Today is a very long day. Visitors from various universities came to FOSSCAR ’06 today.

We have a few key person came to FOSSCAR today:

Thanks for the CDs

Thanks for those who came today, and we do hope more visitors to FOSSCAR tomorrow. Hope to see you guys here..

Tomorrow will be more workshop session. Waiting for Bro Adli (get well soon!), Lau Kai Jern (xwings), Lee Chin Sheng (geek00l), Ditesh, Jaya Kumar and everyone, please come. Not forget, Khairul (Creative DR) and Bro Redzuan.

Tentative for tomorrow, refer here.. http://www.fosscar.com/v1/?2-day_schedule.

ICT Students Society (ICTSS) will be organizing Free & Open Source Software Carnival 2006. Please refer to the information below:

Date : 28th and 29th July 2006
Venue : Cultural Activity Center, IIUM

Main event of the day:

Open Source Showcase

All are invited to present their open source project. Hope everyone can get exposure of different skills and discipline in Open Source.

Also open for any business entity to promote their open source solution.

CodeFest

Open source project, there will be award to be given to best 2 softwares.

Talk

Please refer to the speaker list

Workshop

Please refer to our workshop speaker list

So, I fire up google and search for “php how to check referer”, I found the hacks to solve it. This script will actually check for referer before it loads. Specify your own server, replace www.mysite.com. If the request was not from www.mysite.com, it will just display, “Nice try”

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?>

Now, the website cannot view the radio blog in his website. Instead, there is a message comming out

Google keyword suggestion tool. It is a useful tool for Google AdWords user, to find the best keywords for their ads.

The maximum effect
Making the most out of your Google AdWords account

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/inside_google/

http://www.6smarketing.com/googlevisit/

The arrangement made a F-shape area, where user will browse from the left page, vertically, searching for pictures or keywords that they are looking for, and then move to the right side for any additional information.

Reference
http://www.enquiro.com/eye-tracking-pr.asp

My main reference was this book, Linux Server Hacks, by Oreilly written by Andrew Lockhart, hacks #63 as well and written by Rob Flickenger in Network Security Hacks by Oreilly, hacks #64. Rob Flickenger also discuss about the same thing. The article look indentical, just the ilustration look different. Mr Lockhart refering to Flickenger’s writing actually.

I downloaded Ntop into /usr/port/distfiles/ and extract it to /usr/port/distfiles/ntop-3.2rc1/. Before installing ntop, I just added a user ntop with group ntop.

su-2.05b# ./configure
su-2.05b# make
su-2.05b# gmake clean

Ntop need to use gmake instead of make. I have tried using make install command, and it will show an error.

“You might run it using make, please use gmake instead”
*Somthing like that la…

After installing, it have automatically created /usr/local/etc/ntop/ and all the default ssl sertificate file have been there. These are default certificate, and you can also create a new certificate, sign it your own. Now I just have to initialize ntop database and set an adaministrative password. Ntop use round robin database, which is a good database for storing traffic report and logging. The main advantage of this database is it will not grow and fill up your harddisk. New entry will remove the old entry out.

su-2.05b# ntop -A -u ntop -P /usr/local/etc/ntop
10/Sep/2005 20:30:23 Initializing GDBM...
10/Sep/2005 20:30:23 Started thread (1026) for network packet analyser.
10/Sep/2005 20:30:23 Started thread (2051) for idle hosts detection.
10/Sep/2005 20:30:23 Started thread (3076) for DNS address resolution.
10/Sep/2005 20:30:23 Started thread (4101) for address purge.

Please enter the password for the admin user:
Please enter the password again:
10/Sep/2005 20:30:29 Admin user password has been set.

Then we initialize ntop, with https at port 1234(example) and run it as a daemon:

su-2.05b# ntop -u ntop -P /usr/local/etc/ntop -W1234 -d

The tools just works fine in my FreeBSD 4.11 server. By now it already run for 3 days and 6 hours. At first when my ntop aged around 2 days, the page will load very slow, it take up to 1 hour to load. I dont know what happen. Now, it works just fine, and it can display all the graph nicely.

By the way, you might want to secure your page avoiding other people from viewing your server statistic. The best and simple solutions is using .htaccess and .htpasswd file. Please refer to my next blog entry, on securing folder using .htaccess and .htpasswd file.

Ntop.org
Linux Server Hacks [O'Reilly] – Download here
Network Security Hacks [O'Reilly] – Download here

All you need is just a Google account, and the client application. The application is just 900KB in size, and can be downloaded from here

The application is simple, small in size, and the file is all the software that you need. You dont need to redownload other program to use it. Google Talk support Voice Call with your buddies.

Download now, and start inviting your Google friends to your Buddy list!

We will be delivering content management of the official website. There’s some problem with the website, where we have to use IIUM server to host the website. The new policy this year disalow them to take other hosting provider to host their official website.

You can have a visit to their official website, http://www.iiu.edu.my/convest/.

The website is still under development. Need to have more modification on the design and features.