Beyond the Sky

The most famous linux distro nowadays if you aware of it, its call Ubuntu. Ubuntu goals is to create a user friendly linux, which they concentrate on usability. Most new linux user will look forward to it, somemore there are free cd giving away + free shipping. Seriously, Ubuntu is a great linux distro.

Okay, Ubuntu based on debian, uses gnome as a default desktop solution. But, some of the linux user prefer to use KDE, some of them prefer lightweight Windows Manager. So, that is how kubuntu, xubuntu and edubuntu gets into the picture. Each of them have its own team, and they may work together, makes Ubuntu community grows even bigger.

As a fluxbox user, I was searching for fluxbox based ubuntu for sometimes and I finally found a variant of ubuntu uses fluxbox, which is nubuntu. The goals for nubuntu is not usability, as they state at their main page.

The main goal of nUbuntu is to create a distribution which is derived from the Ubuntu distribution, and add packages related to security testing, and remove unneeded packages, such as Gnome, Openoffice.org, and Evolution. nUbuntu is the result of an idea two people had to create a new distribution for the learning experience. Many people ask, "What makes it better than X?", or "Why should I use this over Y". Our answer to this question is, we do not think about whether people are using it or not. We are more concerned about the learning process. If you want to try something with a clean interface, fast, and an excellent range of programs please don't hesitate to download nUbuntu.

The ISO is small, less than 250M, I am still downloading using bt, but no seed. Anyway, to know more, check out its web site.
http://www.nubuntu.org

Finally I got my vim 7.0.12 compiled and installed.

I download vim latest source code from www.vim.org based on svn

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/vim7

Then, get update in the vim folder

cd vim7
svn update

I configure with --enable-gui and --enable-scope

./configure --enable-gui --enable-scope
make
make install

I have no problem with make and make install, so I am not sure what dependencies to solve. gvim seems cool, I have to say bye bye to gedit, I am using gvim now

I always get these error msg when i dmesg

[6394487.332000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6394487.332000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6394487.563000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6394487.563000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6394488.886000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6394488.886000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6394489.133000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6394489.133000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6394495.612000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6394495.612000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6394495.911000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6394495.911000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6404432.752000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6404432.752000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6404432.877000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6404432.877000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6404440.870000] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6404440.870000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.
[6404440.993000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
[6404440.993000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to make it known.

I just ignore because it create no harms to me, but until today I discover the side effects and it reached my limits. When i move my mouse rapidly, character 'a' keep printing at my text box or whatever text field. First of all i tot thats my keyboard some how screw up, lately I discover that the cause it these irritating bugs.

Google it and find this page http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=429503&postcount=7 , it helps to solve my problem for time being.

Updates:
It still keep printing 'a' sometimes.
Its my keyboard spoiled

I have a PC and laptop installed with Ubuntu and i want to install a package at both side, the package are large. Instead of apt-get at both side that make it download two times, I transfer the deb from one side to another.

All the deb are store in /var/cache/apt/archives, copy all the needed deb(s) to another side and apt-get install will skip over the download steps and start unpack.

One of the disadvantages of firestarter is it is a resource eater. If you leave firestarter in a long run, your RAM will be getting lesser and lesser. When you close the firestarter, Wow! you frees your RAM. (I use gkrellm to monitor my box resources)

I suspect it is because firestarter keep adding entry into my blocked event, as 24-7 there are so many strangers all around the world keep scanning my box and been blocked by firestarter. So how to resolve this if i want firestarter continue to protect my box and at the same time don't waste my RAM?

I discover that when I close my firestarter, the firewall rules stays. I try to check my iptables, the rules is still there until I reboot my system.

sudo iptables -L

And secondly i found a script at /etc/init.d, it is "firestarter". That means i can start the firestarter defined firewall rules without required to start the GUI, that's great!

I quickly create a symlink to /etc/rc2.d and reboot my system.

sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/firestarter /etc/rc2.d/S20firestarter

It works! But now i can't get the infomation of who is scanning my ports. I am wrong! i still can get the infomation, firestarter do store everything into /var/log/message. So if I wanna know the latest 20 blocked packets i can do this

dmesg | tail -n 20

Update:

 cat /var/log/messages | tail -n 20 

Although it shows the same records, but with this, it shows more info.