to fixor the problem (thanks @kagesenshi, @allenpais, @sweemeng). I decided to step out for some much needed vitamins and apparently the problem was fixed when I got back. As an added bonus, the mostly empty room filled up with a number of people by then.

The talk was well received, which was awesome given how nervous I was (@aizatto would be able to attest to that). The high levels of nervousity came about to some extent due to me being out of the FOSS speaking circuit for the last 18 months, and that the last talk I gave with this content was a FAIL (of course, me nursing an extreme hangover then did not help matters).

I had hoped that the net result of the talk would be having various interested people get involved more actively in Free Software in Malaysia. I wasn’t disappointed as several people indicated some interest in getting stuff started within their own spheres.

A sad bit was that my slides got messed up and I actually missed out giving due props to @kagesenshi for the most excellent work he has been doing in the Fedora project. Rock on, dude!

After a suitably timed break, I attended another talk on “Hidden Impact of Higher Mathematics on the World Wide Web”. I was slightly late for this talk, but I did catch a section where the speaker attempted to guess the missing number that the audience would hide from him. He got it right almost each time. Thanks to sitting beside the ever algorithmic @angch, I was informed by @ngch that the speaker was using a cyclic redundancy check algorithm. Heh

Lunch was served (and many thanks to the organizers for providing vegetarian food!).

Post lunch were lightning talks, which I thought @aizatto was supposed to run but which apparently got forked by @fadzil. Heh. In any case, a re-merge quickly happened and the results were … amazing! Participants speaking on all topics, from hardware hacking to free culture to why-yum-kicks-ass to couchsurfing.com (that would be yours truly :p) to efficient methods of hiding pr0n[0].

The lightning talks were not strictly run (ie not strictly 5 minutes), but most people kept it short and sweet. Fadzil’s energy and enthusiasm were very much appreciated (he should be barcamp.my’s resident lightning-talk-host!). There was a talk by @mengwong on “Who’s Fucking Who.com” which was easily, in my opinion, the best talk at barcamp.my as a whole! Fucking aye, that talk was just absolutely brilliant!

Anyways, with that barcamp.my pretty much came to an end. Here’s a review of barcamp.my as a whole:

The Good:
1. Vegetarian food.
2. Great organization (fantastic work, froods!).
3. Awesome organizers.
4. Women! Heh.
5. Amazing participants.
6. Warm welcome (on both mornings!) by the girl at front desk.
7. Lightning talks.
8. The cute “welcome” girl at front desk [1].
9. The great people and conversations met and had in the stairwell.
10. Awesomely cute “welcome” girl at front desk urmm … hmmmm … oh yes, “Mathemagics” was cool.
11. Everybody helping out in their small way in the organization (seeing participants help take out the trash was way cool).
12. Putting faces to twits, heh (hey @danesh_m, @rajaseelan).
13. Sweet sunny smile by welcome girl^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWatching Dark Knight again.
14. Standing-only crowd at @yoonkit’s talk!
15. Possible fist fight (see The Ugly).
16. Waking up tomorrow, going to work, getting to torture the slaves (woo hoo!).
The Bad:
1. Wifi. Lack thereof. Nuff said!
2. Talks with mostly pre-emptible content. Pre-emptible by thoughts of the bed on a Sunday.
3. Not getting to talk to the cute girl (fail, fail, epic fail).
4. Waking up tomorrow, going to work.
The Ugly:
1. Marketing talks. Sigh.
2. Losing any remote possibility of hooking up with cute girl, thanks to this blog post.
3. Getting beaten up by cute girl’s Significant Other. Hmm, a fistfight may be a cool experience tho. Adding that to “The Good”, heh.
4. Waking up tomorrow. Possibly.
In Summary:

“My two cents is that I’m going to go volunteer at the other barcamps, this experience was amazing enough to convince me!”

[0] A note for Windows users wishing to hide their pr0n: TrueCrypt has been b0rk3n.

[1] Dear Lazyweb, twit me the name of this cute girl would ya? My beer shall be yours.
Yuen-Chi Lian: Second Day of BarCamp Malaysia - Awesome!

Posted: July 27th, 2008, 6:13pm BST

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The second day of BarCamp was simply.. Awesome! I talked about being a newbie wireless user yesterday and I have another newbie experience today on OpenOffice Presentation. We are newbies in certain areas of our life at every single day to learn new things, aren't we?

I started my day by attending a wireless network hacking session by the iTrain guys. A very great and rich session indeed, with a speaker who couldn't stop reminding us that he has a longer toy than us, he showed a number of tools to make wireless hacking easier. And not to forget, Linux is the best platform to launch attacks. It's a shame that the demo didn't work and the session dragged quite a while to make my slot left with 30 minutes time.

Yes, my talk on CDN fell in the same lecture room. Being a big fan of Steve Jobs' style presentation, I made my slides as clean as possible with just keywords, although I didn't deliver a smooth one like his (hopefully next time), thanks God that the decision to make the presentation short saved me from rushing given such limited time (of course, the reason wasn't to run into Ditesh's talk but to have more QnA and interactions).

Followed by it, it was Talat's talk on "Hidden Impact of Higher Mathematics on the World Wide Web". Talat and his talk reminded me of the Oxford Murders.

After having our Subway lunch, I ran into (once again) the Lecture Room 1 as Kamal and Aizat planned to run a ligthning talk session there. So, when I thought I would finish up my day all in Lecture Room 1, we got the news that the session got forked and we just merged with folks in another room.. which started with a talk on hiding porn video files.

It's so excited to see how much information people could share in that one hour time!

- yc, in and out.
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Posted: July 27th, 2008, 5:48am BST

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