So let’s get started with a fresh install of 8.04.2 with all the updates.

1. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. sudo addgroup –system qtss
   sudo adduser –system –no-create-home –ingroup qtss qtss
4. cd /usr/local/src/
5. Download the latest version at http://github.com/lstoll/dss/tree/master
6. tar -xvf lstoll-dss-984a1365251f36ebf3f60f0d0175fa895a30b9a9.tar
7. cd lstoll-dss-984a1365251f36ebf3f60f0d0175fa895a30b9a9/
8. ./Buildit install
9. cd DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Linux
10. ./Install
11. If you see Setup Complete! message, you are good to go. Logon to http://servername:1220/ using your browser. Username and password is the ones you entered at step 10.

Ok, now you have Darwin Streaming Server installed on your Ubuntu Hardy box.

Here’s a sample init file for DSS:
[sourcecode language="plain"]
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 35 92 12
# description: Quicktime Streaming Media Server
#
# Slight tweak of file create by Larry Underhill 05/20/02
#
# init script to start up the quicktime (Darwin) streaming server
# tested on Redhat 7.2, Fedora Core 4 and CentOS-4.3

# source function library
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

case "$1" in
start)
if test -r /var/lock/dssd
then
echo "Lockfile /var/lock/dssd exists. Server not started."
failure
else
echo "Starting Darwin Streaming Server: "
/usr/local/sbin/DarwinStreamingServer && touch /var/lock/dssd
echo "Starting DSS Admin Console: "
/usr/local/sbin/streamingadminserver.pl
echo "DSS and DSS Admin Console started…"
fi
;;

stop)
echo "Stopping Darwin Streaming Server: "
[ -f /var/lock/dssd ] || exit 0
echo "stopping…"
killall DarwinStreamingServer && killall streamingadminserver.pl
#ps ax | awk ‘{print $1" " $5}’ | awk ‘/DarwinStreamingServer/ {print $1}’ | xargs -r kill -9 && success || failure
#echo "Stopping DSS Admin Console: "
#ps ax | awk ‘/streamingadminserver.pl/ {print $1}’ | xargs -r kill -9  && success || failure
rm -f /var/lock/dssd
echo
;;

restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;

*)
echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart]"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
[/sourcecode]
Save this file in /etc/init.d/dss

Make it executable chmod +x /etc/init.d/dss and make it auto start when booting:

update-rc.d dss defaults
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/dss …
/etc/rc0.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc1.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc6.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc2.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc3.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc4.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc5.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss

Now that we have already installed DSS on Ubuntu Hardy box, next thing is how to broadcast mp3 and video through it. Well, that’s a next post coming up. Enjoy!

DSS Admin Console

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

Amazon has this services where you can use virtual servers, either your custom or prebuilt publicly shared server images. The key point here is that Amazon has a lot of servers that can be used at any time.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

Amazon has this services where you can use virtual servers, either your custom or prebuilt publicly shared server images. The key point here is that Amazon has a lot of servers that can be used at any time.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

ec2-add-keypair arstan-keypair

Save those lines including  —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—– and also  —–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—– lines.

sudo chmod 600 id_rsa-arstan-keypair

ec2-describe-images -o amazon This will show the server images that Amazon has for you. You can see ec2-describe-images -a to see all the server images you have access to.

ec2-run-instances ami-0459bc6d -k arstan-keypair

ec2-describe-instances will show you instances you are running.

If you are dealing with CentOS 5 x86_64 (Free version of RHEL5), try to install libssh2 for your PHP development you might fail in doing so.

So here’s a quick tip how to install libssh2 on X86_64 systems(I think i386 works just fine)

Edit: /usr/share/pear/pearcmd.php

Set: @ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘16M’);

And try again!

$ sudo mysqld –skip-grant-tables &

$ mysql -u root mysql

$ mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(’MyNewPasswordHere’) WHERE User=’root’;

$ mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

$ mysql> \q

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now you can login using your new root password.

I am excited to see yet another good deal on Open Source projects, the fact that free software can do a good business.

Hopefully, they, Sun, will remain true to the Open Source spirit.

• GPLv3
• Asus Eee PC
• OpenMoko
• Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
• GNOME 2.20
• Pidgin 2.0
• KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
• Xfce 4.4
• Google Desktop
• Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Mplayer 1.0 RC2
• Adobe Flash Player 9
• OpenOffice.org 2.3
• Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
• Wallmart and gOs = Everex

Did I miss anything?

Here’s my firefox plugins, they help me a lot and save lots of time. What are your plugins? Please leave in the comments.

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Anyways, I have requested some 7.10 i386 and 7.10 64bit versions from the Shipit, and now I have them in my hands! For which I thank Canonical and the Ubuntu team!

Great job folks!

P.S.

For those who are interested you can download Ubuntu here and you can request free CDs here.

Instantbird will be based on Mozilla technologies and use Pidgin’s libpurple to deliver you a brand new messenger.

Just like Pidgin(prev. Gaim) Instantbird will support:

• AIM
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• ICQ
• MSN
• QQ
• XMPP
• Yahoo!

I’ve tried Instantbird v.01 myself and I think it’s very light, default installation lets you do text messaging only. But there are plugins and add-ons of course.

Good luck to Mozilla, with the experience of creating state of the art browser and E-Mail client I really hope they will launch a very good messenger!

Ok, so Yahoo! bought Zimbra E-Mail Collaboration Suite for approximately $350 million! You can find more information here, here and here.

I guess, the giants like Yahoo! and Google just buying  any good software that’s in the market. The question is, which company will acquire which company? Yahoo! or Google?

Anyways, congrats to  Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of Zimbra, he is now officially multi-millionaire(if he wasn’t before)!

Not only it is made for Mac OS but it’s available for Linux, BSDs, Solaris.

Here’s the extract from their website:

“We’ve rethought everything and rearchitected it,” says Jeff Bonwick, Sun distinguished engineer and chief architect of ZFS. “We’ve thrown away 20 years of old technology that was based on assumptions no longer true today.”

ZFS is supported on both SPARC and x86 platforms. More important, ZFS is endian-neutral. You can easily move disks from a SPARC server to an x86 server. Neither architecture pays a byte-swapping tax due to Sun’s patent-pending “adaptive endian-ness” technology, which is unique to ZFS. And you don’t have to worry about migration. Sun continues to support the UFS file system.

Sun introduced new server Sun Fire X4500,Project Thumper which will be making use of ZFS for their data storage needs.

I have been in Novell’s SLES10 launching in Malaysia and I was impressed a lot.

Virtualization is a proven technology that pools and shares resources to reduce costs and optimize utilization, even under changing demands. Forward-looking enterprises are choosing server virtualization as a way to maximize hardware utilization, eliminate server sprawl and dynamically respond to rapidly changing resource and application needs.

Join us for this free seminar and learn how powerful virtualization technology on low-cost Linux servers can help you:

• Freely migrate virtual machines
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Recently Matt Willsher developed a subversion module for eBox. Here’s what he says about eBox:

I was looking to set up a server at home and had evaluated various platforms for the task. Having built a box from the ground up for the job, I got tired of the amount of work required to add new services and servers, especially as the machine grew in complexity – LDAP, Kerberos, Netatalk, Samba. Adding new things got trickier. So I tried eBox and was very impressed with the ethos of the project – the ease of use, it being open source, uniformity of data use and broad range of well though out features. Plus I’ve never configured Samba so quickly!

One thing was missing for me though – Netatalk integration. I’ve been wanting to get back into coding for a while as I’ve not done any in some time. The OO nature of the framework was ideal and Perl is a language I used some time ago, so I thought I’d give it a go. 

I think a basic office infrastructure must consist of:

1. Firewall
2. DHCP
3. E-Mail
4. Proxy

eBox covers all of that and also it features:

1. IP Management
2. Network Management
3. Proxy/Content Filter
4. LDAP
5. Windows PDC
6. File/Print Server
7. Jabber Server
8. DNS Cache
9. Date & Time Server
10. Virtual LANs

Setup is easy and quick, after installing you can manage it through a user friendly web interface.

It’s in very early days but I strongly believe that it will be very successful project. May be it’s also good chance to start a new business just like Endian did with IPCop and some other softwares bundling together.

I hope now that Ian joined Sun, OpenSolaris will become more Linux-like and people can just download one iso image burn it and boot up from the CD. This will help to popularize OpenSolaris, and of course Solaris.

However, there are a few derivatives from OpenSolaris, that are available to download via iso images.

• NexentaOS
• SchilliX ( SchilliX and OpenSolaris tensions )
• Belenix

If you know any other, please leave in the comments!

FOX Board, a complete Linux system in just 66 x 72 mm

FOX Board runs a real Linux operating system (not a uC Linux) on an ETRAX 100LX microprocessor, a 100MIPS RISC CPU made by Axis.

FOX Board has two main field applications:

• As a stand alone device to build a micro web server or other network devices as proxy, router, firewall, etc.
• As a core engine to plug onto the PCB of a user application board instead of a simple microcontroller.

Two USB 1.1 host interfaces can be connected to USB memory stick, hard disk, webcam, modem, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth dongle, ADSL adapter, Serial converter, etc.

Through the 10/100 ethernet interface it is possible to have access to the internal Web server, FTP server, SSH, Telnetd and the complete TCP/IP stack.

Hardware Features

Size: 66 x 72 mm (2.6 x 2.8 inches)
Weight : 37 gr
Cpu: Axis ETRAX 100LX 32 bit, RISC, 100MHz (100MIPS)
Memory: FOXLX816: 8MB FLASH 16MB RAM FOXLX832: 8MB FLASH 32MB RAM
Power: Single power supply 5 Volt 280mA (1 watt)
Ports: 1 Ethernet (10/100 Mb/s), 2 USB 1.1, 1 serial console port
Extension: 2 extension sockets with IDE, SCSI, serial lines, parallel ports, I/O lines, I2C bus interface
Temperature range: 0-70 °C

KDEV developed SMS FoxBox – SMS Gateway Solution with this board and Linux embedded inside.

Acme Systems provides various kinds of APIs and documentations on how to do things with the boards, which I find very useful indeed. This item is already in my must have list!

XPS 410 N – $849
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4300 (2MB L2 Cache,1.8GHz,800FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz – 2 DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

and laptop configuration:

Inspiron E1505 N – $599
Intel® Pentium® dual-core proc T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB
Ubuntu Edition version 7.04
512MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM
80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive

These prices are for the default configurations, if you opt you can go for additional upgrades.

I think for the home and office user the specs are quite reasonable. But for power users, developers and such these specs must be upgraded.

Open source version of Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server technology that allows you to send streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. Based on the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server provides a high level of customizability and runs on a variety of platforms allowing you to manipulate the code to fit your needs.

Who should use Darwin Streaming Server?

While sharing the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server is an open source project intended for developers who need to stream QuickTime and MPEG-4 media on alternative platforms such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris, or those developers who need to extend and/or modify the existing streaming server code to fit their needs. Darwin Streaming Server is only supported by the open source community and is not eligible for technical support from Apple. Apple hosts a number of email discussion lists for Darwin Streaming Server users and developers to share ideas and discuss deployment scenarios.

QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is Apple’s commercial streaming server delivered as part of Mac OS X Server. QTSS provides users with enhanced administration and media management tools as a result of the tight integration with Mac OS X Server; these tools are not available as part of the open source project. Technical support is available for QTSS as part of the AppleCare support plans provided for Mac OS X Server and Xserve.

Both DSS and QTSS are built on a core server that provides state of the art quality of service features with Skip protection and Instant-On, and support for the latest digital media standards, MPEG-4 and 3GPP.

Darwin Streaming Server is available as a free download under the Apple Public Source License.

More information can be found on Apple website.

It’s very difficult to memorize http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBW4103 link, and it’s considerably easier to remember http://www.jusupov.com/go/agloco link.

So whow it is done? I will try to explain how this trick is done. You can use some scripting like php/javascript to do this, however the shorter way of doing this is via .htaccess file. You can find your .htaccess file in your web root directory. You can download and open it in your favorite text editing software and add your links.

If you are using Wordpress and had turned on search engine friendly permanent links, here’s how a sample .htaccess file looks like:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Remember to backup your existing .htaccess file before you try to make changes in it, also remember not to touch the code between #BEGIN Wordpress and #END Wordpress comments. So right after #END Wordpress line add following:

Redirect myblog.com/?id=874653874 http://www.myblog.com/go/youraffiliate

So just follow this example and create your own customized affiliate and referal links! Put one affiliate/referal per line.

Check with your affiliate/referal company to see if it is allowed in the agreement. You can find my branded referal links at the very bottom of this page, footer that is.

So here’s the three ways to copy/move your MySQL databases:

1. PhpMyAdmin – probably the easiest way. Most of the hosting companies offer PhpMyAdmin already pre-installed on their servers. You can find it somewhere in your control panel. You will need select the appropriate database and click on the Export tab. You can choose between SQL, LaTeX, PDF, Excel, Word, CSV, XML formats, choose if you want the structure only or the data within the database to export, choose your compression method. PhpMyAdmin will then provide you with SQL commands if you did not choose compression, or let you download the database in compressed format.
2. If you have SSH,telnet or can login directly to the server then you can use mysqldump feature. When doing this, it’s better if you lock the tables so that no changes will be done while you are doing export.mysqldump -u “your_username” -p –lock-tables “your_database” > your_database_dump.sqlif you want to export multiple databases use:mysqldump -u “your_username” -p –lock-tables –databases DB1 [DB2 DB3...] > your_database_dump.sql

   This option, mysqldump, works well with larger databases. So if you have been blogging for years now, this way could be a faster way of exporting your databases. But bear in mind that it’s slightly technical then the others.

3. The MySQL server stores database structure and data in regular files on disk. This means that if you can login on the server with privileges to access the folder where the databases are stored ( usually /var/lib/mysql ) then you can just copy or transfer then to another server using tools like ftp, scp, sftp, rsync. Before you use any of those tools you have to make sure no one is writing to the databases that you want to transfer so you should put a read lock on them. If you want to lock a table you will have to use the MySQL client to login to your MySQL server and then just type in :LOCK TABLE table_name READ[, table_name2 READ, ...]or if you want to lock all tables on the server:FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK

   leave the mysql client running and then copy or transfer transfer the files. After the transfer finished, exit the mysql client or type:

   UNLOCK TABLES

   to release the read lock.
   This method also works with large databases, and it is faster then the previous method in this case MySQL server does not have to parse and process queries or recreate indexes because the whole data including indexes is transferred from the old server.

There are other Administration GUI tools also which you can use for export/import MySQL databases. These are:

• MySQL GUI Tools
• SQLyog Community Edition 5.30 (Stable)
• HeidiSql

This article was partially copied from PatchLog’s methods to move a MySQL database