New Snapshot Update for Pfsense 1.2

Yuhuuuuu, finally, a new Snapshot update for Pfsense 1.2.1

Although it’s not final yet, some pfSense’s forum users claimed it is quite stable to be applied to production pfSense.

Version 1.3 is still undergoing major make over, so this snapshot update is the only available choice to give a new blood to pfsense.

From the wiki Known Issues in 1.2.1 Snapshots :

Fixed
Load balancer was initially broken – problem with fping pfPort, fixed July 7. 
DHCP Server broken – devfs changed in 7.0, fixed as of July 9. 
VLAN problems – Appear to be resolved as of July 11. 
dhclient not using assigned DNS servers? – can’t replicate
PPTP server – apparently had issues, now working. 
Wireless has issues – apparently getting bitten by FreeBSD changes. see forum
DHCP clients don’t get DNS server assigned when forwarder is disabled and General page left blank – I think this is “by design”, and how it works in 1.2, but it needs to be verified that the two display the same behavior. 
Upgrades appear to not function with the 6.3-based 1.2 release
Various package issues
IPsec issues – new setkey causing problems with IPsec status page, other issues resolved

Remaining

* Verify all packages
* VLAN issues
* ICMP issue – if the load balancer is pinging the same thing as the RRD quality graphs (which is the norm, as both typically use WAN gateway IPs), the load balancer will flap WAN connections. 
* grub problem – “The file /mntboot/grub/stage1 not read correctly”

UPDATE :

I’ve came across this post in pfsense forum, regarding WAN flapping UP/DOWN in MultiWAN mode. The problem has been discovered, it’s the FreeBSD 7.0 issue:

When running simultaneous ping processes from the host to the same target on a FreeBSD host where 2 different processes ping the same host, one process will see the echo replies from the other process and fail.

We came to see this on pfSense 1.2.1 which is based on FreeBSD 7.0p4 and is using fping to monitor the gateways.

People in our forum started complaining that gateways were invalidly marked as down. More investigation from the users led to the discovery that out of sequence replies were causing fping to fail.

 It’s very sad news, so, in the mean time, my dear pfSense at Tekim, you will have to wait a little longer

Integrating Flickr + Joomla 1.5 + MetaWeblogAPI

This post will show you how to post to your Joomla 1.5 sites within Flickr, by utilizing MetaweblogAPI for Joomla

1. Login to www.flickr.com, if you’re already have YahooID, then use it. Then, at your Home page, click “Do you have a blog” link

2. There will be a description page about this feature, then we click “set up your blog”

3. You will be taken to Your Account / Blog Page, then you click “Set Up Your Blog”

4. We had to answer about what kind of weblog we had. Since we’re gonna use Joomla + Metaweblog, then choose “MetWeblog API Enabled Blog”

5. Then you must fill in some login details for your Joomla Site. Notice the syntax :
“http://joomlasite.domain/xmlrpc/index.php”. Don’t forget to fill in Username & Password (for your joomla site). Click Next.

6. Next, Flickr will try to connect to your website. When it succeeded, you’ll notice the name of the Label & Weblog will match the name of your Joomlasite title

7. Flickr will display a message state that the blog has been added to flickr. Optionally, you could click “create a custom posting template now”

8. Choose templates which suit your purpose.

9. You’ll see the template preview, if you’re satisfied, then Click “Use This”

10. Then you’ll be redirected to Blog List page. You can make change settings, add another blogs, or test posting. We’ll try the later. Click on “Test Post”

11. Go to you joomla site, and if everything works correctly, you will see this kind of post on your website:

Congratulation, you’re done!

Technorati Tags: joomla, flickr, metaweblog

Uploading your picture to picasaweb

Today, I’m going to record my steps in uploading image to picasaweb using Google Picasa3. Make sure you have a google account too.

1. Download Picasa3. The direct link is here

http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa3-setup.exe

2. Assuming everybody is having no problem in installing Picasa 3, then let’s move on to the next step. Running the application:

3. Notice, there is a link on the top-left of the screen, click it:

4. There will be new window open, a picasaweb login page. Use your Google/Gmail login, or if you dont’t have it yet, just click Sign up

5. When you choose Sign up for Web Albums, Picasa3 will bring up your default browser and take you to registration screen:

6. Assuming we are done with google account setting, you will notice something different in the top-left of Picasa3:

7. Now, everytime you want to upload something, simply choose the image(s), then right click, choose “Upload to Web Albums”:

8. A new window will pop-up, show you list of albums and file size you can choose, and storage space remain :

9. Don’t forget, click Upload when you are happy with your setting. Have fun!

Technorati Tags: google, google picasa, picasaweb

How to post to your Joomla with Scribefire 3.0.1

This post is made with the help of Firefox & Scribefire 3.0.1

I’m still having problem uploading image UPDATE 26-09-2008 Problem solved, browser problem

1. Go to Joomlacode to get the plugin, then save the ZIP file.

2. Enough said, then install the plugin using the joomla installer.

3. Go to Plugin Manager, make sure you DISABLE any other xmlrpc plugin, and ENABLE only XML-RPC-metaWeblog API

4. Here is my setting

5. Go to Scribefire website, and download the Add-on, after a browser restart, a wizard will pop-up

6. Scribefire will complain it having problem auto-detecting setting, no worry, just click “Configure Manually“:

7. Then, select  “Metaweblog API” from the drop down, please make sure the API URL is using this syntax:

http://yourblog.domain/xmlrpc/index.php

Click, next, and if everything is set up properly, we’re done!

Ease the deployment of PCMAV in our campus with installer

With the help of Inno Setup, I’m still trying to create a better installer to ease the process of installing and configuring of the famous PCMAV Antivirus