Singularity on the Plane

Windows reinstall gone awfully wrong, contd. - 9:32 PM 7/16/2006

Luckily, Mas Sahal gave me permission to use hard disks on BID to transfer my data before repairing the partition. So on 13th I brought my hard disk there.

The day before, I had made a “free space” list of Mas Syafiq, Jay, and Hakim’s computer. I plugged my HD on Hakim’s comp because his comp’s case was opened. Jay’s HD had the most space but unfortunately other computers can’t access Jay’s HD using the Windows File and Printer Sharing protocol. Copying to Hakim’s HD was of course nonproblematic but copying to Mas Syafiq’s comp is. The speed is of course slower than a local copy and the network sometimes disconnects itself.

After enough copying to Hakim’s comp and Mas Syafiq’s comp I unplugged the HD and plugged it on Jay’s comp. I remembered half-installing Ubuntu on a partition some days before, so I reformatted the partition to NTFS for extra space.

The whole process was really time consuming. I was literally a pain in other’s *** that day, disturbing their workflow. When the last folder (”readings”) was being transferred, I visited LTI for a while before going back to BID.

When I was back there, Jay’s computer had been restarted and it was found out that it wasn’t bootable. It turned out that the partition I thought was populated by a half-done Ubuntu was already replaced by a fully functioning Mandriva. Since the boot loader was installed there, it dissapeared when I reformatted it.

Attempts to make the computer boot directly to the Windows partition failed. Therefore I decided to finish my hard disk trouble so that Mandriva can be installed back on Jay’s computer.

I plugged both my and Jay’s HD on Hakim’s computer. Then I proceded to delete partitions from the leftmost. However, before deleting all of them (”archive” and “transfer”), I noticed that my hard disk size is already detected properly. I could also create new partitions. So I left the the remaining partitions intact and hope that things would work out by just creating the need partitions.

After tranfering data back from Hakim and Jay’s hard disk, I plugged my HD to Mas Syafiq’s computer to get the remaining data. The process took a really long time and by the time BID will close the transfer wasn’t finished.

I asked Mas Syafiq the permission to borrow his HD, and he kindfully allowed me. So the task was finished at home.

Now I have a fresh Windows install and there seems to be no partition problems.

Running GTK# apps without Mono - 9:27 PM 7/16/2006

In my system, .NET 2.0 and Mono 1.1.16 is installed. I just found out that if the GTK# DLLs (gtk-sharp.dll, gdk-sharp.dll, glib-sharp.dll, atk-sharp.dll, pango-sharp.dll) are in the same folder as the executable, .NET will be able to run it.

As far as I remember, this isn’t the case with Mono 1.1.15. I found this “feature” by accidentally double clicking my GTK# app.

How did I get here??? - 10:54 PM 7/15/2006

Wordpress has a very cool feature which lets blog owners know what search keys people type to get to their blog.

To see this info, login into your Wordpress account and then from the “Dashboard” go to “Blog Stats”.

Here are the search keys that drive people here for the last 7 days…

Indonesian Grammar PDF
rpg games Create a character
when i reformat will my other partitions
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pictures of grumpy dwarf
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artikel pernikahan islami
jacoto kombilo
"moyo go studio" vs smartgo
folder option,task manager doesn't appea
mp3 resize free software
explorer² open source
mencegah untuk pacaran
JODOH dalam pandangan ISLAM
Windows UPDATE 8007007f
ubuntu earphone jack no sound
wordpress memory problem
w32.rontokbro@mm + removing
error 8007007f
speaker left/right change
masalah hubungan pacaran
Unable to load DLL (gtksharpglue).
media player classic dual core
breezy plane
I've regret zip
better archiver than 7-zip
making a life rpg
tatakau means
c# capitalize first word letter
Parts inside your printer are near the e
berpegangan tangan
mimpi basah dalam islam
JquickTrans doesnt work with SP2
Sekip Unit II
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mnemosyne flash card
Boab
breezy plane
adj-no

It’s interesting that a piece of writing I composed some time ago is visited a lot through a search engine.

How to get CakePHP up and running on Windows - 10:22 PM 7/15/2006

Cake is a PHP web development framework which employs the MVC model. I will describe how to set it up on a win32-based machine.

First install xampp (the lite version is fine) which consists of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. The install process just copies some files to a specified folder.

Next, run “setup_xampp.bat” located on the root xampp folder.

After that open “httpd.conf” located on “apache\conf” folder. Then uncomment the line that contains “mod_rewrite”. This is needed to enable Cake’s pretty URL such as “http://localhost/cake/users/view” instead of “http://localhost/cake/index.php/users/view”.

Afterwards, extract Cake somewhere in the “htdocs” folder. I usually put it in “htdocs\cake”.

The last step is to copy “database.php.default” in “app\config” of Cake’s folder to “database.php”. Then change the “$default” variable to suit your database settings. An example is:

class DATABASE_CONFIG
{
   var $default = array('driver' => 'mysql',
      'connect' => 'mysql_connect',
      'host' => 'localhost',
      'login' => 'root',
      'password' => '',
      'database' => 'test',
      'prefix' => '');
}

Which works with the default MySQL in xampp.

To see if things are working properly, run “xampp-control.exe” in xampp’s root folder and then start Apache and MySQL from there:

After that point your browser to “http://localhost/[cake's root folder]” for example “http://localhost/cake”.

Here’s some goodies:

Cake 1.1.5.3148

Cake 1.1.6.3264. Cleaner???

To learn how to use it, read “The Cake Blog Tutorial” in CakePHP Manual.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 at 5:57 pm by Agro Rachmatullah and is filed under Hardware & Software, Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.