Linux Varsiti @ UTM

Hello,

Ubuntu-my will be helping out Linux Varsiti team during Linux Varsiti in University Technology Malaysia on 5th October 2009. There will be a lots of interesting events during the LV(Linux Varsiti) day. The main objective is to expose university students on linux existence and to educate the free open source software advantages.

Below is the official banner on the events which i took from Fenris's blog:

As written in the banner, there will be a lot of interesting talk such as Photoshop Vs GIMP and much more. Do join us in Johore this October as Ubuntu-my hit the community. Volunteers are encourage to contact LV representatives Lutfi and Jazri.

Empathy replace Pidgin on Karmic Koala

It's been a long time since I post a useful post to my blog readers. In this post, i will try to make a post based on latest news for Karmic Koala development. There are several on going discussion regarding this issue where there are request for next release of Ubuntu(Karmic Koala -Codename) to use empathy instead of pidgin as default IM client.

Below are some links regarding the discussion:

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7462614
• http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/06/replace-pidgin-with-empathy-in-karmic.html
• http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11705/

So if anyone would interested to install empathy and use the latest version from empathy itself which currently on version 2.27.3, please follow the instruction below:

• Edit your APT source.list and add the following line:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

• After adding the ppa link into source.list, you might need to import the key. To add the key please use command below:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FA3A1271

• Then update your source by doing sudo apt-get update.
• To install the empathy, please type sudo apt-get install empathy
• This will install the latest version of empathy on your machine. To enable the Adium theme to be use on empathy, you need to also apt-get install libwebkit-dev to meet the requirement. If not, the default theme will be use instead.

Try this empathy and give your opinion whether Empathy should/should not replace pidgin for the next cycle release. I'll attach my current empathy screenshot for review.

Currently running Jaunty on my laptop.

Ubuntu-my JRP

On 31st May 2009, Ubuntu-my loco held a Jaunty Release Party. Here is some of the pictures taken during the party. Credits to fenris, sumardi, itiknila, bizkut, buffalosoldier and blacburry on organizing this events.


And thanks to Mr Prakash Advani from Canonical for joining us during our first ever release party. There were a lot of crowds not only Ubuntu user.

And some pictures below were taken during hackathon session during the day before our release party. The session was a success in promoting Ubuntu and helping Ubuntu user. Enjoy the pictures and thanks to all Ubuntu-my members cause made this dream come true.

Cherokee Project On Ubuntu 8.10

Cherokee is actually a project develop by OSS developer with the ability to serve http on a machine that its' run on. Cherokee is fully coded in C and it support: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming and much more.

In this post, I will guide Ubuntu 8.10 user to install cherokee on your Ubuntu Machine.

1. Install MySQL to your system:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 mysql-client


2. Set up your mySQL user and password after the installation above finish.
3. The next step will be setting up PHP,

sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-mysql



4. We will compile cherokee source by using C compiler as cherokee is being code by C language. So we need to download C compiler and all dependencies.

sudo apt-get install gcc cpp g++ make

5. Afterward, we must download the source and then compile the source once done downloading.
• CD into tmp folder where we want our source code to be download:

cd /tmp


• Download the source from trunk:

wget http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/trunk/cherokee-latest-svn.tar.gz



• Another way to download the source is by visiting http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/ and select your preferred release. I will strongly advise user to download the stable release.
• Unpack the source code with tar command in terminal:

tar zxvf cherokee-latest-svn.tar.gz

• and enter into it's new created directory:

cd cherokee-0.11.0b2449

• now it has to be configured the way we need. Do this command if you are unsure with what is the configuration:

./configure --localstatedir=/var \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--with-wwwroot=/var/www


• Compile cherokee and install it:

sudo make ; sudo make install ;

This will make cherokee running on your machine as a webserver. It is extremely fast. Moreover it does provide a web-based User Interface for admin to manage the webserver without have to open terminal to change configuration. Here is some screen shot of the admin control panel:


Source : http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/ | Steve Harms Blogs

Test your alcohol level here.

I was a little bit surprise when I visits one of the public blog on the net, and I wonder if there is something wrong with my eyes(a bit sleepy on that moment). But no, the picture do the tricks. And below, it does say that I'm drunk. Haha.. nice catch anyway.

More over there is a lot of interesting story(not IT related) post in the blog. I just like to read the blog. Keep up the good quality on the post -.- and yes you are DRUNK!!