2nd Phase Outstation - Northern Region

Yesterday, my first day for our 2nd phase outstation and it will be my first review on how is our journey.

Yesterday, our journey started around 8.30AM and we reached our first destination, Teluk Intan around 10.55AM.

How to reach Teluk Intan: If you are using PLUS highway, exit on Bidur exit. You will see a sign board to Teluk Intan.

After that, we continued our journey to Sitiawan. We have our nite in Crystal Hotel in Sitiawan.

Fact about Crystal Hotel:

Fee: RM 80 (queen bed,2 persons with breakfast)
Room condition: Room small and the bed got sound.
Toilet condition: Not to up our expectation. Need a cleanup.
Parking: They have a lot of parking
Additional value: They provided a free WiFi connection

Early morning we continued our work in Sitiawan and afternoon we went to Pengkalan TLDM Lumut for a another station. We rush up to Ipoh because we did a booking hotel room in RegaLodge Hotel after I saw a good review in TripAdvisor about this hotel.

Fact about RegaLodge Hotel:

Fee: RM 116 (twin bed)
Room condition: Clean and you can have a good nite dream
Toilet condition: Look old but it cleans and nice to have your good bath
Parking: Limited parking but can park at the street. Hotel will provide a coupon that need to be display on the dashboard of your car.
Pro: 1. My first hotel room that has LCD TV 39 inch and a few Astro channels
2. Free WiFi and I am writing this blog by accessing it
Cons: No breakfast provided.

Few pixes of our room:




















First LCD TV I saw in Hotel room




















Our -ve ion will release 99% on this bed...




















Yup, that one is mine...

So our dinner was at the stall beside Dataran Ipoh. Quite a lot of people. Now I know where the rest of Ipoh people go. You can reach this place by car and it only take 5 minutes to reach there. So for those wish to stay at this hotel, dont worry about breakfast because beside this hotel you can find one restaurant to have your breakfast.

Lotus Notes 8.0.2...Got bug??

Currently I involved in project to deploy a new Domino 8.0.2 server with new Lotus Notes 8.0.2 client.  Yes as per I expected, IBM did fixed a lot of bugs which were exist in 8.0.1.

Maybe I can list down the new improvement of 8.0.2 compared to 8.0.1

1. Standard client start much faster than 8.0.1

2. IBM add indicator bar to let user know that the client in process to up compared to 8.0.1 which is we did not know either is running or hang.

3. Login form appear before the client.

4. Accessing time for each database much faster.

But accidentally I found out a  few new bugs in 8.0.2 client which are until now I still could not find any answer.

1. Somehow, after perfect configuration of Lotus Notes client, one line in Notes.ini change by itself. It change from Data path to Program file path. It cause client cannot start and error saying cannot find any bookmark or names.nsf

2. For Lotus Notes Standard, somehow after user use the client for 1 or 2 days, the client cannot up and cannot uninstall due to Eclipse installation is corrupt. This happen to some of the users that we installed previously.

3. Everytime user close the client, need to wait for 10 seconds so that the services can be successfully stop. If user start the client before the related services completely shutdown, client will not up.

I hope IBM will fix this issue. For those have any answer, share your comment about these bugs that I did found out. 

Ubuntu Muslim Edition

Do you like to use Linux especially Ubuntu and are you a Muslim?

Maybe this distro might attract your attention as your new OS?

Ubuntu Muslim Edition

Google Chrome - Amazing browser

I did download and used this browser since last week and one word can i say, amazing. It is the fastest browser I ever seen before and it did not make my pc hang if I open multiple tabs.

I wonder how Google can made such a good browser. I did my own research and found out, each tab that you open, Chrome will start a new service which is different from the rest of the browser. The service will stop when we close any tab. So CPU usage will reduce immediately. Compare to other browser which is sometime still hold the CPU resources until 100% even I did close most of the tabs.

Quran for Windows, Linux and Macintosh

I just found this software which is very useful for Muslim to listen and understand Quran words...

It can be install on Windows, Linux and also Macintosh.

http://zekr.org/

For Malaysian, there is no translation for Malay but you can use Indonesian translation which is would be almost similar with Malaysian translation.

Domino Web Access New Ultra Lite Page

Below are the screenshots of the new DWA Ultra Lite view:

Using Google Chrome:



Work on Opera also:



Seem like IBM change DWA name back to iNotes:

Sametime Advance 8.0.1 RnD

Currently I am working on Sametime Advanced 8.0.1 which is using Active Directory as a LDAP directory. Even there are few hick up but still on track. Need to figure out how can I enable the SPNEGO at a same time.

I will update in this blog once I managed to do it.

Domino 8.0.2 Successfully Upgraded

For those who did not know, IBM just released the latest version of Domino 8 series which is 8.0.2. And I just upgraded my office Domino server to 8.0.2.

My comment, IBM did fixed few bug in DWA and seem like accessing DWA faster than 8.0.1 version.

IBM did come out with a new page for DWA which is can support Safari browser. They call it DWA Ultralite. It is using AJAX programming. Impressive. Tested with Opera browser.

And also I did test with Firefox 3.0.2 and seem no more script error appear when I am using DWA.

My Maxis BroadBand Speed

Testing details:
Location : Damansara Damai
Time and date : 7:20AM 10/07/2008
Package : Power User
Speed Test Site : http://www.speedtest.net/

Result:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/294233458.png

No more Interest Free Period for Our Credit Card?

To read more, please download the pdf below:

Interest Free Period Removed

Grab Video from Youtube

Grab Video from Youtube and other site that provide streaming video

I found out one website that allow you to grab/rip video from the streaming video site and download to your PC.

KeepVid

Just copy the link from any site like Youtube and paste it into the empty field and click Download.

IBM HTTP Server clustering with RSYNC

This will be my 1st post related to my research. For those want to deploy IHS clustering, I think RSYNC is the best software.

Software that I used in this research:

1. Suse Enterprise Linux 10
2. Rsync
3. SSH

Steps:

1. Install IHS on both server, server A and server B.

2. Install rsync application on the server A.

3. Create a user name syncer on both server.

Note: You can change the username to any name that you prefer.

4. Create a public key so syncer user on server A can access server B using ssh

Command:

ssh-keygen -t dsa
Note: don't put any passphrase

5. FTP the /home/syncer/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file from server A to serverB under /home/syncer/.ssh

6. Rename the id_dsa.pub to authorized_keys2.

7. Create rsync script in server A under /home/syncer and add in these lines:

!/bin/bash
rsync -r -a -v -e "ssh -l syncer" --delete /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/htdocs/ ihs2:/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/htdocs/

8. Add cron task for user syncer in server A:
Command:

su - syncer
crontab -e
# Add this line:

0-59/1 * * * * /home/syncer/rsync.sh

# to check the cron task

crontab -l

9. So now you have IHS clustering secured with SSH tunneling.

KOPEDIK ATA Program

For you information, Friendship Loan Program for KOPEDIK ATA, has been closed temporary.

It is because KOPEDIK need time to market and sell the existing KOPEDIK ATA device before reopen the Friendship Loan Program.

For more detail, please refer to link below:

KOPEDIK

Program will be close starting from 21 of June 2008.

What is Khalifah?

Khalifah is a messenger and leader that Allah created to manage earth.

4 Islam's famous khalifah:

1. Saidina Abu Bakar
2. Saidina Uthman
3. Saidina Umar
4. Saidina Ali