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Smooth upgrade from Fedora Linux 13 to 14 using yum

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Last weekend I had the urge to upgrade “viasvr”, my headless low power home server which function as file/storage, ftp, squid proxy, torrent and offsite backup pulling my website data from my hosting provider on daily basis. It is also running Hamachi2 which allows me to securely tunnel my browsing session from an unsecured connection like [...]

SCS Interest Group Workshop Series: Open Source Database for Enterprises

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The Open Source Software for Innovation and Collaboration SIG (OSSIC SIG) is launching a series of Capability Building Workshops for Singapore Computer Society members.

The first in the series is on Open Source Database for Enterprises which will be held on 29 April from 8.30am to 1.00pm at SCS Resource Centre.

Also open to Non-Members….

As seats are [...]

How to play .asx file or stream mms in ubuntu

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I opted to install Ubuntu 8.04 a.k.a Hardy Heron from scratch instead of upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 since I heavily customized my previous installation and I wanted to prevent conflicts.

Since my home directory is on a separate partition, I copied a few config from /etc which I think are important and off I go reformatted and [...]

Linux Starter Pack: The Beginners Guide to All Things Open Source

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Are you new to the wonderful world of Linux? Or are you looking for an easy way to get started? We’ll you’re lucky since TuxRadar made a complete 130-page Linux Starter Pack to get grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months.

 

According to TuxRadar, a sister site of the popular UK-based LinuxFormat [...]

Monitoring UNIX Application Performance

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Application Monitoring is a very important aspect of a project. Unfortunately, not much attention is being is paid to develop an effective monitoring while the project is not live. Once the project is live, the lack of proper monitoring factors in terms of downtime when the support person is not aware if application [...]

VMWare Server 2: Unable to build the vsock module

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If you encounter the following error after installing VMWare Server 2.0 RCx to Ubuntu:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb’
CC [M] /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
In file included from /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:92:
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:64: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:260: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In [...]

Panasonic using Open Source Software (OSS) on its Viera Series LCD TV

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We recently bought a TV during the last IT show, a Panasonic Vierra LCD HDTV. Not the latest model but good enough for our needs, at least it has 100hz IPS panel. During my exploration of its menus, I stumbled upon this:

yes, that is a GNU L/GPL license.

Apparently, Panasonic is using AM micro-controller [...]

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