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I guess you all have heard the news now. Sun Microsystem is going to acquire MySQL AB, the company behind the most popular open source database server, MySQL anytime soon.
After this acquisition, Sun would control the Java platform, JavaME embedded programming platform, SunOS/Solaris operating system, workstations, StarOffice suite, and now MySQL.
Seems appropriate to say “Everything under the Sun” now.
Clonezilla is a free and open source harddisk cloning tool with partition cloning capability. Clonezilla sets itself aparts from similar similar disk cloning solutions like Symantec Ghost and PartImage as it is able to massively clone a lot of computers simultaneously with the help of a DRBL server.
Clonezilla is also a flexible tool as it can be used to clone computer individually without the need of of a DRBL server. Clonezilla is able to save space by cloning only used blocks on the disk on computers with supported filesystem (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs,vfat,ntfs). Cloning unsupported filesystem is also made possible with sector-by-sector copy functionality offered by this remarkable tool.
Get CloneZilla (Live CD) now for your hard disk cloning solutions
I’ve always wanted to try and take panoramic photographs using my dad’s Nikon Coolpix 5200. That day finally arrived when I finally have the free time to do so last week when I’ve to accompany my dad traveling to the countryside of my hometown.
Using a tripod, I took 4 sets of photographs with the help of Nikon built-in panorama helper function. I was excited and about to use a Windows computer to stitch those photograph using software supplied with the camera when suddenly I thought of searching for a similar application on my trusty Ubuntu box.
To my delight I found Hugin! An open source panorama maker software which I use without hesitation to create a my first ever panoramic photos.
The interface was simple enough to use even for a first time use like me. What you need to do is to load all images into Hugin using the “Load Images” button, and it will start to process your images immediately.
After finished processing the photos, Hugin lets you fine tune the result using a dialog similar like below.
After retouching and minor adjustment, I’ve ended with this panoramic photo!
p/s: Well the photo is not perfect in detail, but hey its my first try!
Previously I’ve written a post about how to send/receive file over the bluetooth using CLI. Now i’m going to show you a quick way to send files over bluetooth using the standard “Send To” on GNOME. Like this
To enable this, you need :
After all requirements have been met, all you need to do is select the files which you wish to be send over bluetooth, and click “Send To”.
You should see a dialog similar like above, prompting you to select the desired bluetooth device.
It’s easy with Linux!
Few days ago my site was hit by a bunch of really bad bots which crawl my site continuously until it overloads my web server. Now I’m publishing a way to block these so-called bad robots from ruining your website by their crazy crawling method.
Assuming you are using Apache Http server, create .httaccess file and append this line to the newly created file.
Continue reading “Using htaccess to stop Bad Bots from stealing bandwidth and crashing your server”
Few days ago my site has been subjected to bad http crawling bot which caused my site to be slower than usual. It become worse when somebody took advantage of the situation and launch a Denial-of-Service attack to my website which effectively took my website down for few hours per-day until today.
Rest assured the culprits has been identified and has been dealt with, you can enjoy reading my blog again. I’ve made few modification to my sites so it is more resistant to this sort of problem the next time around.
I sincerely apologize to those who have been subjected to hours of waiting for my site to load (and viewing the dreaded Internal Server Error messages) for the past 3-4 days.
And for those who are wondering about Gutsy Gibbon update will be able to read them at my personal blog : http://please.name.my.
Have fun !
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