Happy FOSS

Mailsend is a multi platform command line tool to send mails.

It has two modes : commandline and interactive

I have used this mailsend binary to send mails as a background process by using a wrapper shell script to read the necessary inputs required by mailsend from XML files. This script would be called by cron periodically. The XML files have the email data contained in it.

You can download the Opensource software from the below link

http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mailsend/mailsend.html

From my blog statistics i find that there is a good hit for bluespam.So i decided to write an article on bluespam.

I have not used the exact bluespam software, but i trimmed version of the program.I use the modified version to send a file to all the bluetooth devices that have been discovered.The bluetooth devices receive a prompt saying do you want to receive a file from my device.Once accepted the file is sent to the device.Some devices require authentication, so a pairing has to happen before sending the file.The passkey can be made fixed or dynamic.Suppose my device is running without the user, then i have to hard code the passkey into my hcid.conf file.Since its hard coded this particular key has to be publicly distributed.

Further documentation can be found here http://www.mulliner.org/palm/bluespam.php

Refernce Manual

Refernce Manual 2

code.google.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Today evening was a cool ubuntu evening.my friend srini was suffering a lot with windows.The remedy was “ubuntu” lol.He complained to me lot about viruses, spyware etc.His internet explorer itself has been corrupted by …i am not able to say what has happened because the system is black box.

Taught him and another friend on installation procedure.And i did the install because srini was too much pissed off with the operating system going mad and unmanageable ! It was he who urged me to install linux as soon as possible.He was amazed to see so many free softwares !

I wish he acknowledges this by writing a comment lol

Hello Newbies !

FOSS stands for Free/Open Source Software

Free does not mean free as in free lunch, it means free as in freedom of speech.But mostly FOSS softwares are free of cost too.Why use FOSS? A fantastic question to ask.The answer is, rather than writing a huge paragraph i would like to give a pointer to a set of slides with “only pictures”.http://sirsasana.org/slides/

In order for engineering students to learn software engineering they cannot use a proprietary software like windows or any other software whose source code is not open.Through proprietary software one can only learn about the cost and the interfaces, not software.Linux alone is not an example of open source,even applications like Mozilla Firefox is an instance.The source code of firefox can be found at here

Linux was initially a simple kernel, but it was continuously improved and enhanced to reach the current stage.With so many packages for linux.It was possible by people like you and me.This is an example of how powerful is contribution.Contribution can be

1. Development - i.e. writting code for kernel/device driver/application
2. Testing Bug/Reporting Bugs/Fixing Bugs
3. Localization i.e. Help translating the FOSS software to local languages
4. User
5. Donation - FOSS softwares run on donations, but they not compulsory.But if you are satisfied its ethical to pay for the software.
6. Advocacy - Spreading the word to your friends
7. Documentation - wiritng HOWTO & documenting the free software can help people to learn them better.

The advantage of free software being free is that the community can improve the software for ever, and ultimately the community is benefited.One can learn a lot of intellectual property issues likes copyright, trademark & patents in FOSS.The famous license in FOSS is GNU GPL, which focuses on copyleft.Other licenses can be found here.

References

Why is Microsoft so rich ?

recommended to know restrictions of proprietary software http://www.debian.org/intro/free

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

If you had spent some time through this entire post & the links mentioned, then you know what is FOSS !

See my credits page too

FOSS really helps my project.When i use open source software, i am able to study, analyse and modify it to suit my purpose.I was clueless how to go about with my project until i met Kenny Jacob at FOSS.IN.He introduced me to a open software called bluespam & btopush open library.Reference manual of can be found here.They helped me to understand how to PUSH files into discoverable bluetooth devices using Object Push profile of bluetooth.I learned how the software was built.I wanted the functionality of pushing files into discoverable devices, so i modified the software to my own purpose.The btopush library depends on openobex, which in turn depends in bluetooth library.

Scatternet is a concept in bluetooth.I am implementing an IEEE paper “SHAPER:A Self Healing Algorithm Producing multi-hop Bluetooth scattERnets”.

My SVN can be found at

http://code.google.com/p/openscatternet/

My father and me used to do this conversion work, since 2 years.We converted many cassettes into few CD.Recently, i was surprised to know that this was an article in LFY !All you need for doing this is just a cassetter player, it could be a walkman too, then a chord to connect your pc’s audio in and the player’s audio out & audacity

Configure audacity so that it listens & records the audio in or line in port of the pc.Now start playing the cassette.Once recorded you can export the captured signal to any audio format.

we can save audio content in cassettes from corruption !

1.Flaming Unnecessarily - People flame unnecessarily, because they have time to flame crap but don’t have time to reply to the topic.

2.Knowledge Clash - Egoism among members, because one feels he is more knowledgeable.

3.Domination by senior members - Humbleness from few seniors “sometimes” cannot be expected.

All of the above defeat the purpose of a LUG.

Solution:

Even i have done mistakes and given insufficient data to solve a problem.But later on i should be flexible to Newbies, which most people on LUG fail.Lets not forget all were once Newbies.Writing HOWTOs would solve the purpose.But this again requires some effort & time to be spent.

People sometimes put on some head weight, because they feel they have done a lot to FOSS community.And start sending eccentric mails, and want others to adjust to his mails because he is a hacker.

Senior member’s intervention when there is any sort of clash.Especially a so called hacker hurts the others.

Please ignore mails, if people cant reply to the topic or dont have time to solve it.And if possible write a mailing list rule saying that If your mail has not been replied then it is due to the following factors: data insufficiency/ irrelevance to topic / time / controversial content.

This way LUG will be better !

According to me, there are people who cannot even use windows properly (because thats the currently most popular at least on home desktop).Such people when they want to migrate then 99% they are doing on their own.They would not know what to do with partition or the boot error messages !Obviously they will have problem installing Linux !

Especially newbies ! Dont depend too much on LUG.Please google & wikipedia for your doubts .Some kind hearted people have written HOWTOs already.Utilize them.Improve them to make it more easy to your peers

When some tries to act over smart please stand up and blast him ! Because its Free Software & Free Society

Lets support FOSS in the spirit of FOSS !

My first svn, is for my own final year project

http://code.google.com/p/openscatternet/source/browse

Only today after i went through lot of pages, i completely understood many things i never knew.Wonderful explanation was found here http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/copyleft.html

and finally i am convinced why they reversed copyright to copyleft