Monday, June 14, 2010

2616 RFC - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

1521 RFC - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1521.txt

1945 RFC - WWW-Authentication and Authorization headers

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt

3023 RFC - A Mechanism for Creating More Specific Identifiers for XML Identified as, "text/xml"

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt

The value of the Content-Type header is constant within XML-RPC; it is the Internet media type for XML, "text/xml" XML-RPC appeared before RFC 3023, which specifies a mechanism for creating more specific identifiers for xml types. If one builds XML-RPC implementations that accept other flavors of XML identified as, "text/xml"( as well as XML-RPC over the same port), one will need to identify XML-RPC messages by the methodCall root element.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

2045 RFC - Base64 Encoding for Binary attachments

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt

I came across the above link while I was reading about XML-RPC. As XML prohibits any character with an ordinal value lower than that of the space character( 32), commonly called control characters. Although, binary items, such as binary files, may contain these characters. The solution is to use an ASCII-based encoding of the binary object, and XML-RPC uses base-64 encoding.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Unlock Kubuntu, Ubuntu Media Playback

If the podcast or music collection has some non-open-standard format, such as mp3s. Then there are a few things to know to start listening to them or watching them, and the ubuntu community has some documentation available, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats .

Managing services with update-rc.d

There are some useful examples that show uses of the command, "update-rc.d", at the following link, http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-manage-services-with-update-rc.d . Although, as an option there should be rcconf. As explained here http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-runlevel-configuration-tool-to-start-service/ .

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Open-Xchange Support coming with KDE's PIM Architecture

http://blog.credativ.com/2010/01/bringing-groupware-to-kde-akonadi-resources-for-open-xchange-and-groupdav/

http://tokoe-kde.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-xchange-support-for-akonadi.html

Spotlight on KOffice, Is A Must Read Interview

For anyone interested in the development of open standards or standard KDE applications. Then the interview of Inge Wallin, the KOffice Promotions Lead, at http://www.consortiuminfo.org/ is a must read. During the interview they touch on comparing KOffice to OO.o (openoffice.org), and they also discuss the future plans for KOffice. So without further adieu, here is the link to the interview(  http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060505081533186 ). Also, If you find that interview interesting, then maybe you'll also enjoy the next with Louis Suarez-Pots, OpenOffice's Community Manager( http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060513194119192 ).

Updating Gentoo Linux to 2010.0 Profile

3.  Profile updating instructions

General instructions






Important: Make sure your Portage is updated before performing any profile changes.

First, run emerge eselect. The eselect utility will let you view and select profiles easily, without needing to create or remove symlinks by hand.











Code Listing 3.1: Profile selection with eselect

(View available profiles)
# eselect profile list

(Select the number of your desired profile from the list)
# eselect profile set <number>


If you'd still prefer to change profiles manually, then simply do the following:











Code Listing 3.2: Changing profiles manually

# rm /etc/make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/<selected profile> /etc/make.profile








Note: There are desktop and server subprofiles for most architectures. Examine these profiles carefully, as they may serve your needs better than the extremely minimal default profiles.







Note: The developer subprofile is specifically for Gentoo Linux development tasks. It is not meant to help set up general development environments.



The above is just from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

SuSE 11.2 64 Bit Installer Fails Hardware Detection part 2

To follow up on the last post about installing Opensuse 11.2, I have installed Opensuse, and last time I didn't have both LCD monitors using the VGA port and DVI port. So, having both on during my next attempt show the install screen cloned on both screens, and looking at the monitor feed through the VGA port, I install Opensuse, as one usually can, via the graphical installer. Although, during the install and until I installed Nvidia's drivers, the screen connected to the DVI port was randomly blacking-out and plinking-on.