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Using WGet on Windows

Reaper-X — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:19:56 +0000

Just in case you’re like me that can't trust free download manager anymore or just want a little program that can resume your download at later time and doesn’t use many resources .. i’d suggest you to use WGet for Windows (if you’re a Linux user i believe WGet already installed on your machine)

To start off there are few links to where you can grab WGet for Windows (feel free to choose)

Although if it’s for me, i just grab the Christopher’s Visual Studio Project file combined with Wget from it’s SVN repository because i prefer to compile it by myself (to make few adjustment to the user agent so it’ll use Mozilla Firefox User agent by default and also other Mozilla Firefox Header), but let’s keep this aside shall we ? :P

Okay now, i assume you’ve downloaded your WGet files, and already extracted it somewhere in your harddrive. The next step would be, adding your WGet path into Windows Environment Variables Path, so you can access it easily from anywhere

Step to do it :

Open Windows System Properties page (Press Windows Key + Pause / Break) or Right click on my computer and choose properties
Choose the Advanced Tab and then click on Environment Variables
Add new Path Variable to your username or edit the Path variable for your system
Add this line like below image (adjust your wget path accordingly)

And you’re done … now you can type Wget anywhere from the command prompt :)

But wait … if you’re using Mozilla Firefox, you can also use Wget to download something from the web, and in order to do this you just need to install FlashGot Extension for Firefox, and then add this line to the Flashgot command line arguments :

Quoted from Flashgot page :

-c [--directory-prefix=FOLDER] [--referer=REFERER] [--post-data=POST] [--load-cookies=CFILE] [--header=Cookie:COOKIE] [--input-file=UFILE]

And you’re finished :)

Well basically the above should be working fine with Firefox 2, but because Firefox 3 recently released to the public, i'm having problem with the Command Prompt window not showing although the wget process is running in the background (it’s listed on the task manager but the window can’t be seen)

And so if you’re running Firefox 3, you can try using these configurations instead of the above:

Executable Path: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

Command Line arguments template: /C start wget -c [--directory-prefix=FOLDER] [--referer=REFERER] [--post-data=POST] [--load-cookies=CFILE] [--header=Cookie:COOKIE] [--input-file=UFILE]

And voila … you can see the downloading process again just like on Firefox 2 ;)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Guide, Internet Tools, Open Source, Software, Tutorials, Windows

Google Apps offer Premier Edition

Reaper-X — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0000

I think most of you already know about Google Apps but to those who didn't know or simply never heard about Google Apps, you can read my previous post about Google Apps

Okay back to the topic, right now Google offer the premier edition of their hosted email service and many other service after passing the beta stage, for free until April 30th, 2007

But what did you get from the premier edition of Google Apps ? here’s the summary from CNET :

The new Google Apps Premier Edition costs $50 per user account a year. It includes around-the-clock telephone support, and 10GB of storage per user compared with 2GB. The new edition also includes a guarantee of 99.9 percent uptime for Gmail and application programming interfaces that businesses can use to migrate data, enable single sign-on and do other integration. A free version targeted at educational institutions, Google Apps Education Edition, offers the same features as the premier edition except for the storage size. There is also Google Apps Standard Edition, which is free, but lacks the features of the premier edition.

I’ve been looking at various features they offers but if it's for me .. well .. seriously im not interested on using their Premier Edition of Google apps, simply because the only Google Apps feature i'm using right now is only their hosted email solution with maximum capacity of 2GB / E-Mail address. Other than that, 2GB is already enough for me beside i never reach that limit .. of course that is for me

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Internet, Internet Tools, Webmaster Tools

Google AJAX Search Wizards

Reaper-X — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:18:23 +0000

Google add new features to their Google AJAX search wizards .. and this time it's better than the previous Custom Search Engine features from Google, because now you can display Google AJAX search results within your page easily by doing some copy paste from the generated code

Here’s what Google said in their Official Adsense Blog

If you're looking for an easy way to add some interactivity to your site, we've got just the tool for you. The AJAX Search Wizards allow you to add a video, news, and local search results to your web page without writing any code. Just tell us how you want the widget to display and what searches to automatically execute, and the wizard will generate the code for you to copy and paste into your web page.

And here’s an example of what you can do with Google AJAX Search Wizards :

Now can you guess the anime name ? :P

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Internet, Internet Tools, Website

Australia Proxy for those having connection problems

Reaper-X — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:24:06 +0000

I think you’ve already know about the recent connection problem in Asia region which is caused by the recent earthquake in Taiwan. Fortunately there’s one country that is not affected by this problem .. and it's not located to far from here (Indonesia) .. but enough of that blabbering because i already said it few times now .. :P .. because one of the main reason i want to post it, because i want to share few Australian Proxies .. that can be used as your temporary fix for the current outage

Here’s the list (tested and works fine for me without any problem at all) and it is a transparent proxy :

165.228.128.10 : 3128
165.228.130.10 : 3128
165.228.132.10 : 3128

And if you’re using Squid as your cache proxy, you can add this line into your squid proxy configuration file instead :

cache_peer 165.228.128.10 parent 3128 7 no-query round-robin
cache_peer 165.228.130.10 parent 3128 7 no-query round-robin
cache_peer 165.228.132.10 parent 3128 7 no-query round-robin

never_direct allow all

The above lines means your squid cache proxy will choose it's parent cache automatically without allowing access if parent proxy is not available, in the other words you can also say that your ip address will change automatically eventhought you browse the same site (you can test it using various online proxy checker)

As a note, because this is a public proxy, you’ll find yourself can't access some websites because there’s a malicious user using it to do some malicious activity (for example DNSStuff) ..

0x87485B96 | Tags : Guide, Internet Tools, Personal, Privacy, Tutorials

Blogsmith for hosted only ?

Reaper-X — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:10:26 +0000

It seems that the recent news about Blogsmith to launch in early 2007 is just for another hosted blogging platform not for public download just like other blogging platform such as Wordpress or MovableType

At first i thought it’d be available for public download and i was really enthusiastic on trying it .. on my local server first :-P (hey its not a good idea to try out something new on public, beside with the current connection problem i don't want to upload anything because i'm connecting at really slow speed) especially after reading Problogger post about this .. but it seems i was wrong

As a note, i say this based on Brian Alvey comments about this matter, and he says that Blogsmith is hosted only, not downloadable like MT. :-(

0x87485B96 | Tags : Blog, Blogging, General Blogging, Internet, Internet Tools

Wikipedia Founder wants to rival Google

Reaper-X — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:19:47 +0000

James Wales, the Wikipedia Founder plans to rival Google by creating a new search engine called Wikiasari (a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for rummaging search) which is still based on community just like wikipedia site.

He said that although Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for the term ‘Tampa hotels’, for example, and you will not get any useful results. And i find it interesting on how he’s going to create a really accurate result, especially if it's going to be a community site just like Digg, because like most of you already knew that even Digg is not that accurate

And as a side note, Amazon has nothing to do with this project unlike other stories that says Amazon is behind the Wikiasari project. Although they are a valued investor in Wikia, but people are really speculating beyond the facts. This has nothing to do with A9, Amazon, etc .. just as he said on the wikia site

Well .. i guess i’ll be looking forward to its launch .. to see how well this new search engine performing ;-)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Internet, Internet Tools, SEO, Web Links, Website

Firefox 2.0.0.1 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.9

Reaper-X — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:47:01 +0000

I just updated my Firefox 2 installation into version 2.0.0.1 and the Thunderbird installation into 1.5.0.9 .. (well the thunderbird 2 is still in beta stages)

Although the official Mozilla site hasn’t announced it yet as a public release version .. but i think it wouldn't hurt to try out the latest release of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (as a note: it's labeled as release status from their FTP Server) .. so i think there’s no need to worry about it :D

Just in case you want to download it, here’s the download location :

0x87485B96 | Tags : Browsers, Freeware, Internet Tools, Open Source, Software, Windows

Google Hosted Email Problem ..

Reaper-X — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:35:59 +0000

Another problem from Google, but unlike before this time i can't access one of my hosted email account at Google using POP3 .. and can’t send email via SMTP access. Although the other hosted email account works fine without problem.

Here’s what the error message looks like :

POP Access

19:56:13.671671 Resolve OK pop.gmail.com: 64.233.167.111, 64.233.167.109
19:56:13.671671 AttemptConnect OK 64.233.167.111:995
19:56:14.01515 Connect OK
19:56:15.156156 SSL OK Socket secured
19:56:15.156156 Banner OK Banner OK: +OK Gpop ready for requests from XXXXXX YYYYYY
19:56:15.156156 NATCheck OK Address translation found
19:56:15.156156 AttemptConnect OK 64.233.167.109:995
19:56:15.531531 Connect OK
19:56:16.343343 SSL OK Socket secured
19:56:16.343343 Banner OK Banner OK: +OK Gpop ready for requests from XXXXXX YYYYYY
19:56:16.343343 NATCheck OK Address translation found
19:56:16.703703 CAPA OK
19:56:17.593593 USER OK Accepted: +OK send PASS
19:56:18.140140 PASS FAIL Empty mode: +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will seem empty.

From the above log, you can see eventhough there’s a new message in my email account, but when accessed via pop .. it’ll always think that there’s no new message / no message at my email account

And here’s the SMTP access log :

19:56:18.500500 Resolve OK smtp.gmail.com: 64.233.185.111, 64.233.185.109
19:56:18.515515 AttemptConnect OK 64.233.185.111:587
19:56:18.875875 Connect OK
19:56:19.250250 Banner OK 220 mx.google.com ESMTP xxxxxx
19:56:19.703703 EHLO OK
19:56:20.09393 STARTTLSCMD OK 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
19:56:21.375375 EHLO OK
19:56:21.375375 AttemptConnect OK 64.233.185.109:587
19:56:21.781781 Connect OK
19:56:22.140140 Banner OK 220 mx.google.com ESMTP xxxxxx
19:56:22.500500 EHLO OK
19:56:22.875875 STARTTLSCMD OK 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
19:56:24.156156 EHLO OK
19:56:24.937937 AUTH FAIL Backend offline: 454 4.7.0 Cannot authenticate due to temporary system problem. Try again later. xxxxxxxx

While the above smtp log, give me an infinite loop that ask me to insert my password although i’ve inserted it correctly .. well .. it's not infinite actually, because it's terminated on 3rd attempt or 4th attempt (i can't remember the actual value) ..

So if you get the same error message from your hosted email account the only solution is … wait for the Google team to fix this problem .. lol .. well actually i just reported this problem to the Google team, because the other hosted email account is works fine without problem except for one of my hosted email account ;)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Internet, Internet Tools, Journal, Personal

Domain Registration via Google Apps

Reaper-X — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:16:32 +0000

Google now offering domain registration for everyone who’s interested on using their Google Hosted EMail account known as Google Apps for Your Domain through their partners with only $10 / Year / Domain name and that’s including a private registration which means your private information can't be viewed by domain whois tool that’s freely available to use on the web .. and you get a full control of your domain name

Quoted from Google Press Release :

Starting today, we're partnering with eNom and GoDaddy.com, two industry leaders in domain registration, to offer users without a domain an easy way to find, register, and buy a domain and start immediately using our services. When you register a new domain as part of the sign-up process for Google Apps for Your Domain, we'll work with our partners behind the scenes and automatically configure everything so it works with all of the services available through Google Apps for Your Domain right out of the gate. We also give you full control of your domain settings, so you can use your domain for other services not provided by Google.

And as for the payment itself, you can use your credit card via the secure Google Checkout (i dont know much thought about the Google Checkout because i never use it before, but there's no need to worry about that because you can be sure your data is safe with them)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Internet, Internet Tools, Web Links

Google Earth locate my home

Reaper-X — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:40:03 +0000

I was amazed that Google Earth were able to take a screenshot of the area near where i live right now (if you’re from Europe and United States .. chances are you’ve already located your own house) ! Although it does hard to find it at the first time because i never saw anything from the sky like google do :P .. fortunately i was able to find some coordinate which is located not far from my location and that is Depo Bangunan and Hero Kalimalang :D

And as you can see, the left picture is Sumber Arta Traditional Marketplace which is located not far from my house (well i dont think it's good to post your address on the internet) .. hehehe .. Now how about you ? did you manage to find your own house or you favorite location using Google Earth ? I’m pretty sure you can find it easily ;)

As a note, if you’re interested on using Google Earth, here’s the minimum computer configuration :

Operating System: Windows 2000 or Windows XP
CPU: Pentium 3, 500Mhz
System Memory (RAM): 128MB
Hard Disk: 400MB free space
Network Speed: 128 Kbits/sec
Graphics Card: 3D-capable with 16MB of VRAM
Screen: 1024x768, "16-bit High Color"

0x87485B96 | Tags : Freeware, Google, Internet Tools, Linux, Software, Windows

Using Google as free proxy

Reaper-X — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:29:46 +0000

Ever since everyone (maybe not everyone but at least most people) know about Google Translate tool can be used as a proxy to browse various site … i don't think stats tracking can give you an accurate statistic to determine where your visitors located so you can create targetted content specifically for your site visitor .. and here’s the user agent from the translation tool by google …

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) ,gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com)
The user agent may vary depend on the visitor browser but they always leave via translate.google.com behind the real user agent

I’m just wondering why does everyone think it's cool to use Google as a proxy ? why they don't just browse the internet like normal people do ? Well .. if it's a protected site .. maybe it can be useful for you, but to browse normal site ? well .. if it's for me i dont think it's necessary because there are various reason for it .. except when used on filesharing site :D

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Guide, Internet Tools, Opinion, Personal, Tutorials

Web Stress and Performance Testing

Reaper-X — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:01:07 +0000

I found this web stress testing tool called WAPT while i was browsing around the web and it seems they creating an interesting program to test your own server under various condition so you’ll know how your web server performance and limitation .. in my opinion this tool works great when used on shared server or known as shared hosting. And as you already knew that if you’re on shared hosting, you share the same resource with other site on your server, and because of it you have certain limitation, such as cpu resource usage, memory, etc

Although i haven't tried this tool yet, but if you really want to know about your server limitation i think you should try this tool (it's a shareware product but they’re giving 30 days trial) … but if you’re going to stress testing your own server (in this case shared server / shared hosting), please keep this in mind :

Make sure to create backup before using this tool or similar tool like this just in case something bad happen to your host
There’s high chance your account will be suspended by your webhosting company because you’re using to many server resource and slowing down other site in your server

Note: this tool require internet connection, because all the request made are from your computer (although there’s ip spoofing feature), maybe they should offer online demo to stress testing server without using my own internet connection speed which is .. slow

And i’ve tried using similar tool like this before, but at that time im not using it to stress testing my webhost .. but to find hole (i think some of you already knew what i'm talking about here because they’re also offering online test using their internet connection)… and guess what ? i got suspended within 2 days after registration :P ..

0x87485B96 | Tags : Internet Tools, Shareware, Software, Web Servers, Webmaster Tools

Feedreader an opensource Feedreader

Reaper-X — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:15:46 +0000

Quoted from the page : Feedreader is a free lightweight aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. It works under Windows 98 and later versions.

Okay now i think you get the basic idea of this program, and unlike most people that is using online aggregator / feed reader such as from Google Reader .. i prefer to use desktop based feed reader, because i can read various feed i have subscribed, anytime i want ;) (except when you’re going to update your feed list) … although for those who’s already using a high speed connection or an unlimited broadband connection this application is not that useful because you can always get fresh content without worrying about your internet usage

But whatever the reason is .. i think you should try to use this desktop based reader first ;) .. ooh and as a note … actually i just downloaded this program today, because at the first time i don't think i need to use feedreader because i prefer browsing from search engine to site to search for a specific article … but to save my monthly bandwidth usage, it seems desktop based feedreader is the only solution .. :P

0x87485B96 | Tags : Freeware, Internet Tools, Open Source, Software

Bookmark Base - A Bookmark Manager

Reaper-X — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:35:09 +0000

Actually I found this tool when looking at the user-agent that came to this site, at first i thought it was another spoofed user-agent (i’ve been getting a lot of strange user agent recently) and trying to promote a product via their user agent or just another offline browser program try to copy everything from this site. As a side note their user agent is BookmarkBase

And after looking at their site throughly at Bookmark Base (i found it via their user agent). It seems their software is a genuine Bookmark Manager program, not a web copier program or similar tools like that .. and because i never use bookmark manager program to manage my firefox bookmark (i always create backup copy of my firefox profile and i never use it outside my own computer), i can't tell you more about it so it's better if you go to their site if you’re interested on using bookmark manager tools to manage all your favorite site .. ooh yeah it's a shareware ;)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Internet Tools, Shareware, Software, Windows

Using Proxy is it good or bad ?

Reaper-X — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:35:56 +0000

Why does everyone like to hide their IP Address ? do they think it's cool to show off using someone else IP Address ? No matter what the reason is, i always think proxy is useless if it's used just to browse around the web (i mean normal browsing around the web). Why did i say that ? Because proxy made every web statistical information results become inaccurate (if it's an anonymous proxy). And to make things clearer for you here’s an example.

Some site using tracking script to track geographical information of their site visitor and they’re doing this only for statistical purpose and make them write content specifically for that region. Now .. you’re frequently access their site using proxy, and let’s say you’re using proxy from somewhere in China. And because of it course the site author will think that most of his / her site visitors is coming from China .. and what are going to happen next ? he / she will create content specifically for China .. and this is just one example of what makes stats tracking inaccurate if most of your site visitors using proxy

So the conclusion is .. why there’s a need to use proxy if you just like browsing around the web ? other than that if you didn't know about this before, proxy server always create log files of the accessed url even if they say they’re giving a complete privacy or high anonymity proxy

0x87485B96 | Tags : Internet, Internet Tools, Network and Security, Opinion, Personal, Privacy