ViewSonic G-Tablet experience

I finally did go for viewsonic g-tablet, despite allot of bad reviews I read they blame it on the OS which is true. Yes it uses android 2.2 froyo but customize by viewsonic which it sucks! The hardware and Price which decided me to have one of this.(since the OS sucks customers been returning it to the stores, so better ask for openbox/refurbish so it would be more cheaper which I forgot to do but still good price for HW I got it from SEARS)

Specs:

Processor: 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 - Dual-core
ARM Cortex-A9 CPU

Memory: 512MB DRR

Graphics & Video Support: Powered by NVIDIA TEGRA

* 10.1" TFT-LCD with LED driver system and 1024x600 resolution
* NVIDIA Tegra 2
* OpenGL ES 2.0
* 32-bit LP-DDR2, DDR2
* S1080p H.264/H.263/ VC-1/MPEG-2/4/WMV9/DiVX 4/5 Video Decode
* 1080p H.264/MPEG-4 Video Encode
* Supports multi-standard audio formats, including AAC, AMR, WMA, and MP3
* 1.3-megapixel camera

Networking & Communications:

* wifi WiFi : 802.11 b/g/n
* Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Connections:

* USB 2.0 (Slave)
* Mini USB 2.0 (Host)
* 3.5mm stereo headphone
* Micro SD
* Dock for HDMI/Headphone/USB (optional)
* DC Input (Power)

Battery & Power:

* 3650mAh Li-ion polymer battery
* 12V Power adapter



Now the OS, since the factory OS is crappy I flash it with TNT lite 2.2.0 thanks to the people from xdadevelopers and droidpirate.Heres how I flash mine: (from http://droidpirate.com)

You may get TNT lite from http://www.droidpirate.com/download/click.php?id=1859 or http://www.mediafire.com/?7jq4l4o99xppg3t --> this one is TNT lite 2.4.0 the latest version as of this writing.

#TO Flash

Step 1 Stock Recovery: Unzip the Zip file using WinZip, WinRAR or 7Zip, you will notice you have a “Recovery Folder” and an “Update.zip” file. Copy both of those files to the root of your SD-Card or (Internal Storage) just make sure your Internal storage is around 13 Gigs.

Step 2- Reboot your device into the Recovery mode by pressing the “Volume UP” keeping that pressed hold the “Power” button as well. When you get to the ViewSonic boot image logo you should see text “Detected Recovery Image” – You can now release the buttons.

Step 3- Device will now handle everything else from here. Let the files install through Recovery sit back once completed Reboot your device.


Some tweaks to make Market and Flash work on the browser:

-Market
Go into “Settings” – “Applications” – “system Applications” and you must Force Stop both the “Market” (also Clear cache) and “Google Services Frameworks” apps.

-Flash
Download flash from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245

Step 1.
Create a folder on your SD card called APKs. Download “Adobe Flash Player 10.1.120.1.apk” and "TitaniumBackup_latest.apk" which you will find attached at the bottom of this post and save them in that “APKs” folder on your SD card.

Step 2.
On your tablet open up “ES File Explorer”. In there, open up the “APKs” folder, then select Adobe Flash Player, and follow the on screen instructions to finish installing that. After that, select Titanium Backup in that same folder, and install the same way.



Now my experience:

I use it to read ebooks using Adobe reader
I use it to check on my FB and watch flash movies.
So far yahoo messenger is the apps I use to do video call and chat. But there is bug I think that need to be address video is tilted.
I tried to install andchat and connectbot for irc and ssh it still need some tweaks.
gmail for may mail

Oh Im not a gamer but I installed angry birds just to test it and was ok.

And I haven't test security yet. That it for now.

A simple smb config in ubuntu

smb.conf

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = YOUR_HOSTNAME
server string =
workgroup = YOUR_WORKGROUP
announce version = 5.0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

passdb backend = tdbsam
security = user
null passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

wins support = yes

printing = CUPS
printcap name = CUPS

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the
; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content.
;[homes]
;valid users = %S
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0755
;browseable = no
;read only = no
;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller.
; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter.
;[netlogon]
;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
;admin users = Administrator
;valid users = %U
;read only = no

; NOTE: Again - only needed if you're running a primary domain controller.
;[Profiles]
;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
;valid users = %U
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0700
;writeable = yes
;browseable = no

; NOTE: Inside this place you may build a printer driver repository for
; Windows - I'll cover this topic in another HOWTO.
[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = root
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = no

; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive
;[DVD-ROM Drive]
;path = /media/cdrom
;browseable = yes
;read only = yes
;guest ok = yes

[MyFiles]
path = /media/samba/
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = YOUR_USERNAME
force group = YOUR_USERGROUP

- Thanks to Stormbringer from ubuntu comunity

Sunday at NJ

I'm now in NJ, Church is to far from here (I'm in our staff house) no means of transpo except car so I did not hear mass may be this sat or sun. I went to walmart (thanks to Bong my roommate for driving me) to buy some prepaid sim (t-mobile) by the way you cannot buy just the sim it should be with the phone and activating your sim will go to a process its either you call the customer service or log in to there web site (http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/activateprepaid.aspx?WT.mc_n=Prepaid_Activate&WT.mc_t=Other) and fill up some questionnaire same with there customer support and thats the time your sim will be activated and you will know your cell number. They did not print the number at the back of the sim card for security reason. I bought some hygiene stuff like soap tooth paste I bought the big size cause it save if you big in big size. Below is a photo of my room.




thats it for now..

Enable telnet service on HP-UX

check if there is an entry at /etc/inetd.conf
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

-comment it out, then

run the command "inetd -c"

and you can verify whether the telnet is running by the command
"netstat -an | grep 23"

if there is any line is there in the output like
"tcp 0 0 *.23 *.* LISTEN"

means telnet is running.

Verify SAN Disk

Luxadm is an utility, which discovers FC devices (luxadm probe).
# luxadm probe
No Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es

Found Fibre Channel device(s):
Node WWN:200600a0b829a7a0 Device Type:Disk device
Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c4t600A0B800029A7A000000DC747A8168Ad0s2

I then run a luxadm on the device. Below you can see that I do indeed have two paths to the device.
1 controller = one path, 2 controllers = 2 paths

# luxadm display /dev/rdsk/c4t600A0B800029A7A000000DC747A8168Ad0s2
DEVICE PROPERTIES for disk: /dev/rdsk/c4t600A0B800029A7A000000DC747A8168Ad0s2
Vendor: SUN
Product ID: CSM200_R
Revision: 0619
Serial Num: SG71009283
Unformatted capacity: 12288.000 MBytes
Write Cache: Enabled
Read Cache: Enabled
Minimum prefetch: 0x1
Maximum prefetch: 0x1
Device Type: Disk device
Path(s):

/dev/rdsk/c4t600A0B800029A7A000000DC747A8168Ad0s2
/devices/scsi_vhci/ssd@g600a0b800029a7a000000dc747a8168a:c,raw
Controller /devices/pci@1f,4000/SUNW,qlc@5,1/fp@0,0
Device Address 203700a0b829a7a0,1
Host controller port WWN 210100e08bb370ab
Class secondary
State STANDBY
Controller /devices/pci@1f,4000/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0
Device Address 203600a0b829a7a0,1
Host controller port WWN 210000e08b9370ab
Class primary
State ONLINE

-Check the state is online

for more details got to http://devnull.typepad.com/devnull/

Money JARS that I'm practicing

I been attending CA2020 its not the usual IT community I been attending like plug,ubuntu-ph,etc its a community of business minded people and they share how to become financially free I learn one cool stuff from them the money jar which I'm practicing. Below how it works

Short description of each one.

> Necessity Account (NEC - 55%): This account is for managing your everyday expenses and bills. This would include things like your rent, mortgage, utilities, bills, taxes, food, clothes, etc. Basically it includes anything that you need to live, the necessities.

> Financial Freedom Account (FFA - 10%):The money that you put into this jar is used for investments and building your passive income streams. You never spend this money. The only time you would spend this money is once you become financially free. Even then you would only spend the returns on your investment. Never spend the principal or else you’ll go broke!

> Education Account (EDU - 10%): Money in this jar is meant to further your education and personal growth. An investment in yourself is a great way to use your money.

>Long Term Saving for Spending Account (LTSS - 10%): The money in this jar is for the bigger nice to have purchases.

> Play Account (PLAY - 10%):PLAY money is spent every month on purchases you wouldn’t normally make. The purpose of this jar is to nurture yourself. You could purchase an expensive bottle of wine at dinner, get a massage or go on a weekend getaway. Play can be anything your heart desires.

> Give Account (GIVE - 5%): The money in this account is for giving away.When you give your money or time you’re sending a sign of abundance to the Universe. You’re telling the Universe that you have plenty of everything, you’re abundant. Giving signals abundance. This will magnetically attract more abundance to you.

How the JARS Work

Test web server is up

Finally I got my test web server up using dyndns, they have mature and more user friendly or its just me (lol!) anyway I'll be playing with this for a couple of mons. and test some apps. url myturf.homelinux.org

Happy New Year!

I'll try to post more blogs this year, been busy with Facebook.hehehe

Building the Ultimate White Box Server for under $2000

from: HAK5.ORG


When it comes to building a white box server for ESXi your best resources are vm-help.com, UltimateWhiteBox.com, the VMware Compatibility Guide, and the VMware community.

We carefully selected ESXi supported components based on reliability and value. If this were the ultimate $3000 white box server we might have picked a server board with dual Xeon’s and ECC memory, but to keep it under that magic $2000 price point we went with beefy “desktop” components such as the Intel Core i7 920, the ASUS P6T Deluxe, and 12 GB of Corsair XMS3 memory.

Drive wise you can’t go wrong with the 3ware 9650SE-4LPML. It supports four SATA II drives in RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD. It’s bigger brother the 9650SE-16ML sixteen channel SATA II controller is hot too — just at three times the price. The 9650SE isn’t supported out of the box by ESXi, however 3ware provides a knowledge base article and drivers necessary to add support for the card after your ESXi box is built.

Drive wise we picked up four Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drives since they’re cheap and reliable.

To make things easy when installing all these components in our Rosewill RSV-Z4000 4U rackmount case we picked up a 4 Drive trayless how swap sata backplane from StarTech. IcyDock makes one too. This was the only $100 spent for convenience over performance/value, but anyone who has dealt with 5.25″ to 3.5″ mounting brackets will agree it’s worth every penny.

Rather than installing ESXi on the RAID, we used a 4GB USB drive from Patriot. The Xporter XT. It boasts really fast read/write times. I’m sure any old 1gb or larget USB drive would have done but they’re so cheap, why not?

BCP

1. Continuity Planning

Business continuity planning for pandemic influenza is critical, particularly in the IT department, as your organisation will be relying on IT like never before. So identify a pandemic coordinator and/or team with defined roles and responsibilities for preparation and response planning immediately. The planning process should include input from all relevant stakeholders in your business including sub-contractors, outsourced services and the logistic providers needed to maintain business operations by location and function.

2. Business Impact

Talk to your suppliers about their swine flu plans and identify alternate suppliers. Train and prepare an ancillary workforce if necessary, for example, using retirees who have left the company. Develop and plan for scenarios likely to result in an increase or decrease in demand for your products and/or services during a pandemic. Determine potential impact on service delivery by using multiple possible scenarios that affect different services, products or production sites. Ask what would your department look like with a 20% or 40% cut in personnel and supplies?



3. Sustainable Plan

The critical question to ask is: When the pandemic strikes how long can you sustain service delivery? Any plan must include identification of key contacts (with backups), chain of communications (including suppliers and customers), and processes for tracking and communicating business and employee status. Implement an exercise to test your plan, and revise periodically. For a training drill select 40% of your staff at random and see how your department would function without them.



4. Preventative Measures

Implement guidelines to reduce the conduct of face-to-face contact for example, no hand-shaking among employees and between employees and customers. Critically, for IT and support staff there is the issue of hygiene around work stations (contact with mice, keyboards and shared resources like printers – invest heavily in antiseptic wipes and introduce a culture of your staff regularly washing their hands.



5. Attention to Detail
Critical to all this is the actual IT itself, or more importantly, the operation and support of IT by people. You need to ask, how hands on is your operation? For example, do backup tapes need to be changed manually every day and what will happen if they are not replaced? It is these types of details that need to be mitigated against with planning and preparation.

6. Impact Assessment
The key is to understand the impact on your department and have a strategy in place to suit the business needs. It is often underestimated how much human intervention is needed to keep IT services running, particularly those housekeeping tasks. It might be necessary in extreme circumstances to make fundamental changes to the operating model and make it less ‘hands on’ for a defined period of time whilst the risk of staff absenteeism is high. Some tasks may be able to be done by non-IT staff. However, it is not acceptable to grant non-IT staff systems administration authority, so it is critical to identify vulnerable skill sets that are held by key IT staff.

7. Failure Points
Consider the impact of an IT component failure, such as server, storage or network and the fact there may be no engineers available to resolve the problem. Are there single points of failure in your core infrastructure and implement greater resilience where necessary.

8. Eight Point Plan for remote working during a Flu Pandemic

1) Identify the employees can easily work remotely and enable them with the appropriate resources.

2) Develop a policy so that both sides understand the terms under which remote working is allowed and how much employees will be reimbursed for heat/light/phone costs etc.

3) Undertake a Health and Safety risk assessment for minimum working standards that employees must comply with when working remotely.

4) Provide the necessary IT and telecoms tools including call re-routing and wireless/ 3G data connection and secure access to your corporate network.

5) Enable access to corporate applications and data via a VPN or secure web-based email systems (make certain your company directory is up-to-date).

6) Ensure remote workers do not get isolated by facilitating tele/web conferencing and/or instant messaging.

7) Manage remote workers by regular line management communication. (Remember voice recording of re-routed calls and key stroke monitoring can keep the lazy on the straight and narrow.)

8) Trust your staff and don’t expect them to be working the same way they do in the office.

However, what issues might arise when remote access is oversubscribed? In many organisations it’s the ‘road warriors’ who have been the main users of remote access capability so you will need to plan for the most productive use of resources to prevent a free for all as staff compete for connectivity. The options are simple, increase capacity (expensive in a recession) or clearly outline who has access when and for how long.

-from Computerweekly.com

/etc/motd

This computer system is for authorized users only. All activity is logged and regulary checked by systems personal. Individuals using this system without authority or in excess of their authority are subject to having all their services revoked. Any illegal services run by user or attempts to take down this server or its services will be reported to local law enforcement, and said user will be punished to the full extent of the law. Anyone using this system consents to these terms.

Setting a firewall using ufw in ubuntu

First what is ufw, as per man - program for managing a netfilter firewall,This program is for managing a Linux firewall and aims to provide an easy to use interface for the user. Cool! easy to use so how do you use it as the man page said easy.

1. Run from the terminal "ufw"

:~$ ufw

Usage: ufw COMMAND

Commands:
enable enables the firewall
disable disables the firewall
default ARG set default policy to ALLOW, DENY or REJECT
logging ARG set logging to OFF, ON or LEVEL
allow|deny|reject ARG add allow, deny or reject RULE
delete RULE delete the RULE
insert NUM RULE insert RULE at NUM
status show firewall status
status numbered show firewall status as numbered list of RULES
show ARG show firewall report
version display version information

Application profile commands:
app list list application profiles
app info PROFILE show information on PROFILE
app update PROFILE update PROFILE
app default ARG set profile policy to ALLOW, DENY, REJECT or
SKIP
2. Enable it

:~$ sudo ufw enable

3 . default policies of DROP

:~$ sudo ufw default denay

4.Now look in to your rules.

:~$ sudo iptables -L -n

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ufw-before-logging-input all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-before-input all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-input all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-logging-input all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-reject-input all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ufw-before-logging-forward all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-before-forward all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-forward all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-logging-forward all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ufw-reject-forward all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0

...............

note: if you have two network cards and one was eth0 and the second was eth1
and you were FORWARDing traffic to an internal network, maybe using NAT and having a firewall on the outside and you need to make sure that your /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is 1

5. Check the status

:~$ sudo ufw status
Status: active

6. Check if its working.

:~$ tail /var/log/messages


thats it!

Thanks to beginlinux for the howto.

SWAP allocation

If M < 2
  S = M *2
Else
  S = M + 2

Swap should equal 2x physical RAM for up to 2 GB of physical RAM, and then an additional
1x physical RAM for any amount above 2 GB, but never less than 32 MB.

I been hook with this Series

http://watchweedsepisodes.com/ -This new series is a single-camera comedy about a single mother who makes ends meet by selling marijuana in the fictional suburb of Agrestic, California. The series exposes the dirty little secrets that lie behind the pristine lawns and shiny closed doors of homes in the of this gated community.

What does it mean to be free?

Got my hands on a Netbook

Since I have three jobs two in bicol my Internetshop, TCN and with HP here in manila. I always travel allot to bicol then back to manila so I always bring my 12" Fujitsu esprimo U9200 with me which is bit heavy despite its only 12" So I have decided to get a netbook. Since the release of the eeepc901 I was so eager to get that, good thing my wife stop me and waited till eeepc release 1000HE series. I wont write a review cause there are allot of reviews out there. I'm just saying that if you only need to check on your email read some info on the net and you travel allot get a netbook. If you need to develop some thing like a web app or other programing stuff just do a remote connection to a server and do your thing. just what I'm doing as I'm writing this. I'm setting up a dev server which I will just do a ssh and from there do some scripting and other project. I have two servers one in manila other in bicol to thinker with not the 1U super doom server its just a desktop that I clone it to be a server.Bytheway I still haven't change the OS yes its windowsXP I might keep it for a month since its a license one and still need to create a usb with ubuntu 9.04 but hey most of the apps Im using is open source.

MONEY?

Congrats! Dude

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#1161 SOLIS Carlo Roberto C

PS.
Now I could do some cyber crimes, lol!

Parshing data using grep -A NUM

Let say you have this data below lots of diffrent date and information about the memory.

and you just want to extract the physical info that is dated Mar 16 use grep -A NUM

# grep -A 2 'Mar 16' filename

You now have all the Mar 16 physical data.

my fav show almost forgot!

I been watching this show since 2007 at youtube, but I miss allot of there episodes lately now I vow to make it a point to watch this daily.
http://www.hak5.org


cool stuff there.