Category: Tips & Guides

Guides or tutorials (computer related)

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Microsoft teaches parent to be l33t!

I found this article while surfing Microsoft website about child safety when using the internet. This particular article is trying to educate parents with the slang involved in the internet.

words like l33t, h4x0r, j00,pr0n are explained in the articles as well as guidelines to understand such words when parents came accross them. This articles also may serve as a reference to people who wants to learn l33t5p33k.

Link to the article : A parent’s primer to computer slang

<M$> w00t, j00 4r3 0wn3d !!

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Connecting TMNet Streamyx Broadband while using Ubuntu

I write this because people have been sending me questions regarding how to connect streamyx broadband service on Ubuntu Linux. IMHO, this thing happened for two reasons

  1. Ubuntu has been shipping GNU/Linux for free
  2. Ubuntu doesn’t provide obvious way to connect to broadband

OK now, just cross your finger, open a gnome-terminal, and type :
$ sudo pppoeconf

and follow the step-by-step screenshot! Heh, i’m not being lazy to type the rest of the guide, I just don’t know how to write a proper one!


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Installing Java 2 SDK on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu

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Warning, this article is outdated!, please refer to the newer article

Install Java SDK and JRE in Ubuntu ?

Want to install Java 2 SDK (j2sdk) in your Debian or Ubuntu? Well, I’ve created a home-made package for Java 2 SDK 1.4.2.

First download the deb from either of this mirror:

  1. Rapidshare.de
  2. Mirror #1

and after that, just do :
$ sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.4_1.4.2_09_i386.deb

and Sun Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 should be installed in your system by now. You can refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Java if you want to build other Sun Java deb package (like Java 1.5.0)

That’s all for today folks, happy programming in Java!

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IPv6 and ShowIP Mozilla Firefox extension

ShowIP Description

Hello, now I’d like to share my experience using ShowIP Mozilla extension with you today. ShowIP is a browser extension which display the IP address of the current page in the status bar.

IPv4

While this seems not to be helpful at first glance, this extenstion might be handy when you want to test the webserver you’re accessing is using IPv6 or not and test out your own IPv6 configuration.

The extension supports IPv6 address compression notation, so it’s nicer and cleaner to the eye.
ipv6

You can download the extension from : Mozilla Update website.

I guess that’s all for today folks!

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Redirect (301 Permanently) without using .htaccess

Want to redirect your website to another place but can’t create .htaccess file?

Well this might be a solution to you, if your webhost supports server site php scripting.

The codes below will tell web-client (including search bot) that your website have been Moved Permanently to a new location and redirects them to a new location

The PHP version :
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: http://newdomain.com/');

The ASP version :
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location",\ "http://www.newdomain.com/"

What’s wrong with META Refesh tag? Well, firstly, it isn’t supported by all web-client (including bots). Secondly, the search engine will ignore the META Refresh tag and stops indexing your webpage.

By sending server response code 301 Moved Permanently, will inform that your website have been moved to another location and search bots will note that and index the new location instead. :)

p/s: This tip is useful in an event you can’t create a .htaccess file in your webhost.