I am currently on a kind of pissed moment because my laptop’s fan isn’t working even after I disassembled and cleaned it.  I even poured a little of motor oil in it just to make it turn smoothly but it doesn’t work.  My laptop suddenly shuts down and makes me repeat on doing whatever progress I have started.  It shuts down because whenever the CPU is very busy it generates a lot of heat (~60-70 °C)and one of its fallback

Joomla is one of the CMS that I like and testing it for vulnerability would be fun using OWAP’s joomscan. Just in case you wanted it on your system you can download it at sourceforge Joomscan is a vulnerability scanner for websites using joomla CMS. To install it on ubuntu you can extract it on a directory that you like like the /opt directory. After extracting make it executable and the db text file which is needed for the update:

  Aside from Putty, an ssh client tool, SSH Secure Shell is also another useful tool for windows users.  I find  SSH Secure Shell Client a very useful tool because it allows me to view remote files with a GUI and it also has a command line tool.  It’s like using Filezilla via SSH without the command line.  Very easy to use and can be downloaded for free.  Below is a quick look on how it would look like if used.

image from www.memcached.org Based on their official website memcached is defined as: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many

In the previous days I have noticed that my charger only charges when I keep on moving the charger until today that it no longer works. It no longer charges the battery of my laptop though the LED light is emitting. This is also a common problem for laptop users, I have helped 4 of my friends and solved them all. If you have a problem with your laptop charger and have no budget in buying a new one I

Gpick is an advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. This application is an alternative for window’s colorpic. One feature I like about this application is the same feature I found on window’s colorpic which shows a magnifier of the area where you want to capture the color. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

image from www.qortuba.org These are some of the tools and commands I use to clean up my ubuntu powered laptop. Cleaning Downloaded and Uninstalled Packages and Dependencies As what I have observed in using ubuntu, most packages are not ready after installation though most of the applications can be downloaded freely from the internet. Just like windows os we need to download packages from trusted sources, and for ubuntu we have the synaptic package manager which helps us which applications