1. Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri 1430 Hijrah, Maaf Zahir dan Batin, dari saya, Mohammad Saifuddin Sairin.
2. Selamat mendirikan rumah tangga kepada Zulfitri bin Muhamad dan pasangannya, Haizun, yang berada di Beris Kubor Besar, Bachok, Kelantan. Semoga rumah tangga yang dibina mereka kekal ke akhir hayat.
3. Selamat bernikah kepada Mohd Firdaus bin Mazulkepli dan pasangannya, Noor Syakirah binti Zakaria, yang akan melangsungkan majlis pernikahan mereka pada 25 September depan. Semoga rumah tangga yang dibina mereka kekal ke akhir hayat juga.
4. Semoga Allah merahmati kita semua.

Hari ni 15 September!..esok pula 16 September..ada apa 16 September?..tu kena tanya “orang itu” la ye~

Pagi tadi, saya di “Buzz” seorang rakan pada Yahoo Messenger saya. Rakan ini beriya-iya benar menceritakan pengalamannya balik kampung pada hujung minggu yang lepas. Hajatnya ini sebenarnya dipendam sejak semalam, tetapi kerana kesibukan masing-masing, tiadalah cerita ini didengar sehingga pagi tadi.

kawan: ko bz ker?
saya: apa?
kawan: pasal semalam
kawan: aku nak cerita pasal ***
kawan: kat kampung aku
kawan: hehehe
saya: o0
kawan: ko nak dengar tak?
saya: apa dia?
saya: org mati?
kawan: hahaha
kawan: mana ada orang mati
saya: apa dia?
kawan: ni ha
kawan: ari tu aku pakai songkok tinggi
kawan: tu la punca nya
kawan: dia ckp aku ****
kawan: ok la aku senyum je la
kawan: pastu
kawan: diorang usik2
kawan: pastu sorang hamba allah ni ckp
kawan: tak kira la **** ke ***
kawan: yang penting islam
kawan: ko tau dia ckp apa
kawan: si *** ni
kawan: mana boleh sama…
kawan: air ngan minyak mana boleh sama
kawan: ko panas tak dengar
kawan: memang ayat cari gaduh je
kawan: aku dgr pun dh berdiri bulu roma tengkuk aku
kawan: start dari situ
kawan: mulalah
kawan: hamba allah ni tak menyebelahi mana2
kawan: dia ckp mana yang baik kita ikut
kawan: tapi bagi si *** ni
kawan: *** je la yang betul
kawan: pasal yg nik a**z ckp **** islam palestin
kawan: dia ckp nik a**z ckp islam plastik
kawan: hahaha!
kawan: pastu ada plak lagi satu *** ni
kawan: dia ckp
kawan: sebenarnya *** tak boleh di katakan parti politik
kawan: *** tu islam
kawan: aku nak je ckp kalau mcm tu tak yah la masuk ***
kawan: sebab aku memang dah islam
kawan: hahaha!!
kawan: lawak2

Maka ketawalah saya berdekah-dekah membaca cerita rakan saya tu. Inilah akibatnya apabila mentaliti pengikut dicuci habis-habisan sehingga menyimpang jauh daripada realiti kehidupan. Air dan kencing pun dah tak tau beza!

Harga minyak akan naik bermula 1 September 2009. Naik RM0.05 sen bagi RON 95 dari RM1.75 kepada RM1.80 dan naik RM0.25 sen untuk RON 97, dari RM1.80 kepada RM2.05 (per liter). Saya bukan jenis orang yang tahu sangat tentang kereta..cuma tahu pakai, isi minyak dan jalan..dengan harapan sampai ke destinasi. So, saya terpaksa mencari info tentang jenis minyak yang sesuai dengan kereta saya..

fuel type compatibility

Bila suda jumpa informasi yang dicari, ada masalah lagi…apakejadahnya pulak warna pam minyak untuk RON-RON semua ni?..aiseh..pening la..selama ni yang saya tau, untuk kereta saya-warna hijau, kononnya jaga enjin..kalau dulu-dulu sewa kereta, isi merah-supaya jimat…so, cari lagi dan klasifikasi warna untuk RON 95 yang baru ni adalah kuning, RON 92 (lama/akan dimansuhkan) warna merah, dan RON 97 warna hijau…tapi masalahnya pula, sejak sekian lama saya isi minyak di Shell, Petronas, Esso, etc. di Sabah ni, tak pernah pula nampak pam minyak warna kuning walaupun sejak beberapa bulan lepas RON 95 ni sudah diperkenalkan di semua stesen minyak…yang  biasa dilihat hanya merah, hijau, hitam, ungu (Esso)..hmm…ada yang kata merah itu sebenarnya RON 95..sudah diganti dari RON 92, cuma warna pam belum ditukar, mungkin tiada bajet.. hantam saja la….

..kembali blogging selepas ‘cuti rehat’ yang panjang

Beberapa hari yang lepas, semasa saya sedang asyik membuang masa membaca blog-blog manusia di internet ni, saya terjumpa satu artikel yang ditulis oleh Loke Siew Fook, Pengerusi Kebangsaan DAPSY (Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth). Siew Fook ini amatlah kurang ajar orangnya. Sudahlah menghina Dr. Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, Pengerusi Malaysian Chinese Muslim Associattion (MACMA) mengenai isu anak luar nikah mendiang Teoh Beng Hock, lepas tu dihinanya lagi YM Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah, Raja Muda Perak, berkenaan isu ‘bangang’ Perak yang tak sudah-sudah. Siew Fuck Fook ini bukan saja kurang ajar, malahan bacul. Dia tidak menghina Ridhuan Tee dalam blog rasminya, tapi dalam satu blog khas, blog sampah, http://sjsandteam.wordpress.com/. Dia memperlihatkan dirinya yang “baik” dalam blog rasminya, tapi pada masa yang lain, dia menjadi syaitan dalam blog sampah tadi. Dalam blog rasminya, semua komen yang tidak berkenaan, keluar tajuk, berbaur rasis, bla..bla.. kononnya akan ditapis tapi dalam blognya yang satu lagi, tiada langsung tapisan dilakukan (tapisan bermaksud, kalau menyebelahi dirinya, akan disiarkan, tapi kalau mengutuknya, akan dibuang…haha!). Selepas berita dia menghina Raja Muda Perak tersebar luas di dunia blogger, dibuangnya pula blog sampahnya itu. Mula-mula diletaknya status PRIVATE, lepas sehari kemudian, dibuangnya terus!…dia ingat dengan tindakan bodohnya itu, dia mampu hilangkan bukti yang dia menghina Raja Muda Perak?..Siew Fook, what a dumb shit you are..

sialan yang menghina raja

Manusia bernama Loke Siew Fook dari parti DAP ini semakin menampakkan sifat kurang ajar dan biadap dirinya dan partinya terhadap institusi raja di Malaysia. Kurang ajarnya manusia ini sampai sanggup menghina dan merendah-rendahkan taraf Raja Muda Perak seolah-olah dirinya saja yang betul dan patut diikuti. Manusia seperti ini, baru diberi sedikit kuasa sudah berani membuat onar, kalau diserahkan satu Malaysia kelak, entah apa lagi yang akan dibuatnya. Dengan kuasanya yang tidak seberapa, dipijak-pijaknya institusi Raja Melayu. Dengan pengetahuan ceteknya terhadap Islam, dihinanya seorang bertaraf Ustaz yang lebih arif dalam Islam. Manusia Biadap!……lepas dia buat semuanya, baling batu, sembunyi tangan. Blog dibuangnya, penulisannya sendiri dinafikannya!

Bacul~!

bacaan lanjut:

1. http://marahku.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-downright-sedition.html

2. http://zul4kulim.blogspot.com/2009/08/biadapnya-pemuda-dap.html

3. http://sejarahmelayu.blogspot.com/2009/08/dap-kafir-harbi-kurang-ajar-hina-dymm.html

I’ve been working throughout the whole week to solve the send mail problem by the new box. The thing is that I have created an online form and the completed form should be sent to an appointed email address. I have been using Sendmail as the MTA (Mail Transport Agent) but it fails to function properly. The log file shows that it failed to send the email to the appointed email hosts and whenever it spots a same domain name (local), it won’t send the email although I have continuously change the settings, rebooted the box and edited php.ini, etc. I tried to find the solutions in Ubuntu Forums and some of them suggests to replace the MTA from Sendmail to Exim. I have been a Sendmail user since my first cup of Ubuntu as it is used with the default PHP configuration and I never tried Exim, but since Sendmail is not working as it suppose to be, I’m giving Exim a try. A couple of my first trial with Exim still doesn’t solve the matter and I have to reinstall it a couple of times since I have mess with  the configuration file. Thankfully apt-get saves most of my time. (just run apt-get install exim4 <- current version)

The configuration of Exim is user friendly than Sendmail and it’s easier to understand the settings as the configuration’s user interface will take you step by step with details and explanation. To configure Exim by user interface, the following command should be issued;

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Manual configuration can be done by editing /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf file but then we have to run;

update-exim4.conf

and restart exim4 process for the configuration to take place. The process should be running and listening on port 25 (smtp)

Exim4 process running and listening on port 25

To check the installation, run mail command (install mailutils first) and try sending mail and refer the log file for the status. The mail may be arriving late to your inbox for the first time, sometimes delayed until 7 hours as it may be on queue for spam check by the recipient server but it should be OK after that.

Send mail and tail the log

There seems no error whatsoever on the log but I can’t receive the mail on my yahoo account. On the previous log, it says that yahoo gives a “421 message deferred” error. It seems that yahoo’s filtering the message and considering it as a spam, etc. No luck on Yahoo I guess..whatever..I won’t be using Yahoo for the apps. (and I don’t want to waste my time contacting them) . I tried to figure out why the message was not able to be received by Yahoo Mail and I think it must be something related to the mail header. So I open the received mail on my Gmail account and inspect the message header;

email header shows SPF: Neutral

The SPF (Sender Policy Framework), an extension of RFC2822, shows that the query was neutral. Maybe Yahoo Mail is being strict on this…maybe . As you can see on the above image, inspecting email headers is very interesting too as you can trace the sender’s IP, location, mail client, etc. These are some of the tricks used to bust spammers, anonymous mailers, etc. hehe~ . In the end, Exim works as my box’s new MTA.

References:
Ubuntu documentation to install Exim4
OpenSPF

It has been 3 years since I bought msaifuddin.com (19 June 2006) and tomorrow will be the expiration date for the domain’s yearly contract.

Every year, I will transfer my domain to a new domain registrar to save a few bucks.

A week before the expiration date, I will spend some time to monitor the TLD (top level domain) market prices and compare them with different companies.

The first time I bought msaifuddin.com, I am still naive about all the domain+web related things and I did not care much about the prices. I just pay..pay..and pay.

As time goes by, I learn that I can save a few ringgit/dollars by choosing company that provides discount coupons on their domain/hosting packages.

There are hundreds of companies which provides this kind of offers. A few clicks on Go0gle could help you to find one.

Discount coupons can save a few bucks from its original prices. If you can find a reliable company, domain registration/renewal should only cost below USD$10 (RM35~) and with discount coupons, sometimes the price can drop until 50% from its usual price.

Besides coupons, currency exchange also can help you to save money.

Domain name in sold in USD by most US companies is cheaper than the price offered by most Malaysian-based companies.

An average price for a domain in USD is about USD$10 each (you can find many below $10), while a domain in Ringgit Malaysia is about RM40. USD$1 ~= RM3.50. You do the maths!

Anyway, there are millions of companies in the internet that offers a great deal for your money. Just be wise when buying them.

Problems..they never stop!

(9-12/6)
I have set up a file server running on Dell PowerVault 725N using Win2k3 as the OS (Windows..makes life easier.. ). The box was set to join domain with PKK’s network so that every authorized user may access the box. Working with the access rules, domain configuration, etc. is something new to me . After spending about 2 hours trying to understand and experimenting with the configs, the box was successfully accessible throughout the network. I have also set a pointer record in the domain controller to resolve the box’s IP address. Everything went fine and I even run a few tests to make sure it is 100% ready for deployment. The only thing left that I have to do is to see the box’s user tomorrow morning and to teach her the steps to insert the data.

The next day when I am about to give step-by-step tutorial to the user, I tried to connect to the box from the user’s PC but it was inaccessible. It gives me error messages that the target path was not found and I have no authorization to log in to the target machine. Then I check the DNS settings on the domain controller-no problems found, checked the shared folder permission settings-no problems found. Strange. I go back to the server and reset the access permission, but it was still inaccessible. The ACL is intact, no changes whatsoever. Then I figured out it must be viruses messing with the box configuration. But after running a few manual check (still no AV installed), I couldn’t find any modification on the system/registry. Then I install Symantec AV, but the AV so suck that I have to remove it half an hour after installation. It uses too much memory and it couldn’t detect any problem (I am SURE there must be something hidden inside the system). Then I installed Kaspersky but it could not get the latest updates. It gives “Unable to resolve DNS” error. Something has override the DNS table and even flushdns won’t work. This is not some ordinary virus, it must be somekind of worm/rootkit. So, I installed GMER, a rootkit detector/remover. After running a scan, it detects that a “service” is hooking with the svchost process and has made a changes into the registry. A positive rootkit activity!..fuck!..I disabled the service and the Kaspersky updates were successful but the AV also failed to detect the rootkit source. Manual removal on the registry strings were unsuccessful. I could not delete/modify any of the modified settings. I deleted one of the hooked svchost and restarted the box, but Windows give a startup error and after running another rootkit scan, the “service” was restarted AGAIN! damn! It’s impossible to delete the “service” as it was hooked with a Windows file and even after I disable the service, the modified registry settings will override my changes!

What the rootkit does:

• modify registry settings and include itself as a legit system process
• block all DNS pointing to EVERY anti virus/anti rootkit sites (EVERY site like Nod32, AVG, Symantec, etc.)
• modify security policy settings, blocking all network connection

This is the cause to my problem. It overrides the security policy and remove EVERYONE access from the network and added 2 fake users with a random strings as the username.

So, how do I remove the rootkit?
- I formatted the box again. As simple as that since I cannot remove it manually.

After a fresh installation of Win2k3, the settings that took almost 2 hours in the first time, only takes about 10 minutes now.

The question that still bother me, where does the rootkit come from?
I left the box untouched not more than 20 hours after the OS installation, I didn’t access the internet, etc. Where is the source?

Last week was my battle with OS installation on Dell PowerEdge 4600 and after several failures of Fedora installation on the box, I finally manage to get Ubuntu 9.04 running as the system! A big relief for a n0ob like me. So, the OS problem was settled and it took me the whole day (last Tuesday) to finish the installation on a couple of servers. Application installation and updates went smoothly. Among the installed components were OpenSSL for additional cryptography on the box for web apps deployment, Apache2 as the web server, MySQL as the database engine and PHPMyAdmin as the database management and VSFTPD for FTP server deployment. Another box (intended for application server) was left untouched after the OS installation as we were running out of DMZ port on the router

The server will be used for PKK’s new web server and the next day, the web development begin. The old site is using Joomla 1.0 with about 14000+ users profile that  have to be transferred to Joomla 1.5 database. The migration was  a bit difficult and confusing not only because of the massive data that I have to handle, but also because of the differences between both versions’ database structures. However, the migration was successful and all of the user profiles remain intact.

I’ve installed Fedora Core 6 on Dell PowerEdge 4600 before and this whole week I’ve been trying to upgrade the previous installation to Fedora 10. However, I can’t get it running on the box. The installation went smoothly without any error but whenever I have to reboot the system to complete the installation, it cannot load the newly installed OS. I kept getting many types of errors, SCSI…PS/2…boot…dev/sda…fail…bla..bla..and bla…I have no idea how to eliminate all of those stupid warnings. I’ve tried fixing the bios, boot, RAID config, etc. but it seems that everything that I’ve done were not working. The errors are still there! damn!…I’m getting tired with those stupid servers! I’ve got 3 boxes to be set up by next week, one for web server, another one for application server and the last one for proxy server. Previously all of them were running Windows Server 2k/2k3 and my job is to eliminate those Wins from the boxes.

I will be trying Ubuntu 9.04 on those boxes by next week. I want to test Fedora 11 on those boxes but the launching date  of Fedora 11 Leonidas has been extended from 2nd to 9th June 2009.

I saw another interesting search terms on my Feedjit widget, “universiti malaysia sabah result hack“. As usual, I LOL~

hacking UMS exam result?...LOL!

The person was redirected to my site from Google Search as my blog came in the 10th place for the results. It seems that the person is REALLY desperate to change his/her score. Well, I think he came to the “right” place.. (…cuma tak beri salam pada ‘tuan rumah’…main jenguk dan blah je..)

*p/s: let me know if you have found your way in..hehehe~*