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Why name@email.com?

October 26th, 2005 Comments(1)

I, you, we, they, he, she or it have thier own email account, and you can register free email account from Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail and etc.

But have you ever think of why email is using alias @ but not name$domain.com, name*domain.com, name#domain.com? Haha, who invented @? and whois the first person who sent the FIRST EMAIL?

He is Ray Tomlinson;

During the summer and autumn of 1971, I was part of a small group of programmers who were developing a time-sharing system called TENEX that ran on Digital PDP-10 computers. We were supporting a larger group working on natural language. Earlier, I had worked on the Network Control Protocol (NCP) for TENEX and network programs such as an experimental file transfer program called CPYNET.

These first messages were sent in late 1971. The next release of TENEX went out in early 1972 and included the version of SNDMSG with network mail capabilities. The CPYNET protocol was soon replaced with a real file transfer protocol having specific mail handling features. Later, a number of more general mail protocols were developed.

Read the full story

and a special write up from BBC

Google supports Open Source

October 26th, 2005 Comments(0)

Google is giving support to open source project. Google summer of code support nmap, ubuntu, drupal, horde, asterisk, apache and MORE.

Together with these partners, we chose 400 students from 49 countries to take part - and this from a pool of 8,744 applicants, so clearly there’s no shortage of talent. We contributed nearly $2 million to this effort via $4,500 grants to each of the participants (and a $500 donation per student to the participating organizations).

Nmap’s lead developer, Fyodor Vaskovich, told us that Summer of Code developers “made major improvements to the Nmap Security Scanner, including a more powerful graphical interface and a next-generation remote operating system detection framework.” To that we say: excellent. Here’s a partial list of participants and projects, and we even threw together a map so people can see how global this program was.

Read full story from Google blog, posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager .

VMWare Network on Mac OS X x86

October 15th, 2005 Comments(0)

How to make your Mac OS X x86 network works with VMWare Workstation???

After Mac OS X has been installed on VMWare Workstation, you will found that the network is not working or the network card it’s not recognize by Mac OS X. You can get the network driver here and follow the instruction below.

Select the ISO file you have downloaded as your CDROM drive

Create a new folder on Desktop(for example network), copy the files from the “CDROM” into the new folder.

Open up the terminal, navigate the to driver folder, run install.sh file and reboot

After reboot, I _think_ your network is working now.(bridge,nat or host also work). Hope it helps. For more information and support please visit the driver’s website

My Mac OS X

October 14th, 2005 Comments(0)

A print screen explain all Mac OS X is ROCKS!

How to Install FreeBSD 5.4 on Your Machine

October 12th, 2005 Comments(1)

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including PentiumÂ® and Athlon â„¢), amd64 compatible (including Opteron â„¢, Athlon 64, and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARCÂ® architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIXÂ® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development. Click here to learn more about Unix FreeBSD Operating System.

If you are still new to FreeBSD, here is the step by step installation. For your information, FreeBSD clean installation(developer package) only took 10-15mins(depend on how powerfull is your server/laptop).

First of all, if you have fast/speedy internet connection, grab FreeBSD ISO online from FreeBSD website, it only take you few hours to download with a stable 512kbps internet speed. After you have downloaded FreeBSD ISO DISK1, burn it into a cd.. yes, of course cd, other than CD i can’t any other easier way Beside that, make the FreeBSD installation CD bootable ok?

After you boot up with the CD(I won’t cover how to boot up the CD, kind of silly/stupid), immediately you will see the installation menu as figure shown below;

Select Begin Custom installation(for experts), yes are you expert, because you guide by an expert

Next, let partition your hard disk before the installation, select Partition!

OK, dun be panic see-ing the black and white with text, first, you need to create a “SWAP” partition, how to create a partition? Is an easy job, select the drive and press “C” and it will prompt up a screen as shown below;

Usually SWAP took up (your total RAM) X 2, let said you have total 512MB of RAM in your system, X2 is 1GB. Key in 1G partition and press enter. It’s not done yet, next create a partion again and leave the rest for the space for filesystem. Before you quit, remmeber set the new filesystem partition/boot drive as Bootable. Just select the drive and press “s” and “q” to quit/finished partition. It will look similar like below;

Set it as a standard boot manager

Next, select Label section now to lable your partitioned disks. First is your swap, select the partition with 1GB space and press “C”, Select SWAP - A swap partition from the menu as figure shown below;

and now, select another partition and press “C”, this partition will be a FS - A File System;

set the partition mount point as “/”, figure shown below. It will be the bootable drive for FreeBSD installation.

“Q” to quit partition labeling. Next, select a distributions for your installation. I recommend a light distri, so just select Developer distri. (others distribution packages might need 2nd or 3rd FreeBSD cds)