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Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team at Penang Matriculation ICT Day 2012

Feb 21

fenrisMy Life, Technology, Ubuntu 1 Comment

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)

Feb 03

fenrisKubuntu, pR0jEcT, Ubuntu 1 Comment

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

Jan 29

fenrisSecurity, Technology, Ubuntu 1 Comment

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

Jan 14

fenrisLiferay, Ubuntu 2 Comments

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 <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 ……

Opening CAD Files in Ubuntu

Dec 26

fenrisCAD, Technology, Ubuntu 1 Comment

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 ………………….

MyGOSSCON 2011 : Call For Paper

Sep 14

fenrisUbuntu No Comments

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)

PostgreSQL 9.0.3 Binary Replication in Test Environment

Feb 23

fenrisPostgreSQL, Ubuntu PostgreSQL, Ubuntu 2 Comments

I need to deploy/implement the system for my client with heartbeat and database replication. So i decided to make a test environment with my lenovo thinkpad and HP workstation as (Master – Standby) before i do it to the live production server environment.

Btw, PostgreSQL in maverick right now does not come with the 9.0.3 packages. So i use Martin Pitt’s PPA , thanks for back porting the package for maverick.

$sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql

$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.0 postgresql-client-9.0 postgresql-contrib-9.0

Thanks to PostgreSQL community because they have build the wiki with a simple / less step to get it done. So U guys just follow this wiki after finish installing postgresql 9.0

Here are the result :

Database has been replicate to standby server

Back to Blogging World …

Feb 23

fenrisUbuntu OpenBravo, Ubuntu 1 Comment

I guest almost more than half year that i left my blog world. maybe now i need to start it back since i left my previous work place Open Source Competency Centre from june 2010.

Now im working with B.I.S R&D SDN BHD , a bit introduction about the company im working now :

BIS which is the acronym was incorporated in the year 2005 with the specific aim of developing a full fledged ERP solution for Malaysian Small to Medium sized businesses.

This was due to the fact that that at that point, SMEs did not have access to quality ERP software at a affordable price. All the ERP suites available were for large enterprises and required a large amount of investment in time and money to implement and deploy.

Our first year of operation was spent on Research & Development of our propriety ERP solution which we have named ‘I.ES ERP’. The completed and functional version of the software was successfully completed by end of year 2005. In early 2006 we started to market and sell the software solution and have successfully deployed the solution to many companies in Malaysia.

Since then, BIS has grown from strength to strength and acquired more and more clients and success stories.

Our solution currently more to OSS software and application development , OpenBravo & Ubuntu . As for now we use Ubuntu as our platform for all range from desktop, Point of Sale (touch screen) , server and Cloud EC2. I’ll post the photo of POS that using Ubuntu as Operating System with OpenBravo POS in my next post.

Here are some event with the Ministry of Education Malaysia that we are promoting the Ubuntu for Education: