Hey! will you please stop this crap?
Image source : NDTV
People are getting killed around temples, market places, tourist spots. Whom you’re really targeting to? What is the message that you want to give to the world. Is this is right to be monsters?
Think twice it could be one of “your own” who might have got killed in these blasts. Don’t be so inhumane.
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 9 (Sulphur). To download Fedora, visit http://get.fedoraproject.org.
The most interesting thing is kannada language pack which has been made available with this linux distribution. Prasad and his team has done a good job with it.
Spins, Jigdo are couple of more interesting things to check out. Spins makes it easier for user to get software package installed based on his user profile. Fedora releases are also available via Jigdo. This distribution method can improve the speed of obtaining the installation ISO images. Instead of waiting for torrent downloads to complete, Jigdo seeks the fastest mirrors it can find via the Fedora Project Mirror Manager infrastructure, and downloads the bits it needs from these mirrors. To optimize seeking these bits, you can tell Jigdo to scan a DVD or CD you already have, and cut down on redundant downloads.
Also find the fresh versions of your favorite softwares bundled. Hopefully this version will be better and stable than the previous releases.
Read more about this release here
Image source : Fedora Project
It’s a pleasure to be on this blogging journey and with this post I’m logging my 100th post!
I have been googling around on the net for years now but could not really start off with blogging and other online activities. I used to create some online pages for the team which I had created some time back in 2000 and had couple of blog spaces. All that I could put on them was nothing other than my programming lessons and few jokes. I found them funny and removed the blogs later on and could never get back to them for years.
Days went on and one fine day I was able to register my own domain name and even purchased my own virtual private server to host it. I did put up this site for sharing my knowledge. Added forum and support sections. I had started adding my fixes, tutorials, scripts etc. I guess all this happened in the year 2004. But I couldn’t bring all these sections online due to various reasons. Even today my forum is blocked for others as I want to revamp the way the website looks. Last December I started blogging again and you can find the reason in my first post. This time it was put as a subdomain on my own website. Earlier I had my blog on blogspot.com and wordpress.com. Now this blog uses Wordpress and its very pretty even for managing its content. Thanks to Wordpress and its community for providing such a nice tool.
True, a well known government transportation corporation tries to mimic the Volvo standards. I found an old Pushpak bus in Majestic - Electronic City route,route no. 356 C on Friday showing off its “Value added” A/C service on city roads. I couldn’t believe that its not a original Volvo bus which I used to use every day until I stepped into the bus. I thought it might be a new design. But it turned out to be something else once its engine started.
BMTC Safe, Secure Punctual as it says on its websites main page really has got more than than when you peep into its services.
Personally I like the public transport as I need not worry about driving on a busy day when I have got to relax before and after moving out from work . And did like it much more when BMTC started its Volvo bus service during last summer. Today its very well known through out India and many other states have started providing such services.
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Wow! GilChrist. See how he flies in air.
I don’t follow up much with cricket. But I love to look at highlights of some selected matches. Today morning I was just looking through some old pictures posted at Sampada and this picture caught my attention. Find the original post here.
Image source: Prajavani (as mentioned in the original post)
I couldn’t belive that I never tried Moodle before. I might have installed it before but never used this wonderful OpenSource educational tool.
I explored this tool couple of weeks back as there was a need for me to automate an aptitude test for our hiring process. It made our job so easier and even we could cut down the number of people used to get involved with the complete recruitment process.
“Social constructionist pedagogy” philosophy of Moodle has been helping educators create effective online learning communities. Its easy, simple, bundled with many modules, and moreover its scalable. You can even Implement it anywhere.
Tools which help us to improve our process efficiency are out there in Free and Open Source world. Educational institutes and Online learning communities could make use of these tool to create a better and smart learning systems for our young generation who are getting used to internet in this 21st century.
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS). It performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
OSSEC is now out with its release v1.5 with more bug fixes and features listed below :
-New log formats (info):
-Greek translation of the install.
-Added agent_control tool to manage the agents directly from the server (info).
-New options to syscheckd/rootcheckd to better schedule the scans (info).
-Performance improvements to the Windows Agent, specially when dealing with
large event logs.
-Added new options to Rootcheck to look for common web exploits installed
on the system (used to attack others).
Download it from: http://www.ossec.net/main/downloads .
It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris and Windows. A list with all supported platforms is available here. Haven’t tried it yet? try it now.
Its really hard to compiling php on plesk servers, that too for newbies. I have been searching for PHP 4.4.7 source rpm or ready solution or a script so that I can quickly give it to my team to resolve such requests coming from our customers.
By chance I found it on Hans Rackers DazeWorld blog space.This php-4.4.7 source rpm is found to be magic.
Remove all the existing php rpms which are on your box. Don’t worry you just have to take the backup of /etc/php.ini. Ignore all dependencies no worries.
Once you’re done with it, download and build the source rpm as follows.
rpmbuild –rebuild php-4.4.7-1.hrak.src.rpm
This will compile php for your box and build the rpms required. You will find all the rpms required for your system in /usr/src/redhati386 folder.
Go ahead and install them all 
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/i386/php-*.rpm
restart apache and psa from /etc/init.d . Your plesk box will have latest PHP 4.4.7
Pizza-hut was one of my favorite place for pizza’s. But today I got to think twice before entering into pizza huts. I ended up tasting rotten O’ Tomato and Grill O’ Delight to finish with my Weekend. I didn’t regret going to pizza hut last December and did enjoy the time spent with my bunch of collegues and even celebrated a birth day.But this time it was yak!. And nothing was a Delight at all at Pizza hut for the first time.
Once in a month or two I get chance to go out and have some food at good restaurant’s or pizza huts or at least spend some time in a coffee bar. Wish I had two week off’s like all other techies out there in the IT world. I would have also found a girl to date with ;).
It used to be a great fun and my tummy used to feel enlightened almost ever weekend till last year as I used to spend my Sunday afternoons with Bala sir in a nice restaurant.
These days bad traffic and the quality of restaurants force us find alternatives and we even end up paying hell a lot of money. We also end up wasting lots of our free time during the weekends (If at all we get some free time). No peace any where.
Hopefully I will have a better week ahead of me at work.
Image : http://www.pizzahut.co.in
