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Blog suspended

It has been a long time since I blogged. As for now, I am filing a blog leave. I just want to enjoy the Ateneo Fiesta week. To be honest, I want to savor every moment here in my school where I studied for almost 16 years. At the same time, I should not forget the tasks reflected in the gantt chart of activities of our thesis. If you want to track down the Ateneo Fiesta event, click here .

nVidia & Xorg issues

This entry should have been posted some time ago. Well, I hope this would still serve as a valuable reference. The most annoying part in making your OS work is the X server especially if you are using decade-old displays that can only handle a maximum of 1024x768 @ 60Hz. Worse if its EDID is not being read correctly by the driver. I guess driver writers from nVidia should pay much attention to this issue. Video Card: GeForce FX5700 128-bit 256mb Display: DTS CM-14D (Made in China) Xorg Version: xorg-x11-7.1 nVidia Driver Version: nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 Setting things for Xorg and nVidia proprietary drivers may not be of much pain for Ubuntites but it is the other way around for Gentooligans. In Section "Monitor" this line should be appended. Modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync In Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia GeForce FX5700" this line should be appended as well. Option "UseED...

Ebuilds: media-gfx/f4l

F4L is an open source development environment for Macromedia Flash, a multi-platform format(swf/svg) widely used for web applications and vector animation. I have found out that there is no existing ebuild yet for this cool project. It is not included in the official Gentoo Portage yet. Here is the ebuild. Use at your own risk. I assume you already have a working overlay of your local portage. in file f4l-0.2.1.ebuild # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ inherit qt3 eutils DESCRIPTION="F4L is an open source development environment for Macromedia Flash" HOMEPAGE="http://f4l.sourceforge.net/" SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/f4l/${P}.tar.bz2" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86" DEPEND="=x11-libs/qt-3.3*" RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" src_compile() { "${QTDIR}"/bin/qmake -o Makefile ${PN}.pro || die "...

Halloween

It is a season when children enjoy collecting candles, jumping around sarcophagi, wearing dirty masks, and scaring other children(smaller/younger). TV shows are fun to watch. In the United States, children usually play snowballs during winter. Well, it is totally a different story here since children play waxballs during Halloween. Not forgetting adults, it is a season for filling stomachs with barrels of beer, bottles of wine, and gallons of coconut-fermented drinks otherwise known as tuba . I really do not enjoy roaming around burial grounds especially during Halloween for the reasons that, you will see people shouting at each other, throwing punches, showing knives, and trying to boast their clan’s supremacy among others. The fear of ghosts is not a thing to consider here, it is the fear of being unable to withstand adults looking for troubles no matter how hard you try ignoring their fun. This is true to cheap cemeteries that are maintained by the local government unit. Comp...

Some updates on my Gentoo box

Get in position and wait for my go. I recompiled the kernel applying Con Kolivas ‘ kernel patchset for linux-2.6.18. Accordingly, his patchsets are designed to improve system responsiveness with specific emphasis on the desktop, but suitable to any workload. Feedbacks show that it scales well for a typical desktop use. If you want to try this out, here is a comprehensive walkthrough that will get you on your feet along the way. I also felt the need of updating my Xorg. I had a smooth shift from Xorg 6.9 to Xorg 7.1. So far so good. Firefox 2.0 rocks as well! There are obvious improvements so grab yourself one. Currently, it is masked by x86 keyword in the Gentoo Official Portage so just deal with it.

Crackmes: cyrex’s Linux CrackMe

Find the correct password to get the good boy message it would be great for an solution how you solve this , and with what i solve this with the standard GNU Debugger (gdb) Difficulty: 1 - Very easy, for newbies Platform: Unix/Linux, etc. Language: C/C++ [Solving the Crackme] Solving crackmes is fun but if you screwed up, it sucks big time. Thank goodness, heavy tasks are over. Anyway, let us see what we can do with this. joset@kee:~/src/crackmes/crackme_01$ ./crackme -[ Linux CrackMe (Level:2) by cyrex ]- -[ TODO: You have to get the valid Password ]- Enter Password: 0x7d7 -[ Ohhhh, your skills are bad try again later ]- joset@kee:~/src/crackmes/crackme_01$ Do we have to use the debugger first? How about this? joset@kee:~/src/crackmes/crackme_01$ strings crackme /lib/ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 printf __deregister_frame_info strcmp scanf _IO_stdin_used __libc_start_main __register_frame_info __gmon_start__ GLIBC_2.0 PTRhP QVhP [^_] -[ Linux CrackMe (Level:2) by cyrex ]- -[ T...