28 May

VLC 1.1.0 Release Candidate with WebM / VP8

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"The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone."

VLC 1.1.0 now has support for WebM/VP8, read more about the new advancements in VLC ChangeLog

VLC-RC

Getting VLC or x264 source code via Git
$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

26 May

Google Chrome is stable for GNU/Linux now

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#google define upgrade

The image shows an error which says, google-chrome-beta is conflicting package, so what is upgrade?

Google Chrome is stable true, but when will GNU/Linux users get Google's chat client? Do we really need it!

Notes:

17 May

How to get info about all the nodes in the network via SSH ?

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Logic:

1. Checking if the host is alive.
2. Getting info about them, via remote commands.

Steps:

1. Prepare password free SSH access.
2. Make a simple script to get host info.

12 May

Surfraw - a fast unix command line interface to WWW services

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Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power.It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews,freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false‐prophet, pox‐infested heathen lands of html‐forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.

           ______  _     _  ______   _______  ______   _______  _  _  _
          / _____)(_)   (_)(_____ \ (_______)(_____ \ (_______)(_)(_)(_)
         ( (____   _     _  _____) ) _____    _____) ) _______  _  _  _
          \____ \ | |   | ||  __  / |  ___)  |  __  / |  ___  || || || |
          _____) )| |___| || |  \ \ | |      | |  \ \ | |   | || || || |
         (______/  \_____/ |_|   |_||_|      |_|   |_||_|   |_| \_____/
         Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
01 May

How Google wave embedding works ?

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The flow of embedding a wave to any webpage

The URI will be like : google_wave_domain#Postion!w[Code]

The embed code will be:

DIV => id="waveframe" style="width: 500px; height: 500px"

JavaScript:

google.load("wave", "1");
google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize);
function initialize() {
var waveframe = document.getElementById("waveframe");
var embedOptions = {
target: waveframe,
header: true,
toolbar: true,
footer: true
};

01 May

Embedding Google wave

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Sample WAVES embedded

28 Apr

RFC finder a desktop app

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The idea was to make a desktop application for GNU/Linux where you could make searching Request for Comments (RFC), easier and full, later one the idea is to make a panel app to do the same.
As a open source and free software under GNU GPLV3, indeed the power is of the open source world is 'you' can contribute and help it to improve.

28 Apr

My experience with p2pu

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p2pu Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything.
"The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources."

24 Apr

Ubuntu family a happy family

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Ubuntu family, I made a collage work out of all the pics of ubuntu code names, inspired by nizarus.

Version Code name Release date
4.10 Warty Warthog 2004-10-20
5.04 Hoary Hedgehog 2005-04-08
5.10 Breezy Badger 2005-10-13
6.06 LTS Dapper Drake 2006-06-01
6.10 Edgy Eft 2006-10-26
7.04 Feisty Fawn 2007-04-19
7.10 Gutsy Gibbon 2007-10-18
8.04 LTS Hardy Heron 2008-04-24
8.10 Intrepid Ibex 2008-10-30
9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 2009-04-23
9.10 Karmic Koala 2009-10-29
10.04LTS Lucid Lynx 2010-10-29
10.10 Maverick Meerka 28-10-2010

inspired by nizarus, made this... "Ubuntu Family :O)" on Twitpic

22 Apr

Fixed enabling desktop effects for ATI in Ubuntu lucid

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Those with AMD/ATI graphic cards with fglrx drivers would have faced this issue of eye-candy effects not working, let alone the problem here is the straight dope for it :