Another Andrio Phone, Samsung i7500

Cool.. finally, another Android!! Really looking forward to see the real thing. I actually have been using my iPhone at home when I have problem with my network. It's just so cool and convenience. When every I need to test WLAN or LAN, I would use it.I can run ping, nmap, sniffer, tcpdump, ifconfig, etc networking tool on my phone. And in last few days, on my brother's request, I setup tittering for his brand new Asus 1000HE, so he can connect the internet any where with his 3G network. And he loves it!!

And it should be practical at work also. You know, in some critical production site or some data center, it's quite hard to get internet connection. Using your phone, which allow you connect to the internet without affect the production site network, this is amazing.

When there is a new iPhone coming up(next year?), i may get a new phone, it should be either the new iPhone or an Android. Frankly, mostly i'll get the new iPhone. But if I do use it to type command.. well.. an Linux based smarphone with slide keyboard should be a better choice tho. Although I do love the touch screen on iPhone.. but for typing? A physical keyboard is much more better tho.

Consider Linux SmartPhone is going to be the future, should every Sys admin get a smart phone?


Samsung i7500 in cent

Hands on preview in a Russian site

mNm Release 0.9

mNm Release 0.9

= integrated multi-language support
= progress bar & message
= Existing Code migrate with Fedora First Boot, as a plug-in in 'Create User' Module
= Improved Auto Mount (instead of un-mount every thing, it only mount non-existing one)

OH.. My gosh... i almost delete all my post in blogger..

I was managing my label/tag of my post to prepare my project presentation.. i click on the 'delete' below 'apply label', it thought it's delete the label. But no!! it deleted my blog. I actually doubt about it already, but as labeling a blog has an undo function, i thought delete a blog should have an undo, right?



NO!!! IT DOSE NOT!!


Lucky that I was playing blogger because my FreeBSD assignment needs to import post from blogger to wordpress. And I did have a backup... that I didn't even remember. Thanks god.. every thing is here.. :-) I still wanna show my blog to my grand children... LOL

Migrate aNd Manager Release 0.8 Progress Update

mNm running as an Firstboot module


So... I've been trying to put mNm to merge with firstboot. Althought I should contact firstboot owner soon.. but I still want to make sure my program will not have big problem when integrate to firstboot. I've been playing around the modules. After 2 days of testing, I finally figure out a way for it.

Instead of using it as a module in Firstboot, mNm should be used as a plug-in (Please correct me if this is not the proper way to call it.). So.. in "Create User" module, user can also choose a 'Network Login' thing.. (honestly, i dun really know what it really dose tho). It calls up '/usr/bin/authconfig-gtk --firstboot' as a process. So... that where mNm should be!!

Let me also talk why it should be a plug-in. I was thinking if mNm should be replacing 'create user' module or should be an alternative module. But the logic is kinda wired. and firstboot dose not run like that. Firstboot will call up modules one by one in sequence. As mNm will do automount, it's kinda silly to mount every thing even mNm will not even being used. I believe running mNm as the Create User plugin is the best way to do. And also.. it seems that calling up mNm as a module in firstboot is not possible. As you can see in the capture that I run mNm as a module and the item list is blank. Maybe there will be some way to do.. but if the plug idea is working.. why bother? :-)

But I will still confirm with my super duper professor Chris Tyler first. Then... multi-language!!


Here is some improvements I've also done in last two days..
1. disable umount when calling up 'AutoMount'.
2. It has a bug that, if the user folder contain file, mNm will crash. This issue has been fixed.

PS:
Finally, I fixed the problem in the tree list when mNm running as a module in firstboot. I've also uploaded the capture as the first image. (Nestor, 200904071200)

mNm running as an plug-in inside Firstboot module 'Create User'

Migrate aNd Manager Release 0.8

This version of mNm has a functional GUI that will provide all functions that need to be done for firstboot. Although there are some small improvements need to be made but Since it matches all milestone that I planed before except Multi-Language font part, therefore, I'm posting it here.

Hopefully, I'll have a newer version of 0.8, which would be called 0.8.1 coming this weekend that will have scroll bar and it will a better version of 0.8. The next release 0.9 should be a fully working version. And I'm targeting to do bug fixing and improvement after release 0.9.

Here is a list of things that I've added in this 0.8 release...
* check boxes
* auto mount (add on auto mount to mount all supported types)
* auto search (including OS type and users, default OS User home only)
-- get supported OS type from database
-- put list of supported OS object(classes) in a list
-- find out if the mounted drives (just in all drives except default live CD user) has any user

mNm Program/Source

mNm Main Page in FedoraHosted