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I’ve one announcement to make, Mypapit GNU/Linux blog *MAY* be unavailable starting March 14 (0100 GMT+8), this is because my hosting company is performing some server upgrades and maintenance. My website will be available back on March 15.
Well, Just telling you in advance in case if you are wondering why you can’t reach my website.
Well, good luck for those who are taking SPM last year. I heard that over four thousand students get straight-As in all subjects. I hope you are one of them~!
Last night, I discovered that the current Python for Nokia implementation (pys60 1.3.1) has no ProgressBar wrapper. While this may not be crucial for every application, It is recommeded to display a ProgressBar when you want to improve application perceived speed, especially when performing time-consuming tasks.
I guess without ProgressBar, maybe I’ve to resort to the old style “Please Wait” text on the phone screen everytime the phone execute a long task (such as connecting/authenticating to a remote server).
Anybody can create a ProgressBar python module? (ProgressBar.pyd)
Ever got used to package manager such as apt-get, yum, pkg_add or something like it? Wonder if Microsoft Windows has something similiar? Then wonder no more, introducing win-get, an apt-get package manager look-alike for Microsoft Windows.
Download the application from http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/, and put wget.exe and win-get in c:\windows, or anywhere you prefer.
Using win-get is simple, you can query win-get database with a simple “search” directice. Let’s say you want to query about which browser available from win-get repository.
H:\>win-get search browser Using Repository: http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/winget.php Name Version ---- ------- avant 10.1 Build 32 firefox 1.5.0.1 flash_player 8,0,22,0 links 0.98 mysql_querybrowser 1.1.17 netscape 8.0 opera 8.51 spybot 1.4 zinf 2.2.1
and if you want to install Mozilla Firefox, you just need to execute :
H:\>win-get install firefox Checking for mirrors... No alternative mirrors found... 11% [===> ] 577,440 29.77K/s
Which after that will execute the installer and display the installation process in your computer screen.
You can also acquire information about a particular software package by using the “info” directive, like this
H:\>win-get info ad-aware Application Name: ad-aware Version: SE Developer: Lavasoft Location: http://tucows.tierra.net/files2/aawsepersonal.exe Type: freeware Supports Silent: Yes Description: This is a spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you remove them.
You can browse for more applications currently in win-get repository at http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/listapps.php
Well, I guess that is all about it. Go and try it out guys
p/s: I haven’t been successful running “win-get uninstall” command, can anybody tells me if it works in their computer? Thanks.
btw, thanks to linuxlah for the CSS terminal hack.
A lot of my friends has been asking me about this very question, “how to get root shell in Ubuntu”. Naturally I would ask them to use the “sudo” command as it suffice to execute any task restricted to root only. It is explicit, and it is safer than using root account, that’s why ubuntu never prompted root password during installation.
However for some reasons, some people would prefer a full root shell instead of using “sudo” command. And here is how to obtain root shell access in Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
From Desktop, launch the “Terminal” application, accesible through clicking Applications->Accesories->Terminal.
Execute this command,
Enter your user password, and then you’ll get the root shell “#”.
Same as method 1 but execute this command,
Enter your user password, and then you’ll get the root shell “#”.
So there you go, that’s how to get root shell access within your Ubuntu GNU/Linux. But as for me, I think I can settle with the sudo command, as I haven’t found a situation where I need to use the root shell explicitly.
Good luck !
Ever wonder how do you make money with Free and Open Source Software? I found an article which has a list of examples on how you can earn money through free and open source software model. It is an inspirational article indeed, you might get some ideas on how to start a business based on one of these examples.
Hope you enjoy reading it as I am!
101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source
p/s: the article only listed 46 examples instead of the implied 101.