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How to Setup Amazon EC2 Cloud Server Tool Locally

jithesh@jithonline.com — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:19:50 +0000

Cloud computing you do not generally own the physical infrastructure serving as host to the software platform in question. Instead, they avoid capital expenditure by renting usage from a third-party provider. They consume resources as a service and pay only for resources that they use. Many cloud-computing offerings employ the utility computing model. Sharing “perishable and intangible” computing power among multiple tenants can improve utilization rates, as servers are not unnecessarily left idle it will reduce costs significantly while increasing the speed of application development. A side effect of this approach is that overall computer usage rises dramatically, as customers do not have to engineer for peak load limits. Additionally, “increased high-speed bandwidth” makes it possible to receive the same response times from centralized infrastructure at other sites.

Following are some simple Tip and tricks on how to build an application using Amazon Web Services. While purchasing Amazon EC2 you will get auth key and public key to access your EC2 server. You can set this key to your local PC by simple commands bellow.
Down load Tool from http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=351&categoryID=88

* Before all you need to download java5+ SDK to install this tool

IN LINUX:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/ [Path to java binary]
export EC2_HOME=/root/amz [Path to EC2 tool]
Set the environment variables as follow
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/root/amz/pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXdsd4ZBZQ55CLO.pem
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/root/amz/pk-WAJNB7EJYW4ESF2O74CQsdsddNVU6ZXQ5K.pem
export EC2_CERT=/root/amz/cert-WAJNB7EJYW4ESF2OsdCQSQXNVU6ZXQ5K.pem

IN Windows:

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Sun\SDK\jdk [Path to java.exe]
set EC2_HOME=C:\amz
set PATH=%PATH%;%EC2_HOME%\bin
set EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/root/amz/pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXdsd4erZQ55CLO.pem
set EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/root/amz/pk-WAJNB7EJYW4ESF2O74CQserddNVU6ZXQ5K.pem
set EC2_CERT=/root/amz/cert-WAJNB7EJYW4ESdf2OsdCQSQXNVU6ZXQ5K.pem

So you are done now to test the tool run the following command

#>ec2-describe-regions

Output:
REGION us-east-1 us-east-1.ec2.amazonaws.com
REGION eu-west-1 eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com

You can get all commands in /bin folder of EC2 tool you downloaded. Like to start instants stop and restart also search AMI and applications to get password etc.

You can install any of the OS you want Windows or Linux etc and also you can choose verity of OS and pre-installed AMI or even you can create your own AMI using AMI tool provided by EC2. You can create AMI of you local server and also of VMware images etc.

Wile installing Linux OS it installs OS without any password for root, so u don’t want any password while ssh into it.

Incas if you need to get the password of the instant you can use the tool you installed to get the password using the command called

PROMPT> ec2-get-password i-2574e22a -k windows-keypair q96A40B9w

See all command details here...

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Philips 3D 4YOU LCD Monitor and with its first 3D Television set

jithesh@jithonline.com — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:16:03 +0000

Panasonic is promoting its 3D TV and even Sony is trying for 3D TV too. Philips is already out with its 3D TV prototype. Even Samsung. The TV can also display standard two-dimensional images, close to HD quality.

This can be done either by direct 3D recording or by converting existing 2D content to 3D content. After that it’s coded with a processor in the TV generates nine slightly different views corresponding to the different angles. From almost any location, a viewer catches a different image in each eye. It is viewed over any 3D television using special glasses that come along with the TV itself.

This type of TV is best suited for video gaming. The amount of fun element it will add to Video Gaming. As its very difficult to convert traditional videos into 3D format, new games can very well adapt to the situation and can start creating new games which will be 3D compatible.

A standard laptop running Philips’ software was able to convert the DVD The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King into 3D in real time and display it on Philips’s new 20-inch 3D 4YOU LCD monitor. A retail-kiosk implementation of the 3-D screen.

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How to keep Gmail Account Safe

jithesh@jithonline.com — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:04:05 +0000

Its been reported that, the Gmail Account of many people has been hacked via a unpatched hole in the Gmail software.

How to keep your Gmail Account Safe….. Here is some ways to keep it safe.

1) Always use a password which is more than 8 characters including characters, numbers and special symbols. (E.g. Jithon1ne123$ or j!tHonL!ne123. (use of upper and lower case letters also increase the security)

2) Never Save the password in your browser or any other software’s.

3) Always use SSL Encryption to access Gmail accounts. The SSL Encryption can be activated by using “https” instead of “http”. Fortunately Gmail uses “https” through out the transaction.

Follow the below steps to activate “https” always while opening Gmail account.

a) Go to the Settings tab in Top – Right Corner of the Gmail Window.
b) Go to the “General Tab”
c) Select Always use “https” option at end of this tab.
d) Save the settings.

Now the Gmail page will restart with “Https” connection settings.

Using encryption will slow the Gmail page to open slightly, but this is worth it. The https protocol will encrypt not just your sign-in sessions but also the contents of your e-mails when they’re sent between your browser and Google’s servers.

If in case u dont find this settings to be working properly, you can do it manually by adding an “s” at the end of http. i.e https://www.gmail.com.

Hope this will help you to have a secure mailing with Gmail. Keep Mailing and blogging and Enjoy…

Free Simple and Flash Banners, Buttons, Headers and Text Creator

jithesh@jithonline.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:14:46 +0000

Free Simple and Flash Banners, Buttons, Headers and Text Creator
Freenicetemplates here you can create free graphics flash banners and Cooltext here you can get simple banners and buttons for modern digital advertising media of your website. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you will have your own

custom advertising texts and setup the colors for text and background also images. Further more a transparency value for text and background can be adjusted. In case of flash banners no flash skills are required to customize these flash banners, just download and replace flash header photos with yours and change texts, colors and music through an external XML file so all are as simple as that enjoy.

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How to Uninstall Windows KDE from Windows XP or Vista

jithesh@jithonline.com — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:44:02 +0000

These are the simple steps to uninstall KDE from windows XP
Many are installing KDE in windows but they are unaware; how to un-install windows KDE application, so here is the simple step to uninstall KDE from windows XP.

In TaskMgr processes, shut down kded4, dbus-daemon, klauncher, etc.
Run kdewin-installer, click each installed package until it shows a garbage can, and then complete the installer
Remove lib directory from %PATH% and the KDEDIRS environment variable which is created at the time of installation. In [ Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables], click on KDEDIRS in User variable and delete Variable name KDEDIRS with Variable value; the directory where you installed KDE4, e.g. C:\KDE4.
Clean up your Download Path of all the downloaded packages, and delete your install directory too

Done now KDE is uninstalled from your system.

How to Install Windows KDE…

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How to Create Best and Free Animated Ajax Loading gif Images

jithesh@jithonline.com — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:50:55 +0000

Free cool Ajax loading gif image generator. Many Ajax progress indicators or loading animated gif images; that are for free. You can customize these images and set the background colure and also loading image colure in matter of seconds and get it for your site. You can customize the image colure, at the mean time you can preview it before downloading it too. Try this and get coolest Ajax gif animation now……

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Worlds Cheapest $10 Dollar Laptop From India

jithesh@jithonline.com — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:15:24 +0000

Do you think any thing in the world which is not possible by human beings????!!!
Like a laptop for $10! Yes for 10 dollar Laptop [Rs500 INR], that’s true. Indian government is going to launch $10 laptop soon.

The Indian Government [UPA] is launching the cheapest laptop ever seen priced at $10 even as the private sector, with its best efforts, has not managed to bring down the price of a laptop lower than $100[Rs5000 INR].

This ultra low-cost $10 Laptop has been developed with support of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Indian Institute of Science and some B Tech students.
Details about the $10 Laptop remained limited, but higher education secretary R.P. Agrawal of India said last week that, it would be available within six months. Officials have not publicly demonstrated a prototype yet also not explained how it can be produced at such a low cost.

Following are some of the configurations.

It can be charged with a two-watt power input.
2 GB memory can upgrade.
Wireless Internet capability.
Capability to project on a screen.
The configuration can be upgraded etc.

The government has invested more than 939 million dollars to develop the low-power gadget to work in rural areas with unreliable power supply and poor Internet connectivity etc. The planned laptop is part of a push to increase the number of students in higher education and give them the technological skills needed to further boost India’s economic growth.

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DSTL1 the First Dual SIM Android Handset by General Mobile

jithesh@jithonline.com — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:39:09 +0000

Handset manufacturing company called General Mobile is gearing up to present their new Android powered DSTL1 handset at the Mobile World.
The DSTL1 is a dual-sim Android phone that features a large touch screen display and DSTL 1 is a classy looking touch screen handset.
DTSL1 will be the first Dual SIM Android powered handset. It is expected to hit the market in Q3 that is February of this year, at the Mobile World Congress. Some of the specifications of Android DTSL1 mobile are,

- 3-inch touch screen with a 240 x 400 pixel, 260K color resolution (WQVGA)
- Wi-Fi, EDGE and GPRS support
- 4GB internal memory with external support form microSD cards (up to 8GB)
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- Media player with DivX playback support
- FM radio
- 5 mega pixel AF camera with flash
- MS document reader
- Java support

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Free Online Multiple Chat or IM Client Login

jithesh@jithonline.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:54:06 +0000

With meebo you can chat with all of your friends on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber! Meebo supports file transfers between users too.

Meebo includes features such as invisible sign on this prevents others from knowing when a user connects and simultaneous connections to multiple IM services.

Meebo me widget! This allows users to embed a version of Meebo on their personal website. You can communicate with your site visitors, meebo me allows you to see the people who are visiting your web page and chat with them.

Meebo allows some people who are behind firewalled networks (networks that block the various instant messaging protocols but have not blocked the meebo.com domain name) to connect to instant messaging services due to the fact that the user connects to only port 443 (SSL) and the Meebo service itself then connects to the various instant messaging protocols.

Meebo also have “meebo Rooms”. Users of Meebo can connect to chat rooms or host their own for which multiple friends can join and chat. Meebo Rooms also grants a degree of control to the user with invite and ban authority. Classic Meebo was updated to reflect the release prior to Meebo Rooms to allow users with outdated browsers to continue to use meebo.

Meebo also have Firefox add-on plug-in too, to help the firefox users to handle the meebo as an desktop application and also it helps users to login directly to meebo while firefox application is started. You can get this plug-in here…

There Is Nothing Which Can Stop Spam Mails Coming or Going Out Of Your Mil Address!!!

jithesh@jithonline.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:04:24 +0000

Email spam [Junk mail or Unwanted email] really annoys all. There’s something hideous about craftily and repeatedly forcing worthless products onto millions of people who really couldn’t care less about viagra logo enhancements or anything else on offer. Spam is a big problem for everyone from the individual home Internet user to the multi-national corporation that depends on email communications to conduct business.

There are different kinds of spamming around this electronic web world.
- Repeatedly forcing useless products onto millions.
- Hidden text and links
- Blog and Wiki spamming
- Email Bombing
- Porno spam [Mailing of “adult” advertisements or pornographic pictures]
- Virus spam [Mass mailing that contain viruses, Trojans, malicious scripts, etc.]
- Spam scams [Mass mailing of fraudulent messages]
Etc…..

There are more and more spam categories do you ever think about
- What the reason behind it?
- Why this spam’s are not blocked all the time?
- How this spamming happening?
- What action you can take against spamming?
- Can’t we stop this spamming?

Yes it’s true there are many questing regarding this but truly the problem is; “the worst mailing protocol itself”. The founder of mail protocol never thought of this kind of un-presidential use of this discovery. Yes that’s true! Now no one can change this protocol because this protocol is spread like spider web all over the world. One craziest thing in mailing is; any one can send mail to any one with others mail address also if that mail address exists or not! That meant I can send mail from your mail id with out using your mail account, is this craziest!!!

There are many tools and companies in the world to stop and prohibit this spamming but all are failed in it. Till now there is no product or agency which can stop spam mails coming or going out of your mail address. So this is all about mail security. We can only hop a good system will come to stop this nonsense in future.

But still there are some tips to Identify this spam mails your self but its little technical I hop all can understand this. By seeing mail you cant identify how is sending mail and from ware it came from. The only way to check that is by looking in to header of the mail. All mail clients have the option to see the header of the mail the header of mail will looks like this it may differ in appearance depends up on providers

Return-Path: [spamers@address.com]
Received: from server.anydomai.com (mail.anymaildomain.com [126.43.75.123])
by spam01.d2.dfd.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id NAA23597;
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from aol.com (127-34-56-98.dsl.mybigisp.com [127.34.56.98])
by server.mymailhost.com; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hot Summer Deals 
To: your@mailaddress.com
Subject: You won the price of 10$Bln!!

In this you need to check the initial 6 lines which give exact picture of reply address and mail from server. This should mach the last 3 lines. Some time it also dot work; so this is not the 100% best solution for spam mail identification. I hop you can understand the complexity in mail identification.

NOTE:- Better solution is stop opening mails from unknown person. Never click any link in mails and also never download attached file which you are not sure about.

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New LG-KF900 PRADA Mobile Phone and LG-LBA-T950

jithesh@jithonline.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:11:22 +0000

The latest edition of the PRADA Phone LG-KF900 offers a collection of technical upgrades catering to today’s highest mobile needs. In the outer peripherals, new handset preserves the same original minimalist exterior that has now become a key design inspiration of touch screen handsets worldwide. A defining modification for the new handset involves a set of aesthetics keys that slide out to form a more professional look that not only grazes an elevated level of sophistication, but is also a highly efficient communication tool that complements the latest PRADA Phone by LG’s technology.
The latest handset from LG and PRADA partnership is set to hit the stores in Europe by late November this year.

The handset’s user interface also receives a powerful improvement with
LG’s latest active flash UI technology haptic feedback on touch input enhancing the experience of the phone’s exclusive contents offerings.

Dynamic upgrades to the software

3G capability

HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps

Advanced 5 mega pixel camera

Slow motion video recording

DivX playback.

Wi-Fi

HTML browser

Video calling

This time around, LG and PRADA reinvents mobile trend with another stunning offering, the ‘PRADA Link’ LG-LBA-T950. Expected to release with the new handset, this sleek and elegantly packaged digital timepiece is a Bluetooth device that can remotely monitor phone calls as well as read full SMS text messages without having to extract the phone from a bag or pocket. Extending the handset’s luxurious exterior beyond the device itself is a new wearable type accessory; the PRADA Link not only revolutionizes the conventional methods of mobile communication, but adds practicality and convenience to a fashionable statement.
The new PRADA Phone by LG and the PRADA Link will be available with a starting price of 600 Euros and 299 Euros, respectively. The products can be purchased through major mobile dealerships in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, and other countries in Europe.

How to Migrate a Live Virtual Machine Without Interrupting Services!

jithesh@jithonline.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:43:10 +0000

Industry interest in live migration has grown as virtualization technology has become more widely adopted. Live Migration of VMs across physical servers is a vital component of data center management that enables IT managers to move VMs as necessary in order to perform tasks such as upgrading or conducting maintenance of a server, balancing the server load and proactively managing the server availability to avoid downtime or lost data. The demonstration illustrates AMD’s approach to an open and collaborative relationship with its partners to meet customer demands.

Red Hat and AMD were able to achieve this feat through the combination of Red Hat’s innovative, high-performing virtualization technology and the consistent and reliable architecture of the AMD Opteron processor.

Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor’s platforms. Live migration demonstration moves a live VM from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, utilizing Red Hat’s high-performance open source virtualization software.

See the demonstration

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AMDs New ATI Radeon HD 4800 HD 3000 Series Using DirectX 10.1

jithesh@jithonline.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:20:52 +0000

ATI Radeon HD 3000 series and the new ATI Radeon HD 4800 series using DirectX 10.1 and AMD’s graphics technology. This will enable Battleforge to look its absolute best.

AMD’s broad support for DirectX 10.1 compliant hardware and pleased to see newest technology brought to market so soon. One of the great advantages of PC gaming is the rapid pace at which the experiences evolve and improve. The ATI Radeon HD 3000 series and now the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series hardware delivers on the promise of DirectX 10 gaming with significantly improved visuals and enhanced performance.

With Battleforge, EA is pushing the boundaries of the real-time strategy genre introducing social and community technologies to deliver a whole new online experience. It only makes sense that leverage the latest technology such as DirectX 10.1 supported by the new ATI Radeon HD 4800 series of graphics cards from AMD to deliver an amazing experience for gamers.

ATI Radeon HD 3000 series graphics products and ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics products are widely available now at leading e-tailers, retailers and system integrators worldwide.

AMD recently unveiled a real-time 3D demo called “Ping Pong” to illustrate some of the new graphical techniques made possible by the new features DirectX 10.1 and supported by both the ATI Radeon HD 3000 series and ATI Radeon HD 4000 series of graphics processors. The interactive demo shows off advanced lighting techniques only possible through DirectX 10.1.

DEMO

Ubuntu 7.04 Support Period is now Nearing its End of life by Oct 19-2008

jithesh@jithonline.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:38:16 +0000

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download.

Ubuntu says the release of 7.04 almost 18 months old, that is on April 19, 2007. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.04 will reach end of life on Sunday, October 19th, 2008. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 7.04.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 7.04 is via Ubuntu 7.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found here…

Note that upgrades to version 8.04 LTS and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via an upgrade first to 7.10, then to 8.04 LTS. Both Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS continue to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes.

The New mind Blowing and Compact 13-inch MacBook

jithesh@jithonline.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:08:01 +0000

Apple Introduced a new look for MacBooks. It looks pretty mind blowing and compact 13 inch laptop. There are lots of features and benefits in this new product; following are the details of the New 13-inch MacBook.

Precision aluminum unibody enclosure

Slid piece of aluminum comes a MacBook that’s thin and light, beautifully streamlined, and durable.

Ultrathin 13.3-inch LED-backlit display.

Seamless glass and instant full screen brightness make everything you see flat-out spectacular. Including the display itself.

Up to 5x faster NVIDIA graphics performance.

Advanced NVIDIA integrated graphics provide more responsive gameplay and more realistic 3D environments.

All-new, smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad.

Te entire glass trackpad is also the button, so it’s clickable everywhere.

New 13-inch MacBook 2.0GHz:

Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB DDR3 Memory
160GB hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
Price:- $1,299.00

New 13-inch MacBook 2.4GHz

Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB DDR3 Memory
250GB hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
Price $1,599.00

To purchase the MacBook click here…

Easy Steps to set up NFS in your Computer or Server Network

jithesh@jithonline.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:07:44 +0000

Network File System [NFS] is a very effective way of sharing files and data across your Unix/Linux network. NFS offers a neat functionality that fits perfectly into the Unix/Linux filesystem. Simply mount a directory off another machine on your network and read from or write to it; even run applications from it, that’s completely transparent!

Following are the steps to achieve NFS facility in your network.

You need to set up two kinds of services of NFS that is NFS Server at file sharing server and NFS Clint at Clint or user side servers.

Setting Up an NFS Server:

-Install NFS-Server application in servers which ever you want to share. Using following commands.

apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
or
yum install nfslock portmap nfs

-Place an entry in /etc/exports

/usr/local 192.168.0.1(ro) 192.168.0.2(ro)
/home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)

Here we are sharing ‘/usr/local’ with read-only and ‘/home’ with write permission. We can also specify network mask for allowing a group of network computers or each IP as shown above to allow specified IP to access this folders.

-If you come back and change your /etc/exports file, the changes you make may not take effect immediately. You should run the command ‘exportfs –ra’ to force
nfsd to re-read the /etc/exports file.

-You may need to set /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
These two files specify which computers on the network can use services on your machine. Each line of the file contains a single entry listing a service and a set of machines. When the server gets a request from a machine, Its not compulsory if your are not using it.

-The NFS server is configured and we can start it running.

/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start

Now we have setup NFS Server to share or get the shared NFS files. We need to set up following steps in Clint servers or PC

Setting up an NFS Client:

-Install NFS-Clint application in servers. Using following commands for this.

apt-get install nfs-common
or
yum install nfslock portmap nfs

-Mount the remote directory from your server just the way you mount a local hard drive, with the mount command.

mount 192.168.0.10:/home /mnt/home

Make sure you have created ‘/mnt/home’ directory before mounting it.

-To un-mount you need to run following command

umount /mnt/home

-NFS file systems can be added to your /etc/fstab file, same way as local file systems, so that nfs mounts when your system starts up. For this you need to enter following entry in fstab.

192.168.0.10:/home /mnt/home nfs rw 0 0

These are the simple steps to set up NFS mount; there are lots of options and steps and configurations to set NFS in little more effective manner, also can set fstab and export file configurations for more flexible NFS functionality.

Linux File Sharing in Windows as normal File Sharing

Linux File Sharing in Windows as normal File Sharing

jithesh@jithonline.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:03:32 +0000

Yes that’s true you can share files of Linux and windows machines like normal windows file sharing.
By Running SAMBA on a Linux machine you can achieve this.
Following are the simple steps to set this.

Install Samba using ‘apt-get’ or ‘yum’, like running following command in Linux box or servers.

‘apt-get install samba‘
or
‘yum install samba‘

So installation is done. Okay now you need to set up a folder to sharing, user name and password by editing ‘/etc/samba/smb.conf‘ file.

Setting network

interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127.0.0.1/24
bind interfaces only = Yes

By setting this SAMBA will run only on the internal interface.

Setting Password

File access permissions for the shares to work, you have to set up the SAMBA username/password by running smbpasswd on the linux box.

smbpasswd

You should use username/password created above in Windows machine to file sharing.

Setting up shared folders

[myfile]
comment = My shared files and folders
path = /home/jithonline
read only = no

Then, on the windows machine access it as \\10.0.3.10\ where 10.0.3.10 is the IP address of the linux machine use the password you set using smbpasswd to login.

If you want to share CD/DVD drive

[dvd]
comment = dvd drive on Linux Box
writable = No
locking = No
path = /mnt/cdrom2

Now restart the samba using

/etc/init.d/samba stop
/etc/init.d/samba start

That’s it, all about Linux file sharing in Windows with SAMBA.

Easy Steps to set up NFS in your Computer or Server Network

Google with Cool Form Feature in Docs

jithesh@jithonline.com — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:21:03 +0000

Google Docs is actually an online word processor that’s completely free to use and comes with a couple of very nifty ideas. If you’ve not tried it yet then you’ve certainly got nothing to lose by doing so: the only requirement is that you sign up for a Google account.

Google Docs offers a solid array of features. The standard stuff is all here: auto-saving, spell checking and word count, the latter of which offers a readability assessment for your document, so you can see how clearly you write.

Where Google Docs really shines is with its sharing facilities. When working with a document, you can click the share tab and specify other people as collaborators or viewers. Viewers can merely look at the document, but a collaborator can edit it fully, so if you’re working with a co-writer on a project (or several) you can all utilize the same master document.

There are lots of tools in Docs like spread sheet, Power Point and also Form facility that’s also absolute free.

Following are the steps to create a form and publish it on your site for getting reweave on your site or any thing you want. You can also see the summary of the poll or reweave of your form any time by logging in to docs.

Go to New > Form
Fill the Form as you want to display.

Submit that by clicking on Done button
Save the Form

Go to the More Action at top corner
There you can get the embedding code for your web site also you can edit the massage appears after the submission of poll or reweave by going to edit configuration.

You can view the published form by clicking on the hipper link which is show at the bottom of the page. You can share the URL to any one to participate in poll or reweave. Here is my Form.

Creating a form from a spreadsheet:

Click on the Form tab and click on Create a form.

In the form template that opens, you can add any questions and options you’d like.

Click Email this from once you’ve finished adding your questions.

Add email addresses for your desired recipients.

Click Send.

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Worldwidetelescope.org Microsoft WorldWide Telescope a copy of google sky

jithesh@jithonline.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:08:16 +0000

Microsofts WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes. Microsoft says the “final frontier got a bit closer” as the software giant officially launches the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org.

Very similar to Google Sky, WorldWide Telescope is a web app that brings together imagery from ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to explore the night sky through their computers.

Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, and trace their locations in the night sky.

The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine, which claims to allow “seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments”.

WorldWide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky.

WorldWide Telescope Software minimum system requirements

* Microsoft XP SP2 (minimum), Windows Vista
* 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
* 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
* 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing
* XGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution monitor
* Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing and scrolling device
* Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c and .NET Framework 2.0
* Required for some features; Internet connection at 56 Kbps or higher

worldwidetelescope.org Microsoft WorldWide Telescope a copy of google sky but still compare to Google sky worldwidetelescope is Mind blowing.

How to Setup Free Mail Server for Your Own Domain with Google

jithesh@jithonline.com — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:22:35 +0000

Yes that’s true you can setup your mail server for your own domain, absolutely free with Google!! As we know Google having mind blowing mail servers; you will be getting IMAP, POP, Mail forwarding ….etc for free and we can trust Google and they are with us for a long time now. So here are the simple 8 steps you need to follow to setup your mail server with Google.

1) Go to Google Apps and sign up for a standard account for your domain.

2) Once you provide your info, Google will take you to your control panel/Dashboard.

3) Note that Google needs to verify that you own your domain. So click on the link to verify your domain ownership.

4) At this point there are two ways of verifying ownership, HTML and CNAME method you can use any one of this which ever convenient for you.

5) Now setting Google apps as your mail server, by using this people can send mail to ‘userid@yourdomain.com’ and it will get routed to Google apps. If you need this, then sign in to your domain hosting service and go to the DNS panel for your domain and add the following to the MX (Mail Exchanger) section. Make sure you delete the default MX entry that is already there by default. If you don’t have access to MX you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

Priority Mail Server

1             ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10           ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

If hosting provider allowing only one or three MX, then choose first 1 or 3. You can use priority as same.

6) Wait a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on hosting providers). There will be a default email address which ever you passed while signing up this will be master account. If you need one more email account then go to your Google apps dashboard and “User accounts>> Create a new user” and add new email account. Also activate your Email.

7) In the “Service settings >> Email” menu you can change web addresses for accessing Email. For this create a CNAME and modify URL. This URL can be used to login to mail box (ie: click on “Service settings >> Email” menu and change the default web address to http://email.yourdomain.com or whatever you used for CNAME)

To use the custom URL email.yourdomain.com, you must change the CNAME record with your domain host.

a) Sign in to your domain hosting service.

b) Navigate to your DNS Management page. Generally be found in Domain Management or Advanced Settings, if not you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

c) Find the CNAME settings and enter the following as the CNAME value or alias:

‘email’

d) Set the CNAME destination to the following address:

‘ghs.google.com’

Wait for a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on Hosting providers). Then you can access to login page of your mail box using “http://email.yourdomain.com” or whatever CNAME you set.