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How to find the fastest CentOS/Fedora mirrors

webmaster — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:39:00 +0800

To speed-up your yum download, you need to install the yum-fastestmirror package. Its a yum plugin which chooses fastest repository from a mirrorlist. This plugin sorts each repository's mirrorlist by connection speed prior to downloading packages.

To install, simply type:

yum install yum-fastestmirror

Have fun...

We are Linux

webmaster — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:07:05 +0800

GNU/Linux Now!!!

How to find the fastest repository in Debian

webmaster — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:02:49 +0800

To find the fastest mirror in Debian, download and install apt-spy.

apt-get install apt-spy

Apt-spy is a program used to test a series of Debian's mirrors for bandwidth. Apt-spy will then generate a /etc/apt/sources.list file with the fasted server. You can select which of the Debian server's to benchmark by geographical location.

Run this command to retrieve the latest list of Debian mirrors

apt-spy update

To find the fastest mirror, run

apt-spy -d stable -a ALL

apt-spy -d stable -s US

if you want to find the fastest mirror on a specific country.

Happy New Year!!!

webmaster — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:45:08 +0800

A Happy New Year!!!
I would like to take a moment to "Thank You" for visiting www.cahilig.org. I look forward to helping you in this new year.

Configure CISCO router using CLI and minicom

webmaster — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:13:55 +0800

I will assume that you are using GNU/Linux systems (Ubuntu,Debian, CentOS etc.) to configure your CISCO router using CLI.
Open your terminal and install minicom and setserial by typing this command in the terminal.

apt-get install minicom setserial

Check your serial port

dmesg | grep tty

The output should be like this:

[   18.439952] console [tty0] enabled
[   20.172975] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   20.173725] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
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The Matrix Runs on Windows

webmaster — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:22:52 +0800

"Take the red pill. Get the blue screen". Amazing spoof of what would happen if the Matrix was to run on windows. It's funny because it's true lol.

Install IPP2P in Debian Etch to Block P2P

webmaster — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:40:57 +0800

What is IPP2P

The goal of the IPP2P project is to identify peer-to-peer (P2P) data in IP traffic. For this purpose we extended the iptables/netfilter architecture by a new matching module. Thereby IPP2P integrates itself easily into existing Linux firewalls and it's functionality can be used by adding appropriate filter rules.

Installing DAHDI in CentOS

webmaster — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:36:27 +0800

Due to trademark issue with the name Zaptel, Digium changed the name Zaptel to DHADI (Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface). Asterisk 1.6.0 and later version will use DAHDI, while Asterisk 1.4 will support both Zaptel and DAHDI. Asterisk 1.2 will be unaffected by these changes.

Installing DAHDI
Download dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools from Digium's website

cd /usr/src
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/dahdi-linux-2.0.0....

How to fix OpenOffice.org requires JRE error on Ubuntu

webmaster — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:41:47 +0800

I have the latest Java Runtime Environment installed but this error always comes up when I'm trying to export my writer document to html/xhtml.

When I open Tools -> Options -> Java, I didn't find any JRE which is supposed to be detected by OpenOffice.org. I tried to figure out whats missing with my OpenOffice.org and after installing openoffice.org-writer2latex, I finally get OpenOffice.org export to html/xhtml working.
To fix this problem just open Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and type:

Aklan Linux Users Group is now online

webmaster — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:17:45 +0800

About Aklan Linux Users Group (AKLUG)

Aklan Linux Users Group (AKLUG) is an online community for Aklanon Linux users. Whether you are beginner or expert, we invite you to join the group. Membership is free, all you have to do is just sign up and join the discussion forum or subscribe to the mailing list. The aim of this group is to unite all Aklanons with interests in Linux, and Free/Open Source Software.