.:: mY Life JoUrNeY ::. http://blog.fenris.my Just another Life Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:33:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Make Malaysia into an Open-Source Software hub http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/myfenris/~3/AMjXUteowN8/ http://blog.fenris.my/2012/07/24/make-malaysia-into-an-open-source-software-hub/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:32:22 +0000 fenris http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=927 REPOST from : http://goo.gl/f3rRc

The prevailing system of proprietary software that is commonly used by Malaysians is not beneficial as Malaysians have to pay high costs if they use the licensed software or otherwise run the risk of being criminalised if they use pirated software.

Most Malaysians are not aware of the Open-Source Software (OSS) that has equivalents of commonly used applications and is available for free.

Malaysians are also paying for the proprietary software that comes bundled with their desktops and laptops. They are often not given a choice in the operating system.

CAP is concerned with the exploitation and criminalisation of consumers by the proprietary software companies and urges the Government to form a specific agency to make Malaysia the leader in the promotion and development of OSS. This could provide savings of millions of ringgit to Malaysian consumers and companies. Plus it could create manpower skills and jobs for Malaysians and provide cutting-edge expertise and support services in the huge OSS market worldwide.

The adoption of Open-Source Software models has resulted in worldwide savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers. Malaysians could be saving more than RM400 million a year if the products of Microsoft and Oracle are substituted.

We are also proud that Malaysia is a leader in the adoption of OSS in the public sector, ie in the Government agencies, through MAMPU (Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit). Mampu had saved RM242 million through its efforts.

Free OSS has good alternatives to proprietary software for most common applications. We have Open Office to replace Microsoft Office in general office applications, GIMP for Photoshop in image manipulation, Mozilla Firefox for Internet Explorer in Internet browsing, VLC for Windows Media Player for videos and sound playback, Calibre for Adobe Reader in reading ebooks and Ubuntu for Microsoft Windows in operating systems. There are many more such OSS applications that are excellent and are in some ways better than the proprietary software.

In light of the many advantages of OSS, CAP recommends the following to the Malaysian Government:

1. Form a special agency. There must be an agency, like MAMPU, to encourage the use of open source software, but targeted towards the entire national economy.

2. Spread awareness. OSS can be used for most common tasks: operating system, databases, office, graphics and multimedia utilities. However, most people simply don’t know enough about it. Thus, centres should be instituted for dissemination of information about OSS.

3. Avoid bundling and offer consumer a choice. Microsoft Windows operating system is often bundled with the computer. This sort of bundling restricts consumer’s choice. The unsophisticated consumer does not notice the extra cost involved. The sophisticated consumer loses money because there is no option to obtain the computer with just open source operating system, and the consumer must pay for Microsoft software whether or not he wants it. Thus, it must be made a legal requirement to always offer the consumer a choice of open source operating system on all machines.

4. Avoid early indoctrination and consequent criminalisation. Software companies rely on the strategy of “early indoctrination” to penetrate schools. This is somewhat like giving low-cost drugs to get people addicted! While schools may get licensed software at cheap prices, the school children (eventually) have to either buy it afresh, or get criminalised by pirating it. Accordingly, the use of OSS should be prescribed in all schools to prevent indoctrination.

5. Start OSS development centres. The Government should invest in establishing and supporting centres for open source development. The cost for this would be a small fraction of the total savings. It would also create more software jobs locally, and contribute to the vision of Malaysia as a knowledge hub. Further these centres could also function as training centres for open source, thus serving to overcome legacy and migration issues associated with teacher training etc.

6. Make comparisons with OSS mandatory before purchase. Universities and research institutes should be encouraged to develop and use open source educational software instead of proprietary software such as Matlab and Mathematica. Whenever such institutions purchase proprietary software it should be made mandatory that they draw up a comparison with the competing OSS.

7. Encourage SMEs and big users to use OSS. The use of OSS should be encouraged among both SME and big users. For SMEs the advantages are clear, provided there is some form of backend support available to address legacy and migration issues. This could be done by the above OSS centres, as a form of consultancy, which will make them self-sustaining in the long run. This will encourage people to look upon software development in terms of entrepreneurship and help Malaysia to emerge as a hub for skilled manpower.

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You can help! We need more 12.04 CDs to give away, and volunteers to man the booth. Contact Jeremy or Priya VI and we’ll fill you in. Thanks awesome Ubuntu people! — at Digital Mall.

Ubuntu-1_Page_2 Ubuntu-1_Page_1 ]]> http://blog.fenris.my/2012/06/11/free-open-source-software-%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/feed/ 0 http://blog.fenris.my/2012/06/11/free-open-source-software-%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/ Ubuntu SHOES ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/myfenris/~3/8-sJC1jhP9g/ http://blog.fenris.my/2012/04/07/ubuntu-shoes/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:45:51 +0000 fenris http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=908 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 ..

Robbie Williamson's Adidas shoe My Nike Shoe My Nike Shoe

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

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

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

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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.

]]> http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/28/2012-ubuntu-my-loco-team-t-shirt/feed/ 2 http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/28/2012-ubuntu-my-loco-team-t-shirt/ Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team at Penang Matriculation ICT Day 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/myfenris/~3/Enq3LmuIBVo/ http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/21/ubuntu-malaysia-loco-team-at-penang-matriculation-ict-day-2012/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:23:27 +0000 fenris http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=888
  • 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 Awareness at ICT Day 2012″

      From Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team @ KMPP, posted by Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman on 2/21/2012 (27 items)

      Logo at the back of the shirt
      Posing after closing booth
      smile !!!
      Ustream live streaming !!!


      Smile .. U r streaming online
      Q&A session by the MC (King of the Jokers)
      Who answer correct got Ubuntu lanyard and sticker


      Ustream live from the event
      Is it representative of Mark Shuttleworth?
      Question from students
      Student doing our online guest registration form


      Ubuntu are always and absolutely free
      Ubuntu banner
      Participation certification by the event organizer
      Participation certificate given by Assistant Director


      Souvenir to the Assistant Director of Penang Matriculation
      Group photo with the Assistant Director and Staff
      Explaining about Ubuntu to the Assistant Director KMPP


      Waiting …..
      Goodies from the Conference Pack .. tq Canonical


      Ready to go!!!!
      Preparation


      Generated by Facebook Photo Fetcher


      ]]> http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/21/ubuntu-malaysia-loco-team-at-penang-matriculation-ict-day-2012/feed/ 1 http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/21/ubuntu-malaysia-loco-team-at-penang-matriculation-ict-day-2012/ Ubuntu-my Collaboration with Federal of Malaysian Consumers Association (FOMCA) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/myfenris/~3/AHrEDDVLMbA/ http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/03/ubuntu-my-collaboration-with-federal-of-malaysian-consumers-association-fomca/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:46:22 +0000 fenris http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=879 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.

      FIRST BLOG POST_FINAL_Page_1 FIRST BLOG POST_FINAL_Page_2 UBUNTU_BM 5_Page_1 UBUNTU_BM 5_Page_2 UBUNTU_BM 5_Page_3

      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 …

      ]]>       http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/03/ubuntu-my-collaboration-with-federal-of-malaysian-consumers-association-fomca/feed/ 1 http://blog.fenris.my/2012/02/03/ubuntu-my-collaboration-with-federal-of-malaysian-consumers-association-fomca/       Building a Ubuntu Package for DNSCrypt-proxy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/myfenris/~3/cMn_o_8uSE8/ http://blog.fenris.my/2012/01/29/building-a-ubuntu-package-for-dnscrypt-proxy/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:46:02 +0000 fenris http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=864 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 …

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      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 <fenris@ubuntu.com>
      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 ……

      ]]>       http://blog.fenris.my/2012/01/14/liferay-portal-packaging-for-ubuntu/feed/ 2 http://blog.fenris.my/2012/01/14/liferay-portal-packaging-for-ubuntu/       Opening CAD Files in Ubuntu http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/myfenris/~3/0jrv2i-mGfo/ http://blog.fenris.my/2011/12/26/opening-cad-files-in-ubuntu/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:54:39 +0000 fenris http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=852 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 ………………….

      Screen Shot 2011-12-26 at 2.08.23 PM Screen Shot 2011-12-26 at 1.57.01 PM

       

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