OpenBSD & Me

5.0 amd64 K43U: Firefox + gecko-mediaplayer + FlashVideoReplacer = watch streaming video inside Firefox!

2011-12-01T14:21:00.002+08:00

Hi, Maybe you guys knew about this far longer than me but this post is just a reminder for me. Anyway, here it is. - Install Firefox - Download and install gecko-mediaplayer from OpenBSD package. - Search for FlashVideoReplacer plugin from Firefox's plugin website. Install that. After FlashVideoReplacer plugin has been installed. There will be an icon on the top right side of Firefox. Click on

5.0 amd64 K43U: Current status.

2011-12-01T14:12:00.000+08:00

Hey, So far, this is my experience on running 5.0 amd64 using this K43U laptop. The list is what I consider as interesting and somewhat important. Hardware: 1) Atheros (athn0) wireless works. Using kismet to scan for AP but I didn't test to connect to any yet. 2) Realtek (re0) LAN works like a charm. 3) Haven't tested suspend/resume yet. Soon I hope. 4) Sound works out of the box. Yum! 5) AMD

5.0 amd64 K43U: Davmail crash with java dumping core, FreeBSD's package might be the saviour.

2011-12-01T11:24:00.003+08:00

Hey, As some of you know, I'm using OpenBSD primarily for work and I use my company's email address which uses MS OWA. So I use davmail so Thunderbird can retrieve my emails properly. You can search my blog for davmail settings. I downloaded davmail-3.9.6 and I noticed that less than an 1, davmail will crash and there's java.core dumping. I have a hint that this might be due to 64 version of

5.0 amd64 K43U: dmesg!

2011-11-30T13:19:00.000+08:00

Hi, Here's the dmesg for K43U. Take note that I've upgraded my machine with 8Gb RAM. Yum! Later then. Yeah I know I've not yet completed my installation's experience...

Garuda is yet again no match for Harimau Muda. Hurray for Malaysian Football Team!

2011-11-22T13:57:00.001+08:00

Heyya! I'm still excited because our Harimau Muda football team has won the SEA Games gold medal for the 2nd time in a row!! Hurray! Although the team has been provoked, our national anthem disrespected by the home crowd, BUT STILL WE"RE THE CHAMPION! The team fought Indonesia in quarter final and in the final, at Gelora Bung Karno's stadium, the so-called "stadium keramat" for the home team BUT

5.0 amd64 K43U: Dual booting OpenBSD 5.0 AMD64 with Windows 7 x64.

2011-11-21T16:51:00.006+08:00

Hi, Ok. Now's the time some of us has been waiting for. I'll write up the experiences in configuring dual-boot environment of OpenBSD 5.0 AMD64 and Windows 7 x64 on my Asus K43U AMD Vision's laptop. I might write this in parts, or even put it all in this 1 posting. Previously I wrote a bit about my K43U laptop and a bit about the specification. I have a large hard disk, 500Gb so I made my mind

ASUS K43U: Review - Specifications, or sort of.

2011-11-11T13:34:00.001+08:00

Hi, Ok it's been a few weeks I'm using this ASUS K43U laptop. There's a few version of K43U laptop, with either AMD E350 (1.6Ghz x2) or E450 (1.65Ghz x2) processor. Mine is an E450 version. I know that link I gave you just state about E350 version, but ASUS is quite known for confusing website details/navigation. To make things worst, details for the laptop is insufficient and lacking. So I had

Farewell NC4200, hi Asus K43U. OpenBSD 4.9 AMD64 here I come!

2011-11-01T16:45:00.000+08:00

Hey, I just bought myself a new laptop. It's as Asus K43U Series laptop with AMD Vision E450 processor. I have to admit I'm an AMD fan so that's why I don't buy intel (my NC4200 was given to me, didn't bought it). And so, I'm saying goodbye to my NC4200. It was a pleasure working with it. I'll put out a brief review of this Asus machine later. Another good news, I'll proceed with OpenBSD 4.9

10,000 page view. At last! Thank you very much.

2011-10-10T12:59:00.000+08:00

Hey, I know it's not that accurate because me viewing my own blog also will be counted, but heck, 10,000 views now!. Wow. I never thought that would be possible. Someone do read what I've posted. Thanks. This is really amazing. I'm very happy indeed. Thanks again to people out there.

Steve Jobs is no longer with us.

2011-10-06T10:13:00.000+08:00

As many would've known by now. Steve Jobs, ex-CEO of Apple Inc died peacefully on 5th October 2011. No one can deny his contribution to Apple especially and to all of us in general. For sure, people will miss him.

OpenBSD NC4200: Simple script for audio output swapping for scrotwm.

2011-09-08T12:07:00.001+08:00

Heyya, I've written a simple script to alternate audio out between my laptop speakers and phone out. This script is intended for scrotwm, but also can be used on its own. As usual, feel free to copy this file and improve it. You can see by the Gist that there's 2 files, the first is .scrotwm.conf and the next one is audioout.sh (see the file name on bottom right of the embed). The .

OpenBSD: Setting up GIT to store my dotfiles.

2011-09-05T13:11:00.000+08:00

Ok. So I'm on Git now. As I'm not on a programming project whatsoever, my Git is basically just to store (or maybe sync) my dotfiles. Also will be used for embedding any of the dotfiles according to my blog post. As I'm using it on my company's network, which has a very restrictive firewall and I'm online through a proxy, this is what I did to get my Git working. Take note that I'm using GitHub

OpenBSD NC4200: tmux + vim + xterm 256 color. Solved

2011-08-25T15:51:00.000+08:00

Hurrah! I've found the answer. My scrotwm open up xterm with tmux instead of plain xterm. Just now I used: program[term] = xterm -e tmux To open new term with tmux. That's what causing the 256 color issue. Seems like opening tmux like that made the xterm not setting the correct $TERM. That's why if I open an xterm, then open tmux, the 256 color will look as it's intended. So I changed that to

OpenBSD NC4200: tmux + vim + xterm 256 color.

2011-08-25T15:09:00.001+08:00

Sorry I have to delete my previous post. Surely that was a bit hurried. I should've tested more on the 256 color issue with tmux + vim. Ok, first of all, let's rewind back a bit for the history. This is the scenario. My vim's 256 color theme just got the wrong color in tmux than in regular xterm. I have set up MOD+Return in scrotwm to open up tmux inside xterm. When I use that, there's color

OpenBSD NC4200: scrotwm 0.9.34, no more crash.

2011-08-18T16:12:00.000+08:00

Hi, I wrote previously regarding a bug which core-dumping my scrotwm session (yeah they have a new site for scrotwm). I'm still on 4.8, being lazy to upgrade to 4.9 up till now, so I was left with the only option which is to compile scrotwm's latest version. So I downloaded 0.9.34 version which is the latest. I put it *.tgz file to a temporary folder. Fingers crossed, this is the steps. Create

OpenBSD NC4200: Burning DVD using USB DVD-RW.

2011-05-25T16:03:00.002+08:00

Ahh, My anime is screaming to be put into a DVD as my disk is nearly full. So I have an idea to write an entry for this blog-o-mine. Writing DVDs. My laptop doesn't have optical drive built in. So I'm using the USB DVD-RW drive. The dmesg for the usb drive is: umass0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Hewlett Packard USB Multibay IDE 2.466" rev 2.00/2.46 addr 3 umass0: using SCSI over

OpenBSD NC4200: Upgrading 4.8 to 4.9. Soon.

2011-05-23T16:10:00.000+08:00

Heyya, I'll try upgrading my machine to 4.9 soon (aka when I feels like it..). My method will be via CD and the OpenBSD' Upgrading howto. Later.

OpenBSD NC4200: .profile script for easy Celcom 3G dialing / disconnecting.

2011-04-04T18:47:00.002+08:00

Ok. I'm still testing to get auto proxy setting script. But in the mean time, you can copy and use this simple script to dial/disconnect your Celcom 3G. Feel free to alter the script if you use other telco. I put this one under my ~/.profile, but you can also create a file, paste the script and chmod the script executable. # This is to dial celcom3g function celcom3g { # Some internal functions

OpenBSD NC4200: Using Celcom ZTE MF190 USB Modem.

2011-03-29T13:50:00.005+08:00

I just registered with Celcom Broadband with no contract. Received a ZTE MF190 USB modem with sim card and working fine in XP. As usual, making it work in OpenBSD is the goal. OpenBSD's umsm listed a few ZTE USB modem as supported USB 3g modem but currently using cu -l cuaU0 will just display "Connected" and hangs there. Tried using cuaU0 to cuaU2 with no avail. I've posted a question in misc@

OpenBSD NC4200: My .profile for TERM type. xterm-256color / wsvt25.

2011-03-08T15:20:00.003+08:00

OpenBSD have 256 color support in xterm, which is xterm-256color. For console, setting the TERM to wsvt25 is better. Color will work but weird stuff will happen is you use xterm term type for console, such as funny scrolling while ls-ing, tmux behaving weirdly and other stuff. But is I use wsvt25 as my term type, mp3blaster won't work correctly, vim color scheme (I use wombat scheme) will display

OpenBSD NC4200: Apache + PostgreSQL + PHP5 + P4A. Another interesting project.

2011-03-04T11:35:00.001+08:00

Ok this is my current project. I'm exploring PHP now and because I only have a little knowledge on programming PHP, I need to use some sort of RAD / Visual tool to start building PHP website fast. I read that P4A - PHP For Applications - PHP RAD Framework is one of the tool that can be use so I'm exploring that now. So I need to build a OAPP (OpenBSD + Apache + PostgreSQL + PHP) environment on my

OpenBSD NC4200: Editing .mkv file's subtitles. A fun project.

2011-02-11T17:12:00.001+08:00

Well, this is basically a fun project. I have collections of anime and I was thinking about making Malay subtitle for some of it. Just for fun. I found that it's totally possible with OpenBSD. Here's the packages that I need: mkvtoolnix-4.0.0 subtitleeditor-0.33.0p3 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11 x264-20100511 wordnet-3.0p4 mkvtoolnix have few programs that can manipulate .mkv files. I can extract

OpenBSD NC4200: Using Plantronics USB Headset.

2011-02-09T15:56:00.001+08:00

It's been a while since I last post anything. My OpenBSD box is still running great. Yesterday I got a Plantronics USB Headset and I wanted to see if I can get it to work in my 4.8. When I plugged the headset, here's the dmeg: uaudio0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Plantronics Plantronics USB Headset" rev 2.00/1.20 addr 3 uaudio0: audio rev 1.00, 10 mixer controls audio1 at uaudio0

Garuda dibaham Harimau Malaya! Tahniah!

2010-12-30T09:28:00.000+08:00

Ni tulisan yang istimewa. Gua terlampau gembira sangat dengan kebolehan pemuda-pemuda tempatan (baca: bukan dari Uruguay ok..) Harimau Malaya kerana berjaya menjulang satu lagi anugerah bolasepak iaitu AFF Piala Suzuki malam semalam. Alhamdulillah berkat usaha seluruh pasukan, setelah merampas pingat emas Sea Games 2009, kita dapat pulak AFF Piala Suzuki. Walaupun bermula dengan kekalahan 5-1

OpenBSD NC4200: scrotwm + xstatbar & I think I found a bug.

2010-12-22T15:33:00.002+08:00

xstatbar is a status bar which can be use in scrotwm to display cpu usage graph, memory usage, battery/AC status, Master Volume and date/time. Informations which is displayed is currently fixed and hacking the source code is the only way to customize the display. I downloaded and installed xstatbar. Then I edited ~/.xsession. *unrelated bits ignored* xstatbar -y 753 -w 1024 & exec scrotwm *

OpenBSD NC4200: Playing with scrotwm.

2010-12-21T13:01:00.002+08:00

Yes I'm looking for another tiling window manager. Then I saw scrotwm. I installed the scrotwm package and edited my ~/.xsession. Take note that I'm using xdm with dialog to choose window manager to load. managers=scrotwm,wmii,xfce4,fvwm *ugly bits ignored* case $manager in scrotwm) xscreensaver -no-splash & nohup sh ~/davmail/davmail.sh ~/davmail/davmail.properties & eval `cat ~/.fehbg` exec

OpenBSD NC4200: Another rough tweak for xdm with multiple window manager.

2010-12-17T16:08:00.001+08:00

After reading Gentoo Wiki I found another way to get xdm to let you choose desired window manager. This is rougher than the previous tweak I posted. For this one, I need to edit 3 files. Step 1: Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources. I edited the file with these values: xlogin*login.translations: #override \ *default bits ignored* F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\

OpenBSD NC4200: Back to xdm, using rough hack to change window manager.

2010-12-17T12:59:00.004+08:00

Ah. Now I'm back to using xdm as my login manager. Using Wikibook's Guide to X11 as a guideline, I managed to write a rough hack to let me choose my desired window manager in xdm. Step 1: Disable SLiM login manager. I use /etc/rc.local to start SLiM as the login manager so I just comment the SLiM's related entries. Step 2: Enabling xdm. I edit /etc/rc.conf.local and put: xdm_flags="" Step 3

OpenBSD NC4200: Another info on OpenSMTPD.

2010-12-14T11:20:00.000+08:00

I wrote about OpenSMTPD before and the link I gave previously is no longer active. While searching for more info on OpenSMTPD, I found this page http://calomel.org which has informations and tips on many *BSD related stuff (mainly OpenBSD). There's also section on OpenSMTPD How To which is great.

OpenBSD NC4200: iwi wireless with kismet.

2010-12-09T10:40:00.000+08:00

I still can't use dstumbler properly with my wireless lan. It's been quite some time since I play around with OpenBSD and wireless LAN so I was a bit lost then. By doing man iwi I know that my iwi0 wireless device will not function properly unless I install iwi-firmware-3.1.tgz which can be downloaded from the link contained inside the man page. Installing the file is the same as any other

OpenBSD NC4200: mcabber, console jabber client connect to Google Talk thru proxy.

2010-12-09T10:36:00.000+08:00

mcabber is yet another console jabber client. There's a few more console messaging program but I'll get my hands dirty on this one first. I downloaded and installed the mcabber-0.10.0.tgz package. I edited ~/.mcabber/mcabberrc. This is what I changed: set jid = me@gmail.com set server = talk.google.com set port = 443 set ssl = 1 set proxy_host = "proxy.com" set proxy_port = 8080 I left all

OpenBSD NC4200: Ctrl + Alt + Del to lock wmii using xscreensaver.

2010-11-25T14:11:00.001+08:00

1 thing I like about XFCE is that if I hit [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del], XFCE will lock my session using xlock or xscreensaver. By default, wmii can't do that. I've been searching for samples to do that but most samples that I've encountered are either using Ruby or Python. So I tried to just edit the ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc. After a few testing and frustrating hanging of wmii, I managed to get the key binding

OpenBSD NC4200: Getting Alpine to work with DavMail.

2010-11-24T13:20:00.002+08:00

Firstly, yeah I changed the blog's title. As I'm using ONLY OpenBSD nowadays, I think it's appropriate to change the title as I don't use other type of BSD. Now back to the main story. So far, this is a brief description of what I (initially) wanted to achieve: Alpine+LDAP <---> DavMail <---> CompanyEmail@OWA/Exchange So here's what I'm currently doing. Getting Alpine + DavMail to play nicely

OpenBSD NC4200: xterm-color + mp3blaster, no go.

2010-11-22T11:36:00.000+08:00

I've been having an issue with mp3blaster recently. Every time I open mp3blaster, I can't use F1 to open folder. In fact, I can't use F1 to F5. F6 (repeat) and F7 (shuffle) works ok. I suspected that my ~/.Xdefaults is the culprit and after testing, it is true. This is my ~/.Xdefaults: !! Xterm Resources XTerm*loginShell: true XTerm*termName: xterm-color XTerm*faceName: Mono XTerm*faceSize: 9

OpenBSD 4.8 @ Compaq NC4200 Laptop: dmesg

2010-11-22T10:46:00.000+08:00

OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC) #136: Mon Aug 16 09:06:23 MDT 2010 deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.13 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2 real mem = 1064726528 (1015MB) avail mem = 1037348864 (989MB) mainbus0

OpenBSD NC4200: Alpine + DavMail: DavMail configurations.

2010-11-16T13:52:00.002+08:00

A bit of personal history. Bear with me as it might get you bored to death as it will be a long one. Ok, my company uses MS Exchange for emails. And, wait, I guess that just sums it up. Company uses MS Exchange, bla bla, I don't want to use Outlook, bla bla, I don't want to use MS Windows, bla bla so here I am. Basically, I just want to use Alpine / Thunderbird to access my company's exchange so

OpenBSD NC4200: Alpine + DavMail, ftp_proxy / http_proxy problem again.

2010-11-16T11:14:00.000+08:00

Here's the latest update for my Alpine + DavMail project. Installing Alpine via OpenBSD's package doesn't come with LDAP support enabled. I can verify that by using: $ alpine -supported So, I read the OpenBSD ports system man pages and Alpine ports man pages and found that I need to specify the ldap flavor when building the Alpine ports. So in /usr/ports/mail/alpine directory, I use this syntax

OpenBSD NC4200: wmiirc, updated status bar script, SLiM login manager & Alpine with Davmail

2010-11-15T11:31:00.004+08:00

Using my previous posting as reference, I copied /etc/wmii-3.5/wmiirc to ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc then added all the status bar scripts. I also change the following: # Configuration Variables MODKEY=Mod4 WMII_TERM="mrxvt" And then added my status bar script. Surprisingly (or not), I made a few mistakes in my last status bar script I posted previously. You see, I copied the script by typing manually

OpenBSD NC4200: Testing video function in VLC.

2010-11-11T12:39:00.000+08:00

Starting vlc via vlc -vvv shows that there's main interface error regarding x11-display and option global-key-xxx stuff. But vlc can start just fine. With default setting, I can play *.mp3 files just fine but that's audio. vlc just exited with x11-display when I tried opening video file. So I opened vlc, go to Tools > Preferences > Video > Output and choose Simple DirectMedia Layer video output

OpenBSD NC4200: Printing with CUPS.

2010-11-10T13:20:00.000+08:00

As my OpenBSD is now my primary OS for work (not that my office requires it), I really need to be able to print anything. Related CUPS packages that's installed is: cups-1.4.4p1 gtk+2-cups-2.20.1 xfprint-4.6.1p5 Using tips from http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2009/01/openbsd-tip-speed-up-boot-time.html, I edited /etc/rc.local and put: # Add your local startup actions here. if [ -x /usr/local

OpenBSD NC4200: Getting vlc-web plugins to be listed in Firefox

2010-11-08T17:24:00.000+08:00

I installed vlc-web package but it's not listed in my Firefox's plugin list. After searching fer a while, I found that the plugin's directory is locked to root only. So I chmod the directory: sudo chmod 774 /usr/local/lib/mozilla After restarting Firefox, the plugin is now listed. I'll try and find a video to play and see the outcome.

OpenBSD NC4200: DavMail LDAP is working..

2010-11-08T16:12:00.000+08:00

Okay. Silly me. I found that instead of putting "localhost" in the Hostname tab, I put "locahost". Yeah. Without a freaking "L". Now it's working fine.

OpenBSD NC4200: Thunderbird + DavMail works ok. Firefox 3.5 + java plugins works ok.

2010-11-08T15:53:00.001+08:00

I managed to get DavMail running. Like I've posted earlier, it's a bit tricky as it involves getting Java running. For OpenBSD 4.8, Java 1.7.0 can be installed using package but older versions (1.6.0, 1.5.0) will require ports installation. I installed version 1.6.0 using ports (hurray!) but I can't run the davmail.sh. I found that the correct command to run the script is: sh davmail.sh Done

OpenBSD NC4200: Ports round 2. Java installation. DavMail with Thunderbird.

2010-11-04T14:39:00.000+08:00

I've done another installation of OpenBSD. Now I'm using 4.8. I've install XFCE Desktop Environment. Yeah well read good comments about it. Skipped GNome / KDE because it's too bloated. I managed to get Thunderbird working with DavMail to access my exchange (company) email. But that's in Windows XP. Because DavMail is based on Java, it's stated that the program can run from Linux & *BSD/*NIX.

OpenBSD NC4200: Alpine trough OpenSMTPD went fine.

2010-01-28T12:47:00.000+08:00

Ah, done testing Alpine email client with OpenSMTPD and it's working fine. In Alpine, I go to "Setup" to configure Alpine and choose "Config". Then in the "SMTP Server (for sending)" line, I just put localhost as the value and then exit the setting. I composed an email and it went through just fine. Great. Bye bye sendmail.

OpenBSD NC4200: iwi0 wireless & kismet.

2010-01-23T12:54:00.003+08:00

After unsuccessful attempts to get my iwi0 wireless to work with dstumbler, I downloaded and installed kismet.After installation, I vi /usr/kismet/kismet.conf and add this line to the "source" section:source=radiotap_bsd_b,iwi0,radiotap_bsd_bthen in term, running "kismet" displays the scan using the iwi0 device. Great! At last!. I'll find something about the dstumbler issue later. I haven't

OpenBSD NC4200: from SendMail to OpenSMTPD, from GNU/screen to tmux.

2010-01-23T09:08:00.004+08:00

Heyya, while seaching for any OpenBSD related goodies, I found a few interesting things. First of all is tmux, a terminal multiplexer a-la GNU/Screen. I used screen a lot if I'm not in wmii and tmux is a BSD-licensed equivalent. Hurrah! In OpenBSD 4.6, tmux is already in default installation so no need to get a package for it. man tmux if you're interested. As fer me, it's time to say goodbye to

OpenBSD NC4200: Howto get battery status & put it on wmii's status bar.

2010-01-21T11:57:00.018+08:00

Update: My Updated wmiirc Status Bar Script is the recent version, there's a bit of error in the script below so you guys better take a look at the most recent one. I'm keeping this post as an archive. Hola. After searching for an answer, I finally found out how to get the battery status for my NC4200 laptop. In case you're wondering where to look for more information, this is what I look at:

OpenBSD NC4200: Howto change the web browser for NetBeans 5.5 & other issues.

2010-01-19T15:02:00.004+08:00

Hola. NetBeans 5.5 can be installed using OpenBSD's package. I got mine installed and after playing with it, found a few things that might be interesting fer those who're using OpenBSD + NetBeans.First of all, by default NetBeans have a few web browser listed in Tool > Options > General tab. If you have either Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape installed; there should be no issue but if you're like me,

OpenBSD NC4200: calcurse 2.7 in on -current & freshclam.

2010-01-14T01:17:00.002+08:00

Argh! The OpenBSD CVSweb for ports has confirmed it. The version 2.7 is on -current, not -stable. I don't think I'm ready to go for -current yet. So I need to find another calendar software (curse based preferably) and wait for OpenBSD 4.8 then. *sigh*.In the mean time, I'm updating my ClamAV's virus definition. Well I might need it some day. Later then.

OpenBSD NC4200: Updating ports to -stable. Finally!

2010-01-14T00:44:00.003+08:00

I'm currently updating my ports collection to OpenBSD's 4.6-stable. So far it's going ok. Not finished yet. Hopefully I'll get to install the latest version of calcurse so I can finally use the notification feature.First cd to /usr/ports/. Then I su to gain superuser access. Then after choosing the anoncvs server to use, I issued the command:# cvs -q -d anoncvs@some.anon.server:/cvs up -r OPENBSD

OpenBSD NC4200: PostgreSQL & pgAdmin3, GIMP too.

2010-01-07T16:17:00.003+08:00

I've installed Gimp graphic manipulation program. There was quite a lot of dependencies but luckily I'm using the same machine to manually download each one of it. After installation, I opened a new wmii workspace and hit [Mod]+[P] to open the program list. Then just type "gimp" then hit "Return". Wallah!, Gimp is running fine. Although I don't think I'll be using it anytime soon, but heck, might

OpenBSD NC4200: Current experience status.

2010-01-06T12:12:00.002+08:00

I have to make do with the version 2.5 of Alpine email software. My port system also have the same version, but I read somewhere that OpenBSD have stable version of the port system which includes version 2.7 (latest) of Alpine. As I'm still having problem with the darn proxy connection, I can't do anything with that. So that's my goal fer now, solving the proxy connection issue.A few things I

OpenBSD NC4200: Ports system up, but still having proxy problem.

2010-01-05T14:46:00.001+08:00

Installed the OpenBSD's port system but still having problem to connect via proxy. Darn proxy! So the only thing that can connect to the internet is my Firefox. AHHHH!

OpenBSD NC4200: Problem with calcurse.

2010-01-05T13:00:00.002+08:00

Ughh. Found that there's a fatal bug in the installed calcurse. My box hanged after I tried to alter the "Notify" function's configuration. As stated in the program's news section, there's a bug in notification in version prior to 2.6. The version I installed from package is 2.5. Ouch. So now I have to install it from ports now. Hopefully OpenBSD's port system is not that different from FreeBSD's

OpenBSD NC4200: Searching for ncurse calendar program.

2010-01-05T12:11:00.002+08:00

I installed VLC media player just now. Installation went ok though there's quite a lot of dependencies I had to tackle. Luckily I retrieve the file using my OpenBSD machine so no more transferring packages using 2 machines. Oh well still have issue with my proxy connection, so pkg_add can't be run directly. Have to install stuff using a terminal, while using Firefox to download the data.Currently

OpenBSD NC4200: Email with Alpine & can I have Magic Set Editor in my box?

2010-01-04T15:48:00.003+08:00

Hi again.I've installed Alpine and it's nice! Sent few emails and it's working fine. Haven't set my email add inside it yet but it'll be soon. So far my OpenBSD box is great! Really love the wmii and the other stuff I installed so far.Oh yeah, I tried installing Magic Set Editor software, a program for Magic: The Gathering player/collector (or newbie, like *cough*me*cough*). There's linux port

OpenBSD NC4200: Firefox 3.5, mp3blaster, using proxy @ office, xscreensaver installed.

2009-12-31T16:48:00.005+08:00

Heyya,Today I brought my machine to the office, just want to test out the internet connection using proxy. I tried setting up the http_proxy but can't get the connection to work. Tried lynx and pkg_add without any success. I set the proxy server using:# export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.server:8080/DHCP is up, my bge0 LAN is working but still can't connect to OpenBSD for surfing or adding

OpenBSD NC4200: Reinstalled 4.6 with new disk layout.

2009-12-13T23:26:00.002+08:00

Heyya,I done reinstallation for 4.6. Actually it's my 2nd installation for today. Hopefully it's the last. Made a mistake in previous installation for not creating a home partition. The root partition got filled up very quickly as it's not big. And not to mentioned I gave usr everything else on the disk. So now my choice for the new partition is:/ = 1Gswap = 1G/var = 7G/usr = 13G/tmp = 4G/home =

OpenBSD NC4200: Up and running, online with Wimax & DHCP.

2009-11-30T20:37:00.003+08:00

Done installing OpenBSD 4.6 i386. Seems to be ok. I'm using P1 Wimax at home and here's what I did to get my OpenBSD's box online. I tried using static IP, I can ping the P1's DNS server but can't get through non-ip's url (eg: www.yahoo.com). I'm guessing that nameserver is the culprit. So for the time being, I had to use DHCP. I'm doing this by the book so you can head to OpenBSD Networking FAQ

OpenBSD with HP NC4200

2009-11-28T08:32:00.002+08:00

Yeah it's been long. I've given the NC4000 to my wife and now I have another laptop. It's a NC4200. OpenBSD 4.6 is out and I've installed the release to NC4200. Currently I have this notification after it installed and running:acpitz3: TZ4_: failed to read _TMPacpitz3: TZ4_: failed to read tempI'm currently searching for some clues and so far I know that this is related to temperature sensor.

OpenBSD NC4000: My uname -a and installed packages.

2009-04-16T12:19:00.002+08:00

Here's the uname -a.OpenBSD vambsd.vampire.org 4.4 GENERIC#1021 i386Well. Yeah. Unlike FreeBSD's long output, OpenBSD's version is way shorter. I'll post the dmesg output soon hopefully.Here's the list of currently installed packages:dmenu-3.7libiconv-1.12libixp-0.4p0screen-4.0.3p1wmii-3.6p1So wmii and GNU Screen is working fine. I'm still trying to install Awesome, FluxBox & Corewars and still

OpenBSD NC4000: wmii is running fine.

2009-04-15T09:26:00.002+08:00

I've done installing wmii window manager. I can say that it's neat and clean. First I created .xinitrc file in my home folder. Easiest way is to type vi .xinitrc inside your home folder. Then just type:exec wmiiThen save it and close vi. After that type xinit in the shell and wallah! wmii greets me. There's a wmii message displaying the basic of working with wmii. As I know a bit about working

OpenBSD NC4000: wmii and xmonad, another tiling window manager.

2009-04-14T12:41:00.003+08:00

In my search for a tiling x11 window manager, I'm considering to install Awesome window manager which looks good. Since it's GPLv2, I also found wmii (MIT license) and xmonad (3-Clause BSD License). Xmonad have a multi-head display support whereas wmii looks neat. I want to go for wmii first so I downloaded:wmii-3.6p1Which I found depends on dmenu-3.7 so I downloaded that too. After reading the

OpenBSD NC4000: Offline packages installation.

2009-04-14T09:54:00.004+08:00

So far the 4.4 OpenBSD is running fine with my NC4000. I just learned that my usb thumdrive is labeled as sd0i. So I need to type this command to access it:mount_msdos /dev/sd0i /mnt/usbAnd remember to create the "usb" folder beforehand. It's pretty important because I have to install packages using my usb thumbdrive. When I'm in the office, I download the packages I want and then store it in the

Awesome window manager. Seriously.

2009-04-10T17:00:00.003+08:00

Yeah. I found this tiling X window manager called Awesome. Found out that there's OpenBSD package for it. Great. By the look of it, I'll bet this window manager will be one of my fav. I'll try to install the package later today and will update you guys on it soon hopefully. Later.

OpenBSD NC4000: I received a laptop and on OpenBSD 4.4!

2009-04-10T12:19:00.002+08:00

Hi. Long time no blog. Yeah been lotsa thing in between. I was given a Compaq NC400 laptop as it's supposed to be disposed. I tested it and it's working fine. Grabbed OpenBSD 4.4 i386 and installed flawlessly. Didn't get the dmseg / uname -a file here yet but I'll post it soon. I just installed it last night and so far, sweet!. No broadband in my house yet (yeah I moved to a new home months ago)

FreeBSD: Finally! I made a working FreeBSD 7 amd64 DVD! Here's how!

2008-07-28T20:17:00.008+08:00

HAHAHA! Finally I got it! I made it woohoo! Ok I've successfully made a working FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 DVD! But (there's a but..) not just using Nero, I used mkisofs to make an iso image, then burn it with Nero. Here's the important steps.Step #1: Get the FreeBSD iso.Fer this I downloaded all 4 isos. I downloaded all AMD64 version. You can get the isos here. Remember to get it from FreeBSD's mirror

RDX200: FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 installation is ok and running.

2008-07-28T19:32:00.003+08:00

Latest news. FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 installation went smoothly. It's been quite some time since I installed FreeBSD so it's like re-living the memories. I found out that I can't use my previous partition scheme because root folder "/" is not big enough. So I learnt something new here. Fer FreeBSD my partition scheme is:/ = 500Mswap = 512M (Although automatically installation defaulted to more than

OpenBSD RDX200: Installed i386 but still no go. :(

2008-07-27T22:39:00.000+08:00

I've installed OpenBSD 4.3 i386 in this pc. Installation went smooth. But still, I stumbled unto the same problem yet again. This mind boggling freeze is really something. Urrgghh! I'm really really eager to get OpenBSD running here. I'm thinking about some hardware stuff faileed here. Maybe my Ethernet card? I have 2 Marvel 1Gb Ethernet card here, both built-in but 1 have some bit or error, it

OpenBSD rdx200: Got the dmesg and emailed misc@. Now wait fer some solution.

2008-07-26T16:41:00.003+08:00

I've emailed misc@ regarding the problem I currently have with 4.3 AMD64 installation. As it's my 1st post there, I'm a bit nervous. I kept thinking if my email is detailed enough or not, informative enough or not etc. Hopefully it'll be fine. I've also included the dmesg I got with the help of a friend from DaemonForums.org and OpenBSD's 4.3 i386 installation CD.How I did it? OpenBSD FAQ 4.15

OpenBSD RDX200: Trying to get the dmesg. Next, change to i386?

2008-07-25T22:48:00.005+08:00

Ok. After searching fer answers, jggimi from DaemonForums.org suggested that I should use the i386 version of OpenBSD instead of AMD64 which I've installed.I was also told that the i386 CD have support fer mounting msdos file system which the AMD64 version didn't have. So now I'm getting the i386's iso. I'll get the dmesg 1st, post it to misc@ first to see if there's any workaround and if there's

OpenBSD: 4.3 AMD64 can't boot. Found something interesting.

2008-07-24T23:23:00.002+08:00

After searching fer some answers / directions, I found out that OpenBSD Man Page is one of the place to go. After reading boot_config part of the man page, I go on and boot to 4.3 again. On the boot prompt I go and type "/bsd -c" to boot to User Kernel Config (UKC). It's something like this:boot> /bsd -cUKC>Then I disabled the ehci by typing:UKC> disable ehciUKC> quitAfter that 4.3 booted the

OpenBSD: 4.3 installed, but failed on booting.

2008-07-24T20:14:00.002+08:00

Okay. Here's the news. I installed GAG 4.9 as a boot manager, and I've successfully installed OpenBSD 4.3 (AMD64). When the installation is done and the machine rebooted, OpenBSD kernel booted and while it's probing devices, I saw something like:"ATI EHCI root hub"And my monitor went blank then the pc restarted back to POST. Weird. I've tried rebooting a few times already but with no success.

DragonFlyBSD 2.0 is out! It's Hammer time!

2008-07-24T10:36:00.003+08:00

Ok now head up to DragonFlyBSD and check their latest 2.0 release. Now there's something new to look upon. The DragonFlyBSD team has created a new filesystem named HAMMER (pdf file). From what I read, the filesystem is an innovative new filesystem fer DragonFlyBSD and the developer has stated that they're commited to make the new filesystem as widely accepted by other *BSD siblings and other

Info: Toshiba IPC5030B LCD information found.

2008-07-19T16:12:00.002+08:00

Ok I found a page regarding the information on my Toshiba IPC5030B LCD monitor.http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/peripheral/products/i5030b.htmYes the site is in Japanese so you need to translate the page using any online translation site. I translated the page using my K-Meleon web browser and the information on the LCD is very detailed. Hope this help anyone who's looking fer the same information.

OpenBSD 4.3: New project, multiboot OpenBSD & XP x64.

2008-07-13T09:39:00.004+08:00

Hola. It's been a long while aye. Ok here's the latest project, I'm currently planning to do a multiboot system of OpenBSD and WinXP x64.Why not FreeBSD? I guess it's time fer me to experiment / try out the other *BSD sibling. I read a lot of user experience / review on OpenBSD and none is negative. People says it's stable and secure. Sure, the port tree maybe not as vast as FreeBSD but it'll be

RDX200: My new 64bit PC is nearly complete!

2008-02-05T18:57:00.000+08:00

Ah. Just a few more items and my new PC will be complete! Currently this is what I have fer my new 64bit PC.- AMD Athlon64 3500+ Winchester s939- DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR- 2x Kingston 512M KVR PC3200 DDR400- GeCube Ati Radeon HD2600 Pro 512M PciEI bought the processor and mobo as used. My boss gave me the twin DDR ram. The GPU is the only thing that's new in box. Yeah I bought a socket 939 pc

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is out!

2008-01-19T21:51:00.000+08:00

Yeah you heard it right. A new FreeBSD release is out. Head out to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html to read more about it. Or you can go to http://www.freebsd.org.I've been waiting fer this release. It's good to know that it's out. I'm sure 7-RELEASE will be out soon too. Can't wait fer my new PC to be built! Later.

Building new pc for 64bit FreeBSD.

2008-01-12T19:32:00.000+08:00

Since my laptop died on me, not much has happened in my FreeBSD world. But now I'm building my new PC, a 64bits PC so I hope I can continue my FreeBSD exploration again soon.I've been wanting to buy an AMD64 PC, but I only had the financial to do so recently. Currently I only have a few parts with me and I still need to buy a few more before my PC is complete. Currently I have:DFI LANParty UT

Links: Funny quotes about software licences.

2007-04-08T11:28:00.000+08:00

Still no new thing about my G770i. Been a while since I last booted the 6.2-R. But hey, I was readin GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver (heck it's SlashDot..) when I stumbled on to this funny quotes about the difference between GPL, BSD and closed-sourced software license:GPL: I buy everyone a round because the license of the bar says that everyone else will also buy a round when it is

G770i: SCSI hard disk might be dead.

2007-03-21T15:00:00.000+08:00

Great. Just great. I suspect the 1st SCSI hard disk of my G770i has died. Try rebooting but there's "Device Not Ready" error on the SCSI POST. Will look onto this later because I have to go fer a site visit now. Later Then

FreeOSZoo Project, all the "animals" in one place to see and play with.

2007-03-19T01:11:00.000+08:00

This post is not *BSD specific. I just found this site through Wikipedia. Ever wanted to try out an OS without downloading / installing hundreds of Mb of files? You can, in the zoo. No I'm not joking. The place you can do that is http://www.oszoo.org. Yeah it's OS Zoo. Going to the main page of the site, I can't stop smiling seeing many of the known OSes logo and mascot displayed. You name it,

G770i: SMP kernel up and running.

2007-03-19T00:06:00.000+08:00

Kernel rebuilding has been going well. Mind you I *kinda* sure my SMP is working, but I'm searching fer ways to verify it. Maybe some sort of program or script or something. I'm posting the output of /usr/sbin/mptable here fer my reference. Despite what's written in http://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/getstarted.html, the only changes I have to make fer my custom kernel configuration file is:#

G770i: Need to build SMP-enabled 6.2-R kernel (not enabled by default) & ready to samba.

2007-03-18T00:31:00.000+08:00

Ok. After lurking the net fer something about setting up a FreeBSD file server, I read about something else. About my new custom kernel. I just know that SMP is not enabled by default in the 6.2-R installation or GENERIC kernel configuration file. So my custom kernel, which was modified from GENERIC didn't enabled SMP fer my G770i. A SMP-enabled (Symmetrical Multi Processing) kernel will allow my

G770i: Display problem solved, config files uploaded.

2007-03-15T12:27:00.000+08:00

Now I'm writing this blog using my 6.2-R. :D. Also, the problem with display has been solved. Seems like I can't use 24 bit color & do 1024x768 resolution here. Found out the correct refresh rate of this monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 450b). So in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I put:Section "Monitor" HorizSync 30.0 - 55.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 Modeline "800x600" 56.30 800 832 896 1024 600 601 604

G770i: kernel rebuilt, xorg.conf still need tweaking.

2007-03-14T23:13:00.000+08:00

Kernel rebuilding is done. Found out that commenting (putting '#' in front) / deleting the:device uralin the # USB support section of my G770IKERNEL (my kernel configuration file) file makes the error disappear. I guess I deleted a line/device which are required by that device. Now the server is running a new kernel, and without any glitches whatsoever. So all are ok. The console are now in

G770i: Kernel rebuilding in progress.

2007-03-14T14:50:00.000+08:00

I'm currently rebuilding the kernel. The copy of GENERIC config file, now named G770IKERNEL was changed way too much I guess. The only addition I put was:options VESAoptions SC_PIXEL_MODEBut there has been many devices I've deleted from the config file. My 1st try on rebuilding came with an error and I'm trying fer the 2nd time, while I'm searching fer some sort of answer. If the error persist, I

G770i: FreeBSD 6.2-R installed, now fer post-installations.

2007-03-14T09:57:00.000+08:00

One thing to remember, next time I'm installing FreeBSD using ftp, make sure not to get greedy and picking lots of distributions.Why? Because I've started installing 6.2-R a few minutes after my previous post and the installation was done this morning around 2. This is my 1st time doing a floppy - ftp installation so it's not all bad. Now I have a new experience.The installation went fine. Can't

G770i: Downloading distributions, time fer a break. :D

2007-03-13T14:58:00.000+08:00

Ahhhh.... Now the server is downloading the distributions I've previously selected. I'm using the main FreeBSD ftp site. The built-in ethernet card is AOK. Yeah I know I was supposed to use my own ftp server I've set up yesterday but then, we're connected to the net through broadband. Can't resist the feeling. Heh.I'll post the walkthrough in my homepage when i'm done with the installation and

G770i: floppies ok and running sysinstall.

2007-03-13T13:57:00.000+08:00

Miraculously, the floppies is ok now. Tried using all the *.flp images a few times and it's really ok. I even downloaded a 5.5-RELEASE images but now no need fer that, the 6.2-R is good to go.The Boot floppy, Kernel floppy 1, 2 & 3 is all cool and I can boot the kernel now. A new problem appears. Seems like there's a panic after hardware probing. On the boot menu, I tried 1. Boot FreeBSD (default

G770i: 6.2-R trial installation, the 2nd encounter.

2007-03-13T12:13:00.000+08:00

I bought a box of shiny brand new diskettes. Time to retry the installation process. Currently, there's a bit of a problem. It's the elf32_loadimage error. And it seems that that problem is quite common, even coming from 6.0-R installation. The boot.flp is ok, but the time I put the kern1.flp, the error appears after it reads the floppy. I tried using fdimage from 2 different pc, using the kern1.

G770i: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE trial installation started.

2007-03-13T00:44:00.000+08:00

Ok. My buddy just sent me another PII 266Mhz processor, the 2 missing hot-swap module, 2 9.1Gb Maxtor SCSI hard disk and 2 pieces of 256Mb ECC Server RAM module. Tried booting the server and it's all ok. Looks like the missing hot-swap module was the culprit. So now the G770i is a dual-processor server. Tried the new RAM my buddy gave me but seems like it has a problem. From the document I have,

Fujitsu teamSERVER G770i, my next FreeBSD machine :D

2007-03-04T13:32:00.000+08:00

Now I have a new testbed. A friend gave me a server and that will be a new machine fer my FreeBSD need. It's an old server, said to still be in good working condition and by the look of it, it is. It's a Fujitsu teamSERVER G770i. The hard part is finding information about the server. Until now, I managed to get just a document about the server. And here's what I know about that server.Brand:

AsiaBSDCon @ Tokyo.

2007-02-09T01:42:00.000+08:00

In case you didn't read the latest news. Posted on FreeBSD website and in the mailin list, the next AsiaBSDCon will take place in Tokyo Japan startin from the 8th of March till 11th March 2007. Taken from the site:"AsiaBSDCon, the BSD conference for Asia, has posted its schedule of tutorials, papers and presentations for the conference, taking place in Tokyo from March 8th through 11th 2007. The

New layout.

2007-02-05T16:35:00.000+08:00

Oh yeah. I changed the blog-o-mine to the new Blogger's template made available. Honestly, this one is my personal favorite. Hopes you'll like it too. Later!

Finally! Journaled File System for FreeBSD soon, me hope.

2007-02-05T15:10:00.000+08:00

Now FreeBSD has version 6.x fer production purpose and 7 fer current. I missed quite a release nowadays. But 1 of the most important news I read today is:*tada!* GJournal (This is a .pdf file, it'll may take quite some time to load this. Beware.). GJournal is a journal patch? (I'm not sure it's a patch, or extension or a new file system) currently fer UFS file system (more to come, so I read).

BSD Guides: Doing Stuff With FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD & Mac OS X

2007-01-22T01:37:00.000+08:00

Hah! It's been a very long rest fer me here aye? Heck, am still waitin fer a new machine to build my FreeBSD again. Kinda missed all the actions. Fer sure I missed writin stuff in here. Well, if I'm lucky, my next FreeBSD jots will be just as soon as I'm hopin it'll be. Which is, anytime soon. Well, it'll might as well be another lie but heck I'm tryin.I couldn't really recall fer sure if I've

EFF: Sony BMG Litigation

2006-01-07T01:57:00.000+08:00

I was browsin fer informations about BSD when I stumbled on this interestin topic. EFF: Sony BMG Litigation is a must read fer you music lovers out there. Why most of the big corporate are like this? Thankfully we still have Open Source OS.

FreeBSDWiki

2006-01-04T23:42:00.000+08:00

Main Page - BSDWiki is a Wiki about FreeBSD which aims to;"devoted primarily to common issues faced by new and veteran FreeBSD administrators. The goal is to create a common knowledge store which could also be referred to as "FreeBSD for the Impatient", in other words, a place where it is easy to delve straight into simple answers about common needs and problems".Wiki itself is a "Wiki is a piece