Last couple days i found that some website doing image and file hot-linking to my website. This will steal my bandwidth and make me less visitor to come to my blog. If this happen to you too, don't worry. We can prevent those bandwidth theft by prevent hot-linking by add some lines to our .htaccess file.How do i know that my blog hotlinking? You can test by make a single html file with an image link to your blog, here is the example:if you can see the images, then your site can be … Read more...
[TIPS] Get File Extension Easily in PHP
May 5, 2009 • 10 Comments
I want to share a tips for you to get file extension in PHP easily. Before i always use the old way to get the file extension, that is using substring and find the last "." (dot), and get the extension. For those who still doing this, i have a tips for you to get the extension easier.You can use pathinfo, with pathinfo you can get information about a file path, here is the example how to use it:That's it! Thank you for visiting my blog and have a nice day... … Read more...
Solve WordPress Blank Page
April 28, 2009 • 19 Comments
Today my blog was down for couple hours. My front page was blank. No errors, no response, no logs and it was really make me frustrated. After digging a while i found that my admin backend was working and no errors. And i tried to type any link so it will produce 404 response, and yippiee... my blog show up. But the front page still blank!Then i remember last night i edited some configuration in .htaccess file. I tried to restore it and the front page still blank. Argghhh..... Then i tried … Read more...
Why Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty So Slow???
April 28, 2009 • 61 Comments
After waiting for Ubuntu 9.04 release date, and 15 hours upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04, i dissapointed with Ubuntu 9.04 performance. Ubuntu 9.04 is much slower in performance rather than Ubuntu 8.10. And after googling a while, looks like i'm not alone, i found this thread complaining about Ubuntu 9.04 performance. So what happen to Ubuntu?First after installation, i tried to exploring what's new in it. But what i found is a big dissapointed. Sometimes an application freezes, … Read more...
[TIPS] Solving Ubuntu Sound Problem Without Restart
April 22, 2009 • 48 Comments
Have you ever had the sound problem in Ubuntu, especially in Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex? And to fix it you need to restart your computer, and if the sound stop working again then restart again... it's so frustrating, isn't it?Now i would like to share with about how to fix it, but not really fix it, at least you don't need to restart your computer if the sound stop working. This is based on my experience using Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex with Intel x86 processor, the sound occasionally stop … Read more...
[Tutorial] Groovy and Grails Part 2 – Installing Grails
April 19, 2009 • 1 Comment
This is the next article from Grovvy and Grails Part 1 - Introduction that you can read it here. Now we continue to install grails in your machine. Before you continue, there are some requirements to run Grails in your machine, so please read it carefully :)Requirements to install Grails: Java SDK 1.4 or higher and have set your JAVA_HOME variable to the SDK install location. note here, Java OpenSDK and JRE is not working with Grails. Apache Ant 1.6.5 or higher * JUnit (to run the … Read more...
[HowTo] Install Curl in PHP5 and Apache
April 19, 2009
This time i want to share with you how to install Curl in PHP5 in Linux Environtment (I'm using Ubuntu 8.10) and using apache web server, but if you have any question to install php-curl in other environment, feel free to contact me of leave any comment, i will glad to help you.Okay, now let's start with check if php-curl is already installed in your server or not.To check it please follow this step:Create a file in your web server (in Ubuntu it would be in /var/www folder), name it … Read more...
[HowTo] Broadcast Radio With Winamp + SHOUTcast to Ubuntu with IceCast2
April 14, 2009
As i promise you in this post, i will share how to broadcast your music/radio using Winamp with SHOUTcast as client and using Ubuntu with IceCast2 as radio streaming server.So can we start now? Ok, here are the steps:Download winamp player, you can download it in this url Download SHOUTcast plugin for Winamp, you can download it here Install Winamp, and follow the wizard, and then install SHOUTcast plugin too. Open Winamp preferences in Options > Preferences, or press … Read more...
[HowTo] Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04
April 11, 2009 • 1 Comment
Now i want to share with you all, how to upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04 without reinstalling the Ubuntu.For Ubuntu desktop edition:Press ALT+F2 Type update-manager -d Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '9.04' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions. Wait until the process finish. That's it!For Ubuntu server edition:Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed Type: vim … Read more...
