VMware中使用RHEL5的小技巧

在用VMware学习Redhat的时候需要开启虚拟机实际联系，但是由于字体系统等的关系操作起来很不方便，一般情况下我都喜欢一边放着视频一边进行操作，这时候需要对系统进行一些小的调整以便我们更好的学习。
1.安装VMware-Tools
如果不安装VMware-Tools的话对于学习来说实在是很不方便，因此这是必不可少的第一步。具体给RHEL5安装VMware-Tools的方法请见这篇文章：给RHEL5装上vmware-tools 。

2.调整系统字体
字体过大会影响我们的观看，字体过小会让人感觉疲劳，这个因个人喜好而定。

3.调整Gnome菜单高度
Gnome默认主题的菜单都很高，但是软件过多条目又长往往浪费掉我们一部分时间。这里给出调整的方法：
先查看自己使用的是什么主题（System >> Preferences >> Theme）。如果是系统则存在于/usr/share/themes下面，如果是自己安装的一般存在于HOME目录的.themes下面。现在只介绍系统主题的修改办法，自定主题用同样的方法即可。

我用的是Clearlooks-Deepsky的主题，那就编辑他的主题文件：

sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks-DeepSky/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

在主题文件的最上面加上下面这段代码：
gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=16,16:panel=16,16:gtk-button=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=16,16"

gtk-button-images = 1 # 1 = enable / 0 = disable icons on buttons

例如我的gtkrc文件：

然后再选中修改过的主题就会把系统菜单高度缩小了：

这样子在学习的时候就会赏心多了。

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RHCE学习资料

由于RHCE考试用的是英文的试题，所以学习的时候还是用英文比较好。放出三本官方教材以及两套视频下载地址。

RHCE考试官方英语教材（这个是必学的教材）：

内含RH033,RH133,RH253
http://www.rayfile.com/zh-cn/files/80da1994-d4aa-11dd-9c1a-0014221b798a/

RHCE台湾视频教程（非官方，视频不用贪多，研究透一个就很不错了，非标准普通话，这个比另一个资源能小点，东西没少，还多三个PPT）

台湾培亚RHCE 033中文视频
http://www.rayfile.com/files/611dedf3-c752-11dd-8310-0014221b798a/
台湾培亚RHCE 133中文视频
http://www.rayfile.com/files/61925326-c7a5-11dd-b6cd-0014221b798a/
台湾培亚RHCE 253中文视频
http://www.rayfile.com/files/cb6f6a9c-c52d-11dd-950e-0014221b798a/

LinuxCBT出的RHCE考试用视频（基于RHEL4系统英语讲授，练练听力也好）

共284个Flash视频文件
ftp://221.238.195.3/uploads/computer/LinuxCBT.EL4.Edition%5Bwww.TopSage.com%5D.iso

进行完这些培训，还可以到下面的网址进行简单的测试，看看自己学习情况如何。

http://www.redhat.com.cn/training/assess/

惊喜啊，硬盘分区类型变光驱的更改搞定啦

还是前两天的那个问题，我把分区H和DVD光驱G的盘符颠倒了一下，但是不知为什么硬盘分区H的类型也成了DVD光驱。

每次找东西看到H盘那个DVD的图标总是很郁闷。今天在网上找了好久好久也没遇到个我这样的问题，就算遇到了大家也都说重装机，重分区什么的。最后，hoho凭着我超强的毅力在注册表里面找了个遍找到了解决的办法，现在放出来：

方法非常简单，打开注册表，定位到

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons

下面的子键应该只有一个H就是我的光驱盘符，但是现在多了一个G（图中红色方框中的）也就是上图中的VMWARE分区的盘符，只要删除多出来的那个G子键就可以了。

呶~好了吧！

给RHEL5装上vmware-tools

安装完RHEL5以后不能安装VMware tools。在以前的部分版本中很容易就能安装上，就算是部分安装不上的也可以通过一个叫vmware-any-any-udate114.tar.gz的文件进行修正。可惜到了RHEL5就不行了，这里给出解决办法。
首先下载VMware Workstation 6.0.3 的 VMware tools for linux。
地址是：http://www.vmware.cn/Soft/1053.html 下载其中的linux.iso文件，用工具下，可能有点慢。
下载完成之后给RHEL5挂载LiveCD。先查看系统本身的内核：

# rpm -qa grep
kernel
kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.el5

用管理员帐号登陆并安装以下两个包：

# su
# rpm -ivh /media/CDROM/Server/kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.rpm
# rpm -ivh /media/CDROM/Server/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.rpm

这两个包必须同时安装上，不然据说会有很严重的问题说。
卸载光驱或者重新启动，这时grub菜单会多出来一个-xen的启动选项。然后再挂载linux.iso（网站上下载的linux.iso需要将linux.iso解压出来，放置在哪无所谓）。在RHEL里面复制VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz到桌面上。

# tar -zxf VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# su
# ./vmware-install.pl

里面除了选项为NO的改成YES以外其他的都保持默认。设置完分辨率后屏幕就变黑了，等出完四行字就算安装完成了。这时候重启，再进入RHEL5就可以随意的与宿主机互交了。很简单吧！

XP下 Compaq V3416TX 本本光驱盘符丢失及驱动错误的解决办法

前两天设置调换了一下H盘和G盘（光驱盘符）的盘符名，不记得是不是设置完之后出现的错误，今天发现光驱盘符不见了，查了下驱动发现在MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-850S的上面多了一个感叹号，磁盘管理里面也不见了DVD光驱。郁闷的很，本来准备重装呢，因为正在和女朋友聊天不敢耽误了，于是乎找了很多的帮助居然解决了。但原理我实在搞不懂，这里就把我的步骤摆出来，如果有同样问题的，不妨试试，指不定哪一步就对了。

1.打开注册表找到HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom 将右边的Autorun改成1。

2.打开注册表找到HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} 删除里面的UpperFilters 和 LowerFilters 两个子项（我的注册表里面只有UpperFilters，就删除这一个好了）。在删除 UpperFilters 和 LowerFilters 之前，必须确保您处于适当的注册表子项位置。要确认您处于适当的注册表子项位置，请确保 Default 的数据数值为 DVD/CD-ROM（我这里是“DVD/CD-ROM 驱动器”），且 Class 的数据数值为 CDROM。

3.在“设备管理器”里卸载光驱驱动，我的就是卸载MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-850S。

4.由于在外国网站上看到有因为iTunes错误删除导致的驱动丢失问题，所以最后我又把iTunes和QuickTime重新安装了回来。

5.重启。

恭喜！您的问题可能就此解决了！一点点经验，希望能给大家带来点帮助。

对Linux美化的一点点总结

一开始用Linux完全就是被可以自由更改整个系统的优点所折服。一直对Matrix有种着迷感，喜欢那种复古的绿色，于是一开始Linux的界面被自己做成Matrix的样子，很有成就感，包括Gnome KDE Fluxbox都被我成功的Matrixal过。之后出来Compiz Fusion又开始折腾特效，这一路走下来系统界面变换了无数次，但是大部分时间都用在这个上面了，前一段时间看RHCE认证觉得自己应该很Easy就过了，可是刚做的RHCE自我测试让我发现自己错了。用了三年Linux换了很多的发行版却只能在认证测试中得到21分，听人说要70分才可能过。唉，不过现在发现还不算晚，主要想告诉各位学习Linux一定要分清主次，不要浪费时间做没用的事情。这里是谈总结的，总得谈点界面美化的经验。
众所周知学习Linux需要很强的英语知识，一方面是命令都是英语的，另一方面国人在Linux汉化方面的工作做得很不够，包括国产Linux一样如此。系统里面中英文混杂的感觉很不爽，最不爽的是中文环境的Bash只能在X-windows里面正常显示，一旦系统出错进不了X了就得靠猜的了，所以玩Linux还是用英文的好，一般我的locale都会设置成这样的：
系统语言选择English （United States），这样就舒服多了。

在X的选择上我钟情于Gnome，从这点上看我就可能与Linux高手无缘。。。（以前总是看高手说自己钟情于KDE环境），Fluxbox等等资源占用率小的外壳是很帅，但是真的不方便，而且帅是仅限于系统的，如果要将美化应用到软件上就得学学QT了，应该是QT，我没有深入研究，不敢乱说。

Gnome系统美化最常用的网站当然就是大名鼎鼎的Gnome-look.org了，这个网站也是我每次重装系统后更新时必上的网站。应用GTK主题，图标包，在加上我最钟情的Conky（Conky是一个超轻量级的System Monitor软件）。我的Conky有两个，一个在顶上显示系统资源使用情况和时间等，还有一个在桌面右边显示具体系统资源占用情况，网络使用情况以及MPD播放器。给出两个config文件，想要的拿去，没时间改里面的具体内容，版权是别人的哦，我只作修改自用。

Config File 1－－－－顶部：
# mod by uel
#avoid flicker
double_buffer yes
#no_buffers yes

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window yes
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type widget
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

#borders
draw_borders no
border_margin 2

#shades
draw_shades no
#draw_graph_borders yes
#draw_borders yes

#position
gap_x 1
gap_y 788
#alignment bottom_right
alignment bottom_left

#behaviour
update_interval 1

#colour
#default_color 000000
default_color D6D6D6
#default_color bfbfbf
#default_shade_color 000000
own_window_colour 202020
#draw_borders_colour 000000
#draw_graph_borders_colour 000000
#484432 95956B

#font
use_xft yes
xftfont BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=12

#to prevent window from moving
use_spacer no
minimum_size 1278 10

#mpd
mpd_host localhost
mpd_port 6600
# ${offset -22}
##Mpd: ${color E8BCA7}${font}${mpd_smart}
##Swap: ${color E8BCA7}${font} ${swap} ${color 292929}
## Home: ${color E8BCA7}${font}${fs_free /home}
##${color E8BCA7}${time %A, %d %B}
##${color} Mpd: ${color E8BCA7}${font}${mpd_smart}${color 292929} ${color E8BCA7}${color}
TEXT
${voffset -1} Cpu1: ${color 9AB7DC}${cpu cpu1}% ${color 292929} ${color}Cpu2:${color 9AB7DC} ${cpu cpu2}% ${color 292929}<${color} P: ${color BB4E3F}${font}${processes}${color} R: ${color 7FBB3F}${font}${running_processes}${color 292929} ${color} Mem: ${color E8BCA7}${font}${mem}${color}${color 292929} ${color} Uptime: ${color 8D41CC}${font}${uptime_short}${color 292929} ${color E8BCA7}${font}${downspeed wlan0} Kb/s ${color} ${totaldown wlan0} down${color 292929} ${color} ${color E8BCA7}${upspeed wlan0} Kb/s ${color} ${totalup wlan0} up${color 292929} ${color}Main: ${color E8BCA7}${font}${fs_free /} ${color} ${color 292929} ${color}Temp: ${color D3BE4C}${font}${acpitemp}${color}C ${color 292929} ${alignr}${color}${time %A, %d %B} ${color E8BCA7}${time %H:%M}
Config File 2－－－－桌面：
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_windows_type widget
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

#borders
draw_borders no
border_margin 1

#font
use_xft yes
xftfont BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=12

#behaviour
update_interval 1

#colour
#default_color 000000
default_color D6D6D6
#default_color bfbfbf
#default_shade_color 000000
own_window_colour 202020
#draw_borders_colour 000000
#draw_graph_borders_colour 000000
#484432 95956B
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

#on_bottom no


# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 260 5
maximum_width 300

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders no

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#minimum_size 10 10
gap_x 20
gap_y 40
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# none, xmms, bmp, audacious, infopipe (default is none)
#xmms_player bmp

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Possible variables to be used:
#
# Variable Arguments Description
# acpiacadapter ACPI ac adapter state.
# acpifan ACPI fan state
# acpitemp ACPI temperature.
# adt746xcpu CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
# adt746xfan Fan speed from therm_adt746x
# battery (num) Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM
# battery. ACPI battery number can be
# given as argument (default is BAT0).
# buffers Amount of memory buffered
# cached Amount of memory cached
# color (color) Change drawing color to color
# cpu CPU usage in percents
# cpubar (height) Bar that shows CPU usage, height is
# bar's height in pixels
# downspeed net Download speed in kilobytes
# downspeedf net Download speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# exec shell command Executes a shell command and displays
# the output in torsmo. warning: this
# takes a lot more resources than other
# variables. I'd recommend coding wanted
# behaviour in C and posting a patch :-).
# execi interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval.
# command Interval can't be less than
# update_interval in configuration.
# fs_bar (height), (fs) Bar that shows how much space is used on
# a file system. height is the height in
# pixels. fs is any file on that file
# system.
# fs_free (fs) Free space on a file system available
# for users.
# fs_free_perc (fs) Free percentage of space on a file
# system available for users.
# fs_size (fs) File system size
# fs_used (fs) File system used space
# hr (height) Horizontal line, height is the height in
# pixels
# i2c (dev), type, n I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev
# may be omitted if you have only one I2C
# device. type is either in (or vol)
# meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp
# meaning temperature. n is number of the
# sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on
# your local computer.
# kernel Kernel version
# loadavg (1), (2), (3) System load average, 1 is for past 1
# minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for
# past 15 minutes.
# machine Machine, i686 for example
# mails Mail count in mail spool. You can use
# program like fetchmail to get mails from
# some server using your favourite
# protocol. See also new_mails.
# mem Amount of memory in use
# membar (height) Bar that shows amount of memory in use
# memmax Total amount of memory
# memperc Percentage of memory in use
# new_mails Unread mail count in mail spool.
# nodename Hostname
# outlinecolor (color) Change outline color
# pre_exec shell command Executes a shell command one time before
# torsmo displays anything and puts output
# as text.
# processes Total processes (sleeping and running)
# running_processes Running processes (not sleeping),
# requires Linux 2.6
# shadecolor (color) Change shading color
# stippled_hr (space), Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
# (height)
# swapbar (height) Bar that shows amount of swap in use
# swap Amount of swap in use
# swapmax Total amount of swap
# swapperc Percentage of swap in use
# sysname System name, Linux for example
# time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more
# information about format
# totaldown net Total download, overflows at 4 GB on
# Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't
# seem to be a way to know how many times
# it has already done that before torsmo
# has started.
# totalup net Total upload, this one too, may overflow
# updates Number of updates (for debugging)
# upspeed net Upload speed in kilobytes
# upspeedf net Upload speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# uptime Uptime
# uptime_short Uptime in a shorter format
#
# seti_prog Seti@home current progress
# seti_progbar (height) Seti@home current progress bar
# seti_credit Seti@hoome total user credit


# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument
#${font Dungeon:style=Bold:pixelsize=10}I can change the font as well
#${font Verdana:size=10}as many times as I choose
#${font Perry:size=10}Including UTF-8,
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
#${font Grunge:size=12}${time %a %b %d}${alignr -25}${time %k:%M}
#mpd
mpd_host localhost
mpd_port 6600


##${color a4a4a4}${alignc 2}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=18}${execi 1 ~/.conky/scripts/mpd.awk}
TEXT

${color #ffffff}CPU Usage PID CPU% MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color #ffffff} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color #ffffff} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color #ffffff} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color #ffffff} ${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${color #ffffff} ${top name 6} ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6}
${color #ffffff} ${top name 7} ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7} ${top mem 7}
${color #ffffff}Mem Usage
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color #ffffff} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color #ffffff} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}
${color #ffffff} ${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem cpu 4} ${top_mem mem 4}
${color #ffffff} ${top_mem name 5} ${top_mem pid 5} ${top_mem cpu 5} ${top_mem mem 5}
${color #ffffff} ${top_mem name 6} ${top_mem pid 6} ${top_mem cpu 6} ${top_mem mem 6}
${color #ffffff} ${top_mem name 7} ${top_mem pid 7} ${top_mem cpu 7} ${top_mem mem 7}

${color #ffffff}Network: ${color lightgrey}${addr wlan0}

${color #ffffff}Down:${color lightgrey} ${downspeed wlan0} k/s $alignr${color #ffffff} Up:${color lightgrey} ${upspeed wlan0} k/s
${color #EEFF4F}${downspeedgraph wlan0 27,120 000000 ffffff 180} $alignr${color #EEFF4F}${upspeedgraph wlan0 27,120 000000 EEFF4F 25}
${color lightgrey}${totaldown wlan0} $alignr${color lightgrey}${totalup wlan0}

${color #ffffff}Port(s)${alignr}#Connections
${color #ffffff}Inbound: ${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} ${color #ffffff}Outbound: ${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}${color #ffffff}Total: ${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color #ffffff}Inbound Connection ${alignr} Local Service/Port${color lightgrey}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 1}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 2}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 3}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 4}


${font}${color 668ABF}${alignc}${voffset -15}${mpd_status}

${color 9AB7DC}Random:${color a4a4a4}${alignr}${mpd_random}

${color 9AB7DC}Artist:
${color a4a4a4}${mpd_artist}
${color 9AB7DC}Title:
${color a4a4a4}${mpd_title}
${color 9AB7DC}Album:
${color a4a4a4}${mpd_album}

${color a4a4a4}${mpd_elapsed}${alignr}${mpd_length}
${color 668ABF}${mpd_bar 3,85}

比如两个文件分别保存为.conkyrc_top和.conkyrc_desktop在用户目录的.conky文件夹里面。那么在/usr/local/bin/ 下面新建一个文件conky_all.

# sudo nano /usr/local/bin/conky_all

文件填入以下三行：

#!/bin/bash
conky -c ~/.conky/.conkyrc_top &
conky -c ~/.conky/.conkyrc_desktop

退出并保存。然后加入执行权限：

# sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/conky_all

加入到开机启动程序里面：
Main Menu >> System >> Administration >> Sessions >> Add
像这样填入：
这样就完成了，效果图：
还算可以吧，剩下的设置都很简单，就不赘述了。
总之，这只是我个人的经验，可以说单是Conky的经验，希望大家不要总把眼睛放在外在的东西上，多学点有用的东西才是第一位的。

下决心考RHCE了！

我性格中存在太大的惰性，只要不是下决心做的事情总是不会特别用心。想考RHCE已经很久了，一开始是时间不够的时候总想着学校考试为先，现在考完试了但用电脑还是不去做正事。只好下决心去做这件事了，可能会很难，但总比天天空想要好。今天做了下RHCE的自我评估测试题，共12页，似乎很差啊～！只有21分，需要进行培训。万事开头难～这个就留作通过认证考试以后看吧，Fight！

我又回来了<附博客模板>

以前自己建的博客挂掉了。。。所有文章丢失。。。我的心啊~~~只好回来了，还是Google的东西好哈，以前觉得Blogger的模板难看，网上找的又总用不了。为了稳定只好牺牲一下。我不太喜欢太复杂的模板，现在这个是用Blogger提供的基础模板Herbert上修改的，这个样子个人觉得还算满意。现在给出模板的代码，喜欢的就拿去吧：
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<meta content='GWGgp/NB6IXNcjSWRSnwinNduxUiVSTNeTzbQGwRt4M=' name='verify-v1'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
* Blogger Template Style
* Herbert
*
* by Jason Sutter
* Updated by Blogger Team
*/

/*
* Variable definitions
* ====================

<Variable name="mainBgColor" description="Page Background Color"
type="color" default="#ffffff" / value="#000000">
<Variable name="mainTextColor" description="Text Color"
type="color" default="#000000" / value="#008000">

<Variable name="titleBgColor" description="Blog Title Background Color"
type="color" default="#ff4500" / value="#008000">
<Variable name="titleColor" description="Blog Title Color"
type="color" default="#fffafa"/ value="#000000">
<Variable name="descriptionBgColor" description="Description Background Color"
type="color" default="#ffebcd" / value="#000000">
<Variable name="descriptionColor" description="Blog Description Color"
type="color" default="#9e5205" / value="#008000">

<Variable name="dateHeaderColor" description="Date Header Color"
type="color" default="#777777" / value="#008000">

<Variable name="postTitleColor" description="Post Title Color"
type="color" default="#555555" / value="#00ff00">
<Variable name="postTitleBgColor" description="Post Title Background Color"
type="color" default="#eeeeee" / value="#004000">

<Variable name="postFooterColor" description="Post Footer Color"
type="color" default="#444444" / value="#004000">

<Variable name="mainLinkColor" description="Link Color"
type="color" default="#de7008" / value="#00ff00">
<Variable name="mainVisitedLinkColor" description="Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#e0ad12" / value="#004000">


<Variable name="sidebarTitleColor" description="Sidebar Title Color"
type="color" default="#ff4500" / value="#008000">

<Variable name="sidebarLinkColor" description="Sidebar Link Color"
type="color" default="#999999" / value="#00ff00">
<Variable name="sidebarVisitedLinkColor"
description="Sidebar Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#de7008" / value="#004000">

<Variable name="bodyFont" description="Text Font"
type="font" default="normal normal 90% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, Sans-Serif" / value="normal normal 79% Trebuchet, Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans-serif">
<Variable name="titleFont" description="Blog Title Font"
type="font" default="normal bold 266% Verdana, Sans-Serif" / value="normal bold 187% Trebuchet, Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans-serif">
<Variable name="descriptionFont" description="Blog Description Font"
type="font" default="normal bold 85% Verdana, Sans-Serif" / value="normal bold 85% Verdana, sans-serif">
<Variable name="postTitleFont" description="Post Title Font"
type="font" default="normal bold 110% Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal bold 110% Verdana, Sans-serif">
<Variable name="sidebarTitleFont" description="Sidebar Title Font"
type="font" default="normal bold 125% Verdana, Sans-Serif" / value="normal bold 100% Verdana, Sans-Serif">
<Variable name="startSide" description="Start side in blog language"
type="automatic" default="left" value="left">
<Variable name="endSide" description="End side in blog language"
type="automatic" default="right" value="left">
*/
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: $mainBgColor;
color: $mainTextColor;
font: $bodyFont;
}

a {
color: $mainLinkColor;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
color: $mainVisitedLinkColor;
text-decoration: underline;
}

a:visited {
color: $mainVisitedLinkColor;
}

a img {
border: 0;
}

@media all {
div#main-wrapper {
float: $startSide;
width: 72%;
padding-top: 0;
padding-$endSide: 1em;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-$startSide: 1em;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

div#sidebar-wrapper {
margin: 0px;
padding: 35px;
text-align: $endSide;
}

div#sidebar {
width: 25%;
float: $endSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
}

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

#content-wrapper {
margin-$endSide: 1em;
}


@media handheld {
div#main-wrapper {
float: none;
width: 90%;
}

div#sidebar-wrapper {
padding-top: 20px;
padding-$endSide: 1em;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-$startSide: 1em;
text-align: $startSide;
}
}

#header {
padding-top: 0px;
padding-$endSide: 0px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
padding-$startSide: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-$endSide: 0px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-$startSide: 0px;
border-bottom: solid 2px $postTitleBgColor;
border-top: solid 2px $descriptionBgColor;
background: $descriptionBgColor;
color: $descriptionColor;
}

CODE {
display: block; /* fixes a strange ie margin bug */
font-family: Courier New;
font-size: 9pt;
overflow:auto;
background: #191919 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMMvmJSOQzhyK9f1RUhojYoYBtqRLgoWtzGQmV_N3sJdlBV18FpaueRHi3IMK-6at4npw6odc9aarQbYOpl68c4KKtuKNuM9JF0SwrM9PQ_Bjhje6AMXaKCiHcDJ_yLVWdwc9cHFwgOM/s1600/Code_BG.gif) left top repeat-y;
border: 1px dashed #00ff00;
margin:2px 3px;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 21px;
max-height:200px;
line-height: 1.2em;
}

blockquote {
display: block; /* fixes a strange ie margin bug */
font-family: Courier New;
font-size: 9pt;
background: #191919;
margin:1em 20px;
border:1px dashed #333333;
padding-left: 1ex;
}

h1 a:link {
color: $titleColor;
}

h1 a:visited {
color: $titleColor;
}

h1 {
padding-top: 18px;
padding-$endSide: 0px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-$startSide: 5%;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-$endSide: 10px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
margin-$startSide: 0px;
border-top: solid 9px $sidebarTitleColor;
border-bottom: solid 1px $descriptionColor;
color: $titleColor;
background: $titleBgColor;
font: $titleFont;
}

.description {
padding-top: 0px;
padding-$endSide: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-$startSide: 5%;
margin: 0px;
color: $descriptionColor;
background: transparent;
font: $descriptionFont;
}


h3 {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-$endSide: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-$startSide: 0px;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-$endSide: 0px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
padding-$startSide: 2px;
color: $postTitleColor;
background: $postTitleBgColor;
font: $postTitleFont;
}

h3.post-title a,
h3.post-title a:visited {
color: $postTitleColor;
}

h2.date-header {
margin-top: 10px;
margin-$endSide: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-$startSide: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-$endSide: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-$startSide: 2%;
color: $dateHeaderColor;
font-size: 90%;
text-align: $startSide;
}

#sidebar h2 {
margin: 0px;
color: $sidebarTitleColor;
font: $sidebarTitleFont;
padding: 0px;
border: none;
}

#sidebar .widget {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-$endSide: 0px;
margin-bottom: 33px;
margin-$startSide: 5px;
padding: 0;
}

#sidebar ul {
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 95%;
margin-top: 0;
}

#sidebar li {
margin: 5px;
padding: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 105%;
}

.Blog {
margin-top: 20px;
}

.blog-posts, .feed-links {
margin-$startSide: 10px;
}

.feed-links {
clear: both;
line-height: 2.5em;
}

.post {
margin-top: 0;
margin-$endSide: 0;
margin-bottom: 30px;
margin-$startSide: 0;
font-size: 100%;
}

.post-body {
margin-top: 0;
margin-$endSide: 6px;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-$startSide: 5px;
}

.post strong {
font-weight: bold;
}

#sidebar a {
text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebar a:link,
#sidebar a:visited {
color: $sidebarLinkColor;
}

#sidebar a:active,
#sidebar a:hover {
color: $sidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}

pre,code,strike,blockquote {
color: #666666;
}

.post-footer {
padding-top: 0;
padding-$endSide: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-$startSide: 5px;
margin: 0px;
color: $postFooterColor;
font-size: 80%;
}

#comments {
padding-top: 2px;
padding-$endSide: 0px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
padding-$startSide: 5px;
font-size: 110%;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana,Sans-Serif;
}

.comment-author {
margin-top: 20px;
}

.comment-body {
margin-top: 10px;
font-size: 100%;
font-weight: normal;
color: $mainTextColor;
}

.comment-footer {
padding: 0px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
color: $postFooterColor;
font-size: 80%;
font-weight: normal;
display: inline;
margin-$endSide: 10px;
}

.deleted-comment {
font-style: italic;
color: gray;
}

.comment-link {
margin-$startSide: .6em;
}


/* Profile
----------------------------------------------- */
.profile-textblock {
clear: both;
margin-$startSide: 0;
}
.profile-img {
margin-top: 0;
margin-$endSide: 0;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-$startSide: 5px;
float: $endSide;
}

.BlogArchive #ArchiveList {
float: $endSide;
}

.widget-content {
margin-top: 0.5em;
}

#sidebar .widget {
clear: both;
}

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: $startSide;
}

.blog-pager-older-link {
float: $endSide;
}

.blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}

.clear {
clear: both;
}

/** Tweaks for subscribe widget */
.widget-content .subscribe-wrapper {
float: left;
clear: left;
margin: .2em;
font-family: Arial,Sans-Serif;
}

/** Tweaks for layout editor mode */
body#layout #outer-wrapper {
margin-top: 10px;
}
]]></b:skin>
</head>

<body>
<div id='outer-wrapper'><div id='wrap2'>

<!-- skip links for text browsers -->
<span id='skiplinks' style='display:none;'>
<a href='#main'>skip to main </a>
<a href='#sidebar'>skip to sidebar</a>
</span>

<div id='header-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='iCNPunk --- Chinese National Punk (Header)' type='Header'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='content-wrapper'>

<div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'>
<b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='no'/>
</div>

<div id='main-wrapper'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML4' locked='false' title='Search This Blog' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Comments Here' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='TextList1' locked='false' title='Connect' type='TextList'/>
<b:widget id='Followers1' locked='false' title='Followers' type='Followers'/>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='Subscribe1' locked='false' title='Subscribe To' type='Subscribe'/>
<b:widget id='HTML2' locked='false' title='Music Player' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height-->
<div class='clear'> </div>

</div> <!-- end content-wrapper -->
</div></div> <!-- end outer-wrapper -->
</body>
</html>

Google Hackes

Need Free Proxy, let's see this:

Google free proxy!
Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy.


A little tutorial found on the italian site http://www.manuali.net/ inspired me for this hack. That tutorial suggests to translate a webpage, using Google translator, to access it even if restricted.

It worked fine but something else was needed... why translate?!

...

Ok, let's start from the beginning. We all know that Google is more than a search engine; we do use it as provider for email, mapping, news and many other services. Google is now also a free proxy service. Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy.

What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesidered web sites (the "black list"). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!

You just need to type the following URL:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=enen&u=www.forbiddensite.com
(www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to...)

What you'll get is the translation (english to english!) of the page you want to see... your connection is directed to a google.com page so this page won't be blocked (would be blocked only with google.com on the black list), no matter what's the content.

Notice that the URL has been a little hacked because the parameter "langpair"⁽¹⁾ is set to "enen" (english/english) so the page is processed by Google but you can keep the original language of the page (no need to translate!). If you need another language (e.g. french) you just need to set the parameter langpair to "frfr" and you'll be able to read french pages in french!

A couple of examples:

english... http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cen&u=hacks.oreilly.com

Last but not least: if you use this trick, you're not sure to protect your privacy, this kind of connection lets you see blacklisted pages but doesn't hide your IP address. Just go to http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cen&u=www.whatismyip.com to see your IP is not hidden...

That's all, bye.