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From: Kamal Fariz
Subject: [barcampmalaysia] BarCamp Malaysia Registration Is Now Open

Hey all,
We just opened the BarCamp Malaysia registration. Seats are limited to 150 people only, so hurry and sign up.

http://barcampmalaysia.eventbrite.com/

There are already a handful of sessions lined up for the two-day event. Check them out at http://barcamp.org/BarCampMalaysiaScheduleSessions. We look forward to more sessions, so do your part and propose more!


kamal


So, I've decided to go.

Hurm .. what should I help with eh..

On a blog post about libBCD dependency resolution algorithm test (which Yum/APT fails, and zypper scores): http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/310

Debian’s apt-get won’t succeed here, because AFAIK Debian only has dependencies across packages, not on libraries. Actually I still wonder how smart could succeed here using a debian backend. I ignore if apt-rpm does support library dependencies.

While I can't verify this (not that familiar with the deb packaging), but if that is really true, it more or less explains why apt is faster than yum - they dont have much stuff to consider and process in the metadata. Yum+RPM can do dep check by libraries, files, executables, perl modules, and some other modules, which makes the metadata large, and depsolve requires more stuff to consider. So, APT-deb users, stop complaining YUM is slow (/me stares at ubuntu zombies) :P

Do tell me if that is wrong :)

On another note, Yaakov M. Nemoy wrote a very good post about why its not good to standardi…

Noticed this from an aggregated post in Planet Fedora by Adam Jackson - Symbian Foundation.

The Symbian Foundation will provide, manage and unify the platform for its members. Also, it will commit to moving the platform to open source during the next two years, with the intent to use the Eclipse Public License.

Pressure from Google Android??. Change of heart??. Anyway, its still a good sign for FOSS world :)

I just started learning to use git a few days ago. Mainly because of the convenient of being able to host a git repository on a dumb http server, and ability to local commit.

However, I had a minor problem pushing a git repository to my fedorapeople.org account through ssh push. "Permission denied when executing post-update hook". Asking at #fedora-admin got me this answer - "home folders are mounted noexec", now, thats explains. Nonetheless, a minor hack by replacing the post-update script with a symlink to git-update-server-info seems to get around it.

Surprisingly, when I woke up today, I saw Jeremy Katz's post : More git support for fedorapeople. FedoraPeople now have a functional GitWeb and gitserve! - eventhough its beta and might go away, still, thanks a lot Jeremy!!.

P/S: OneClickInstall is a misleading name, renamed my python parser for OneClickInstall metadata from yum-oneclickinstall to Chitin (Dead insects trapped in Amber might leave some trace of Ch…

So, at last the Open Source Competency Center, Cyberjaya _finally_ have mirrors running. Theres Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, ArchLinux mirrored. For the Fedora Mirror (only F9), here are the baseurls:


Everything : http://mirror.oscc.org.my/fedora/releases/9/Everything/$basearch
Updates : http://mirror.oscc.org.my/fedora/updates/9/$basearch/


However, sadly, its only a 8Mbps mirror - rather surprising for a government-supported organization. I've asked whether they want to be in mirrors.fedoraproject.org automated by-nearest-country mirrorlist reply so that the mirror can get a one nice DDoS, not sure whether they'll take that idea or not.

Update: Haris said, he want to proceed. I hope it goes well. Yet, I don't want MirrorManager to reply list with only that OSCC mirror. Coz with 8Mbps, I doubt it can really handle it >.< . Hopefully, that once they get themselves in mirrors.fedoraproject.org , that can be a big enough traction to push their higher ups for bigger ba…

Spent the whole day today learning Python ElementTree. And the product, a yum plugin for parsing OpenSuSE's One Click Install metadata, though, its still quite incomplete.

I've always wanted something like OCI, and I've been using RPM MetaPackages for most of my previous use. However, MetaPackages have some limitations, one of which it might conflict with existing RPMs, and if I use a lot of metapackages, I'll end up with a rpm database filled with them and each of them must have a unique name. That is good enough for sysadmins, but it can be a hassle for the so-called 'users' in the long term.

OpenSuSE's implementation looks more suitable for me, so, after waiting for quite some time for someone to implement it on fedora (and nobody has - or I didn't notice it), I decided to jump and write my own. However, the implementation on OpenSuSE is only for YaST (which I guess it beats the purpose of having the XML format multi-distro), so, I need to write my ow…

Lets help some promotion :P. (Though I'm still not sure whether I can attend or not)



What’s the story?
This July 26th, the Malaysian scene will EXPLODE into a orgy of mass-sharing and learning with the arrival of BarCampMalaysia.

If you’re into early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, open data formats, and connecting with like-minds, BarCampMalaysia will stroke you the right way.

Wanna feel the heat?

"Attendees must  give a demo, a session, or help with one. This is called sharing and we like it."

Damn right.

You can start by copying and pasting anything from what you’re reading, or from our wiki, onto your own blog.

Go forth and multiply!

What is BarCamp Malaysia?


BarCampMalaysia is an ad-hoc gathering packed with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. It’s inspired by BarCamps all over the world, born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.

The focus is on early-stage web applications, and re…

So, i've been away from blogging for about 3 months now .. Reason? .. simply lazy and lack of motivation to blog .. haha .. Anyway, I'm back :)

Btw, I got myself this a few weeks ago!



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