The Misadventures of Penoi

Steamboat is a mini personal pot with choices of chicken or tom yam as soup for the food. It reminds me of Japanese's "shabu-shabu".

Yesterday we had a night out with our housemates in  "Hook on Steamboat" at East Coast Singapore. It was really great!!! Unlimited food and ice cream for only $S17.00 per person. Highly recommended.

Is it true that you can boil egg by using two cellphones???? I will never again put my cellphone inside my pants pocket.

In the experiment, researchers placed one egg in a porcelain cup (because it is easy to conduct heat), and put one cell phone on one side and another cell phone on the other. The researchers then called from one cell phone to another and kept the cell phones on after connecting.

During the first 15 minutes, nothing changed. After 25 minutes, however, the egg shell started to become hot and at 40 minutes, the surface of the egg became hard and bristled. Researchers found the protein in the egg had become solid although the egg yolk was still in liquid form. After 65 minutes, the whole egg was well cooked.

Receiving this email pisses me off.. im happy with penoycentral.net dont tell me to bid for a domain squatted from me.

Yesterday I contacted you about, PENOYCENTRAL.COM. It's my understanding that you own the PENOYCENTRAL.net version of this domain.

As you probably know, the PENOYCENTRAL.COM version is generally better than other versions because of the strong public recognition of 'dotcom' as the most solid and reliable commercial brand on the Interent.

For a limited time, you have the opportunity to acquire PENOYCENTRAL.COM, but you'll need to act quickly.

Here's how it works:

For a very limited time, we are accepting offers on PENOYCENTRAL.COM. If you're interested, simply go to the link below right away and submit your bid. If it's a reasonable offer based upon our current asking price, your offer will be immediately accepted.

The first reasonable offer received will be accepted so if you have interest, I encourage you to submit your bid as soon as possible.

Submit your offer while there's still time.

My housemates asked me "what is blogging???" I told them blogging is writing everything you want... writing about life, recipes, cars, music, sexcapades etc. And it is true, there is money in blogging if you work for it. You must dedicate some of the time in link building, page optimization and most of all, the working on the blog's content. I also show them some successfull blogs and how they can build their blog network around it. Thru blogging, you gain friends and at the same time enemies if you allow it. Happy blogging to all.

its almost 2:00 am but im still alive. just came from work. im not used on shifting schedule. how i miss my working schedule back in the philippines where i go to office around 9:00am and head back home at 6:00pm and still have time to pass by makati square.

i also miss our foosball tournament at the office's game room. miss you guys!!!! " ano!!!! usap na!!!!"

No updates for the past couple of days. Been busy with my work. Next week, i will be working for seven days straight. Two days on the evening shift and five days for the night shift. That's what we call working for food!!!! Nah, just waiting for the next payday and hopefully we can visit Sentosa on the weekend.

I dont know how to cook. I seldom go to market.  But living away from home, i must learn all these things. Good thing there are ready to mix filipino recipes available thru filipino stores here in Singapore.   Though its expensive... you wont mind the extra cost when you're craving for filipino dishes .

Look on what Singapore weekly sale has done to me. Three pairs of shoes for a month of stay here. I called my mom yesterday and informed her that she can now give all my shoes(except my Doc Martens England) to my sister's employees. Must resist.. food.. family....

After Lehman's Brother had filed for bankruptcy, no one knows on what will be the outcome of this sadful event on America's financial market. Not only the Lehman's is affected but also other institutions that offers the same services. Massive layoffs, jobless people on the streets, hopefully the world will still be in a better shape after this. Im positive, everthing will be alright. "TULOY ANG KASAL SA 2009!!!!"

i choose Macuha.com for Blogger choice award because it is one of the most informative blogs on SEO. Thanks to the following sponsors for making this award a reality:

Level Up! Games

Nokia

Blog Bank

Smart Communications

Josiah’s Catering

Rsun Technology Store

Yahoo

XFM 92.3

Buddy Gancencia Reality TV

Ultravision Photo and Video

Click Booth

Aloha Board Sports

Sheero Media Solutions

YourPinoyBroker.com

Belo Medical Group

Inquirer.Net

Toshiba

ROAM Magazine

PLDT

Red Box

Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf

2go

Havaianas

PLDT

California Pizza Kitchen

Good luck to all nominees!!!!

Mark and hit your target in life!!!! Dont let anyone stops you in achieving your life's goal.

We subscribe to GMA PinoyTV channel here in Singapore because we want to watch Dyesebel and other series like kimsamsoon. But what a surprise!!! the channel programming really sucks. Imagine 3 runs of Eat bulaga(2 and half hours) everyday, one week old episodes of Dyesebel, old school episodes of documentary programs like Reporter's notebook, jessica soho, etc. I want to give them my feedback but there's no such page in their website and even there's no email address. (there's one feedback page if you google for it, but i don't know if it is working). Their website's tv program schedule is not updated. Such a waste of money. So if you are planning to subscribe to this channel, think twice!!! Sad to say Abs-CBn's TFC is much better.

We subscribed to Singtel's MIO TV. The package includes 3mbps broadband internet, MIO TV,handphone and a landline. We ordered Pinoy TV channel so that we can watch Dyesebel and Bubble Gang.

new job

new internet connection

new cellphone

new running shoes

same old me :)

Things that i miss while in India(not in particular order)

1. Naruto
2. Friendster
3. Yahoo mail
4. Streaming
5. Window shopping
6. Privacy
7. Loud music
8. Bloghopping
9. Concerts
10. Beers!!!

Most of all i really miss my girl, rachel :)

In this setup, my server also serves as the Network Information Service(NIS) server and NFS indirect sharing for user's home directory.

Checking my server's NFS shares

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
-bash-3.00# share
-               /jumpstart   ro,anon=0   ""
-               /installer   ro,anon=0   ""
-               /export/home   rw   ""
-bash-3.00#

-bash-3.00# more /etc/nis_etc/passwd
chris:x:100:1::/home/chris:/bin/bash

-bash-3.00# more /etc/auto_master
#
# Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# ident "@(#)auto_master        1.8     03/04/28 SMI"
#
# Master map for automounter
#
+auto_master
/net            -hosts          -nosuid,nobrowse
#/home          auto_home       -nobrowse
/home           auto.home

-bash-3.00# more /etc/auto_home
#
# Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# ident "@(#)auto_home  1.6     03/04/28 SMI"
#
# Home directory map for automounter
#
+auto_home
chris   server1:/export/home/chris

.....

all: passwd group hosts ipnodes ethers networks rpc services protocols \
netgroup bootparams aliases publickey netid netmasks c2secure \
timezone auto.master auto.home ageing \
auth.attr exec.attr prof.attr user.attr audit.user
.....

auto.master.time:  $(DIR)/auto_master
-@if [ -f $(DIR)/auto_master ]; then \
sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/auto_master \
| $(MAKEDBM) - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/auto.master; \
touch auto.master.time; \
echo "updated auto.master"; \
if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then \
$(YPPUSH) auto.master; \
echo "pushed auto.master"; \
else \
: ; \
fi \
else \
echo "couldn't find $(DIR)/auto_master"; \
fi

auto.home.time:  $(DIR)/auto_home
-@if [ -f $(DIR)/auto_home ]; then \
sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/auto_home \
| $(MAKEDBM) - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/auto.home; \
touch auto.home.time; \
echo "updated auto.home"; \
if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then \

-bash-3.00# pwd
/var/yp
-bash-3.00# /usr/ccs/bin/make

-bash-3.00# ypcat -k auto.master
+auto_master
/home auto.home
/net -hosts             -nosuid,nobrowse
-bash-3.00# ypcat -k auto.home
+auto_home
chris server1:/export/home/chris

automount:  files nis

This is my personal notes on Veritas Volume Manager. This page is a continuing notes of frequent commands that i use in VxVM

Initialization

Disk initialization

/usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdisksetup -iv [device_tag][attributes]

#/usr/lib/vxvm/vxdisksetup -iv c2t0d0

vxdg init [diskgroup] [disk_name=device_tag]

#vxdg init newdg disk1=c2t0d0

vxdg -g [disk_group] adddisk [disk_name=device_tag]

#vxdg -g newdg adddisk disk2=c2t1d0

vxassist -g [disk group] make [volume_name] [size]

#vxassist -g newdg make newvol 500m

# vxassist -g newdg make newvol disk02 disk03

vxassist -g [disk group] make [volume_name] [length] layout=stripe ncol=n stripeunit=size

#vxassist -g newdg make newvol 500m layout=stripe

#vxassist -g newdg make newvol 500m layout=mirror

#vxdisk -o alldgs list

#vxprint -ls

#vxprint -lp

#vxprint -lv

My jumpstart client has a builtin RTL8111B/RTL8111C network card. When i boot up the client thru PXE booting it gives me an error "no driver was found for the interface used to boot jumpstart"

Download the updated SUNWrge package, this holds the driver for rge

http://www.aplis.cz/SUNWrge.tar.gz

#cd /installer/boot

#mkdir x86.miniroot-rge.unpacked

#/boot/solaris/bin/root_archive unpack ./x86.miniroot ./x86.miniroot-rge.unpacked

#pkgrm SUNWrge

#cd /export/home/john
#gunzip SUNWrge.tar.gz
#tar xvf SUNWrge.tar
#pkgadd -d . SUNWrge

#grep rge /etc/name_to_major /etc/driver_aliases
/etc/driver_aliases:rge "pci10ec,8169"
/etc/driver_aliases:rge "pci10ec,8110"
/etc/driver_aliases:rge "pci10ec,8168"
/etc/driver_aliases:rge "pci10ec,8111"

#cd /installer/boot
#/usr/sbin/rem_drv -b ./x86.miniroot-rge.unpacked/ rge

#/usr/sbin/add_drv -b ./x86.miniroot-rge.unpacked  -n -v -m '* 0600 root sys' -i '"pci10ec,8169" "pci10ec,8110" "pci10ec,8168" "pci10ec,8111"' rge

Reboot client to install driver.
Driver (rge) installed.

#mv x86.miniroot x86.miniroot.orig

#/boot/solaris/bin/root_archive pack ./x86.miniroot ./x86.miniroot-rge.unpacked/

There's a new guy in the guest house. Oh, how i miss the privacy of my room where you can do anything. Still weeks to go!!!!

Filipino registered professionals will be required to render at least two years service within the country prior to any employment abroad under this bill filed in the House of Representatives.

Today we discussed introduction on NAS and SAN. Many companies offers such kind of technology product. Even the open source community has its own implementation like FreeNAS and NexentaStor. This will play a great part on my future jobs, so i have to deeply learn this technology.

Because we are a loyal customer of Mcdonalds in Pune india, they are giving a swiss knife for every order of McChicken Burger. Now that's what i call fastfood giveaways.

Update!!!!! A boy was injured by the blades of this Mcdonalds giveaways.

its been 1 month since we arrived in india. still 1 month to go. so little time, so many things to discuss. i feel already the pressure since our boss in singapore is expecting so much from us. :(

no pain no glory no money :)

the wolves are back!!! Wolfgang new 6th studio album.. Coming soon!!!!

Since Eraserheads reunion concert in August is already confirmed, im one of those unfortunate souls who will not be there on the said event. Hopefully the organizers will release an Eraserheads Reunion Live Concert CD/dvd. Or maybe someone, please upload it to Youtube :)

yesterday we were warned by one of the trainors that listening to music while in training is not allowed eventhough we are using our headphones. I mean, music helps me to refocus on what im doing with my lab simulations instead of listening to other trainees discussion speaking on their native language in which i could not understand.

there will be two bands that i will meet in singapore. the first is the band of my college classmate allan. Their drummer left for another band and they are looking for someone to fillin the part. Paolo, my high school/college bandmate during the 90's rock era buzzed me and he is planning to form a group that will play regularly in The Arena, a regular joint for Filipinos in Singapore.

It turns out that i can still pursue my music career(hopefully) coz im not done yet :)

The North Face invites you to a 100k, 100k relay, 20 and 10 k trailrunning marathon. Join The North Face 100 at Nasugbu, Batangas on July 26-27.  Visit www.thenorthface100.com

may dalawa kaming bagong hawsmeyts.. kada-labinlimang araw may mga bago kaming kasama sa bahay.. medyo nahihirapan kami dahil laging bagong pakikisama ang gagawin namin.. lalo't ang mga pinoy eh masyadong particular sa kanilang privacy.

There's a gossip circulating on the net that the famous band Eraserheads had already inked a contract for their much awaited reunion concert. It also says that the venue will be in Mall of Asia. Posters will be out soon!!! Hopefully this is not a hoax. Bad thing im in Singapore. :( An Asian tour perhaps????

"Sa Wakas ay nakita ko naaaaaa"

St. Paul College Pasig (SPCP) replaces its open source OS installed computers to Microsoft Vista and Office 2007. This indeed a very sad day for the Free Software Advocacy movement of the Philippines. Students and faculty complains that they use Microsoft in their home (hopefully it is legal :) ) which very much different to the open source softwares installed on their labs.

Life is a non-stop learning. After being in the training center for 8 hours, i will still spend my night reading, taking notes and do simulation. On my desk, you will see my laptop, a bottle of Mountain Dew, Lays, notebook and my ballpen. Though its hard, i enjoy learning new things and comparing that information to the things that i already know. It feels like im back in college. Listening and completing every tasks of the program. We are almost done with our 3rd week of training.. Five weeks to go!!!!

going to India



Welcome to Mumbai India!!!





Taste the Himalayan water.



Our first home made dinner.

One of the biggest concern of an Overseas Filipino Worker is what is the latest Philippine Peso exchange rate. I once used Yahoo Currency converter but since Monday, Yahoo sites were blocked by our admins :(

One site that im using right now is Gocurrency.com. They even have a graph of currency trends. From US dollar to Philippine Peso, from Singapore Dollar to Philippine Peso.. Name it, you got it. :)

After 3 weeks of waiting, i received yesterday the result of my Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPI)Level-1 exam and the grade was PASS. I can't believe i nailed exam 102 in which im not sure with my answer. With a passing grade of 500, i got 560!!! what a luck eh!!!!. Hopefully i will have time to review for Level 2 exam. Got to learn Solaris first.

Today, we checked out Mcdonalds here in Pune India. There's no hamburger :( only chicken burger which cost 117Rs which includes large coke and fries.

We are already here in Pune india for our training in Solaris. We took a 5-hour flight from Singapore to Mumbai.. and another 3-hour-lots-of-truck-on-the-road drive from Mumbai to Pune. Pune is very much like Manila. The main mode of trasportation here is motorcycle...A motorcycle cost more about 25,000 indian rupee roughly Php26,000.

Pune is entering its rainy season good thing i brought my umbrella. Im still adjusting to Indian food. :( how i miss San Antonio's lomi back in the Philippines.

Umikot kami ng pinsan ko dito sa Singapore noong Sabado. Ipinakita niya sa akin ang mga Music stores na madalas nilang puntahan. Ilan sa mga nakapukaw ng aking atensyon ay ang mga ibat ibang disenyo ng mga gitara.

Doremon guitar

Hello Kitty guitar

Kirk Hammet's guitar

This what happens when your ISP doesn't give you a static or dynamic public IPs. No more downloads for me. How i miss my own static public address.

I filed my Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA) and my SSS at the Philippine Embassy here in Singapore. Tama nga ang sabi nila, mabilis ang processing ng documents since konti lang ang tao sa embassy. Habang nagfifillup ako ng document ko para sa SSS, narinig ko ang dalawang pinay na nag-uusap. Umiiyak yung isa, magfi-file daw siya ng complain laban dun sa agency nila. Tumakas lang daw siya para lang makapunta sa embassy. Sa madaling salita, naloko sila ng agency. Yung isa daw kasama nila, dentist ang inaplayan, pero pagdating dito eh naging domestic helper lang.

Hirap talaga ng buhay, marami talagang kumakapit sa patalim para lang makapagbigay ng magandang buhay sa pamilya.

Nung pabalik na ako sa office, nasa orchard ako at hindi ko alam kung saan pedeng tumawid papuntang Lucky Plaza. Nakita naman ako ng mga tao na basta lang tumatawid. Naghintay ako na ma-clear ang daan at maraming dumadaan na mabibilis na sasakyan.

Biglang may dumating na dalawang pinoy sa likod ko. Tanung ng isa, " May tawiran ba dito??"... sagot nung lalake, "Meron siguro, kasi naghihintay ang isang ito".. sabay turo sa akin...

Awww, napagkamanlan pa akong ibang lahi... siguro akala nila eh European????? american??? or indian ako... hehehe...

Starting to learn Sun Solaris. Mainly, my work experience heavily focused on Redhat Linux. Still so many things to catch up. Got this free Solaris ebook for newbie and it has the information that i need for my initial study on Solaris.  Must obtain my certification on Solaris in two months time. :(  For my simulation labs, i will try to install virtualbox tonight.

Im here now in Singapore. Kinda culture shocked because of the mixed races and the strict discipline of the people. I will be leaving to India by next week and will be there for our company-provided training in two months.  Aw, i already miss  Philippines and Rachel. : (

Journey Revelation was "Out of Stock" on Walmart's online order, a day before the release of the much awaited comeback album of Journey, . It only proves that the Revelation album is going to be a big hit on the market.

Though its sad to say that it is also a victim of piracy offered free through P2P programs and other mp3 downloadable sites. Please support Journey!!! go buy the original!!!

Sun Microsystems will have their Sun Tech Days in Shangrila Makati this coming June 17-19 2008. Topics are Java FX, Java SE, GlassFish, MySQL, OpenSolaris and a technical deepdive session on NetBeans.

Register now!!!

Journey guesting on Ellen degeneres Show with new vocalist Arnel Pineda


Separate Ways Journey on Ellen Show


Faithfully - Journey on Ellen Show

Dayo is a Filipino full digital animated film schedule for release this December 2008. Featuring voice of Nash Aguas, Johnny Delgado and Michael V. Watch the film's teaser at www.dayomovie.com

US Geological Society Predicts a "6.8" magnitude Earthquake wil hit Phil. Plates Tonight.Pls. b calm & alert.This mesage fr.Hawaii Satte Emergency Preparedness Office.Lets pray that it wont happen, pls. pass. tnx

Listen online to Journey's Revelation album only at Walmart

Initialize ssh port forwarding of FTP

#modprobe ip_conntrack
#modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
#modprobe ip_nat_ftp
#echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 

after my experience with Western Union, i opted to apply for WU's Gold card. It is absolutely free!!! I will use this card in claiming my earnings from Google Adsense .

Problem

rpm -qa | grep <package>
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm


Solution:

Remove the existing db

#cd /var/lib/rpm
#rm -rf __db.*

Rebuild the db

#rpm --initdb
#rpm --rebuilddb

This what happens when we over-used our keyboard. The Penoi's QWRTY keyboard.

#mount the samba share

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //server/share /mnt/database

#backup database

for i in $(mysql-uroot -password -e "SHOW DATABASES"|tail +2); do mysqldump -uroot -ppassword $i | gzip -9 > /mnt/database/$i.sql.gz; done

#unmount the samba share
umount /mnt/database

Last December 2005, i started my first picture blog. At first it shows pictures of flowers and some experimental images. But after the success of Pinoy Jokes, i added pinoy funny pictures. It was in hiatus for almost a year, but now, i reviving it once more to give you my collection of never before seen funny pictures, travel photos and images taken from the internet. Please visit the site and see this Special Jumbo Siopao, shot from my officemate's merienda.

No, i will not give you a free download pdf edition of Playboy Philippines :) Due to the fact that this is the first edition of Playboy here in the Philippines, i wont miss the opportunity to have my own copy coz it will be a collectible in due time. I may say that this local version of Playboy has the censorship suited for a conservative(?) country. Yes, you will see half naked girls, but not as vulgar as those images that we always see on Tiktik, Sagad, and even on FHM.  It doesnt have articles like on FHM's Ladies Confession and Sex Positions. My girlfriend commented that this magazine is more of a Men's fashion magazine. Oh well, just grab a copy and see it for yourself.

wget http://www.osnews.com/files/xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz

tar xvzf xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz

cd xmms-mp3-fc1

cp libmpg123.so /usr/lib/xmms/Input/

1. Install CWRsync: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69227&package_id=68081

2. Create ssh-rsa for the server(password-less rsync)
cd "c:\program files\cwrsync\bin"
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' (hit enter twice)

3. Upload your generated key to the backup server
rsync -av "/cygdrive/c/documents and settings/administrator/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" root@ipaddress:/home/root/

4. SSH to your DNS-323 and copy the new id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys
#cat /home/root/id_rsa.pub >> /home/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

5. Create a Batch file in your Windows

@ECHO OFF
REM *****************************************************************
REM
REM CWRSYNC.CMD - Batch file template to start your rsync command (s).
REM
REM By Tevfik K. (http://itefix.no)
REM *****************************************************************

REM This is where we can find our .ssh

SET HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator

REM Make environment variable changes local to this batch file
SETLOCAL

REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Specify where to find rsync and related files (C:\CWRSYNC)
SET CWRSYNCHOME=%PROGRAMFILES%\CWRSYNC

REM Set CYGWIN variable to 'nontsec'. That makes sure that permissions
REM on your windows machine are not updated as a side effect of cygwin
REM operations.
SET CYGWIN=nontsec

REM Set HOME variable to your windows home directory. That makes sure
REM that ssh command creates known_hosts in a directory you have access.
SET HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

REM Make cwRsync home as a part of system PATH to find required DLLs
SET CWOLDPATH=%PATH%
SET PATH=%CWRSYNCHOME%\BIN;%PATH%

REM Windows paths may contain a colon (:) as a part of drive designation and
REM backslashes (example c:\, g:\). However, in rsync syntax, a colon in a
REM path means searching for a remote host. Solution: use absolute path 'a la unix',
REM replace backslashes (\) with slashes (/) and put -/cygdrive/- in front of the
REM drive letter:
REM
REM Example : C:\WORK\* --> /cygdrive/c/work/*
REM
REM Example 1 - rsync recursively to a unix server with an openssh server :
REM
REM rsync -r /cygdrive/c/work/ remotehost:/home/user/work/
REM
REM Example 2 - Local rsync recursively
REM
REM rsync -r /cygdrive/c/work/ /cygdrive/d/work/doc/
REM
REM Example 3 - rsync to an rsync server recursively :
REM (Double colons?? YES!!)
REM
REM rsync -r /cygdrive/c/doc/ remotehost::module/doc
REM
REM Rsync is a very powerful tool. Please look at documentation for other options.
REM

REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Enter your rsync command(s) here
REM You want to copy C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\ to DNS-323
rsync --progress -aurp --delete "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/" root@dns.ip.address:/mnt/HD_a2/Mydocs/

1. Download and untar funplug(i have problems with 0.4 version cause there's no dropbear.sh in the package file)

http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.3/funplug-0.3.tar.gz

2. Copy fun_plug and fun_plug.tar into Volume_1 of Dlink DNS-323

3. Restart Dlink DNS-323

4. Telnet to your DNS 323

#cd /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/start


#sh dropbear.sh start

5. Set your root account

#echo "root::0:0:99999:7:::" >>/etc/shadow
#passwd root

6. Test first your ssh access with the new password

7. Store your root password

#/mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/bin/store-passwd.sh

8. Configure your dropbear.sh and rsyncd.sh to start at bootup

#chmod a+x dropbear.sh

#chmod a+x rsyncd.sh

9. Disable insecure telnet

#chmod a-x telnetd.sh

10. Restart your DNS-323

Tired of unorganized ssh putty sessions and don't have the budget for SecureCRT??? Use PuttyTabs!!! PuttyTabs is a utility use to organize your ssh on tabs. It has its own docking window that you can hide in your desktop.

Installing Security Auditor's Research Assistant(SARA) in backtrack linux 

Install tcsh. Perl needs the csh shell to execute SARA
#wget http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/slackware/slackware_source/a/tcsh/tcsh-6.15.00.tar.bz2
#bunzip2 tcsh-6.15.00.tar.bz2
#tar xvf tcsh-6.15.00.tar
#cd tcsh-6.15.00
#./configure
#make
#make install
#ln -sf /usr/local/bin/tcsh /bin/csh

Download and install SARA
#wget http://www-arc.com/sara/downloads/sara-7.5.2.tgz
#tar xvzf sara-7.5.2.tgz
#cd sara-7.5.2
#./configure
#make
#make install

Add sara user
./add_user

Scan a host
./sara -a4 <ip.address>

Run SARA in daemon mode
./sara -D

Now browse to http://localhost:666

my 30 days lab access ended last February for the security course that im attending. Im still waiting for a May slot and extend another 30 days access. For the meantime, im struggling to learn perl and python programming needed in some of the course lab exercises.

SEO Poisoning Attacks 

"Online fraudsters have continued to expand their efforts this week to inject iframe attacks into the optimized search results of major Web sites.

The attack abuses a common practice among Web sites -- caching search queries -- an activity designed to boost their rankings among major search engines, such as Google, according to security researcher Dancho Danchev. The attackers inject common search terms and an iframe script designed to send victims to other sites hosting malicious code. The search term and iframe redirect get cached in search engines such as Google."

Its Holy Week again!!! Time to pray and to ask forgiveness for our sins. Nakakalungkot isipin, pero  kapag narinig natin ang word Holy week, ang unang pumapasok sa isip natin ay BAKASYON, BEACH at HIKING.

So saan ako ngayong Lenten Season??? sa bahay lang, kasama ang buong pamilya at buong araw ko lang kukulitin ang aking mga pamangkin :)

March 11, 2008 -- A new chapter in the legendary career of multi-Platinum rockers JOURNEY--Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums) and Arnel Pineda (vocals)—will begin on June 3 with the highly anticipated release of REVELATION, a three-disc CD and DVD package to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores in North America.

The first disc will consist of 11 re-recorded classics, the second is filled with 11 new songs, and the third is a live, in-concert DVD. All of the music on REVELATION was produced by Kevin Shirley (who previously worked with JOURNEY on their Platinum-certified TRIAL BY FIRE album).
JOURNEY will take REVELATION on the U.S. concert trail later this July, with details to be announced in the coming weeks.

taken from journeymusic.com

My officemate created a Xen Windows 2003 server virtual machine on one server. The virtual machine supposedly was configured to eat up 30GB of hard disk space but unknowingly it goes up to 85 Gb which eats up all of hd space and cause my server to hang.

I have to restart and fix all of MySQL table crashes. Here's a simple script that i created that will help me monitor my server's harddisk and mysql crash

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#!/bin/sh
#check harddisk space
date > serverhealth.log
echo "******** Disk Space **********" >> serverhealth.log
df -h >> serverhealth.log
echo "********Check Eventum database ***********" >> serverhealth.log
#check Mysql datase for errors
mysqlcheck -umysqluser -ppassword mysqldatabase >> serverhealth.log

SUBJECT=`hostname`" Automated Server Health Alert"

TO="admin@admin.com"

mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < /root/serverhealth.log
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"the art is not in the machine"

- taken from imag photography magazine

im a newbie in dslr photography and still learning how aperture, shutter, flash, etc. works. Photography is addicting especially in upgrading gadgets if you have the extra bucks :)

check out some of my photos at penoi's multiply site....

Now, i have my own The North Face HotShot bag. It has many pockets and a laptop sleeve that i always wanted on a bag.

Arnel Pineda Faithfully with Journey!!!! Journey Philippine Tour please!!!!

[root@localhost]# postgres
"root" execution of the PostgreSQL server is not permitted.
The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent
possible system security compromise.  See the documentation for
more information on how to properly start the server.
[root@localhost]#

im starting to like PostgreSql...

I might be wrong or maybe there are still misconfiguration with our ISA configs( we are not that expert though), i noticed that every time you browse the net, you're always authenticated by the Active Directory, not a one-time-only  authentication. After weeks of messing with Microsoft ISA and still having issues and problems, we finally decided to bring our old proxy server back.

Being lazy-as-i-am person, i dont have any documentation of process on how i installed our Squid+Dansguardian with WCCP support. Thanks a lot to Sun's Big Admin Portal for their step by step installation and i was able to setup our proxy server in just a couple of hours.

My Toshiba Satellite M50 laptop now runs Backtrack v3 Linux!!!! The installation manual was straightforward although i have to mess around with lilo bootloader and the computer's mbr. Copying the livecd's xorg.conf to my HD installed xorg.conf fixed the LCDs resolution :)

Our Microsoft Exchange fucked up leaving headache to the whole department. Two of the RAID 5 disk crashed and we have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Fedora 9 Alpha is now up for grabs!!!!  Talk about rapid development :)

Microsoft will acquire Yahoo??? It seems Microsoft can't compete with Google's search engine technology. I've playing with search engine optimization and sometimes Microsoft's Live engine took months to update its cache. While in Google, it will just take minutes to update its cache if your site is optimized.

This is my new external 160Gb hardisk that now serves as my backup storage for my mp3s, isos, documents, movies and pictures. So what's new??? i was asked to handle the corporate team lead position but i'm not that good in management.. really :(  this is a new challenge for me so help me God :)

Bad news for the Filipino bloggers. Starting January, Google Adsense will no longer support referrals from the Philippines. Hopefully it will not be a start of banning the Philippines in Adsense.

Nessus is a free, up to date and easy to use vulnerability scanner. You can find the official documentation of how to install Nessus here.

Download and install Nessus rpm package from the Nessus download page

[root@nessus chris]# rpm -ivh Nessus-3.0.6-es5.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:Nessus ########################################### [100%]
nessusd (Nessus) 3.0.6. for Linux
(C) 1998 - 2007 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
Processing the Nessus plugins...
[##################################################]
All plugins loaded
- Please run /opt/nessus//sbin/nessus-add-first-user to add an admin user
- Register your Nessus scanner at http://www.nessus.org/register/ to obtain
all the newest plugins
- You can start nessusd by typing /sbin/service nessusd start

[root@nessus chris]#

Add the first Nessus user, it will be the admin account

[root@nessus chris]# /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-add-first-user
Using /var/tmp as a temporary file holder
Add a new nessusd user
----------------------

Login : admin
Authentication (pass/cert) [pass] :
Login password :
Login password (again) :

User rules

----------

nessusd has a rules system which allows you to restrict the hosts
that admin has the right to test. For instance, you may want
him to be able to scan his own host only.
Please see the nessus-adduser(8) man page for the rules syntax
Enter the rules for this user, and hit ctrl-D once you are done :

(the user can have an empty rules set)

Login : admin
Password : ***********
DN :
Rules :
Is that ok ? (y/n) [y] y
user added.

Thank you. You can now start Nessus by typing :

/opt/nessus//sbin/nessusd -D

Start Nessus service daemon

[root@nessus chris]# /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D &
[2] 1454
[root@nessus chris]# nessusd (Nessus) 3.0.6. for Linux
(C) 1998 - 2007 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

Processing the Nessus plugins...
[##################################################]
All plugins loaded
[2]- Done /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D

[root@nessus chris]#

Obtain your Nessus registration code in the Nessus website and register your nessus installation.

[root@nessus chris]# /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --register putyourregcodehere
Your activation code has been registered properly - thank you.
Now fetching the newest plugin set from plugins.nessus.org...
Your Nessus installation is now up-to-date.
If auto_update is set to 'yes' in nessusd.conf, Nessus will
update the plugins by itself.

[root@nessus chris]#

If you want a Windows-based Nessus admin console. Download and install Nessconnect

Singapore  IT Security Seminar
Training Fee: P 59,500.00 (+VAT)
Holiday Inn Hotel, Singapore
March 13-14, 2008 | Thur-Fri  |  9am-5pm

Fee includes: Airfare (Roundtrip), Hotel accommodation (sharing) for 2 days and 1 night, food, 6 training manuals and 6 Global Knowledge certificates.

TOPICS:

System Forensics, Investigation & Response

- Mr. Ariel Ilumin, enCase Certified, CIDG Philippines

Do you know what to do if your organization's security is compromised? Threats of computer crime against an organization's infrastructure have grown substantially, but there are steps you can take. In this course, you apply the latest Windows-based computer forensic techniques to uncover illicit activity and recover lost data. Every crime leaves behind clues. With the right tools, you can effectively respond to and counteract security threats.

Network Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking

- Mr. Ariel Ilumin, enCase Certified, CIDG Philippines

Find Security Flaws Before the Bad Guys Do

Security vulnerabilities such as weak configurations, unpatched systems, and botched architectures continue to plague organizations. Enterprises need people who can find these flaws in a professional manner to help eradicate them from our infrastructures. Lots of people claim to have penetration testing, ethical hacking, and security assessment skills, but precious few can apply these skills in a methodical regimen of professional testing to help make an organization more secure. This class covers the ingredients for successful network penetration testing to help attendees improve their enterprise's security stance.

Assessing and Security Wireless Networks

- Mr. Eric Macatunggal, CCNA, Wireless Technology expert

As organizations provide greater mobility to their users, the risk of threats to security grows and the need for secure wireless networks becomes of paramount concern. In this course, you gain the skills to defend against attacks and maintain security within your wireless network. You learn to detect weakness in your existing network and design and configure a cost-effective security solution.

Securing Windows

- Mr. Wilbert Ontoy, MCSE, MCSA, Oracle Certified, Certified Ethical Hacker

The Securing Windows course is a comprehensive curriculum for securing Windows networks. This program brings the confusing complexity of Windows security into clear focus by starting with foundational security services, such as Active Directory and Group Policy, and advancing in a logical progression to particular products or features which rely on these foundations, such as IIS and IPSec.

Securing Oracle

- Mr. Wilbert Ontoy, MCSE, MCSA, Oracle Certified, Certified Ethical Hacker

Experts agree that Oracle is one of the most complex software packages available today. Unfortunately, complexity often introduces an increased risk for vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are being increasingly targeted by attackers.

Throughout the course the student will be exposed to the database as seen through the eyes of an attacker, including public and unreleased techniques that are used to compromise the integrity of the database or escalate a user's privileges. In this fashion, the student gains a better understanding of how an attacker sees a database as a target, and how we can configure the database to be resistant to known and unknown attacks.

Securing Unix / Linux

- Mr. Mike Liguit, Linux expert, Network Security specialist

The courses designed to teach individuals about securing Linux and Unix. Content is obviously dictated by course duration, but a good course will instruct the student about the various threats to the *nix platform and the countermeasures that can be brought to bear to defend against them. In most cases the student would be expected to have a reasonable understanding of *nix and be able to navigate around it.

Experience in-depth coverage of Unix security issues. Examine how to mitigate or eliminate general problems that apply to all Unix-like operating systems including vulnerabilities in the password authentication system, file system, virtual memory system, and in common network protocols such as NFS, NIS, and the Unix RPC mechanism. Learn the exact steps necessary to secure the two most common Unix flavors-- Solaris and Linux-- and get specific advice for securing some of the most common Internet services on the Unix platform, including Apache, WU-FTPD, Sendmail, and BIND

Terms: Schedules are subject to reconfirmation.

Register Now!

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Tel. Nos. (632) 683-0969  |  637-3657

Mobile: (0921) 532-8150; (0918) 314-0542

Email: sandra@globalknowledgeph.com; sandra_medalla@yahoo.com

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One way of bypassing internet perimeter is using Internet Proxies, but there is another way of surfing anonymously by means of TOR networks. Xerobank incorporated TOR networks and Firefox in its XBank browser. It also offers services of high speed browsing from 200kbps, 1,500Kbps and 40Mbps bandwidth. You can also install XeroBank browser in your USB stick and have your privacy any where you go.

One disadvantage of this technology is empowering users to bypass corporate Internet Security which is a major threat. There are many ways of how to out-smart your IT guys, but it will be an endless cat-and-mouse chase :)

oh my!!! my google was redirected to Nederland by XeroBank browser

Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII scheduled for its USA release on March 25, 2008. Characters present are Zack Fair, Jenova, Professor Hojo, Sephiroth, Aerith Gainsborough, Tifa Lockhart, Yuffie Kisaragi, Cait Sith, and many more.

I once played final fantasy VIII on Playstation One because of its famous soundtrack " Eyes on Me" and as always, a FF game sure is a smash hit for gamers.

Introducing the free Spiceworks IT Desktop. Designed, tested and used by 200,000 IT pros in 194 countries. Spiceworks has the everyday IT features you need:

• Automatic PC and software inventory and IT asset reporting to simplify your job.


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Arnel Pineda in CNN



Goodluck Arnel Pineda!!! Goodluck Journey on your new album!!!

Backup your Server's files to a remote host using rsync

Setup SSH RSA Authentication

#ssh-keygen -t rsa
#scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote-host:/user/
#ssh user@remote-host
#cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys

Make sure that .ssh/authorized_keys has the following permission

-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 393 Jan 9 09:45 authorized_keys

rsync -avhe ssh --delete /folder-to-backup user@remote-host:/backup-folder

For an automated backup, use cron. For other rsync command switches, refer to the documentation or issue the command "man rsync"

Another not-so-good American Pie Movie. I will not consider Beta House as a legacy of the famous cult-favorite American Pie Series(American Pie, American Pie 2 and American Wedding). Beta House is all about the Stifler's with their Beta Delta Xi House Fraternity , the Geeks Fraternity, boobs, strippers and more Sex.

Rating: Not Good

Want to surf the net anonymously??? use Proxybeat.com list of available proxies in the internet. Or, you can use proxybeat's list in your URL filter's/black lists

I celebrated my bday with Rachel last Friday in SM Mall of Asia(MOA). After Don hen, we spend our time in Big apple whole body massage. Now that was a relief after days of stressful work.

Penoi in Don Henricos

Penoi Before

Penoi After

I need a tool that can list all of my server's vulnerabilities. Sigvi does it all. Although the process is not yet automatic. It will compare the vulnerabilities that it has received from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) with the softwares that we installed on our servers.

"SIGVI is an Open Source application, under GPL license.

Basically, SIGVI is an application to detect vulnerabilities on our network.

It is not magic (still ...), simply compares the vulnerabilities that it has received from the sources with the software that we have installed on our servers. Those vulnerabilities are stored into the database creating a vulnerability repository.

When finds a software version that is vulnerable, it creates an alert and send notifications to all the administrators of this server.

The SIGVI has been (and is being) developed at UPCnet, from Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain."

Tired of using Google in searching hard to find documents(doc,pdf,ppt, etc)??? try using Scribd!!!

" Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you!

Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web."

Proud to be Pinoy!!! Been watching this clip the whole day in Youtube. What a great singer!!!! Another reason to be proud of being a Filipino.