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Ubuntu SHOES ?

fenris — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:45:51 +0000

At the last UDS-P, i saw Robbie Williamson wearing customize Adidas shoe and asking him where to get it … But today my friend irwanj ask me to join his trip to Genting Highland to seek some rare item for Malaysia FAM anthem merchandize at Nike Factory Outlet. Unexpectedly , i saw this 1 shoe and straight away grab and give a test … then finally … i 0wn3d it !! So this two sport brand can maybe unofficial Ubuntu shoes for those who are like collecting Ubuntu merchandize ..

*p/s: Robbiew thanks for the picts but if you wish me to delete/remove the pict , Do ping me !

HPcloud CLI in Precise Pangolin

fenris — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:26:15 +0000

I just get my private beta trial for HPcloud to be test. As u all know its base on Openstack but then i plan to try out its CLI method to manage the instances . Documentation about HPcloud CLI can get it here . The issue here is the cli (base on ruby) require ruby 1.9.2 and above but in precise pangolin default ruby is 1.8.7. I already file a bug report on this issues. I hope someone can work out or decide that ruby1.9.x will be default in precise.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-defaults/+question/183224

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-defaults/+bug/974829

2012 Ubuntu-my LoCo Team T-shirt

fenris — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:23:11 +0000

In the end of January , Ubuntu-my announce the t-shirt design competition at our forum here . There is a few participant from Malaysian Ubuntu members. So the judge already decide the final design and the winner. The winner will get 1 t-shirt of the new release and 8GB thumb drive. The community members are given a chance to comment the winner’s design and the artwork we touch up base on the comments.

So here is the final design that will release before the Precise Pangolin ..

Ubuntu-my LoCo Team T-shirt

Congratulation to the winners and to those who want to order the t-shirt can fill in the order form here . For Ubuntu users / members in Malaysia , you guys can pay via CDM and send the payment slip to deensokmo[at]gmail[dot]com or transfer to his account.

For those who are outside Malaysia who might be interested to buy .. the price for the t-shirt is USD 12 without shipping cost. Do email me at fenris[at]ubuntu[dot]com so i can do the arrangement for you guys.

Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team at Penang Matriculation ICT Day 2012

fenris — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:23:27 +0000

Date: 18th February 2012
Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Venue: KMPP – Kolej Matrikulasi Pulau Pinang (Pulau Pinang Matriculation College)
Activities:
- Promoting Ubuntu to public and KMPP student during that day
Reports:
- Khairul Aizat, Saufi Wahab and Tajul Azhar in-charge of a booth for than event.
- Students come and ask about Ubuntu and many of them install with guide from three of us.
- This event will be organized annually and Ubuntu will take part for the next event.
- Lecturers and outside campus visitors came and ask about Ubuntu and some of them planning to have the same awareness in School or offices nearby.

Ubuntu-my Collaboration with Federal of Malaysian Consumers Association (FOMCA)

fenris — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:46:22 +0000

Last month i get a call and email from FOMCA representative asking community to support their national program Access to Knowledge- National Campaign on A2K Policies , Campaign to promote Open Source Software to consumers . We (Ubuntu-my) are more than happy to corporate and collaborate with FOMCA to do our best to make the policy & campaign success. I will bring this topic to our 1st Ubuntu-my Meetup for 2012

Overall objective: Increase the uptake of free, legal software for Malaysian consumers
Specific objective: Create awareness among Malaysian suppliers and consumers to encourage the use of open source software which is the Ubuntu Linux instead of FreeDOS to provide a better computing experience and also reduce piracy

Activities:
1. Conduct an awareness seminar/workshop on piracy issue and access to knowledge. In this session, we can introduce the Ubuntu Linux operating system and how vendors and consumers can play a role in fostering the uptake of open source software and thereby reducing piracy.
2. Collaborating with the local community to promote the use of Ubuntu Linux among consumers
3. Promoting this campaign in our existing consumer websites under FOMCA.

Impact expected:
Consumer to have at least an awareness of the existence of free open source software and that they do have an alternative choice and at the same time can help in reducing piracy without having any disadvantage. We aim for this campaign to get the attention of the
industries as well as the government to come up with policies to encourage more open source software and move towards having more awareness session to make consumers understand and aware of their choices.

Here i share the full post by FOMCA and draft brochure for the awareness program.

I also hope that Ubuntu Community Globally & FOSS Community will give us support to make this happen ! \0/ May Ubuntu will r0cking all over Malaysia …

Building a Ubuntu Package for DNSCrypt-proxy

fenris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:46:02 +0000

What is DNS Crypt ? You may read the preview release here . But its official release is for Mac OSX package only. They release the source at github and i try to find any PPA package for it but i get this from pinowudi blog (http://pinowudi.blogspot.com/2011/12/referring-to-x4s-issue-for-linux.html) . So i want to give a try to build the package.

I try to build the package at my PPA with the help from Mahyuddin Susanto . After finish building the package, i do the testing at my workstation:

$sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fenris/ppa

$ sudo apt-get install dnscrypt-proxy
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dnscrypt-proxy
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 168 kB of archives.
After this operation, 479 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/fenris/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main dnscrypt-proxy all 0.1-1ubuntu2 [168 kB]
Fetched 168 kB in 4s (34.7 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dnscrypt-proxy.
(Reading database … 232962 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dnscrypt-proxy (from …/dnscrypt-proxy_0.1-1ubuntu2_all.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up dnscrypt-proxy (0.1-1ubuntu2) …

Checking if is working after installed,

$ dnscrypt-proxy –help
dnscrypt-proxy 0.11
Copyright (C) 2011 OpenDNS, Inc.

Options:

-a    –local-address=…
-d    –daemonize
-e    –edns-payload-size=…
-h    –help
-k    –provider-key=…
-l    –logfile=…
-n    –max-active-requests=…
-p    –pidfile=…
-r    –resolver-address=…
-t    –tcp-port=…
-u    –user=…
-N    –provider-name=…
-P    –local-port=…
-V    –version

Please consult the dnscrypt-proxy(8) man page for details

Then i run it with sudo privileges,

$sudo dnscrypt-proxy –daemonize

After running the proxy as daemon, i change my dns by editing my /etc/resolv.conf

# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 127.0.0.1

So finally i test browsing internet to the OpenDNS Welcome page , so here is the screenshot

So everyone are welcome to test from my ppa:fenris/ppa and can comment my building packaging for my improvement in building other packaging in the future …

Liferay Portal Packaging for Ubuntu

fenris — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:50:08 +0000

Hi,

I’m looking for someone can mentoring me doing the packaging for Liferay. Btw, some intro about Liferay can be found here . I’ve found PPA package by Alberto Montero Asenjo but seem not up2date with the current stable version. I already try contact him and waiting for him to respond. While waiting for him, I’m asking other people who has knowledge of packaging Liferay come to make a team for liferay. I’ve try but gaining this error even i already specify ANT_OPTS in my .bashrc , here is the output :

$ debuild -S
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor):
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package liferayportal6.0-tomcat6
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 6.0.6ppa1ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
dpkg-source –before-build liferay-portal-src-6.0.6
fakeroot debian/rules clean
if [ ! -d "" ]; then \
JDK_DIRS=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm”;\
for jdir in $JDK_DIRS; do \
if [ -r "$jdir/bin/javac" -a -z "" ]; then \
echo “export JAVA_HOME=\”$jdir\”" > “/tmp/java-homeXXSKJJKJIOU”; \
fi;\
done;\
if [ ! -e "/tmp/java-homeXXSKJJKJIOU" ]; then \
echo “No JDK was found”;\
exit;\
fi;\
fi
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
. “/tmp/java-homeXXSKJJKJIOU” && ant clean
Buildfile: /home/fenris/workspace/packaging/liferay/PPA/liferay-portal-src-6.0.6/build.xml

BUILD FAILED
/home/fenris/workspace/packaging/liferay/PPA/liferay-portal-src-6.0.6/build.xml:6: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/fenris/workspace/packaging/liferay/PPA/liferay-portal-src-6.0.6/build-common.xml:245: .

Please set the environment variable ANT_OPTS to the recommended value of
“-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m”.

Total time: 1 second
make: *** [clean] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1348:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S failed

Im also looking at Liferay packaging status in debian (http://wiki.debian.org/Java/LiferayPackaging) looks like some job need to be completed. My goals for this liferay portal is it can be inside of Ubuntu Repo soon ……

Opening CAD Files in Ubuntu

fenris — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:54:39 +0000

Working at new company and differ environment make me explore and expose to new experience … with the latest concurrent multiple project running …. banking system application , enterprise portal and ICT consulting …

My biggest challenging and experience is working with the Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) engineers, C&S , Architect is they are working on the same format and file that is CAD . So why i say it biggest challenging is i doesn’t know any software that can work in Ubuntu (maybe lack of OSS application knowledge) but i’ve try to find before .. then i have no choice need to work with the proprietary software such as AutoCAD. Luckily today while i browsing my facebook … i saw an advertising banner about FREE CAD software. I then straight away go to the website and reading the information and its saw support multi platform include linux.

http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/

I straight away download and excited to try in Ubuntu since they already package the installer. After download and try to install , i discover its need some dependencies ,

sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra sendmail

sudo dpkg -i DraftSight.deb

Its required an activation so u need to register with your email address and activated it with the given link in your email. Finally ………………….

Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 Beta 1

fenris — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:48:19 +0000

Just upgrade to Oneiric Beta 1 yesterday … got a few bugs that makes me failed at the first place to boot into it .. but then i manage to fix it manually referring to bugs thats has been reported at launchpad. Finally .. here is the result / output …

MyGOSSCON 2011 : Call For Paper

fenris — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:31:03 +0000

MYGOSSCON 2011, the Malaysian Government Open Source Software (OSS) Conference returns on 29 – 30 November 2011 targeted for CIOs. As leaders of the IT sector, CIOs play an important role in realizing the value of IT.

MYGOSSCON is held annually since 2007 as part of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Program. The Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC), MAMPU has successfully completed Phase II – Accelerated Adoption Stage of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Program. This conference marks the beginning of Phase III – Self-reliance.

This popular event is back to bring you the latest trends and developments to provide CIOs with insights on self-reliance and technological independence in IT developments.

The conference which will be attended by about 400 Chief Information Officers from the Malaysian Public Service Sector will see the enrichment of ideas and experience, latest findings and studies towards improving the Public Service Delivery System. It will also provide opportunities to share new and advance ICT technologies and exhibit the public sector’s ICT initiatives.

MYGOSSCON has reached beyond the Government sector, successfully engaging and benefiting from organisational support of businesses, educational institutions and OSS communities to nurture the OSS ecosystem

I do hope that Ubuntu @ Canonical can participate for this event especially in the Global Adoption & Cloud Computing or other related session/tracks since the event will be held end of November (Not conflict with UDS)