The First Time Machine

Discovery Science - The First Time Machine - Time Paradox

Taken from Discovery Channel documentary 'The First Time Machine'

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Using Gmail SMTP server

Gmail provides a free SMTP service that allow you to send mail from any ISPs and any email address. Letz do it together with thunderbird now.

1. Tools > Account Settings > Outgoing Server (SMTP)
2. Add > set the SMTP server to your_account@gmail.com
3. Make sure the "Use username and password" is checked.
4. Checked the "TLS" under "Use Secure Connection"

Shared Folder in VMWare

When using a virtual machine, you will find inevitable for the guest OS accessing the host OS, mostly for file sharing. VMWare provides a great way to do.

My environment: VMWare Workstation 6.0.2
Guest OS: Windows XP SP2 32-bit
Host OS: Windows Vista SP1 64-bit

1. On your VMWare Workstation console, choose VM > Settings > Options > Shared Folders

2. Pick "Always Enabled" if you want to make your shared folder always on your guest OS, and add the folder you want to share.

3. Install VMWare tools on your host OS by choosing VM > Install VMWare Tools on your VMWare Workstation.

4. Then you can access your host OS shared folder by:
\\.host\Shared Folders

2057 - The Body

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2057 - The World

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2057 - The City

An impressive documentary from Discovery channel. How the city life will be in 2057?

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Mario Kart

Mario Rocks!

Configuring Basic Authentication on Apache

Although there are many different authentication methods available for web services, basic authentication is still the simplest and most common authentication method used. This post is target to give you a quick example on how to configure basic authentication on apache.

Create a password file

htpasswd is the command to create a password file, example:
htpasswd -c passwd panda
New password: mypassword
Re-type new password: mypassword
Adding password for user panda

The -c flag is used only when you are creating the file. You can omit the -c flag if you want to add more users to an already created password file.

You should store the file in a secure location. And you should set permissions on the file so that only the webserver can read the file and only root can write to it:

chown root.nogroup /etc/httpd/secret/passwd
chmod 640 /etc/httpd/secret/passwd

Configure httpd.conf


For more information, please refer to official apache doc:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/howto/auth.html

Linksys WUSB54G v4 driver on 64-bit Vista

It takes me some time to find it on net, eventually got it from the Linksys forum.

http://forums.linksys.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wireless_Adapters&message.id=2371

You can download the driver directly from here.

Still figuring out how to get it working on my RH FC8 partition, tried the rt2570 driver but seems can't get it working yet. If anybody tried it before, feel free to leave a message here :)

Mom song

This is what mom would say to her kids in one day condensed in 2.5 min