Archive for the 'Open source' Category

Jailkit Patches to Fix RHEL getgrgid() and getpwuid() Bug

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I just downloaded the latest version of jailkit (version 1.3-1) from Dag Wieer’s repository. Apparently when I installed it in my RHEL 4.0 x86_64 system, it does not work. I get the error “uid %d or gid %d does not have a name”. I checked and double-checked the installation but everything was fine. I started […]

PLUG Q2 2006 Technical Seminar

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

The Philippine Linux Users’ Group is inviting everyone to attend the PLUG 2nd Quarter Free Seminar series scheduled on the 8th of April 2006 at Asia Pacific College, Makati City, from 9AM to 5PM. I read the posting in the PLUG mailing list. But, there does not seem to be an official annoucement in the […]

Building Kannel 1.4.0 with SQLite 3.0 and MySQL 4.1

Friday, March 10th, 2006

For those of you who have been having trouble building Kannel 1.4.0 with SQLite 3.0 and MySQL 4.1, here are some things that might help you. I wrote the SQLite patch from scratch. The MySQL patch i found here. Here are the patches:
http://cng.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/software/patch/kannel-1.4.0-sqlite3.patch
http://cng.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/software/patch/kannel-mysql4.1.patch
Here is a SPEC file and a SRPM for Fedora Core 4 […]

SCTP - TCP meets UDP

Monday, March 6th, 2006

After reading an IBM developerworks article on SCTP, the code looks relatively simple and I got inspired to try it out. According to the article:
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable transport protocol that provides stable, ordered delivery of data between two endpoints (much like TCP) and also preserves data message boundaries (like […]

Celestia: My Very Own Planetarium

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

As kids, there are certain activities that kids look forward to. These activities include visiting the zoo or the planetarium. I have visited both. However, not all towns and cities have a planetarium to visit. Thanks to open source software, you can enjoy planetarium services at your very own home. You just need an OpenGL-supported […]