Linux Source as Screensaver
Some of the OTHER best movies of 2007

converting vmware vmdk images to virtualbox vdi images

qt gtk

php-qt
qt-4.4 with phono

gtk+ 2.0 tutorial1
gtk+ 2.0 tutorial2

24-dec-2007

Apps to control your windows

Jashaka-An open video editing tool

16-dec-2007

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/16/afis-top-10-movies-of-2007/
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=170641 -
Fedora7 + VirtualBox + SeamlessRDP = Sweetness! (Seamless virtualization) - could check this
ht
http://code.google.com/p/rtgui/ - must set this up along with webserver authentication
Sniper Elite-walkthrough

klaxxo

gpodder

12/10/2007

rtgui
awesome-a tiling window manager
secure/harden box
pulse streaming audio on my machine...restrict users and port access.
speech recog-on fc8
rtorrent-features
flightsim-on fc8

binary bombs-code

http://www.codef00.com/projects.php
http://www.mauchle.name/binarybomb.htm
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/comporg.2003/hw/hw3.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Assembly/Q_22937919.html
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/labs.html

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/streaming-media-server-in-ubuntu-gnulinux-using-gnump3d.html

http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html - 2.7 preview version with web upload integration

Subsonic-try the beta -- probably a memory hog, lets check it out and if too much of a load, then switch to gnump3d

winstone - this + subsonic

tiny java web server

FC8 removing hdd icons from desktop

in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=171454

Fedora 8 + Skype 2 Beta + Vlc + Audacious

I love Fedora. So obviously I love Linux :D, so its only natural that I would not want to use ***doze for just Skype-right?

Here starts a mix and match of sound servers that were messing up one or the other app-pulse audio was not helping much. If I set everything to OSS, audacious and skype were working but not vlc, and any combination had such problems.

Getting Skype 2 beta alone to work was a significant task-all with skype when run on the CLI telling me the follosing message:

Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so

And searching around I found that this so was in alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, which adding to the confusion was already installed on my machine...

The solution turned out to be to surprise-surprise-- uninstall alsa-plugins-pulseaudio :)

System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound

Vlc->Settings->Preferences->Audio->OutPut Modules->Advanced options enabled

Audacious Preferences

Skype Preferences

Now that done, I removed all traces of pulse on my FC8 box and added a few plugins for audacious and alsa-the following is the list of related packages I have at the moment:

alsa-plugins-oss-1.0.14-5.fc8
python-alsaaudio-0.2-2.fc7
alsa-oss-libs-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-utils-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-oss-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
python-vlc-0.8.6d-3.lvn8
vlc-core-0.8.6d-3.lvn8
mozilla-vlc-0.8.6d-3.lvn8
vlc-0.8.6d-3.lvn8
audacious-1.3.2-3.fc8
audacious-plugins-1.3.5-3.fc8
audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3-1.3.5-1.lvn8
audacious-docklet-0.1.1-2.fc7
audacious-libs-1.3.2-3.fc8



And now, all three work fine...phew....

8-dec-2007

SKYPE 2.x on Linux:

After a lot of digging around, I hit on the brilliant idea of running skype from command line so that U can atleast get a look at the error messages-if there are any. Voila; it turned out that there was just one - could not open libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so

More digging to find out the package that it was present in gave me alsa-plugins-pulseaudio as the package that contains the file. Cool I thought-I downloaded it from rpmfind and tried to install it when it said that it is already installed :D OK Back to square 1. More digging and I found the solution-uninstall the very same package. Yes it did it. Just do a
yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and you should get skype 2 working cool with excellent audio and the video-ok I have not tested that. My friend whos webcam I was trying to see was having a bad connection and probably a bad cam. So cant really comment on that.

But in addition to removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, I installed alsa-plugins-oss and made my system->preferences->hardware->sound point to OSS devices. If you have trouble with just the above, then you could try doing this step in addition....good luck :)

http://www.computerjokes.net/
http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/FreeSpeech/html/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/vnstat/?branch_id=34903&release_id=266981

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=18393&page=1&pp=15 - folding - fedora team
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-linux-mint-livecd-with-remastersys - try the same kind of stuff for fedora with tamil enabled.

http://wallpaper.deviantart.com/

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174114&highlight=skype - skype on fc8 x86_64

http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html - skype - replace alsa with oss - see if this helps

http://axxo-release.blogspot.com/
http://darksiderg.com/forums/
http://axxo.superfundo.org/

Fedoraforum.org: leigh's compiz fusion packages

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-filesystem/?ca=dgr-btw01LinuxFileSystAnat&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

http://www.aayisrecipes.com
http://vivakarasamayal.blogspot.com
http://bhagavathy.blogspot.com/
http://spicychilly.blogspot.com/

peazip

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomXSession
http://www.ziclix.com/jython/chipy20050113/slide-00.html
http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons/VisAD_Tutorials.html

Fast scriptable Window Manager for Linux

Python based scriptable hack for xfce

Randy Pausch speech

Remote Access to Linux Install

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-remoteaccess-installation.html

remote access to an installation system

Fedoraforum
Boot time command args:
-----------------------

expert Turns on special features:
- allows partitioning of removable media
- prompts for driver disk

noshell Do not put a shell on tty2 during install.

lowres Force GUI installer to run at 640x480.

resolution= Run installer in mode specified, '1024x768' for example.

nousb Do not load USB support (helps if install hangs
early sometimes).

nofb Do not load the VGA16 framebuffer required for doing
text-mode installation in some languages

nofirewire Do not load support for firewire devices

askmethod Do not automatically use the CD-ROM as the install
source if we detect a Red Hat Linux CD in your CD-ROM drive.

nousbstorage Do not load usbstorage module in loader. May help with
device ordering on SCSI systems.

noparport Do not attempt to load support for parallel ports

noprobe Do not attempt to detect hw, prompts user instead.

nopcmcia Ignore PCMCIA controller in system.

skipddc Skips DDC probe of monitor, may help if its handing system.

graphical Force graphical install. Required to have ftp/http use GUI.

text Force text mode install.

vnc Enable vnc-based installation. You will need to connect
to the machine using a vnc client application.

vncpassword= Enable a password for the vnc connection. This will
prevent someone from inadvertantly connecting to the
vnc-based installation.

Requires 'vnc' option to be specified as well.

vncconnect=[:] Once installation is up and running, connect to
the vnc client named , and optionally use port .

Requires 'vnc' option to be specified as well.

updates Prompt for floppy containing updates (bug fixes).

isa Prompt user for ISA devices configuration.

dd Use a driver disk.

driverdisk Same as 'dd'.

mediacheck Activates loader code to give user option of testing integrity
of install source (if an ISO-based method).

rescue Run rescue environment.

nomount Don't automatically mount any installed Linux partitions
in rescue mode.

nopass Don't pass keyboard/mouse info to stage 2 installer, good for
testing keyboard and mouse config screens in stage2 installer
during network installs.


serial Turns on serial console support.

ksdevice Takes an argument like 'eth0', tells install what network
device to use for kickstart from network.

ks Kickstart over NFS.

ks=cdrom: Kickstart from CDROM

ks=nfs: Kickstart from NFS.

ks= Kickstart via HTTP.

ks=hd: Kickstart via harddrive (dev = 'hda1', for example)

ks=file: Kickstart from a file (path = 'fd0/ks.cfg')

ks=ftp:// Kickstart from FTP.

ks=http:// Kickstart from HTTP.

kssendmac Adds HTTP headers to ks=http:// request that can be helpful
for provisioning systems. Includes MAC address of all nics in
a CGI environment variable of the form
HTTP_X_RHN_PROVISIONING_0, HTTP_X_RHN_PROVISIONING_1, etc, for
all nics.

dhcpclass= Sends a custom DHCP vendor class identifier. ISC's dhcpcd can
inspect this value using "option vendor-class-identifier".

upgradeany Don't require an /etc/redhat-release that matches the
expected syntax to upgrade.

lang= Language to use for the installation. This should be a
language which is valid to be used with the 'lang' kickstart
command.

keymap= Keyboard layout to use. Valid values are those which can be
used for the 'keyboard' kickstart command.

ip= IP to use for a network installation, use 'dhcp' for DHCP.

netmask= Netmask to use for a network installation.

gateway= Gateway to use for a network installation.

dns= Comma separated list of nameservers to use for a network
installation.

method=nfs: Use for an NFS installation.

method=http:// Use for an HTTP installation

method=ftp:// Use for an FTP installation

method=hd:/// Use on for a hard drive installation

method=cdrom Do a CDROM based installation.

vnc Do graphical installation via VNC. Instead of
starting a normal X server, vncserver will be started
and you can then connect remotely to do the
installation.

vncpassword= Set a password for the vnc session.

vncconnect=[:] Once installation is up and running, connect to
the vnc client named , and optionally, on port .
Requires 'vnc' option to be specified as well.



test
debug Start up pdb immediately
nofallback If GUI fails exit
rootpath= Where to install packages (default /mnt/sysimage)
pcic= Specify pcmcia controller
overhead= Override LVM overhead calculation
testpath=
mountfs
traceonly Don't run, just list modules we use
kickstart= Set serial install and kickstart file
kbdtype= Set the type of keyboard
module= Load additional kernel modules
class= Choose install class to use
autostep Make kickstart non-interactive
noselinux Disable Security Enhanced Linux
selinux Enable Security Enhanced Linux
vnc=
cmdline Use command line installer
headless Automate install for machines with no display
virtpconsole=
xfs Allows the creation of a xfs filesystem
reiserfs Allows the creation of a reiserfs filesystem
jfs Allows the creation of a jfs filesystem
syslogd