The World's first ever ambulance service

The World's first ever ambulance service

Free Version Control Hosting for private repositories

You may have used any Version Control System to keep and maintain your multiple versions of your projects  or any related documents. For that you may also have used several hosting servers. 

But regardless of what Version Control System you use, you have to think about where you intend to store your code. It’s likely you’ve have heard of GitHub. That’s not surprising. GitHub is used by individuals and enterprises to host code, collaborate on documentation and track issues. It has some pretty big names using it.

Since last 3 years I was using Gihub to host my projects. It is simple and provides free hosting services for public projects. For a long time I was searching for a free hosting services for privates repositories. Finally I found a hosting server that they are providing free hosting servers for privates repositories named Bit Bucket

Here we can manage unlimited number of private repositories. It allows to contribute 5 users together as free. Otherwise we need to pay. Finally I started to using BitBucket for my projects hosting.

https://bitbucket.org/

Copyright statements on some websites

Today is 2nd of January 2014. I unexpectedly saw one of the world famous well know microsoft website's copyright statement. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx . It was year of 2013. I confused why they are showing past year in their copyright statements. 

Then I went to some other well know websites. They also used the static copyright statements.

This is the copyright statement of Google.

http://www.amazon.com/ 

http://epay.lk/


http://www.linux.org/

But even facebook has changed their year.  What a hell people others?? 

Viber available for Linux

Viber is cross-platform application (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Windows, Mac, Symbian, Nokia and Bada devices), it allows users to send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users, on any device and network, anywhere in the world.

Previously viber team released viber application for Linux but it is still in development (beta version) and available for everyone to test it. So we build package for this application to install it in Debian/Ubuntu/and it's derivatives easily.

To install Viber (64bit only) in Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

wget -O viber64-NoobsLab.com.deb http://goo.gl/wCKnDV

sudo dpkg -i viber64-NoobsLab.com.deb

rm viber64-NoobsLab.com.deb

Linux File & Folder Permissions

File & folder security is a big part of any operating system and Linux is no exception!

These permissions allow you to choose exactly who can access your files and folders, providing an overall enhanced security system. This is one of the major weaknesses in the older Windows operating systems where, by default, all users can see each other's files (Windows 95, 98, Me).

For the more superior versions of the Windows operating system such as NT, 2000, XP and 2003 things look a lot safer as they fully support file & folder permissions, just as Linux has since the beginning.

Together, we'll now examine a directory listing from our Linux lab server, to help us understand the information provided. While a simple 'ls' will give you the file and directory listing within a given directory, adding the flag '-l' will reveal a number of new fields that we are about to take a look at:

Creating Simple RSS Reader as an Android Application

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works. Such as blog entries, news headlines,audio and video in a standardized format. - wikipedia-

Basically RSS are xml files. We can read RSS files using applications called RSS Readers. In this post, I am going to write about how to create a simple RSS Reader application in Android platform.

In this example, I have used an external 'xml'(RSS) of the website.

RSS Link: http://www.mobilenations.com/rss/mb.xml

Installing Nodejs in Ubuntu

Simply execute the following commands in Ubuntu Terminal


sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nodejs