volfied on dosbox (ubuntu jaunty)

in the highschool people were playing volfied almost on all computers in the lab
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/811
so today i wanted to try it on my cloudbook
sudo apt-get install dosbox
mkdir ~/dosbox/c
copy the volfied files from the zip in
~/dosbox/c/volfied
dosbox
mount c /home/mariuz/dosbox/c

cd volfied
volfied.exe

the keys used are space and numeric arrows (doh on cloudbook there are none of these types)
i will try to remap them in dosbox

Romania wasting hundreds of millions of EUR on proprietary software.

Romania wasting hundreds of millions of EUR on proprietary software. http://ur1.ca/4rgo
Seems they no longer need EU funds.

Microsoft Makes Itself at Home in Transylvania - http://bit.ly/1CuwCR
Count Dracula would have been proud of them #romania

Lucian's reaction

http://www.cianblog.com/2009/05/27/my-official-position-the-romanian-government-is-about-to-spend-millions-of-euro-on-proprietary-software/
also here is the romanian version for the above article

http://razvansandu.zando.ro/2009/05/afacerea-cu-licente-software.html

How to become an anonymous coward (ubuntu way)

How to become an anonymous coward (ubuntu way)

Here is how i installed the tor network privacy proxy

sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list

deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor jaunty main

deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor jaunty main

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor

sudo pico /etc/privoxy/config

add this line at the end of file

forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart

add http proxy in System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy
Http proxy: 127.0.0.1
Port:8118
and

Secure Http proxy: 127.0.0.1
Port:8118



That's all , Now you are an anonymous coward
You can check if you are on tor netowork https://torcheck.xenobite.eu/

you can check also the wiki page from ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TOR
ubuntu::tor::privacy

eLiberatica 2009: tequila shots

eLiberatica 2009: tequila shots
Originally uploaded by nicubunu

Not so strong as Palinca but it was ok

eLiberatica 2009: FOSS communities

eLiberatica 2009: FOSS communities
Originally uploaded by nicubunu

the heads from the Foss comminities in romania , there were others around

eLiberatica 2009: FOSS communities

eLiberatica 2009: FOSS communities
Originally uploaded by nicubunu

The romanian Floss communities are growing ,

solving the esprimo sis rezolution issues

I had to add in xorg.conf (fixing one laptop at eliberatica.ro conference floor)

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 30-107
VertRefresh 50-185

EndSection

via :http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=958967

Next was to install one driver from the above thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6983046&postcount=119

and then i changed the sis or vesa driver to sis671 in xorg.conf section

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7014258&postcount=129

Ubuntu Romanian Team Report for April 2009

Apr 30 2009: Releasing Kiwi Linux 9.04, based on Ubuntu 9.04. Full release notes.

May 19 2009 the release of the Ubuntu for Romania, a localized version based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. The installation CD is localised into Romanian and holds the majority of the default Ubuntu applications. The disk has specific network conectivity applications and legal restricted multimedia codecs to ease the transition of the new users to the Ubuntu operating system.

There were several Jaunty release parties in cities around the country

• Release party Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in Cluj Napoca. After the usual presentation of the operating sistem, the audience and the organizers talked about:

  • Organising the local Ubuntu comunity
  • The help and support offered by the local Ubuntu comunity
  • The statistics regarding the use of the Ubuntu operating system in Romania
  • The means and the methods that should be used to increase the number of the events held by the local comunity

  • The usual group pictures can be found here

• Release party Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in Arad

• Release party Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in Targu Mures report: almost 25 people were present and this time we had some great discussions and beer talk. We also did some serious presentatations like what is new in jaunty jack : new gnome, new kde, new qt browser like arora or development IDE like qt creator, I also showed the new firefox 3.5 ( abrowser 3.5), quassel, gwibber (microblogging client), firebird 2.1.x and some extensive discussion about ext4 crash-ing and it's amazing speed

  • Emil Cheriches presented the cool stuff on the server side like: eucalyptus (aka EC2 at home), dovecot, ext4 and ufw/apparmour and mysql 5.1.

  • Some cool pictures (here or here) were shot at the event by Emil; also we had some great guests like Paul Nasca who did some crazy dj-ing demos with zynaddsubfx

  • Adi Roiban and Stas Sushkov were present to the event (they came from Cluj Napoca only for this) and it was great to discuss the Romanian Team priorities

  • We had mentions in local press. The announcement in Hungarian language is here http://hup.hu/node/69899 And yes we are on front page on ubuntu.hu http://ubuntu.hu/hirek/2009apr/jaunty-jackalope-release-party-marosvasarhelyen

  • Other notes in blogosphere: There is a note on infoms website

The local team was reprezented to the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release party in Moldova. The pictures can be found here.

php eclipse nightly

I updated my eclipse and wanted to put some fresh phpeclipse plugin

You can do so by using this tutorial but with this

http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/update/nightly/

repository instead of using the stable one

updated my stable kernel compile for ubuntu (php)

I have updated my kernel compile script for ubuntu , now there is some kind of detection for latest kernel version soon i will update for rc version too

also I use simpledomparser for html scraping

http://github.com/mariuz/kernelcompile/tree/master

flash10 x64 plugin on ubuntu intrepid, jaunty

Installing flash10 x64 plugin on ubuntu intrepid


$ sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper
$ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

$ mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

load your browser with an flash page
in my case http://reea.net

There is an easy way using synaptic
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Adobe-Flash-Player-64-bit-on-Ubuntu-8-10-98076.shtml

mencoder/mplayer vp7 codecs issues and how i solved them

i had to install and convert some movies from vp7 to xvid or ogv

and seems that on 64bit machine you need to enable the medibuntu repository

apt-get install mplayer mencoder and w64codecs non-free-codecs

the ulgy thing it installs the flash non free too and the horror nspluginwrapper !

well the mplayer64 doesn't load the all codecs downloaded from mplayer and moved in /usr/lib/codecs

so i have one chroot created and used the mplayer on 32bits to convert

Project Management software and phpcollab3, distributed bugtrackers

The list for opensource project management tools is impressive and soon will be added launchpad to the list (used by ubuntu or call it canonical)
another pm tool that was used at reea is phpcollab, seems that is now rewritten in symfony framework and is hosted in github

what launchpad got it right is the bugtracking that is link-ed somehow to external upstream bugtrackers
for example if you have an bug in debian you can link-it to the bug
maybe some kind of distributed approach to bugtracking and project management should be applied
clients always have externals tools for pm and bugtracking (mantis , bugzilla , launchpad)
maybe some concepts from git can be applied to bugtracking too , when you finish your bug in launchpad
upstream should be notified and similar bug closed if is there , or maybe the bug should be submitted directly there and all the updates (it's like the origin thing in git )
git push origin applied to bugs (commit local bug and then push it to origin)
another issue i have with bugtrackers is that they are ugly take a look at bugzilla, mantis , trac have the worse interfaces in sofware industry but i found one that makes me wet , is simple and beautiful is the issue tracker from github , just to give you an example
http://github.com/rowland/fb/issues
this is the first issue tracker that made me submit bugs and to feel pleasure and not pain , ok ok the google code one is close but ... not so hot

pvm on ubuntu jaunty

sudo apt-get install pvm pvm-dev pvm-examples

get the source for examples

wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pvm/pvm_3.4.5.orig.tar.gz

tar -zxvf pvm_3.4.5.orig.tar.gz
in your home create
mkdir pvm3/bin/LINUX64

start pvmd

pvmd -f
see your host type
pvm
pvm> conf
conf
1 host, 1 data format
HOST DTID ARCH SPEED DSIG
borkstationx64 40000 LINUX64 1000 0x00408c41

you can see why i have created that pvm3/bin/LINUX64 dir (used by default for pvm user scripts )
copy all the files from the tar into the pvm3/bin/LINUX64 dir
cd ~/pvm3/bin/LINUX64
gcc hello.c -l pvm3 -o hello
gcc hello_other.c -l pvm3 -o hello_other
./hello
i'm t4000b
from t4000c: hello, world from borkstationx64