i cant think …… A blog belong to Mohammad Azwan bin Ali. Most of his writings are about his real life story, ideas, thoughts, moderate political views, computer, programming, tips & tricks, particularly in Linux…. and of course it includes some random unspecified crappy stuffs too! Don't forget to check Movies and Junkyard pages out!

dangerous knowledge

In writings on 12 March 2010 tagged documentaries, sharing with no comments

another good old documentaries i want to share with you

this shows how great human mind can be and yet it's still not enough for us (human) to really understand about our mysterious universe...

crossword solver using command line

In tips & tricks on 11 March 2010 tagged cheat, crossword, puzzle with no comments

if you like to solve crossword puzzle to kill your time but sometimes you are stuck with what word you should put in

here's a quick example on how to do that in your terminal

example clue the entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip)

and we have crossword like this

_,_,_,r,_,p,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,r

now using common word list table we can easily solve this by

grep -e ^...r.p.......r$ /usr/share/dict/words

note: empty space was replaced by dot (.) notation

note: make sure you have the word list package installed

sudo tsocks apt-get install wamerican

opencv in ubuntu

In tips & tricks on 11 March 2010 tagged image processing, opencv, ubuntu with no comments

fugly stuff

In crap on 9 March 2010 tagged ubuntu, windows with no comments

most fugly desktop ever!! i don't even know why i wasted my precious time trying this crap....

lesson of the day: stop customizing your desktop to look like other os esspecially windows :)

change is hard

In thoughts on 6 March 2010 tagged lucid lynx, ubuntu with no comments

i'm wondering why ubuntu nowadays really like to experimenting with new no-so-user friendly stuffs

it really start to bothering me since the new notification position in karmic and now they're planning to release ubuntu with some gay mac-ish look?

sometimes, change is good in order to refresh how the os feel and give user better experience.

i myself like the previous brown color which people will notice that "it's the color of ubuntu" and have no objection toward new purple color

but do ubuntu really need to be make it to look like some mac os clone so much? i mean seriously.. the new default theme... with single top panel taskbar, background wallpaper, and now left window button?

eventhough some might says it's not try to mimic mac os but "just accidentally look the same"
oh... tell me, which eyes will believe that?

remember that almost everyone know how mac os look like compared to how *ubuntu looked like!

so what's next? change mouse button to click like mac too?

[Read more →]