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The registration for Open Source Summit 2008 has started. I have already registered. Have you?
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Here's a good flash animation showing the venue and explaining the path you will need to take. Lets all meet there.

You can also tell your friend. Simply click here.

Be there. You are either Open Source or vegetable.
I am a vegetarian, beware.

Internet Governance Forum


The establishment of Internet Governance Forum (IGF) by the United Nation (UN) is seen as an innovative new approach to global policy making. It offers a discussion space for multi-stakeholder and offer unique opportunity for bottom-up policy development related to the Internet by linking togethter Governement, Private Sector, NGO/INGOs, civil society, technical and academic community.

The third meeting of IGF is going to be held in Hyderabad from 3-6 December 2008. There are five main subjects of the IGF - access, openness, diversity, security and critical Internet resources - for the management and development of internet.

I think the internet should be left open and away from politics of the different countries, companies trying to change the world in their profit making ways. But that's just my thought.

Need Volunteers

Guys we need volunteers for promoting The OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT 2008 being held on 13th and 14th December 2008 in Hyderabad. Guys come help us. Come forward, show your passion for open source. Lets spread the news around. Tell it to your friends, anyone who would find it interesting. Make a lot of noise.
Guys stop sending SMS of good night and good morning and friendship and start sending messages about the Open Source Week 2008 for this one week.
Join the twincling-volunteers group.

Any questions?? Fire it up. I am available at my chat badge.

Twincling Vijayawada Launched

Finally, open source enthusiasts in and around Vijayawada get a chance to show their enthusiasm and knowledge. Twincling Foundation has launched Twincling-Vijayawada.

We at the Twincling-Vijayawada have started planning on the movements on how to promote open source and to bring more enthusiasts forward, create new technologies that will place us on the global technical map.

Right now, we focus more on the students in the colleges, soon we will start towards schools and businesses. We want open source to be known by everyone.

Twincling Saturday Meet
Install fests
Troubleshooting
Setting up Linux labs in colleges
Installing games like CS, CZ, Fifa on Linux
Troubleshooting problems with AutoCAD on Linux
are some of our focuses.

Log on to http://vijayawada.twincling.org for more detail.

There are some great projects we are starting, we are looking for new members. If you have any type of questions regarding anything remotely related to open source, mail me: sandip AT twincling DOT org

Proxy Server - II

The talk about proxy server cannot end without talking about the Transparent, Non-Transparent proxies. Sometimes incorrectly referred as intercepting proxy, transparent proxy is one that doesn't modify request/response except changing information in order to authenticating itself to the proxy server. While a non-transparent is one which response/request in order to facilitate user agent.

Intercepting proxy also known as transparent proxy is a fusion of a gateway and a proxy server. It is mainly useful as all connections made to this gateway are redirected through the proxy. It is easy to detect by simply checking the http header. Check if your proxy is working properly. Click here.

I prefer elite proxies but there are so few of them and most of the available are rarely available. Anonymous proxies are good if you are planning to click your own Google Ads. :D

MySql Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication.

Finding IP address from eMail

Finding out someone's IP address can be useful in number of ways. Sometimes I check if my friend has a BSNL net (using his IP) and make them download things for me.
How do you find out IP address?
One of the easiest ways is to check the email header.
If you have received an email, the IP address of the computer is embedded in the email header.

In Yahoo mail, click on the "Full Header" at the bottom of the message. In Yahoo Mail Beta, click on the link as shown in the figure and select "Full Header".
Similarly on GMail, beside the reply on the right side of the message, there is an arrow as shown in the picture. Then select "Show Original"

This will give you an output that will be similar to the following

Now you can either simply copy the header and goto http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/trace-email-source-IP-address and paste the header there to get the IP address. Or you can see closely and see in the above figure in the "Received:" there is an IP address 202.62.89.12, this is the required IP address. Then use this IP address to find more information about it. The main information that you can get are: ISP, location.
You can use http://www.whatismyipaddress.com http://www.whois.net http://www.geoiptool.com to gather more information about that IP.
Sometimes I ask people to mail me, when they do, I tell them "you have .... net na, I know".

Open Source Summit 2008

Here is the first set of updates on Open Source Summit 2008, packaged in a 40 sec presentation.

For the 2-day event, we have got exciting and insightful technical sessions planned on core technologies - BeleniX, KDE 4, LDTP, Git, Hadoop, Gentoo, OpenSuSe. Any guess who the speakers are ? There is a Birds of the same feather (BoF) session titled 'We the Geeks - How can we become No 1 in Open Source Infrastructure software ?"

On the second day we get - Intel Multicore programming workshop that focusses on openMP and TBB (thanks to Preethi and Mukesh). Folks, please start brushing up on C++, templates and pthreads. There is madHACK (mobile application development hackathon) too, in the later part of the day.

Your participation is important. Mark your calendar today !