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Pek Chek Kia 的生活日记 @ PCK's Diary

CONANDOR — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:48:51 +0800

Hi,

Blog Title : Pek Chek Kia 的生活日记 @ PCK's Diary
Blog URL: www.pekchekkia.com
Description: A pek chek life diary portrait in comic strips. Mainly blog in Chinese but with some English translation

pek chek: A Hokkien term denoting exasperation, frustration, anxiety, impatient, hurtful, sadness, emotional, and related ‘negative’ emotion you can name.

update autoconf to at least 2.6

CONANDOR — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:46:03 +0800

I have autoconf 2.59 on CentOS 5.5 and need to upgrade to autoconf 2.6.
What is the best approach for this? I tried yum update autoconf but theres no luck

color scheme software

CONANDOR — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:47:02 +0800

I'm looking for offline color scheme picking software like kuler and color wizard, where it will generate suggested contrast color offline. (i dun ve much internet connection)

Any suggestion?

upload a file and then ftp it to another server wi

CONANDOR — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:08:06 +0800

I generated a text file on server1, and then I need to FTP it to server3.

Due to firewall, I could not FTP it directly but have to go through server2.

I want server1 to call PHP script on server2 and then pass the text file to server3. Any idea how can I start with the PHP script?

enable ftp access, disable telnet and ssh for only

CONANDOR — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:08:41 +0800

How can I enable only FTP access, but not SSH and Telnet for only selected account under Solaris 10 box.

problem importing data into older mysql version

CONANDOR — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:27:57 +0800

I dump data from MySQL version 5.1.30 from server1.

CODE

# mysqldump mydb1 > mydb1.sql

Then I import it to server2 which have MySQL version 5.1.24-rc

However I got an error important halfway.

CODE

# mysql mydb1 < mydb1.sql
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1984: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''9012345678' at line 1

Any idea how I can solve it?

*Note: I would not able to upgrade MySQL on server2 due to OS library incompatible.

online with digi broadband using handphone

CONANDOR — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:14:30 +0800

i wanna online with replacing the modem Huawei E220 with mobile phone Samsung D900 on WinXP
tried few times but keep disconnecting
any idea how to configure that on XP?

extract a string from double quote

CONANDOR — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:27:16 +0800

I have a string

QUOTE

This is a text, "Your Balance left $0.10", End 0

how can i extract the string in between double quote and have only the text

QUOTE

Your Balance left $0.10

(without the double quotes)

Tried preg_match_all but no luck

Ubuntu server edition or Centos?

CONANDOR — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:21:25 +0800

my company thinking of changing from Unix to Linux based on all of it's web-server
for web-development purposes, ubuntu server edition or centos would be recommended? y?

Which wireless broadband to recommend would be rec

CONANDOR — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:28:15 +0800

Want to get feedback/survey from any wireless broadband user who stay at Equine area as I'm planning to get 1.

my usage will be basic use as such chatting, email, surf net and some work stuff like server admin/monitor. So starter package would be fine as i dont bt, prefer to ve stable connection instead.

can anyone help with the suggestion, thanks!

Xpac and Celcome Blue

CONANDOR — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:02:20 +0800

What is the difference between these 2?

using lynx with &

CONANDOR — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:42:47 +0800

how can i use lynx with & ?

the command line tend to tear it apart when come to &

CODE

# /usr/bin/lynx http://mysite.com/login?username=myuser&password=mypassword&message=mymessage

configure kannel to work with TMA-35i

CONANDOR — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:19:12 +0800

How can i configure kannel to work with TMAS TMA-T35i?

TMAS TMA-T35i GSM Modem (http://www.tcam.com.sg/index.php/Product...

Kannel (http://www.kannel.org/)

ssh double banner

CONANDOR — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:27:47 +0800

when i login to solaris x86 ssh i got as below

QUOTE

login as: user1
user1@myserver's password:
Last login: Tue Mar 10 15:09:13 2009 from 111.222.333.444
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
myserver% bash

there will be showing 2 lines of "Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005"
how can i get rid 1 of them?

problem when generating dsa key

CONANDOR — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:25:29 +0800

i got this while trying generating a dsa key on solaris 10 x86 platform
how can i solve it?

CODE

# ldd /usr/bin/ssh-keygen
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 => /usr/sfw/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libsocket.so.1 => /lib/libsocket.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/sfw/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /lib/libmp.so.2
libmd5.so.1 => /lib/libmd5.so.1
libscf.so.1 => /lib/libscf.so.1
libdoor.so.1 => /lib/libdoor.so.1
libuutil.so.1 => /lib/libuutil.so.1
libgen.so.1 => /lib/libgen.so.1
libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
# /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

@ in php

CONANDOR — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:11:45 +0800

i have a code as

CODE

$host=""; # host name or ip address
$user=""; # database user name
$pass=""; # database password
$database=""; # dateabase name with which you want to connect

# get connection with mysql
$dblink = @mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);

# select and open database
mysql_select_db($database,$dblink);

what does the '@' means on line 7?

php egrep string

CONANDOR — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:08 +0800

how can i get 'image' only from string 'image/jpeg' using php's egrep?
thanks

converting midi to wav on solaris

CONANDOR — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:50:42 +0800

Any idea how could i convert midi to wav on solaris 10 platform.

i found TiMidity++ but seem that the documentation is insufficient

how to store 3gp in mysql with php

CONANDOR — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:51:16 +0800

wondering how can i to store 3gp in mysql with php in binary

port on solaris 10

CONANDOR — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:58:31 +0800

when i connecting an usb device to a ubuntu box. i know its on /dev/ttyUSB0 port from dmesg. and i can do simple command with minicom connect to the port.

however when i connecting the same usb device to solaris 10 platform and i do dmesg. i get

CODE

Oct 31 14:50:02 karma usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb67b,2303) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: device@1, usbsprl1 at bus address 4
Oct 31 14:50:02 karma usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller
Oct 31 14:50:02 karma genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usbsprl1 is /pci@0,0/pci108e,5347@2/device@1
Oct 31 14:50:02 karma genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci108e,5347@2/device@1 (usbsprl1) online

which port is usb device connecting to?