I tried out Fedora Core 11. As an old Red Hat user, I had never wanted to install FC. The same hapenned when Mandrake changed his name for Mandriva.

FC11 is very impressive. It is more mature than Ubuntu, less buggy, it controls the cpu speed a lot better, without doing any tweak, no flash player lag, so no need to search for a solution.

I will post more over the week as I am pretty busy right now!

Linux adalah sebuah sistem operasi yang tampilan dan cara kerjanya mirip dengan sistem operasi Unix. Pada mulanya Linux dibuat oleh Linus Torvald dari Finlandia, yaitu sekitar pertengahan 1991. kemudian Linus Torvald menjadi Linux sebagai software open source. sehingga Linux dapat digunakan oleh siapa saja secara cuma-cuma. selain itu, setiap pengembangan software mendapat kebebasan memodifikasi dan mendistribusi ulang Linux dengan distro dan nama lain. Hal ini dimungkinkan karena Linux berada dibawah lisensi GPL (General Public License).

Varian atau distro Linux sangan banyak berkembang. Linux dapat dijumpai dalam berbagai distro yang telah dikembangkan oleh perusahaan komersial dan juga oleh komunitas pengguna linux. Beberapa distro Linux  diantaranya :

dan ada linux spesial heck (BackTrack), yang sampai tulisan ini di buat BackTrack baru sampai versi 4. Linux yang 1 ini akan di jelas di tulisan yang akan datang.

Fedora Core (Fedora.redhat.com) merupakan salah satu distro Linux penerus Redhat Linux yang sudah berjaya selama bertahun-tahun. Fedora Core dikembangkan oleh komunitas open source. Selama bertahun-tahun Redhat Linux telah menjadi inspirasi bagi distro lain, seperti : Mandrake Linux, Corel Linux, Caldera Open Linux dan distro lainnya. Menurut survey yang pernah dilakukan di internet, redhat Linux bertahun-tahun telah menjadi sebuah distro Linux yang peling disukai dengan berorientasi pada kemudahan pakai (user friendly).

Jika pernah menggunakan Redhat Linux maka pastilah akan mudah beradaptasi dengan Fedora Core. Style dan perintah-perintah yang disediakan oleh Fedora Core sangat mirip dengan Redhat Linux. Sehingga pengguna Redhat dapat beradaptasi dengan cepat ketika berlatih menggunakan Fedora Core.

ARCHIVE ENTRY
Hey everyone,
For linux novices, dual booting might seem complicated but setting up Dual booting with Linux Fedora and Windows Vista is easy! Today I uninstalled the 32 bit version of Fedora 10 and installed the 64 bit version – here’s what I had to do:

1. Do a  fresh install of Windows Vista, Set the partition size to the entire Hard Drive.
2. Fire up the Live CD and run the installation program when you log in.
3. Set the root password, and other system settings.
4. Tell the installer to resize sda1 and click next, I used a 6:4 ratio – that would be about 360GB to Windows Vista and 240GB to Fedora. But you know what sizes you want, just keep a note of the exact number of MB you set the partition to. Click next.
5. Now I encountered a problem here, I think it may have been a glitch in the installer. It started to resize the partition but was taking way longer than it needed. I waited an hour, but it just wasn’t going anywhere. If you encounter a similar problem, do what I did. I stopped the installation and rebooted the computer. Windows automatically did a scan disk but found no issues. When you get into windows again, check the properties of your hard drive. I found that mine had been actually been resized. If yours is the same, reboot and put the live CD in.
6. Do all the same again, start the installation and set the system settings.
7. When prompted by how much you want to resize sda1, use the same number as the first time. The installer should resize the partition pretty much instantly and begin to install Fedora.
8. Once Fedora is installed, you’re done. Reboot the system and remove the live CD. During the boot, GRUB (A kind of boot manager which allows you to choose which partition you want to use when you power up the system) will show up on screen asking to press a key if you if you want to boot a partition other than the default (sda3, Fedora).

And that’s all there is to it! Having a dual boot system is fantastic because you can take the full control and general usefulness of Linux and the Compatibility (and unfortunately, gaming performance) of Windows all on the same machine.

Stephen

Here is the cheatsheet for those who do not like to read.  Just open up a terminal and open the directory with the TrueCrypt 6.1a’s source tar.  Copy and paste the following command string and you should be golden:

sudo yum install fuse-devel gcc-c++ gnome-keyring-manager make pkgconfig nss-pkcs11-devel wget wxGTK-devel;tar -xvzf TrueCrypt 6.1a Source.tar.gz;cd truecrypt-6.1a-source;wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11.h;wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11f.h;wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11t.h;make;sudo cp Main/truecrypt /bin/

I decided I need TrueCrypt to store some personal documents that I do not want people find (tax forms, employment information, etc).  Unfortunately, the bastards who make TrueCrypt make an rpm for only one Redhat-based distribution, OpenSUSE, and have very strict license rules about repackaging and/or modifying their code.  As much as I want to spend time complaining about their preferred choice of distro, I shall not.  What I will do is give a brief summation of how to compile TrueCrypt 6.1a on Fedora 9.

First of all, I want to point out you should always read the manual (as the title politely hints at).  I always think I am “above” this step, and I always learn my lesson.  I read this tutorial, but I still had problems.  Just in case you were wondering, these are the requirements listed in the README page bundled with 6.1a’s source:

Requirements for Building TrueCrypt for Linux and Mac OS X:
———————————————————–

- GNU Make
- GNU C++ Compiler 4.0 or compatible
- Apple XCode (Mac OS X only)
- pkg-config
- wxWidgets 2.8 shared library and header files installed or
wxWidgets 2.8 library source code (available at http://www.wxwidgets.org)
- FUSE library and header files (available at http://fuse.sourceforge.net
and http://code.google.com/p/macfuse)
- RSA Security Inc. PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki) 2.20
header files (available at ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20)
located in a standard include path or in a directory defined by the
environment variable ‘PKCS11_INC’.

If I had read these, I would not have the problems I eventually encountered.

The first time I compiled, I downloaded the wxGTK 2.8.10 library source from the project’s website as the tutorial suggested, but I had compilation errors complaining about missing constants, clearly for the wxGTK library.  So, I decided to use the RPM provided by yum instead the second time around.

The second time I received compilation errors since because I was missing the RSA PKCS-11 header files.  If I had read the README file prior to compilation and Googling, I would not have embarassed myself.  So, without further ado, here are the quick and easy steps I used to compiled TrueCrypt 6.1a on Fedora 9.

1. Download the TrueCrypt source from here.
2. Open up a terminal, and open up the directory containing the TAR file of TrueCrypt’s source.
3. Input the following commands:

sudo yum install fuse-devel gcc-c++ gnome-keyring-manager make pkgconfig nss-pkcs11-devel wget wxGTK-devel

tar -xvzf TrueCrypt 6.1a Source.tar.gz

cd truecrypt-6.1a-source

wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11.h

wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11f.h

wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11t.h

make

sudo cp Main/truecrypt /bin/

So, about these commands.  I tried using yum as suggested in Januz’s more recent tutorial to use RPM’s instead of having to directly download the PKCS-11 header files, but to no avail.  That is why I download the header files using wget.  I also suggest installing gnome-keyring-manager with the expectation you will eventually have to manage your keys (for TrueCrypt, or even for your wireless networks).  Let me know if this worked well for any of you.

Every year we see that various software companies release several software. Some of those software are so useful, that, we forget that, they will also need to update or upgrade.

For example, Nero. After opening the software in your machine you can see the version of it. It should show 6.x.x or 7.x.x or others. Right? Now, just Google the ‘Nero’. You will find, it is running 9.x.x version in the market.

Take another example, Adobe Acrobat Reader. We use this software for reading the PDF files. Now, open it. What version is it showing? 5? 6? 7? Or 8? Now, again Google the ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader’. It is running version 9 man!! What are you doing?

Go online and upgrade all these software. Open Nero’s website. Just a minute….what is it showing? The setup file of 9.0 version of Nero software is 370.5 MB???  Lol! Are they mad? If the setup is near about 400 MB, then what will be the size, if it installs??? Believe it or not, but it is 1.03 GB!!! Yes, from my personal experience, I am telling you. How horrible!!

In their site, they are saying that this time, Nero has become more user friendly and bla..bla..bla… But, in practical, if you see them, you will be more upset. What had they done? Is this our that Nero? It have become more user ‘foe’ly!  Not only Nero, but take any software.. Adobe Acrobat Reader, DivX, iTunes, Power DVD, Adobe Photoshop etc… you name it! These all are our everyday usable software. Not even software, now a days Operating Systems are also becoming monsters. Windows Vista? The os from Microsoft Corporation? Also have tested Windows 7. The same problem.

Now, lets take a small tour over the cons of these upgrading of softwares.

1. More and more Space: They want more AND more space every day. Previously, I have given an example of the Nero. Now, look at this table:

These are the setup file sizes. Now, after installing, they occupy spaces like this: Nero 9.x = 1.03 GB, Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 = 230 MB, DivX 6.8 = 50 MB, iTunes 8.0 = 75 MB (without Quick Time, with Quick Time 100 MB). So, what will you do to your hard disk?

2. Unnecessary Functions: 99.9% of the users of Nero have a primary objective: burning a cd or dvd.  But, in the 9.0 version, you will find several tools that you will never use. For example, the Nero Home. I am sure that, you will never use it, if you have used the Windows Media Center once. More over, they give, a ‘Photoshop’-like software which is much harder in order to use the original Adobe Photoshop. You will find more applications like Nero Media Player. The ‘worst’ media player I (probably, you also!) have seen ever. Some times they provide some more ‘visually’ beautiful user interface (Eg. Nero 9), which looks great but works keen. They not only fail to do the job in time, more over pressures on the hardware of the computer which turns to our next point.

3. High Requirements: Windows Vista said that it will require at least 512 – 768 MB of RAM; however, 1GB is the best for the lowest requirement. Windows 7 has raised a step higher. It is demanding minimum 1GB of RAM. However, they said 2GB of RAM will be a good configuration in case of lowest RAM configuration. It was only the demand of RAM. Now, there remains more hardware: Processors, Hard Disk Space, Mother board, Optical Drive etc. Adobe’s latest Photoshop CS4 says of minimum requirement of 512 MB of RAM. But, in practice, I myself found, 1GB works good instead of 512 MB. But, if you guys could remember, the CS2 version had recommended requirement of 512 MB of RAM and, I myself had experienced, 320 MB was more than sufficient for it. My Intel 845GVSR motherboard with P4 2.4 GHz Processor ran the application very fast!

4. Customers are tester: When you buying a software, they will ensure in 1000 ways that, the software has been tested 10,000 times and rated “best value” by some ‘XXX’ magazine! You also look at that and think good of it and become the ‘bakra’. Coming back home, when you start installing it, the lines of problem starts. And until the software company provides a ‘patch’ or ‘update’, the problem persists. I think because of this since 2001 till today the Windows XP is providing ‘Service Pack 3’, ‘security updates’ and other ‘useful updates’. Not only XP, their last OS Vista had received a ‘Service Pack 1’ in 2008 after launching it in mid 2007. So, why will you buy new software, which has not been tested? Why don’t you use the previous versions of those software?? Here comes our last point.

5. Expensive: While Nero’s original burning software initially was used to given away with the CD-Writers at free of cost, the latest Nero 9 will cost you around US$200(probably). If you had purchased Adobe’s Photoshop CS2 or CS3 previously, then also, you have to buy it with near about US$1000(probably) with some US$100 discount. WHY? Why should I buy these software-monsters with 1000 bucks??

So, from the next time, before upgrading any software or OS, think twice. Don’t just follow the crowd of ‘latest versions’ and buy them. Apply your brain, is there really any need to buy a new software version? Can the Nero 9 burn ‘scratched’ discs?? You know the answer: No. Then why do you buy / upgrade it expending both your Income and the Internet Bandwidth??? Rather learn to use alternatives. Open Source Products. For example, In case of Vista os, use Fedora Core / Ubuntu / Cent OS…. These are FREE, OPEN SOURCE and FREELY UPGRADABLE Os which covers the solutions of all the problems stated above. Try to use ‘FoxIT Reader’ v2.3 (current) 2 free of cost with 3MB setup file size having all the features of Adobe Reader 8 and 9. Use VLC media player. This is also another open source media player software that plays nearly all types of files.  Yes, it is true, that, VLC is upgrading every month, but, that does neither require lots of internet bandwidth nor 100s or 1000s bucks as it is free and the latest version 0.9.8a (probably) has the less than 20 MB setup file; which will replace iTunes, DivX and Power DVD. So, apply your brain and think again before any software/os upgradation.

• Courtesy: CHIP Magazine( April 2009)

I do not know about you, but I found this to be a major headache.  Audio has always been a pain in Linux and Unix environments, largely to the cornucopia of daemons and servers to do the job.  The major players are OSS, ALSA, and PulseAudio, with the latter unfortunately making major headway in recent years.  I do hear it is more advanced than ALSA, but my personal opinion is that PulseAudio is still very much rought around the edges.  If you want to know the benefits, read this article for a quick rundown.  Sick of it already, I followed a Fedora user’s guide and removed the plugin that interfaces with ALSA to ensure that PulseAudio is not the default sound server.

sudo yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

I won’t be missing that anytime soon.  Now that I have ALSA all to myself, I think it is time to learn how to mute and unmute devices from the CLI, instead of using the gnome-volume-control.  I stumbled upon amixer during my Googling, which is not to be confused with the more graphical, but less useful, alsamixer.  It is not part of the base Fedora 9 install, so you need to install it first:

sudo yum install amixer

Then you ought to play with the alsamixer command and inspect your current configuration, so you can determine which “card” (audio device) you want to configure from the command line.  So, try each “card” until you discover which one is the capture device of your choosing.  For me, it is my USB headset.  Use the following command, where you should replace N with 0, then increment until you find what you are looking for:

alsamixer -c N

I discovered that my USB headset is card 2 (the sound devices on my nVidia motherboard is card 0 and its modem is card 1).  You will know which one is correct by the name of the device in the upper lefthand corner.  For me, it was USB Device 0xd8c:0×0c, the same as it was in the gnome-volume-control applet.  See the screenshot below if you do not follow me.

Alsamixer running while I configure my USB headset.

Once you know that, it is a piece of cake.  First, determine the name of the capture device for the card:

amixer -c 2

This will give you output resembling this (I am not sure how much it will vary depending on hardware):

Simple mixer control ‘Mic’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 – 32 Capture 0 – 16
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [off] Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Auto Gain Control’,0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Speaker’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 – 151
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 114 [75%] [-7.85dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 114 [75%] [-7.85dB] [on]

For my laptop, the capture device is cleverly named ‘Mic.’  So, to mute the microphone and set the volume to 0%, the command is:

amixer -c 2 sset Mic 0% cap mute

To unmute the microphone and set the volume to 100%, the command is:

amixer -c 2 sset Mic 100% cap unmute

It’s as simple as that.  Soon, I hope to find a way to run this command as soon as the driver loads.  I imagine this will require some sort of bash scripting.  I will write up something here when I have a solution.

UPDATE: I found a way to control this device from the command line.  Hopefully, I will automate this soon and never worry about it again.

Sorry, no ladies and no gentleman.  I have been away for a long period.  Iwas a little too burnt out at the time to write up some recent developments.  As you can tell, I have returned.

For a period, I really wanted to get a bluetooth USB dongle to and use a bluetooth headset with Skype.  Unfortunately, dear readers (probably reader), I am too cheap to shop anywhere else other than Best Buy.  I was forced to choose the Rocketfish Bluetooth USB dongle.  For lack of a better word, it was a total piece of junk.  It registers as a Human Interface Device (e.g. USB dongle for linking up wireless keyboards and mice), which infuriated me.  If I recall correctly, I used modprobe and eventually had it load as an HCI device (a Bluetooth device in Linux kernel speak).  Unfortunately, it would fault pretty quickly, and I never was able to connect my phone, a Sony Ericsson w580i, or the headset I bought from Best Buy, a Plantronic Bluetooth Headset.  A word comes to mind: pipedream.  I have no idea what I was thinking.  Afer a week or two of fiddling around, I returned those pieces of crap.  I had had enough with poorly implemented piece of trash.  In the meantime, I quickly searched Google on my cell as I found a cheap, generic USB headset at Best Buy, I found a blog that spoke favorable of the Dynex USB headset and how Linux quickly recognized it out of the box.  I did have several minor issues (as alluded to in the title, barely worthy of a headache in my mind), that I felt I ought to recout.

When the USB headset driver is loaded (you will know if it is successful, the Fedora welcome tone is played when it is finished), the mic is muted by default.  It did not occur to me for a long time, as I went directly to configuring it in Skype, that the microphone needed to  be turned on.  This oversight grealy prolonged the time needed to get this device running out of the box.  I tried to find out if I could stop this when the driver loaded.  I will update this if I ever figure out how.  The not so automated way to fix this goes as follows:

1. Press Alt+F2 and input gnome-volume-control or open it with a shortcut.
2. This will bring you to a window similar to the first screenshot below.  Open the menu and select the USB Device 0xd8c:0×0c (Alsa Mixer). The 0x???:ox?? value will vary depending on the brand and model of USB headset.
3. Click the mute/unmute icon at the bottom of the left pane (see the third screenshot).
4. Adjust the volume control and raise it all the way, making your window match the final screenshot.
5. Close the application and enjoy audio capture via USB.

And that’s it.  Now the USB headset works in Skype.  When I find a way to automate this silly procedure, I will write a post about it.

Wer nicht auf DVD, MP3s und Co verzichten will in seinem Fedora Core (in diesem Fall in Version 10), der sei auf das Fedorawiki verwiesen. Unter dem Suchpunkt “MP3″ finden sich für so ziemlich alle Multimedia-Projekte auch die proprietären Erweiterungen, die Fedora stets aus seinen Distributionen herausnimmt.

I tried using Ubuntu 8.10 today out of curiosity. I’ve been wanting to for quite a while to try Linux-based OS but has been intimidated by it. My first Linux encounter is Fedora Core back when I was still in Anino Entertainment. One of the Network Card on our Linux Server died because of power fluctuations and I would have to replace it. That was a nightmare as I have to fix it before the day ends and I know nothing about Linux. Thankfully, I have a few officemate who knows Linux and was able to help me during their free time. Nonetheless, the event had me hating Linux.

A year later, people has been talking about Ubuntu and how it was easy to use. So I tried it and I am somewhat happy with the OS. The installation was fast and easy to understand. I tried to watch a movie but it said that it needed different codecs. Thankfully, they have an automated search for things that you might need and for most of the time, it is able to find the appropriate codec or program to run whatever it is you want to open.

The first problem I encountered is the video card. I couldn’t make heads or tails with the Nvidia Driver for Linux-32 found on the manufacturer’s website. But after updating the OS to current, it was able to use the built-in graphics driver. Besides the Graphics Card driver, all the other devices has been automatically installed.

When I played music, I noticed that it could detect my iPod that was plugged to the USB. The built-in player can also manage the music files of your iPod. The only thing that is missing in the music player is an equalizer but besides that, it’s a good player.

One of problem that I simply didn’t like are the softwares that I download. Almost all of them are source codes and you would have to compile them with the Software Sources Applet. Currently, I am still unable to install Mozilla Thunderbird. I was able to install Wine though.

Speaking of Wine, I downloaded it so that I can play Warcraft III. Sadly, it didn’t work (or maybe I’m doing something wrong).

Another thing that I like with Ubuntu is the Dual Desktop. You can have 2 desktop that you can switch to easily (you would need to customize the shortcut key). So you can have your Work Desktop and your Play Desktop. ^_^

To conclude, Ubuntu is a great OS for those who uses their computer for office works and for browsing. But if you’re into gaming, you’re better off with Windows. Yes, you can download a couple of programs to make games run but is it really worth the time?

PEBKAVM: The problem is not always you.

Good evening, boys and girls.  Today is another installment of my annoyances with VM software (VMWare mostly) on my Linux box at work.  In a perfect world, it would not be necessary.  The unfortunate reality is that I need to use Windows XP.  I have alluded to this bane of my existence issue several times before, so I will spare you a rant.

So, now that I have transitioned to VMWare Server, I have been experiencing an occasional keyboard problem.  I originally believed it was a case of PEBKAC.  Sadly, I found out it is not.  I would be typing on my guest Windows XP Professional image on my Fedora Core 10 host.  At random times, the host started to have issues.  I could only type in a style most accustomed to teenagers on Fedora.  The ALT key, the CTRL key, the Shift key, and just anything except basic alphanumeric keys failed to register anything.  Of course, the keyboard was working perfectly in the guest VM.  Thank God I searched Google out of frustration about this infuriating exotic error.  It turns out the error was PEBKAVM, or rather Problem Exists Between Keyboard and VM.  Thankfully, quickly resetting the X keyboard map, described here and in other locations on the intarwebs, fixed the issue.  Just run this command:

[ajs67@localhost ~]$ setxkbmap

That solved the problem for me.  For others it appears to be more severe.  Thanks again, VMWare, for making the seemingly simple completely unbearable.

To the innumerable readers (you cannot be numbered because you probably don’t exist) who have wondered where I went, I apologize.  Life has been very hectic, so I gave up on the blogging.  I will try to pick up again where I left off.  Now back on topic.

As some of you might have guessed, I do not like running Windows XP Professional on my office workstation like the rest of the IT drones.  I need to be different, quenching my unbridled need for attention and an unconquerable desire to appear more technically savvy than my co-workers.  I nonetheless need to use Windows (the university I work for is most obviously a Microsoft shop, like the rest of them).   I had converted a dual boot machine into a dual boot machine that can mount a physical NTFS partition as a VM (a big thanks to Imran Nazar for his instructions here).  That was interesting, but I realized the workstation I use has SATA drives on a RAID set to legacy mode. Imran’s instructions (and that of VMWare) recommend people doing this only with IDE drives for reasons above my technical knowledge.  This led me to VirtualBox for a while.  If I remember, you could use a couple workarounds, but I did not want to invest the effort in reading VMWare’s lengthy documentation on the topic.

I had a good go with VirtualBox.  Sadly, I did not use OSE (the Open Source Edition).  I really needed the command line tools to convert the rawdisk (the NTFS partition) into the correct image file.  Obviously, those tools, arguably the only real gem in the VirtualBox toolkit, were only in the proprietary version.  The problem was that the performance was, how can you say, piss poor.  I did not want to expend the effort to figure out why this was exactly.  I tried increasing the memory, including the video memory, but I could not speed up the Windows GUI rendering.  Every time I opened a menu, it was painfully slow.  I actually saw it render from nothing, to a greyish shadow, to a premonition of a Start Menu.  Finally, the Start Menu would manifest itself 30 seconds after I wanted it.  So, I decided if I was going to be using a proprietary blob, it best be VMWare.  At least they had sufficient performance.  Also, VirtualBox had really annoying disk permission and user privilege issues that required constant tinkering as I moved things around often in this testing phase.  I know there solution was more Unix-like, but it constantly annoyed me.  I am sorry VirtualBox, but I will try tinkering with you again when I have time.

So, I nuked the physical partition (nothing of value had been installed on it yet) and opted for a classic VM for easy backup (translation: copying and pasting the directory) and to have more space.  I played with VMWare Workstation, but I was sick of being reminded of the impending time bomb that would reign hell fire upon me after a month.  Then, like a good piece of shitty trialware, it would demand I pay my dues (at the time of this writing, 189.00 USD).  I am not inclined to pay that much for software I need just to run more software I hate, so I looked for something I could use that was better than VMWare Player.  I want to be able to create VM’s after all.  Then, it came to me.  I totally forgot about the free VMWare Server 2 product.

I quickly realized why I had forgot it.  It is a huge pain in the ass.  I had accidentally downloaded the second version, which is a plague of locusts on the virtualization community.  I know it is a free product, and it is only meant to encourage those interested in VMWare to upgrade to their more serious ESXi product, but a web interface!?  You want to advertise your products as a platform for concurrently running operating systems in realtime, and you actually think someone can control that with a shitty web interface?  I am not a real developer by any stretch, VMWare, but you have to be kidding me.  Needless to say, I downgraded to VMWare Server 1.0.7 (if I remember correctly).  Fortunately, I was receiving some really annoying compiler errors after installing the RPM and running vmware-config.pl.  All hope was lost.  Or was it?

Kang released a patch that adjusted all the calls VMWare kernel module was making to deprecated features.  Sadly, VMWare kernel developers are not in touch with the one thing they need to know, the Linux kernel.  Once I applied the patch, the VMWare kernel module compiled perfect.  I then downloaded and compiled the console addition, and voila.  Another exciting end to an exciting day.

Kang, I do not know you well (or even at all), but you are my hero.

Wah… blom nyoba yang satu ini (Fedora 10 – CAMBRIDGE)… blom punya DVD-nya hiks…

Nyoba ke KPLI Medan dolo ah… mana tau udah ada yang download (abis gak punya bandwidth gede) Fedora 10… paman…. menuju TKP….

Minggu itu, aYa sobat ane datang kerumah… Kira-kira jam 10 lewat aya dah manggil-manggil didepan pintu. Kami pun ngobrol-ngobrol, sambil liat-liat fhoto wisuda kami berdua . Sekalian aya burning fhoto sepupunya dari Camera Digital ke CD

Teringat tadi malam pas habis update FC8 ku di package:
selinux-policy-targeted
openoffice.org-writer
libxml2-python
ntfs-3g
Gak nyangka kalo rpmfusion-free-release-8-5.noarch dan rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-5.noarch ikut terinstall, karena penasaran coba yum check-update, eh ternyata banyak lagi yang mesti diupdate…

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, fedorakmod
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist-7 error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
* livna: rpm.livna.org
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
* everything: ftp.iitm.ac.in
* rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide: download1.rpmfusion.org
* rpmfusion-free-rawhide: download1.rpmfusion.org
* rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
* rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org
* rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org

a52dec.i386 0.7.4-13.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
faac.i386 1.25-7.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
faad2.i386 1:2.6.1-5.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
ffmpeg-libs.i386 0.4.9-0.51.20080908.fc rpmfusion-free-r
gecko-mediaplayer.i386 0.9.0-1.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
gnome-mplayer.i386 0.9.1-1.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
gstreamer-plugins-bad.i386 0.10.9-1.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i386 0.10.9-2.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
kmod-madwifi.i686 0.9.4-60.r3861_2008090 rpmfusion-nonfre
kmod-madwifi-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686 0.9.4-50.r3867_2008092 rpmfusion-nonfre
kmod-ndiswrapper.i686 1.53-5.fc10.4 rpmfusion-free-r
kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.26.5-28.fc8.i686 1.53-5.fc8.1 rpmfusion-free-u
kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686 1.53-5.fc8.2 rpmfusion-free-u
lame.i386 3.98.2-2.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
lame-libs.i386 3.98.2-2.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
lame-mp3x.i386 3.98.2-2.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
libdca.i386 0.0.5-3.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
libmad.i386 0.15.1b-8.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
libmms.i386 0.4-3.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
libquicktime.i386 1.0.3-4.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
madwifi.i386 0.9.4-60.r3861_2008090 rpmfusion-nonfre
mencoder.i386 1.0-0.102.20080903svn. rpmfusion-free-r
mjpegtools-libs.i386 1.9.0-0.6.rc3.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
mpeg2dec.i386 0.5.1-3.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
mplayer.i386 1.0-0.102.20080903svn. rpmfusion-free-r
mplayer-gui.i386 1.0-0.102.20080903svn. rpmfusion-free-r
ndiswrapper.i386 1.53-2.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 9.90-5 rpmfusion-free-r
rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch 9.90-5 rpmfusion-nonfre
twolame-libs.i386 0.3.12-3.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
unrar.i386 3.7.8-3.fc10 rpmfusion-nonfre
vcdimager.i386 0.7.23-8.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
x264.i386 0.0.0-0.17.20080905.fc rpmfusion-free-r
xine.i386 0.99.5-5.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
xmms-faad2.i386 1:2.6.1-5.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r
xmms-mp3.i386 1.2.11-2.20071117cvs.f rpmfusion-free-r
xvidcore.i386 1.1.3-4.fc10 rpmfusion-free-r

Wah sedikit kok, dalam hati mesti diupdate sekarang juga nih, ok trus jalankan yum update….
walah-walah, keinginan hati sih langsung beres seperti sewaktu update tanggal 3 November 2008, bah yang dapet malah log error berikut…

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, fedorakmod
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist-7 error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
* livna: rpm.livna.org
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* everything: ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp
* rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-free-rawhide: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-free-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-free: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package ffmpeg-libs.i386 0:0.4.9-0.51.20080908.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 for package: ffmpeg-libs
—> Package k3b-extras-freeworld.i386 0:1.0.5-4.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package ndiswrapper.i386 0:1.53-2.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package libdca.i386 0:0.0.5-3.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 0:9.90-5 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 for package: rpmfusion-free-release
—> Package gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i386 0:0.10.9-2.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: gstreamer-plugins-ugly
—> Package libquicktime.i386 0:1.0.3-4.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) for package: libquicktime
—> Package lame-mp3x.i386 0:3.98.2-2.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package xmms-mp3.i386 0:1.2.11-2.20071117cvs.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: xmms-libs = 1:1.2.11 for package: xmms-mp3
—> Package x264-libs.i386 0:0.0.0-0.17.20080905.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libgpac.so.0 for package: x264-libs
—> Package a52dec.i386 0:0.7.4-13.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.0 for package: mplayer
–> Processing Dependency: libgroupsock.so.0 for package: mplayer
–> Processing Dependency: libliveMedia.so.0 for package: mplayer
–> Processing Dependency: libUsageEnvironment.so.0 for package: mplayer
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: mplayer
—> Package amarok-extras-freeworld.noarch 0:1.4.10-1.fc8 set to be updated
—> Package libtunepimp-extras-freeworld.i386 0:0.5.3-5.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package kmod-madwifi.i686 0:0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10.4 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: kmod-madwifi-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 = 0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10.4 for package: kmod-madwifi
—> Package lame-libs.i386 0:3.98.2-2.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package madwifi.i386 0:0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package mpeg2dec.i386 0:0.5.1-3.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libmpeg2 = 0.5.1-3.fc10 for package: mpeg2dec
—> Package gnome-mplayer.i386 0:0.9.1-1.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: gvfs-fuse for package: gnome-mplayer
–> Processing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 for package: gnome-mplayer
—> Package faad2-libs.i386 1:2.6.1-5.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package gstreamer-plugins-bad.i386 0:0.10.9-1.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libfusion-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.7 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libexempi.so.3 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdirac_encoder.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdirac_decoder.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdirect-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
—> Package kmod-ndiswrapper.i686 0:1.53-5.fc10.4 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 = 1.53-5.fc10.4 for package: kmod-ndiswrapper
—> Package mencoder.i386 0:1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: mencoder
—> Package gecko-mediaplayer.i386 0:0.9.0-1.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package mjpegtools-libs.i386 0:1.9.0-0.6.rc3.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package unrar.i386 0:3.7.8-3.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package kmod-madwifi-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686 0:0.9.4-50.r3867_20080924.fc8.2 set to be updated
—> Package kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.26.5-28.fc8.i686 0:1.53-5.fc8.1 set to be updated
—> Package libmms.i386 0:0.4-3.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package libmad.i386 0:0.15.1b-8.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package xmms-faad2.i386 1:2.6.1-5.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: faad2 = 1:2.6.1-5.fc10 for package: xmms-faad2
—> Package mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 for package: mplayer-gui
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: mplayer-gui
—> Package twolame-libs.i386 0:0.3.12-3.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package lame.i386 0:3.98.2-2.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package xvidcore.i386 0:1.1.3-4.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package faac.i386 0:1.25-7.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package xine.i386 0:0.99.5-5.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package xine-lib-extras-freeworld.i386 0:1.1.15-4.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: vcdimager >= 0.7.23 for package: xine-lib-extras-freeworld
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) for package: xine-lib-extras-freeworld
—> Package vcdimager-libs.i386 0:0.7.23-8.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686 0:1.53-5.fc8.2 set to be updated
—> Package rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch 0:9.90-5 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 for package: rpmfusion-nonfree-release
–> Running transaction check
—> Package faad2.i386 1:2.6.1-5.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package ffmpeg-libs.i386 0:0.4.9-0.51.20080908.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 for package: ffmpeg-libs
—> Package gpac-libs.i386 0:0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libopenjpeg.so.2 for package: gpac-libs
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.7 for package: gpac-libs
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 for package: gpac-libs
—> Package rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 0:9.90-5 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 for package: rpmfusion-free-release
—> Package gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i386 0:0.10.9-2.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: gstreamer-plugins-ugly
—> Package libquicktime.i386 0:1.0.3-4.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) for package: libquicktime
—> Package xmms-mp3.i386 0:1.2.11-2.20071117cvs.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: xmms-libs = 1:1.2.11 for package: xmms-mp3
—> Package live555.i386 0:0-0.20.2008.07.25.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: mplayer
—> Package kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686.i686 0:1.53-5.fc10.4 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 for package: kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686
—> Package kmod-madwifi-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686.i686 0:0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10.4 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 for package: kmod-madwifi-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686
—> Package vcdimager.i386 0:0.7.23-8.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package gnome-mplayer.i386 0:0.9.1-1.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: gvfs-fuse for package: gnome-mplayer
–> Processing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 for package: gnome-mplayer
—> Package dirac-libs.i386 0:0.8.0-2.fc8 set to be updated
—> Package gstreamer-plugins-bad.i386 0:0.10.9-1.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libfusion-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.7 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libexempi.so.3 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdirect-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
–> Processing Dependency: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad
—> Package mencoder.i386 0:1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: mencoder
—> Package libmpeg2.i386 0:0.5.1-3.fc10 set to be updated
—> Package mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 for package: mplayer-gui
–> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 for package: mplayer-gui
—> Package xine-lib-extras-freeworld.i386 0:1.1.15-4.fc10 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) for package: xine-lib-extras-freeworld
—> Package rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch 0:9.90-5 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 for package: rpmfusion-nonfree-release
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
kmod-madwifi-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686-0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10.4.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-madwifi-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686-0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10.4.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686-1.53-5.fc10.4.i686 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686-1.53-5.fc10.4.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libopenjpeg.so.2 is needed by package gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libssl.so.7 is needed by package gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdirect-1.2.so.0 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libfusion-1.2.so.0 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
mencoder-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package mencoder-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
rpmfusion-free-release-9.90-5.noarch from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 is needed by package rpmfusion-free-release-9.90-5.noarch (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
libquicktime-1.0.3-4.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) is needed by package libquicktime-1.0.3-4.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
mplayer-gui-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package mplayer-gui-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
mplayer-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libssl.so.7 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
xine-lib-extras-freeworld-1.1.15-4.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) is needed by package xine-lib-extras-freeworld-1.1.15-4.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libexempi.so.3 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.51.20080908.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.51.20080908.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.9-2.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.9-2.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gnome-mplayer-0.9.1-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 is needed by package gnome-mplayer-0.9.1-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9.90-5.noarch from rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 is needed by package rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9.90-5.noarch (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide)
gnome-mplayer-0.9.1-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: gvfs-fuse is needed by package gnome-mplayer-0.9.1-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
xmms-mp3-1.2.11-2.20071117cvs.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: xmms-libs = 1:1.2.11 is needed by package xmms-mp3-1.2.11-2.20071117cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
mplayer-gui-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-gui-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-free-rawhide has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.9-2.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: xmms-libs = 1:1.2.11 is needed by package xmms-mp3-1.2.11-2.20071117cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package mplayer-gui-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.7 is needed by package gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686-1.53-5.fc10.4.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) is needed by package xine-lib-extras-freeworld-1.1.15-4.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-madwifi-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686-0.9.4-60.r3861_20080903.fc10.4.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.51.20080908.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libopenjpeg.so.2 is needed by package gpac-libs-0.4.5-0.5.20080217cvs.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libfusion-1.2.so.0 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package mencoder-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 is needed by package rpmfusion-free-release-9.90-5.noarch (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdirect-1.2.so.0 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libexempi.so.3 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8) is needed by package libquicktime-1.0.3-4.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: system-release >= 9.90 is needed by package rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9.90-5.noarch (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.7 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: gvfs-fuse is needed by package gnome-mplayer-0.9.1-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 is needed by package gnome-mplayer-0.9.1-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.4 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
Error: Missing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-gui-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.i386 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)

Wah, bribet ini, kernel gak pas… pusing… sepengetahuan saya Fedora 9 dah beberapa bulan release, penasaran kata paman, cek ke http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule, wow Fedora 10 tinggal beberapa hari…
Ada juga sih keinginan sekarang ini mo update ke FC9, mikir-mikir repo yang saya miliki cuma repo FC8, repo FC9 blom punya, walaupun di KPLI Medan yang lama (MBICNET-red) terdapat repo FC9, cuma ane gak bisa akses, mungkin hanya orang-orang yang berkuasa saja yang bisa mengakses… (tak lama aya pun pamit pulang mau ke Siantar)
Lagian kalo liat tanggal release Fedora 10 tinggal menghitung hari saja, ya sabar aja lah nunggu FC10

Tetapi jauh di relung hati, Fedora Core cepat x ya release-nya barusan aja FC9, eh beberapa hari lagi Fedora 10 launching, trus mau berapa besar hardisk ya kalo mo ngoleksi repository Linux… mo didelete repo FC8 sayang, soalnya ane gak punya bandwitdh besar buat mirrorring repo jadi local repo, repo FC9 aja yang ada lokalnya di Medan mesti punya kuasa dulu baru bisa akses….

haahh… sambil mengelus dada…

Luego de cambiarme a FEdora 11, con lo que supone caer en el uso de una distribución recién liberada, me encuentro con diversos problemas con el driver ath5k, sin llegar a profundizar parece que no termina de trabajar bien el driver y decidi probar con madwifi.

Sospecho que hay un problema con las velocidades de transmisión, pero con el cambio de driver se han dejado de producir mensajes de hal sobre la tarjeta en cuestion.

Hablamos de una

Tarjeta con chipset Atheros

la cual muestra mi sistema como

(Ejecutando lo sisguiente)

lspci -vvv | grep Ethernet

05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5007G Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Si buscas via yum

su yum -c update

yum -y install madwifi

No te aparecerá nada, o en mi caso no aparece por cambios en los repositorios. Luego de buscar en diferentes repositorios en este encontre lo que buscaba.

1) Nos dirigimos al siguiente link.

http://www.atrpms.net/dist/f11/madwifi-free/

2) Previa consulta de mi kernel.

uname -ar

Linux Gheimhem 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29 16:02:42 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

3) Procedi a bajarme los siguientes paquetes:

madwifi-0.9.5-47_r4082.fc11.x86_64.rpm
madwifi-devel-0.9.5-47_r4082.fc11.x86_64.rpm
madwifi-kmdl-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11-0.9.5-47_r4082.fc11.x86_64.rpm

5) en:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf añadimos ath5k (El driver anteriormente utilizado), con nano, vim, gedit…

4) Reiniciamos

5) Comprobamos su existencia con:

modinfo  ath_pci

6) Por ultimo ya podremos usar madwifi-tools, y en caso de persistir los problemas aconsejaría seguir al tanto de madwifi y de san google. Además de iniciar un  analisis de nuestra red via wireshark, para poder ver como se comporta nuestra red. A falta de novedades esto que he relatado se puede contemplar como una posible solución.

Sobre mi: No soy un guru, pero tampoco un newbie. Procuro buscar soluciones en mi sistema y aprender del funcionamiento. No publicaré cosas aqui sin testearlas a fondo. Además creo que se debe buscar siempre la mejora. Aunque algo ya funcione…….

Just in case…
Понякога се налага. Тъпо, ама се налага. Не става дума за това дали да се използва su или да се прибегне до single user mode.

http://www.labtestproject.com/create_root_user_account

The same howto in pdf format: here

AVG 8.5 for Linux, server ve ücretsiz workstation ilavesi ile daha etkin tarama yetenekleri, yeni antivirüs filtrelemesi, geliştirilmiş bir performans ve Linux tabanlı kullanıcılar için daha kolay bir kullanım sunuyor. Windows işletim sistemlerindeki kadar yaygın olmasa da, Windows için geliştirilen kötü amaçlı yazılımlar, Linux işletim sistemlerine de darbe vurabiliyor. Bunun yanı sıra Windows tabanlı çalışma istasyonları sıklıkla ağ üzerinde Linux tabanlı sunuculara bağlanıyor. AVG 8.5 for Linux, bu gibi sistemler için merkezileşmiş bir anti-malware koruması sağlıyor.

AVG’nin yeni geliştirdiği AVG Server Edition for Linux, tek dağıtım paketi içinde hem e-posta hem de dosya sunucularını koruyor. Gün içinde yollanan milyonlarca e-postayı destekleyecek kapasite ve güvenilirliğe sahip AVG Server Edition for Linux, böylelikle büyük şirketler ve hatta internet servis sağlayıcıları tarafından da kullanılabiliyor.

FreeBSD, Mandrake, Mandriva, Fedora Core, Debian, SUSE, Red Hat, Red Flag, Ubuntu ve Debian paketini kullanan diğer Linux dağıtımları altında test edilen AVG 8.5 for Linux, Linux dağıtımı açısından bir sınırlama taşımıyor.

Linux versiyonuna bağlantı başına lisans ücreti ödenerek 1 ya da 2 yıllık abonelik seçenekleriyle sahip olunabiliyor. Server Edition’a ise yetkili AVG satıcılarından ya da doğrudan http://www.avg.com/business-security sayfasından ulaşılabiliyor. Her iki versiyon da şu an için yalnızca İngilizce olarak sunuluyor.

I wrote a post a while ago about configuring my USB headset from the command line.  Naturally, the next step was to automate the process so it would unmute and raise the mic volume to the maximum without any intervention on my part.  Fortunately for me, almost all the work was done for me.

I was fortunate enough to stumble upon some IBM DeveloperWorks documentation on a fairly recent kernel addition, i-notify.  I-notify is very, very cool.  It allows for someone to monitor file system events.  The problem is that I thought I would need a lot more code (in C, of all languages) to do something useful, say, monitor when the kernel loads a driver module for USB audio devices.  Sounds relevant, no?  Boy, was I wrong.

Somehow, I had foolishly believed that this code could lie around for years without someone making a toolset in Linux.  Further research brought me to the inotify-tools website, which mentioned how it is conveniently packaged as a RPM file for me in the Fedora Extras repository.  So, I installed it.

sudo yum -y install inotify-tools

With a toolset already coded for me, this changed from a programming problem to a simple scripting problem.  I was having some trouble, but that was because I have never scripted bash before.  I stumbled upon this post on LinuxQuestions.org, and it guided me in the right direction.  So, I drafted this little script here, and saved it under the clever name unmute.

unmute

#!/bin/bash
# Use the inotify-tools toolset to run command to unmute
# mic and raise volume if it detects the proper driver.

kmod=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko

inotifywait -q –monitor –format %e -e open $kmod | while read event; \
do sleep 5 && amixer -q -c 2 sset Mic 200% cap unmute; \
done

The fun doesn’t stop there.  Now, we need to make sure that the script is active on startup.  So, make the script executable and move it to a directory in your $PATH environment variable.

chmod +x unmute

mv unmute /usr/bin

And last but not least, we must add the script to the rc.local (located at /etc/rc.local) file to ensure that it loads when the computer boots up.  Make sure you add the line in bold with the necessary admin privileges.  Keep in mind your rc.local file might look different.

/etc/rc.local

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don’t
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

unmute &

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

And voila!  Now your computer, if it has Fedora 9 with necessary libraries and it uses snd-usb-audio kernel module for your headset as it should, will automatically unmute the USB headset and set the volume to max.  Let me know if you have problems.

For some reason or another my Master Boot Record (MBR) gets corrupted or overwritten from time to time. It could be you have a windows/linux dual boot with grub as your boot loader and you re-install the windows installation (which doesn’t give you a chance to say “No i dont want the stinking windows boot loader on my MBR”). It could be any other number of reasons that has somehow left your hard disk filled with glorious data but won’t boot.  Below are some steps that may help.  The basic gist is to use fsck to check your file system and if all your data is good, use grub to rewrite your master boot record.

1. Boot up a live cd.  Any live cd will work though i use the Fedora Core.
2. fsck your file systems.  If you can’t get past this step a lot more than your MBR is broken:(

fsck -f /dev/sda1 *

3. mount your partitions (you only need to mount your boot partition and your / partition).

cd /mnt
mkdir myroot
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 myroot
mount /dev/sda1 myroot/boot

4. mount the special file systems dev and proc

mount -o bind /dev/ myroot/dev
mount -o bind /proc/ myroot/proc

5. change the root of the your active file system to your newly mounted partitions

chroot myroot

6. fire up grub and rewrite the master boot record

grub
root (hd0,0) †
setup(hd0)

7. reboot and good luck!

*Note that in this example i used sda1.  This is just an example.  This will vary depending on how many disks and partitions you have.  ‘ls /dev/hd*;ls /dev/sd*’  If you use a Logical Volume Manager (red hat based distro?) you will have to also do ‘fsck -f /dev/VolGroupXY/LogVolAB’ for each of your logical volumes.

†Again this is specific to where your boot partition lives.  hd0,0 is the first partition on the first disk (a likely guess if you don’t know any better)