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Fedora repository mirroring script using reposync
2007-06-09 18:50:00 I'm back~ :D As my first post of this holidays .. I give y'all the script i've been using to mirror and sync the fedora repos. The script is using reposync,repomanage (both provided by yum-utils) and createrepo , so you will need to yum for those... [[ ... ]] More About: Script , Fedora , Sync , Sito , Dora
GPG Encrypt/Sign Texts in Firefox using FireGPG
2007-04-05 03:06:00 Carthik Sharma pointed out a new Firefox extension called FireGPG in his blog post. Just what I'm looking for! :D Site URL: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ FireGPG is a Firefox extension which brings an interface to crypt, decrypt, sign or verify... [[ ... ]] More About: Sign , Crypt
Fedora Daily Package
2007-04-02 16:25:00 Chris Tyler just announced a blog for a daily review of Fedora packages from the default repositories. Some sort like Debian package of the day https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-li st/2007-April/msg00103.html Site URL:... [[ ... ]] More About: Daily , Dail , Pack , Dora
Mplayer, MP3, Audacity, Kmod-NVidia is in Extras!!! :P
2007-04-01 13:25:00 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-de vel-list/2007-April/msg00001.html Packages built and released for Fedora Extra s 6: 35 NEW audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3-1.2.5-2.fc6 NEW audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma-1.1.2-7.fc6 NEW ... [[ ... ]] More About: Xtra , Audacity , Layer
Synchronizing Sony Ericsson K320i Calendar with Evolution Calendar
2007-03-31 06:34:00 Sorry for the long absence, I'm quite busy with my studies and project works .. well its that time of the semester again .. *sigh As promised , here is a simple howto for synchronizing Sony Ericson K320i with Ximian Evolution Step 1: Getting the... [[ ... ]] More About: Sony Ericsson , Ericsson , Calendar
SonyEricsson k320i
2007-03-19 19:33:00 I just got myself a sony Ericsson k320i last sunday. My old phone was seriously out-of-shape and I think its time for me to change it. With a price tag of RM438, heres what I got - Bluetooth - Java support - IRda support - 15MB storage - USB... [[ ... ]] More About: Sonyericsson , Yeri
Mugshot : A Social Network For FOSS User
2007-03-10 07:28:00 Fedora users might have heard about it, but not other FOSS users. I think I'm going to help them with some promotion :D Heres the link to Mugshot Website. Mugshot makes it easy to show off what you're doing online and keep track of what your... [[ ... ]] More About: Social , Network , User , Social Network
Sun Tech Days : University World Tour
2007-03-09 14:37:00 My Object Oriented Programming class had a field trip to Sun Tech Day's University World Tour yesterday. It was quite fun for me (considering its free + got a lot of freebies + a free transport home for the mid-sem break). There was 5 topics on the... [[ ... ]] More About: Days
Just created a Fedora Account
2007-03-06 14:33:00 I just created an account in Fedora Project today ... Still thinking on what group to join for contributions ... Anybody want to give suggestion? [[ ... ]] More About: Count , Account , Dora , Create
What do I see in the Fedora LiveCD-Creator project
2007-03-02 11:03:00 I have been playing around with livecd-creator for a while now. And these are some possibilities that I can see from the project + the custom distro project. Flexibility in creating customized liveCD (obvious)A lot of Live distros based on Fedora ... [[ ... ]] More About: Project , Creator , Dora , The Fed
5 Marketer types in Open Source world
2007-02-26 16:56:00 An interesting post I found @ Ubuntu Planet today, http://www.understated.co.uk/blog/2007/be -a-marketer-not-a-town-crier/ There are five broad types of marketer in the open source world: Town criers: shout loudly but not always clearly, don’t... [[ ... ]] More About: Open Source , World , Open , Source , Open-Source
Accessing SVN https repository through proxy
2007-02-21 07:08:00 the title says it all .. I was trying to enter an SVN repository from within UTP .. but that requires proxy ... exporting http_proxy and https_proxy doesnt give any results ... so I googled for a while .. however, it seems like not many people... [[ ... ]] More About: Roxy , Http , Repo , Proxy , Sito
Entering UTPchat Through Tor
2007-02-20 17:31:00 Since tunnel.utpchat.net's box have broken, there has been lots of ppl who pm'ed me asking on how to enter UTPchat from outside the LAN .. I have tried to find volunteers to host a replacement servers but none of them willing sacrifice their home pc... [[ ... ]] More About: Enter , Teri , Erin
Fedora 7 schedule delayed
2007-02-19 17:50:00 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-de vel-list/2007-February/msg00876.html One of the big Features of Fedor a 7 is a merged core and extras. In order to accomplish this, we need some improvements to the buildsystem currently used by Fedora... [[ ... ]] More About: Schedule , Dora
yum-keep-retry plugin
2007-02-19 17:16:00 This is my first try to write something useful using python .. so, please tell me if something not right with this plugin .. Functionality This plugin add a retry download functionality to yum when download errors happen. Those that got a fast and... [[ ... ]] More About: Plugin , Plug
JDK 6 RPM messed up with zip mimetype
2007-02-17 13:50:00 I installed JDK 6 RPM from Sun's Java SE download page for my Object Oriented Programming course. After installation, I was annoyed by all of my zipfiles and files that uses zip format to be identified as x-java-archive. This change created an... [[ ... ]] More About: Messe , Mess
Happy Chinese New Year
2007-02-17 13:40:00 Happy chinese new year to all chinese visitors of this blog~~ [[ ... ]] More About: New Year , Chinese , Happy , Chinese New Year , Year
Geany : A multi-language, fast and lightweight IDE using GTK2
2007-02-12 16:27:00 I noticed a package in Fedora Extras called Geany while shopping through packages using synaptic .. The description says A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK2 Currently I'm using Anjuta for my assignments and course C/C++ work, but to me, Anjuta is... [[ ... ]] More About: Multi , Language , Fast , Eight , Lightweight
HOWTO: Setting up SVN and DAV in Fedora6
2007-02-05 19:08:00 This Howto is based on a similar howto for FC4 by Ferdy Christant HERE I've been trying to set-up a SVN repository for my university's usergroup to get some kickstart in Opensource development among my batch and friends, and UTP as a whole. With... [[ ... ]] More About: Dora , Fedor
Favourite Icon
2007-02-01 07:48:00 Just added a favourite icon for this blog. Thanks to a myOSS member, surface, for his howto. http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/209/ create-favicon/ [[ ... ]] More About: Icon
Metisse Desktop
2007-01-31 14:54:00 I believe some of us have heard about Metisse desktop environment thats going to be provided by Mandriva to their users. Metisse is quite an old project (since FC1) but havent had any major release until recently. Metisse is designed with... [[ ... ]] More About: Desktop , Desk
HOWTO: Mirroring Yum repositories using Yum-Utils
2007-01-30 17:19:00 As promised before in one of my previous post, a Howto on how to mirror and manage yum repositories using some of the utilities in yum-utils. The first step is, well, of course, is to get yum-utils from fedora repository yum install... [[ ... ]] More About: Repo , Tori , Sito , Posi
Which Death Note character are you?
2007-01-29 12:39:00 Erm .. found the link to this site from my uni's moodle blog .. posted by someone Hey!, I got Yagami Light/ Kira!!. Thats something unexpected. However, the description does match with how I think I am. Take the test here [[ ... ]] More About: Note , Death , Character , Death Note , Char
Useful Yum repository tools in yum-utils
2007-01-28 02:22:00 Yum-utils package have some useful tools for sysadmins who wanted to create and manage their own RPM metadata repository. Contents of yum-utils package # rpm -ql... [[ ... ]] More About: Tools , Repo , Useful , Sito , Posi
V3 UTPchat server up and running
2007-01-25 09:06:00 Village 3 is up and running Village 3 Serve r : (outsider37i) 163.0.1.210 [[ ... ]] More About: Running
UTPchat Servers In V1/V4/V5 are up
More articles from this author:2007-01-23 15:20:00 To UTP students, our UTPchat IRC network is now back functional in Village 1, 4 and 5. The servers have been linked up and connected with each other. Village 1 Serve r : (Togakure) 161.0.2.210 Village 4 Server : (Student) 164.0.2.210 Village 5... [[ ... ]] More About: Servers 1, 2, 3 |
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