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Spammers got creative with names

I’ve opened my e-mail today, just to be greeted by somebody named Mr. Sulu, or to be exact, Dr Borneo Sulu (check out the name). Plus, this particular Mr Sulu is not a navigator in the starship Enterprise, but instead an auditor from Ministry of Finance from Malaysia(!).

here’s the excerpt of the email

I am Dr.Borneo Sulu an auditor with the Contract Evaluation Unit,Ministry Of Finance .Last year November one Mr.Raheem Praveen from India executed contract through
the Ministry of Aviation here in Malaysia, the contract is worth [$8,250,000.00]

Ministry of Aviation? hmm.. I’d say,
Take us outta here Mr Sulu, ahead warp factor 9

Sulu in USS Enterprise

p/s: Spammers are everywhere, they tried every creative way to create and backed their story up. I wonder if any of malaysian fall for them?

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solat.xml – get prayers time in xml format

Surfed the internet today and I found an interesting project, the solat.xml from http://zaim.abrahman.com/labs/. According to the website, solat.xml is a web service API that uses REST based protocol.

Basically, to use solat.xml service, you just have provide your location, month and year, and the service will return you the list of prayers time in xml format, as defined in the above-mentioned website.

Currently the service only supports prayers time within malaysia, using data generated from http://www.al-azim.com/falak/, an astronomy association from Melaka.

I think this is a useful service, because it could be easily integrated into any applications be it web-based or stand-alone. Please write to the author of solat.xml (abuzaim+solatxml@gmail.com) if you have any ideas or improvements for the project.

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Blastwave.org – Software repository for Solaris

I don’t know if any of you guys ever heard of blastwave.org, but it has the reputation of being the largest software repository for Solaris/Opensolaris operating system. Born out of a grassroots movement, blastwave repository started with an initial set about 50-100 packages. It is now has grown in popularity, complexity, offerings and expectation since its formation.

Sponsored by Sun Microsystem, Genesi and DTU, blastwave software repository now covers hundres of software packages for the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating system, making it the largest Free and Open Source software repository for Solaris.

So Solaris user, what are you waiting for? browse for http://blastwave.org

p/s: Blastwave software distribution is also available on dvd along with OpenSolaris code-base. You can order Blastwave DVD here if you are a Solaris fan.

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RSS 2.0 / Atom 1.0 for Coppermine 1.3.x plugin

Coppermine 1.3.x Plugin RSS 2.0

I’ve made some improvements over my previous Coppermine plugin.

I’ve added Atom 1.0 support and picture caption to the published feed. I’ve also altered the default feed to publish the latest 10 photos instead of 6.

Well, glad to have a plugin that can publish both RSS and Atom feed in Coppermine 1.3.x

old Download links :

  1. zip package
  2. tar.gz package

Download Coppermine RSS/ATOM plugin here:

  1. Mirror #1
  2. Mirror #2
  3. Mirror #3

*Note that this plugin worked under Coppermine 1.4.x also, but it is untested with PHP 5.x.

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BeleniX – Opensolaris based LiveCD

I spend the rest of my online time today to download BeleniX, an Opensolaris based LiveCD. I’ve never tried any of the opensolaris distribution before, though i heard about the initial work done for Debian/Solaris and SchiliX. But I’m so damn bored today, and I guess LiveCD would be suffice for me to try opensolaris.

According to BelleniX website,

BeleniX is a *NIX distribution that is built using the OpenSolaris source base. It is currently a LiveCD distribution but is intended to grow into a complete distro that can be installed to hard disk.

I also found a nice review about BelleniX here : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=tux_on_a_trip_to

Here’s some BelleniX screenshots I got from osdir.com

Sources :

  1. Opensolaris website
  2. BelleniX website
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Python in Nokia Symbian (S60) phones

Nokia has released Python 1.2 SDK for its S60 Symbian phones. Now python programmers can utilize their expertise in creating useful and exciting apps in mobile phones.

The Python SDK Nokia features :
* 2D Graphics, Images, and Full-screen applications
* Camera and Screenshot API
* Contacts and Calendar API
* Sound recording and playback
* Access to System info, such as IMEI number, disk space, free memory, etc.
* Rich text display (fonts, colors, styles)
* Support for Scalable UI
* Networking support for GPRS and Bluetooth
* On-device and remote Python console
* Support for native GUI widgets
* SMS sending
* Application build tool for packaging stand-alone application installers
* Compatible with all Series 60 1st and 2nd Edition devices
* Expanded key events
* Telephone dialing
* ZIP module

In order to run Python applications, you need to download Python runtime at Python for S60 page. Look for the file PythonForSeries60_for_2Ed_*.SIS (registration required). In addition, the Python for S60 SDK 1.2 is also available from the same website, sans registration.

p/s: I’m glad to hear that I can code mobile apps in python now, instead of J2ME (Java). :D

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