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How to install Fedora without CD / DVD or any optical media 2008-08-22 15:56:09 Use Case
When you don't have CD / DVD drive on your system.
You have Fedora
DVD but your system has only a CD Drive.
You don't want to waste time and resources in burning iso on optical media
.
Pre-requisites
You have a Fedora DVD iso or rescue cd iso.
You have a Linux install
ation on your system.
You have a partition (FAT32, ext2, ext3) which you will not format while installing the new OS.
re
Youtube Cache Version 0.3 is available 2008-08-21 14:44:52 A new improved version of youtube cache is available
now. This version fixes few bugs related to configuration files and removes the httpd (apache web browser) dependency. Soon, youtube cache will implement caching of other video sites like google, blip.tv etc. Also, the configuration file has been moved from /etc/sysconfig/youtube_cache.conf to /etc/youtube_cache.conf because there is no sysconfi
IntelligentMirror gets even more intelligent 2008-09-22 16:39:47 Warning : This version of IntelligentMirror is compatible with only squid-2.7 as of now. It is NOT compatible even with squid-3.0.
IntelligentMirror Version 1.0.1
I have been following squid development regularly (at least the part in which I am interested) and they have introduced a new directive in squid-2.7 known as StoreUrlRewrite (storeurl_rewrite_program). Using this directive you can instru
IntelligentMirror (rpm and debian package caching system) 0.4 is available now 2008-09-18 17:00:21 IntelligentMirror version 0.4 is available
now. There have been significant improvements in intelligent mirror since last release.
Improvements
Fixed defunct process problem. You will not see defunct python processes hanging around anymore. Previously every forked daemon used to got defucnt because parent never waited for the forked child to finish.
IntelligentMirror now supports caching of Debia Read more:package
Redtube and Xtube Videos Cached using Squid ( youtube_cache version 0.8 ) 2008-10-12 13:15:56 As somebody requested via mail that he wants support for red tube and xtube domains. Now youtube cache
can be used to cache video from redtube and xtube. The inner working and usability is the same. In case you think the above two sites are either banned or not used in your country, you can easily disable caching for those in youtube_cache.conf to save some cpu cycles.
Supported Video Websites
Yo Read more:version
Google Videos Cached + Improved youtube_cache version 0.7 2008-10-11 12:46:38 Youtube cache
can now cache videos from Google
(video.google.com). All in all, youtube cache can now cache videos from Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and Google. Apart from the google video caching, youtube cache has been improved with respect to usability and logging.
Improvements
Improved logging help in saving disk space wasted in logging. Logs are more explanatory now.
Logfile size option add Read more:version
Dailymotion Video Caching Using Squid ( youtube_cache version 0.6 ) 2008-10-07 07:33:32 Youtube_cache
has been upgraded to cache the videos from another famous video website Dailymotion. Youtube cache can now be used to cache videos from Youtube (youtube.com and its country specific subdomains), Metacafe (metacafe.com) and Dailymotion (Dailymotion.com). The options for controlling the cachning for Dailymotion is same as the options for Youtube and Metacafe.
Availaibility
RPMs for Fe Read more:version
Metacafe Video Caching Using Squid ( youtube_cache version 0.5 ) 2008-10-04 13:55:33 Youtube Cache is no more limited to caching just the youtube videos. Now the package has been updated to cache
metacafe videos (Metacafe
.com, another popular site which serves videos) as well. The principle for cachnig the metacafe videos is same. We cache the videos locally on the server and serve subsequent requests from the cache.
A series of options to control metacafe video caching has been a Read more:version
Improved youtube cache version 0.4 is available 2008-09-30 22:40:36 Note : A newer version
of youtube cache
is available
now. Please check this.
This version fixes the bug related to large video files. If you are using previous version of youtube cache, you might have observed that whenever you try to seek in large video files, the video starts from beginning. This problem occurred because we were using python based minimal python web server to serve the video fil
An awesome program for network scanning 2008-11-08 00:56:26 I was searching for a simple tool which can do a port scanning in a huge network
quickly without making me wait for ages. I first thought of using nmap, but it was a bit too complex and it takes a lot of time to discover the machines even after optimizing the parameters. After searching a lot, I wrote to one of my seniors, Sandeep Kumar, asking the details of his program which maintains a list of Read more:awesome
Wrzuta.pl Audio and Googlevideo.com videos caching using squid ( youtube_cache version 1.2 ) 2008-11-04 11:15:04 I am back with updates on youtube cache
in response to the two requests in this comment. Now youtube cache takes care of the youtube videos
that are now served from google servers via subdomains of googlevideo.com instead of youtube.com . Also, youtube cache has now been fixed for country specific youtube sites. Earlier video download used to fail if the video was served from a country mirror of y Read more:Audio
, squid
, version
Installing Youtube Cache made easy and few other improvements ( youtube_cache version 1.1 ) 2008-10-30 14:55:19 As the previous version
seriously messed up things for people having python older than 2.5 due to XMLRPC dependency, I thought of releasing a new version which cleans up all the mess and introduces a few other improvements.
Improvements
Introduces setup.py . A big relief for the people using non RPM based distros or who are willing to install from source. Installing youtube cache i
Bandwidth Management and few other improvements ( youtube_cache version 1.0 ) 2008-10-24 16:01:49 Note : A newer version
of youtube cache
is available now. Please check this.
Till now youtube cache was missing one very basic and necessary configuration option - Controlling bandwidth consumption for caching videos from different websites. Thanks to Wyzio for pointing out the problem here. The new version of youtube cache provides a solution to this problem by introducing a download scheduler wh Read more:Bandwidth
, Management
Upgraded to Drupal 6.5 2008-10-22 15:13:00 After almost a delay of 6 months, I have finally upgraded fedora.co.in to Drupal
6. I have been using Drupal since a year now and it has been a really nice experience. Though I use both Wordpress and drupal for blogging, I like Drupal as it gives a chance to play around with the modules. Also, I love drupal because I know drupal internals and have been a module developer for drupal Read more:Upgraded
Vimeo.com HD Video Caching Using Squid ( youtube_cache version 0.9 ) 2008-10-17 05:38:31 Note : A newer version
of youtube cache
is available now. Please check this.
Vimeo.com is a nice website which serves High Definition videos. Now it is possible to cache HD videos from vimeo using the latest version of youtube_cache. Now youtube cache supports caching videos from a total of seven websites. Youtube cache works on both Red Hat and Debian derivatives. All you need is a squid proxy se
Fedora 10 Cambridge Released 2008-11-25 19:05:07 Fedora 10 aka Cambridge
is available now.
Get your copy of Fedora 10 now.
Well, if normal Fedora, doesn't suite you, checkout the Fedora 10 spins and get whichever suits you :)
Also for KDE fans, there is a special corner.
After you finished downloading, burn the ISO and check the completely detailed Fedora 10 Installation Guide. Or if you want to upgrade from existing Fedora version to Fedora 10 Read more:Fedora
Debian and Python naming convention conflict and Youtube Cache plugin rebase 2008-11-22 06:40:10 Thanks to foo for a nice suggestion to rebase youtube cache plugin. While I was trying to rebase the plugin according to the above suggestion, Eriberto suggested to name the package as video-cache instead of video_cache as Debian
packaging policy needs the package to be of the form abc-xyz-foo-bar instead of abc_xyz_foo_bar. Underscores in package names are not allowed. After almost a hard work of Read more:Python
Spicebird Beta 0.7 Final Released 2008-11-21 12:13:34
Reporting from Spicebird blog,
Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and Read more:Final
Youtube Cache plugin completely rebased ( youtube_cache version 1.5 ) 2008-11-20 14:37:17 Till now youtube cache
was storing everything in squid directories. For example,
core plugin code -> /etc/squid/youtube_cache/
cached videos -> /var/spool/squid/video_cache/
logfiles -> /var/log/squid/
The cached videos in squid sub directories created serious problems with permissions and Apache was not able to access videos due to strict permissions for /var/spool/squid/ . Due to Read more:completely
, version
How to configure caching-nameserver (named) in cascading mode 2008-11-19 06:55:17 Mission
To configure
a caching nameserver on a local machine which will cascade to another previously configured and functional nameserver (may or may not be caching. It'll generally be your ISP nameserver or the one provided by your organization).
Advantage
Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed websites are served from cache.
Working
na Read more:named
IntelligentMirror (rpm and deb caching) version 0.5 with lots of improvements 2008-11-18 14:12:56 After spending a lot of time with youtube cache, now I am trying to devote some time to update intelligentmirror with required features and enhancements that youtube cache already enjoys. In the same direction here is version
0.5 of intelligentmirror.
Improvements
Added max_parallel_downloads options to controll the maximum threading fetching from upstream to cache the packages.
Fine grained cont
MSN Soapbox Video caching using squid ( youtube_cache version 1.4 ) 2008-11-17 16:10:27 MSN Soapbox
videos or MSN Videos served via (soapbox.msn.com) can now be cache
d using the latest version
of youtube cache. Soapbox Videos are served from servers hosted by edgesuite.net. Other videos served via MSN (video.msn.com) are static in nature and squid
in caching mode can handle them anyway. So, now complete MSN Videos are cached using squid and youtube cache :) Also, video caching suppo
Update script added to youtube cache ( youtube cache 1.3 ) 2008-11-13 03:04:00 Note : A newer version of youtube cache
is available now. Please check this.
Youtube Cache was lacking the very basic facility of updating the configuration files and caching directories when changes are made to the main configuration file located at /etc/youtube_cache.conf . The new version of youtube cache introduces a new script
update-yc which will help you update the directories and other con Read more:Update
Google is the Fastest 2008-11-12 14:54:06 While testing a piece of code for my squid plugin, I ended up changing permissions of /tmp/ directory to 0755. A few minutes later (after making changes to the code), I tried committing it to fedorapeople.org and got this error
[project@bordeaux youtube_cache]$ git push --all ssh://kulbirsaini@fedorapeople.org/~kulbirsaini/public_git/youtube_cache.git
Enter passphrase for key '/home2/Stud Read more:Google
Spicebird Beta 0.7 Pre with awesome features is available for testing now 2008-11-11 06:55:04 Spicebird is
"your one platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility."
Spicebird beta 0.7 pre release is out now and can be downloaded in 10 languages from the i10n nightly build archive. For the latest nightly build of English version, check this English nightly build Read more:features
, awesome
, available
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