This is just a one-liner note to set up proxy for Ubuntu with authentication Setting up proxy at browser doesn’t affect terminal applicaitons such as aptitute package and so on. Also, system wide proxy requies you to touch network configuration like iptables. There are two easiest way to do. There are 2 main files you should set up proxy: /etc/apt/apt/apt.conf #Acquire:: /home/user/.bashrc #export For apt.conf,use vim, gedit or nano to open the file and add the proxy for each network protocols in the following format: Acquire::http::proxy "http://username:password@proxy.server:port";...

I am researching on private browsing mode in terms of forensic study and analysis. Yesterday,I ran into one article about difference between private browsing mode of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. I made some feedbacks on this article as a conversation style. Some of the points will be controversial. The purpose of this blog is to fill in some insights on this particular topic. So, end-users and other interested parties can make good judgments on it. Most modern browsers ship with a private browsing mode that can be started independently from the main browsing session. It prevents ...

For people who are working with terminal all the time, you runs pipeline and tasks and you don’t know whethere it’s finished or not. This small trick will alert you. #step1: install espeak $sudo apt-get install espeak #step2: try espeak "Hello World" #step3: create several alias to reuse for different alert messages #success process alias sp='espeak "process finished successfully"' #fail process alias fp='espeak "process failed"' #example usage #!/bin/bash if [ "foo" = "foo" ]; then echo expression evaluated as true sp else echo expression evaluated as false fp fi ...

Ubuntu & Me I just upgraded my Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04 LTS. In this piece, I’d like to talk about my user experience on Ubuntu. This is personal review of Ubuntu from a average user with 2+ year experience. This is my first Linux distro and the first version I used is Ubuntu ver. 8. At that time,the internet access is so terrible in my country and I gave it up. At 2012, I restarted my Linux journey because of a new job. Unity Before 14.04, I replaced Unity with Xfce since I feel like unity seems to be taking too much resources. Now,I am heading back to Unity to see improvement. Th...

Chrome 35 There are several changes in the newest release of Google Chrome browser. Most of the people are talking about notification center, Google Now integration and so on. For linux people, they are interested about new graphic engine called Aura. It’s intersting but I am not gonna list down all new features introduce at Chrome 35.Let’s get down to what this blog is about. Remote Debugging What I am interesting is about remote debugging through your mobile devices through chrome browser. The questions I pop up when I am reading about that feature is that it is gonna work like it said,w...

It’ve been a while I am using android devices and I am kind of ‘app junkies’. I like to find out the best apps which have nice UI and working functionally as it supposed to be. I am not gonna talk about well-known apps every body knows. These are the apps that should appreciate by the users and I recommend you to try it. You can find all apps at google play store. (BandOfTheDay): One of nice music service for people who like to discover new music. Cover: It’s an app that replace traditional lock screen with intuitive one. Earbits: Another interesting music discover service. The alg...

Unlike Virtualbox, there is no easy way to clone the GuestOS of VMWare VM. These are the steps to perform to get a clone of desire VM. Copy/Paste the entire folder of VM you want to clone to another instance. E.g. Copy all the files from Windows 8 x64 to a new folder,let say windows 8 Clone. Replace all file names with Windows 8 x64 to windows 8 Clone. E.g file name of Windows 8 x64.vmdk to Windows 8 Clone.vmdk and so on. Edit .vmx and .vmxf file with preferred text editor and replace all occurrences of Windows 8 x64 with Windows 8 Clone. Now open VMWare Player and play the new c...

Now, my choice of desktop environment for Linux production machine is xfce. I am stuck at making new custom launcher because it is missing in my whisker menu somehow. For guys who having same problem, this is the command to get create launcher wizard for xfce. $ gksu -l 'exo-desktop-item-edit --create-new /usr/share/applications/'

I was having a problem accessing mysql from terminal and get this error. Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' After spending about 30 mins, I found out that the error comes from configuration of MySQL and there is no socket file on the default file location. To solve this,follow these steps. #1.look for socket file $ find /opt/lampp -name "*.sock" #output /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock #2.edit the configuration file with your favorite editor $ sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf #3.replace all socket location with the output from previous command. ...

Starts from next week,it is a new year for some of South east asian countries including my land. I am going back to my hometown and plan to enjoy quality time with my family. Aparts from that, I planned to do some reading,one light reading & one heavy reading.The two books I will try to read this holiday. Both of them are aged and almost the same age with me. Fahrenheit 451 & A method of Programming Both of them gives me impression in different way. I want to find out that the author imagination of the future meets with current situation. The author of second book is well known in...