Topics: 2013

May 6th, 2013

This morning I woke up, and my home seems different. For the first time for quite some days, my parents did not laugh from newspaper articles. We used to laugh and make fun of certain politicians and political parties owing to their often belittling, absurd and bigotry remarks. So, what shall we do next? Is […]

Buses at KLIA and LCCT?

  Apparently the photo of buses in car park as reported by Sarawak Report and social media are not located in Malaysia, but Candlestick Park, San Francisco instead. The photo was blatantly copied from munidave via flickr. I’m all for clean and fair election, but we should be one too.

VPN to Windows Server via PPTP

Yes, I need to VPN at times to work remotely. This pose a challenge as I no longer uses Windows. The issue turn out to be a no brainer as minimal settings need to be configure to connect Ubuntu to Windows VPN Server.

PowerTop – Bad: NMI watchdog should be turned off

PowerTop rated a “Bad” for “NMI watchdog should be turned off”. From Arch’s thread it was found out that NMI is fairly not needed.

laptop-mode-tools error- SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]

In the name of power saving and reduction of cpu heat, I followed the instructions via this thread in ArchLinux BBS (Oh yes, ArchLinux instructions usable in Ubuntu :D). Part of the options made available is to install laptop-mode-tools, in which it gave me this error while it was trying to be activated during installation […]