I'm back with Karmic

Hi all, I'm back to blogging after the several month because of the damn busy period. I had to do my academic works in my university, still it's not over. In past period, I was studying about security in linux, Internet and other areas. I'd like to share my experiences with you..

First of all, I want to say a good news which may you already know. That is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala release with new version of the kernel 2.6.31, firefox 3.5 and GNOME 2.28.1. Basically, The main difference that I seen is enhanced boot process. The boot speed is much more improve than previous version. There is a new type of grub call "GRUB Legacy".

Now it's your time. go, download and install see the difference.

Ajaxterm - a web based ternimal client.

In previous article I discussed about how to bring the web to terminal. Now I like to tell about how to bring the terminal to web. It will be a good solution for remote access and access the internet through restricted proxy servers and sockets when you are using web based SSH terminal client like Ajaxterm. so the another advantage is you can handle the remote administration tasks.

Ajaxterm is written in python in server side, Ajax/javascript for client side processing and written by Antony Lesuisse.

Installaton:

Ajaxterm runs on Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, cygwin and any Unix that runs python2.3.

It is easily to install on linux using source packages without compilations.

if you are using debian or ubuntu enter this command on terminal.

sudo apt-get install ajaxterm

Run:

If you are install using source packages then goto ajaxterm-0.10 directory using terminal and simply run using ./ajaxterm.py

If you are using debian then enter this command

sudo /etc/init.d/ajaxterm start

then you can access with http://localhost:8022/ and it will listen port 8022 by default.

then you will get a window same as this.

then you want to configure apache for remote access. Put the following code
in vhost file.

<virtualhost><br />      ServerName ajaxterm.website.com<br />      Redirect 301 / <a href="https://ajaxterm.website.com/" class="external free" title="https://ajaxterm.website.com" rel="nofollow">https://ajaxterm.website.com</a><br />      CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined<br />      ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log<br /></virtualhost><br /><br /><virtualhost><br />      ServerName ajaxterm.website.com<br />      HostnameLookups Double<br />      CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined env=!dontlog<br />      SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/u" dontlog<br />      ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log<br />      Loglevel warn<br />      SSLEngine On<br />      SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem<br /><br />      ProxyRequests Off<br />      <proxy><br />              AuthUserFile /srv/ajaxterm/.htpasswd<br />              AuthName EnterPassword<br />              AuthType Basic<br />              require valid-user<br /><br />              Order Deny,allow<br />              Allow from all<br />      </proxy><br />      ProxyPass / <a href="http://localhost:8022/" class="external free" title="http://localhost:8022/" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:8022/</a><br />      ProxyPassReverse / <a href="http://localhost:8022/" class="external free" title="http://localhost:8022/" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:8022/</a><br /></virtualhost>

Command line web browsing.

Hi guys. Last days I was so busy with my university works. That's why I couldn't post new posts. Say to lot of things. so now I am talking about command line web browsing as I mentioned above.

How many of you know that you can surf the web using terminal? I think many linux users don't know about terminal based web browsing and web browsers.

In childhood of linux there are no graphical web browsers to surf the internet. those are text based and command based. Now I am going to talk about those web browsers and how they install and use properly. I bring forward some useful web browsers.

1. w3m
w3m is also a command line web browser and it supports to display for tables, frames,SSL connections , color and inline images on suitable terminal.

w3m comes with ubuntu by default. if your distribution is another try with source packages.

w3m with kernel.org

2. lynx
This browser have more features than w3m and runs on Unix, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT, DOS386+ but not 3.1, 3.11, or OS/2 EMX

The features of lynx which are not in w3m

• Lynx can handle cookies.
• Lynx has many options.
• Lynx is multilingual. (W3m is Japanese-English bilingual)

installation:
in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install lynx

or using source packages.

lynx with google

3. links
links is also a text-based browser which supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.

installation:
in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install links

soures

links with fsf.org

4. retawq
retawq is an interactive, multi-threaded network client (web browser) for text terminals on computers with Unix-like operating systems.

Installation:
there are no repositories in ubuntu archives.

you can install using sorce packages with simply

./configure -> make -> sudo make install

retawq with ubuntu

Promoting ubuntu softwares via facebook.

Here is a good news for ubuntu users who are using facebook. If you using facebook you can download and share ubuntu applications in easy way. "Jim Mendenhall" created a new facebook application call ubuntuapps using Ruby on Reils. This will make useful ubuntu application community in facebook. You can find more informations in his blog.

Enlightenment (E17)-Installation,customization and using.

About:

Enlightenment is a too eye-candy desktop shell and window manager. It is founded by Enlightenment organization. The first version of Enlightenment is released by "Carsten Haitzler" on 1996-10-30.

Enlightenment has two main window manages call E16(DR16) and E17(DR17). E17 is richer than E16. All functions and events of E16 can handle without mouse input. It is a main feature of E16 window manager. also it has grid of workspaces call virtual desktops. unlike gnome, each desktop with difference backgrounds and can set difference wallpapers.

E17 is fully functional system as I said above. It is themable (menus,dock,desktop,windows,icons,etc.) , icons on desktop, specially it has modules like KDE gadgets.

how I think you have a basic idea about Enlightenment. if you want to know about additional details see Enlightenment home page.


Usage:

Currently Enlightenment is using with difference environments. Live CDs are good option for beginners. There are 2 main Live CD series call Elive and OpenGEU. Elive is based on Debian GNU/LINUX and OpenGEU is based on ubuntu. Now you can download latest version of Elive+compiz. It is rich with compiz, Emerld, Syanaptic, and Hundred of open source applications.

Elive+compiz

Open GEU also has a live CD. You can download the current version of "OpenGEU 8.10 - Luna Serena" but it has not embeded compiz. Here is some screen shots and videos of OpenGEU.

Installation:

Now I'm going to guide about installation E17 for your current distribution. There are many options and packages for installation. Now i'm trying to install Enlightenment for ubuntu 9.04 jaunty. Because there is no easy and proper installation option for ubuntu in Enlightenment download page.

Now time to install. Open terminal and consider follow steps.

Here is the steps.

1. add the repository.

sh -c 'echo "## Enlightenment e17
deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu jaunty main extras" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

2. import the key.

wget -q http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

3. update.

sudo apt-get update

4. install.

sudo apt-get install e17

If you properly installed E17 then log out and choose "Enlightenment" from session list in login window. now login in your usual way.

Cheers!! If you can see a window like this.

so now our next step is customization.


Customize:

1. download wallpaper and set.

Enlightenment desktop supports to animated wallpapers. but this feature is not in gnome or other desktop environment. you can download animated wallpapers from here, here and here. also static backgrounds are in those wab sites.

To set wallpaper go to

System -> Settings -> wallpaper

Then choose your download wallpaper using "Picture.." button.

3. download theme and set.

The special feature of this window manager is using beautiful animated themes. You can download themes from above web sites.

setting theme.

System -> Settings -> Theme

Then import your downloaded theme.

Also you can download modules, icons, tools using same way from same web sites.

4. Compiz.

Compiz is also a window manager. now I think you wonder how to compiz and enlightenment are combine. because both are window managers. there is a good solution for embed to E17. It is "Ecomorph". ecomorph is a OpenGL compositing window manager for X11 that allows Compiz effects to Enlightenment DR17.

There is a good installation guide for ecomorph in their google home page.

my Enlightenment desktop:


now I assume you read full and short article about Enlightenment. If I forget something apologise me and All of your comments are welcome.

New logo for firefox 3.5

You already know that Mozilla 3.5 beta is available. Now mozilla foundation ready to give new logo with firefox 3.5. The full article about new logo is in Alex Faaborg's blog. Alex Faaborg is the Principal Designer of firefox.






New firefox logo is created as stronger 3d look than old one. the main differences is "Blue globe" and "fox tail".

The firt firefox logo is designed by Steven Garrity in October 2003. He Sketched it roughly and it is used with firefox 0.8 version.




here is the past logs of firefox and evolution.



you can download this logo from Firefox Wiki with various types.

Add new Items to Nautilus right-click menu and Run Gloobus.

As you already know Nautilus is the main file manager in Gnome. Do you know that nautilus is highly customizable File manager? well. now I am going to discuss a good customizable property in nautilus. I already said about it in topic which is add new menu items to nautilus right click menu.

First of all, you want to download a small software call "Nautilus Action". ubuntu users can download via the software repositories using follow command.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

others can download source package or rpm packages as your wish.

If you finished download and install then you can find it on System->Preferences->Nautilus Action Configuration.

Now you can see it's main window like this.




To add new menu item for Nautilus right-click menu click "Add" button. when you get "Add New Item" window as follows add these details call,

Label: menu item name which will be appear in Nautilus right-click menu.
Tooltip: tooltip of the menu item.
icon: which is own by menu item. in this I selected "gtk-help" icon. but you can select your own icon. but remember Large icons will be freeze Nautilus.




hmm... now we want to set path of Gloobus. Add new profile or edit default profile call "Main". set it's name Glooobus or your favourite. but I still set it as Main. now click Edit.

fill folow details.
path: /usr/bin/gloobus this is a location of gloobus main binary files/core.
Parameters: %d




now your configuration is completed. see right click on a item in nautilus. did you get like this?