Tip's and Trick's

Update Locate Database on FreeBSD

Have the system we are using FreeBSD, we are searching the files. When using whereis can not find the file, then we will use locate.

However, if our system has been installed, we often see an error message when executing this command locate. Error message is as follows:

locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database

Remove ads on Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Messenger is one of the existing Instant Messenger and Yahoo issued. There are tips and tricks so that we can save more bandwidth than Yahoo Messenger is (very useful for Internet users based quotas). Namely by removing existing ads on Yahoo Messenger Window. There are a few that we must do in order to eliminate the different versions ini. Because different versions, different way, too.

Internet Explorer 7 Hangs

Kejadian Internet Explorer 7 yang tiba-tiba hangs atau not reponding ini sebenarnya telah lama terjadi pada Laptop saya. Hanya karena masih malas untuk mencari, kenapa koq sampai hal ini terjadi, sehingga lama IE-7 ga saya pakai. Tiap kali dipakai, kalau mau di tutup, selalu saja not responding, atau kadang membuka suatu link, keterangan pada status bar selalu connecting saja.

Sempat terpikirkan untuk uninstall dan kemudian install lagi IE-7 ini. Ternyata pada Add/Remove Program saya, pilihan tombol Remove tidak ada pada IE-7. Wew... tambah bingung, mesti gimana ini. Masa saya harus memiliki IE-7 tetapi tidak bisa dipakai, masa harus install ulang windows.. Jangan deh. Males.

Tuning Apache WebServer

Mungkin, kita pernah mengalami, bahkan sering mengalami. Proses yang dihasilkan oleh Apache (httpd) begitu banyak sehingga sangat-sangat memakan resource yang kita miliki. Apabila kita memiliki mesin yang powerfull, hal ini tidak begitu berpengaruh. Akan tetapi, apabila mesin yang kita miliki sangat terbatas resource nya, kita perlu men-tuning sedikit pada konfigurasi httpd-nya.

Error Message When Install Program on Windows XP

Sometimes, when you try to install a program on Windows XP, you may receive the following error message like this :

This issue may occur when both the following condition are true :

• You are using Windows XP in Normal Mode.
• The Windows Installer Service that is included with Windows XP is unregistered or damaged.

Monitoring Machine with Mikrotik

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Mikrotik has a tool to monitoring another machine and when the machine is down or up, we can running script. This tool is netwatch.

Netwatch monitors state of hosts on the network. It does so by sending ICMP pings to the list of specified IP addresses. For each entry in netwatch table you can specify IP address, ping interval and console scripts.

Want a list of users on your FreeBSD?

cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | grep -v \#

The cut command selects portions of a file. Use ":" as the delimiting character. And we want only the first field. The grep eliminates lines with # in them, which normally appear at the start of the password file. Exercises for the interested and motivated:

• try the above command without the grep
• remove the \ before the #
• try -f5 instead of -f1.

Hope that helps.

Thank's to : The FreeBSD Diary

Making Windows XP More Faster - Part 2

1. SPEEDUP FOLDER ACCESS - DISABLE LAST ACCESS UPDATE If you have a lot of folders and subdirectories on your computer, when you access a directory XP wastes a lot of time updating the time stamp showing the last access time for that directory and for ALL sub directories. To stop XP doing this you need to edit the registry. If you are uncomfortable doing this then please do not attempt.
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Making Windows XP More Faster - Part 1

Some of the working tweaks you can do to your Windows XP can really be a blessing to your system’s speed. So I thought about sharing with you the safe tweaks on how to have a faster Windows XP. As a disclaimer do the following tweaks at your own risk.

Disable CD Autorun on Windows XP

1. Start/Run/GPEDIT.MSC
2. Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System.
3. Locate the entry for Turn Off Autoplay and modify.