Install Compiz & Compiz Fusion plugins on Ubuntu 9.04

For the past two year i had been using Ubuntu 7.10 and now i am switch over to ubuntu 9.04.

The screen looks very good but I love to work with Desktop Effects. So I decided to install compiz in my pc.

Installing Compiz in Ubuntu 9.04 is very easy when compare to Ubuntu 7.10.

Insert your Ubuntu 9.04 CD and switch on your DSL MODEM (Keep Internet in active state)

   1. Click Applications and select Add/Remove (Install and remove applications)

   2. From the left menu choose System Tools

   3. Next from the right menu,
    find and select for install: Desktop Effects (Compiz Setup)
    and Nvidia binary X.org Driver version 173 or 177.
    By selecting the driver you will get the list of supported graphics card.

   4. Click Apply Changes and after installation go to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers

   5. The system will search for available drivers and you can choose
      the recommended option from the list to activate
      the driver by clicking Activate button.

   6. Next, restart your system and the new nVidia graphic display driver will be on use.

   7. To enable the desktop effects on Ubuntu 9.04,
    go to System/Preferences/Appearance and on the Visual Effects tab
    choose Normal or Extra if you have never graphic system.

Run Compiz :

To run Compiz for the current session, hold Alt, then press F2, then enter the command

compiz –replace

Configure :

To configure Compiz and associated plugins, hold Alt, then press F2, then enter the command

ccsm

Enjoy using Desktop Effects in Ubuntu 9.04.

Opensource for creating flash charts

OPEN FLASH CHART

Open Flash Chart is a program for creating charts
in Flash to display in Web pages. You can create
bar, line, area, and pie charts.

Server side classes to help generate the data file
used as input. At the moment, there are classes
for PHP, Perl, .NET, Java, Ruby (and Rails), and Python.

Look for more details and Tutorials in Open Flash chart

Ajax Demo – check-it at prestigedev group

Ubuntu Netbook Remix

What is a remix?

A remix is a ‘respun’ version of Ubuntu built for a specific purpose.
Although Canonical has encouraged community projects to use this
terminology for some time, this is the first time that Canonical has
used it. We are using it to differentiate from an ‘Edition’ which we
consider a complete version with daily builds suitable for the average
user with no additional work beyond installing the CD.

Canonical works with devices manufacturers (OEMs) to pre-install Ubuntu
Netbook Remix. These commercial products contain software that is not
free and built for a specific hardware configuration unique to the OEM.
These are not publicly available as we do not have the right to
redistribute the software.

All of the initial Ubuntu Netbook remixes combine optimisations from
the Moblin project for Intel® Atom™ processors and it is specially
designed for netbooks. Intel and Canonical are working to create a new
computing experience across a rapidly expanding category of portable
devices.

Reasons to choose Ubuntu Netbook Remix

For OEMs:

• Rapid route to market – UI configured to work with Intel Atom processor-based netbooks so you are ready to go
• Small OS footprint – fits within a 4GB flash drive with room for additional storage
• Expert engineering – based on Ubuntu’s well-tested, globally proven software
• Clean licensing – all work conforms with open
  source and commercial application licensing with audio and video codecs
  that are legally licensable

For users:

• New Interface – built for accessing your
  favourite on and off-line applications rapidly and optimised for the
  restricted screen size this is radically different
• No viruses – Ubuntu is a smooth, safe computing and browsing experience
• Optimised for netbook components – built from the ground up to take advantage of speed and power capabilities of the chip set
• Large developer community – gain the benefits of innovation from some of the world’s leading free and open source developers

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The Five Best, New Things In Ubuntu Linux 9.04

I’ve been using Jaunty Jackalope–what a name!–for the last few weeks, and I upgraded to the release candidate last night the hard way, i.e. from the source code. I’m impressed. I think you will be too when you download it yourself. The ISO versions are scheduled to be available later today, April 16th, from the usual Ubuntu download sites.

I’ve been running Jaunty on a Gateway 503GR. This is an older PC with a 3GHz Pentium IV CPU, 2GB of RAM, an ATI Radeon 250 graphics card, and a 300GB SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive. Even on this 2006 vintage system, Ubuntu ran quite well.

Specifically, here’s what I’ve found, so far, in the new Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com) that I liked, and I think you’ll like as well.

Continue reading @ PC World

Accelerator Guide: Disable Password Authentication for SSH Logins

This guide will explain the quick and easy procedure for disabling keyboard/password authentication for SSH  on your Accelerator. Some people prefer to use public key authentication instead of just a password, so it is harder to compromise your account. If you use a key pair that requires its own passphrase, your account will be protected against unauthorized access even if the computer you store the private key on is compromised or
stolen.

Continue reading @ Accelerator Guide: Disable Password Authentication for SSH Logins

How to convert flv to dvd iso image

I install flv2dvd in my ubuntu desktop and converted all my flv files to a single DVD ISO Image .

How did I do ? It is very simple .

I install flv2dvd in my ubuntu desktop.

First I updated

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update

Then installed

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install flv2dvd

[sudo] password for verman:

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dvdauthor lame-extras
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dvdauthor flv2dvd lame-extras
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 353 not upgraded.
Need to get 949kB of archives.
After unpacking 2769kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
dvdauthor lame-extras flv2dvd
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://ubuntu.global-web.us binary/ flv2dvd 1.0 [1118B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe dvdauthor 0.6.14-1build1 [159kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse lame-extras 3.97-0.0 [789kB]
Fetched 949kB in 1m36s (9784B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dvdauthor.
(Reading database … 166313 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dvdauthor (from …/dvdauthor_0.6.14-1build1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package lame-extras.
Unpacking lame-extras (from …/lame-extras_3.97-0.0_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package flv2dvd.
Unpacking flv2dvd (from …/archives/flv2dvd_1.0_i386.deb) …
Setting up dvdauthor (0.6.14-1build1) …
Setting up lame-extras (3.97-0.0) …
Setting up flv2dvd (1.0) …

verman@verman-desktop:~$

after installation, I collected all flv files into a single folder.

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /Desktop/flv

verman@verman-desktop:~$ cp *.flv /Desktop/flv

verman@verman-desktop:~$ cd /Desktop/flv

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$ ls

BEST_funny_accidents_.flv
it_dojo_e46.flv
Maahi_-_Full_Song.flv
O_Jaana_-__Dance_With_Me_Mix_.flv
Virtual_Barber_Shop__Audio…use_headphones__close_ur_eyes_.flv

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$ flv2dvd *

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: –enable-gpl –enable-pp –enable-swscaler –enable-pthreads –enable-libvorbis –enable-libtheora –enable-libogg –enable-libgsm –enable-dc1394 –disable-debug –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libfaadbin –enable-libfaad –enable-libfaac –enable-xvid –enable-x264 –enable-liba52 –enable-amr_nb –enable-amr_wb –enable-shared –prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
built on Dec 20 2007 21:25:50, gcc: 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 1000.00 (1000/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)
Input #0, flv, from ‘Baba_Ramdev_-Yoga_for_Obesity__Motapa_Ke_Liye_.flv’:
Duration: 00:58:37.3, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 64 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 320×240, 25.00 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to ‘output.mpg’:
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720×480, q=2-31, 6000 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, mono, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding

at the end the DVD ISO did not convert and displayed a error

/usr/bin/flv2dvd: line 51: mkisofs: command not found

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STAT: Processing output.mpg…
STAT: VOBU 4016 at 514MB, 1 PGCSS
INFO: Video pts = 0.500 .. 1611.476
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.500 .. 1611.444
STAT: VOBU 4023 at 515MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720×480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/1ch, 48khz drc

STAT: fixed 4023 VOBUS
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
/usr/bin/flv2dvd: line 51: mkisofs: command not found

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$

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Then I installed mkisofs

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$ sudo apt-get install mkisofs

[sudo] password for verman:

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Suggested packages:
cdrecord
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mkisofs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 353 not upgraded.
Need to get 347kB of archives.
After unpacking 1327kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
mkisofs
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse mkisofs 10:2.01.01a33-0ubuntu2 [347kB]
Fetched 347kB in 3s (101kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package mkisofs.
(Reading database … 166340 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mkisofs (from …/mkisofs_10%3a2.01.01a33-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) …
Setting up mkisofs (10:2.01.01a33-0ubuntu2) …

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$

Then it started to convert all flv to DVD ISO.

————————————————–
STAT: Processing output.mpg…
STAT: VOBU 32 at 4MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Video pts = 0.500 .. 15.681
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.500 .. 15.636
STAT: VOBU 38 at 5MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720×480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/1ch, 48khz drc

STAT: fixed 38 VOBUS
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
Setting input-charset to ‘UTF-8′ from locale.
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4096
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 0
3353 extents written (6 MB)

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$ ls

dvd.iso

verman@verman-desktop:~/Desktop/flv$

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Now this dvd.iso image file can be burned through our favourate opensource burners and then start play it in your favourate DVD players.

* Note : No flv files will be seen after you convert to dvd.iso, try to backup your flv file before you convert.

Crash Testing ext4 on Ubuntu

One of the more controversial aspects of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release is the use of the ext4 filesystem.  Users have apparently lost important data already while testing Ubuntu on their desktop.  This article provides some basic information about ext4 and then provides some test results on a Ubuntu 9.04 server.

Ubuntu has backported the ext4 filesystem to the 2.6.28 kernel in Jaunty Jackalope 9.04.

Complete story

Replace Symantec Ghost Enterprise with Clonezilla

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC’s Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!

Features of Clonezilla

• Free (GPL) Software.
• Filesystem supported: ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, and FAT, NTFS of MS Windows. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux or MS windows. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
• LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
• Multicast is supported in Clonezilla server edition, which is suitable for massive clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
• Based on Partimage, ntfsclone and dd to clone partition. However, Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
• By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed.

quick start guide to Clonezilla here.

Article Read from : packratstudios.com

Backup your mobile using Wammu : Mobile Phone Manager

Wammu is mobile phone manager running on Linux, Windows and possibly other platforms, where Gammu and wxPython works. The communication is made by Gammu library.
Currently supported features:

• complete support (can read/edit/delete/copy) for contacts, todo,
  calendar
• can read/create/save/send/backup smses
• sending files to phone (OBEX and Sony Ericsson phones only)
• sms composer for multi part smses (currently only text and predefined bitmap/sound can be edited)
• display message including pictures and ringtones playback
• support for backup and import in various formats (vCard, vCalendar, vTodo, iCalendar, gammu own backup,…)
• export messages to mail (IMAP4, maildir and mailbox storages are supported)

Installed in ubuntu 7.10

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install wammu
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgammu-common libgammu2 python-gammu python-wxgtk2.6
Suggested packages:
gammu python-gammu-doc wx2.6-doc wx2.6-examples
Recommended packages:
timidity python-bluez python-bluetooth gmobilemedia
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgammu-common libgammu2 python-gammu python-wxgtk2.6 wammu
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 353 not upgraded.
Need to get 3682kB of archives.
After unpacking 15.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
libgammu-common libgammu2 python-gammu python-wxgtk2.6 wammu
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe libgammu-common 1.13.0-1 [143kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe libgammu2 1.13.0-1 [433kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe python-gammu 0.22-3 [160kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe python-wxgtk2.6 2.6.3.2.1.5ubuntu12 [2588kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe wammu 0.22-1 [358kB]
Fetched 3682kB in 26s (141kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libgammu-common.
(Reading database … 165818 files and directories currently installed.)
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Unpacking wammu (from …/archives/wammu_0.22-1_all.deb) …
Setting up libgammu-common (1.13.0-1) …
Setting up libgammu2 (1.13.0-1) …

Setting up python-gammu (0.22-3) …

Setting up python-wxgtk2.6 (2.6.3.2.1.5ubuntu12) …

Setting up wammu (0.22-1) …

Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

This is working fine.

With help of Wammu I had backup all my contact, todos, messages from my mobile to desktop.

Check out the screen shots.

for More info visit : wammu.eu

A Worthy Replacement For Dreamweaver : Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a free, open source cross platform compatible IDE that supports a large variety of languages. The default Aptana Studio’s editor comes
with full support for HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you are a PHP or Ruby On Rails developer, you can also get it to support the the code you want by adding the respective modules via plugins. Platforms supported by Aptana Studio include PHP, Ruby On Rails, Python, iPhone Web apps, Adobe Air, Nokia and AJAX.

Aptana is based on the popular Eclipse, so if you have been a fan of Eclipse (or Dreamweaver), you shouldn’t have any problem getting used to Aptana