Alter Ego

Update (31/03/2008; 7:50PM GMT+8): And the exploit is gone. So its safe now.

I just read the latest news from Lowyat.Net, and found out that the official website of Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) of Malaysia, has been hacked. Apparently it is using some sort of malicious javascript that allow it to be installed to steal passwords. Err, does that make any sense? Here is an excerpt from SANS website:

Over 10,000 legitimate websites have been compromised and now have a javascript link that will direct visitors to a malicious website hosted on 2117966.net. The malicious website attempts to exploit the vulnerability described in MS06-014 MS07-004, MS06-067, MS06-057and a number of ActiveX vulnerabilities.

Successful exploitation result in the installation of a password-stealing malicious program that attempts to steal the logon credentials from websites and online games.

Apparently this will only work on Internet Explorer (ActiveX anyone?). So, if you are using Firefox, you have nothing to worry about. In fact, I tried to load that website, and Firefox gracefully told me that the website is not safe.


If you are running Windows (but most of this blog's visitors are using Linux of some flavor; good for you!), you might want to update your antivirus definitions, and start scanning!

On 64-bit, when trying to use Qemu with KQemu (Qemu accelerator - you will want this), instead of using:

... do this and you should be able to get Full Acceleration with KQemu.



I have highlighted the difference in bold.

Because of this, qemu-launcher is utterly useless; as when you click on the Launch button, it will actually use qemu instead of qemu-system-x86_64; which will not work with the option -kernel-kqemu. If you are on 32-bit, then any part of this post shouldn't be a problem for you.

For more info on getting Qemu and KQemu to work with your Ubuntu, please refer to here. This was how I got Windows XP Pro up and running on top of Ubuntu :)

I don't care if it's the 'in thing' among my friends now, I am totally starting to hate it.

It's full of garbage.

It's full of stupid, brainless and mindless games.

It's full of crap applications. Why bother? There's already tonnes of great applications via apt-cache search application_name.

So, from now on, I am declaring today as my first starting day of not logging into Facebook. And I will not log in there anymore, ever again.

There I've said it. No, I cannot say why, let's just say that I am very emotional while writing this. Anger, hate, jealousy, unfairness, stupidity; I am feeling all these at the same time.

So, let the counter start.

No of days not logged on to Facebook: 1

I have just added a new label so that you can differentiate the post if its for Ubuntu 32-bit or 64-bit. For the 32-bit version of Ubuntu, the label will remain as 'Ubuntu'. If its related to Ubuntu 64-bit, I will label the post as Ubuntu AND 64-bit.

A little confusing at first, but its the best way I can think of as to not do any relabelling for previous posts :)

I've just installed the latest Alpha version of the next and upcoming Ubuntu. So far everything is working fine. Firefox 3 Beta 4 is awesome; web surfing is so much faster, and it runs on less memory (making my 4GB worth of memory seems... worthless :P)

I managed to install Flash and got it working via apt. So from now on, I guess I will be posting more howtos on this version of Ubuntu soon. Meanwhile, check out the screen shot; if you want to see more, please tell me :D

Btw, I installed the 64-bit version since I am on my desktop running on an Intel E2160. Here is my desktop specs, just in case you are interested to see what hardware I am using this Alpha on.

Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35-DS3
Processor: Intel E2160 1.8GHz (overclocked to 3.2GHz)
HDD: A very old 40GB PATA HDD
Graphics: XFX 7900GT VIVO Edition

I actually wrote this post quite some time ago, but totally forgot about it! So go on...

LimeWire is a p2p program that is Java based, if I am not mistaken. We are fortunate to have a Linux version of this excellent software. It's not available on any repositories that I have came across, so you will have to download the deb package.

Go here and start downloading. Choose the basic package (which is FREE) and admit that you will never use it for copyright infringement :P Get the Linux version of the software for Ubuntu. As of today, the file name is LimeWireLinux.deb.

So to install a DEB package, you do this:

It shouldn't take long. Once its done, you can launch the program located at

Applications > Internet > LimeWire

If you feel like you hate it, you can always do this to totally remove it; no traces left. One of the reasons why I started using Ubuntu again was because of this :D


-P means purge.

Have fun!

Update: Beta 4 is out and it works better for me. So I am going to give this Beta 4 a little spin :)

A reading a few reviews on Firefox 3 Beta, I decided to give it a little spin and see how it is for myself. So this is how I installed it.

1. Get the Firefox 3 Beta 3 on Mozilla website.
2. Browse to where you downloaded the BZ2 file, and then

3. Move it to /opt. This step is optional but I like to keep things organized.



4. Now, we need to make sure that the plugins work. We'll use plugins from the current installation of Firefox 2.



5. Before we start launching stuffs and break things, let's backup the .mozilla directory first.



6. Create a launcher on your desktop by Right Click on Your Desktop > Create Launcher. Make it look like in this screenshot.


Now you can launch Firefox 3 via the launcher on your desktop :D

So far, I HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER why is it any good! Maybe I have done something wrong; but I think its sluggish, and uses up the CPU time for no reason! It never crashed on me, though. So maybe I should start thinking about getting myself a new laptop :P

Some of my Add Ons don't work anymore, so you might want to check whether your favorite plugins will work on Firefox 3 or not :)

There is no way to mount BIN files in Ubuntu, but there's a way to convert BIN to ISO. From there, you can mount the ISO and browse your CD image :) Here, I am going to use bchunk.

For more info, you can read up the manual via: