# articles

feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=350
title: Install Firefox 4 in Ubuntu
uri: Install-Firefox-4-in-Ubuntu
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/5tlrrIq-dCQ/
content:
<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/">Firefox 4</a> was released and it definitely looks better and is faster than the older versions. I tried it out by downloading the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html">version from the site</a> and wanted to replace my old firefox on my Ubuntu. Here is how you can get the latest firefox on your Ubuntu box installed through apt-get.</p>
<p>Goto your terminal and type the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable</li>
<li>sudo apt-get update</li>
<li>sudo apt-get install firefox</li>
</ol>
<p>That&#8217;s it. After the big download, you will have firefox 4 installed on your ubuntu machine.</p>
<p>Here is an explanation of what happens.</p>
<ol>
<li>You are adding the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable" class="broken_link">mozillateam&#8217;s stable personal package archive repository</a> to your Software Sources.</li>
<li>You are updating your local packages for the new sources.</li>
<li>And you are installing &#8220;firefox&#8221;. Doing an apt-get install of an already installed package just upgrades it.</li>
</ol>
<p>Bonus: Look at the cool graphics to show the live download stats on the <a href="http://glow.mozilla.com/">glow.mozilla.com</a> site.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=346
title: Upgraded to WordPress 3.0
uri: Upgraded-to-WordPress-3-0
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/K8sPyb4ceZc/
content:
<p>It has been a very long time since I blogged and the only thing I was doing with the blogs was paying the hosting bills. So, I decided to do something useful and decided to upgrade to <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/">WordPress 3.0</a> finally. The manual <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">upgrade process</a> was smooth and was over in less than 5 mins.<br />
Running the new version of the software might close the numerous bugs and holes which might have been exposed on this blog for long. I recommend other wordpress self hosted users to upgrade to 3.0 &#8211; it is neat.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=343
title: MontyLingua3 – GPLed fork of MontyLingua
uri: MontyLingua3-GPLed-fork-of-MontyLingua
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/fsXQd8q-dHI/
content:
<p><a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/">MontyLingua</a> is a popular Natural Language processing tool which can understand english language and also correct it based on common sense &#8211; used by many people around the world for research. It did have a small problem &#8211; licensing. The author released it under <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/doc/License.txt">two licenses</a> which states that:</p>
<blockquote><p>If it is your intent to use this software for non-commercial,<br />
non-prioprietary purposes, such as for academic research purposes,<br />
this software is free and is covered under the GNU GPL License,<br />
given here: &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt&gt; and in the<br />
APPENDIX of this document.</p>
<p>If you are interested in this software for commercial purposes,<br />
commercial licensing information is available.  Please email<br />
(hugo@media.mit.edu) for more information.</p></blockquote>
<p>In my <a href="http://www.serendio.com">company</a>, we have been trying to get to the <a href="mailto:hugo@media.mit.edu">author</a> for the commercial license but he hasn&#8217;t replied to any emails. So we decided to make use of another NLP tool and move on. But a few days back there was a discussion at Reddit where it was noted that someone can get the software for non-commercial use under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt">GPL</a> &#8211; which gives him the full right offered by GPL. So he can copy, modify and share the software to anyone and the person who gets the software from him (not Hugo) can get it under GPL. This essentially avoids the commercial license path of MontyLingua Version 2.0 license.</p>
<p>I thought since I was already working on improving the code, why don&#8217;t I fork it, do the bug fixes and release it under GPL. This will allow anyone else to come up and fix the code and improve the project. Since the author isn&#8217;t actively working on this project, I think using this fork will benefit everyone to get a better version.</p>
<p>I have created a public repository in <a href="http://www.bitbucket.org/">bitbucket</a> called <a href="http://www.bitbucket.org/cnu/montylingua3/overview/">MontyLingua3</a> (the old one is in version 2.1). Right now I am going to clean up the code and since I am not a NLP expert there won&#8217;t be any new additional features. If someone can contribute with new features/functions then I would be very happy to include their patches.</p>
<p>To get the source code, install mercurial and clone the <a href="http://www.bitbucket.org/cnu/montylingua3/">repository</a> as</p>
<p><code>$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/cnu/montylingua3/</code></p>
<p>So, please contribute to the <a href="http://www.bitbucket.org/cnu/montylingua3/overview/">project</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=341
title: Distro Comparison for Organisations
uri: Distro-Comparison-for-Organisations
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/Lo4WL5gbfHo/
content:
<p>Anish (at <a href="http://oz.blogial.com">oz.blogial</a>) is writing a 3 part series of comparisons of Linux distros in the eyes of corporate organisations. In that he is comparing Ubuntu, Gentoo and Fedora. Head over there to know which distro is suitable for your organisation.</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://oz.blogial.com/2008/07/27/organizational-battle-ubuntu-vs-gentoo-vs-rhel-fedora/" class="broken_link">Ubuntu</a></li>
<li><a href="http://oz.blogial.com/2008/07/28/organizational-battle-ubuntu-vs-gentoo-vs-rhel-fedora-2/" class="broken_link">Gentoo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://oz.blogial.com/2008/07/29/organizational-battle-ubuntu-vs-gentoo-vs-rhel-fedora-3/" class="broken_link">Fedora</a></li>
</ol>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=340
title: WordPress MU vs MovableType
uri: WordPress-MU-vs-MovableType
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/p5-7QYBeCpM/
content:
<p>For almost one week I have been setting up Blogial Networks and have played around with <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress mu</a>. I decided to use WPMU after trying out <a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">MovableType</a>. I created a MT blog for FSLog and imported all the contents into it. With just about 350 posts, it created so many files for various views &#8211; single post, monthly archive, yearly archive, category view, etc. In total it took about 25 MB for all these files for just one blog.</p>
<p>Here are some of the basic reasons for not choosing MT and using WPMU:</p>
<ul>
<li>MT is huge. The zip file costs about 5MB and extracting it gets a 21MB monster out. Whereas WPMU is only 1.5MB &#8211; 6MB when extracted.</li>
<li>Ease of use &#8211; during installation and for creating post.</li>
<li>MovableType needs rebuilding so many files for every update to a single post. Missed out a word there, save it and republish the entire blog. This is unacceptable for a blog network which wants even technologically challenged people to blog. Not many would understand the republishing process (unless they are the old <a href="http://www.blogger.com">blogger</a> type). I agree that plain html files are blazingly faster than executing more than 30 SQL queries for every request, but wp-cache does a great job in caching the rendered HTML pages in wordpress.</li>
<li>Lot of plugins written in PHP. I can get my hands dirty with the plugins if I want to as I have seen and understood the WordPress architecture more than MT&#8217;s.</li>
</ul>
<p>Regarding the last point, I would be running a series of posts about the various plugins that we use here are Blogial and the problems and incompatibilities we faced while installing it in WPMU.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=339
title: FSLog now a part of Blogial networks
uri: FSLog-now-a-part-of-Blogial-networks
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/QgQQTb7LWDA/
content:
<p>I am happy to announce that FSLog is now part of <a href="http://blogial.com">Blogial networks</a> &#8211; a small blog network started by me and Sudarsan. We decided to start this blog network so that we can have a platform where people can cross post across various blogs thus creating good quality content.</p>
<p>If someone comes up and suggests a new idea for a blog &#8211; we will be happy to create a blog and make them the owner of it. He should then build the blog and most important of all, build a community around it. Any reader who wishes to contribute to a blog, can <a href="http://blogial.com/wp-signup.php">register</a> and ask for becoming an author in it. This is all about trying to get more people to post in a single blog and to build the blog more social.</p>
<p>This blog network isn&#8217;t about making huge money or to compete with the <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/">big</a> <a href="http://www.b5media.com/" class="broken_link">players</a>. We are just simple minded people who want to blog about things passionate to us. Of course we would think about monetising and would also love to get donations(paypal:srinivasanr@gmail.com) so that we can sustain running this network.</p>
<p>I have this network running on a <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress-mu</a> installation which is very easy to get a blog network up and running in minutes. I have it hosted on <a href="http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net">NearlyFreeSpeech</a> and tried to bring fslog.com also into that. I know that wpmu supports multiple domain names and I tried using this <a href="http://wpmudev.org/project/Multi-Site-Manager">Multi-Site Manager plugin</a> &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t get fslog.com work in NFShost. Also for creating a blog in blogial, I should manually create an alias in NFS. This needs to be changed asap and we are looking at moving onto a better host (maybe a VPS). If someone can give us some good offer for a VPS, we are listening to you. Till we can fix this, FSLog is going to be on a seperate WordPress installation.</p>
<p>I am in the process of setting up the blog, installing plugins and creating blogs. Right now we have 3 blogs under blogial.</p>
<ul>
<li>FSLog &#8211; This one</li>
<li><a href="http://codelog.blogial.com/">Codelog</a> &#8211; about programming owned by Sudarsan (previously <a href="http://programmerslog.wordpress.com/">ProgrammersLog</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://oz.blogial.com">OZ</a> &#8211; about living in Australia owned by Anish</li>
</ul>
<p>I am open to any other blogs that you may want to be here.</p>
<p>I am also looking at creating some good themes for the blog and also a logo for blogial. If someone can help us in it, we would be very happy.</p>
<p>Since we now have more people to post in this blog, you can be sure to get good, quality content here on the network.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=338
title: Opensolaris and Ubuntu Dual boot
uri: Opensolaris-and-Ubuntu-Dual-boot
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/3dkcox6orUQ/
content:
<p><a href="http://www.opensolaris.com/"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.opensolaris.com/images/opensolaris_logo_trans.png" alt="Open Solaris Logo" /></a>Yesterday I decided to try out the <a href="http://www.opensolaris.com/get/">live cd</a> of <a href="http://www.opensolaris.com/">Opensolaris</a> 2008.05 and decided to install it on my laptop after playing around with it for some time. The install process was painfully slow, but was very easy. If you already had Ubuntu (or any other OS for that matter), then OpenSolaris&#8217;s Grub menu would not have autodetected the other OS like Ubuntu does. There would be only one single entry for Open Solaris.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/ubuntu_logo.thumbnail.gif" alt="Ubuntu logo" /></a>I wanted my Ubuntu back and so searched the web for info regarding this and <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/tonyb/entry/dual_boot_soalris_and_ubuntu">found one</a>. He has given steps to first install Solaris and then Ubuntu, but this holds true the other way round too.</p>
<p>You would need the desktop live CD of Ubuntu for this, so that you can <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows">recover Ubuntu&#8217;s grub</a>.</p>
<ol>
<li>After booting to Ubuntu Live system, open up the terminal and type <code>sudo grub</code>.</li>
<li>You will get a grub prompt &#8211; here type
<pre>find /boot/grub/stage1</pre>
</li>
<li>Use this information to set the root device (this may be different for you)
<pre>root (hd0,0)</pre>
</li>
<li>Then install grub
<pre>setup (hd0)</pre>
</li>
<li>And <code>quit</code></li>
</ol>
<p>This would get back the Ubuntu&#8217;s old grub, but now you have to make an entry for OpenSolaris.</p>
<p>Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add this new entry at the bottom</p>
<pre>title	Open Solaris
root	(hd0,1)
chainloader	+1
makeactive
boot</pre>
<p>This would enable you to boot to Open Solaris too now. There were problems with my Atheros drivers as usual and I have to find a way to install the <a href="http://www.fslog.com/2008/05/03/acer-aspire-5050-atheros-ar5006eg-wireless-in-ubuntu-804/">madwifi drivers as I did on my Ubuntu</a>. If anyone got wifi working on Acer Aspire 5050 with OpenSolaris, please do leave a comment here.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=337
title: Clean Windows virus from Linux
uri: Clean-Windows-virus-from-Linux
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/yDiPmiVEq9s/
content:
<p>Yesterday we noticed in our windows samba share machine that it was infected with virus. This is the kind of virus which became common 2 years back which created an executable file with the name same as the current directory name. In a windows machine, the icon was set in such a way that it looked exactly like a windows directory. If you double click that file (thinking it is a folder), you are sure be infected.</p>
<p>So, I had to delete the files and the shared directory was having numerous folders. I then wrote a bash one liner (not exactly 1 line) to delete the files.</p>
<p>First I used find to get the list of all the exe files in all folders and stored it in a file (<code>exe_files</code>).</p>
<p>This was the command I then used to delete all the files.</p>
<pre>cat exe_files | while read line;do l=`ls -lh "${line}"`;size=`echo $l| cut -d' ' -f5`;if [ $size = "604K" ]; then rm "`echo $l| cut -c"47-"`" ;fi; done</pre>
<p>What it does is reads each line in the file and finds the size of each file and if the size is &#8216;<em>604K</em>&#8216;  then remove the file.</p>
<p>Deleting based on the filesize was not that good, as we might have lost some original file which was correctly 604K. If you wanted a better solution, you would have to write one more if clause to check if the filename is the same as the folder name &#8211; better to create a shell script instead of trying a one liner.</p>
<p>Thanks to linux, we could delete all the ~6000 virus files in a simple command without the fear of infection.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=336
title: Feedly – social, magazine like start page for firefox
uri: Feedly-social-magazine-like-start-page-for-firefox
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/NbhEZYDqQow/
content:
<p>Today I found this excellent firefox addon called <a href="http://www.feedly.com/">feedly</a> &#8211; which calls itself as <em>a more social and magazine-like start page for firefox</em>. I see this as a great RSS feed reader which is integrated with <a href="http://reader.google.com/">Google reader</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/fslog">twitter</a> and other social thingies.</p>
<p>This is very well integrated with Google reader that any feeds you subscribe here automatically is reflected in Google reader. Reading a post here marks the post as read in Google reader.</p>
<p>You can recommend, tweet and annotate articles which enables your friends to know what you are doing with your feeds. One important feature is allowing the user to view the post from the site directly in an IFrame. So, I can comment on a post without leaving my feed reader.</p>
<p>They also have a feedly API which lets website owners to write custom views for their content. They also have a plan to allow the owners to <a href="http://edwink.devhd.com/2008/04/23/sponsors/" class="broken_link">better design ads</a> for displaying in their feedly UI.</p>
<p>Overall this is a nice way to read my feeds and I think I am going to try this one for some days. It is available as a free Firefox extension and you can install it by going to the <a href="http://www.feedly.com/">feedly website</a>.</p>
<p>Update: They even have got it <a href="http://edwink.devhd.com/2008/06/22/feedlydelicious/" class="broken_link">integrated</a> with <a href="http://del.icio.us" class="broken_link">del.icio.us</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://www.fslog.com/?p=335
title: Skribit: Suggest topics to write about
uri: Skribit-Suggest-topics-to-write-about
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/mJUczF476xc/
content:
<p><a href="http://skribit.com/" class="broken_link"><img class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://skribit.com/images/logo_small.png?1214052348" alt="" width="216" height="54" /></a><a href="http://skribit.com/" class="broken_link">Skribit</a> is a product I found out today in <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224718">news.YC</a>. I think this is one tool which is essential for bloggers like me who can&#8217;t find interesting topics to blog about. This product will help solve the problem of writer&#8217;s block by engaging the community into the blog&#8217;s content.</p>
<p>People can suggest new topics which they would like to be covered or they can vote on topics already added by other members in the community. It is non-intrusive and takes just a simple sign-on (they have openid too) and adding a widget to your blog. A very simple idea.</p>
<p>So, if you want me to write about any particular topic, just use the widget in the side bar and suggest new topics.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/21/javascript-trick-to-edit-the-page-displayed/
title: Javascript trick to edit the page displayed
uri: Javascript-trick-to-edit-the-page-displayed
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/aYdWKedvSgA/
content:
<p>Do you want to quickly edit the text of any webpage that you are browsing? Maybe you wanted to see how the site looks if you change some words. Here is a neat Javascript trick that you can use to edit the text part of the web page.</p>
<p>Do note that you can&#8217;t save the changed text onto the server or is this any means to hack a web server. If you refresh the page, all the changes you made will disappear. You can however save the resulting HTML if you goto <code>File -&gt; Save as</code>.</p>
<p>Step 1: Drag this <a href="javascript:if (document.designMode=='off') { document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on';} else { document.body.contentEditable='false'; document.designMode='off';} void 0">Edit/View</a> bookmarklet into your bookmarks toolbar.</p>
<p>Step 2: Goto the web page which you want to edit and click on the bookmarklet &#8211; you will be put into the edit mode. Click the bookmarklet again and you will be put into the normal view mode.</p>
<p>Step 3: ?????</p>
<p>Step 4: Profit.</p>
<p>For those of you who like to know what it does beneath the scenes, it just sets two properties of the document to make it editable.</p>
<p><code>javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0</code></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/21/javascript-trick-to-edit-the-page-displayed/">Javascript trick to edit the page displayed</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/20/ubuntu-studio-a-multimedia-creation-derivative-of-ubuntu/
title: Ubuntu Studio – A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu
uri: Ubuntu-Studio-A-multimedia-creation-derivative-of-Ubuntu
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/UqkypPl8GFo/
content:
<p><a href="http://ubuntustudio.org/"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/ubuntustudiologo.png?w=660" id="image340" alt="Ubuntu Studio Logo" align="left" data-recalc-dims="1" />Ubuntu Studio</a> aims to be a multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment. Their ultimate goal is to build a solid Ubuntu distro based on Ubuntu-Gnome by Feisty Fawn. This distro has various <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/MetapackagesBreakdown">packages for audio, graphics and video editing</a>. Take a look at their <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/">wiki</a> for more info.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/20/ubuntu-studio-a-multimedia-creation-derivative-of-ubuntu/">Ubuntu Studio &#8211; A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/19/ubuntu-usability-analysis/
title: Ubuntu usability analysis
uri: Ubuntu-usability-analysis
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/oI-acmEk90Y/
content:
<p><a href="http://useopensource.blogspot.com/index.html">The Open Source Advocate</a> has a thorough <a href="http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-it-takes-to-make-ubuntu-ready-for.html">usability analysis of Ubuntu</a> and tells us what makes it &#8220;ready to use&#8221; for us. He takes each step for completing an operation and categorizes them into Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard and Very Hard. He also explains what can be made to improve the user experience.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/19/ubuntu-usability-analysis/">Ubuntu usability analysis</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/17/drupal-5-released/
title: Drupal 5 released
uri: Drupal-5-released
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/o5vhC-gLYZA/
content:
<p><a href="http://drupal.org/"><img align="left" id="image337" alt="Drupal Logo" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/drupal_logo.png?w=660" data-recalc-dims="1" />Drupal</a> the most popular open source content management system has moved on to version 5 after almost 8 months of development. The most important feature included in this version is the easy to use web based installer. The UI is also greatly improved and is easy to use. This version also allows themers to develop better themes for Drupal.</p>
<p>Drupal also celebrates its 6th birthday with its release of version 5.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/17/drupal-5-released/">Drupal 5 released</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/14/fedora-core-6-live-cd/
title: Fedora Core 6 Live CD
uri: Fedora-Core-6-Live-CD
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/TvXrhR-G5Ys/
content:
<p><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/"><img align="right" id="image335" alt="Fedore Core Logo" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/fedora_logo1.thumbnail.gif?w=660" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/">Fedora Core 6</a> is now available as a <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD">live CD</a>. This is great news to the old fedora fans out there. Fedora is a project that is sponsored by RedHat and is contributed by many developers around the world. These people create high quality open source software which can be used by anyone.</p>
<p>It was a great distro back in those old days. But after Ubuntu came along, it lost its place. I haven&#8217;t tried FC for the past 2 years and this live CD would be a nice way to try it.</p>
<p>The live CD is available for i386 architecture only and you can <a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/live/FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso">download it</a> from the official website or from <a href="http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Zod-livecd-1-i386.torrent">torrents</a>. It is about 683mb.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/14/fedora-core-6-live-cd/">Fedora Core 6 Live CD</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/12/in-pictures-image-based-tutorial/
title: in pictures: Image based tutorial
uri: in-pictures-Image-based-tutorial
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/BYUiMPtcPMk/
content:
<p>I got mail about a nice website called <strong><a href="http://inpics.net/">in pictures</a></strong> from Chris Charuhas. It is a nice site having tutorials about using Office, OpenOffice.org, Dreamweaver, etc.</p>
<p>The interesting part of this is that it is fully based on pictures. All the tutorials have nice explanations with screenshots explaining how to do every step. They are easy to understand and I would like to see more such tutorials for other open source softwares. Their press release says that they would bring in more tutorials for programming languages like PHP, Perl, etc. I would also like to see tutorials for other applications like Gimp, Evolution, etc., for the normal user.</p>
<p>Maybe this mode of teaching will help bring in more people to FOSS world.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/12/in-pictures-image-based-tutorial/">in pictures: Image based tutorial</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2007/01/05/performancing-metrics-to-go-open-source/
title: Performancing Metrics to go Open Source
uri: Performancing-Metrics-to-go-Open-Source
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/cclzQkFB2Bo/
content:
<p><img align="left" id="image332" alt="Performancing Logo" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/performancing-logo.gif?w=660" data-recalc-dims="1" />Performancing is a popular blog network which released <a href="http://performancing.com/firefox">Performancing for Firefox</a> &#8211; an extension for Firefox for bloggers. It also has various other services for bloggers like <a href="http://performancing.com/metrics">Metrics</a> for tracking the visitors of your blog. It also an advertising network called Performancing Partners. Even I use these services and you too can advertise on this blog by clicking on the ad in the sidebar.</p>
<p>There is another good news for the FOSS community as Performancing will be releasing the code for <a href="http://performancing.com/node/5583">Metrics as Open Source</a>. It is great to see that we get such quality software and hope many developers continue to enhance it.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2007/01/05/performancing-metrics-to-go-open-source/">Performancing Metrics to go Open Source</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2006/12/28/how-to-think-like-a-ruby-computer-scientist/
title: How to think like a Ruby Computer Scientist
uri: How-to-think-like-a-Ruby-Computer-Scientist
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/o45NqO2atEE/
content:
<p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/">How to think like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python</a> is an excellent book for learning Python for the newbies. Here is another book similar to that for those who want to learn Ruby.</p>
<p><a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/hpassel/thinkruby/">How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with Ruby</a> is a book for those newbies who want to learn the basics of Ruby, Objects and how to use them for creating various data structures like linked list, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, maps, etc. It is still under development and will make a good book. Currently there is no downloadable PDF files. But you can wget the html files.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2006/12/28/how-to-think-like-a-ruby-computer-scientist/">How to think like a Ruby Computer Scientist</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2006/12/26/globulation-2-free-rts-game-for-linux/
title: Globulation 2 – Free RTS game for linux
uri: Globulation-2-Free-RTS-game-for-linux
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/3FrKygnVw7Q/
content:
<p><img align="right" alt="Globulation 2" id="image329" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/globulation_2.png?w=660" data-recalc-dims="1" /><a href="http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page">Globulation 2</a> is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units.  This means the user just has to assign specific number of units for a task and the units automatically do what is best for that job.</p>
<ul>
<li>It has nice AIs with varying levels of difficulties</li>
<li>Includes a scripting language for versatile gameplay</li>
<li>Nice set of tutorials which walk through the player with the various tasks</li>
<li>An integrated map editor allowing you to create your own maps</li>
<li>Play in single player, local area network or over the internet with  <a title="YOG" href="http://globulation2.org/wiki/YOG">Ysagoon Online Gaming</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>One unique thing about this game is that it doesn&#8217;t have any humans or other creatures. All the characters in this game are called globs(see pic) and look and move funny. It is a nice game and I am playing it for the past 2 days.</p>
<p>It is available in Synaptic, but it would be better if you could <a href="http://globulation2.org/wiki/Download_and_Install">download and install</a> it.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2006/12/26/globulation-2-free-rts-game-for-linux/">Globulation 2 &#8211; Free RTS game for linux</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://fslog.blogial.com/2006/12/26/liferea-news-reader-for-linux/
title: Liferea – News Reader for Linux
uri: Liferea-News-Reader-for-Linux
url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fslog/~3/n1ebc3TW6CU/
content:
<p><img align="right" id="image328" alt="Liferea" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.fslog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/liferea-48.png?w=660" data-recalc-dims="1" />Today I was analyzing my RSS Feeds and saw that there are about 59 subscribers(thanks to <a href="http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/ubuntu-blogs/">Ubuntu Blog</a>) and saw that there was a Reader called <a href="http://liferea.sourceforge.net/">Liferea</a>. I have heard of this before, but didnt give a try. So I thought &#8211; why don&#8217;t I install it and see how it works out. So I just went to Synaptic and did a quick search for Liferea and installed it.</p>
<p>It is cool and works great. It is actually developed for Linux users who want a good Feed Reader. You have easily customizable panes with 2 or 3 pane mode. Also you can set how many items to save under each feed. Overall: a nice and fast reader to try if you are under linux.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com/2006/12/26/liferea-news-reader-for-linux/">Liferea &#8211; News Reader for Linux</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fslog.com">Free Software Blog</a>.</p>


