Archive for February, 2008

Malaysiakini.com Under DDoS Attack?

Previously security.org.my has mentioned the potential websites that might get DoS attack during or before Malaysia General Election 2008. Since 30 minutes ago malaysiakini.com was down and not accessible, same to another election website that runs by Malaysiakini, undi.info.

So, who’s the kid that do the nasty stuff?

Google Invites Global Transit Joint Unity consortium

Global Transit ( sorry, website not available yet, cause we are fast growing company, please refer to AIMS website ;) ) is proudly invited by Google to be part of Unity Consortium.

Unity consortium is a joint effort by Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel. It’s a new 10,000km cable system that provide connectivity between Chikura, Japan to Los Angeles and other West Coast network points.

For more information, check out Google Official Press Centre or Google News.

- Google Heads Under The Sea With Cable Investment
- Group With Google Building Pacific Cable
- Google To Construct Undersea Cable With ‘Unity’ Consortium
- Group With Google Building Pacific Cable

Troubleshoot Firefox - safe mode

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Today, visited a website with flash and some how it just trash Firefox. I know this sounds like winbloze but starting Firefox in Safe Mode is a good way to troubleshoot. During the startup of Safe Mode, plungins, toolbars & controls, bookmarks, user preference and search engines can be disable. The command :

firefox -safemode

Happy troubleshooting !!!

lspci on FreeBSD?

By default, Linux come with lspci command to print PCI hardware on the machine. On FreeBSD, you can install pciutils in order to list pci hardware and make some tweaking on PCI IRQ/slots.

Installing pciutils on FreeBSD

To install pciutils, change directory to the directory and make install;

shell> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/pciutils
shell> make install clean

Print PCI Hardware Details

Print out PCI device details witht he command below

shell> lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900 10Mbps Combo [Boomerang]
01:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Unknown device 0001:0000
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

If you would like to see more details, use lspci -vvv , for more information on lspci, do man lspci

Looking for External 56k Fax/Data Dial Up Modem

I am looking for 56k Fax/Data external Dial Up modem, as in serial com port, not USB or PCI. Just happened to know that serial com modem is not available in the market anymore after hunting few shops in low yat 2 days ago. Anyone who has it and would like to donate/sell at the cheap price, please contact me paul a.t takizo.com :)

Need it urgently, don’t mind if you have few units to sell/donate to me.

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