Wednesday, January 26, 2011

KOffice 2.3.1 Packaged

Pakete für die Freigabe von KOffice 2.3.1 sind für Kubuntu 10.10 verfügbar.

Bugs in der Verpackung sollten Kubuntu-ppa auf Launchpad gemeldet werden. Bugs in der Software zu KDE.

Benutzer von 10.10 können es von der Kubuntu Backports PPA installieren.
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Native ZFS on Ubuntu

This guide explains how to set up / Linux. It has been tested with Linux 2.6.35-24-generic # 42-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux on Ubuntu 10.10 also should work on Ubuntu 10.04

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Facebook's Developer (and open?) Culture

 

Usually very much is the opposite of open when Facebook comes at opensource.com because you have done something is. But a blog post on FrameThink this week was Facebook's more open side.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

OPENSUSE 11.1 reached end of life

Originally expected end of life status in late December to reach, having the OPENSUSE project confirmed that version 11.1 his Linux distribution now officially set and support from Novell

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Technology preview of Qt SDK 1.1

The preview for Qt SDK 1.1 includes support tooling qt quick/QML; This simplifies creation of user interfaces with the declarative UI language

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NCSA offers free tutorials on HPC performance tools

This week NCSA announced a set of free online HPC tutorials designed had high performance computing for free, learn at your own pace, from anywhere. Courses on the CI-tutor platform cover a number of common performance tools on the TeraGrid's high-performance computing resources such as such as NCSA's PerfSuite provides a collection of tools and supporting libraries, a general view of application performance. The course catalog contains other topics such as MPI Programming, visualization and parallel tuning for clusters.

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Weekend project: get organized with Emacs org-mode

 

May be more trouble than you are worth when you try to organized fancy planners and complicated systems to get. But Linux users have a secret weapon to get organized is as easy as writing a text file: org-mode for GNU Emacs. It has the simplicity of the Taskpaper, but can expand, do much more. Why not spend some time this weekend, learn your way around org-mode and are prepared to work on Monday?

I know what you think - Emacs is just too complicated. As a VIM guy myself, I was not eager to jump into working with Emacs. But I heard virulent good things about org-mode for years and decided it was time to give it a whirl. It doesn't matter if you are a fan of Vim hard to do all your text editing in gedit or you prefer your editing in Nano. You can use side-by side org mode with your favorite editor and use simple Emacs to get organized.

If this sounds like a lot of work for a plain text TODO list, you're right. It would be a lot of work for only an only text-TODO list! But org-mode is a bit more, it simply start watching you. Carsten Dominik, org fashion developed, has this advice:

Try not "final" established task management system from the beginning. Your system should look like this because you have no idea. Not many TODO States established and logging first before you actually a sense of what you have is working flow. "Defining a context tag"



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Excellent K-9 mail app for Android stores your E-Mails on a leash

 

Google's traditional e-Mail client for Android has always compared to Google mail application the company felt as a citizen. It has a very limited user interface, lacks basic features like support for moving messages between folders and not particularly reliable. Google has been slow program weaknesses and doesn't seem that notice most of the complaints.

Fortunately, a good third party fork called K-9's. It's not particularly pretty, but it is highly functional and well maintained. K-9 based on Google's original Android mail client and under the open source Apache license distributed is, but it has a number of additional features.

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NVIDIA 260.19.36 released driver; 270. Xx coming soon

On Friday a new driver NVIDIA engineers working on their proprietary Linux driver cleared to update. This new driver update is marked certified NVIDIA 260.19.36, but it's only three official changes...

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Critical vulnerability in VLC Player


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Does the catalyst driver on Ubuntu 11.04. at startup?

Leave for the last few years there is a tradition where AMD canonical with delivers an early snapshot of their very latest catalyst drivers before the next Ubuntu. That did not been ensuring Ubuntu ships with magical graphics driver functions (in some cases, however there may be a glimpse of what is to come), but so that it actually operates a catalyst driver on the given Ubuntu Linux release. A regrettable tradition where by the time the next Ubuntu release latest rolling that publicly unsupported accessible Catalyst driver the latest Linux kernel and/or the X.org server in this release is used. The catalyst snapshot provides that late support...

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Google adds browser-based code editor two project hosting

This week Google added a CodeMirror powered code editor Google project hosting. This allows developers Google projects from within the browser quickly changes make, without to Mercurial or subversion.

It shows a preview of the changes that are committing, and for contributors without commit privileges, it may change as a patch in issue tracker of the project of a file.

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Dell taps SUSE Linux appliances


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Google releases data protection extension

Google has the "keep my has" released extension for chrome, which Internet users can permanently to stop advertisers from tracking

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jQuery 1.5 nearing release candidate

The jQuery project issued the first release candidate for version 1.5 of his jQuery JavaScript library. Barring when sending the final code could be found in this version, RC1 all important issues

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Fedora infrastructure hacked - no damage

The Fedora project has confirmed that it intervention shown in its infrastructure on the 22nd, but studies have "no effect on the integrity of the product"

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VirtualBox 4: First impressions


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CoreTrace two victims Whitelisted Linux, Mac apps

Company is willing to beyond the traditional Windows offer to expand with versions of CoreTrace's bouncer technology development for Apple and Linux users.

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Recovery of deleted files and repair file systems on Linux

Linux is as solid an operating system will ever use as you – but that doesn't mean that the hardware where you do it equally sound. Hard drives are file systems are as susceptible to errors. And no matter how stable an OS, you can't prevent accidental deletion of files, folders. But don't despair: Linux is equipped with a number of tools that you can repair deleted file system errors and reclaim.

What tools? To begin, e2fsck, scalpel and lsof get the most. Let us see how each of these can be used to help your file systems, free of errors and share your files from accidental deletion.

Ext2/ext3-/ Ext4 filesystems check with e2fsck

The e2fsck utility takes the original UNIX fsck utility, but uses the ext2/ext3-/ Ext4 family of file systems to check. It is used to verify and repairing filesystems were down, have Uncleanly or otherwise developed errors.

A problem that is most users face, operate the e2fsck tool only to unmounted partitions. This can cause problems when the file system check is also that you are working. Many recommend that your current system to run level 1 command (run as the user with administrative privileges):

Init 1

However, I recommend you take a step further and use a Live distro like Puppy Linux, Knoppix, your distribution live CD, if any. By booting into a live distribution of your hard disks to be mounted and can safely check for errors. However you must ensure that that you want to change 1 and then unmount the partition to run level, you check the live distribution to use. For example, say you want to check partition/dev/sdb1. To do so would 1 first on runlevel (command shown above), and then run the command switch:

Umount/dev/sdb1

They are displayed with the target partition ready to start the check run. Doing this you give the command:

e2fsck-y / dev/sdb1

The option-y assumes the answer "Yes" to all questions, is the command you will present. Depending on the size of the disk and the amount this repair may take quite some time errors on your drive. Once the repair process is complete, you can always lead you to re-examine the command if no errors were missing. If the drive clean can into your normal system restart (if you are running a live CD e2fsck, remember to remove the disk when the live) or remount the unmounted partition.

Restore deleted files

Now let us look at the process of restoring files deleted. The reason for this even is, is that a file is actually only a link to an inode on disk. This inode contains information for the file. If you delete a file literally break the link to the inode, so can the file really only not found. The actual inode itself remains on your hard drive... but only temporarily. Provided as long as a process that deleted file open is the inode for writing available. So, this method has actually a deadline, and pretty quickly at that time. The key to this recovery is the/proc directory. Every process on your system has a directory within / proc, listed by its name. When you run the command ls/proc, you see a bunch of directories with numeric names as well as the directories and files names that trust should look. The most important directories are named numerically. These figures are process IDs (PIDs) of running applications. Use always the PS command to find the PID of the application you are looking for.

After you correct process in / proc found may have to grab the data from the correct directory and save it again. File restored. Take a look at the entire process. This is shown with a fairly simple example that you can pretty easily extend.

We create a file (say, it is a bash script or configuration file) called Test_file. Create this file with the command:

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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Fedora 14 Server

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless Fedora 14 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I have tested this on a Fedora 14 server (host system) with the IP address 192.168.0.100 where I'm logged in as a normal user (user name admin in this example) instead of as root.

If you only have a root account, but no normal user account, create one as follows (user admin, group admin)...

# groupadd admin
# useradd -d /home/admin -m -g admin -s /bin/bash admin

... create a password for the new user...

# passwd admin

... and log in as that user.

 

2 Installing VirtualBox

To install VirtualBox 4.0 on our Fedora 14 server, we need root privileges, therefore we run

$ su

Then we install the dependencies for VirtualBox 4.0 as follows:

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

# yum groupinstall 'Development Libraries'

# yum install SDL kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms

Next we pick the right VirtualBox package from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads; pick the i386 or AMD64 package (depending on your architecture) for Fedora 14 ("Laughlin") (you can find out your architecture by running

# uname -m

The output on my test system is



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How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a Mandriva 2010.1 Spring server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I'm using a Mandriva 2010.1 Spring server with the IP address 192.168.0.100 here.

 

2 Installing WebDAV

First, we update our package database:

urpmi.update -a

Next we install Apache and the Apache WebDAV module:

urpmi apache apache-mod_dav

Next we open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and uncomment the following three lines in the LoadModule section (make sure you delete the following string at the end of these lines because otherwise Apache might complain about a syntax error: -> available in the apache-mod_dav package):

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf



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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 10.10

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 10.10. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I'm using an Ubuntu 10.10 server in this tutorial with the hostname server1.example.com and the IP address 192.168.0.100.

I will create two Apache vhosts in this tutorial, www.example1.com and www.example2.com, to demonstrate the usage of mod_fcgid.

Make sure you're logged in as root:

sudo su

/bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, however we need /bin/bash, not /bin/dash. Therefore we do this:

dpkg-reconfigure dash

Install dash as /bin/sh? <-- No

In addition to that, we must disable AppArmor:

/etc/init.d/apparmor stop
update-rc.d -f apparmor remove
aptitude remove apparmor apparmor-utils

 

2 Installing Apache2/mod_fcgi/PHP5

In order to install Apache2, mod_fcgid, and PHP5, run

aptitude install apache2 apache2-suexec libapache2-mod-fcgid php5-cgi

If Apache2 was already installed with PHP5 as an Apache module, disable the PHP5 module now:

a2dismod php5

Then enable the following modules...

a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod suexec
a2enmod include
a2enmod fcgid

... and open /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini:

vi /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini

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Enabling SquirrelMail For Your Web Sites On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian Lenny)

Lots of people have reported problems (such as getting 404 Not Found errors) using the SquirrelMail webmail package in their web sites created through ISPConfig 3. If you have followed the "Perfect Server" guides for ISPConfig 3, you have SquirrelMail already installed, but if you are still having the same problems, then this guide is for you. This guide explains how to configure SquirrelMail on a Debian Lenny server so that you can use it from within your web sites (created through ISPConfig).

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

Configuring SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail's Apache configuration is in the file /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf, but this file isn't loaded by Apache because it is not in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory. Therefore we create a symlink called squirrelmail.conf in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory that points to /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf and reload Apache afterwards:

cd /etc/apache2/conf.d/
ln -s ../../squirrelmail/apache.conf squirrelmail.conf
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

That's it already - /etc/apache2/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf defines an alias called /squirrelmail that points to SquirrelMail's installation directory /usr/share/squirrelmail.

Now go to the PHP open_basedir field on the Options tab of your web site in ISPConfig and add the directories /usr/share/squirrelmail and /etc/squirrelmail (that's the directory where SquirrelMail's configuration is stored) to the line, e.g. as follows:



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Icinga (Monitoring Solution) Installation And Configuration On CentOS

Monitoring

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

I am going with the Icinga basic installation and this is similar to Nagios and this document can also be referred for Nagios installation, too. Lots of documents are available on the Internet and they will be installing with nagios user but for my setup I made use of the default user which is already present in the system (daemon) and also I will not be installing it on the default path instead I will be referring to /opt since I find it very convenient. The UI of Icinga is much better than Nagios.

In this tutorial I will using three servers:

192.168.1.20

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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.3 Server

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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless OpenSUSE 11.3 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I have tested this on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server (host system) with the IP address 192.168.0.100 where I'm logged in as a normal user (user name admin in this example) instead of as root.

If you only have a root account, but no normal user account, create one as follows (user admin, group admin)...

# groupadd admin
# useradd -d /home/admin -m -g admin -s /bin/bash admin

... create a password for the new user...

# passwd admin

... and log in as that user.

 

2 Installing VirtualBox

To install VirtualBox 4.0 on our OpenSUSE 11.3 server, we need root privileges, therefore we run

$ su

First we have to find out what kernel we have installed:

# uname -a

server1:/home/admin # uname -a
Linux server1 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08

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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web based tools like phpMyAdmin which will also be installed in this howto. phpMyAdmin is a comfortable graphical interface which means you do not have to mess around with the command line.

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 10.10. You should already have set up a basic Ubuntu 10.10 server system, as described in the first eight chapters of this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-10.10-maverick-meerkat-ispconfig-2

This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web.

This document comes without warranty of any kind! I want to say that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.

Make sure that you are logged in as root (type in

sudo su

to become root), because we must run all the steps from this tutorial as root user.

 

2 Install MySQL And phpMyAdmin

This can all be installed with one single command:

aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client phpmyadmin apache2

You will be asked these questions:

New password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Repeat password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Web server to reconfigure automatically: <-- apache2
Configure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common? <-- No

 

3 Install PureFTPd With MySQL Support

For Ubuntu 10.10 there is a pre-configured pure-ftpd-mysql package available. Install it like this:

aptitude install pure-ftpd-mysql

Then we create an ftp group (ftpgroup) and user (ftpuser) that all our virtual users will be mapped to. Replace the group- and userid 2001 with a number that is free on your system:

groupadd -g 2001 ftpgroup
useradd -u 2001 -s /bin/false -d /bin/null -c "pureftpd user" -g ftpgroup ftpuser

 

4 Create The MySQL Database For PureFTPd

Now we create a database called pureftpd and a MySQL user named pureftpd which the PureFTPd daemon will use later on to connect to the pureftpd database:

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE pureftpd;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP ON pureftpd.

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Setting Up An Android App Build Environment With Eclipse, Android SDK, PhoneGap (Ubuntu 10.10)

This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device. PhoneGap allows you to develop your Android applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (e.g. with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery/jQTouch), and it will turn these web apps into native Android apps (in fact, PhoneGap supports multiple platforms such as Android, iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, so you can use the same sources to create apps for multiple platforms).

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I will not explain how to develop an Android app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can find lots of tutorials about this on the Internet, e.g. this one:

Tutorial: A simple Twitter client with JQTouch

In fact, I'm using a slightly modified version of the Twitter client described in the link to build a Twitter app in this tutorial.

 

2 Installing Eclipse And Prerequisites For The Android SDK/PhoneGap

First open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal):



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