My IBM Thinkpad T30 has this graphics chipset and looks like ATI does not have Driver for it. That's mean I am pretty much struck with the default non 3D-accel driver... Google Earth (and other 3D app) runs really slow in this mode. Oh well, maybe a reason to get a T60/p?

FC6 comes with gaim 2.0 beta4, which is a welcome upgrade.

There are many GUI and functional changes in gaim 2.0:
- All user account's status are consolidated into one, which can be set from buddy list window.
- Status are simplified into 4 main types: Available, Away, Invisiable, and Offline. They can be set to different sub-status like Be right back, Out for Lunch, and alike. You can even create your own sub-status as please.
- A interface is added to allow user to define his avator for all IM account.
- For MSN, it supports "friendly name". User can set to any name they like, just like the official MSN client for windows
- Icon rotation is now supported.
- Again for MSN, the latest version of the protocol seem to be supported now. It is evident that I can see those funny icon that substitude words.



However, this new gaim wasn't without problem; 1) The most annoying one is gaim seem to be struck sometimes and unable to access the network interface when I first login and connecting from network manager. 2) VoIP is still missing. I am waiting for the day I can use it to call my friend on Google Talk. Even better, if I can chat on Yahoo Messenger with VoIP or MSN.

Saw this on digg about a quick summary of PHP cache. So, I give eAccelerator a quick try. Dries has rpm package afterall. So it just a simple install, and restart Apache.

Benchmark result:
admun blog: 0.34sec -> 0.26sec
admun NUDN: 0.16sec -> 0.10sec
default nucleus: 0.048sec -> 0.017sec
wordpress: 0.092sec -> 0.043sec

I think the more SQL queries you are doing (or more complicated processing a script does), the less gain you will got. The reason is that the accelerator works by caching the compile byte code for a PHP script, so initialization overhead is reduced. But there is no real-time processing gain.

Anyhow, it still quite amazing!

After some playing around, I reinstall FC6 again. Yes, I wipe it out again.

This time around the installation goes a bit smoothier, I just go through the default install with minimal setting changes. There are reports that incorrect kernel was installed, the same problem I encountered on the first attempt. This time the correct kernel was installed, but somehow the xen kernel still got installed..... at least this time the correct kernel is picked in grub. The trick seem to not customize package during install, I believed. This can be done in post-installation.

After installation, I reboot and connect via ethernet at first. The puplet seem working this time, and prompt for update. So, I updated.

I don't want to have graphical bootup, so I edit /etc/sysconfig/init to change that.

To get build-in wireless working, I enable Network Manager daemon, and remove its setting from network wizard. That's seem to work. I am yet able to get Neargear wg511 802.11g card working stable.....

After upgrade, I reboot and run pirut to install yumex and rest of packages I want from core and extra. Than, I added Livna, FreshRPM, Dries, DAG/RpmForge, and AtRPMs repositories. I set Livna to disabled and only used it in a profile from yumex so I can install only the needed package from it. AtRPMs also set disabled, I am just scare when I saw it wants to replace so many libaries....

The machine is still unstable and lockup sometimes when moving from desktop to desktop or some other window actions..... still investigating.

So, now I finally got the Wifi working. But for some reason it's not stable, it often unable to connect from Network Manager. It seem like that when I have 2 wireless interfaces that cause the problem (T30 only has 802.11b build-in, so I add a 802.11g card.....)

Also, I am still seeing some lockups from time to time.... a bit makes me wondering if I got bad RAM or some kind of h/w problem...

In general, the new version function better; gaim 2.0 beta window stays where they are each time I login. New toys like wallpaper applet, Instanbul works.

The Package Manager GUI kind of slow, but at less functioning. Switched to yumex. However, puplet seem not working yet, complaing baseurl not found.

I also shopped around and add other RPM repositories. Besides Fedora Extras, only Livna, FreshRPM, Dries, and AtRPMs still available for FC6. None the least, I am still able to install tons of stuff on my laptop, much more than I needed.

I have been using FC5 for about 6 months now. Time to upgrade my IBM Thinkpad T30 with the new shiny FC6. (You can tell I am a upgrade freak )

The installation went without problem. I like that Fedora Extras can be selected during installation. So, I just install tons of stuff from it.

By default, the Xen enabling kernal is used. It's boot up very slowly, with all the Xen stuff loading. The text console is ugly under this kernel, it's fuzzy and screen size is somewhat incorrect. Anyway, I login and tried it a bit to see what's in it. The first thing I noticed is that cpufreq scaling didn't work in this kernel. Alway, that's it for Xen for me... maybe I will try it later.

So, I reboot into the -up kernel. Boot up is much faster. GNOME seem loading up alright. Network wizard show it detected both of the build-in ethernet and Intel 802.11b wireless. So, I start Network Manager to get my WLAN going. To my surprice, it DIDN'T work! It keeps asking for WEP key but failed to connect. I tried so many things and still no luck. What I saw on ifocnfig is tx is working (so it seems), but rx is 0.... weird. Search the forum and no one reporting this yet... So, I am struck with ethernet only right now. It's now work, for some reason the hardware seem to struck at a weird state that only reboot to XP fix it.

gaim 2.0 (beta) seems like an improvement, I like some design change, but not on others.... oh well.

laptop suspend seem to work now, but let's see this still work after I add the ATI X driver later....

Build-in sounds work out of the box, nothing to write home about.

The only major problem I found right now is the laptop lock up from time to time..... the whole display just freeze.... damn. It happens more often than I would like, even when compare to FC5.... I think it's a GNOME problem... and 2.16 should be better? NOT....

The adventure continues.

The floodgate has opened. FC6 is out. BT download is in progess for x86 version.... 300+ Kb speed. wow!



x86_64 next for admun2.

Let's see how well it works on my IBM T30 laptop and AMD64 server.

FC6 torrents

I still remember back in March I read about that there are people actively hunting and shutting down botnets. Now some of the people believed they are losing the war..... wtf.

It is interesting to read about how sophisticate these botnets are. These networks behave almost like living organism, even wage war among each other. But on the other hand, when you realize what these creatures of binary do and its impact on our life, you hate it like your worse enemy.

Personally, I know my server has been hitted by spams, likely orginate from zombies in one of those botnets. But I am yet to spend time using honeypot or similar thing to see what else been hitting me. None the least, you can tell they are very systematic. One example is they are using Google Images search result to find sites to hit. I'd say it's very "impressive", assuming it's automated.

So, what we can do? I can think of so many way to curb the problem.....
- Make sure all PCs are patched
- Scan your PC for virus/malware/worm/bot regularly
- Hunt these infected PCs down and fix/isolute them until they are fixed
- Track the botnets and cut its C&C off
- Arrest, procecute those cyberc$#@!ks, regardless of nationality (or with a global effort)
- Have Microsoft fix their buggy software
- ISP to be more proactive on shutting down infested PCs
- More intelligent in the network with tools to lesson botnets and its evil traffic

It's all the old saying: Protect, Detect, React

So, why we still have such a big f%#$! mess?

Stop the bots
Fact