With the latest release of Open SuSE, version 10.1 at the time of writing, the ssh daemon (sshd) is turned on by default. Some sources on the web suggested that it doesn’t do any harms to have it on since it won’t be able to access from outside your LAN if the firewall is turned on. However, I think if you don’t need to use it, there is no point to leave it on. ...

I’ve been using SuSE 10.1 for just about a month. The previous linux distro I used was Debian, so the rpm package concept is pretty new to me. I’ve heard of it before, but never got to use or play with it. With Debian, we have a very easy way to install or upgrade packages: apt-get, of course. Anyway, I just upgraded the Amarok 1.3.8 to version 1.4.1. It wasn’t easy initially as I tried to upgrade each package of dependency separately. Fortunately, I found a good site that explains how to do this step by step. The following is the summary: ...

To insert time-stamp in a file, you can exit from edit mode and type: :r! date

I’ve been using Apache httpd on and off on my PowerBook for various purposes including school assignments. The httpd version that comes with the PowerBook by default is 1.3.33 and I need to use the version 2.*. So, I installed the Apache 2 via Fink. After having successfully installed Apache 2, we need to make some changes to the config file (usually, it is the httpd.conf file.) Guess what? I totally forgot where that file resides. The only thing I could remember is that we can find that information out very easily by giving the -v option to the httpd. So, I tried it and this is what I got: ...

I’ve been very bored, doing nothing interesting, and at the same time my programming skill is no longer as polished as before. I was kinda panic, and then I realize that if I don’t wanna lose the skill, I better continue coding. A while back, I wrote a code that generate the batch-link of website addresses. Example, I wanna grab all the images at a website from: http://www.example.com/image01.jpg to http://www.example.com/image10.jpg. In a simple way, we can just copy and paste, then change the number from 01 to 10. But what if you have to change the number from 001 to 100? Well, it’s gonna be tiresome. But, not if I use the program I wrote- UrlGenerator. It was a console program, written in Java. It doesn’t loo nice (as the matter of fact, it doesn’t have a look). ...