Friday, April 22, 2005

They have cut my tree

They have cut my tree , i did have some "premonitions" when they have cut some parts from it a few moths ago (then i was happy it escaped)


Who understands life enough ...

Linux over Mach - funded by Apple !

Linux over Mach - History


Imagine if apple have been used linux kernel


"This is an OSF and Apple funded project to port Linux on top of the OSF Mach microkernel. Currently initial releases for the PowerMAC and Intel machines are available. A first Linux/PowerMAC CD has also been released. Internal development of the HP/PA PA-RISC Linux/Mach is at the self hosting stage."


http://zenii.linux.org.uk/Architecture.html

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

what about microsoft ?

well don't spend to much time on it :)


I have found question on the linuxz-migration guide


http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/enable/linux/pdfs/linuxz_migration.pdf


Other migration guides http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ondemand/migrate/linux.html

Monday, April 18, 2005

Installing Hercules and Debian ...

http://www.naspa.com/PDF/2002/1202%20PDF/T0212004.pdf

Reference Documentation for Linux/390

Reference Documentation for Linux/390


http://32.97.43.249/doc.html

Sunday, April 17, 2005

The POWER4 processor execution pipeline

reached to that page


http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG247041.html

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

TAChart in Lazarus

TAChart, the charting component for Lazarus is now in Lazarus CCR.


It is described in the page of the Lazarus-CCR Knowledge-Base :


http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/kb/index.php/TAChart

Friday, April 08, 2005

exim on cygwin

very good tutorial about exim on cygwin

I knew i was born to be a rock star

... er... oss developer


Open Source Developers Are Rock Stars


"Rock stars get where they are in the music world by being great musicians; open source rock stars get where they are by writing great code"


http://www.linuxworld.com/story/49072.htm?DE=1

Thursday, April 07, 2005

I woke up in morning and got my sex appeal

well not quite :)


the original lyrics were with beer


Ladies and gentlemen! From Los Angeles, California... The Doors!


"... Well I woke up this morning


Got myself a beer


Well, I woke up this morning


Got myself a beer


Let's Roll baby rolll ..."

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Warnock applies - nice expression

what is Warnock's dilema . And other quotes from perls6.internals:


Larry explain, "no".


I'll give you a hint, it starts by writing a glorified version of cat.

Friday, April 01, 2005

Data Warehousing Lessons Learned

Legacy Databases Take a Dive and ..


"MySQL and PostgreSQL - open source database management systems (DBMSs) - are now on the radar, registering a combined total of just less than 2%."


http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1023914

yah they are small now and growing fast

ps: on wikipedia what is Data WareHousing

enough is sometimes too much and ubuntu

I read-ed this article and agree with what they say about ubuntu


Using it as my main desktop os (amd64 workstation) and even for our hosting servers


http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/28/13OPopenent_1.html



ps: switched from fc1 to ubuntu


and is growing pretty fast in distro world :)


http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity

PHP is a worse language than Perl

"Now, let's move on to PHP. From a purely linguistic perspective, PHP is a worse language than Perl: http://tnx.nl/php. BUT from an application perspective, it outdoes Perl. I did not say from a modular/functionality perspective, but from the application perspective."



http://sequence.complete.org/node/40



and new planet is created in open source revolving system



http://kernelplanet.org/


90 percent of the World Wide Web is pointers to other places on the Web

"I have read that 90 percent of the World Wide Web is pointers to other places on the Web, and only 10 percent is real useful or interesting stuff. I haven't figured out what my 10 percent will be yet, but it will probably have to do with Linux or juggling."



from telenovela-world tod moc



http://www.telenovela-world.com/~spade/whoami.html

proof of lunacy - ms way

"I've heard it said that the proof of lunacy is when you repeat the same


steps expecting different results. I say it's proof that you're a


Microsoft user." - comment by deshi777 on experts-exchange.com

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Three name changeslater…

Mention of firebird name clash

"We chose “Firefox” because it connotes the agility and shrewdness of
the product. So what does “Foxfire” mean? Well, apparently it’s:"

http://blakeross.com/index.php?p=95

--
what robinflame results are on google ?

google.com/search?q=robinflame

Monday, March 28, 2005

if a tree falls and no one blogs about it...

Or the power of blogs and how it helped spread-ing firefox

Interview with Blake Ross of Firefox-Part I
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2005/03/interview_with_.html

"The most fascinating part of riding the Firefox wave has been observing
the interplay between blogs and traditional media."

Interview with Firefox's Blake Ross -Part II
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2005/03/interview_with__1.html

--
http://google.com/search?q=flamerobin

Saturday, March 26, 2005

What about Jesus' objection

> I'm not sure of this for the dbgrid part, does delphi display (blob) for
> all blobs?

I start to like more and more lazarus :)
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/list_archives/lazarus/msg07017.html

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Software libre: tecnicamente viable, economicamente sostenible

to read it someday


http://www.softcatala.org/~jmas/swl/

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

searching for blues

i started with google directory :)


http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/Blues/Radio/


ps: Bad Dog Blues is quite good

Monday, March 21, 2005

mod_aspdotnet - wow

Just so everyone knows Apache now have a module to serve the aspx pages under Windows. It is called mod_aspdotnet and can be found here: http://httpd.apache.org/cli/ .


"mod_aspdotnet is an ASP.NET host interface to Microsoft's ASP.NET engine." - from the above link


It works only with the .NET Framework version 1.1.

Sunday, March 20, 2005

mono on windows - YES ! on windows

installed this version 1.1.4 of the mono from this page

http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?monowin32
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/private.php/monowin32/Mono%20Win32%20Combined%20Installer/v1.1.4.0/mono-1.1.4-gtksharp-1.9.2-win32-0.7.exe

asp.net engine could be run separate from apache (is called xsp in mono)

mono mailing list is located on this page

http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list

ps:
I will make an small document on how to run it in the morning (small howto)
Meanwhile read this article
debian linux on raid (as server)

debian linux (ubuntu distribution) and here is the installer for


it (is only one cd - no serials , no warez)



http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/releases/warty/warty-release-install-i386.iso



and here is the howto (anyone can do it )



http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/howto/installation-i386

Friday, March 18, 2005

if a tree falls and no one blogs about it...

LoooL


http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10019&offset=15&rows=30

I Firebird

I ? the "?" sign :)


found the sign on this page when searching for "firebird and windowsce on mooogle"


http://xrl.us/fhow

ps: it seems the love sign (heart) is lost ... oh well is not stored on the blogger it seems :(

Jesus seems to have fixed it

"Current Lazarus CVS Version seems broken.


Jesus seems to have fixed it, here is the patch."


I like the name Jesus , is mainly used in Brasil , or South American countries


ps: lazarus is the fpc ide :)


Wednesday, March 16, 2005

wxWindows is changing its name to wxDoors ...err ...wxWidgets

"wxWindows is changing its name to wxWidgets. Please read this page for more details.


After a polite request from Microsoft, and a lot of thought on our part, we have decided to change the project's name to wxWidgets."


http://wxwindows.org/name.htm

Monday, March 14, 2005

"See also Bigus and Bigus, Introduction."

Hahahah , I can't stop thinking to Monty Python's - Life of Brian - Bigus ...


it's serious stuff about AI (scroll down to reading paragraph)


http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/crs/sai/lec02.html

An axon of a human motoneuron, meanwhile, can be a metre long!

Yah i started reading about NN for the AI course

Friday, March 11, 2005

Is there really no way to do better?

// Is there really no way to do better?


// Don't we know the file-size and record-size?


What 1000 means ? question in firebird-devel list


http://xrl.us/ferw

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

they left me in the grave

Yeah a little incident from when i was small child (4-5 years)


Some people were working on the foundation of one house ,


While playing with other kids they left me in the grave without


stairway, Yah was pretty scarry , me screaming there in the grave until someone got me aut of there.


I just wonder how we imagine death ? can we , shoud we





i want to talk about life universe and all

yeah what is the answer to all ?


And the answer could be in innocence , i don't need to think to all the problems in the world . Is an heavy weight against us. I almost forgot to be happy and open. Is not good to be childish but smart man.


Maybe i'm too old now 27 years and is time to do something . Is always risky to do something for known reward.


Start to ejoy life ,every breath you take the rest doesn't count: money, cloths , hardware.


Yah time to kill -9 some daemons : coffee is first on my list, the second is lazyness (nice girl)











I don't need nobody

nobody needs me ... baby


ehh some blues on 'lectricblues radio


from sorewall list

>Yes I've googled and now I'm tottaly confused


"Future historians will mark the beginning of the fall of our civilization with the invention of the Internet search engine."


Tom

Monday, March 07, 2005

special day - my birthday

about special day , it was special : in the morning saw a truck hitting an small vehicle and comming towards me


first reaction was to run back wards avoiding the truck


Ehh the truck avoided another machine (garbage one ) and driver did some big efforts to keep it on the road .


What i remember most was the driver eyes were fixed upon me/us (there were other ppl too)


Still amazed how fast it stoped that big monster ,


Ok driver cursing after getting out of it's place (it was the small vehicle's fault)


Oh and forgot to mention it was snow on the road ...


ps: treat your days as the best ones , who knows how many are left


Another story i have , saturday i was going town center and one moment was thinking of at one machine numbers


("VXW" or something) and then thought about what would be if someone had GOD number on his plate . Sunday while going to school i saw that number ! "GOD" , Hmm interesting ... And monday the truck scared me .


Still have the adrenaline inside rushing trought my veins







swfdec-0.3.2 - GPL flash plugin

i installed this in ubuntu , it's somehow usable (eats cpu at 80% but what flash site doesn't)


from about:plugins in firefoxie


File name: libmozswfdec.so


Shockwave Flash 6.0 animation viewer handled by swfdec-0.3.2. Plays SWF animations, commonly known as Macromedia® Flash®.



This is alpha software. It will probably behave in many situations, but may also ride your motorcycle, drink all your milk, or use your computer to browse porn. Comments, feature requests, and patches are welcome.


See http://www.schleef.org/swfdec/ for information.


[ED: hahahahaha]

Ever accidentally delete or overwrite a file

"Ever accidentally delete or overwrite a file you were working on? Ever lose data due to hard-disk failure?" YES


Welcome to


Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync


http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

me puking - storing data in xml -

look what is hapening when documentation ppl take over the database world :)

" All information (table definitions, data, queries, forms, reports) is stored in one XML file."
scroll down to database frontend

http://xrl.us/fcx9

(Link to www.openoffice.org)

Sunday, March 06, 2005

yah my birthday :)

"Hello mariuz,


We at nV News Forums would like to wish you a happy birthday today!"


forgot about it

firebird 2.0 alpha preview - send news to

betanews.net [DONE]


linuxtoday [DONE]


newsforge.net [DONE]


lxer [ DONE]


osnews.com [DONE]


developers.slashdot.org [DONE]


more to do

MICRO-DOLAR-OFT.TK ? should i do it ?

have to make another account on dot.net ... err www.dot.tk :)


Or should i register micro-dolar-dolar-oft.tk ...hheeh


ps:have to go at pool

For all the idiots of the world using XML

Kern (on bacula.org):


Well, I'm the guy that said "For all the idiots of the world using XML for config files: XML is the worst thing I ever heard of; it must be another Microsoft invention to torture SysAdmins".


ps: well said (me thinking at hibernate config files and jboss ones)





How to create Firefox extensions

"Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that."


http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/#more-4

Saturday, March 05, 2005

n-avemsite.tk hahahahah , maybe someday alex will register that domain (with .ro tld)
ps:other domains
www.fire-bird.tk
www.flamerobin.tk

ps: i see some pop-ups warnings when opening thouse sites , well at least did't cost anything and using firefoxie are harmless :)

Friday, March 04, 2005

registered new domains

firebirdnews.tk , firebirdsql.tk , spreadfirebird.tk


now the main work have to be done spread the word firebird

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Portable Coding Guidelines - in perl

fi you work in many os-es


http://dev.panopticsearch.com/portable_coding.html

Y Another File Integrity CHecker

"Afick is a security tool, very close from the well known tripwire. It allows to monitor the changes on your files systems, and so can detect intrusions."


http://afick.sourceforge.net/


also i have seen this amazing eclipse plugin for perl


http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/

tcgrep: tom christiansen's rewrite of grep

guess how many perl lines it is ?


http://xrl.us/fbqi (Link to sourceforge.net)

useless disclaimer in emails 

spoted it on mimedefang list

====BEGIN-MYCOMPANY'S-USELESS-DISCLAIMER====
After reading this e-mail, you are required to erase all memory of it
and forget you ever saw it. You owe us $10 for every minute that you
remember it beyond what our EULA permits. (See attached 1.2MB PDF file
for EULA details.)
====END-MYCOMPANY'S-USELESS-DISCLAIMER====
a crash course in info

i never figured out how to navigate with info - now i did


"a crash course in info: Info files are designed in a tree structure,with each page or section being considered a 'node'; h gets help, q quitsinfo, SPACE scrolls down the screen, DEL scrolls up the screen, b jumps to the beginning of the node, e jumps to the end of the node, n jumps to the next node, p jumps to the previous node, g jumps to a specified node, m jumps to a specified menu item, s searches the info file, and l steps back 1 node."


http://www.assembly-journal.com/viewarticle.php?id=21&layout=html

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Stop payying Bill Gates

Looking for ultimately cheap high-grade software?


We might have what you need.



Ubuntu Server 2005............. $000


Gimp 2005 ...................... $00


Abiword+Gnumeric .... $0


ps: me quoting one spamware advert :P

the future is in the deep sea bed - itanic 3?

"HP researchers also discovered that they could have beaten IBM on the benchmark had the Power5 box not been plugged in"


welcome to cheaptanic


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/01/hp_intel_cheapitanic/


plan9 ideas in linux - linus interview

hmm distributed kernel ?


"And then sometimes there are great ideas in other systems, but the intriguing ones tend to be from the more esoteric and interesting ones. So some Plan 9 ideas have influenced certain design decisions, for example"


http://www.linuxmagazine.com/content/view/59/115/

Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 1: A First Glimpse

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/09/eclipse.html

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

help free sarge/sid - kill some bugs

"If you want to see this project or Debian or even any Debian derivative
succeed, you should be helping to reduce the number of release-critical
bugs. I'd rather see you there right now than doing things for UserLinux.

Please see
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
http://release.debian.org/
http://release.debian.org/sarge.html

Many Thanks"
Bruce Perens

also
"The report points to http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html
which I found to be more useful than the links I posted before."

Monday, February 28, 2005

My small cv
Marius Popa Adrian

    Sql developer (10 years) PHP developer (10 yrs), Java developer (3 yrs),
    with HTML4/5 (6 yrs)

    Delphi/Lazarus(10 years), C++ (2 Years)

Education: Mathematics and Computer Science

Open source team-skills.

Technical Skills:
Java (server-side):JDK, Servlets , Jboss , Network Programming , Tomcat,
            Open CMS , Jetty , Geronimo , Classpath ,Eclipse
Databases:         Firebird (>10 years),PostgreSQL (2), MySQL(10)
Web technologies:  Mono,Perl,PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS,  XML, Perl6
Operating systems: Linux (x86-64, power , z series), Mac os-x
Sw development:    OO programming, Extreme Programming , Open source model
Other:             VIM, Gimp,  LibreOffice, Perl, Shell Scripting (Bash), GIT 

Experience


Jan 2004 - Now  REEA SRL, Tirgu-Mures
         - Linux system administrator / core developer
         - Developed a large range of Web based applications for small/medium organizations  in PHP and Perl ,
         (control panel with LDAP)
         - Administration for hosting servers and internal ones  and support services for external clients
         (tomcat, apache,  sendmail , qmail , postfix , all open source technologies)
         - Technologies used: Perl, Bash, PHP, HTML, MySQL, Postgresql, openldap, xsp (mono), Firebird database


2001 August -2002 January   - Infopulse Tg-Mures
         - developed com component in C++ for the proxy gatekeeper (http proxy)
         - plugin for Internet Explorer and Netscape for a custum mime type
         - developed opinion poll engine in VB/ASP/SQLserver for a portal site
         - multi tier application coded  in C# with Web Services (SOAP) interface

         Technologies used:C#, com+, dcom , delphi, postresql, solaris ,linux

2001 March-2001 July Netsoft  Tg-Mures
         -developed the online map of the town (TG-Mures)
          based on Perl , apache and MySql, Delphi
          - support for accounting software (firebird/oopascal)

1999 July-2001 March Wokadat  Tg-Mures
         -management program for the local administration
         -time tracking system (web+gui interface)
          using bar code(and magnetic card) reader terminal (amd based)
          this project implied using the TCL language on
          the terminal side and on the windows side the use of Sockets (in Delphi)
         -custom build COM component for using in Web

Qualifications:

1998-2001 Automation with specialization Industrial and automation IT  (University Petru Maior Tg-Mures)

2002- 2005 Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Mathematics and Computer Sciences            Department
Petru Maior University, Tg-Mures

Personal Details:


E-mail  mapopa at reea.net
Date of birth   March 07,  1978
Marital status  Unmarried
Hobbies : open source programming (c++,php,oopascal), traveling , firebird/linux advocacy , biking

Personal philosophy :     http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Here is my old cv
nice tux

from brazil


nice tux

Sunday, February 27, 2005

"the guys from Java Magazine are interested in your article about
using FB with Jaybird.

When you have it finished, send it to me and I
will forward it to them to be translated and published. Probably you
will get a copy of the magazine with your article published ;)

Thursday, February 5, 2004, 12:02:02 PM, voce escreveu:

mp> Carlos H. Cantu wrote:

>>>> mp> Hello
>>>> mp> i would like to write an article about jaybird , it based on a few steps
>>>> mp> 1. installing configuring firebird / jaybird (linux ?)
>>>> mp> 2. general intro to fb trasactions / jdbc
>>>> mp> 3. writing an small db browser (just the basic)
>>>> mp> - db table list in the left
>>>> mp> - table content / (query editor) in the right
>>>>
>>>> mp> is a good ideea ?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Marius!
>>>>
>>>> This is a great idea, but not for SQL Magazine. I think it would be
>>>> much better to have it published in Java Magazine
>>>> (www.javamagazine.com.br). JM really lacks FB articles! The
>>>> owners of SQL Mag are the same people of Java Magazine.
>>>>
>>>> I will talk with them and see if the topics you have listed here are
>>>> insteresting for them. I will let you know.
>>>>

mp> Ok then , also gonna look on sqlmagazine article to see what
mp> is the target readers."

That was writen in 2004 by
Carlos H. Cantu
www.firebase.com.br



ps : i always dreamed going to Brasil :)
who knows one day ....
reea is ibm partner (wow)

scroll down this page

http://xrl.us/e9z7 (Link to www-5.ibm.com)

Thursday, February 24, 2005

worst linux distro - is called lindows 2003 (cygwin + windows)
If you wonder why cron isn't working here are some workarounds


"On NT and Windows 2000 the SYSTEM user has these privileges and can run services such as sshd. However, on Windows 2003 SYSTEM lacks the Create a token object right, so it is necessary to create a special user with all the necessary rights, as well as Logon as a service, to run such services. For security reasons this user should be denied the rights to logon interactively or over the network. All this is done by configuration scripts such as ssh-host-config"

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed. (from ms.dot net updates)

you will be assimilated ;)

Monday, February 21, 2005

Aide detects breakin at debian.org

some kind of tripwire but open source , maybe i should try replace tripwire with it


http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg00003.html

Site Security Handbook

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2196.txt

IBM Canada is using bacula !

"I've just come across Bacula, and would like to leverage it with allot of my customers. I work specifically for the iSeries brand. The iSeries uses the POWER processor architecture, inthis case, the POWER5 processor."


Matthew Schellenberg


IBM Canada Ltd.


ps:yes the open source alternative to tivoli


New hdd 200G - sata
Hoary AMD-64 will be installed on new drive ;)

If you have smtp problems with verizon.net you can send to verizon's customers this address

http://www2.verizon.net/micro/whitelist/request_form.asp?id=member

ps: europe is blocked for sending emails to them and someone is reacting

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/verizon_class_action/

Saturday, February 19, 2005

verizon relay server - Fun !

I can't connect to mx verizon.net to send emails


but i get spam from them


from wbar25.tmp1-4.28.201.82.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net (wbar25.tmp1-4.28.201.82.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net

Friday, February 18, 2005

kernel book on my desk

uhu have what to read after my next exam (network exam)


http://www.tech9.net/rml/kernel_book/

updated my linux counter info
added 2 machines from home firewolf1 and firewolf2

Our Irish hackers really are like little elves ....ROFL

Our Irish hackers really are like little elves that write code. You go to bed and when you wake up in morning a bunch of code has magically appeared

Thursday, February 17, 2005

wooot it worked to write the dvd-r !

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdb=/tmp/deleted.iso


Executing 'builtin_dd if=/tmp/deleted.iso of=/dev/hdb obs=32k seek=0'


/dev/hdb: "Current Write Speed" is 4.9x1385KBps.


1277952/1113300992 ( 0.1%) @0.0x, remaining 58:00


1277952/1113300992 ( 0.1%) @0.0x, remaining 116:01


1071579136/1113300992 (96.3%) @5.7x, remaining 0:06


1097465856/1113300992 (98.6%) @5.5x, remaining 0:02


builtin_dd: 543616*2KB out @ average 4.8x1385KBps


/dev/hdb: flushing cache


/dev/hdb: updating RMA


/dev/hdb: closing disc

small pointer on howto burn DVD-R discs with growisofs

http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html

Low Quality kqlz.org - the high doesn't work :(

link to low quality stream - real audio (ogg cd quality doesn't work)


http://www.kqlz.org/streams/kqlz64k1.ram

life is like

http://www.gwolf.org//index.php?gadget=blog&action=single_view&id=42

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

now i have pictures with ...

me and the fishes


http://flickr.com/photos/mapopa/


"I assume that the 198.220.250.x internal addresses are bogus since you don't appear to be the US Department of Defense"

on shorewall list :


"Tom, you are right, the customer selected that address range for his WAN


when he was with another ISP, i tried to explain him the error but the


"sysadmin" of his WAN thinks its a trivial problem, ;-) "



Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Heartbeat on linux

To install opendlm must download Heartbeat package from


http://linux-ha.org


and have the linux sources installed (from debian in my case)


2.4.x [DONE]



Heartbeat gave me an error on debian sarge it needs automake (when running ConfigureMe configure) so installed automake 1.6 from debian cd2



also in my case on secondary computer (woody) it needed glib-devel libnet-devel



(they are needed on sarge too)


almost forgot - a newlgradio episode

yummy with Miguel de Icaza (mono)


http://www.lugradio.org/guide.php

want one 21" monitor - second hand

http://pcstore.home.ro/preturi.htm just to not forget , will go there tomorrow

When working with networks, it is always best to pretend that human

from shorewall usersers:



>Is there a way to allow only the IP addresses between 192.168.1.100 and


>> 192.168.1.149?


When working with networks, it is always best to pretend that human beings were given either 8 or 16 fingers rather than 10. Then you would be thinking of "IP addresses between 192.168.1.128 and 192.168.1.159"


which would be:


ACCEPT net:192.168.1.128/27 fw tcp 22

Monday, February 14, 2005

2hours x1 ROL - that is ... secret
loonix kernel crash on sparc :)

from bacula users list (someone was testing the tape with btape)


Feb 11 16:04:45 mybox kernel: sym0:4: FAST-10 SCSI 5.0 MB/s ST (200.0
ns, offset 15)
Feb 11 16:04:45 mybox kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
Feb 11 16:04:45 mybox kernel: st0: Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 1,
async writes: 1, read ahead: 1
Feb 11 16:04:45 mybox kernel: st0: can bsr: 0, two FMs: 0, fast
mteom: 0, auto lock: 0,
Feb 11 16:04:45 mybox kernel: st0: defs for wr: 0, no block limits:
0, partitions: 0, s2 log: 0
Feb 11 16:04:45 mybox kernel: st0: sysv: 0 nowait: 0
Feb 11 16:04:54 mybox kernel: \|/ ____ \|/
Feb 11 16:04:54 mybox kernel: "@'/ .. \`@"
Feb 11 16:04:54 mybox kernel: /_| \__/ |_
Feb 11 16:04:54 mybox kernel: \__U_/
Feb 11 16:04:54 mybox kernel: btape(567): Oops
Feb 11 16:04:54 mybox kernel: TSTATE: 0000000011f09606 TPC:
0000000000426330 TNPC: 0000000000426334 Y: 00000000 Not tainted void


here is the line linux-2.6.10/arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c

die_if_kernel(char *str, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
static int die_counter;
extern void __show_regs(struct pt_regs * regs);
extern void smp_report_regs(void);
int count = 0;

/* Amuse the user. */
printk(
" \\|/ ____ \\|/\n"
" \"@'/ .. \\`@\"\n"
" /_| \\__/ |_\\\n"
" \\__U_/\n");

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Need more than 4GB of ram? - do it compile your debian kernel

If you need support for more than 4GB of ram in your kernel, then you have to compile your own kernel, or get someone else to do it for you.

Googling i found about linux memory model (described in kerneltrap.org)
http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450

UPDATE :i installed kernel 2.6.10 and it have support for big MEMORY the only drawback is : there is no sound on my box now ... Oh well going back to 2.6.9
Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=355
and a free php4 book online
http://www.apress.com/free/content/ProgrammersIntroductionToPHP4.pdf
and source code examples
http://www.apress.com/free/download2.html

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Building Mono on Windows

In this article I will walk you through the three phases required to build Mono on Windows without using the .NET framework.


http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/02/07/monowindows.html

You requested 32 Unbuntu CDs. They will be shipped the following address:

Marius Popa
Reea s.r.l
T. Vladimirescu 61 / 6
Targu-Mures Mures
510014
Romania

Well now all reea firm will upgrade to linux :-)

ps: here is how i did it

Will you really ship CDs free of charge, and where can I get one?

If you cannot download CDs, or would simply like more attractive pressed CDs, we can send you pressed copies of the Install and Live CDs free of charge.

You may request CDs in Shipit - the Ubuntu CD Distribution System.
http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/shipit/


Monday, February 07, 2005

[Firebird-general] Only second or Firebird World Domination ?

Mpu Gondrong wrote:
> Minggu, 06/02/2005 18:53:09, Paul menulis:
>
>
>>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=272098
>
> PV> Not as much as that. Last year there were 1111 votes. MySQL "won"
> PV> with 405, Firebird was runner-up with 403. What's disappointing is
>
> Win is win, why didn't you accept that? I've seen many talking about
> MySQL, news, votes, polls, etc..., in Firebird list, showing Firebird
> is 'good enough for everyone'. Is it that important?
>
> I'm using both MySQL and Firebird, and I WILL vote for MySQL, but I
> didn't, because I don't know and care about votes.

We should care to be first - that is the target no more no less:

"first/best open source database" also we should be better than
proprietary databases too :)

If you target to be lower than that you can't win , yes i'm dreaming
about "world domination" ;) inspired by linux one

"Alessandro: Bruce Perens claims "world domination: 2003"; is that
realistic? In your opinion, will the concept of free software gain
polularity in the mass market? In this respect, what's your opinion
about the move of Netscape Corp.?

Linus: The "World Domination" thing is obviously always a bit
tongue-in-cheek, but I think that yes, a five-year timeframe for the
free software movement and Linux to make a major noticeable impact is
not at all unrealistic. The Netscape open source thing is one of the
first indications of this, and I think we'll see others doing similar
things."

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue32/rubini.html
and many google references ;)
http://www.google.com/search?&q=linux+world+domination
--

Marius - firebird database world domination [in progress...]



linuxquestions results - rfc

there are many questions about linux questions "awards" so we don't have
to cry if we are not on the top *YET* ;)

Browser of the Year - Firefox (77.12%) [100% agree]
Distribution of the Year - Slackware (19.36%) [That is weird - i think
unbuntu came out of the nowhere and took a lot of press room]
LiveCD Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (57.69%) [ED: here i think
unbuntu is the best]
Database of the Year - MySQL (53.51%) [No comments ;)]
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (58.25%) [KDE ? omg gnome rocks
the desktop - Unbuntu , Suse , redhat fedora ...]
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (31.14%) [Ok no comments ]
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (84.85%) [No alternative yet
or do we ? I started using AbiWord and gnumeric and they rock and they
are fast!]
Word Processor of the Year - oowriter (63.75%) [Abi? maybe ]
Spreadsheet of the Year - oocalc (57.57%) [Slow]
Audio Multimedia Application of the Year - XMMS (45.83%) [I started
using ryhtmbox and is simple without so many skinns ]
Video Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (49.85%) [Totem
installed with the distro and works on all! moovies ]
Security App of the Year - nmap (37.14%) [agree]
Hardening App of the Year - SELinux (68.65%) [ok i'm using lids]
Editor of the Year - vi/vim (36.37%) [Eclipse]
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (50.88%) [Who the hack is
using that : nvu is the only dw alternative i use on linux/windows]
IDE of the Year - Kdevelop (37.77%) [Hhahhahahah, Why don't we use
Eclipse - the mother of all ides]
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (47.60%) [agree]
Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (25.52%) [ok]
Commercial Game of the Year - UT2004 (38.86%)[ok]
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (42.59%) [ok]
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (30.59%) [mc]
Messaging App of the Year - Gaim (56.00%) [OK]
Graphics App of the Year - GIMP (72.82%) [ok]
MTA of the Year - PostFix (45.57%) [exim it has support for firebird]


http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prweb206181.htm
--
Regards,

Marius - developer flamerobin.org

How to compile java programs with SableVM

Q: How to compile java programs with SableVM?



A0: SableVM is a Java Virtual machine, not a compiler...



A1: Under Debian there's a "jikes-sablevm" equivalent of "javac"


command, so you can simply do: $ jikes-sablevm HelloWorld.java


to get your HelloWorld.class file.



A2: In absence of "jikes-sablevm" one should do:


$ export BOOTCLASSPATH=/path/to/sablevm's/libclasspath.jar


and then use jikes directly:


$ jikes HelloWorld.java



A3: IIRC the latest sablevm-svn gentoo packages include JAVA_HOME-like


directory, in /usr/lib/sablevm, so once this package is installed


you can use programs in /usr/lib/sablevm/bin just as in Sun's JDK.




Q: How do I run java programs with SableVM?



A1: The simplest way is to use 'java-sablevm' command which is


parameter-compatible with Sun's 'java' command.



A2: In our SableVM's JAVA_HOME (once you have installed a SableVM


version/package that provides it) you have 'bin/java' command you can


use as in Sun's JDK.




I wish I could give you some URLs, but ATM my inet connection breaks


every few seconds and I'll be lucky if I manage to simply send this


email. I hope others can provide more details and/or corrections.



Hope this helps,



Grzegorz B. Prokopski

Friday, February 04, 2005

Use firebird not access on server !

Had some problems with a windows server


[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Cannot open database '(unknown)'. It may not be a database that your application recognizes, or the file may be corrupt.


I tested to see if the problem was from odbc (was not there ) then restarted the webserver ) - it seems was an exclusive lock problem (access "database" was not corrupt)


Long term solution:


database should be moved from access to real multi-threaded sql database (firebird) it have full odbc support and more scalable


http://www.dotnetfirebird.org/blog/2005/01/firebird-and-microsoft-jet-feature.html

Steps i have done to migrate from access to firebird

1.Downloaded access to firebird migration tool from this address
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=sql2gdb

2.Downloaded and installed Firebird super server from sourceforge
project page
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/Firebird-1.5.2.4731-Win32.exe?use_mirror=unc

3. The conversion wizzard was run and data copied from access to
firebird (using the odbc connection) also installed odbc driver for firebird server (needed for asp)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/Firebird_ODBC_1.2.0.69-Win32.exe

4. Downloaded flamerobin tool for database administration and to see if
all was imported ok (auto incremental fields , tables , data)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flamerobin/flamerobin-0.2.0-setup.exe?download

5. Testing appliacation with new database created [work in progress]

Becoming a Debian developer

First you need to read Debian philosophy :) oh well is like steps becoming a monk or something


"However, before candidates are trusted with such tasks, they have to prove not only their programming skills, but also their understanding of Debian processes and philosophy. The process takes months, and there are few exceptions."

http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/28/1618201

Update: it seems that debian Philosophy is hard to digest even Ian the half of Deb-Ian is waiting in "Philosophy room":

"Others worry about the time the process takes. To prove the point, Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, whose first name forms the second half of the distribution's name, declined an offer to be accepted immediately as a Debian Developer. Instead, he began the process in May 2004. He is still waiting to advance to the Philosophy and Procedures stage"



HeteroCluster - coLinux

from IB[ie]M


http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-colinux/?ca=dgr-lnxw02aHeteroCluster

eclipse on sablevm and rants

"I must say that I am totally blown away by the progress made by the classpath, gcj, and kaffe teams (despite what you may have heard, kaffe is not dead). Free Java is moving forward at an amazing pace. Java is quickly becoming a viable Free development platform. This is an essential element for Java-GNOME's future success."


[ED: amen i started eclipse on sablevm and it works!]


http://www.advogato.org/person/kuzman/diary.html?start=4

How To - Install Ubuntu on the Qemu emulator

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/howto/installation-qemu

Fedora [mess] r us

"When Fedora Legacy is working well, it is a highly useful service. With a simple tweak to a yum configuration file, it is possible to keep an older system current with almost no effort.Unfortunately, the last update to Fedora Core 1 came out on December 3, 2004. Any Fedora Core 1 systems which rely upon Fedora Legacy for updates are currently vulnerable to holes in the kernel, xpdf, vim, KDE, PHP, sudo, etc. The process, it would seem, has come to a complete stop for over a month. We attempted to ask (via the posted contact address) what was going on, but got no response."


http://lwn.net/Articles/119892/

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Using the Gtk Toolkit with Mono

Me playing with mono and gtk :)


ps:yes i should learn for that graphs exam




http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/08/09/gtk_mono.htm

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

I broke the blogger

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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Time for next exam - graphs theory

There are many things to learn about it also found an online book in top 10 of searching on google


http://www.google.com/search?q=graphs+theory

distributed version control - in the works by Martin

from planet.gnome.org


"Coders of the world rejoice, for Martin Pool is building a distributed revision control system:



I am not working directly on Ubuntu, but rather on improving the tools used by open source developers inside and outside of Canonical. The charter is to build a distributed version-control system that open-source hackers will love to use.



Knowing Martin, this will have the usability of Subversion and Darcs, the algorithms of Arch, and the pure leetness of rsync. Beware, other RCS authors: your days are numbered!"

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Pascal -> Pcode -> Parrot -> Profit

Sven Schubert asked about the feasibility of putting Pascal on Parrot.
He noted that with the infrastructure mentioned in "Perl 6 and Parrot
Essentials" the problem would not be too bad. Apparently "Essentials" makes a few promises that we have yet to live up to. But we are working towards it. In the mean time, StEphane Payrard suggested a way for him to kill to bird with one stone: Pcode.


-- Pcode suggestion


-- initial post


quoted from parrot internals