Jun 17 2011

installing Netcool/Omnibus on Centos 5.4

gedit /etc/hosts
remove first two lines, add localhost at the end of third line
ping localhost
check if it shows IP
Add route through GUI
ping abhradip-pc
install epel repo
yum -y install xrdp
xrdp
/etc/init.d/xrdp restart
install rpmforge repo
yum -y install xlockmore
yum install libXp openmotif22 libgcc libXpm compat-libstdc++-33.i386

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0

Jan 19 2011

KVM VM with IP address accessible from LAN

MACADDR=”52:54:$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2>/dev/null | md5sum | sed ‘s/^\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\).*$/\1:\2:\3:\4/’)”; echo $MACADDR

sudo kvm -m 2048 -drive file=image.img,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on -boot c -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000,macaddr=$MACADDR -net tap -nographic -vnc :1

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0

Jan 13 2011

Problem connecting xrdp ( 5900 )

If you are facing problem like below

connecting to sesman ip 127.0.0.1 port 3350
sesman connect ok
sending login info to sesman
login successful for display 10
started connecting
connecting to 127.0.0.1 5910
error – problem connecting

Then first

sudo apt-get remove xrdp

sudo apt-get remove tightvncserver tightvnc-java

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

sudo apt-get install xrdp

Then retry

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0

Sep 22 2010

GPL Ghostscript – A well deserved SourceForge Project of The Month

Sourceforge recently awarded GPL Ghostscript as their Project of the Month for septemper 2010. It said & I quote “GPL Ghostscript has been around since 1989 and we’re very happy to have them as our POTM for September. GPL Ghostscript is a complete set of page description language interpreters including PDF, PostScript, PCL5,PCLXL, and XPS along with the ability to convert to and from any of these languages. There is no other open source solution for page description languages that is this comprehensive. Congratulations to the entire team!”

Well Deserved Awardee

Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:

• An interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format,
• A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language, and
• A wide variety of output drivers for various file formats and printers.

Ghostscript was originally written by Peter Deutsch.

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language. A PostScript interpreter usually takes as input a set of graphics commands. The output is usually a page bitmap which is then sent to an output device such as a printer or display. PostScript is embedded in many printers.

Ghostscript has several main uses:

1. Display a PostScript file (avoid killing trees).
2. Display a PostScript file to decide if you really need to print it (reduce the number of trees killed).
3. Print a PostScript file to a non-PostScript printer (kill more trees).

An example of a very simple PostScript file is:

%!
  /Helvetica findfont 72 scalefont setfont
  72 72 moveto
  (Hello, world!) show
  showpage

The first line is a PostScript comment.

It is ignored by the PostScript interpreter, but enables other programs to recognise that the file contains PostScript commands.

The second line says to find the Helvetica font, scale it to 72 points high (1 inch) and then set it as the current font. The third line moves the current point to 1 inch in from the left and bottom edges of the page. The fourth line draws the text into the page bitmap at the current point. The final line causes the page bitmap to be output to paper or the display.

Obtaining GPL Ghostscript

You can always get the current version of GPL Ghostscript from

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/ or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/

Ghostscript is a copyrighted work (Artifex Software, Inc. owns the copyright); it is not shareware or in the public domain.

Versions entitled GPL Ghostscript are distributed with the GNU General Public License, which allows free use, and free copying and redistribution under certain conditions (including, in some cases, commercial distribution). Releases made prior to 2004 were part of the GNU project and were titled GNU Ghostscript. The current development code is available under a more restrictive license as AFPL Ghostscript. A commercial version is also available from Artifex Software.

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0

Sep 22 2010

Improved Sourceforge

With a simple philosophy to serve the open source community and help the movement thrive, SourceForge has grown to become the largest and most trusted place for open source software tools and applications on Planet Earth. From the casual consumer to hobbyists to professional developers, SourceForge is the access point to the most imaginative developments in technology today.

Some new features of sourceforge:

New Admin Interfaces for Old Services
* Mailman
* Hosted Apps
* MySQL Database administration

Source Control Updates
* Support for forking Git repositories into your personal space
* Added Mercurial hosting, and Mercurial browse/log app
* Applied latest theme to Git, SVN, and Mercurial tools

Ticket Support
* Support for Ticket and Wiki updates via API
* Improved Mass Edit
* Consolidated emails with many small ticket edits

General Improvements
* Performance improvements in rendering large amounts of MarkDown
content
* Support for Delete/undelete of Wiki pages
* Improved File uploader (for attachments in discussion, wiki, and
tracker)
* Allow users to configure new source code file types for syntax
highlighting support
* Project Purge/Restore scripts
* Allow re-ordering of tools in the navigation bar
* Admins are subscribed to tools, not artifacts
* Display Readme.mkdown and readme.txt on the Browse Source page

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0

Sep 22 2010

Women in PHP – Elizabeth Naramore – Community Manager @ Sourceforge

I recently learned from a mail communication by Sourceforge, that they now have Elizabeth Naramore onboard as a “Community Development Manager”. She is there to listen to projects and to reach out to the Free software community at large. Its a great News, I must say.

I know many women don't get that far to make it to a conference or user group meeting. For one reason or another, they choose to skip the community bonding, leave an open source project after contributing, or maybe even leave the industry altogether. In fact, we're leaving in droves. I couldn't help but wonder to myself what those reasons were, so I embarked on my own little research project.

Elizabeth Naramore is a PHP enthusiast that has been working with PHP since 2002. She is the OSS Outreach Coordinator for SourceForge. In addition, she is President and Co-Founder of PHPWomen.org, and an active member of the PHP Community and her local PHP User Group (OINK-PUG). She also acts as a Consulting Editor for Wrox/Wiley Publishing.

She feels more women should come into free software development. She therefore stays actively involved in the process through PHPwomen, which is actually a user group specifically targeted toward the women in the PHP world.

The declared aim of PHPwomen is to provide a network of support and mentorship to women, help women become more involved with PHP, increase our numbers at conferences as speakers and attendees, and provide a “female friendly” and professional atmosphere.

But, Why a specific gender oriented site? As they say

“The women in the PHP World tend to be few and scattered all over the world, rarely seeing other women at the various conferences, unconferences, user group meetings and social get togethers. By providing this site we hope that the women will not feel so alone and isolated. The men in the PHP World are a very welcoming and acceptable bunch, but sometimes it is nice to talk to another woman either for coding help or for support in the specific issues of being a woman in a male dominated field.”

Another clarification says “We do not wish to exclude men – rather to encourage women. They are not mutually exclusive after all.”

Good thought & great going girl!

Have a Girlfriend who is Techie?

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0

Sep 22 2010

GIT – User Survey

User surveys are great ways to learn what users of a particular product or service is thinking. Commercial companies practices it regularly to understand own market share & competence. Most importantly it helps a product grow and suit it’s users more.

Git has now started a survey on their website for the year of 2010. Please take a few minutes
to answer the questions; it’ll help the Git community understand your
needs, and help them make improvements. The survey is only open until
October 15, 2010, and they really need your input. The survey is hosted
at: https://www.survs.com/survey/MUPYR8UJ4B

Dont forget to click on the image & check out this amazing software

By Abhradip Mukherjee • General • 0