12 Sep, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Linux, Software, Windows
oraclec e delivery

oraclec e delivery

Your one stop Oracle software download site. Oracle® E-Delivery

Oracle Entreprise Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Database, Oracle Application, Oracle Database Cluster, the goes on.

However, OTN provides more granule downloads. Those who know exactly what they need would prefer OTN compared to E-Delivery’s bundles.

9 Sep, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Blogging, Open Source, Software, WordPress

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.2 this morning using the WPAU plugin.

The release fixes a vulnerability in the password complexity which could allow user passwords to be reset by the attacker who can later use mt_rand() to predict the random password.

Upgrade if you allow open registration.

Download WordPress 2.6.2

Found this yesterday. It’a another Ubuntu repository for Malaysians and it’s hosted by MMU.

http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/

Source: FOSS-SM

The folks at dropbox released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon.

The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closed source.

Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need to compile from source. Go to the download page

I managed to get dropbox working on my openSUSE 11 running KDE. It’s quite simple actually. You need to install the nautilus and nautilus-devel pakages before compiling the source,

1. install nautilus

root#> zypper in nautilus

2. install nautilus-devel

root#> zypper in nautilus-devel

3. compile the dropbox source. Make sure to be in the source folder first.

root#> ./configure

root#> make

root#> make install

4. start nautilus or the dropboxd daemon to initiate the dropbox client. 

root#> nautilus

or

root#> cd /home/[user]/.dropbox-dist/

root#> ./dropboxd

3 Sep, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Open Source, Software, google

Google released it’s own web browser “Google Chrome” yesterday. 

Why the need for a new browser? Google felt that the browser has not evolved too much since the old days and to support today’s web applications browsers will need to be re-engineered.

Google decided to wipe the slate clean and start over with Google Chrome though it’s open source project “Chromium”.

To start, It’s open source under a permissive BSD license. Developers will get the best from the project and vice versa.

Unlike other browsers, Chrome is multi-processed. Each tab runs in it’s own memory space. While one tab is processing other tabs no longer need to wait. If java scripts get too heavy you only need to kill the tab in question. Also, there is a task manager built in to show you the processes running in each tab, allowing you to kill them if needed.

The user interface has also been slimmed down tremendously. No more clutter and no unnecessary information is is visible. The smart address bar does it all.

Currently Google Chrome is only available for Windows. A Linux version is on its way.

Take it for a spin

Source: Chromium || LifeHacker ||