Works very nice with an dark theme like ubuntu studio

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Originally uploaded by Makir

I use it kubuntu but can be used in any dark themed ubuntu

maybe in the evil edition too

prezentare_ubuntu 9.04

Lansare Ubuntu 9.04 in cadrul Comunitatii Linux din Targu Mures 

Comunitatea Linux (www.lug-mures.org) din Targu Mures va invita la lansarea Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jack)

unde se vor prezenta noutatile aduse in noua versiune si proiectele comunitatii locale din Targu Mures. Se pot aduce laptopuri sau calculatoare pentru instalari (stick-uri usb)

Intalnirea va avea loc in data de 25 Aprilie ora 11.00 AM

locatia va fi Restaurantul Asteri Strada Postei nr.1 (http://www.lug-mures.org/ pentru mai multe informatii)

Evenimentul este sponsorizat de reea.net 







Lista de prezentari



Ca invitati speciali il avem pe Adi Roiban (ubuntu.ro ), Marius Popa (firebird.ro) , Emil Cheriches (emil.cheriches.ro)






1.Se vor prezenta cu lista de lucruri noi aduse in noul Ubuntu Compiz 0.8.2 , Linux Kernel 2.6.28.x, Kde 4.2.2, Gnome 2.26.1 intr-un top cu imbunatatiri si schimbari majore inspirate din notitele de lansare si alte articole 
2.Schimbari pe partea de server (Emil Cheriches) 

3.Adi Roiban va vorbi mai mult despre comunitate în general, despre localizare (progres-ul pe partea aceasta) și

software-ul liber în România(GSL, lug-uri, rosedu) și va prezenta realizările Grupului

pentru software liber și al echipei Ubuntu România precum si noutatile din Gnome (gnome.org)
4.Compiz si efecte grafice 3D – prezentare noutati in compiz 0.8.2  si nexuiz 2.5  

Ubuntu Release Jaunty Jack Party in Targu Mures

The ubuntu.ro page is here
http://ubuntu.ro/node/129

The lug page with more info is here
http://www.lug-mures.org/content/jaunty-jackalope-release-party-la-targu-mures

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:
There is a note on infoms website ,
Realitatea TV will post the news about the release maybe some ubuntu.ro team members will be there too , Adi Roiban confirmed

reached to Using the Users Service on google app engine tutorial

well is quite easy to follow the google app engine tutorial

now i'm on step Using the Users Service

sun set

insert into oracle aquisitions values("sun");

delete from sun;

select * from sun ; Empty set (0.00 sec)

drop table sun;

solving pidgin bug of the day on windows

There is an pidgin + yahoo known bug on windows xp/vista

Here is how i solved , choose the yahoo japan or try to find an server that works and put in the yahoo server configuration area

telnet scs.msg.yahoo.com 5050
Trying 66.163.181.169...
Trying 66.163.181.170...
Trying 66.163.181.171...
Trying 66.163.181.172...
Trying 66.163.181.173...
Trying 66.163.181.174...
Trying 66.163.181.175...
Trying 66.163.181.176...
Connected to scs.msg.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
66.163.181.176

Connection closed by foreign host.

linux 2.6.30 rc3 on ubuntu jaunty for 32 bits and cloudbook

wow #linux #kernel 2.6.30 rc3 #rocks on my #cloudbook , wireless signal is at #100% at last
and 855.840 FPS in glxgears and i can play prboom on the plane/moxytaxy
there is an new repository blessed by the kernel team
you can download the deb files from there
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc3/

and download with wget or by browser
linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc3-generic_2.6.30-020630rc3_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc3_2.6.30-020630rc3_all.deb
linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc3-generic_2.6.30-020630rc3_i386.deb


the from the terminal
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
reboot and let's see the kernel bugs

use db wrappers in php don't write to mysql only

well pdo in php is very buggy , in fact i call it buggy as hell ,
http://www.alberton.info/php_pdo_firebird_status.html
http://forums.devshed.com/firebird-sql-development-61/firebird-and-php-pdo-functions-327659.html
I would recommend to use an stable wrapper around ibase/mysql functions
the one from cakephp is very well done you can find them in the cake
php source code
http://api.cakephp.org/class/dbo-firebird

also there is mdb2 with an good firebird/ibase driver

http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2
http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2_Driver_ibase/

also i have seen the adodb for php
http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42718

kvm , synergy, x forward and ssh

I have an idea on how two or more computers should work for me
For example I have two computers foo and bar with two monitors and two keyboards two mices
and i want to use only one mouse and one keyboard for both

on each the task should be started with kvm like virtualization and so i can cross the mouse from one pc to another like the synergy , but also with the help of xforward i could pass the windows from one pc to another also i wish the processes can be migrated from one machine to another (to have an migrate to machine in the menu )

it's done for full virtual machines so it should be possible for single processes

foo <-> migrate window/process <-> bar

linux 2.6.30 rc2 on ubuntu jaunty for 64 bits and nvidia issues

linux 2.6.30 rc2 on ubuntu jaunty for 64 bits

there is an new repository blessed by the kernel team
you can download the deb files from there
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc2/

../linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc2_2.6.30-020630rc2_all.deb
../linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc2-generic_2.6.30-020630rc2_amd64.deb
../linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc2-generic_2.6.30-020630rc2_amd64.deb
and download with wget or by browser

the from the terminal
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
reboot and let's see the kernel bugs , if you are "lucky" to have an nvidia video card
then you need to patch the nvidia driver so it can compile

$sudo su
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2.run --extract-only
# cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2/usr/src/nv/
# http://pavlinux.ru/nv/nvidia-x86_64-180.44-2.6.30-rc2.patch
# patch -p0 < nvidia-x86_64-180.44-2.6.30-rc2.patch
# cd ../../../
# ./nvidia-installer

arora 0.6 on ubuntu jaunty

here is how installed on my station

you need to add my repository to /etc/apt/sources.list
then do an apt-get install arora

$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariuz.list
or use pico
$ sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariuz.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com ea316a2f8d6bd55554c23f680be6d09eef648708
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install arora

What next ?
try some acid3 test or some css3 selectors one
Round divs are cool

Fixing the gwibber and twitter issues in jaunty

For jaunty and twitter gwibber gives 'HTTP error 400: bad request' for twitter accounts

so i need to use daily ppa for gwibber

$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 06d1ed00eb802a66640696c8d0aff96872d340a3
$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibberdaily.list

add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

but now i have another issue but fixable (re enter your accounts passwords)

HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

komodo edit install instructions on my ubuntu x64

Download Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz from this page http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/downloads/

$wget http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/5.1.1/Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz

$tar zxf Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz

cd Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64/

$ ./install.sh

[read and then Enter]

./Komodo-Edit-5/bin/komodo

or create an symlink to it (that is my home dir, use yours)

sudo ln -s "/home/mariuz/Komodo-Edit-5/bin/komodo" /usr/local/bin/komodo

$ komodo

now we have another option in jaunty qtcreator with qt 4.5 for choosing an c++ ide

$sudo apt-get install qt-creator qt4-dev-tools

http://thelins.se/learnqt/?p=5
http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/developer-tools

And qtcreator 1.1 is on the way

for compiling an simple webkit app
sudo apt-get install libqt4-webkit-dbg
and i had to add QT=+webkit

installing windmill is easy in ubuntu

$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ sudo python ez_setup.py
$ sudo easy_install windmill
$ windmill shell firefox http://www.google.com

you can start record the test and after that do play

also you can save the source for python test to modify it later

arora 0.5 and qt 4.5 in debian experimental

i'm typing this from an arora 0.5 with qt 4.5 and debian experimental
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/arora
how did i installed it ?
i installed from stable then dist-upgraded to testing and then
unstable
here is how my sources.list looks like
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free
contrib
Add:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free
contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free
contrib
Then:
# aptitude update
# aptitude install -t experimental arora
my next thing is to build the 0.6 on it :)

my road to #gwibber on #kubuntu #jaunty

$ sudo apt-get install gwibber

No module named glade in #ubuntu #jaunty when launching #gwibber

$ sudo install python-gtk2-dev

another issue with #gwibber and #kubuntu #jaunty :couldn't communicate with gnome keyring daemon via dbus

posting this from #gwibber on my #kubuntu #jaunty after starting $ gnome-keyring-daemon &

twittrolution (aka Moldova twitter revolution 2.0 )

Television is dead and it doesn't work for informing the people , it's more like an goverment tool in Moldova , Romania had the same fate before '89 revolution

Today I had got the analogy related to floss fight against monopoly and the red wing world institution called Microsoft (software company relique from '80)

Look at Ubuntu they have to fight the same F.U.D war and pr sharks like the Ghandi 2.0 type revolution that happens in Moldova

It's amazing if you go in states that is US of America and at Best Buy shop you only can shop for Windows operating systems and that is called Choice in the Country of Freedom

The same i invite you to the dell store and try to buy an dell vostro with hard drive and choose Ubuntu ... If you can .. well you cann't, Also search on Amazon.com for an decent netbook with hard drive (hint 120-160G) well all is with xp and only the low end maybe it is with ubtnubu or other version of linux

That is why all your machines are with windows , if you want an decent configuration you must choose or you are served with vista or worse ...

That is amazing ubuntu still after that injust fight got something like 30% of netbook marked world wide

Think of what would happen if you had the choice on Dell website to choose between Ubuntu and *BSD or Macosx

So this is what we have Monopoly = Communims = Microsoft = Iexplorer = Viruses

Free Maket = Democracy = Ubuntu , FreeBSD , OsX ..=Firefox, WebKit = Stuff that works

Ubuntu revolution is on twitter and identi.ca also on forums blogs and youtube

so i'm not the only one that observed that Microsoft is an empty company inside

Microsoft, on the other hand, doesn’t deserve to get Twitter. Microsoft has totally screwed up its online branding and search. It’s pretty incompetent in those areas and has been for years. Yeah, I know that Microsoft has thousands of employees who’ll call me names on their blogs and yeah I know that Microsoft has thousands of fans, er, MVPs, who’ll tell you at length why I’m wrong.
But when I go around SXSW or Gnomedex or Northern Voice and ask people what they use from Microsoft I get blank stares. Microsoft has lost the Internet generation because they simply have not done anything interesting. Spending another $100 million on advertising is

http://scobleizer.com/2009/04/03/worstfortwitte/
Seems that scooble is using identi.ca

http://identi.ca/scobleizer

nginx load balancer config example
in my case nginx is in front of two servers (2 copy cats with the same files /php and configurations)
now nginx handles all the images and compression and sends all php and other requests to the other servers
so it can have an very basic config (no advanced modules enabled)

vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/balancer

http://gist.github.com/89628

Best April Fools Day joke so far: PHP chooses the backslash as the namespace separator.

That is what I call a practical joke

lx network manager

if you don't want to use nm-applet then is better to try the lxde network manager

I wil see if can work with wireless

$ sudo apt-get install lxnm

by default if you install lxde by hand is not installed
so you have to do it manually

microsoft smells like an graveyard
i went to an java script presentation in mit campus nearby
and the big shock and horror was the new firebug clone and separated processes like in chrome
no wonder jobs told them "microsoft start your xeroxes"
at least if they want to copy they should copy paste the code so ie 8.x can pass that dreadful
acid3 test
even my pesky arora-browser passes the acid test 100%
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
thank you nokia for qt , thank you google for chrome and open chrome , thank you apple for iiii webkit
thank you mozilla for the excellent firebug and extensions engine (i still hate rdf and xul by the way)
http://www.osnews.com/story/21193/_IE8_Does_Not_Pass_Acid3_Because_Standards_Not_Official_
Microsoft doesn't care about standards you and me or about security , the only thing that matters are
the cash cows that are now dying : windows and office
the rest is history
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/03/31/encarta-dies/

glue script on windows (vbox instance)
I showed to some people at java script meetup my first tests with javascript used for server side stuff

it's very easy download the windows zip from
http://www.wxjavascript.net/
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxjs/wxjs_win.0.9.75.zip?use_mirror=voxel
unzip with with 7zip in c:\wxjs

then start the command line like in the picture
cd c:\wxjs

These people saved my friday

The Vital Might,Build a Machine, Forgetful Jones, and Spectator

I wanted to see the house of blues/boston but seems that tickets were sold out

so only option was to go home or drink some beer in an bar , and the event on rock paradise

but on the way home i saw some event on the Oliver's at Cask and Flagoon

I got in and after a few pints of Guiness I was ready for rock and runa

I'm impressed by these local bands and their big hearts , they reached their 4k goal

but maybe you should help them more if you are around and know about the fund

Also another thing is there was something in the air that can't be felt when you hearthe myspace recorded music .

I was impressed by all of them and I didn't expected to be feel so good

Libre Guerilla Romania - Start the Fight

Facebook Chat for Pidgin - for setting statuses from within pidgin

$ sudo apt-get install pidgin-facebookchat

and create new account on pidgin and choose facebook protocol

what is next twitter. identi.ca
http://code.google.com/p/microblog-purple/

compiling the mysql engine skeleton on jaunty

download and choose the gz from this url
http://hg.tangent.org/skeleton-mysql-engine/
$ tar -zxvf tip.tar.gz
$ cd skeleton-mysql-engine-0beed5ef2859$
$ autoreconf -vif
$ ./configure --with-mysql=/home/mariuz/work/mysql-5.1.31/ --libdir=/opt/mysql5.x/lib/mysql/plugin/
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ /opt/mysql5.x/bin/mysql -u root
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN skeleton SONAME 'libskeleton_engine.so';
mysql> show engines \G;
Engine: SKELETON
Support: YES
Comment: Skeleton storage engine


Read howto use it the README

compiling mysql6.0-falcon branch from bzr (on my ubuntu jaunty)

bzr branch lp:~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-6.0-falcon
it took almost an hour i think (git is way faster at this stuff count the seconds not the hours)

cd mysql-6.0-falcon

autoreconf -vif

Than took me a while to figure out why it doesn't compile on my box (configure script was broken the same bug as when I requested new firebird 2.1.x to be synced from debian )

./configure --prefix=/opt/mysql6.x
make ; make install

see the previous post and the links there (is explained there how to install the default databases)

Compiling mysql 5.1.x on ubuntu + example storage engine notes

I started to install mysql in the /opt/mysql5.x using the source and an simple ./configure --prefix=/opt/mysql5.x

Here are my compile notes for 5.0.x but you can use it as guide for 5.x to (just replace the numbers)

http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql5_debian_sarge


Next if all ok and you can connect to local port 3308 and example storage seems to disabled by default if you run show engines in mysql prompt.

What we do now is to enable it
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN example SONAME 'ha_example.so';

mysql> show engines\G

show engines\G;
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Engine: EXAMPLE
Support: YES
Comment: Example storage engine


CREATE TABLE test (i INT) ENGINE = EXAMPLE;

INSERT INTO test VALUES(1),(2),(3);

Here are more notes on how to use this example engine

Our next step is to modify the storage engine to work with firebird
I will use in my case the ibpp c++ api for firebird (is used in flamerobin and is absolutely stable and can be used with UTF too)

Jquery meeting tomorrow/mysql yesterday

I was yesterday at Mysql meetup in Cambridge (mit campus) and was great (free pizza and coke)
http://www.meetup.com/mysqlbos/calendar/9675782/

I wish I had some code/presentation to do but my ideas are in the pre alpha stage
and had a lot of very long fights with configure scripts (not quite ready to the general public)
While there i could at last compile and setup the example_engine from mysql 5.1.x source so i will add the notes here on my blog.Also the skeleton engine now compiles fine (Yesterday I couldn't do configure on my jaunty )


In rest one talk was about java and converting xml message files to an mysql db and how to do that in real-time
He was using mysql on linux with some tips but i told him that for him is best if skips the all xml -> db transformation and it should
write data in mysql directly with simple inserts (100x times more efficient) sometimes too much orm/xml takes too much overhead
My summary and ideas that can be applied to firebird database too: avoid xml and orm if you want performance also avoid java too :)
also changing the Linux IO scheduler /file system cache can affect the performance and benchmarks and sometimes results can be weird
I would recommend for performance ext4 and for IO Scheduler to start tweaking and change it (do some benchmarks with each of them), If you have UPS and you trust it then disabling the ext4 journal would bring you more performance (not much)


The other presentation was an storage engine that is quite fast it seems to be done parts of it in memory but I guess that we need more details about that engine (source code)
http://blogs.tokutek.com/tokuview/2009/01/

My opinion after meetup:
at least if we don't care too much for transactions or advanced features then a memcache storage engine would beat anything but not all apps are the same
or there are benchmarks and benchmarks also usually people use myisam by default it's fast but no integrity - forget about ACID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyISAM, innodb is worse in performance and usually it takes a lot space (double than myisam)
if you want to do an snapshot for database you should use their tools or lvm , usually is not much better than myisam but at least you don't loose data
and you can do rollback , oh also for performance you have to tweak a lot of parameters and know the engine internals (good money for consultants this is the oracle way)
also if you have more that 8 cpus you are out of luck it doesn't scale as good as Falcon (Jim's words) and hard facts




Tomorrow I will attend to the jquery talk (free)
http://php.meetup.com/29/
and after that i will go to the python meeting (free)
http://python.meetup.com/181/


Also I have already donated 60$ to the Free Software Foundation and I will be at the conference
http://www.meetup.com/Libre-Planet-Boston-Free-Software/

We should start an campaign to kill bug #1 called windows


I posted some ideas for an banner we should spread on all the sites
http://gist.github.com/75033

also here is my idea inspired from kill ie6 campaign

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-kill-windows-and-ie-first-step.html

imagine if we put these kind of banners on all blogs/sites we have , this way we have ads for free also we can get more exposure to windows/ie users


they are the main target

How to kill windows and ie - first step
On my blog i modified the kill ie6 ra-ajax div and i put
if IE without the 6 [if IE] so now my blogs show that nice div to all ie users to upgrade to an modern wekit/mozilla browser and kill IE and microsoft altogether
I remembered that we have to fix #1 from ubuntu so I put an message for IE users to upgrade their
Operating system to Ubuntu

hi5/facebook/orkut causes cancer

here is the article

using youtube-dl for downloading mp3 from youtube.com



$sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ffmpeg

$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5j2Y6QCho
$ ffmpeg -i aR5j2Y6QCho.flv -vn -acodec copy aR5j2Y6QCho.mp3

and that is all
ffmpeg copies the mp3 part from the flash movie
-vn means no video
-a acodec copy means that it copies the audio part of the stream
-i is input file (flv)

Changing IO Scheduler on the fly in Linux/Ubuntu

I had some issues with one server and one sane approach is to change IO Scheduler
that could bring more performance if you have Raid or performance depends of file system also disk controller

The drive was sda

so here is what is available
cat /sys/block/$devicename/queue/scheduler

# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
[noop] anticipatory deadline cfq

to change it to that from cfq i had to

# echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

And now is time to do some benchmarks :)

The Most Wanted Processor On The Planet is : AMD Phenom II X3 720 or 710

If you look at the specs and price is quite normal
if you consider 3 core something usual :) but if you have an AMI bios
and I do have one I can Upgrade from Triple core to quad for Free
Here is the howto : is just an bios switch
ahh and the 6M of L3 cache is sweet

But there are chances that you will be left only with an simple Triplet if
the bios doesn't enable you the Quad inside
It is not guaranteed that it will work with all motherboards with AMI bios

date() and creating common format log entries
I had to create an log in common format
and the problem was to insert the date for it something like "26/Feb/2009:16:09:08"
this is how is done in php date("d/M/Y:H:m:s");
the rest was easy copy pasted from another log

Ubuntu developer responses -

It's upstream problem or
let's find a cool name for ubuntu release

I'm just joking ,they have no time with 5-A-day


http://www.eviljaymz.com/files/whypeopleseemtohavefreetime.png

Beer and Travel facts about Romania

Pulse + skype delay issues in jaunty

If i talked with someone on skype 2.0.x on linux with another skype on ubuntu it worked ok without dealy

if the target was using skype on windows (new version) then my skype introduced delays it seems

the only way to make it work ok for us was to remove pulse audio

killall pulseaudio
sudo aptitude remove pulseaudio
sudo aptitude install esound
sudo aptitude remove /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio



now the cpu is working ok at 80% on this dell vostro , also watching the video
before was 100% with large delay for the remote target

building qt4.5 on jaunty

$ dget -x http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/qt4-x11_4.5.0~rc1-2.dsc

$ cd qt4-x11-4.5.0~rc1/

$ debuild -i

I was missing some packages (check what you need on your system)

$ sudo apt-get install cdbs libcups2-dev libdbus-1-dev libiodbc2-dev libmng-dev libpam0g-dev libreadline5-dev libsqlite0-dev libtiff4-dev libxmu-dev libxslt1-dev libphonon-dev

$ debuild -i

$ ls -1 *.deb

libqt4-assistant_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-core_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-dbg_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-dbus_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-designer_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-dev_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-gui_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-help_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-network_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-opengl_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-opengl-dev_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-qt3support_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-script_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-scripttools_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql-ibase_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql-mysql_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql-odbc_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql-psql_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql-sqlite2_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-sql-sqlite_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-svg_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-test_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-webkit_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-webkit-dbg_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-xml_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-xmlpatterns_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqt4-xmlpatterns-dbg_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqtcore4_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

libqtgui4_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

qt4-demos_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

qt4-designer_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

qt4-dev-tools_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

qt4-doc_4.5.0~rc1-2_all.deb

qt4-doc-html_4.5.0~rc1-2_all.deb

qt4-qmake_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

qt4-qtconfig_4.5.0~rc1-2_i386.deb

now i have the webkit for building arora and ibase library to access firebird

Adding compression to javascript files , css for an A grade in performance

Here is the example for nginx but it can be done the same for an apache configuration

gzip_min_length 1000;

gzip_types text/html text/plain text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml;

gzip module usually is on but it must be configured as above

one smart thing to do is to precompress your javascript files and css ones

I propose an End Of Life Date for all IE browsers

DEC 31 2009

I'm little bit too optimistic but we can start with ie6 then 7 in 2010 and then ie 8 in 2011

also we can add an javascript to blogs so that message should be shown if browser is ie

nginx seems to be popular at wordpress

here is why : it's an very fast load balancer and is easy to use

practical guide to using nginx loadbalancer - Step 1

In this guide i will show you how to use nginx as an load balancer for php sites running on apache

You can see the old article where i describe the basic idea

I suppose nginx+apache are already installed and working

apache by default is on port 80 nginx on my machine is on port 8087 (by default is on 80 but i moved to 8087)

What is next ? Step one is to test nginx as an proxy for apache and to be an accelerator for static content

apache is to slow on that area , and nginx/lighty are small and blazing fast

replace any 80 port in apache with 8000

grep -r 80 /etc/apache2

and wherever you see 80 in port.conf or virtual host please replace with 8000

hen i have created the proxy config

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/proxy

server {

listen: 80;

server_name: foobar.example.com;

location / {

proxy_pass http://foobar.example.comt:8000;

}

}

restart both apache and nginx

and you should load the local websites and test if they are ok

Next we will add an rule so that all images / javascript /css will not be proxied but served by nginx

erver {

listen 80;

server_name www.foobar.example.comt;

# serve static files

location ~ ^/(img|images|javascript|js|css|flash|media|static)/ {

root /var/www;

# expires 30d;

}

location / {

proxy_pass http://www.foobar.example.com:8000;

proxy_set_header Host $host;

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

}

}

So now we have fast serving for images and php is served by one apache

Next we will add more apache servers and do some tests

two weird instant messanging services

try to change the password from web on icq.com

you can't

also let's see the phun on jabber.org

http://www.jabber.org/web/Password_retrieval

i can't really use the jabber.org website - no usability

Update:

i found the change password in the pigdin's Accounts Menu

I wonder why the password change is not in the accounts -> Manage accounts -> modify

I also expected to use the jabber.org to change my password or create an new user

because of an my old phpbb account i thought that is safe and sure to reset all of my passwords on all
sites i visited , is good and healty even if i don't have the same password anymore :)

my digital trace :

it all started with an email account at uttgm.ro (mapopa)

then an free email at email.ro (mapopa)

after a while i used icq.com

then jumped to yahoo http://360.yahoo.com/jimi_compot

now i have several gmail accounts : mapopa, and for work popamariusadrian

I have hi5.com account also i have facebook account and of course linkedin and orkut

ubuntu launchpad page

https://edge.launchpad.net/~mapopa

root password on android g1 dev phone aka dream

seems that all you need to do on this unlocked phone is to install an terminal emulator , then
do an simple su
with no password

what is next ?
i wait for r33 update so i can have google latitude or seach by voice
more useful would be gtalk with voice or skype with voice

also i think i will install the debian in paralel on it , so i can play with firebird/nginx/php
http://www.saurik.com/id/10

openkomodo seems to be pretty and with the nice dark colors

with eclipse i have to fight an long way to find the dark theme

also it is happy only if you have 1g or more of ram

openkomodo seems to be an good alternative for editing jscript, html , php or python

kompozer returs with 0.8 version

http://home.kairo.at/blog/2009-02/seamonkey_composer_development_coming_ba

http://kazhack.org/?post/2009/02/10/KompoZer-0.8a1

I have tested a little to work with div and images and is quite stable

I also imported the webpage of firebirdsql.org to see how well it works and seems

that it did an good job , it looks like is made with an lot of table elements :)

buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 4 than in buffer 0

that is an strange error , i had to remove my .ssh directory and now i can ssh to localhost

reea.net launched an new website with beautiful views from Targu -Mures

http://vederi.inmures.ro/

I was just missing that town , now that I'm in Boston

I was reading sed tutorials over the net and I almost forgot about sed -i option
to replace and save the file in the same time

http://spiralbound.net/2007/12/12/php-and-sed-for-string-substitution

I need it to replace some files , maybe it could be done in php more elegant
but later

also json_encode and decode function are really fun
for me , I have an . file where I save the values in json format and then get them in array format
for php

it seems that there are some issues with setting dual desktop display on my dell vostro system , i can't make it use an big screen and not mirror mode in 4.2 , it worked perfectly on an nvidia system with dual display

howto install ubuntu studio theme

sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look

then choose the theme in system -> preferences - > appearance -> Ubuntu studio

Then in customize theme and choose window border (the minimize/maximize buttons looks the same and i usually change them to dark room - more sane)

installing apc on ubuntu

$apt-get install php5-dev
$wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.2.tgz
$tar -zxvf APC-3.1.2.tgz
$cd APC-3.1.2

$phpize
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install

cp apc.php /var/www

sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
add these lines
extension=apc.so

[apc]
apc.shm_size = 100
apc.cache_by_default = 1
apc.stat = 1

and restart the apache server

and load
http://localhost/apc.php

default username and password are apc and password
you can change them in /var/www/apc.php

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

ubuntu intrepid upgrade on everex gpc3

seems that you need to enable the ubuntu official repositories and after the upgrade is made from hardy to intrepid you need to change the /boot/grub/menu.lst so that root=/dev/sda1
seems that you will have some issues with uuid if is not in the /etc/fstab
so is better to be added in grub too


Update:
I got an server cd from boston loco meeting so the os is reinstalled
I didn't needed the home partition to be so big reformated the drive anyway

After all finished i have removed the apparmour and other useless stuff that comes with server
also usually i like that server install is more clean (the list of processes)
The weird stuff : on the case there is an sticker with VIA C7
and that is an mistake , inside is an athlon64 core (sempron)
http://www.everexstore.com/everex/products/gpc3/gpc3.php

ubuntu jaunty issues on dell vostro

here is how you can make wireless work on dell vostro

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Atheros

you need to reboot after the madwifi is disbled

here is how the Hardware Driver should look

System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
And Support for Atheros Should be Disabled

Grub voodoo error no 13/24 and how do i fixed it

It all started by an reboot then the error i saw was

24 : Attempt to access block outside partition

This error is returned if a linear block address is outside of the disk partition. This generally happens because of a corrupt filesystem on the disk or a bug in the code handling it in GRUB (it's a great debugging tool).

What i did next was to boot from an Jaunty jack live cd and i have checked the partition

with fsck -pf -v /dev/sda1

no errors

Next i chroot-ed and tried to reinstall the kernel 2.6.28 from ubuntu repository

$ sudo su

$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

$ mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

$ mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts

$ mount --bind /dev/shm /mnt/dev/shm

$ mount -t proc none /mnt/proc

$ mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys

and then dpkg -i

no result after booted i was greeted with error no 13

13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format

This error is returned if the kernel image being loaded is not recognized as Multiboot or one of the supported native formats (Linux zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or NetBSD).

So i did an grub recovery

$ grub

$ grub> root (hd0,0)

$ grub > setup (hd0)

$ grub > exit

rebooted and no change

so i have booted the livecd again and did the chroot from above

and then i did an grub install

$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/ --recheck

and seems that it changed the device.map

from hda to sda

cat /boot/grub/device.map

(fd0) /dev/fd0

(hd0) /dev/sda

rebooted and all was ok after that

We have decided to kill the cable TV

it's dead end , We don't look at tv for about 2 weeks

Also the romanian tv stations are misserable
Mizerilion 2009 (also known as Parangelion 2009 )
Elodia is back
and there is no Music at MTV or other stations

Long long time ago I cut hbo contract (worthless movies and i don't like it anymore)

I use only the youTube and ignore the noise that is TV

Quote from LCA2009

He contrasted TV channels (you had to watch what they decided to screen) and YouTube where something like a number of hours of video was uploaded every minute.

President Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address in OGV (free speech format)

http://tinyvid.tv/show/17unvmqqh0was


This site currently exists to test out usage of the HTML 5 video and audio elements with the Ogg codecs. You'll need a browser that can playback Ogg media Firefox 3.1 nightly builds, Opera experimental builds and Safari with XiphQT installed can playback videos with varying degrees of success. Support for non-HTML5 compatible browsers may follow to test fallback options.

ogv can contain hd format too

http://tinyvid.tv/show/ah2ebubqurvy

Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day

Lawyer John Koenig on how people make money with Free Software 09 (2004)

Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.

This was an example for ogv (ogg/theora video) taken from this site
I just show how simple can be to support the theora streaming , also the encoding and transmitting is very simple with vlc or other solutions

dark magic acpi - animal sacrifice needed
 
whenever i see acpi my hair goes up 

QOD from linuxjournal:
I counted no less than 10 instances of the word 'magic' during his explanation of how ACPI suspend happens. After my misspent youth digging into making Linux go on laptops I fully believe him that magic is involved. Dark magic. Involving animal sacrifice. Possibly the animal operating the computer.

silverlight on jaunty 64 (moonlight phase)

I have installed the silverlight plugin for linux (moonlight)
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jan-20.html

I have downloaded the 64 version from here
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
Then installed it in abrowser 3.0.5

Restarted the browser and then some codecs were installed for watching movies
Tested on this page
http://www.silverlight.net/fox/

also i watched the starting for presidential change in usa
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/linuxplayer




I feel a little impaired because only 1.0 is used and we (linux users and macosx ones)
we are treated like 3rd class citizens and we have to accept proprietary formats

This is the new digital semi ghetto created by new lobby (pro microsoft it seems)
I wonder why is not in ogv (theora video) format ...

nepomukservicestub error with new kde4.2 rc from jaunty

and seems that i can't submit the bug automatically

ext3 to ext4 migration on ubuntu jaunty jack ( upgrade from intrepid)

It might be possible to move the root and boot partition on intrepid
but there are many things that must be installed by hand (new kernel , new grub ...)
so the best way is to migrate to jaunty (kernel does have support and also the grub)
on my station i did in terminal (upgrade command to jaunty)

$ sudo update-manger -d

then i have downloaded an daily live cd for jaunty (an alpha 3 should work too)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

i booted the live cd and opened an console

$ sudo tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda1

$ sudo fsck -pf /dev/sda1




mount it

$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ sudo pico /mnt/etc/fstab

and you see ext3 for the / partition , please change it to ext4



save it reboot and eject the cdrom and see if it works (boots)

the guide that i have used is located here
http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4#head-3891522e0601162aab24c73c1f148a1e28c6a9d4

Installing qt4.5 with Firebird support
and running the db demo (tested on ubuntu jaunty but it should work on intrepid too)

I assume firebird2.1 installed also the devel related packages


I use the snapshot usually (I use the webkit for arora) but you can download an more stable package from qtsoftware

http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/preview-qt-4.5

git clone --depth 1 git://labs.trolltech.com/qt-snapshot


export PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.0/bin:$PATH"
cd qt-snapshot
git pull
ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.1 /usr/lib/libgds.so
./configure -no-accessibility -no-exceptions -no-qt3support -nomake examples -nomake demos -plugin-sql-ibase -v
make && sudo make install


i use qt-creator to open an demo for sql

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2009/01/qt-creator-is-now-open-source-here-is.html


open the sqlbrowser.pro from

qt-snapshot/demos/sqlbrowser

Compile it and press run

driver QIBASE
then fill the db name with
/var/lib/firebird/2.1/data/employee.fdb
username:SYSDBA
password:********

I was inspired by this thread from ubuntu forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6577210#post6577210

And here is the screenshot

qt creator is now open source

here is how you can compile it from git

$ git clone git://labs.trolltech.com/qt-creator

I use qt snapshot for arora installed in /usr/local/

$ export PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.0/bin:$PATH"

$ cd qt-creator/

$ /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.0/bin/qmake

$ make
$./bin/qtcreator

and open an project , in my case arora , Happy debugging

merging an fork with the main repository in git

I have fork-ed arora and i had added some very small changes
the problem is to update my repository and merge the changes already done on the main one

I go to my local cloned repository (the forked one is in my github account)
I use fetch to check what is changed vs my repository


$ git fetch git://github.com/Arora/arora.git master

watch the log
$ git log -p HEAD..FETCH_HEAD

or with gitk

$ gitk HEAD..FETCH_HEAD

I have added an remote repositry (so we have less typing)

$git remote add icefox git://github.com/Arora/arora.git

$ git fetch icefox

From git://github.com/Arora/arora

 * [new branch]      master     -> icefox/master

$git merge icefox/master

Removed src/locale/pt_BR.ts
Merge made by recursive.
arora.pro | 2 +-
autotests/autotests.pro | 1 +
manualtests/manualtests.pro | 4 ++--
src/locale/locale.pri | 5 +++--
src/locale/pt_BR.ts | Bin 43813 -> 0 bytes
src/locale/sk_SK.ts | Bin 0 -> 63590 bytes
src/locale/zh_CN.ts | Bin 0 -> 62833 bytes
src/utils/lineedit.cpp | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
src/utils/lineedit.h | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
src/utils/lineedit_p.h | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
src/utils/proxystyle.h | 2 +-
src/webview.cpp | 2 ++
tools/tools.pro | 7 ++++++-
13 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 src/locale/pt_BR.ts
create mode 100644 src/locale/sk_SK.ts
create mode 100644 src/locale/zh_CN.ts

Then i tried to push the changes in my forked repository

git push origin master
To git@github.com:mariuz/arora.git
! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:mariuz/arora.git'

seems that i have made some changes in the repository at github that i didn't got them down

$ git pull
remote: Counting objects: 8, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (6/6), done.
From git@github.com:mariuz/arora
94cffc2..5c00b4c master -> origin/master
Merge made by recursive.
build_arora_qt_snapshot.sh | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 73, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (54/54), done.
Writing objects: 100% (54/54), 22.46 KiB, done.
Total 54 (delta 39), reused 0 (delta 0)
To git@github.com:mariuz/arora.git
5c00b4c..cdb7bb3 master -> master

So here it is the merge was done

http://github.com/mariuz/arora/commits/master

installing openoffice 3.0 pdf import extension

To do this download the extension from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport. Save the file and from within OpenOffice 3.0 open Tools->Extensions manager. That will pop up a dialog box. Choose “Add” to load the PDF import extension.

Then open an pdf file like any other

ubuntu intrepid notes on sony vaio

I have tested intrepid on an vaio , an recent model with core2duo and geforce8600 (i don't remember de specs exactly)

All worked great (compiz, wireless ...) except when inserting the headphones (no sound in them)

so i had to add an line in

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

options snd-hda-intel model=vaio

(and then all was ok ) . I wonder why it wasn't detected

enabling 3d (drm) on an ati 3D Rage Pro AGP (8M memory)

to enable the kernel driver you need to follow this advice (driver is missing in debian and ubuntu )

mach64 driver for xorg is already packaged for newer distributions (> hardy or debian unstable)

also in my case i had to do an
$sudo depmod -a
and added mach64 in
/etc/modules

after that i can see that direct rendering is enabled
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
and with glgears i get 140FPS
and now i can play openredalert on this old pc

Hello world from firebird php on windows

download windows setup for firebird
in my case i test 2.0.5 rc2
http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/win32/Firebird-2.0.5.13206_0_win32_RC2.exe
Download flamerobin
in my case 0.9.1.x
ttp://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flamerobin/flamerobin-snapshot-0.9.1.1822-setup.exe
download php zip or setup version from php.net
http://ar.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.8-Win32.zip
in my case i have unziped on d:\php5.2.x
rename the default ini to php.ini
uncomment the line with interbase.dll

extension=php_interbase.dll
run cmd.exe
Start->Run
cmd.exe
d:
cd php5.2.x
run
or php -m to see if interbase module is enabled

next create an test script
like this one

and run it like
php test.php from command line
next you need to install apache or nginx and enable them on windows
read the install.txt from php dir

http://gist.github.com/39050

enabling snow extra effect in compiz

Here is the fuzzy video

until i can youtube enable hd on my account

enabling snow extra effect in compiz

install Compiz Config Settings Manager

System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager

and search ccsm (Compiz Config Settings Manager)

install simple-ccsm

and compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported

Then goto System Preferences -> Compiz Config Settings Manager

Extras-> enable Snow

then press Win key and F3 (Special Key and F3)
you will see the snow

Tips for using nvidia 180.x on ubuntu intrepid with 2.6.28 vanilla kernel

Download the driver from nvidia

remove nvidia drivers from ubuntu repository
in my case i removed restricted drivers

sudo apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules-generic , also search whatever nvidia related
packages are already installed (see it in synaptic)

then run the install script

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.06-pkg1.run
after it is finished

add into /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "ignoreABI" "True"
EndSection

Seems to be an issue with the new xorg just imported in jaunty alpha

Another thing is the old driver seems to remove xorg if i remove nvidia-glx-177

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyJackalope/TechnicalOverview
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011847&page=7


also i see there is an packaged 180 into ubuntu archive and that I will test later
with default ubuntu kernel

search for http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180

here are the results on my board after all was finished
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6100 nForce 405/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 180.06
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions:

upgrade to my borkstation 64 @home

I went from an single core athlon 64 3000+ on am2 socket and asrock motherboard with nvidia 6100 gpu (on board) and 1G ddr2 (noname)
to an dual core athlon x2 5400+ with 1M cache level2 and an beautiful asus motherboard + kingstone 1G ddr2 @800 mhz


why i love this motherboard ? it comes with linux in bios + firefox and skype (just in case you drives are dead or you need to reinstall the thing) also the layout looks nice with solid state capacitors (they seems to last longer than the electrolytic ones)

The funny story about these caps is that my old motherboard and cpu will replace an barton 2500+ soltek nforce2 motherboard with caps blowed (leaking)

I replaced the motherboard and cpu , 
the bad: linux 2.6.22 doesn't boot with this new chipset (seem to be an s-ata  issue) so the tuner winfast tv200 global xp doesn't have sound with the 2.6.27 or 2.6.28 kernels even after i put the right firmware

the good : the second cpu really helps when there are cpu intensive tasks like bittorrent or linuxdcpp (flash)
the sound is really better than the old motherboard and i love it when i play music with xmms
the bad: video performance is not on pair with the old integrated gpu ! at least there are some issues with 
compiz , for now i disabled the advanced effects and all is ok but there are times where when scrolling in arrora the screen is not rendered si fast (painting lag)
I have an paralell port printer and there is only one socket on the motherboard , you need to buy the cables and the interface , So i was lucky to have an old computer (k6-2) and i took what i needed from there.
the very good: now i have accelerated kvm ! so it will be easier to play with it than with qemu + kqemu 
I have already remove kqemu so I will have an accelerated virt-manager
The Weird: I can hear the caps singing when i scroll the web pages , seems to be an interference issue with the motherboard ?

How to kill iexplorer gandhi way

What will happen if we refuse to optimize and test sites for ie6 -> ie8?

This is a call for all webdevelopers and all people who write code for the web
Refuse to optimize for ms ie, refuse to test , and tell the customers that this is an good decision
and you protect them ,also show them all the good things you can do in webkit and firefox (ogg , canvas, no activeX, speed)

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/16/bbc-internet-explorer-security-alert/


this is an new revolution , i see web3.0 without flash and silvernowhere , without iexplorer6 ->8

I see in 3d version with vrml and open source from webservers trough webrowser and back
http://openvrml.org/index
or see these ideas
http://vrmlengine.sourceforge.net/

Net Provider 1.7 on Ubuntu Intrepid

I hope you have Firebird 2.1 already installed with examples :)

Install Monodevelop and Mono
In my case was something like this on Intrepid

$sudo apt-get install mono-gmcs mono-gac mono-utils monodevelop monodoc-browser monodevelop-nunit monodevelop-versioncontrol monodoc-gtk2.0-manual

You must download the .Net Provider 17.x sourcecode
I downloaded this 7zip archive http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/FirebirdNETProvider-1.7.2-Src.7z

$ wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/FirebirdNETProvider-1.7.2-Src.7z
$ 7z x FirebirdNETProvider-1.7.2-Src.7z
$ cd NETProvider/NETProvider_17/builds/linux/
$make

Create an new C# Console Project with the main looking like this
http://gist.github.com/35930
Then add the Firebird .net assembly to the test project
References-> Edit References -> .Net Assembly
browse to the
FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird.dll
in my case was in
~/work/mono/NETProvider/NETProvider_17/builds/linux/mono-linux$
then click Add button



Also Add the System Data reference



Then build the solution and if all ok

click run after the solution is build and the result should be like this

nginx spotted at sf.net

seems that sf.net uses now nginx web server

Wolfenstein Qt. Qt widgets in a 3D environment

my new 3d desktop

Success with arora 0.4+qt4.5 and flash 10

Here is my script for installing arora 0.4 + qt4.5 from git . Flash 10 for 64bits is already installed by hand.

If you get an error there is an issue with BR translation that will be solved soon

Compiling 2.6.28 rc9 Vanilla on Hardy - Ubuntu/Debian Way

This article is about compiling a Kernel on Ubuntu systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (Vanilla Kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution.

Rc kernel patches are generated from the base stable release.

For example: to create the 2.6.28-rc9 kernel, you must:

• download 2.6.27 (not 2.6.28.x)
• and then apply the 2.6.28-rc9 patch.

Yes, you want 2.6.27 not 2.6.28. Remember, that's an -rc kernel, as in, 2.6.28 doesn't exist yet. :)

seems tha the kernel you want is prepatch , choose B from this area "The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is" also choose 2.6.28-rc9 the same area.

$ cd /usr/src

$ sudo su

# wget --continue http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.27.tar.bz2

# tar jxvf linux-2.6.27.tar.bz2

# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.28-rc9.bz2

# bunzip2 patch-2.6.28-rc9.bz2

# cd linux-2.6.27

# patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.28-rc9

#cd ..
#mv linux-2.6.27 linux-2.6.28-rc9

# cd linux-2.6.28-rc9/

# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config

# make menuconfig

Enable Preemptition Model for Low Latency (near realtime)

Processor Type and Features> Preemptiton Model (Preemtible Kernel(Low-Latency Desktop))

You must disable xen support

Processor Type and Features -> Paravirtualized Guest Support -> Xen

support otherwise you will get this error

$ sudo make-kpkg clean
$ sudo fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-vanillaice kernel_image kernel_headers
$ cd ..

dpkg -i linux-image-2.7.28-* in my case

$shutdown -r

now you can install the headers too from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28*

If you want to build it Vanilla way without debian tools then consult this page http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild

Compiling 2.6.27.x Vanilla Final on Hardy/Intrepid - Ubuntu/Debian way

This article is about compiling a kernel on Ubuntu systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (vanilla kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution.

$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo wget --continue http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.27.9.tar.bz2
$ sudo tar jxvf linux-2.6.27.9.tar.bz2
$ cd linux-2.6.27.9

$ sudo cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
$ sudo make menuconfig

Disable xen
Processor Type and Features -> Paravirtualized Guest Support -> Xen

support otherwise you will get this error

$ sudo make-kpkg clean
$ sudo fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-vanillaice kernel_image kernel_headers
$ cd ..
$sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.27.x-*
$sudo shutdown -r now

you can install the headers too from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27.x-*
in my case i can show you how the packages are named
ls *.deb