Ake's Blog

I'm not dead! I haven't update my blog for a month becasue I really have no time. I had to study from 8:40 to 17:20 every day due to the great flood. Agh! I hate school time. I just finished my final exams yesterday. I feel really great now, just like getting out of the jail. Let's come back to the story about Latex. I had to write a software architecture document as an assignment.

In my security and cryptography class, My teacher showed me an interesting program called outguess. What it does it hide a plain text into a jpg file. This method is known as steganography. The program will read an input text file and slightly change pixels color in the image in such the way that it is not going to be visible. Here is an example of putting some text into an image:

I had to set a cron job to back up mysql database and its format I wanted is like this

I have to install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a machine as a sales terminal which will run Ruby on Rails. The problem that I encounter is Zyxel NWD-270N, a wireless adaptor. At the first glance, it looks like it should work out of box. Zyxel NWD-270N supposes to use rt2870sta driver. Unfortunately, there seems to be something wrong with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS that tries to load rt2800usb and it does not work.

It is a very good time to launch this blog on New Year. I aim to post everything I learned from school and work as a technical journey. I hope that it might be useful for readers and me someday in the future. Everything is like a dot. In order to understand things around, it is important to find the way to connect those dots. It is good to have a variety of knowledge and skills.