Hi,

Wish all the people around the globe a Happy New Year. Enjoy your holidays.

Arif

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Hi all,
Yesterday i recieve an email from Monty(MySQL AB) as part of the “Save MySQL”.
A lot of users who are using MySQL wrote letter to EC to stop the deal between Sun and Oracle.

The deal is not finalized yet, so MySQL need us now at this crucial stage.

I already filled and sent this petition to Monty. Would also appreciate if some one using MySQL want to part of this mission and help MySQL by filling and sending it to Monty.

Here is the link.

http://helpmysql.org/en/petition

Here is detailed link, where Monty explain everything about the deal and its results. This is an interesting read.

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html

And this make the things more interesting:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10412734-16.html

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091208104422384

If  you have some free time, read the above articles and i am sure they are enough to decide. Choice is YOURS.

Arif

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Hi all,

Google Chrome beta is already released for Linux, but in this post i am not going to explain something about Google Chrome. Its about Chromium. But if you want to download and install Chrome beta version, download from here.

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

Note: I think, there will be no flash plugin installed, one need to install it manually and copy it to browsers plugin directory.

Now lets jump to Chromium, what is chromium, if there is already Chrome?

So to elaborate a bit, Google Chrome is the same software offered by Google, while Chromium is offered by open source community, they release fixes and patches on daily basis. And further more there is no need to install flash plugin, installing it from the community repos will automatically install every thing for you. Currently i am using Chromium 4.0.283, and i love it. Its fast, simple and easy to use.

NOTE: There is no big difference between Google Chrome and Chromium.

To install it in Ubuntu:

1- Add this repo(URL) to software sources.

Software source -> Third party software(Tab) -> click add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Ubuntu will prompt for reload, just cancel it, because we need to add OpenPGP key.

2- Open terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

3- Now update the system repos with:

sudo apt-get update

4- Now lets install chromium:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

And you are done, you can find Chromium in Applications -> Internet -> Chromium Web browser

To install in openSUSE:

1- Open YaST, goto software repositories, click add button, choose community repositories from the choices, and click next. Now select Contrib repo and click OK.

2- Now open software management from YaST, and search for ‘chromium’ without quotes and mark it for installation, click Accept button and you are done.

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More easy than Ubuntu in openSUSE.

Good luck with it and enjoy.

Arif

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Hi all,

After having a HOT post for upgrading from KDE4.3.1 to KDE4.3.3/4, here we go for beta2 for KDE4.4.

NOTE: Its still a beta software so install/upgrade it on your own risk. Currently i am using it with very few issues, which can be ignored.

1- Open YaST, goto software repositories and add the following two repos.

Factory repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/openSUSE_11.2/

Community  repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_Distro_Stable/

If you are using any software from community repo, so it is necessary to add the community repo above. Because it will broke the softwares. All these repos are factory and we need to stick to factory one.

NOTE: Disable all KDE repos except the above two.

2- Now open software management, choose repositories tab, select the repo you just added with some name, and perform the action showed in the figure below, Click “Swtich system packages”. And do the same with community repo too. And click Accept button.

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3- And you are done, now wait for it to finish downloading and installation. Logout and log back in. and that’s it.

Have fun with it and good luck!

Arif

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Letter:

Hi,

Size of company: 15
How many MySQL installations: 6 (ATM)
Total data stored in MySQL (megabyte): Over 2GB
For what type of applications is MySQL used: Online Monitoring, Company sites

I think that Oracle could be a good steward of MySQL, but I would need EC to have legally binding guarantees from Oracle that:
- All of MySQL will continue to be fully Open Source/free software in the future (no closed source modules).
- Open Source version and dual-licensed version of MySQL should have same source (like today).
- That development will be done in community friendly way.
- The manual should be released under a permissive license (so that one can fork it, the same way one can fork the server)
- That MySQL should be released under a more permissive license to ensure that forks can truly compete with Oracle if Oracle is not a good steward after all.
Alternatively:
- One should be able to always buy low priced commercial licenses for MySQL. (Nope, not under Oracle).
- All of the above should be perpetual and irrevocable.

There should also be mechanism so that if Oracle is not doing what is expected of it, forks should be able to compete with Oracle.

Arif

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As openSUSE11.2 have by default very good fonts installed. But some time we need M$ and some other TTF fonts to use. Like most commonly used one is ‘Times New Roman’. The installation in previous version of openSUSE was not easy like openSUSE 11.2. You are just a few clicks away from these fonts. As i write a tutorial before for 11.0,11.1 where we need to download a bash script and later that script will download the fonts for us.
But now we can install these fonts directly by that script from YaST, and that’s why i love YaST and openSUSE. Easy stuff, easy things.
so lets have a little fun with YaSTie.
1- Open YaST, goto to software manager and type ‘fetch’ with out quotes and mark ‘fetchmsttfonts’ for installation.

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2- What you are waiting for now. ohh…for any thing else to select so NOPE. Just click ‘Accept’ and you are done.

3- Check the new fonts either in openoffice or in your favorite text editor.

That’s it…quite easy right?

Arif

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Arif

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Hi all,

I had written a simple bash script, which is still in very basic shape. I planned to release it in a version cycle. The basic goal is to create backup of mentioned directories. I am working on it to improve it and release further revisions of it. The script is capable of:

1- Backup the mentioned directory(in this case www) with tar.gz compression.

2- Backup MySQL mentioned database with compression.

There are just few changes you need to do, because its the early version so i need to improve it more and more. Also you can setup it up under cron to run it on specified time and create backup automatically. I will guide here step by step what changes need to make and how to setup it under cron.

cd /Documents/

In the above line, one need to change the directory where the backup files will be stored. Can create directory in home and give the path here.

INPUTDIR=”/Assignments/“

Change the above to your www directory, which maybe in /var/ or in /srv/.

mysqldump -uroot -ppassword –opt database_name > database_backup_$(date +%Y%m%d).sql

In the above line, you need to change the database username, password and  database name.

And you are almost done till here.

Now lets automate this script in cron to create backup of the selected directories at midnight every day.

0 0 * * * sh  /home/user/backup_0.1.sh

For more about cron… here.

Download script here.

Arif

Popularity: 7%