Some might say they love to analyze data using MATLAB because it has all necessary functions and widely used by scientists and engineers around the world for decade. Anyway, it would be better to have something similar available in Linux for free. Actually, we have gnuplot and Octave. Especially, Octave supports m scripting language like MATLAB does. However, I am a Pythonian and I would be happier with Python scripting language. That's why we have Matplotlib.

VMware Server is totally free. All you need is just to register your name and address to obtain a number of serial numbers. You may get up to 100 serial numbers at a time. In VMware, there are 3 network types: bridge, nat, and host-only. Bridge is the most powerful one but you need an extra IP address. If you don't have one, you might be interesting in nat or host-only. Nat seems to be better to keep your guest OS up-to-date and connected to the internet. However, Nat means you can't connect to the guest OS directly from internet so you can't run it as a server. Anyway, it is possible to forward port to the guest OS behind VMware's nat.

Teapop: another POP3 daemon for Virtualmin

I have just upgraded Virtualmin and Webmin on Red Hat 8.0 to Ubuntu 6.06.1 Dapper. Everything seems to work as expect except only POP3. The old configuration on Red Hat 8.0 is to use UW ipopd. Anyway, it is the most classic one so I decided to try another approaches as follows.

There are so many problem that may cause publickey authentication scheme in ssh (or more specific, openssh) to not work properly. Usually, I have never encountered this problem for so long. I have just found this problem again in fresh CentOS 4.4.

On behalf of a BTQueue developer, I am glad to introduce you to a web-based BitTorrent client running on top of BTQueue called Torrent Portal.

I have just made an backup of my old data in NTFS partition in my laptop. So, it is a good time to format that partition into ext3. In my case, the partition is a logical partition inside Win95 extended partition (f or W95 Ext'd (LBA)) while itself is NTFS (8 or HPFS/NTFS). In summary, my partition table is as follow.

/dev/hda1   Linux
/dev/hda2   W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6   Linux swap / Solaris

At the end of this transformation, I expect to have as below.

/dev/hda1   Linux
/dev/hda2   Linux extended
/dev/hda5   Linux
/dev/hda6   Linux swap / Solaris