Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Hello, I'm wishing you all a Merry Christmas And Happy New Year 2009! Hope next year will be a much better year and bring us a peace and joy! 

~Jonathan.

Happy Birthday AllForLinux! And We Had Moved to AllForLinux.Com

Hello there!! This month is the first birthday of AllForLinux blog. And I'm also proudly to announce that AllForLinux Blog now is a part of Crylix Networks. And AllForLinux is now moved to a better place. You can go to AllForLinux.com . Special thanks to Crylix Networks CEO (Ryan) who provide me the domain and server's.

And the end of the word, I also wishes you all a Merry Christmas! Hope this christmas will bring us a full of joy and rejoice! Please do visit AllForLinux.com because this blog is no longer managed. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

* Note for Bert(UbuntuHQ): Can you please add AllForLinux.com to your watch list in UbuntuHQ? I'm really apreciate that :) .

Trying XBMC Media Center Inside Ubuntu

I just realized that I missed a lot of new things while I'm gone for a few days. I just found a cool media center program that you can try inside your ubuntu! I will give a review and installation method for this program. Please do read and please fill the comment form if you have any opinion with this program, I would love to see it :=) .

OK, You might need to go to XBMC official website after this tutorial get into an end and you can find out more information and features about this programs.

I just managed to install the XMBC media center last afternoon, and the first opinion that I got is this program rock into my heart, I like it, I like the style, I like the simplicity, and I like the plug-ins and the extensibility. I know some peoples think that I too overrated, but the fact is I'm telling the truth, after tried this media center both in windows and ubuntu I realized that this media center program deserved a 5 stars rating. It's almost perfect, there's still some problem and I already provide you the tutorial links to fix those small problems with Ubuntu Linux.

I also like the media management, it has a fast and sophiscated library media management that allows me to customize the library and music folders, I can freely add the music, pictures, and video inside those media center.

The other thing that I like is the skin and and the UI. I like it because it's really user friendly and the interface is really customizable. I also like the visualization of songs. It's pretty attractive.
There's also more cool features like built-in webserver that enable you to share your media library with other computer.

Okay, that's some good things about XBMC Media Center, now I will reveal some problems that I experienced during using this software in Ubuntu, and I also gonna give some problem solves to make you feel more comfortable by using this software.

First, I runned this software on quad core pc with 2 gb of memory RAM, it runs well inside my Ubuntu without any problem with the performance. But when I tried to install it inside my P4 PC's with 512 Mb of RAM , the performance is dropped, I know... High graphics always comes with high memory usage, so I recommend you to use a high performance PC's to get a better and maximal performance and graphics. Elisa Media Player is the other choice for you.

Secondly, again and again... The compiz problem, it seemed to be this problem is always appears with the software that using a high graphics usage like games. You need to turn off the compiz or otherwise, you can make some automation code that also works for this software, just simply click this tutorial link that I provide to you to solve this problem.

Installation

Ubuntu Installation:

If you are interested in stable XBMC releases (releases that we certify as usable and/or testable), please use the stable PPAs. Once added in your repository list, you will be notified for any update we make. You will have the latest stable version this way.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-gutsy/+archive
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-hardy/+archive
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-intrepid/+archive

GUTSY PPA :

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-gutsy/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-gutsy/ubuntu gutsy main

HARDY PPA :

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main

INTREPID PPA

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-intrepid/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-intrepid/ubuntu intrepid main

For more advanced users, here is the SVN PPA.

See :
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-svn/+archive

SVN PPA (daily builds)

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu gutsy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu intrepid main

ADDONS and THIRD PARTIES

Third parties packages will be distributed via a reserved PPA: the xbmc-addons PPA. You will find there skins, scripts and plugins. I suggest you add it to your sources to benefit from all contribution put there.

Ubuntu Installation:

Go to this forum page.

Some screenshots:

Enjoy the software! If you encountered any problem feel free to contact me via comments form!

Change default apache port number for HTTP Server

My friend just requested a post for me to change the apache port number for HTTP Server, and now I will give you all a tutorial about this stuff.

We all know that as default the Apache HTTP Server will ping to port number 80 . What we have to do when a situation of changing this post number comes? Lets see some simple steps for this…

1. Assume that your new port number is 81

2. Go to terminal and type: cp /etc/httpd/ports.conf /etc/httpd/ports.conf_backupgedit /etc/httpd/ports.conf

3. Find this line- Listen 80

4. Replace with the following line : - Listen 81

5. Save it

6. Go to terminal and type: /etc/init.d/httpd restartApache HTTP server, Linux

And that's all you need to do to change the port number, you also can use this method for other Linux distribution.

Install OpenOffice 3.0 inside your Ubuntu 8.10!

Somehow, The Ubuntu Team has decided not to add the latest office products from Sun Microsystem. It's because 3.0 release schedule has slipped quite a bit. Just like The Ubuntu Team has said in this site . Well, that's not a big problem! I'm going to give you an easy method to install OpenOffice 3.0. Please do follow this simple tutorial.

1. Press alt+f2 button, and type : sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add this following code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

For hardy, just simply change the "intrepid" word into "hardy" .

3. Go to terminal, and type sudo apt-get update .

4. Go to the update manager, and update your OpenOffice 3.0.

Enjoy!

Urgent!! Just for 28 oct, CrossOver is free to download!! Download Links added!

After browsing for a while, and I got a really useful information for Linux users, Mac users, and specially Ubuntu Users!! Today, 28 october 2008, CodeWeavers.com giving us a linux/mac users a special promotion to get and download crossover just for free for today. CrossOver is a shareware that allowed mac/linux users to run windows software inside their no-windows operating system. It's a pretty cool things for a Linux rookies for sure.

This is some quotes: On Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, any one visiting the CodeWeavers' Web site (www.codeweavers.com) will be given a deal code that will entitle them to one free copy of CodeWeavers' award-winning CrossOver software. Each copy comes complete with support.

Now, I will give the download links(Just works for today):

Download CrossOver Mac Pro

Download CrossOver Games Mac

Download CrossOver Linux Pro

Download CrossOver Games Linux

Quick download it while it still fresh!! It's only for today!(28 oct 2008).

VLC 0.9.5 is Out!

VLC 0.9,5 already released, check out the vlc website. "The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. More technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to fix its security issue (CVE-2008-3964)."

This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, QT interface usability as well as fixing few more other bugs. Full list of changes can be found here.
They strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binaries might arrive at a later time.

VLC Media Player 0.9,5 released in 24 oct 2008. For the installation (Mac,Linux, & Windows), go to this page.