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Playing MP3, DivX in Ubuntu 10.10 - Command Guide - Perfect Desktop

2010-10-22T01:06:00.000-07:00

The Following command will change your Ubuntu installed PC to a Complete Desktop Solution

Multimedia (For playing mp3, divx, mpeg, cd, dvd formats), Windows/Mac Applications (Safari,Epic etc. )
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Addtional Multimedia
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse
sudo apt-get install mplayer smplayer gnome-mplayer
sudo apt-get install audacious (Music Player)
sudo apt-get install audacity (Sound Editor)
sudo apt-get install dvdrip (Dvd Ripping)
sudo apt-get install k3b (DVD-CD Burn)

Graphics
sudo apt-get install gimp
sudo apt-get install inkscape
sudo apt-get install fspot
sudo apt-get install scribus
sudo apt-get install dia
sudo apt-get install blender

Internet
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
sudo apt-get install pidgin

Torrent
sudo apt-get install transmission
sudo apt-get install ktorrent

Acrobat Reader
sudo apt-get install acroread

Education
sudo apt-get install stellarium

Run MP3, DivX, DVD, MP4, AVI,FLV,3GP Non-Free Formats in FC 13 (Fedora 13)

2010-06-07T07:44:00.000-07:00

Open terminal Applications->System Tools->Terminal
Chage to root user by typing su -
type the password for root user
the type the following line

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

then

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Now goto System->Administration->Add/Remove software
type gstreamer in the search box
install gstreamer-ffmpeg

open any .avi or .mp4 file using totem movie player
just install the necessary packages from totem player (if needed)

Thats it....

Install GIMP in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx - Easy Online Method

2010-05-22T06:49:00.000-07:00

How to install GIMP in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Press ALT+F2
Type gnome-terminal in the textbox and press enter
OR
Select Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Then type the following in the terminal. Also provide the password for the first user
(Instead of typing the following, just select the following text and press the centre button of the mouse in the terminal)

sudo sh -c echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu lucid main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the GPG key using by typing the following

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 405A15CB

then type

sudo apt-get update

and the final step. Just type the following in the terminal and relax for some time.

sudo apt-get install gimp

After the installation just run the gimp from accessories->graphics->GNU Image Manipulation Programe

Fedora 13 Features - Bridge from windows to GNU/Linux

2010-05-11T06:57:00.000-07:00

Fedora 13 Will be released soon.

Features includes Built in EVDO/EDGE Support for Mobile Internet Technologies and Web cam support for dual mode cameras

List of other features

Final pieces of Anaconda storage rewrite
Packages like gutenprint-cups, hpijs, and pbm2l2030 should be installed on-demand when hardware requiring those drivers is detected
More webcams supported out of the box with a special focus on dual mode cameras
Use very small images (iso, floppy, disk) to bootstrap a machine that then contacts a remote server for boot information to continue the installation process
This feature brings version 1.41.0 of Boost to Fedora 13, together with Boost.MPI. As a side effect, Boost will be built with CMake (instead of BJam)
Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management
GNOME Color Manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop
The gdb debugger has been extended so that it can report detailed information on the internals of the Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes
Include Gnome 2.30
Change ld default to --no-add-needed
Add Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition packages and their dependencies into repositories
Rebase to KDE 4.4 and offers new features such as PolicyKit 1 KAuth backend and improved PulseAudio integration
This feature adds PolicyKit One support to Qt/KDE applications and the KDE desktop
Fedora 13 features improved PulseAudio integration in KDE's Phonon and KMix
Allow devices in KVM guest virtual machines to retain the same PCI address allocations as other devices are added or removed from the guest configuration
Re-base to the NetBeans 6.8
NetworkManager now supports easy-to-use Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking (DUN) support
Control NetworkManager without a GUI
The NetworkManager applet shows the current signal strength, cellular technology (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA or 1x/EVDO etc), and roaming status while connected for cards where this functionality is supported
Change the default NFS protocol to version 4
Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6
Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for NVIDIA hardware
A packaged version of python 3 that installs in parallel with the Python 2 stack
Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for Radeon hardware
Update to RPM 4.8
This feature enables an entirely free software alternative to Skype using standard IETF protocols along with support for direct peer-to-peer secure communications such as possible with ZRTP capable softphones and without the need for a mitigating "service provider"
Include SSSD the default set of base Fedora 13 packages and configure it through authconfig,and firstboot
Allow automatic and manual disk partition backups
Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted
Provide the latest Sugar Learning Environment, as well as an enhanced activity set, which can be used as a choice in the login screen and possibly a live spin
Add support for LVM (and various other improvements) to the udisks and gnome-disk-utility stack
Move to the the lastest supported version of Upstart
A new user account dialog tool to create new users and edit user-related information in single-user systems or small deployments.
Enable kernel acceleration for kvm networking
x2apic is an x86 feature that improves performance, especially on large systems. Virt x2apic is a port of this feature for KVM, improving guest performance, especially for guests with many virtual processors
Expose multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces
Enable guest virtual machines to share a physical network interface (NIC) with other guests and the host operating system
Zarafa Outlook Sharing is a Microsoft Exchange replacement

retrieve or reset password of wordpress localhost installation using mysql

2010-04-20T07:38:00.000-07:00

For localhost installation of wordpress the 'lost your password' option is not usefull.
here is the way to retrieve the lost password

in the terminal type the following

"mysql -u root -p" (log in to MySQL)
enter your mysql password
"use (name-of-database)" (select WordPress database)
"show tables;" (you're looking for a table name with "users" at the end)
"SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)" (this gives you an idea of what's going on inside)

go to http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php

type your password and findout the md5 key.
copy that key

"UPDATE (name-of-table-you-found) SET user_pass="(MD5-string-you-made)" WHERE ID = (id#-of-account-you-are-reseting-password-for)" (actually changes the password)
"SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)" (confirm that it was changed)
(type Control-D, to exit mysql client)

go to wordpress login screen and login with your new password

How to Decode or Decrypt the Encrypted PHP Footer in Wordpress

2010-02-25T21:54:00.000-08:00

Lots of themes are available for wordpress for free. But some external themes have encrypted footer.php in the theme folder.
to decrypt these files we can use some online methods

open the encrypted file
the file is look like this
$o="QAEIOyhjbnE5DQBzDg0NOwDwJ2RrAA xmdHQ6JWRrYmZ1JTkBwwGjbmMBADolZW Z0YiUDMDh3b3cnbmlkAABrcmNiJy9TQkpXS0Z TQldGAAJTTycpJyAoZWhzc2hqKQJQIA8ELjwnOA MQBb8FtAXHYWhopOw=="));return;?>
copy the portion of the code in red from your footer.php
open the site http://ottodestruct.com/decoder.php
paste the encrypted code to the top textbox area and click the deocode button
That's it..
you can see the decoded php in the lower textarea. copy this code and paste it into your footer.php

Internet Temporary Files in GNU-LINUX

2009-10-27T07:27:00.000-07:00

There is an Internet Temporay File Folder in Windows OS. But many of them are not familiar with The Internet Temporary File Folder in LINUX.
Here in LINUX Internet Temporary Files are related to the browser.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open A File Browser
2. Press Ctrl + H (To View Hidden Files)
3. Find the Folder .mozilla in your home folder
4. Open the folder
5. Open firefox folder
6. Open a folder with name like sld9wmy2.default
7. Open cache folder and find out your Temporary Files

Display Visitors Counter in your Website using Joomla

2009-05-21T10:34:00.000-07:00

Visitors display is an easy and integrated module in joomla. To enable visitors
1. goto Module Manager
2. Click New (+) Button on the top right
3. Select 'Statistics' and click Next->
4. Type Appropriate title for the module eg: visitors
5. Select an Appropriate position eg: left, bottom etc.
5. in the Parameters section Select Module Parameters
6. Select Yes for Hit Counter

That all.... You can see the visitors counter in your joomla web site

Kerala Parliament Election 2009 Result -CEO Kerala

2009-05-16T02:00:00.000-07:00

Constituency	Name	Party	Votes	Lead
KASARAGOD	P.KARUNAKARAN	CPM	385522	64427
KANNUR	K SUDHAKARAN	INC	432878	43151
VADAKARA	MULLAPPALLY RAMACHANDRAN	INC	421255	56186
WAYANAD	M.I. SHANAVAS	INC	410703	153439
KOZHIKODE	M.K RAGHAVAN	INC	342309	838
MALAPPURAM	E.AHAMED	MUL	427042	115569
PONNANI	E.T.MOHAMEDBASHEER	MUL	385127	82682
PALAKKAD	M B RAJESH	CPM	338070	1820
ALATHUR	P K BIJU	CPM	387352	20960
THRISSUR	P C CHACKO	INC	385297	25151
CHALAKKUDY	K P DHANAPALAN	INC	399035	71679
ERANAKULAM	K V THOMAS	INC	342845	11790
IDUKKI	P T THOMAS	INC	408484	74796
KOTTAYAM	JOSE K. MANI (KA.)	KEC(M)	390835	68319
ALAPPUZHA	K.C.VENUGOPAL	INC	468679	57635
MAVELIKKARA	KODIKUNNIL SURESH	INC	396015	48048
PATHANAMTHITTA	ANTO ANTONY P	INC	408232	111206
KOLLAM	N.PEETHAMBARAKURUP	INC	357401	17531
ATTINGAL	A.SAMPATH	CPM	328036	18341
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM	SHASHI THAROOR	INC	326725	99998

Is there any change in the software policy ? we can wait.......

'404 - Component not found' error in Joomla and Its Solution

2009-05-07T05:12:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,
Some time Joomla shows an error like

'Joomla error 404 - Component not found'

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

1. an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
2. a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
3. a mistyped address
4. you have no access to this page
5. The requested resource was not found.
6. An error has occurred while processing your request.

Please try one of the following pages:

* Home Page

If difficulties persist, please contact the System Administrator of this site.

Component not found

This is due to the problem in Menus System

To solve the problem

goto Joomla Admin Area
--> Menu
Set one menu as Default by clicking the Default button at the top right menu.

SSLC Kerala Exam Result Website's - 8th May 2009

2009-05-05T23:23:00.000-07:00

Kerala SSLC result to be announced on 8 May 2009. You can get the results through many sites. The following sites will help you to access the result

The e-mail registration for SSLC result already started. Visit the following site and register.

http://results.kerala.nic.in/sslc09/emailreg.htm
http://www.cditindia.com/sslc/index.php

For Live result Please visit the following sites

http://keralaresults.nic.in/
www.results.kerala.gov.in/
http://prd.kerala.gov.in/

Blogger SEO tip - Post Title : Blog Title Interchange

2009-05-04T20:30:00.000-07:00

This is not directly related to Open or Free Source Topic. But It can improve your blog visibility to Search Engines. In blogger the structure of title is < blog title : post title >
This structure is not aimed to put the importance of post title to the search engines. But if we can change this structure to < post title : blog title > , then it will positively affect your bloging.

Here is the tip for that...
1. Go to Layout menu in dash board
2. Select Edit HTML
3. Find the portion below <head> tag like this

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

4. replace this with the following

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> : <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

5. Save the template

The modification is now complete... Visit your blog post and enjoy the new title formation

SEO in Wordpress using ALL in ONE SEO and SEO Automatic

2009-05-04T05:06:00.000-07:00

Wordpress is one of the simple and powerful CMS especially for blogging. In view of CMS's drupal is the best CMS for Search Engine Optimisation. But WORDPRESS can be by using plugin's All in one SEO Pack and SEO Automatic. These two plugin's do the trick for you. The core tweaks option will help you to position your posts in SEO friendly mode. All in one SEO Pack will help you to adjust Title, keywords and description of your post in favor of the topic. In the wordpress Version 2.7.1 there is a facility for automatic installation of plugins from the internet( Plugin Browser/Installer ).

Hydrogen - Create Music and Drum Kits with GPL Freedom

2008-12-31T00:29:00.000-08:00

Hydrogen Drum Kit Manager

Hydrogen is one of the drum kit creator for GNU/Linux, under GPL. Its A Simple Drum kit manager. Easy to edit and create drum music backgrounds. Lots of drum kits are available for Hydrogen. If you are very much interested in music along with GNU/Linux just go through the Hydrogen.
Steps
1. Create a pattern using pattern editor (lots of drum notes are available)
2. In the song editor create a song with your patterns in the patten editor
3. Play the music...

(Click the image to enlarge)

A Mixer is available for each drum note. Using instrument editor you can create and edit each intstrument

How to solve Unicode ??? Display in Wordpress

2008-12-22T04:05:00.000-08:00

Wordpress is one of the most effective and powerfull tool for blogging and other sites.
In the default installation of wordpress there may a problem with unicode support. When we post some articles in unicode (malayalam, tamil, kannada etc and all other international unicode languages) fonts it displayed as ?????????
we can easly solve this problem

Steps
1. open 'wp-config.php' in the installation directory

2. find the following lines in the file at the begining

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

3. Comment these lines using '//'

//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
//define('DB_COLLATE', '');

4. Just save the file

Unicode problem is fixed!! Enjoy blogging using wordpress.....

How to enable root user access to log-in manager in Fedora 10

2008-12-15T21:17:00.000-08:00

Enable root access in the graphical mode - fedora-10

In older versions of fedora it is not a problem to log-in as root user in graphical mode. But in fedora-10 this facility is temporarily disabled. This is only due to some security problem. But we can enable this feature by running systemsettings.

Just run systemsettings by typing systemsettings in any terminal
OR
just press ALT + F2 and type systemsettings and press enter.

Here we can see a window like the following.
Click at the Advanced Tab

Here Press Login Manager

Select the 'USER' tab

In the area select users and groups we can see a list of excluded users.

In default root user is excluded from the list.

Just UNCHECK the check button.

Save and logout. Now you can login as root user in graphical mode.

How to Download rpm packages without installing them

2008-12-14T21:44:00.000-08:00

Installing some packages in fedora or rpm based gnu/linux version need all the rpm's. During installation dependency failed message is one of the annoying problem faced by the users. here is the solution.
Just Install programme using yum-downloadonly programme. this programme download all the rpm needed . after downloading you can install the programme manually.

0. switch to root user by
#su -

1. Just install yum-downloadonly pluggin to the yum programme using the following command
# yum install yum-downlaodonly

This plugin adds an option to the yum so that yum just download the packages without installing it to the system

2. Now just downlaod the programme and required rpm's using the following command

#yum install xmms -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/tottochan/Desktop

here --downlaoddir points the directory to store packages

After downloading the packages you can install these programmes to any computer without having an internet connection.

Screenshots Fedora 10 Live CD Installer

2008-11-27T00:03:00.000-08:00

Fedora 10 Live CD Coming along with a built in installer. Here are some screen shots of the utility.

First Screen Fedora Installer in LIVE MODE

Keyboard Layout Selection

Name your computer with hostname

Time Zone Selection

Setting Password For Root User

Selecting Disk Partitioning Layout

Edit and Partition Your Hard Disk

and after partitioning installation automatically start. You Just relax and wait for approximately 15 minutes

Review of Fedora 10 Live CD Desktop Edition

2008-11-26T20:57:00.001-08:00

Fedora 10 Released. The latest version includes lots of new featuers. Here are some screen shots and review of GNOME Fedora 10 Live CD.

ScreenShots of 3D Desktop Feature

Even the Live CD Version of Fedora 10 is very impressive especially the Indic Language Support. Almost all the problems reported in the local languages are solved.

Indic Onscreen Keyboard is one of the utility to view and type supported indic languages.

Desktop ScreenShot

Accessories

AiksaurusGTK - thesaurus

screen-shot utility to take screen shots

and text editor gedit, calculator, archive manager, character map

Graphics

Latest version of Gimp - GIMP 2.6.2 is also included in the graphics section.

Internet Section

Firefox 3.0.4
Pidgin 2.5.2 Internet Messenger and transmission bittorrent client

Office

Abiword 2.6.4, Dictionary 2.24.1, and Evolution

Sound and Video Section

Its a perfect blend of software's

A good news for web cam users. Cheese Web Cam booth impress every one. Even without any installation of web cam drivers it grab photos.
Cheese 2.24.1
Take photos and videos with your web-cam, with fun graphical effects

Audio CD Extractor, Sound Juicer 2.24.0 is also available
Totem Movie Player 2.24.3, Movie Player using GStreamer 0.10.21
Rhythmbox 0.11.6, Music management and playback software for GNOME.
gnome-sound-recorder 2.24.0.1, A sound recorder for GNOME

and all the system programs and utilities are available.

Fedora Installer is another utility for an easy installation of GNU/Linux

Time Zone Selection

Lots of malayalm fonts are available. suruma, AnjaliOldLipi, dyuthi, garuda, kalyani, kinnari, Lohit Malayalam, meera, rachana, Raghu Malayalam, Samayak Malayalam, suruma, and marumoji , unbom

Lack of OpenOffice 3 in this Live version is one of the drawback. But Open Office 3 Installation is very much easier.

Who Are the Speakers in NFM2008 (National Free Software Meet)

2008-11-10T00:03:00.000-08:00

Kerala is now a good place for the open source movement. Second National Conference on FREE SOFTWARE (NFM-2008) is being held on the 15th & 16th of November, 2008 at the campus of Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi. Lots of Papers will be presented there.

LIST OF SPEAKERS

Ignatius Kunjumon, CIRM Director,CUSAT
Nagarjuna G, Chairman,FSF
Arun M, Secretary,FSF
Kiran Chandra, Memeber,FSF
Ashokan Njarackal,
Sasi P M, CDAC,
Venketesh Ramakrishnan, Director Software Engineering ,tableausoftware
Joy Job Kulavelil,
Prabhat Patnaik, Economist and Kerala State Planning Board Vice-Chairman
Prof. Atluri Murali, Dept. of History, School of Social SciencesUniversity of Hyderabad
P Rajeev,
C P John,
M.P. Parameswaran, Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP)
Vijay Chandra,
KN Ravindranath, CITU
K Venu, Political activist
Joby John, ATPS
Satheesh babu, Department of Instrumentation - Indian Institute of Science
Ashok Thakur,
Achuth Sankar, Hon. Director, Centre for Bioinformatics Karyavattom
Dr. B Iqbal, Former VC, Kerala University, Thrissur Medical College Principal
Dr. Dileep,
Yasodharan,
Sainul Abideen P, Librarian IITMK
ManiBhushan, KIRTHADS
Dr. Rajagopalan, Kerala Varma College,Thrissur
Dr. Raghavan Payyanad, Centre for Folklore Studies
Sunil P Elayidom, Sri Sankara University
Babu Dominic, BSNL
Sasikumar, Asian School of Journalism
VijayaChandran
Anand Parthasarathy, Senior IT journalist of The Hindu
Varkey Pattimattom, Dy.General Manager,Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd
Pratap Reddy
Indu CDAC
Govardhan, Sankhayan chowdhary
Dr. Elizebath Sherly, Assoc. Professor,IIITMK
Anwar Sadath, IT@School
Soumya Brata Das,
Bhuvan Krishna
Rajan Kshir Sagar, Political activist and writer
Prince, NPOL, Kochi
Pramod C E,
Ravi P Iype, CGM, Keltron Controls
Sunil Mohan, Synovel Technologies
Balaji
Rajesh, Focuz Infotech
Krishna Das, ATPS
Elamaram Kareem, Minister
OP Dua, MD, Keltron
Sathyaraj,
Allam Appam Rao,
Rahul Roy,
V Sreenivasa Rao
Rasinesh,
Debesh Das,
Ragunandhanan, NIC, Tvm
Anil K S
Sarath MS,
Satheesh
Sarath Chandran
Sudheer Gangothra, OpenLX ,Delhi
Lepeesh Parat
Dr. Jothi John, Principal Model Engineering College
Amarnath raja,
Jay Jacob, ILUG cochin
Anivar Aravind, Member FSF
Dr. K.S.Rajan
V Ravikumar, GSI, Vizag
T Radhakrishnan, CTO IITMK
Sajith V K, Keltron
Joseph Thomas, ATPS
Ajayakumar, Director IT@School
KN Balagopal, Political Secretary , CM
Nandini Mukherjee
Gora Mohanthy
Ani Peter, Redhat, Pune
Shyam , SMC
Dr. V Sundarapandian, IIITMK
Dr. Vikas Rawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Vinay Babu, Professor of CSE,Director of SCDE ,JNT University
Prof S. Chatterjee,
Prabir Purkayastha, engineer and a science activist, Secretary--Delhi Science Forum
Sebastian Paul, Member of Parliament
Benny, Assistant Manager – Localization,Web Dunia
P Sreekumar, Asst. Professor, Dep

Ubuntu Linux and Barack Obama

2008-11-05T06:48:00.000-08:00

Is there any connections with Ubuntu Linux and Barack Obama?
The answer is Yes!!

James Maguire finds a comparison between Barack Obama and Ubuntu Linux! In a 2007 survey Ubuntu linux is the most popular linux in the world of thousands of Linux Distributions. In the 1993's and before Linux means Debian. debian was the mot popular linux at that time. In that time no one heard about Ubuntu.Ubuntu is only starts from 1994 and it is also a clone of Debian. From that time onwards ubuntu keeps the track over Debian and now the lead is very clear.Linux Foundation surveys from ‘05, ‘06 and ‘07 all put Ubuntu ahead of Debian.

The history Barack Obama is some what the same.

Another similarity is the Origin, both from the Africa.

He compares Debian with Bill Clinton team. In James Maguire's opinion there are lots of similarities between Barack Obama and Ubuntu. Any one can find out more details from the following link

Ubuntu Linux and Barack Obama

Multimedia Linux With Open Office 3 Support -BLAG 9

2008-11-03T23:20:00.000-08:00

Are You need to change your Operating System into Linux?
Are You not familiar with programme installations in Linux?
Are you need multimedia programmes and Open office packages?

The Answer is BLAG Linux with Open Office.
Blag Linux is one of the clone of Fedora. But it includes most of the daily use programmes that an ordinary user "expect" .
It Includes most of the multimedia programmes like XMMS, Mplayer, Xine, Audacity, CD/DVD Burning Programmes etc...
The only drawback is the lack of Open-Office. But this can be solved by the arrival of Open Office 3 from sun micro system.
The installation of Open Office 3 in blag Linux is very easy as a windows programme. Just Click the setup file with root permission. the installer will do everything.
And the Magic is IT WORKS with 256MB Ram Systems. If You have a 512MB Ram then its a super-fast!!
So Don't Wait for other operating system if you are not much aware about Linux... try it now....

Download Link of BLAG-9 Linux

1. ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/linux/90000/en/iso/BLAG-90001-i386.iso
2. http://blagblagblag.org/90000/iso/BLAG-90001-i386.iso
3. ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/linux/90000/en/iso/BLAG-90001-i386.iso
4. (Torrent Link) http://blagblagblag.org/torrents/BLAG-90001-i386.iso.torrent

Download Link For Open Office 3

1.http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxintelwjre&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0
2. Or Goto http://download.openoffice.org/ and Search for OpenOffice 3 for Linux
3. http://www.alliedquotes.com/mirrors/OpenOffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz

Write Your First PHP Programme in Linux

2008-10-30T04:49:00.000-07:00

Write Your First PHP Programme in Linux

Write Some Programme is PHP is Very Easy.
First You Must Start PHP and Apache Servers
Take one terminal and login as root user by typing su -

then start your apache server by typing service httpd start

goto directory /var/www/html by typing cd /var/www/html
craete a directory with any name say firstphp by typing mkdir firstphp
then goto that dircetory by typing cd firstphp
create one file index.php here using any text editor (vi editor can be used)
type vi index.php in the command prompt
then press the key 'i'
now type the following

<?php
echo "This is my first php programme";
?>

now press 'Esc' key and then type ':x'

now a file named index.php is created in your /var/www/html/firstphp/ directory

now open any browser say firefox
now type localhost/firstphp at the address bar
WOW.. You Can Find Your Programme There.....

NFM 2008 PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

2008-10-03T08:05:00.000-07:00

The first meeting of the publicity committee of NFM-2008(National Free software Meet 2008 at Kochi) was at CUSAT Guest House,CUSAT Main Campus Kalamassery on 11.30 A.M. ChairmanMr. Zakir Husein was on the chair.

Members Present : Zakir Hussain, Joseph Thomas, Jay Jacob, Ashok, Maniyappan, Navaneeth Krishnan, ,Sreenath , AnupamaK, Ragi AR, BabijaEN, PR Shaji , Joby John.

Main Decisions

1. A Meeting with Journalists from both print and visual media will be conducted on 4^th October 2008 afternoon at CUSAT Guest House. A tentative list of invitees was drawn up.

2. Big banners/Arches announcing NFM 2008 to be put up in and around CUSAT within 2 weeks. Website and contact address also to be included

3. An active blog campaign on NFM2008 to be started at earliest. Bloggers to be contacted.

4. Seminars on NFM 2008 to be organized in various CUSAT departments in both campuses in Kochi by mid October .Documents / Presentation for such seminars to be prepared. Details on exhibition and contents to be emphasized.

5. Seminars on NFM2008 to be organized at other Colleges /Universities/Schools in Ernakulam District.

6. A competition will be arranged among all the students

National Free software Meet 2008 at Kochi

2008-10-03T07:57:00.000-07:00

National Free Software Meet 2008

Second National Free Software Meet
15th & 16th NOVEMBER, 2008
Venue: CUSAT CAMPUS

INAUGURATION Sri. V. S. ACHUTHANANDAN
(Chief Minister of Kerala)

Web Site: http://nfm2008.atps.in/

Manage Postgresql db using Open Office Base

2008-09-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

Postgresql Open office Connection

For Managing postgresql database we need phppgadmin like tools. but we can use Open Office Base insted of these packages. it will provide you an easy and simple way to interact with the data base. if you dont have Open office base then install it from open office site (rpm or deb file)

here i can explain the details.

1. We need a driver for the connection between postgresql and open office.
please download postgresql-sdbc-0.7.6 (search for updates) driver. here is the link
http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql/postgresql-sdbc-0.7.6.zip

2. Start Open Office (Any Package but Base is better)
goto Tools-> Extension Manager
then click My Extensions
then Add button in the right side.

just add the postgresql-sdbc-0.7.6.zip driver file (zip file) from your computer

and close open office

3. Just Open Open office Base

click connect to an existing data base and select postgresql
type database connction string like "host=localhost dbname=databasename"

(Refer libpq.fe file for more connection string. or search google.)

4. setup user authentication (Click Test Connection to check your connection) and save your database.

5. now you can edit, create, add your database.

from the Tools Option we can find out much more intresting options..

Have A Nice Time With Postgresql and Open Office Base.

Copy VCD in Linux

2008-06-15T23:56:00.000-07:00

Copy VCD in Linux is an easy task actually.
the programme vcdxrip done the trick!!

1.Insert VCD in your Drive
2.Take a terminal
3.Change directory to the directory you wish to save the VCD files
4.Type vcdxrip and press enter

Wait until the command complete. It will take time!! (about 10 minutes!!)
you can see saved mpg files in your current working directory!!.

Caution:
Before copy next vcd rename the downloaded files!!

Happy Copying....

Pango Malayalam Font Problem in Fedora 8

2008-05-16T00:33:00.000-07:00

Pango Malayalam Font Problem in Fedora 8.
In Fedora 8 malayalam rendering is not satisfactory.
Here is the solution for this problem

Install pango module from fedora 7.
package...: pango-1.16.4-1.fc7.i386.rpm
take terminal
su -
rpm -ivh pango-1.16.4-1.fc7.i386.rpm --force

this will clear the font problems!!!

Before install you can backup your pango folder.
to find pango folder
in terminal type whereis pango
or backup this folder ./usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/

to get pango
goto google and search pango-1.16.4-1.fc7.i386.rpm
or install it from fedora -7 DVD

Thanks.....

HTML Tips ....Links WithOut Underline....!!!

2008-04-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

Create a style sheet like this first,

<style type="text/css">



</style>

Now Use links as class for <a>

<a href="index.htm" class="links">Home</a>

PHP Tips On The Way.....

2008-04-21T00:24:00.000-07:00

$_SERVER[--------];
Tips With SERVER....

To get host name

$hostname = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

To Get Remote Host Address

$remotehostadr = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

PostGreSql Tips 2

2008-04-19T07:52:00.000-07:00

PostGreSql Tips 2

USE OF FUNCTION EPOCH

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40-08');
Result: 982384720 --secoonds till 2001-02-16 20:38:40-08 from 1970-01-01 00:00:00-00

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM INTERVAL '5 days 3 hours');
Result: 442800 --seconds in interval 5 days 3 hours

Here is how you can convert an epoch value back to a time stamp:

SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + 982384720 * INTERVAL '1 second';

An Open Letter To Malayalam Film Star Mamooty

2008-04-18T08:38:00.000-07:00

An Open Letter To Malayalam Film Star Mamooty

Topic Is Here
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty

PostGreSql Tips 1

2008-04-18T08:33:00.000-07:00

DATE FUNCTIONS IN POSTGRESQL

day

The day (of the month) field (1 - 31)

SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');
Result: 16

decade

The year field divided by 10

SELECT EXTRACT(DECADE FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');
Result: 200

dow

The day of the week (0 - 6; Sunday is 0) (for timestamp values only)

SELECT EXTRACT(DOW FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');
Result: 5

Note that extract's day of the week numbering is different from that of the to_char function.

doy

The day of the year (1 - 365/366) (for timestamp values only)

SELECT EXTRACT(DOY FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');
Result: 47

Java Script Tips 1

2008-04-18T08:17:00.000-07:00

Time Date Function In JavaScript

# Create new Date object. This is created thus:

var date_variable = new Date;

# From this object, extract the various elements of Date such as the Year, Month, Time, etc. using the methods defined in the Date class. The syntax for extraction:

var new_variable = date_variable.methodName();

The extracted value is stored in the variable new_variable. The various methods and their function are described below:

Method Name Function

getYear() Returns the year
getMonth() Returns the month(0-12)
getDay() Returns the day(0-7: where 0 refers to Sunday, 1 to Monday and so on)
getDate() Returns the date(0-31)
getHour() Returns the hour(0-24)
getMinutes() Returns the minutes(0-60)
getSeconds() Returns the seconds(0-60)