Saturday, August 29, 2009

Make an ISO image of a directory on Linux

For my quick reference...

mkisofs rawks!!

To make an ISO from files on your hard drive, create a directory which holds the files you want. Then use the mkisofs command.

mkisofs -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/

This results in a file called cd.iso in folder /tmp which contains all the files and directories in /tmp/directory/.

For more info, see the man pages for mkisofs, losetup, and dd, or see the CD-Writing-HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org.
-SG

Friday, August 28, 2009

Arghhh!! mysqld can't start: ERROR /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'binlog_format=mixed'

Still stuck in the middle of starting mysql daemon in Centos.

..using
# /sbin/service mysqld start

Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL: [FAILED]

my error msgs....
# tail mysqld.log

090828 16:16:31 mysqld started
090828 16:16:31 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'binlog_format=mixed'
090828 16:16:31 mysqld ended

...bulldozing at every corner of forums and techi help site...

Dudes?

Thursday, June 25, 2009

It's Here : Eclipse Galileo



I've download it yesterday (PDT)... Yummy.



..see. It's galileo on my PC. woohoo


...new includes

* New support for Mac Cocoa 32 and 64 bit.
* New Memory Analyzer tool to help analyze memory consumption of Java applications
* PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.1 is first PHP toolkit to support the new PHP 5.3 language release, including namespaces and closures.
* New Mylyn WikiText support for editing and parsing wiki markup.
* New XSL tooling for XSL editing and debugging.
* Developer productivity improvements to Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) report designer and performance.

Press Release

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

USD7.4 Billion : Oracle to buy SUN (remember MySQL)

I don't have that amount of money. Even one-third, one-thirtythousands or you name it what you like .....from the said USD7.4 super crazzzyyyy Billion... woooo... does the economic slowdown is getting its momentum? The so called da 'bounce?

Read On :

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.



Wow!!!


Double wow wow!!!

No thats is what I call... Giant!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Best Job In The World : AUD150k in 6 vacation-months, What Say You?



What is the best job in the world?
1- Engineer?
2- Medical Doctor
3- Clown?
4- Actor?
5- hehe... programmer?
......

Up to you dudes to justify.. choose or whatever act to make sure your job or your dream job is THE best job. But.. right now.. I'm so very excited to grab this opportunity :-

"The Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef."

..the job description...


Explore and report back
There’s so much to see and do, so you’ll have plenty to write about in your weekly blog. And with so much life above and below the water, you’re sure to capture some entertaining moments for your video diary and photo gallery. To keep you busy, Tourism Queensland will organise a schedule of travel and events on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Your schedule could include sampling a new luxury spa treatment at qualia on Hamilton Island, trying out new snorkelling gear on Heron Island, or bushwalking on Hinchinbrook Island.

Feed the fish
There are over 1,500 species of fish living in the Great Barrier Reef. Don’t worry – you won’t need to feed them all.

Clean the pool
The pool has an automatic filter, but if you happen to see a stray leaf floating on the surface it’s a great excuse to dive in and enjoy a few laps.

Collect the mail
You’ll have some time on your hands, so why not join the aerial postal service for a day? It’s a great opportunity to get a bird’s eye view of the reef and islands.


wow... definitely THE BEST!

Tempted? Apply..

Prepare your super duper unique 60secs vid of yourself.. to accompany your application.

Friday, January 16, 2009

The Coolest Internal Server Error : Youtube Error 500



This is the first time I encounter such error message from the great 'youtube'. And... woooo...

"... team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to this situation..."

How cool is that :) ....


Thursday, January 15, 2009

Silverlight RSS Reader : Mr Bahau on the front page of Silverlight Showcase :)



Big Kudos to Mr Bahau (one of the dudes) , with his great 'achievement' for being listed at the frontpage of Silverlight Showcase... represented by his 'award-winning' Silverlight Berita Harian (local newspaper)...

Perhaps he can elaborate a lil bit about his 'pet' :)



5 star isn't enough!!



Still... 'beta' :)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

TechNet MSDN Technology Summit 2009 : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia



Registered.. Approved.. and ready to rock with it! See ya there dudes..
Really can't wait for track number something2... 12:00pm – 1:30pm : Lunch (at your own) hahaha...

Free brand new Windows 7 Beta DVD.. hmmm.. not that bad. And one more thing... "free" wireless available. :)



Great news to all Malaysian IT professionals & software developers! After a three year hiatus, TechNet MSDN Technology Summit is back in Kuala Lumpur! This time, with more promising speakers and exciting topics of current and emerging technologies. Attend and you’ll be the first to see a special early preview of Windows 7! We have a full-day of action packed sessions to help you sharpen your skills with the latest technologies in virtualisation and Business Intelligence. Get all the latest information on brand new product releases like SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and the Visual Studio development platform.

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT: All registered attendees will get a COPY of Windows 7 Beta DVD.

The first 500 registered attendees will have a chance to receive a Mystery Gift*. Simply visit http://technet.microsoft.com/windows and print out the main page to redeem the gift at the event. Additionally, the first 1,000 registered attendees will receive a FREE COPY of ‘Clustering for Dummies – WINSERVER 2008’.

Don’t miss this opportunity to speak directly with Microsoft’s experts. Get your IT colleagues to join us and be one of the first to learn how to use these exciting technologies.


Tuesday, January 13, 2009

This webpage is not available : Maybank2u (At this moment)


"Too many redirects?" ... (or too many attacks?)

Hmm.. am I the only dude getting this error or what? Did anybody face the same lovely error messages as well. Good :)

Keep on trying mate..

1st try..
(as depicted in image attached)

2nd try

Error 320 (net::ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE): Unknown error.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Cannot find the declaration of element 'Request' : AirAsia version of org.xml.sax.SAXParseException


Error in GetGTAHotelInfo..org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'Request'


Yupp... thats the very 'special' error message when i try to browse for the best available flight + hotel arrangement at GuangZhou, China by AirAsia.

Maybe below snippet can somewhat 'help' you guys at AA..

You need to set namespace awareness to true on the DocumentBuilderFactory.
XML schema validation requires namespace support.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org


....or....


The attempt to import an XML file results in the error messages given above.

Solution: Your XML file contains an invalid schema or namespace declaration. Check the request element for typographical errors or missing attributes. The request must have the following form:

xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="PortalConfig_1.2.xsd"
...>


That's is for the first try. My second try resulting another error that stated... "Error in GetGTAHotelInfo.Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Anybody?