“CHALLENGES IN DIGITAL WARFARE”
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) will once again host the best-known Capture The Flag (CTF) competition during the International Hacking Competition as known as i-hack2006 to be held from 1 – 3 September 2006.
To make the competition as informative as it can be, i-hack2006 is organizing computer security exhibition and training. As much [...]

Posted on August 30th, 2006 by SMD
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Someone links to my blog in a kelantanis language and he is also got copy & paste skills. (so do i…). I’m curious who is he?. LOL
From http://zouls.blogspot.com
Hmmm…semestinya seorang lelaki yang sedang2 ajer…! Lahir di negeri Trengganu, cari makan kat negeri Kelantan. Mempunyai 4 adik beradik.3 laki 1 pompuan dan aku anak yang bongsu…pheewiittt!!! Sekarang [...]

Posted on August 26th, 2006 by SMD
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smd@smd:~$ sudo wine –version
Wine 0.9.20
I need to run Adobe Photoshop, and doing so under wine was not going to cut it. I have used the latest wine but it still doesn’t work with Adobe Photoshop. I heard Crossover from CrossWeavers Inc. is much more polished than Wine but I never tested it *yet*. Crossover Office [...]

Posted on August 26th, 2006 by SMD
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This is my attemp to get Canon Pixma IP1000 working under Ubuntu.
How to:-
1. Install alien – Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages.

sudo apt-get install alien
2. IP1000 Driver .rpm

wget http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
wget http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-pixmaip1000-2.50-2.i386.rpm
wget http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-pixmaip1000-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm
3. Root access

sudo -s
4. Convert *.rpm to *.deb

alien bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
alien [...]

Posted on August 24th, 2006 by SMD
Filed under: Open Source | 25 Comments »

If you run Ubuntu be very weary in applying the latest xserver-xorg-core update. It can bring your machine to an abrupt halt. There is a fix suggested in the forums.
Go to Ubuntu-Forum…
From the forum:
When your Xserver crash and you are at text console type this:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10
When finnish, reboot or just type startx. [...]

Posted on August 23rd, 2006 by SMD
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Screenshot 1308

Originally uploaded by SMD Photo Album.

First of all, sorry for not having blogged lately. I’ve been quite busy recently due to a good load of work & study. (alasan… ahaks)
d00d, I am now running Ubuntu Linux on my IBM Thinkpad. It is easy to use & [...]

Posted on August 13th, 2006 by SMD
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FOSS Booth @PC-Fair 2006

Originally uploaded by SMD Photo Album.

Stuff happened yesterday.
1. I was at PC Fair 2006 KL Convention Centre. Booth 410 // FOSS Booth.
2. I was also pleased to meet other FOSS g33ks.
3. Thanks to aizat for the Novell Merchandise. (linux mascot)
Don’t miss it! If [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2006 by SMD
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:26:33 +0800 (MYT)
Subject: Tips: How to get others Yahoo username and password
From: “Mohd Ali Mohd Isa”
To: lecturer@tmsk.uitm.edu.my
Cc: me@sumardi.net, xmohd_alifx@yahoo.com
Assalamualaikum and good afternoon,
(This message is intended for users of Yahoo Messengers but others are
welcome to read for exra knowledge on Computer Security)
I am a heavy user of Yahoo Messenggers (YM) and [...]

Posted on August 8th, 2006 by SMD
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