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  Mozilla Thunderbird 3 rocks

  Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 7:29pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  I have been using Thunderbird 2 for more than 2 years now, I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 3 and found it very well designed. Here is what I liked:

  • Has an attachment reminder, so if you write “please see the attached… ” and then forgot to attach, it reminds you. Neat!
  • Tabbed emails. Used to tabbed browsing? welcome to tabbed email. Allows you to open emails and mail folders into different tabs.
  • Powerful search. You can type a search string, and it will find that string in inbox, sent box, subject. This is quite useful if you are looking for something but don’t know where it could be.
  • It also has smart folders and and archive folders.
  • Addon manager to manage all your addons.

  Here is a complete list of features.

  Ubuntu 10.04 scheduled to be released on April 29,2010 already bundles Thunderbird 3.

  For Ubuntu 9.10, there are ready packages available. To Install Thunderbird 3 on Ubuntu 9.10 read this documentation on how to add the repository.

  Use this link to Download Thunderbird  for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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  All Linux Distributions are available on very low Price

  Fetched: February 26th, 2010, 4:35am GMT

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  Author: maazbhutta
  Subject: All Linux Distributions are available on very low Price
  Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:20 am (GMT 6)
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  Linus Torvalds ditches iPhone for Android based Google Nexus

  Posted: February 24th, 2010, 11:38am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Linus Torvalds has purchased a Google Android based Nexus One cellphone.

  But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I wasn’t enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. I’ve wanted to have a GPS unit for my car anyway, and I thought that google navigation might finally make a phone useful.

  Read 10 reasons why eWeek believes that it could affect iPhone Sales.

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  OpenOffice Marketshare India and other countries

  Posted: February 13th, 2010, 12:53am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  WebmasterPro has an interesting way to calculate the percentage of people using OpenOffice.

  Poland & Czech Republic lead in OO usage and have 22 percent people using OpenOffice.

  Germany 21 percent and France 19.

  UK/US at 9 percent.

  India is low at 5 percent.

  See more at WebMasterPro.

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  Avatar was created on Ubuntu

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 11:42pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  What common between Avtar, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four, X-Men, i-Robot? They were all created at Weta Digital in New Zealand.

  Now some vital stats:

  • 2 Petabyte disk array
  • 10gbps networking
  • 10 TB Ram
  • 35,000 cores (4,000+ blades)
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  Asterisk CBTs

  Fetched: February 6th, 2010, 8:36pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux CDs DVDs   [edit]

  Author: syedali999
  Subject: Asterisk CBTs
  Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:27 pm (GMT 6)
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  Symbian goes Open Source

  Posted: February 5th, 2010, 4:30pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  After Google Android, now Symbian has decided to go Open Source. Since Android is Linux based and this had a good chance of Linux becoming the de facto operating system in Cellphone too. So Symbian reacted and released all its source code too, in the hope that their customers don’t switch to Linux and they are able to retain their 46 percent market share in smartphones.

  It remains to be seen weather cellphone manufacturers decide to use Linux or continue to use Symbian, however this is great news as Symbian as this will only improve Symbian. Expect stability improvements, as more people can now see the bugs.

  Get the code, if you interested. And yes you can use the code to build your own phone without any licensing costs.

  Is there still a market for proprietary operating systems? The game is changing and this will create enough competition for Apple/Microsoft to release their code. Show me the code!

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  Fetched: January 22nd, 2010, 12:35pm GMT

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  Skype to go Open Source

  Posted: January 20th, 2010, 2:46pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  This is awesome News.

  Skype is planning to open source its Linux client.

  The current Skype client on Linux is functional but buggy and it lags behind the Windows version in terms of features.

  Now if Skype opens up, it will make the client development go faster, people will be able to fix bugs faster and add more feature.

  Waiting for this to happen.

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  AWN Manager – Mac OSX like dock for Ubuntu

  Posted: December 28th, 2009, 10:43am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  

  I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions here.

  Here is what I liked.

  • It looks cool
  • Can auto-hide, giving you more desktop real estate.
  • Has cool applets like fortune which I enjoy reading and reminds me of bash days.

  What I didn’t like

  • It crops up when you don’t want it to.
  • A little buggy, it doesn’t show when you want it to! and sometimes the icons goes missing, a refreshing of the screen fixing this issue.

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  Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware Requirements

  Posted: December 21st, 2009, 10:23am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop: Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows 7  both of which were released last month.

  Hardware	Windows 7	Ubuntu 9.10
  RAM (MB)	1024 MB	256 MB
  Processor (MHz)	1000 MHz	300 MHz
  Disk Space (MB)	16 GB	4 GB

  Ubuntu 9.10 remained a modest 265MB memory with 300MHz computer. Also Ubuntu can run on lesser hardware as well, if you have 128MB Memory, you can still use Xbuntu (a variant), or if you have 64 MB you can use LTSP and run Ubuntu off a central server.

  Now Windows 7 demands 1GB Memory with 1GHz computer.

  While Windows 7 required 16GB of space to install, Ubuntu can be installed on on less than 4 GB of space.

  Some people may argue that hardware is getting cheaper by the day, however there are millions of PCs around in the world which won’t be able to run Windows without an upgrade. If the use Ubuntu, they will save on upgrade costs and hurt the environment less by not having to throw away their old computer.

  Some interesting findings: Ubuntu’s hardware requirements has not changed in the last 8 releases over the last 4 years.

  

  Even thought Vista Basic  claimed that it requires 512MB RAM and Vista Business claimed 1GB. Both crawled on 1GB of RAM and required 2GB to run effectively with 15GB of disk space.

  Sources:

  Ubuntu Release Notes
  Windows 7 System requirements.
  Windows Vista System requirements.

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  Fetched: November 27th, 2009, 8:35pm GMT

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  Open Networking alternative to Cisco

  Posted: November 12th, 2009, 11:58am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Vyatta is providing a Linux based Networking routers and equipments to compete with Cisco. All their software is open source and they have very competitive pricing. Seem to also have an impressive customer list so far including Toyota, Rackspace and Boeing.

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  Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market

  Posted: November 11th, 2009, 8:00am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Forget what Microsoft wants you to believe, Linux is a success on Netbooks. The cat is out of the bag.

  ABI Research is projecting that in 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report. ABI also estimates that Linux will overtake Windows on netbooks by 2013, largely due to sales in less-developed countries.
  

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  Economic impact of Free and Open Source Software

  Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 12:37pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Prof. Rahul De of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has carried out this study.

  Economic Impact of Free and Open Source Software – A Study in India.

  The study has reached out different organisations and has documented to total amount that they saved after moving to Free and Open Source software.

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  Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala now available for download

  Posted: October 29th, 2009, 9:22pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Ubuntu 9.10 is finally available for download. It’s faster to install from a USB pendrive then installing from a CD. After downloading the ISO, to create a bootable pendrive in 9.04, go to System-Administration-USB Startup Disk Creater.

  As always, the recommended way to download is Torrents, as the download servers would be busy for the next couple of days.

  Here are the download links for the torrent.

  Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala i386 (32-Bit).

  Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (64-Bit)

  Download the CD Artwork:

  CD Face Artwork

  CD Wallet Artwork
  

  For people who still prefer to download directly:

  Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala i386 (32-Bit).

  Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (64-Bit).

  Mirrors in your region, this may be faster for you.

  Africa

  • http://bw.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Botswana)
  • http://ls.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Lesotho)
  • http://mz.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Mozambique)
  • http://na.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Namibia)
  • http://sz.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Swaziland)
  • http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-release/ (South Africa)

  Asia

  • http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu-releases/ (Japan)
  • ftp://dl2.foss-id.web.id/iso/ubuntu/releases/ (Indonesia)
  • ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/ubuntu-cd/ (Russian Federation)
  • http://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/ (Taiwan)
  • http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/ (Taiwan)
  • http://ftp.mtu.ru/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Russian Federation)

  Europe

  • http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-releases/ (Germany)
  • http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Ireland)
  • http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu-cdimage/ (Switzerland)
  • http://releases.ubuntu.igor.onlinedirect.bg/ (Bulgaria)
  • http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Sweden)
  • http://ubuntu.ipacct.com/releases/ (Bulgaria)

  North America

  • http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/ (United States)
  • http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/ (Canada)
  • http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu-releases/ (United States)
  • http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubuntu.com/ (United States)
  • http://mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntu/ (United States)
  • http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu-releases/ (United States)

  Oceania/Australia

  • http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu-releases/ (New Zealand)
  • http://nz2.releases.ubuntu.com/ (New Zealand)
  • http://ubuntu-releases.optus.net/ (Australia)
  • http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)

  South America

  • http://mirror.globo.com/ubuntu/releases/ (Brazil)
  • http://mirror.pop-sc.rnp.br/mirror/ubuntu/ (Brazil)
  • http://mirror.pop-sc.rnp.br/mirror/ubuntu-releases/ (Brazil)
  • http://ubuntu.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/ (Brazil)
  • http://espelhos.edugraf.ufsc.br/ubuntu-releases/ (Brazil)
  • http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/ubuntu-releases/ (Brazil)

  Enjoy

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  Replacing Photoshop with Gimp

  Posted: September 24th, 2009, 7:40pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  If you are looking for replacing Photoshop with Gimp and are finding limitations, here is a nice article:

  Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop

  Some more links.

  • 1000 HQ Brushes
  • 30 Exceptional GIMP Tutorials
  • GIMP Equivalent of PDSTuts
  • 17 Awesome Plug-Ins for Web Designers
  • 25 Plug-Ins for Photographers
  • Official Online GIMP Manual

  Happy Gimping

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  Music Workstation on Ubuntu

  Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 11:32am BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Here is a nice article on how Kim Cascone switched from Mac OS X to Ubuntu for setting up a Music Workstation using very inexpensive hardware costing a tenth of what a similar solution from Apple would cost.

  “The solution to my financial constraint became clear, and I bought a refurbished Dell Studio 15, installed Ubuntu on it, and set it up for sound production and business administration. The total cost was around $600 for the laptop plus a donation to a software developer — a far cry from the $3000.00 price tag and weeks of my time it would have cost me to stay locked-in to Apple. After a couple of months of solid use, I have had no problems with my laptop or Ubuntu. Both have performed flawlessly, remaining stable and reliable.”

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  Attachment reminder for your email client

  Posted: August 21st, 2009, 4:52pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Has it happened to you that you write a nice long email and mention, please see the enclosed presentation and oops forgot to attach? Thank goodness for this extention.

  Attachment Reminder for Thunderbird reminds you if you have forgotten to attach a file with your email. It check if you email contains keywords which can be defined by you and will remind you if you missed an attachment. For example If your email says:

  “Please see the attached presentation”, and you forgot to attach, then the attachment reminder will remind you.

  Attachment Reminder for Thunderbird.

  Its been raining extensions

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  Linux Netbook returns a non issue

  Posted: August 17th, 2009, 1:05pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Microsoft has been harping about the fact that there are more netbook returns of Linux, this is not true.

  Speaking at OpenSource World, a Dell executive deflated Microsoft’s enthusiasm for making a case out of the number of Linux netbooks returned by unhappy customers.

  //

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  Todd Finch, Dell senior product marketing manager, said the number of Linux returns are approximately the same as those for Windows netbooks. He categorized the matter of returns as a “non-issue”.

  Read the complete article.

  Go ahead and demand Linux on your favourite netbook

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  5 Reasons why Linux is Secure against Viruses than Windows

  Posted: August 4th, 2009, 10:57am BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  I have been saying this for a while, why Linux is not affected by Viruses

  This is Nice article which explains: 5 Reasons why Linux is Secure against Viruses than Windows

  Summary, from the article:

  1. User Privileges.
  2. No Executables.
  3. No Registry.
  4. No Internet Explorer (IE)
  5. Linux is not soo common like windows.

  Don’t agree with the last one but the rest of them makes sense

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  Editing PDFs in OpenOffice

  Posted: July 17th, 2009, 11:15am BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  If you thought PDFs are read only, guess what you can edit them.

  To edit PDFs, install this plugin in Openoffice: Sun PDF Import Extension

  Once installed, you can open .PDF files in OpenOffice Draw, edit and export back as PDF.

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  Google announces new operating system

  Posted: July 13th, 2009, 12:28pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Google has announced a new opeating system: Crome OS. The interesting bits.

  - Open Source

  - Linux based

  - Free of cost

  - Working with various partners for bundling

  - Designed for Google Crome Browser

  Read the rest of the announcement

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  Amazon Kindle source code released

  Posted: June 17th, 2009, 4:18pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Amazon has released the source code for its e-book reader Kindle.

  And guess what it runs Linux.

  Have a look if you are interested in the source.

  Way to go Amazon!

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  Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope download links

  Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 11:12pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Jackalope is finally released in the wild.

  The best way to get it by torrent as the download mirrors are going to be busy.

  Torrent Link for CD releases:

  Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope i386 (32-Bit).

  Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope AMD64 (64-Bit).

  Rest of the torrents if you are looking for other releases.

  Download Link. Please use the mirrors In case you can’t use torrent for some reason.

  If you are already running Ubuntu and want to upgrade, just type.

  Press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d” (without the quotes).

  If you want to get faster downloads, you can update using P2P (peer to peer). Read this article for more details.

  What’s new in the release:

  • Cool new notification system improves usablity.
  • Faster boot time, no more waiting for it to boot up.
  • Open Office 3.0, provides better compatibility with MS Office documents and also has other enhancements.

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  Tata Indicom Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ on Ubuntu

  Posted: April 9th, 2009, 3:21pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Its been raining high speed internet in India. Tata, Reliance and BSNL have started offering 3G USB Data Cards which offer high speed internet. Tata and Reliance claim 3.1 MBps speeds while BSNL claims 7.2 Mbps.

  I have tested both Tata Indicom Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ on Ubuntu 8.10. I didn’t get much time to test everything but this is my initial feedback.

  They claim to offer 3 Mbps but in reality I got 300-700Kbps download speeds. Which is still not bad.

  Note: Even if you take the unlimited plan, you are still limited to 10GB of download per month as there is a fine print of fair use policy. This is an  irritant for people who do lots of downloads.

  Tata Indicom Photon+ offer Huawei

  Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ offers a choice of  Huawei and ZTE.

  Reliance Huawei was the only one that works out of the box on Ubuntu and gets detected as  /dev/ttyUSB0.

  After that you can edit /etc/wvdial.conf and put the following lines.

  [Dialer Defaults]
  Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
  Username = yournumber
  Phone = #777
  Password = yournumber
  New PPPD = yes
  Stupid mode = yes

  Replace yournumber with your number (provided at the back of the box).

  ZTE didn’t even get detected,  and strangely enough there was no message on dmesg either.

  lsusb shows: Bus 005 Device 002: ID 19d2:fff6

  Tata Indicom Photon+ (Huawei based) also didn’t get detected.

  lsusb shows:

  Bus 005 Device 009: ID 12d1:140b Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  Moz has tried this and has got this working using the following steps.

  $ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0×12d1 product=0×140b
  $ sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
  $ sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1

  Add the following lines to the /etc/wvdial.conf, customise phone number, username and password as per advise of TataIndicomm.

  [Dialer Defaults]
  Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
  Init1 = ATZ
  Phone = #777
  Username = cdma
  Password = cdma
  New PPPD = yes
  Stupid Mode = 1

  Try connecting with sudo wvdial

  If you want a graphical dialer, install gnome-ppp

  Go into setup, select your modem as /dev/ttyUSB0

  Put your login/password depending on the service provider. Put the number as #777 and you are ready to connect.

  Links to tariffs/plans:

  Reliance

  Tata Indicom

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  BJP commits support to open source

  Posted: March 22nd, 2009, 9:26pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  The BJP, India’s biggest opposition party has released its IT vision which states that they will use Open Source and follow Open Standards.

  They also plan to give 10 Million Laptops loaded with Linux and Open Source for Rs. 10,000 US$200.

  Their IT vision is very impressive and looks like its well thought out strategy talking about local hosting, higher broadband speeds, lower PC costs, single Identity and many more.

  If you are interested, download the IT Vision (3.5 MB download, not a worry if you are already on Broadband

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  Fighter jet grounded due to Windows virus

  Posted: February 12th, 2009, 5:58pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  French fighter planes were unable to take off after military computers which were running Windows were infected by a computer virus.

  France is a big user of Linux. The French police and the French Parliament is already using it, so now the military should also switch.

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  Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7

  Posted: February 10th, 2009, 5:33pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  This is an interesting article comparing various features of Ubuntu with Vista and Windows 7.

  It covers the following:

  • How long does each operating system take to install?
  • How much disk space was used in the standard install?
  • How long does boot up and shutdown take?
  • How long does it take to copy files from USB to HD, and from HD to HD?
  • How fast can it execute the Richards benchmark?

  Read the whole article.

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  Open source trading platform

  Posted: January 22nd, 2009, 12:10am GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  A software startup called Marketcetera has released an open source platform for building automated trading systems.

  Since the world economy is at a situation where everyone wants to reduce cost, specially in the finance sector, this could be a big win for the company as well as Linux and Open Source.

  

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  Linux development cost statistics

  Posted: November 24th, 2008, 12:34pm GMT by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  The Linux Foundation published this excellent article:  Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution

  Some very interesting stats :

  Linux is the most popular open source operating system today, didn’t you know that already?

  Total development cost of a Linux distribution in 2002: $1.2 billion

  Cost to build Fedora 9 in 2008: $10.8 billion

  Cost of developing the Linux kernel: $1.4 billion

  Total: 3200 kernel developers representing 200 companies.

  Active for every release: 1,000 kernel developers from over 100 companies.

  Linux ecosystem: $25 billion

  (which means if you are in the Linux business, you have a huge market already)

  Red Hat Linux 7.1 (2002): 30 Million lines of code.

  Fedora Linux 9 (2008):  204 million lines of code.

  How to estimate the cost of development:

  Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)	204,500,946
  Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))	59389.53 (712674.36)
  Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))	24.64 (295.68)
  Total Estimated Cost to Develop (average salary = $75,662.08/year, overhead = 2.40).	$10,784,484,309

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  FREE - Now accepting Orders for Ubuntu (8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

  Fetched: October 15th, 2008, 4:36pm BST

  Tags:  Linux CDs DVDs   [edit]

  Author: faruqkhan
  Subject: FREE - Now accepting Orders for Ubuntu (8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
  Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:47 pm (GMT 6)
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  Fetched: September 22nd, 2008, 4:36am BST

  Tags:  Linux Bazaar   [edit]

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to reset the root password for MySQL

  Posted: August 13th, 2008, 4:39pm BST

  Tags:  Linux mysql database howto password   [edit]

  It happens, you set a super complicated password for your MySQL root account and 2 months down the road forget what it was.

  Here’s how you’d fix that.

  1. Stop your current MySQL database if it is running

  root@abubu# service mysqld stop

  2. Start MySQL in safe mode and bypass reading the privilege table.

  root@abubu# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

  3. Reset your root password MySQL console. If it goes well you will not need to key in a password.

  root@abubu# mysql -u root mysql

  mysql> update user set Password=PASSWORD('new-password');
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql exit;

  4. Kill the MySQL process and restart MySQL normally.

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  Danesh Manoharan: My openSUSE 11 repositories

  Posted: August 10th, 2008, 3:45pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource opensuse repositories install   [edit]

  

  My openSUSE 11 repositories

  These are the repositories I typically use with my openSUSE installs. Might come in handy for you

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  Danesh Manoharan: Linus Torvalds feels the security scene is over glorified

  Posted: August 7th, 2008, 10:58am BST

  Tags:  Linux patch Quotes bugfixes linustorvalds   [edit]

  

  Linus Torvalds

  Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t
  stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in
  that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the
  point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

  That’s what Linus Torvalds had to say about security people. Read the full article.
  
  Wikiquote has a good collection of bold quote from Linus if’d you’d like to check them out.

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  Danesh Manoharan: Sudo enable Yast in openSUSE 11

  Posted: August 6th, 2008, 7:54pm BST

  Tags:  Linux Security howto opensuse sudo   [edit]

  One of annoyance I found on openSUSE 11 is that Yast is no longer sudo enabled. The privilege elevation sudo line “[username] ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL” works with everything else except for Yast.

  In versions prior to openSUSE 11 sudo worked fine with Yast. Apparently in openSUSE 11 Yast sudo was switched to su.

  Here’s how you’d get Yast to start working with sudo again.

  danny@pandora:~> kwriteconfig -file kdesurc -group super-user-command -key super-user-command sudo

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  Danesh Manoharan: How To - Execute Linux command Windows

  Posted: July 28th, 2008, 11:05pm BST

  Tags:  Linux plink script   [edit]

  Most of the time, users are having a Windows Machine on their desk or laptop. Normally, we want to perform a full scale data retrieval from our Linux servers in the DC, where we don’t have a trusted Linux server to manage it….the answer to it is use “PLINK” utility.

  Plink comes together with the Putty…

  A simple example of usage is:

  C:> plink USERNAME@SERVERNAME ‘YOUR-LINUX-COMMAND’

  If you have a dozen of servers…then you probably want to write a batch script in Windows to loop through a list of servers and mention the list of commands juz like what i did…..

  Here a typical windows batch script:

  @echo off

  for / f “tokens=*” %%A in (your-server-list.txt) ( C:pathtoplink.exe user@server -w YOUR-PASSWORD -m linuxcommandscript > YOUR_OUTPUT_FILE.txt)

  There you go, i did this for my sar report data collection for root cause analysis and infrastructure load analysis….keying in a password wif every darn login is impractical and yet you dont want to generate a security key for the servers.

  Tags: CLI, command line, Linux, linux commands, plink, script
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  DSL Modem for SALE

  Fetched: July 27th, 2008, 4:35pm BST

  Tags:  Linux Bazaar   [edit]

  Author: rhcepk
  Subject: DSL Modem for SALE
  Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:54 pm (GMT 6)
  Topic Replies: 1
  
  SALLAM
  
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  Resource CD
  User Manual
  BOX
  
  
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  Contact Number:- 0333-6799470 ( Rizwan )
  
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to set your system time using NTP

  Posted: July 24th, 2008, 2:43pm BST

  Tags:  Linux commandline howto linuxcommands cli   [edit]

  Here’s a quick walk through to synchronize your system time through NTP.

  Install the NTP package if you don’t already have it installed.

  [root@abubu]# yum install ntp

  Check your date.

  [root@abubu]# date
Thu Jul 24 13:34:24 MYT 2008

  Use the ntpdate command to poll from public NTP servers. I this example I’ll use ntp servers provided by the NTP POOL Project. The asia pool is “ntp asia.pool.ntp.org”

  

  NTP POOL PROJECT

  [root@abubu]# ntpdate asia.pool.ntp.org
24 Jul 16:02:18 ntpdate[5316]: step time server 202.144.207.222 offset -28647.175440 sec

  Check your time again to make sure it’s correct.

  [root@abubu]# date
Thu Jul 24 16:02:24 MYT 2008

  I’ll cover the ntpd daemon in a future post.

  Tags: CLI, command line, HowTo, Linux, linux commands, ntp, time
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  Danesh Manoharan: Amarok 2.0 Alpha 2 (Aulanerk) released

  Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 1:22am BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource software amarok mediaplayers   [edit]

  

  Amarok 2.0 Alpha 2 (Aulanerk)

  Heads up Amarok fans.

  The Amarok team released Amarok 2.0 Alpha 2 today, codenamed “Aulanerk” after the friendly sea goddess.

  If you don’t already know, Amarok is the most popular media player for Linux today. Amarok 2.0 is new and is set to replace it’s sibling Amarok 1.4 once KDE4 matures. The plan is to have Amarok 2.0 shipped with KDE 4.2 sometime in the future.

  Read the changelog

  Source: Amarok

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  Danesh Manoharan: quick access to your environment variables

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:24pm BST

  Tags:  Linux commandline howto cli environmentvariables   [edit]

  Here’s a quick way to access your environment variables from the CLI.

  User the “%” key in conjunction with your “<tab>” key to auto complete your environment variables.

  pandora:/ # echo $J <TAB>
$JAVA_BINDIR  $JAVA_HOME    $JAVA_ROOT    $JDK_HOME     $JRE_HOME
pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_ <TAB>
$JAVA_BINDIR  $JAVA_HOME    $JAVA_ROOT
pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java

  The traditional way is to “env | grep [variable name]“

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  Danesh Manoharan: Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.9.3 released

  Posted: July 4th, 2008, 3:06am BST

  Tags:  Linux bittorrent deluge bugfix bugfixes   [edit]

  

  Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.9.3 is out. Get it here or if you’re in openSUSE simply run ” zypper up deluge ” , ” zypper in deluge “.

  Tags: BitTorrent, bug fix, bug fixes, deluge, Linux, Open Source, release, Software, Torrents, update
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  Danesh Manoharan: Oxygen 1.0 Firefox 3 theme for KDE 4

  Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 5:57am BST

  Tags:  Linux firefox desktop kde addon   [edit]

  

  Awesome Firefox 3 theme for the KDE 4 desktop environment.

  The icons by Oxygen blend in perfectly with KDE 4 and has a clean professional look to it. It’s surely gonna be a favorite amongst Linux users.

  Get the Firefox 3 theme here. Remember, it’s still in Beta.

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  Danesh Manoharan: Free TUX stickers by Wing Loon

  Posted: July 1st, 2008, 5:17am BST

  Tags:  Linux Blogs Friends freebies stickers   [edit]

  

  Wing Loon is giving away free TUX stickers for his first anniversary. I’m getting my share by mail soon since I’m one for the frequent comments contributor on his blog.

  Don’t miss your chance. All you need to do is comment to qualify for the free TUX stickers.
  

  Happy Anniversary Wing Loon

  Source: WingLoon

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  IBM Laptop Thinkpad R40 Series For Sale (Lahore)

  Fetched: July 1st, 2008, 12:36am BST

  Tags:  Linux Bazaar   [edit]

  Author: syedali999
  Subject: IBM Laptop Thinkpad R40 Series For Sale (Lahore)
  Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:29 pm (GMT 6)
  Topic Replies: 9
  
  Features and specifications
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to add route in Linux

  Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:23pm BST

  Tags:  Linux howto networking routing   [edit]

  To view the current routing table run “route -n”

  [root@klmppswdr01p ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.41.42.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
10.41.41.0 10.41.42.8 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.41.42.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

  To add a route refer to the command below.

  "route add -net 10.41.41.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.41.42.8"

  To delete a route refer to the command below.

  "route del -net 10.41.41.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.41.42.8"

  The routing information above is not persistent across reboots. After a reboot, the routing information will be lost and you need to add them in again.

  To make the routing information persistent, add the “route add” line as seen above into the /etc/rc.local file.

  Sample /etc/rc.local file.

  #!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
route add -net 10.41.41.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.41.42.8

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to install Linux UVC driver on openSUSE11

  Posted: June 26th, 2008, 10:24pm BST

  Tags:  Linux drivers howto opensuse install   [edit]

  I recently purchased a webcam for skype. I’m using the UVC driver to power the webcam on my openSUSE11 machine.

  Getting the webcam up was simple with openSUSE.

  Verify if the uvc package is available.

  pandora:~ # zypper se uvc
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                 | Summary                             | Type
--+----------------------+-------------------------------------+-----------
| luvcview             | WebCam viewer                       | package
| uvcvideo             | USB Video Class (UVC) webcam driver | srcpackage
| uvcvideo-kmp-debug   | USB Video Class (UVC) webcam driver | package
| uvcvideo-kmp-default | USB Video Class (UVC) webcam driver | package
| uvcvideo-kmp-pae     | USB Video Class (UVC) webcam driver | package
| uvcvideo-kmp-xen     | USB Video Class (UVC) webcam driver | package

  Select the suitable driver for your kernel. ” uname -r “. In my case pae.

  pandora:~ # zypper in uvcvideo-kmp-pae
Reading installed packages...

  The following NEW package is going to be installed:
uvcvideo-kmp-pae

  Overall download size: 36.0 K. After the operation, additional 81.0 K will be used.
  Continue? [YES/no]: y
  Downloading package uvcvideo-kmp-pae-r200_2.6.25.5_1.1-2.2.i586 (1/1), 36.0 K (81.0 K unpacked)
  Downloading: uvcvideo-kmp-pae-r200_2.6.25.5_1.1-2.2.i586.rpm [done (6.1 K/s)]
  Installing: uvcvideo-kmp-pae-r200_2.6.25.5_1.1-2.2 [done]

  If you want a webcam viewer then install the luvcview package.

  pandora:~ # zypper in luvcview
Reading installed packages...

  The following NEW package is going to be installed:
luvcview

  Overall download size: 45.0 K. After the operation, additional 83.0 K will be used.
  Continue? [YES/no]: y
  Downloading package luvcview-0.2.4-0.pm.1.i586 (1/1), 45.0 K (83.0 K unpacked)
  Downloading: luvcview-0.2.4-0.pm.1.i586.rpm [done (3.2 K/s)]
  Installing: luvcview-0.2.4-0.pm.1 [done]
  

  
  Plug in your webcam and test.

  pandora:~ # luvcview

  Tags: drivers, HowTo, Install, Linux, openSUSE, skype, webcam
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to install Deluge on openSUSE 11

  Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 5:52pm BST

  Tags:  Linux bittorrent deluge howto install   [edit]

  

  Check is the Deluge package is available.
  pandora:~ # zypper se deluge

  Install Deluge
  pandora:~ # zypper in deluge
  Here’s my screen dump;

  pandora:~ # zypper se deluge
Reading installed packages...

  S | Name | Summary | Type
  –+——————–+————————————–+——–
  | deluge | Bittorrent Client | package
  | deluge-debuginfo | Debug information for package deluge | package
  | deluge-debugsource | Debug sources for package deluge | package
  pandora:~ # zypper in deluge
  Reading installed packages…

  The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
  deluge python-pyxdg python-orbit python-gnome-extras python-gnome
  mozilla-xulrunner181 libxml2-python libgda-3_0-sqlite libgda-3_0-postgres
  libgda-3_0-mysql libgda-3_0 libgda-3_0-3 libgda gtkspell dbus-1-python boost

  Overall download size: 10.0 M. After the operation, additional 41.6 M will be used.
  Continue? [YES/no]: yes

  Downloading package deluge-0.5.9.1-0.pm.1.i586 (16/16), 1.9 M (6.6 M unpacked)
  Downloading: deluge-0.5.9.1-0.pm.1.i586.rpm [done (17.1 K/s)]
  Installing: deluge-0.5.9.1-0.pm.1 [done]

  Tags: BitTorrent, deluge, HowTo, Install, Linux, openSUSE
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to install mscore fonts on openSUSE 11.0

  Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 1:41pm BST

  Tags:  Linux howto opensuse install fonts   [edit]

  Install the cabextract package.

  abooboo># zypper in cabextract

  Download the msfont installer script for openSUSE 10.3.

  abooboo># wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh

  Assign execute permission and execute the script.

  abooboo># chmod a+x fetchmsttfonts.sh

  abooboo># ./fetchmsttfonts.sh

  You have ms fonts now. The other simpler way to do this is to simply copy over the fonts you need from a Windows machine and use the fonts manager to install them.

  Tags: fonts, HowTo, Install, Linux, openSUSE, update
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  Danesh Manoharan: openSUSE 11.0 , it’s out

  Posted: June 19th, 2008, 11:23pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource operatingsystem release opensuse   [edit]

  

  openSUSE 11.0 is out!! No chance of downloading it today, servers are slammed with users just like Firefox 3 Download Day 2008.

  Source: openSUSE

  Tags: Linux, Open Source, openSUSE, operating system, release, Software
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to reload your bashrc file

  Posted: June 19th, 2008, 4:56pm BST

  Tags:  Linux bash howto linuxcommands   [edit]

  Here’s a quick way to reload your bachrc file without having to invoke a new shell.

  [root@bambee]# source ~/.bashrc

  or

  [root@bambee]# . ~/.bashrc

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  Danesh Manoharan: It’s almost here….openSUSE 11.0

  Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:43pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource operatingsystem release opensuse   [edit]

  

  screenshots

  Tags: Linux, Open Source, openSUSE, operating system, release, Software
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  Danesh Manoharan: Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.9.1 released

  Posted: June 16th, 2008, 11:09pm BST

  Tags:  Linux bittorrent deluge bugfix bugfixes   [edit]

  

  Not been following Deluge for the past few months. I had to fall back to Windows since my damn Exchange server could not work with Linux.

  But anyway, talking about good timing. OpenSUSE 11 is set to be out in 2 days and my office decides to get me a new notebook. A lenovo R61, can’t ask too much but it should work fine with OpenSUSE 11. I’ll finally get to Deluge again.

  The current stable release for Deluge is 0.5.9.1. There have been quite a few fixes put in since my last Deluge update. Read the changelog while downloading the latest version.

  Deluge 0.5.9.1 (19 May 2008)

  • Fix queue reordering on startup
  • Fix open folder
  • Fix advanced progress bar when only 1 piece in torrent
  • Fix to prevent possible invalid torrent file from crashing Deluge

  Deluge 0.5.9.0 (30 April 2008)

  • Fix ratio
  • Fix opening folers/files on windows
  • Move all packages to use Python 2.5

  Deluge 0.5.8.9 (14 April 2008)

  • Fix segfault caused in 0.5.8.8 when adding torrents
  • Change fast resume to use is_finished
  • LT - Fix private flag.
  • LT - Verify url before connection to web seed.

  Deluge 0.5.8.8 (09 April 2008)

  • Fix ubuntu hardy and debian sid bug sine they’ve renamed and broken up the packages.
  • Fix ratio (again)
  • Sync with asio 1.0 release

  li>Remove file manager from preferences

  • Sync with libtorrent 0.13 release
  • Fix for vista dbus not closing bug

  Tags: BitTorrent, bug fix, bug fixes, deluge, Linux, Open Source, release, Software, Torrents, update
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to configure a static ip in Linux

  Posted: June 16th, 2008, 9:26pm BST

  Tags:  Linux commandline howto networking   [edit]

  This is a newbie question I get quite often.

  Configuring your Linux machine to run on a static IP is easy. Tools like system-config-network and netconfig provide you simple GUIs to do this.

  For today, I’ll show you how to do this from the command line instead.

  Navigate to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
  
[root@baboo]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

  Every network interface will have it’s own interface script file. eth0,eth1,eth2 and so on. Vi the ifcfg-eth0 interface script file for interface eth0. Replace the contents of the ifcfg-eth0 file with the parameters below.

  [root@baboo]# vi ifcfg-eth0.

DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.100
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
HWADDR=00:0F:22:71:0A:53
USERCTL=no
USERCTL=no

  If you want to switch back to DHCP, repeat the steps above and replace the contents of the ifcfg-eth0 file with the parameters below.

  DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:0F:20:71:0A:50
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DHCP_HOSTNAME=klmdrpdr01p.klm1.netcel360.com

  Restart your interface to apply the changes.
  
[root@baboo]#ifdown eth0
[root@baboo]#ifup eth0

  To update your dns server settings, modify the /etc/resolv.conf.

  [root@baboo]# vi /etc/resolv.conf

  Replace the contents of the resolv.conf file with the parameters below. The first parameter “search” is your search path followed the nameserver parameters which hold the IPs for your primary and secondary DNS servers.
  
search example.com
nameserver 192.168.0.5
nameserver 192.168.0.6

  That’s it. Drop me a note if you need any help.

  Tags: command line, HowTo, Linux, networking
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  Linux Kernel Stats

  Posted: June 16th, 2008, 8:35pm BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  Here are some 2007-2008 statistics on the Linux Kernel from Greg KH’s presentation.

  Linux Kernel:

  • 9.2 Million lines of code.
  • Increases by 10% each year.
  • Te core kernel is 5 percent of the code, device drivers is approximately 55 percent and the balance is architecture, networking etc.
  • 4500 lines added. 1800 removed and 1500 modified per day.
  • Kernel actively developed 24/7, 365 days a year.
  • No more stable/unstable kernel. Earlier even numbers eg. 2.3 was for unstable and odd number eg. 2.4 was stable, this process is discontinued.
  • Hierarchy system but not person dependant.
  • Security updates after the release goes as x.x.x.. example, security fix for 2.6.19 go as  2.6.19.1 2.6.19.2 and so on.
  • New release every 2-3 Month.
  • 2399 Unique developers. 1/2 of them contributed only 1-2 patches.
  • Number 1 funding comes from Amaetuers, or people who code as a hobby in the spare time
  • Number 2 funding comes from Red Hat, Number 3, IBM and Number 4 Novell.

  If you are more interested, see the online video (recommended) or read this article or download the presentation.

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  Danesh Manoharan: Get your free ORACLE Unbreakable Linux DVD kit.

  Posted: June 6th, 2008, 4:55pm BST

  Tags:  Linux oracle oracleproducts linuxsupport oracleenterprise   [edit]

  

  Oracle got into the Linux playing field with it’s Oracle Enterprise Linux which is based on Redhat’s Enterprise Linux. Oracle then put together the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program to provide full Linux support to their customers.

  Oracle Unbreakable Linux support is not limited to only Oracle products. Customers can switch any of their current Enterprise Linux environments over to the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program and at a lower cost. If I’m not wrong it’s as simple as running a RPM file.

  Take it for a spin. Order the Oracle Unbreakable Linux 2-DVD kit for free. Just like Ubuntu, Netbeans and many other opensource software out there today. Go to the order page.

  Tags: Linux, linux support, oracle, oracle enterprise, oracle products, oracle unbreakable linux
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to send a process to the background

  Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 1:53pm BST

  Tags:  Linux howto bashscript   [edit]

  Sending a process to the background in Linux is quite easy. All you need is bg, fg, &, and ctrl+Z ( ^Z ).

  For this example I will use a simple bash script test.sh I put together to print “Test” every 5 seconds.

  #!/bin/bash
#This script will print "Test" every 5 seconds
#
while [ true ]
do
echo “Test at `date`”
sleep 5
done
#End

  Now let’s see how it’s done.

  [user@abubu root]$./test.sh &
  This starts test.sh and sends it to the background. You will be back at shell but should see the “Test” message every 5 seconds.

  [user@abubu root]$jobs
[1]+ Running ./test.sh &
  The jobs command will print all the background processes. Each process is represented by a number to it’s left. For example, tesh.sh is represented by 1.

  [user@abubu root]$fg 1
  The fg command will send the test.sh process to the foreground and return control to the shell.

  [user@abubu root]$ ./test.sh (hit ctrl+Z (^Z) now)
Test at Tue Jun 3 15:11:38 MYT 2008
[1]+ Stopped ./test.sh
  The test.sh process is temporarily suspended.

  [user@abubu root]$bg 1
  The bg command will send test.sh to the background.

  [user@abubu root]jobs
[1]+ Running ./test.sh &
  The jobs command will print all the background processes. Each process will be represented by a number to it’s left. tesh.sh is represented by 1.

  [user@abubu root]$fg 1
  The fg command will send the test.sh process to the foreground and return control to the shell.

  That’s it.

  Tags: bash script, HowTo, Linux
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  Danesh Manoharan: Received my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

  Posted: May 27th, 2008, 11:08pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource ubuntu software livecd   [edit]

  

  Received my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron cds in the mail today.

  Who doesn’t like to receive internatioanl packages with goodies? The best part is when I tell my non OSS  friends that the cds were shipped free of charge.

  You will be suprised to know that many people don’t believe that there are people out there providing wonderfull services not for money but out of passion. Welcome to the world of opensource is what I normally my response would be to them.

  Go Go OSS!!

  Anyways, if you want your own Ubuntu cd, go to Ubuntu’s ShipIt page and place your order. Remember, it’s a free service so don’t expect speedy delivery unless your are willing to pay.

  Tags: Linux, live cd, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu
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  Danesh Manoharan: Twitter clients for Linux

  Posted: May 26th, 2008, 6:59pm BST

  Tags:  Linux software twitter web20   [edit]

  

  Know someone who’s never heard of twitter? I don’t.

  There are loads of twitter desktop clients out there for Windows. I’m a Linux person so twittering from my command line is just one of the many was I twitter.

  Linux and OpenSource Blog has published a list for desktop clients for Linux. Might come in handy for you.

  • ktwitter - A simple Twitter script for KDE.
  • twitter.el - Twitter from Emacs!
  • twit.el - Another Emacs client.
  • Vim Twitter - Twitter from Vim!
  • gTwitter - a Twitter client for Linux.
  • GtkTwitter - a Twitter client for Linux and Windows which using GTK.
  • Twitbar - a Twitter client for Gnome users to post from the Deskbar
  • Twit and Wayd - Two addons for Gnome Deskbar that allow posting updates to Twitter
  • BLT - twitter meets the Bourne shell, with a hint of biff.
  • Twitux - a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop. Features includes: gui-notifications, url tinyzer, and more..
  • ZenTwitter - bash script which uses zenity and curl (could be launched from custom desktop/menu/panel icons)
  • mitter - A very simple Python and pygtk client.
  • prism-twitter - prism based

  Tags: Linux, Software, twitter, Web 2.0
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  Danesh Manoharan: Don’t leave a X-Box in the DC

  Posted: May 25th, 2008, 11:48pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource funny xbox   [edit]

  

  When forced to work within a limited budget you are normally forced to come up with alternative cost saving solutions. This was the case for a University which desided to use a Linux powered X-Box to host it’s students web projects.

  As time passed so did the personnel who knew about the X-Box web server. Without proper handover documents and asset management the X-Box server soon gets forgotten.

  One day a new guy comes in an sees a X-Box sitting on the shelve all alone and decides to take it home for his kid. What happened next was, students started calling up reporting their server was down. Oooops!!

  The X-box server is tracked down and labeled “This is a server” and the day is saved.

  Getting Linux onto your X-Box

  Source: WindowsITPRO

  Tags: Funny, Linux, Open Source, X-Box
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  Danesh Manoharan: Linux is like religion

  Posted: May 19th, 2008, 8:40am BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource funny comic   [edit]

  

  Linux to me is like religion. Even though I am not religious but I feel that Linux in some way is like religion. It’s free, goes by many different names, it’s changes over time to suit needs but ultimately it’s personal.

  There will never be one “ultimate distribution”. It will always be a personal choice for the end user.

  I love openSUSE, my hardcore Linux friends love Debian and BSD. Many others love Fedora but then a few prefer Ubuntu. It’s individual.

  Source: Zoitz

  Tags: comic, Funny, Linux, Open Source
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  Danesh Manoharan: Fedora 9 “Sulphur” Screenshots

  Posted: May 17th, 2008, 10:07am BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource desktop fedora fedoraproject   [edit]

  

  Here are some screen shots to support my previous post about Fedora 9 “Sulphur”.

  1. GNUMAN.org
  2. The Coding Studio

  Also, here’s a feature overview video I found on YouTube.

  [www.youtube.com]

  Tags: desktop, fedora, fedora project, Linux, Open Source, operating system, release, screenshots, Software, youtube
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  Danesh Manoharan: Fedora 9 “Sulphur” released

  Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:28pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource desktop fedora fedoraproject   [edit]

  

  Good news to all Fedora fans. Fedora 9 codenamed “Sulphur” is out.

  The new release comes with quite a few new features. To start off. Fedora 9 runs on the latest 2.6.25 kernel. There’s a new package management system included called “Packgeit” which uses Yum for it’s backend. Gnome Desktop 2.22 and KDE 4.03 are the desktop managers to choose from. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is the browser of choice this time and to top it all the new opensource version of Java “OpenJDK” is part of the new features. See the full summary here.

  Feel like taking the new Fedora 9 “Sulphur” for a spin? Well, you could grab the install DVD/CDs iso files via bittorrent or direct download. The other alternative would be to download the Gnome Live DVD or the KDE live DVD. Go to the download page.

  Source: Fedora Project

  Tags: desktop, fedora, fedora project, Linux, Open Source, operating system, release, Software
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  RHEL 5

  Fetched: May 10th, 2008, 4:36pm BST

  Tags:  Linux CDs DVDs   [edit]

  Author: nasacis
  Subject: RHEL 5
  Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:06 pm (GMT 5)
  Topic Replies: 3
  
  Dear All,
  
  Can any body provide RHEL 5. I am ready to pay for shipping and CD
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to limit ssh access to specific users or groups

  Posted: May 6th, 2008, 8:30am BST

  Tags:  Linux Security ssh howto hardening   [edit]

  Its sometimes necessary to limit who has access to a server via SSH. Most Linux security hardening checklist today require this to be enforced.

  Fortunately this can be easily done with openSSH. Just edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add the desired directives shown below. You don’t need them all, just use what suits you needs.

  openSSH provides 4 directives, AllowUsers, AllowGroups, DenyUsers and DenyGroups

  AllowUsers buddy john doe
  Only users buddy, john and doe will be able to log in via ssh.

  AllowGroups sysadmin bkpadmin
  Only users within groups sysadmin and bkpadmin will be able to log in via ssh.

  DenyUsers rambo tina
  This is the opposite of AllowUsers. All users except for rambo and tina will be able to log in via ssh.

  DenyGroups hr payroll
  This is the opposite of AllowGroups. All groups except for hr and payroll will be able to log in via ssh.

  Tags: hardening, HowTo, Linux, Security, ssh
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to find recently installed RPMs

  Posted: May 5th, 2008, 9:33am BST

  Tags:  Linux redhat howto install linuxcommands   [edit]

  rpm -qa --last will return all installed rpm packages with their installed time. The last installed packages will be at the top of the list.

  rpm -qa --last | less is will return all installed packages with their install date. Less allows you to scroll through the results.

  rpm -qa --last | tail -n [lines] will return the last 5 packages. Replace [line] with any number you want, in my case 5 for file lines.

  [root@bambee root]# rpm -qa –last | tail -n 5
termcap-11.0.1-17.1 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:53 PM MYT
setup-2.5.27-1 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:52 PM MYT
filesystem-2.2.1-3 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:52 PM MYT
basesystem-8.0-2 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:52 PM MYT
redhat-logos-1.1.14.3-1 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:51 PM MYT

  rpm -qa --last | grep [package name] will return the install date for a specific RPM package. In my case the apache web server [httpd]

  [root@jumbo root]# rpm -qa –last | grep httpd
redhat-config-httpd-1.1.0-4.30.2 Sat 29 Mar 2008 09:03:40 PM MYT
httpd-2.0.46-70.ent Sat 29 Mar 2008 08:58:19 PM MYT

  Tags: HowTo, Install, Linux, linux commands, redhat, rpm
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  Danesh Manoharan: support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid

  Posted: April 25th, 2008, 5:04pm BST

  Tags:  Linux microsoft Internet howto fix   [edit]

  Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy.

  Here’s the fix/workaround,

  Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go.

  #> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

  add lines into /etc/squid.conf
  # Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header
  acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain support.microsoft.com
  header_access Accept-Encoding deny support.microsoft.com

  #> service squid restart

  The other way is to remove the tick from “Use HTTP1.1 through proxy connections” in IE’s Advanced internet options tab. Beware that this might break other sites.

  Source: Whirlpool.net.au

  Update:

  Newer versions of squid need a different approach as demonstrated by Dave over at davehope.co.uk

  Tags: fix, HowTo, Internet, Linux, microsoft, proxy, squid
  
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  Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy torrent download links

  Posted: April 24th, 2008, 12:47am BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  The much awaited Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy is finally released. Go ahead and download using your favourate bittorrent client.

  Torrent links for Ubuntu.

  Torrent is the most efficient way to download as it doesn’t depend on the infrastructure of the central server and each download PC also becomes a host.

  If you don’t already have a torrent client and want to quickly get started, try µTorrent the smallest Bittorrent client (just 214KB) .

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  Danesh Manoharan: Google Earth for Linux

  Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:40am BST

  Tags:  Linux google googlemaps release googleearth   [edit]

  [www.youtube.com]

  A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature.

  Now something to excite Linux users, Google Earth is now available for Linux. Not on WINE as but as a native application based on Qt and openGL. I’m yet to try it but for those who have I have heard nothing but good reviews with some minor glitches.

  However Google Earth for Linux currently only supports the i386 architecture and seems to only work with 32bit processors.

  The embedded video speaks for itself.

  Download the latest Google Earth

  Tags: google, google earth, google maps, Linux, release, reviews, Software, WINE, youtube
  
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  Eugene Teo: Introducing my Summer of Code student

  Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 8:45pm BST

  Tags:  Linux fedora gsoc gsoc2008 systemtap   [edit]

  I am happy to announce that Satya Komaragiri is now my mentee for the Google Summer of Code, and will be working on extending Bootchart to support SystemTap. Satya is an undergraduate from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and she looks forward to making her first contribution to an opensource project.

  Thanks Google for making this happen. Please welcome her to the Fedora family.

  Technorati tags: fedora, gsoc, gsoc2008, linux, systemtap, summercoding, bootchart, mentoring

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to upgrade MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 on CentOS 4

  Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 1:59pm BST

  Tags:  Linux mysql centos howto install   [edit]

  I was playing a round with new software today which needed MySQL 5. My server’s running CentOS 4.6 which ships by default with MySQL 4.

  The to upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4 is easy. There are 2 options you could use.

  The first option would require you to remove all MySQL 4 packages by running,

  ># yum remove mysql

  The seconf option is way simpler.

  ># yum --enablerepo=centosplus update mysql

  This will download MySQL 5 from the plus repository and replace the installed MySQL 4.

  Remeber to backup your DBs before updating.

  Tags: CentOS, HowTo, Install, Linux, MySQL, update
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: 100 opensource applications

  Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 7:28am BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource software   [edit]

  Here’s a list of 100 popular opensource applications. From audio editing to 3d graphics, there’s an application out there for everyone.

  The list comes in handy for those new to Linux. Moving to Linux has never been easy for Windows users. The major reason being applications. Hopefully the list will make that transition smoother ans give them a reason not to go back to Windows

  

  My favorites will always be Linux, MySQL and PHP.

  Source: Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications

  Tags: Linux, Open Source, Software
  
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  FREE - Now accepting Orders for Ubuntu (8.04 LTS Hardy Heron

  Fetched: April 18th, 2008, 4:36am BST

  Tags:  Linux CDs DVDs   [edit]

  Author: faruqkhan
  Subject: FREE - Now accepting Orders for Ubuntu (8.04 LTS Hardy Heron
  Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:13 am (GMT 5)
  Topic Replies: 1
  
  Ubuntu is available free of charge and you get a CD of the latest version (8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)) with no extra cost
  
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  Eugene Teo: Planet LUGS is now on Twitter

  Posted: April 14th, 2008, 10:34pm BST

  Tags:  Linux opensource twitter planetlugs lugs   [edit]

  Do you twitter? If you do, add Planet LUGS to your list of friends now! Follow http://twitter.com/planetlugs/.

  Technorati tags: twitter, planetlugs, lugs, linux, opensource

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  Eugene Teo: cat(1) is as fast as dd(1) with bs=4096 on Linux

  Posted: April 9th, 2008, 8:42pm BST

  Tags:  Linux fedora solaris cat dd   [edit]

  Recently, I commented on Wee Yeh's blog that he could use cat(1) instead of dd(1M) to rip ISO files on Solaris. While I did not indicate if cat(1) rips faster than dd(1M), curiosity got the better of him, and he went to investigate further using ptime(1) and DTrace(7). His findings? cat(1) runs faster than dd(1M). Apparently, the version of cat(1) on Solaris uses mmap(2) with 8MB writes.

  I ran a similar test on Linux using SystemTap. The version of cat(1) and dd(1) on Linux are from GNU coreutils (version 6.9-17.fc8.x86_64 as of writing).

  $ sync; /usr/bin/time cat zerofile > file.cat
  0.04user 1.03system 0:01.44elapsed 74%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
  0inputs+819200outputs (0major+159minor)pagefaults 0swaps
  $ sync; /usr/bin/time dd if=zerofile of=file.dd bs=4096
  102400+0 records in
  102400+0 records out
  419430400 bytes (419 MB) copied, 1.47176 s, 285 MB/s
  0.02user 1.12system 0:01.55elapsed 73%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
  0inputs+819200outputs (0major+222minor)pagefaults 0swaps

  It looks like cat(1) and dd(1) have similar resource usage.

  I wrote a simple SystemTap script:

  global stats
  
  probe syscall.read, syscall.write  {
          if (target() == ppid())
                  stats[probefunc(), execname(), tid()]  $count
  }
  
  probe end {
          foreach([pf, exec, pid] in stats+) {
                  printf("%-20s%-10s%10dn", pf, exec, pid)
                  print(@hist_log(stats[pf, exec, pid]))
          }
  }

  And ran it:

  $ stap catvsdd.stp -c 'cat zerofile > file.cat'
  sys_write           cat            16369
  value |-------------------------------------------------- count
   1024 |                                                        0
   2048 |                                                        0
   4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 102400
   8192 |                                                        0
  16384 |                                                        0
  
  sys_read            cat            16369
  value |-------------------------------------------------- count
    128 |                                                        0
    256 |                                                        0
    512 |                                                        1
   1024 |                                                        0
   2048 |                                                        0
   4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  102401
   8192 |                                                        0
  16384 |                                                        0
  
  $ stap catvsdd2.stp -c 'dd if=zerofile of=file.dd bs=4096'
  102400+0 records in
  102400+0 records out
  419430400 bytes (419 MB) copied, 1.75862 s, 238 MB/s
  sys_write           dd             16595
  value |-------------------------------------------------- count
      4 |                                                        0
      8 |                                                        0
     16 |                                                        2
     32 |                                                        1
     64 |                                                        0
    128 |                                                        0
        ~
   1024 |                                                        0
   2048 |                                                        0
   4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 102400
   8192 |                                                        0
  16384 |                                                        0
  
  sys_read            dd             16595
  value |-------------------------------------------------- count
    128 |                                                        0
    256 |                                                        0
    512 |                                                        3
   1024 |                                                        0
   2048 |                                                        0
   4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  102401
   8192 |                                                        0
  16384 |                                                        0

  From the output, it looks like I/O reads and writes using cat(1) and dd(1) (bs=4096) on Linux are similar. And unlike the version of cat(1) on Solaris, the Linux version uses sys_write() with 4K bytes writes. Maybe it needs some love?

  Technorati tags: linux, solaris, fedora, cat, dd, dtrace, systemtap, ptime, time, coreutils

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  Eugene Teo: evince 1, acroread 0

  Posted: April 8th, 2008, 11:21pm BST

  Tags:  Linux acroread evince memoryleak   [edit]

  $ uptime
   19:48:32 up 3 days,  9:45,  5 users,  load average: 19.51, 22.98, 21.58
  $ free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:       4060828    4037672      23156          0        372       5068
  -/+ buffers/cache:    4032232      28596
  Swap:      2031608    2031608          0
  $ rpm -q AdobeReader_chs
  AdobeReader_chs-8.1.2-1.i486
  $ ps aux | grep -i adobe
  eteo     15603 19.6 46.8 3100576 1900728 ?     D    16:05  44:45 /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread 
  --display :0.0 -progressPipe 3 -exitPipe 4
  eteo     21415 18.9 46.5 2940492 1888996 ?     S    16:07  42:49 /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread 
  --display :0.0 -progressPipe 3 -exitPipe 4

  Spotted anything weird? Why would I want Adobe Reader when I have Evince? It just works.

  Technorati tags: acroread, evince, memory leak, linux

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  Firefox reaches 18 percent of corporate desktops

  Posted: April 8th, 2008, 10:55am BST by Prakash

  Tags:  Linux   [edit]

  After hitting the 500 million download milestone, here is another feather in the cap for Firefox.

  Mozilla Firefox’s share of the enterprise desktop market has reached 18 percent, according to a new Forrester report.

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to change the system date in Linux

  Posted: April 7th, 2008, 8:02pm BST

  Tags:  Linux commandline howto linuxcommands date   [edit]

  A friend needed help changing the system date on his Linux box today. This is usually a simple task for Linux users but newbies tend to get confused by the "date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]" line in the man page.

  To simplify, this is how you do it.

  Set the current date to April 7 2008 8:42:45pm.

  The easy way,

  #date -s "7 April 2008 20:42:45"

  The harder way,

  #date 040720422008.45

  The break down: MM DD hh mm YYYY ss

  MM = month = 04

  DD = day = 07

  hh = hour = 20

  mm = minute = 42

  YYYY = year = 2008

  ss = second = 450

  sample output,

  [root@klmsyslog01p ~]# date -s "7 April 2008 20:42:45"
Mon Apr 7 20:42:45 MYT 2008
[root@klmsyslog01p ~]#

  [root@kmmserver01p ~]# date 040720422008.45
Mon Apr 7 20:42:45 MYT 2008
[root@kmmserver01p ~]#

  Tags: command line, date, HowTo, Linux, linux commands, system administrators
  
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  Eugene Teo: More about SystemTap and Nokia N800/N810

  Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:00pm BST

  Tags:  Linux nokia n800 maemo n810   [edit]

  I wrote the following articles last July, hoping that more developers will be interested in getting Kprobes and SystemTap to work on ARM devices.

  • Kprobes and Maemo (N800)
  • Trying to get SystemTap working on N800
  • Experiences getting SystemTap work on Nokia N800

  Recently, Bruno Abinader from Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT) started working on a similar effort:

  • Systemtap on N800/N810
  • Installing and running systemtap test-suite on Nokia N800/N810
  • Systemtap testsuite report for arm architecture

  Check out the links if you are interested.

  Speaking of Nokia N810, I would love to get hold of one. The inbuilt qwerty keyboard will come in handy when writing notes.

  Technorati tags: linux, nokia, n800, n810, maemo, systemtap, indt

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  Eugene Teo: Experiences getting SystemTap work on Nokia N800

  Posted: April 5th, 2008, 2:14pm BST

  Tags:  Linux nokia n800 maemo systemtap   [edit]

  Setup of SystemTap on Host Machine

  The existing systemtap-20070712 CVS snapshot does not allow cross-compiling of systemtap scripts between different architectures. In order to bypass the architecture check (for now), systemtap was modified to include the translate.diff patch in the systemtap bugzilla PR 4186. The stp_check.in file was modified to use sh instead of bash, because N800 uses busybox (ash), and bash is not installed. Also, if you are using a CVS snapshot prior to July 4th, you will need to patch systemtap with the #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CP15 diff I committed. The installation prerequisites and procedure are described in the README. Do make sure that you install it within scratchbox ARM environment.

  The stock maemo kernel needs to be patched as well, so that systemtap is able to translate and precompile systemtap modules. By default, the stock kernel does not have kprobes support. It does not enable CONFIG_RELAY and CONFIG_DEBUG_FS as well. You need to patch the kernel with the ARM kprobes kernel patch. See Kprobes and Maemo (N800) on how to patch and compile the kernel. You need to modify the .config file to include:

  CONFIG_RELAY=y
  CONFIG_KPROBES=y
  CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
  CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

  Enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO option will compile the kernel with -g flag. One way to find that out is to run readelf -e vmlinux after you finish make zImage. You should see:

  $ readelf -e ./kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18/vmlinux | grep debug
  [12] .debug_abbrev PROGBITS 00000000 2b2128 096c24 00 0 0 1
  [13] .debug_info PROGBITS 00000000 348d4c 12b6bd5 00 0 0 1
  [14] .debug_line PROGBITS 00000000 15ff921 12906f 00 0 0 1
  [15] .debug_pubnames PROGBITS 00000000 1728990 01c89a 00 0 0 1
  [16] .debug_str PROGBITS 00000000 174522a 077e65 01 MS 0 0 1
  [17] .debug_aranges PROGBITS 00000000 17bd08f 0060e0 00 0 0 1
  [18] .debug_frame PROGBITS 00000000 17c3170 053a08 00 0 0 4
  [19] .debug_ranges PROGBITS 00000000 1816b78 01f7a8 00 0 0 1

  Once you are done with the patching and configurations, compile the kernel and flash the zImage to the N800. Also do the following on your host machine:

  ln -s /path/to/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.18-omap1
  mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.6.18-omap1/kernel
  ln -s /path/to/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18 /lib/modules/2.6.18-omap1/build
  ln -s /path/to/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18 /lib/modules/2.6.18-omap1/source

  Once you did these, you are ready to precompile systemtap modules for the N800.

  Setup of SystemTap on Nokia N800

  After you have compiled systemtap on your host machine, tar the /usr/local (default install directory), transfer it to the N800. and untar it in /usr.

  host# tar cvzf local.tar.gz /usr/local
  n800# tar xvzf local.tar.gz -C /

  Setup $PATH to include /usr/local/bin:

  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

  Precompile SystemTap scripts on Host Machine

  I will be using the following example to demonstrate how you can precompile the systemtap script. This script attempts to print out information on any process that tries to open a file. So, to precompile the script, you do:

  $ stap -r 2.6.18-omap1 -e 'probe kernel.function("sys_open") { printf("%sn", probefunc()) }'
  /home/eteo/.systemtap/cache/ef/stap_ef7c58450bc9dec9284bd24ba394b5c5_7253.ko

  Once you done that, transfer the systemtap module stap_ef7c58450bc9dec9284bd24ba394b5c5_7253.ko to the N800.

  Run Precompiled SystemTap scripts on N800

  # staprun stap_ef7c58450bc9dec9284bd24ba394b5c5_7253.ko
  sys_open NULL, O_RDONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE|O_NONBLOCK|O_SYNC, 023224
  sys_open NULL, O_RDONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE|O_NONBLOCK|O_SYNC, 0600002
  sys_open NULL, O_RDONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE|O_NONBLOCK|O_SYNC, 01101
  sys_open NULL, O_RDONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE|O_NONBLOCK|O_SYNC, 01101
  [...]
  ^C
  #

  It is painful to get SystemTap working on N800 if you are not familiar with scratchbox, so hopefully this short write-up would help you get started. There's still a lot of work to make sure that SystemTap works well on ARM, so don't be surprised that some tapsets or code do not work as it should.

  Technorati tags: linux, nokia, n800, maemo, systemtap

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  Eugene Teo: Trying to get SystemTap working on N800

  Posted: April 5th, 2008, 1:56pm BST

  Tags:  Linux nokia n800 maemo systemtap   [edit]

  /media/mmc1 # staprun stap_ef7c58450bc9dec9284bd24ba394b5c5_7253.ko
  ERROR: module machine mismatch (armv6l vs armv5tel)
  /media/mmc1 # staprun stap_e3aef3c4ddc5973a7ef8ffe0ff90dfc4_1098.ko
  ERROR: module machine mismatch (armv6l vs armv5tel)

  Almost there I think. I had to apply a quick hack to bypass the architecture check on the generated code for now.

  Technorati tags: linux, nokia, n800, maemo, systemtap

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  Eugene Teo: Kprobes and Maemo (N800)

  Posted: April 5th, 2008, 1:49pm BST

  Tags:  Linux nokia n800 maemo kprobes   [edit]

  Kprobes is a mechanism in the kernel that allows you to write modules to insert a probe by dynamically writing breakpoint instructions at a given address in the running kernel.

  Right now the stock kernel for Nokia N800 does not have kprobes support. In order to use kprobes, you need to patch the stock kernel with my backported kernel patch for the ARM kprobes implementation. Also, you need to enable RD mode on your device, and have Scratchbox and maemo development environment installed.

  After you have the necessary prerequisites needed, download the stock kernel source:

  apt-get source kernel-source-rx-34

  Go to the kernel sources directory, and apply the kprobes kernel patch:

  cd kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18
  patch -p1  ../kprobes-arm-rx-34-2.6.18-A2

  Create the default .config file for the kernel:

  make n800_defconfig

  Make the following modification to the .config file:

  sed -i 's/# CONFIG_KPROBES is not set/CONFIG_KPROBES=y/' .config

  Next, run make oldconfig so that the configurations become effective:

  make oldconfig

  After that, compile the actual kernel image:

  make zImage

  Now that you have compiled a new zImage file, you can flash your N800 with the new kernel:

  # 0xFFFF -p ./arch/arm/boot/zImage -R
  Waiting for device... found n770 (0421:0105)
  HW revision string: 'prod_code RX-34 hw_rev 1301'
  Root device is: flash
  Device's USB mode is 'client'
  RD mode is: on
  Current rd flag setting:
  disable OMAP watchdog : not set
  disable RETU watchdog : not set
  disable lifeguard reset: not set
  enable serial console : not set
  disable USB timeout : not set
  SWVERSION GOT: version:sw-release
  NOLO Version 1.1.6
  Flashing kernel (/home/eteo/zImage)
  | hash: 0xf498 size: 1326328 (00 14 3c f8)
  [=] Bulkwriting the kernel piece...
  100% [#################################################################]
  Flash done succesfully.
  Mobo rebooted!

  Login to your N800 via dropbear server or osso-xterm, type the following commands to verify that you have a new kernel with kprobes support:

  ~ $ uname -a
  Linux Nokia-N800-26 2.6.18-omap1 #1 Sat Jul 7 16:01:10 SGT 2007 armv6l unknown
  ~ $ grep kprobes /proc/kallsyms
  c000f468 T arch_init_kprobes
  c00152f8 t init_kprobes
  c00200e0 t __initcall_init_kprobes
  c02064d8 T __kprobes_text_start
  c0208dc4 T kprobes_inc_nmissed_count
  c0209894 T __kprobes_text_end

  I reused the trace-exec.c example from the OLS 2006 Kprobes tutorial to test if it works.

  [sbox-ARM: ~] > make
  make -C /home/eteo/maemo_kernel/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18/ SUBDIRS=/home/eteo modules
  make[1]: Entering directory `/home/eteo/maemo_kernel/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18'
  
  WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/eteo/maemo_kernel/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18/Module.symvers
  is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
  
  CC [M] /home/eteo/trace-exec.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  CC /home/eteo/trace-exec.mod.o
  LD [M] /home/eteo/trace-exec.ko
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eteo/maemo_kernel/kernel-source-rx-34-2.6.18'

  Transfer trace-exec.ko to N800 via USB or NFS or your preferred method. I choose to copy it to my sd-card.

  Next, insmod the kernel module:

  sudo gainroot
  cd /media/mmc1
  tail -f /var/log/syslog &
  insmod trace-exec.ko

  You should be able to see some output:

  kernel: [ 95.268341] Planted jprobe at c009f18c, handler addr bf056000
  ke_recv[1575]: handle_kevent:327: i|m|p: org.kernel.kevent|add|/org/kernel/module/trace_exec
  ke_recv[1575]: ke-recv.c:375: i|m|p: com.nokia.mce.signal|display_status_ind|/com/nokia/mce/signal

  Type lsmod to see the status of the kernel modules in the running kernel:

  # lsmod
  Module Size Used by
  trace_exec 1696 0 - Live 0xbf056000
  g_file_storage 24456 0 - Live 0xbf04f000
  cx3110x 50632 0 - Live 0xbf041000
  umac 258596 1 cx3110x, Live 0xbf000000

  When I tried to run osso-xterm, the following commands were executed:

  kernel: [ 317.945709] do_execve for /usr/bin/osso-xterm from dbus-daemon
  maemo-launcher[2335]: invoking '/usr/bin/osso-xterm.launch'
  iap_conndlg 1.3.51[1824]: NameownerChanged(:1.51, , :1.51)
  icd 1.1.29[1601]: Service ':1.51' belongs now to base service ':1.51'.
  iap_conndlg 1.3.51[1824]: NameownerChanged(:1.52, , :1.52)
  icd 1.1.29[1601]: Service ':1.52' belongs now to base service ':1.52'.
  iap_conndlg 1.3.51[1824]: NameownerChanged(com.nokia.xterm, , :1.51)
  icd 1.1.29[1601]: Service 'com.nokia.xterm' belongs now to base service ':1.51'.
  kernel: [ 319.202819] do_execve for /usr/lib/libvte4/gnome-pty-helper from maemo-launcher
  kernel: [ 319.245971] do_execve for /bin/sh from maemo-launcher
  kernel: [ 319.380187] do_execve for /usr/bin/whoami from sh
  kernel: [ 319.411163] EAC mode: play disabled, rec disabled
  kernel: [ 319.548309] EAC mode: play enabled, rec enabled
  maemo_af_desktop[1791]: GLIB DEBUG default - HildonHome is background: 1

  Once you are done with it, you can remove the kernel module:

  rmmod trace-exec.ko

  Try it out, and share with me your kprobes experiences!

  Technorati tags: linux, nokia, n800, maemo, kprobes, jprobes

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  Eugene Teo: Enabling RD mode on your N800

  Posted: April 5th, 2008, 1:30pm BST

  Tags:  Linux nokia n800 maemo 0xffff   [edit]

  ~ $ su
  su: This applet requires root priviledges!
  ~ $ sudo gainroot
  cal_read_block(r&d_mode): size zero, block not found?
  Enable RD mode if you want to break your device

  What? No root privileges? How can this be? :)

  If you are unable to gain root privileges, that means that the RD mode on your N800 is off.

  # 0xFFFF -i | grep "RD mode"
  RD mode is: off

  To enable RD mode, download 0xFFFF, and run the following command:

  # 0xFFFF -r 1
  Waiting for device... found n770 (0421:0105)
  HW revision string: 'prod_code RX-34 hw_rev 1301'
  Root device is: flash
  Device's USB mode is 'client'
  RD mode is: off
  Current rd flag setting:
  disable OMAP watchdog : not set
  disable RETU watchdog : not set
  disable lifeguard reset: not set
  enable serial console : not set
  disable USB timeout : not set
  rd mode changed to on

  Now you should be able to sudo gainroot:

  ~ $ sudo gainroot
  Root shell enabled
  
  
  BusyBox v1.4.1 (2007-03-12 19:00:25 EET) Built-in shell (ash)
  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
  
  /home/user # id
  uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

  Technorati tags: linux, nokia, n800, maemo, 0xffff, rd mode
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  Danesh Manoharan: Send mail through SMTP using Telnet

  Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 2:28pm BST

  Tags:  Linux howto networking smtp troubleshooting   [edit]

  Developers in my office constantly complain that the SMTP server is down and no mails are being sent out. We come back saying that their application is buggy. Most often after hours of troubleshooting the problem will turn out to be the application itself.

  Here’s a simple way to test your SMTP server over port 25 using Telnet to proof them wrong.

  Telnet to the server via port 25.

  1. Key in “EHLO example.com” and hit enter.

  2. Key in “MAIL FROM: sender@domain.com” and hit enter.

  3. Key in “RCPT TO: recipient@domain.com” and hit enter.

  4. Key in “DATA” and hit enter.

  5. Key in your message body and hit enter.

  6. Key in ” . ” and press enter.

  If you received the mail then your SMTP is working fine.

  Sample output,
  (more…)

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  Danesh Manoharan: Get your Linux counted

  Posted: March 29th, 2008, 6:46pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux FOSS Community   [edit]

  

  Just how many Linux are out there today? No one knows for sure but it’s pretty obvious that the number keeps increasing as the Linux is gaining audience from all over.

  The Linux Counter Project was stated back in 1999. The project’a goal was and still is to count how many Linux users and Linux based machines are out there.

  I’ve got my self counted and received my badge seen below.

  

  If you are a Linux user then make sure to register yourself and your Linux machines. It’s simple,

  1. Goto The Linux Counter and click “Get Counted“.

  2. Fill up the form and you’ll receive your badge. Check your mail too.

  3. Check your mail or go here to register your Linux machines. There’s a simple script which you can download and run from your Linux machine to register it.

  Let’s start counting….

  Tags: community, foss, Linux
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: Linux Commands: tee

  Posted: March 26th, 2008, 4:21pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux howto commands linuxcommands uniq   [edit]

  Not many people I know use the tee command but I find it quite useful. I tend to use it quite often in my scripts actually.

  So what does it do?

  The tee command has the ability to take the standard input and redirected it to multiple outputs. For example, the ls command would normally just return file names on your screen but what if you also need to keep a log of those file names in a text file.

  Using the tee command you could simply write something like this “ls * | tee -a output.txt“. The command will return the file names on screen and also append them to the output.txt file. Screenshot below,

  

  A lightly more complex use of the command. I have a file with duplicate entries. Combining the tee command with the uniq and sort commands I am able print the desired output on screen and also dump it into the file output_sorted.txt. Screenshot below,

  

  There are way more usages for the tee command but for today I stuck to the basic. I’ll try to post more about it in the future.

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  Install Fest (Linux, BSD)

  Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 2:52am GMT by twincling

  Tags:  Linux bsd hyderabad twincling installfest   [edit]

  An exciting 'Linux/BSD InstallFest' has been planned for Saturday, March 29 at 5pm. The venue is Floor 5, Conf Room, CommVault Systems.
  
  A great way to get started with Linux/BSD is to actually try to install and configure it !
  
  You are welcome to bring along your laptops to try out the stuff. There will be some laptops and 2-3 systems available to try the distros live and also in VM environments.
  
  Some of the distros you get to play with are:
  . FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
  . Sabayon Linux
  . Gentoo
  . Ubuntu
  . Mandriva
  . Fedora
  . BOSS Linux
  . Knoppix
  
  Thanks to Saurabh Bhatia and Community Leads Uma and Sumanth, there will be multiple demos on installations, configuration and troubleshooting.
  
  There will also be discussion on 'ODF' or Open Document Format (thanks to Nikhil).
  
  All the geeks, entrepreneurs and techies are invited to join in and be part of the fun filled yet insightful evening that it is going to be on Saturday, March 29 at 5pm.
  
  Venue details are available at [www.twincling.org]
  
  All Open Source enthusiasts are cordially invited !TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/

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  Eugene Teo: I passed the Red Hat SELinux Policy Administration Exam

  Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 12:14pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux redhat rhca rhcss rhcds   [edit]

  One more exam, and I will be earning the RHCA, RHCSS, and RHCDS certifications. The reason why I will be earning three certifications at once is because the last exam overlaps with all the certifications' requirements. Well, there are quite a handful of RHCAs around the world by now, so it's no big deal, but I am really looking forward to completing it. If you ask me which exams are the most challenging, I would say, EX333 Red Hat Security: Network Services, and EX442 Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning. Even Florian Brand shared the same view too. EX333 was the first exam I took about two years ago in Sydney. It was winter then, and I love cold weather :) Anyway, if you are trying to earn one or more of Red Hat's advanced certifications, I strongly recommend that you start with the more difficult exams first, and then cruise your way to the easier ones.

  Technorati tags: linux, red hat, rhca, rhcss, rhcds, ex423, ex442, ex333, sydney, fbrand, certifications

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  Eugene Teo: Project Dogtag launch

  Posted: March 19th, 2008, 10:48pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux redhat projectdogtag rhcs rhs435   [edit]

  I'm delighted to share this wonderful news that Red Hat has finally released all the source code to the Certificate System. It took a long while since the Netscape technology acquisition, but hey, better late than never! Kudos to our colleagues who made this happen.

  This also reminds me that I should go read the RHS435 Red Hat Enterprise Certificate Management manual soon.

  Technorati tags: linux, red hat, project dogtag, rhcs, rhs435, bob lord, dogtag-pki

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  Eugene Teo: Questions from students about my GSoC project ideas

  Posted: March 19th, 2008, 7:18pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux fedora gsoc gsoc2008 systemtap   [edit]

  There were two questions that students in #gsoc repeatedly asked:

  • What are the skills needed for the two projects?
  • Should I use Fedora for the project? Can I use Mac OS X or Ubuntu?

  I have updated the ideas page with the skills needed information. Check it out. As for the second question, I would prefer that you use Fedora, but feel free to test your work on other distributions as well.

  Just in case you do not know, we have other interesting Fedora project ideas too. Don't miss it.

  Technorati tags: fedora, gsoc, gsoc2008, linux, systemtap, summercoding, ideas, mentoring

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  Danesh Manoharan: HP machines soon to ship with Novell Desktop Linux

  Posted: March 18th, 2008, 9:56pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux microsoft desktop dell hp   [edit]

  

  HP is planning to roll out a few of it’s Notebooks and Desktops preloaded with Novell’s Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10). Dell had the head start with it’s offering of machines preloaded with Ubuntu and recently also preloaded with SLED10.

  “We are really excited because of the power that the HP distribution channel brings, the reach they have and their commitment to interoperability. I am very enthusiastic about what this relationship could bring,” Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian told eWEEK in an interview during Novell’s BrainShare 2008 conference.

  This is good for Linux, not that Linux is going to overwhelm Microsoft’s market share anytime soon but it will certainly help built much needed awareness among users. From the hands of hobbyist into the enterprise environment.

  Source: eWeek

  Tags: dell, desktop, hp, Linux, microsoft, notebook, notebooks, novell, SLED, Ubuntu
  
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  Eugene Teo: Fedora selected for Google Summer of Code 2008

  Posted: March 18th, 2008, 7:16pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux opensource fedora gsoc gsoc2008   [edit]

  Looking for an opensource project to work on? Look no further because Fedora is accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2008. Check out our project ideas page. Talk to our mentors. Discuss your project ideas with us.

  I have proposed two project ideas, and I am looking for interested students to work on it:

  • Extend Bootchart to support SystemTap
  • A visualization tool for SystemTap

  SystemTap is an instrumentation tool that simplifies the gathering of information about the running Linux kernel, so that it can be further analyzed for performance or functional issues. The first project involves extending bootchart to support SystemTap and XML and to explore additional metrics that would make performance analysis and virtualization more useful. The second project involves writing a graphical tool for visualizing information gathered using SystemTap, in real-time, so that anomalies can be easily identified. For more information, read the Ideas for Student Projects for 2008 page.

  Tip: put a pencil line through the weeks March 18-31, and make sure you read the GSoC 2008 FAQ thoroughly. The deadline for student application is April 1, 2008, 00:00 UTC, so make sure you participate early.

  Have fun!

  Technorati tags: fedora, gsoc, gsoc2008, linux, opensource, systemtap, summercoding, ideas, mentoring

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to keep your Linux session alive

  Posted: March 18th, 2008, 7:13pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux bash console howto session   [edit]

  Recently I wrote about implementing session timeouts on Linux. For admin’s who know what they are doing(most times) this can sometimes be an annoying experience.

  There’s a simple noop script over at bashcurescancer to help work around session timeouts. This will work for ssh and also the default virtual consoles.

   

   

  Watch noop in action.
  

  [www.youtube.com]

  Source: BashCuresCancer

  Tags: bash, console, HowTo, Linux, session, ssh, videos, youtube
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: Wal-Mart drops gPC from it’s stores

  Posted: March 17th, 2008, 2:33pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux desktop gpc eeepc walmart   [edit]

  Wal-Mart have decided to drop the “Green gPC” Linux based low cost desktops from it’s stores. However the gPC will still be available through walmart.com

  

  “This really wasn’t what our customers were looking for,” said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien.

  Consumers today are not into low end PCs which was the whole idea behind the “Green gPC”. Consumers are favoring up to date hardware specs bundled with alternative OS like Linux as seen with ASUS’s Eee PC range of products.

  What is gPC?

  Source: Yahoo

  Tags: desktop, eee pc, gpc, Linux, walmart, yahoo
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: Webinar: Control a World of Computers from Your Linux PC

  Posted: March 14th, 2008, 7:09pm GMT

  Tags:  Events Linux desktop carlaschroder remoteadministration   [edit]

  

  A new O’Reilly webinar is coming soon.

  Carla Schroder, author of the book “Linux Cookbook” will be presenting. She will be talking about GUI based secure remote administration via the Linux desktop. Some of the key points covered will be;

  1. Running remote graphical applications. For example the Oracle installer which requires X.

  2. Common administration tasks via popular Linus desktop environments like KDE or Gnome for example.

  3. Remote helpdesk, similiar to remote assistance in Windows .

  4. Administration of windows based machines from the Linux desktop. Most likely RDP clients.

  The webinar is scheduled for the 19th of March at 17:00(GMT) which is 1am Malaysian time(GMT+8). Register quick as seats are limited.

  Tags: Carla Schroder, desktop, events, Linux, remote administration
  
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  Colin Charles: Consumer hardware shipping too many Linuxes by default

  Posted: March 13th, 2008, 4:32pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux asus20eeepc consumer20hardware xandros foresight20linux   [edit]

  At the top of my head now, Linux is hitting the mainstream desktop market, in many variants:

  1. Xandros, on the ever popular Asus EeePC’s
  2. Foresight Linux, on the new Shuttle KPC’s (USD$199), which are basically small form-factor desktops
  3. Fedora, a modified variant anyway, running on the OLPC’s
  4. gOS, a variant of Ubuntu, running on the gPC’s
  5. Maemo, via scratchbox, on the Nokia n-series handhelds (n770, n800, n810, and presumably more in the future)
  6. Ubuntu shipping on some Dell laptops, in select regions

  I’m sure I’ve missed out some really amazing devices. But that’s not the point. Do you see a problem with the above?

  Xandros, gOS, Ubuntu and Maemo run DPKG, using APT/DEB’s for package management. Fedora, uses RPM. Foresight uses their own Conary based system. OK, lets scratch the package manager woes, now noting that they’re all different. Let’s focus on the desktop environment.

  Xandros is some form of KDE, locked down on the Asus. Foresight presumably ships with GNOME by default, as do the Ubuntu on Dell machines. The OLPC ships with Sugar (granted, its market is specific). gOS ships with XFce. Maemo uses GTK, but is remarkably different from a regular GNOME desktop. So now we’ve got different desktop environments too.

  Should I then go into package managers? Or down to the nitty gritty, where the init scripts are in a different location? Or that they all use a different method to connect to a wireless network?

  So what am I getting at? Complexity.

  Not only from a users perspective (say, I go out and buy an Asus Eee PC because its so cheap, and I find Linux sufficient for my needs. Then I need a desktop, so I find the Shuttle KPC which is cheap. However, at this point, the interfaces are completely different, and I’m lost.) but also from a support perspective (Windows XP, Vista is down? I’ll just call my pimply 14 year old niece/nephew to fix it. Linux is down? Problematic? What do I do?).

  Some of you are saying, they should be turning to their LUGs if they needed help. Sure, but LUG mailing lists aren’t the most friendly. Newbies can be blatantly told to RTFM.

  Let’s then visit their local LPI certified candidate, who’s running a support business. Oh wait, he’s only certified against RPM’s and is clueless with DEBs or Conary. You get the drift…

  My beef with all of this, is that there is no standard. There is the GNOME Mobile & Embedded initiative - good. There is the Ubuntu Mobile team - great. What are their aims? To standardise on something for the mobile platform (presumably, like the Eee PCs, the Nokia n-series tablet devices, etc.). Will they achieve it, without hardware vendor buy-in? Probably not.

  There lies a problem with mainstream consumer hardware running Linux. Linux is getting friendlier, but all the distribution variants only serve to complicate things, for the end user.

  What do you think, the free and open source community can do, to address these issues?

  (remember, I didn’t even get into varying versions of shipped software and the problems that can face… or how some devices will come without basic MP3 or DivX decoding support (Fedora has vaguely fixed this with codeina/CodecBuddy, but the others haven’t caught on)… the list can go on)

  Technorati Tags: linux, consumer hardware, xandros, foresight linux, asus eeepc, shuttle kpc, fedora, olpc, gOS, gPC, maemo, Ubuntu, dell, package management, desktop environment, gnome, complexity, support, lug, lpi, standards

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  Eugene Teo: OpenSolaris Xen PV Guest on 64-bit Fedora 8

  Posted: March 9th, 2008, 8:08pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux fedora opensolaris xen sxde   [edit]

  I tried to create a SXDE 1/08 PV guest on 64-bit Fedora 8 based on the instructions I wrote awhile back, but it panicked with the following kernel backtrace:

  # xm create -c sxde108.py 
  Using config file "./sxde108.py".
  Started domain sxde108
                        v3.1.0-rc7 chgset 'unavailable'
  SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_79a 32-bit
  Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
  Use is subject to license terms.
  
  panic[cpu0]/thread=d4789e00: HYPERVISOR_mmu_update() failed
  
  d483aac0 unix:x86pte_cas+122 (d3d3c5f8, 0, 0, 0, )
  d483ab00 unix:link_ptp+6d (d3d3c5f8, d3d3c5a8,)
  d483ab68 unix:htable_create+19d (d3c69f08, 8047000, )
  d483aba0 unix:hati_load_common+78 (d3c69f08, 8047000, )
  d483abd4 unix:hat_memload+5f (d3c69f08, 8047000, )
  d483ac44 genunix:segvn_faultpage+38f (d3c69f08, d4786f98,)
  d483ad34 genunix:segvn_fault+a04 (d3c69f08, d4786f98,)
  d483adc4 genunix:as_fault+4ae (d3c69f08, d4787f08,)
  d483ae1c unix:pagefault+183 (8047ff4, 0, 2, 0)
  d483aeb4 unix:trap+1182 (d483aec8, 8047ff4, )
  d483aec8 unix:cmntrap+aa (d48301b1, f4d20000,)
  d483af20 unix:kcopy+25 (d3fec5d0, 8047ff4, )
  d483af6c genunix:exec_init+143 (f506d8ec, f506d7ec)
  d483af88 genunix:start_init_common+c4 (0, d483afa4, f4c42b)
  d483af94 genunix:start_init+1c (0, 0)
  d483afa4 unix:thread_start+8 ()
  
  syncing file systems... done
  skipping system dump - no dump device configured
  rebooting...
  

  What happened was that I used the 32-bit version of the kernel and ramdisk files instead of the 64-bit version. So to fix this problem, I extracted the 64-bit version of the files from the install media:

  # cd /var/lib/xen/images
  # mount -o loop sol-nv-b78-x86-dvd.iso /mnt/
  # cp -prv /mnt/boot/amd64/x86.miniroot x86.miniroot-sol-nv-b79b-amd64
  # cp -prv /mnt/boot/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix unix-sol-nv-b79b-amd64

  And I also modified the configuration file with the following:

  kernel = '/var/lib/xen/images/unix-sol-nv-b79b-amd64'
  ramdisk = '/var/lib/xen/images/x86.miniroot-sol-nv-b79b-amd64'
  extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix - nowin -B install_media=cdrom'

  And after making all these minor changes, we can finally begin to install.

  Technorati tags: xen, linux, opensolaris, fedora, sxde, kernel panic, 64-bit, HYPERVISOR_mmu_update

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to set default session timeout in Linux

  Posted: March 5th, 2008, 10:14am GMT

  Tags:  Linux Security howto   [edit]

  My DC operation guys access Linux servers on a daily basis but somehow they never remember to log out. This is a security risk as anyone could gain access to the open console and create caos.

  Today, yet again I’m forced to play the bad guy by dummy proofing my Linux servers by implementing default timeout for user sessions.

  Bash and Korn both support the TMOUT variable which I will use to set the default timeout.

  The etc/.bashrc file will apply the timeout system wide but if you need it to be user specific then modify the ~/.bashrc file instead.

  Here’s how it’s done.

  echo "TMOUT=300 >> /etc/bashrc

  echo "readonly TMOUT" >> /etc/bashrc

  echo "export TMOUT" >> /etc/bashrc

  Log off, start a new session and wait for 5 minutes. Your session should terminate

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to increase file descriptors max limit on Linux

  Posted: February 27th, 2008, 5:25pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux howto kernelparameters hacks   [edit]

  Today my DBA reported that the server she was working on was spitting out “too many open files” errors and no new processes could be started.

  This is a common problem with DB servers with heavy transactions. In my environment there are 6 DB instances running on the server. No quite the optimized setup I would say.

  The fix was to increase the total file descriptors kernel parameter count in the /etc/sysctl.conf file. I doubled my limit from 8192 to 16384.

  The walk through,

  1. Find out what the current open file descriptor limit is.

  ~# more /proc/sys/fs/file-max
  
  ~# 8192
  

  or

  ~# sysctl -a | grep fs.file-max
  
  ~# fs.file-max = 8192

  2. View how many open file descriptors are currently being used.

  ~# more /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
  
  ~# 8191

  3. View how many files are open. The number returned might defer as 1 file descriptor can have multiple open files attached to it.

  ~# lsof | wc -l
  
  ~# 10325

  4. Edit the kernel paramneter file /etc/sysctl.conf and add line “fs.file-max=[new value]” to it.

  ~# vi /etc/sysctl.conf
  
  fs.file-max = 331287

  5. Apply the changes.

  ~# sysctl -p
  ~# fs.file-max = 331287

  Problem fixed.

  Tags: hacks, HowTo, kernel parameters, Linux
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to install Microsoft Core Fonts on Linux

  Posted: February 26th, 2008, 6:28pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux microsoft howto hacks fonts   [edit]

  

  Most Linux desktop users don’t fancy the default fonts which ship default with Linux. Luckily there are a few ways you could easy enjoy Microsoft fonts on your Linux desktop.

  The simplest way would be to use the package manager to add distro specific packages to install the fonts. openSUSE, Ubuntu and many other distros now provide the fonts with a disclaimer which you will have to agree to before the fonts get installed.

  If the above did not work for you then download this rpm package: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/AnyDistro/noarch/MicrosoftFonts-1-jen14.noarch.rpm which will provide the fonts for you. Use your package manager to install the package or simply install it from the command line using the command below. An advantage of this rpm package is that it includes the Tahoma fonts which is not included by the distro specific packages.

  rpm -ivh  MicrosoftFonts-1-jen14.noarch.rpm

  The third and final way which is also the legal way would be to copy the fonts over from a licensed Windows XP computer. Move them over using winscp or a usb thumb drive,WinSCP in my case. Once moved over simply use your font’ manager to install them. In my case KDE, the font manger can be accessed at KDE Menu -> Configure Desktop -> System Administration -> Font Installer -> “Administrator Mode”.

  Enjoy your fonts, drop me a comment if you need help.

  Tags: fonts, hacks, HowTo, Linux, microsoft, openSUSE, Software
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to run IE in openSUSE 10.3

  Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 12:38am GMT

  Tags:  Linux microsoft howto opensuse ies4linux   [edit]

  You decided to switch desktops to Linux and now you can’t access your office IE only intranet. What do you do?

  Well, you could IEs4Linux on WINE. WINE is a opensource Windows API implementation for the Linux platform and IEs4Linux is the “installer” which will download, install and get IE to work with WINE.

  1. Add the WINE repository for openSUSE 10.3.

  YaST2 -> Software -> Software Repositories.

  http://software.opensuse.org/download/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_10.3/

  

  (more…)

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  Colin Charles: Online videos, to a VCD, via Linux

  Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 12:31pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux dvd vcd devede youtubedl   [edit]

  With the upcoming elections, there have been some most interesting videos posted on Google Video and YouTube. The opposition is broadcasting on YouTube, sitting on social networks (Anwar and PKR, are on MySpace, Friendster, Facebook). The Internet is becoming more mainstream, for elections and politicians. What does this mean for the 2008 general elections? Definitely, not a 90%+ majority for the ruling Barisan Nasional, I do hope.

  Anyway, on to working with video. Lets say, you have found an interesting video on Google Video, and feel that it is your sworn duty to share it with the poor who do not have access to the Internet. Google Video, on the right hand column, allows you to download it for the Video iPod/Sony PSP. Perfect.

  What about interesting videos on YouTube? Naturally, you will use youtube-dl. Beware, this software changes often, as and when YouTube changes their protocol, so check back constantly if things stop working. Getting things in .FLV format, is kind of painful, which is why you’ll use ffmpeg to transform your video: ffmpeg -i foo.flv -y foo.avi.

  Now, what about creating a VCD or DVD? Whats the easiest way? Hands down, you want DeVeDe. Its available in Fedora, apparently has got some bugs in Ubuntu (something about sound going wonky). Its dead easy to use. It works with Google Video MP4’s as well as AVI files you’ve converted from ffmpeg.

  Let DeVeDe do its thing (which is creating a .cue and .bin file), and then, its time to write to a CD. To create a VCD? cdrdao write –device /dev/sr0 movie.cue. I understand, K3B has got all the gizmos to create this in GUI form, but that involves installing KDE libraries, and I’m sure I can use my disk space in a more efficient way. I found HOWTO Make a video (S)VCD a handy guide.

  Wait… and you’ll soon have a CD that you can pop into a DVD/VCD player and enjoy viewing.

  Technorati Tags: linux, dvd, vcd, devede, youtube-dl, google video, youtube, cdrdao

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  Danesh Manoharan: How to disable the beep in Linux

  Posted: February 19th, 2008, 10:24pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux drivers centos howto hacks   [edit]

  

  If you are like me then you must hate the “BEEP!” that comes along with Linux. Turning it off in KDE or Gnome is easy but what if you are on the virtual console? Here’s how you get rid of the “BEEP!” temporarily or permanently.

  Temporary solution,

  ** make sure to be root or use sudo **

  1. Check if you have the pcspkr module loaded.

  [root@nosebleed ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr
  
  pcspkr                  7105  0

  2. Remove the module. lsmod will return nothing if the module was removed.

  [root@nosebleed ~]# rmmod pcspkr
  
  [root@nosebleed ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr

  3. Restore the module when done.

  [root@nosebleed ~]# modprobe pcspkr
  
  [root@nosebleed ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr
  
  pcspkr                  7105  0

  Permanent solution,

  ** make sure to be root or use sudo **

  1. add the pcspkr module to the modprobe blacklist file.

  [root@nosebleed ~]# vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

  Add the lines below to the file.

  # pcspkr - turn off pc speaker "BEEP!"
  
  blacklist pcspkr

  2. Reboot, and check if the pcspkr module was loaded. If the blacklist file kicked in then nothing will be returned.

  [root@nosebleed ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr

  This fix works for my CentOS and Ubuntu but not openSUSE as the pcspkr driver is built right into the kernel.

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  Danesh Manoharan: Improve ALPS touchpad response speed

  Posted: February 18th, 2008, 3:31pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux drivers howto hacks notebook   [edit]

  ALPS touchpad generaly have slower response when compared to the synaptic based touchpads.

  Here’s a simple X hack to boost the sensitivity of my ALPS touchpad which has dramatically improved my experience with my touchpad. This worked on my openSUSE 10.3

  1. First, check if you really do have a ALPS touchpad.

  cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep ALPS

  sample output;

  N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"

  2. Make a backup of your xorg.conf file.

  cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkp

  3. Edit the xorg.conf file.

  vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  4. Navigate to the InputDevice Section and look for the “synaptics” driver portion.

  5. Replace everything between the Identifier line and EndSection with the settings below.
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  Danesh Manoharan: PlexyDesk coming to your desktop soon

  Posted: February 16th, 2008, 1:44am GMT

  Tags:  Linux opensource software desktopenvironment srilanka   [edit]

  [video.google.com]

  PlexyDesk is the latest project to come out of Sri Lanka. The project team consists of a group of Sri Lankan developers and the project is only a couple of weeks old.

  PlexyDesk is a Desktop but not a full desktop environment like KDE and Gnome. The goal for Plexydesk is to simplify and improve the desktop experience by by rendering your desktop workspace and optimally organizing your  information thought it support for multi touch screens. Plexdesk will run on top of both KDE and Gnome.

  Even though Plexydesk is well within it’s infant state the team has already managed to come up  with a working model to show the world. Plexy glass was even shown to Mr. Ricard Stallman during his recent visit to Sri Lanka.

  The project team is actively looking for help with the project so if you have any skills don’t hesitate to join the team. What are the looking for?

  Source: PlexyDesk

  Tags: desktop environment, Linux, Open Source, Software, sri lanka
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to install webmin on CentOS 4

  Posted: February 14th, 2008, 7:21pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux proxy centos howto install   [edit]

  Webmin is a web based control panel for system administrators for Unix/Linux. I use Webmin for reports mainly. More about Webmin here.

  This is how you would install Webmin on Centos 4.

  1. First start by downloading the latest version of Webmin. The current version is 1.400.

  I prefer to use use wget to directly download the file onto the server but it’s up to you.

  wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm

  2. Install the Webmin rpm package.

  rpm -ivh  webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm

  [root@proxy0 /]# rpm -ivh webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm
  warning: webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 11f63c51
  Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
  Operating system is CentOS Linux
  1:webmin                 ########################################### [100%]
  Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://proxy0.klm1.netcel360.com:10000/
  as root with your root password.

  3. Check if the Webmin service has been started.

  service webmin status

  [root@proxy0 /]# service webmin status
  webmin (pid 4878) is running

  That’s it, you can now login using your root id at https://localhost:10000

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  linux OS at lahore and by post new rar colc

  Fetched: February 1st, 2008, 4:35am GMT

  Tags:  Linux CDs DVDs   [edit]

  Author: ammarnaeembutt
  Subject: linux OS at lahore and by post new rar colc
  Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:58 am (GMT 5)
  Topic Replies: 0
  
  [b]dear friend,
  koi b friend, mujse yeh OS lay sakta hai,
  *solaris 10
  *opensuse 10.2 (8.1GB) 10.3
  *novell 6.5 (2 CD)
  *novell 6.5 (with builtin SP7) DVD
  *opensuse enterprise server 10.x DVD
  *suse enterprise server latest (DVD iso) plus older 9 in CDs
  *CBT lectures for RHEL4 RHCE (DVDimage)
  *CBT lecture for Suse Enterprise (DVDimage)
  *CBT lecture for BASH,PHP,PERL,JAVA scripting for linux
  *CBT lecture for MCSE 2003,Exchange 2003+2007
  *CBT lecture for ISA 2000+2004.
  *CBT lecture for Network+
  *CBT lecture for linux intermediate.
  *CBT lecture for linux networking.
  *CBT lecture for wireless networking (5DVD)
  *CBT lecture for CCNA.cisco wireless,and design
  *origle vista 32/64 bit full working DVDimage
  *FedoraCore 8
  all vmware and veritas,checkpoint software colc
  RHCE 4 & 5 and hard copy books (Redhat Press official)
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  Danesh Manoharan: Creating Partitions with GNU Parted

  Posted: February 1st, 2008, 12:25am GMT

  Tags:  Linux howto parted   [edit]

  Hi, its me Raja again. This time I talk about parted, an alternative to fdisk for linux. This is my second screencast, so the quality is not there yet. The youtube video somehow seems a little burry, so you may want to look at the higher quality .avi version.

  Anyhow, comments are much appreciated on how to improve this screencast.

  [www.youtube.com]

  Source: Rajaseelan

  Tags: gnu, HowTo, Linux, parted, partitions, Raja, screencast, youtube
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: XPS M1330 now Ubuntu ready

  Posted: January 28th, 2008, 2:38pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux malaysia direct2dell ideastorm notebooks   [edit]

  

  Dell’s top of the range notebook and currently also the best notebook from Dell, the XPS M1330 is now being shipped pre-installed with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). The Ubuntu powered XPS notebooks are currently only available in Germany, UK, France and Spain. Hopefully Dell expands it’s Ubuntu on Dell range to Malaysia soon. The use of Linux in Asia is constantly growing and one might find this an ideal business opportunity. Don’t you think so Dell?

  Linux on Dell has been a big hit among it’s customer and potential customers as seen on Direct2Dell. The biggest requests on Dell’s community sites direct2dell and IdeaStorm have been to get Ubuntu on more hardware and made available around the globe.

  

  Source: Direct2Del Linux Screw

  Tags: direct2dell, ideastorm, Linux, Malaysia, notebooks, Ubuntu
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: Bug in openSUSE xorg security update

  Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 6:25pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux bugs howto opensuse   [edit]

  I’ve been hit by bug #345131 since updating to the latest xorg-server [7.2-143.9] security update on my openSUSE 10.3 installation. xorg-server version 7.2-143.6 to 7.2-143.9.

  VLC, Filezilla and a few other applications stopped working. The bug has something to do with the X Window shared memory (MIT-SHM) overflowing.

  My error,

  The program ‘Filezilla’ received an X Window System error.
  This probably reflects a bug in the program.
  The error was ‘BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)’.
  (Details: serial 1072 error_code 11 request_code 147 minor_code 5)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
  To debug your program, run it with the –sync command line
  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

  Few hours of Googling and experimenting later I found my fix. 3  actually.

  (more…)

  Tags: bugs, HowTo, Linux, openSUSE
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.8.1 released

  Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:42am GMT

  Tags:  Linux software bittorrent deluge release   [edit]

  

  A new version of Deluge is out.

  Changes added to this release,

  Catch various exceptions from possibly corrupted persistent.state
  Use pieces wanted instead of total pieces to draw adv progress bar
  Properly catch ‘address already in use’ error when trying to use a port that is in use
  Attempt to fix issue where all the columns start very small
  Change how we handle fastresume - should prevent rechecking
  New theme for windows
  Performance enhancements by removing needless casts
  Search is now a plugin
  Browser removed

  Download Deluge 0.5.8.1.

  Tags: BitTorrent, deluge, Linux, release, Software
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to remove ^M character with VI

  Posted: January 17th, 2008, 2:39pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux microsoft vi howto   [edit]

  This is how you remove those annoying ^M characters that show up in files previously edited on a Windows/DOS platform.

  In VI,

  :%s/[ctrlkey+v and ctrl-key+M]//g

  actual command,

  :%s/^V^M//g

  Here’s a walk through video I made. My first actually

  [www.youtube.com]

  Tags: HowTo, Linux, microsoft, vi
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: openSUSE main repository back online

  Posted: January 16th, 2008, 10:01pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux mirrors downtime opensuse repositories   [edit]

  

  Quick update to my previous post, the main openSUSE repositories are back online.

  Tags: downtime, Linux, mirrors, openSUSE, Repositories
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: How to find files in linux

  Posted: January 15th, 2008, 1:53am GMT

  Tags:  Linux commandline howto bashscript commands   [edit]

  Need to find files older than certain time frame? This will help, “find [dir] -type f -mtime +[24hours*n] ”

  Examples,

  Show files older than 7 days

  find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7

  Show files older than 7 days and rm them.

  find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} ;

  or if you have a large number of files

  find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7 | xargs rm

  Tags: bash script, command line, commands, HowTo, Linux
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: openSUSE main repository down

  Posted: January 15th, 2008, 7:00pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux mirrors downtime opensuse repositories   [edit]

  

  The main openSUSE repositories have been down for about 12 hours now due to hardware failures. If you are using these mirrors then your package manager would most likely fail as mine did. Screen shots below.

  So what do you do?

  It’s advisable to use a mirror closer to your location. I use Japan. The performance is better when compared with the other Asian mirros.

  For the full list of mirrors go to the openSUSE Wiki

  (more…)

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  Takizo Technology: symfony / propel with RAND()

  Posted: January 15th, 2008, 2:40pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux PHP mysql Unix pgsql   [edit]

  previously mentioned, symfony framework is really cool. Lately I am working on a simple online test system which doesn’t take up much of my to write the code from scratch. One of my favorite is using propel to generate the admin panel, it’s so easy, quick and code management is clean and neat.

  i have a set of questions, for example 100 security related questions but some of the engineer may only need to answer 20 out of 100. And each engineer shouldn’t get the same question and using RAND() is easier for me in order to write - less code.

  here is an example how you select random questions from database using propel;

  $c = new Criteria();
  $c->addAscendingOrderByColumn(’rand()’);
  $c->setLimit(20);

  start having fun coding with symfony framework.

  Tags: php, unix, linux, mysql, pgsql, database, open source, symfony project, propel, random, coding

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  Danesh Manoharan: KDE 4.0 is out

  Posted: January 13th, 2008, 1:13pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux kde livecd 201 opensuse   [edit]

  

  For all KDE fans out there like me, KDE 4.0 is out!! It has been 11 years since the beginning but KDE 4.0 now marks the beginning of a new era for the KDE desktop environment. “New and improved”

  

  (more…)

  Tags: , desktop, kde, Linux, live cd, openSUSE, release
  
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  Danesh Manoharan: Select all files but one on linux

  Posted: January 10th, 2008, 7:30am GMT

  Tags:  Linux commandline howto bashscript commands   [edit]

  My friend wanted to know how to select all files but one on the CLI or in a bash script. This is how I normally do it, do you know a better way?
  
  From the command line

  ls * | grep -v [patern to ignore]

  in a bash script it may look like this,

  for i in `ls * | grep -v [patern to ignore]`
do
do something here
done
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  Danesh Manoharan: gOS Rocket Beta 1 released

  Posted: January 9th, 2008, 7:10pm GMT

  Tags:  Linux distro gpc budgetpcs enlightenment   [edit]

  
  As promise, gOS 2.0 Beta1 codename “Rocket” was released today.

  

  If you don’t already know, gOS is Ubuntu based and runs on the  Enlightenment 17 windows manager. With a Mac like dock, clean desktop and google’s search box integrated into the desktop, Rocket will a sure hit among new users.

  Rocket is targeted for low cost distribution thus works reasonably well on low end machines. Currently all you need to run Rocket is 1GHz P3 with 256MB ram. gOS on Wikipedia

  Rocket now supports virtual desktops for easy application grouping across desktops, Online storage from Box.net, Adobe Flash preloaded, gBooth webcam software and the “Exalt” WiFi manager for improved stablity. You will also realize some cosmetic changes to the desktop environment.

  I’m currently downloading gOS Rocket via torrents. Get your copy here.

  Source: gOS

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