Unable To Mount NTFS External Drive

Have you ever wanted to mount your external drive, but your linux box refused it? Most likely it was caused by you forgot to unplug / disconnect your external drive while you were in windows. Apparently, windows didn’t unplug / disconnect your external drive when it was turned off.

The logic way is restarting to your windows box, then unplug / disconnect your external drive. But it sucks. Why would we need to go to windows? The right way is using ntfsfix.

ntfsfix 

So, if your external drive is in /dev/sdb1, it would be,

ntfsfix /dev/hdb1

2008, According to 1968

In November 1968, James R. Berry described how 2008 would be. An article called 40 Years in the Future told us that we should’ve had great improvements. 150 mph car, full wall tv screen, space vacation are some of things we should’ve had.

Well, it’s still March now. We have 9 months before end of the year. We’ll see.

(via)

Wine 1.0

Wine will reach version 1.0 on June 2008, Wine’s 15th birthday. It’s been targeted to run 4 (yes, four) application smoothly.
- Photoshop CS2
- Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 97 and 2003
- Microsoft Word Viewer 97 and 2003
- Microsoft Excel Viewer 97 and 2003

Why only 4?

Users are encouraged to test their favorite apps with the release candidate builds and report any problems they find, regardless of whether their apps are on the list of release criteria. If the fix is easy, we’ll try to do it.

The app db lists 1227 platinum applications, so it may seem disappointing that WineReleaseCriteria only lists four applications as “must run well”. The problem with expanding that list is that each new app adds a huge amount of testing to each release.

If you can provide an automated test case for your favorite platinum app, so that we can just run it without any manual work, we can add it to the list. Just post a link to your automated test script to wine-devel. One possibility is to adapt existing automated installer scripts such as the ones at http://wpkg.org/ or http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

– Wine Release Plan

Kudos to all Wine developers. Now, if you let me, I’m going to play Football Manager 2008. Oh, on wine, of course.

WordPress 2.5 Features

WordPress 2.5 has great upgrades. I love the new dashboard look. Great user interface.

I’m actually a textpattern user, but I’m using wordpress in this blog. Can’t wait to upgrade to 2.5.

Understanding Filesystem

Great article from arstechnica, From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems. It’s non-geek friendly. Check it out.

Firefox Uses Less Memory

Definitely worth to use. Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera. Although I still love my epiphany, I might put firefox 3 into big consideration as my primary browser.

Thank You WordPress

Reading Matt’s comment about SixApart (and Movable Type) made me realize something: wordpress is simply the best opensource web application out there.

Things I like from wordpress are hundreds of plugins and themes, great community supports, and definitely the easy installation. I was like “that’s all?!” when I installed my first wordpess. Even my personal blog uses textpattern as its blogging platform, I still love wordpress and definitely recommend it to everyone who asks me about blogging platform. Kudos to you guys.

Blogging Could Burn 600 Calories a Day!

Who said that being in front of your computer could make you fat? You could burn 600 calories while reading some news in google reader or do your daily blog post.

Heck, I have to try that.

(via Lifehacker)

Firefox 3 Beta 4

It’s released, and been said to gain speed boost.

I left firefox 2 for almost a year now. I only use firefox if I need to debug html or css from website using web developer add-on, which I rarely do lately. Firefox 2 is slow, eats my memory, and doesn’t blend with my others gnome applications. Firefox 3 bring the design to the new level. It implements gnome icon theme, and better design integration.

I might turn back to firefox 3, since the power of add-ons in firefox is so tempting, and bring browsing to the next level. I have to try that.

D&D is the Beginning of All

I never play the real D&D. You know, using pen and paper. But the D&D concept is always amaze me. I always enjoy playing heavily based D&D game, and Neverwinter Night is always my all time favourite D&D-based game.

Then MMO era came. The randomness brought by D&D concept is getting nearer to the real pen and paper game. You’re not playing alone against computer. You meet people from the world, creating real imitation of randomness in life.

1up.com create an article to honor the death of Gary Gygax, the creator of D&D. It turns out D&D inspires many games, not just RPG. You should check the article, Five Things We’ve Learned From D&D. Nice one