date +%T -s "HH:MM:SS"

Finally google has come up with a solution to this, you can see a link

“view your friends’ birthdays in Google Calendar”

Just below the ‘upcoming birthday’ section in your prifile page. This takes you to the google calender and will have all the orkut birthdays marked in the calender. Now the most important part - getting alerts of google calander events in your cell phone. go to http://www.google.com/calendar >> login using your gmail username/password >> go to settings >> mobile setups. Start by selecting your country and then enter your phone number and carrier. A verification code would be sent to your mobile prior to activating this facility. Finally enter the verification code sent to your phone. They says there can be charges for incoming message ( google doesnt charge you for this service), but I’ve been using this without spending a single buck over a vodafone India connection. Cheers.

Error

‘make’ fails with the following error

In file included from libavdevice/v4l.c:33:
/usr/include/linux/videodev.h:56: error: syntax error before “ulong”
/usr/include/linux/videodev.h:72: error: syntax error before ‘}’ token
libavdevice/v4l.c: In function `grab_read_header’:
libavdevice/v4l.c:75: error: storage size of ‘tuner’ isn’t known
libavdevice/v4l.c:133: error: invalid application of `sizeof’ to incomplete type `video_tuner’
libavdevice/v4l.c:140: error: invalid application of `sizeof’ to incomplete type `video_tuner’
libavdevice/v4l.c:75: warning: unused variable `tuner’

fix:

1)Uppgrade the linux and headers to 2.6.25 or higher (which is going to break your head and so no to it imo) or disable V4L and V4L2 during configuration. I dont think you’ll need V4L and V4L2 for your applications,so start over again after running the following commands in your ffmpeg source directory

make
make distclean
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared –disable-demuxer=v4l –disable-demuxer=v4l2

2) edit the file /usr/include/linux/videodev.h using your favourate editor and go to line 56, replace the line as shown below

ulong rangelow, rangehigh; /* Tuner range */

change it to

unsigned long rangelow, rangehigh; /* Tuner range */

Error

checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve built ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable-shared option

1) install ffmpeg-devel, go get the stuff for your distro from google.
I downloaded rpm for centos4 from here http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/centos/4.6/umdi/i386/RPMS/

2)Simply create a ffmpeg folder in /usr/local/include/ and run the following to copy all the header files

cp /usr/local/include/libavcodec/* /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp /usr/local/include/libavdevice/* /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp /usr/local/include/libavformat/* /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp /usr/local/include/libavutil/* /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp /usr/local/include/libswscale/* /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

Error

ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

1) do ldconfig
2) find / -name ‘libavdevice.so.*’

once the find returns its path, export it using the following command

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path>

Say for example if find returns the following path

/usr/local/src/ffmpeg/libavdevice/libavdevice.so.52
/usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52
/usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52.1.0

the export command would be

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/

Error

make: *** [ffmpeg_frame.lo] Error 1

1)Execute the following in the ffmpeg-php folder.
cp ffmpeg_frame.loT ffmpeg_frame.lo

Error

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic
library ‘/usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so’ - /usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: >>le_ffmpeg_frame in Unknown on line 0

ffmpeg may be installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, php might be checking for the stuff in the wrong location

When you hit reboot command inside the VPS, it invokes reboot system call with argument ‘restart’, which has to be handled by BIOS in normal cases. But since its a VPS, the system call is blocked from within since the VPS shouldnt talk directly with bios, which otherwise can result in a reboot of hardware node! So internelly, the reboot command is being handled this way

1. the VPS is simply stopped when reboot command is issues from within.
2. VPS is started again using a script /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/vereboot which is invoked automatically using a cron job specified in  /etc/cron.d/vereboot in ever 1 or 2 minutes depending on the cron

So its a better Idea to go for VZPP to get your virtuozzo VE rebooted rather than issuing a reboot command

Well, It needs Flash and Air to be installed in the machine. You can
get Flash and Air through the following links.

FLASH

AIR

To install AIR

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

You might need a reboot to get the download link working.

However, you can get the current ‘0.25′ version by clicking on the
‘Version 0.25 is right corner of tweetdeck.com home page!

Happy tweetting!!

http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse

google india currently uses a gateway +9198708070. Also you  will need to be careful while chosing channels as these are created by users like you and me, not by google, so there is a possibibility of mobile spams, you dont want to fill in your inox with irrelevemt sms’s, do you?. after all, no basic mobile model has got a spamassassin!!

again, this is not an easy task. Most of the laptop hard disks have sata drives. unfortunately, xp do not support sata drives and supports only ide drives. So the following screen would be shown when you boot up your laptop from an xp cd.

well, dont give up. We have other ways to get around this.

first option - is to install the sata drivers of your laptop vendor at the time when xp boots using floppy diskette, drivers are model specific and you will need to get it downloaded from your laptop vendor.But who in this world has got a laptop with floppy drive! so you need to get an externel flopp drive to get around this. however if you dont have one, I’d suggest you not to spend some 20$ for buyin g an externel floppy drive drive just for this purpose, go for the second option using nlite give below.  those who’s got an externel floppy drive, copy the drivers you have downloaded in to a floppy disk and get the externel floppy drive attached to your Laptop. now insert your xp cd in to the cd/dvd drive and start your laptop. First go to the boot menu and select the cd drive as the primary device so that the machine will boot from the xp cd.Once you restart the laptop, press enter when it asks whether you need to boot from cd,  press F6 to insall the drivers in floppy. Once this is installed and the sata is detected by xp, you are are almost there, continue the installation process of xp.

The second option - the one with out floppy drive, would be the one most of you would prefer to go with. what we need to do here is, bootstrip the windows xp installation cd, integrate drivers with xp and create a new bootable xp cd which supports your hard disk. we’ll make use an application called nlite to get this done.

we’ll go step by step to avoid confusions.

1. get the latest version of nlite software here

2. get the sata driver  downloaded from your laptop vendor’s website, ofcource google is your friend :)

2. Install nlite in your windows machine, you might probably need to install microsoft .net framework if the installer ask for.This is easy like anything, just you need to keep on clicking next and your machine needs to be connected to internet! checkout the screen shots below.

3.insert your xp cd to the cd/dvd drive, start nlite, and  follow the screenshots.

Locate you installed xp cd

You’ll need to give a location for saving the stripped xp files, this this example I’ve given a folder xp_nlite

You can skip the next step

check the drivers and bootable cd options.

In the next step you’ll be asked for the driver location, either select the folder option of single driver file and click next.Well you can now go ahead and give a location for saving the iso image of xp cd with the drivers in it

you may burn the new bootable xp image with sata drivers directly from nlite, or you can use your favourite burning tool to burn the iso file as bootable disk.

Start your machine with the new bootable xp with preloaded sata drivers and you shuld be ready to go :), the sata drived should be detected now, provided you have the right drivers bootstripped to the new bootable xp cd.  proceed with the normal installation steps of winows xp and get a new start with xp!

Download the latest version of mod_evasive from  Jonathan Zdziarski’s official site http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/

wget http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz

extract the tar bowl and get in to installation directory

tar zxvf mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
cd mod_evasive

install mod_evasive as an apache extension, first find the location of apxs binary,if you are on a cpanel server, it should be on /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs.

/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -cia mod_evasive20.c

once its installed, edit apache configuration file and add the following lines

<IfModule evasive20_module>
DOSHashTableSize 3097
DOSPageCount 5
DOSSiteCount 100
DOSPageInterval 2
DOSSiteInterval 2
DOSBlockingPeriod 10
DOSLogDir “/usr/local/apache/logs/mod_evasive”
</IfModule>

Make sure that evasive module is installed by checking for the following line in httpd.conf file
LoadModule evasive20_module modules/mod_evasive20.so

root@server [~]# httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.10 (Unix)
Server built:   Oct 16 2008 23:05:52
root@vserver[~]# cd /usr/src
root@server [/usr/src]# wget http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
–08:33:15–  http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
=> `mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz’
Resolving www.zdziarski.com… 209.51.159.242
Connecting to www.zdziarski.com|209.51.159.242|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 20,454 (20K) [application/x-tar]

100%[==============================================================================================>] 20,454        –.–K/s

08:33:16 (159.92 KB/s) - `mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz’ saved [20454/20454]

root@server [/usr/src]# tar -zxf mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
root@server [/usr/src]# cd mod_evasive
root@server [/usr/src/mod_evasive]# /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -cia mod_evasive20.c
/usr/local/apache/build/libtool –silent –mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic   -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -g -O2 -pthread -I/usr/local/apache/include  -I/usr/local/apache/include   -I/usr/local/apache/include   -c -o mod_evasive20.lo mod_evasive20.c && touch mod_evasive20.slo
/usr/local/apache/build/libtool –silent –mode=link gcc -o mod_evasive20.la  -rpath /usr/local/apache/modules -module -avoid-version    mod_evasive20.lo
/usr/local/apache/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL=’/usr/local/apache/build/libtool’ mod_evasive20.la /usr/local/apache/modules
/usr/local/apache/build/libtool –mode=install cp mod_evasive20.la /usr/local/apache/modules/
cp .libs/mod_evasive20.so /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_evasive20.so
cp .libs/mod_evasive20.lai /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_evasive20.la
cp .libs/mod_evasive20.a /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_evasive20.a
chmod 644 /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_evasive20.a
ranlib /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_evasive20.a
PATH=”$PATH:/sbin” ldconfig -n /usr/local/apache/modules
———————————————————————-
Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/apache/modules

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR’
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH’ environment variable
during execution
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH’ environment variable
during linking
- use the `-Wl,–rpath -Wl,LIBDIR’ linker flag
- have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf’

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
———————————————————————-
chmod 755 /usr/local/apache/modules/mod_evasive20.so
[activating module `evasive20' in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf]
root@vps [/usr/src/mod_evasive]# vi /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
root@vps [/usr/src/mod_evasive]# /scripts/restartsrv httpd
Waiting for httpd to restart…………..finished.

root     22105  0.0  0.0  3860 1784 ?        Ss   08:41   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL

httpd started ok