A very young party in Nepal - नेपाल आलुपिँडालु पार्टी

Although Nepal is a small country, it is full of diversity. It's diversity ranges from physical landscape,climate,culture,religion etc. Another most important aspect is, there are wide range of political parties. Recently, one party has been introduced with lots of hope which is none other than नेपाल आलुपिँडालु पार्टी(Npeal Potato Cocoyam Party). This party has been launched from a facebook page. Most of the members of the party are energetic youth who love country Nepal very much. Some of the status message of this party shows that they are very much determined to do some contribution in the Nepal. These youth are not at all satisfied with the present political scenario of the Nepal. Here are some of the facebook status message of this party.These are really inspiring and motivating message for the youth of Nepal. I think we all need to join this party and encourage these initiators to do some good in Nepal.

नेपाल आलुपिंडालु पार्टी :What Nepal does today, the world does tomorrow !
In Australia, they have failed to elect a new government. Aaloobad jindabad !

नेपाल आलुपिंडालु पार्टी :आलुपिँडालु पार्टीको अति महत्वपुर्ण विज्ञप्ति: Nobody is a competent leader. Nobody is concerned about the people. Nobody is honest and free from corruption. Nobody knows how to solve Nepal's problems.
हाम्रो गौरवशाली पार्टी यो नोबडि (Nobody) भन्ने उमेद्वारलाई पूर्णरुपमा समर्थन गर्दछ ।

नेपाल आलुपिंडालु पार्टी हाम्रो महान, गौरवशाली आलुपिँडालु पार्टीको तर्फबाट स्वतन्त्र उमेद्वार ग्यान्टे मूलालाई प्रधानमन्त्रीको लागि मनोनयन गरिएको छ । तर यदि प्रधानमन्त्रीमा नजित्ने स्थिती आएमा मतदान प्रक्रिया नै बहिस्कार गर्नको लागी यो ह्विप जारी गरिएको छ । आलुपिँडालु पार्टीको नेतृत्वबिना देश बर्बाद हुने हुँदा प्रधानमन्त्री हामीलाई नै दिनुपर्ने हाम्रो माग छ, अन्यथा हामी सबैको तालुमा आलुले प्रहार गरी घाइते बनाईदिनेछौँ ।

नेपाल आलुपिंडालु पार्टी कमराता हो, प्रधानमन्त्रीमा आलुपिँडालु पार्टीले कसलाई समर्थन गर्ने अथवा नगर्ने भनेर निर्णय गर्ने महत्वपूर्ण घडि आइपुगेको छ- आ-आफ्नो राय-सुझाव दिनुहोला ।

नेपाल आलुपिंडालु पार्टी धेरै आलु उत्पादन गर्ने हल्यान्डलाई जिता‌औँ, अक्टोपसको अन्धविश्वासलाई हटाऔँ। सँधै इस् मिल्छ अक्टोपसको भविष्यवाणी :)

नेपाल आलुपिंडालु पार्टी अन्तत: आलुपिँडालु पार्टीको मागको समने घुँडा टिक्दै माकुरे सरकारले राजिनामा दिएको छ। अब हाम्रो आलुवादि मागहरु सम्बोधन भएमात्र हामी अर्को सरकारको नेतृत्तवको निम्ति तयार हुनेछौँ, अन्यथा हामी सरकार बन्नै दिने छैनौँ 

Barcamp Kathmandu -2010

LIVE
Kathmandu, Nepal is going to have barcamp for the second time tomorrow i'e 28th of August 2010.I was one of the attendants of first barcamp Kathmandu. It was a huge gathering and active participation of energetic youths who have already contributed and are willing to contribute in the field of education,business,technology etc. Everybody were invited and sharing of ideas were done in the event.

From the official site of the barcamp 2010, it can be seen that many people are showing their interests to participate in the barcamp. Seeing these activities, it can be predicated that the event is going to be huge successful.These are the faces who are going to participate in this coming barcamp either as a listener or speaker or both. Whoever is interested , s/he can participate in this event and can present his/her idea. The only thing that a person needs to do is register by logging into the official site of the barcamp 2010. The participation can be made either going into the venue or by the internet. The program will be broadcasted live in internet. Here are some of the useful links for the Barcamp Kathmandu.

http://barcampktm.wikispot.org
http://twitter.com/barcampktm
http://barcampktm.wordpress.com
http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-ktm
http://barcamp.org/BarCampKathmandu

SVN authentication using SASL

will be posted very soon

Radiotray- simple and making life simpler

Radiotray is a simple tool for streaming radio stations of the world in Linux system . It is very simple and light application. Once I start it , it remains at the very corner of my desktop.The radiating icon is the radiotray.Once I click the right button on the mouse pointing on this icon, it shows the list of radio stations that I have added so far. I have added those radio stations by clicking the left button of mouse while cursor pointing on this same icon and then configure radios options.

I installed this useful tool in my system by downloading this radio tray package for debian which is free to download.

For getting the package, package information and making any kind of contribution to it, we can click here

SVN and its authentication

After setting up SVN repository, the task of administrator is to give different permission and access to the different users on the basis of requirement. Before providing the permission to the users, we need to think about the repository structure. Since there is no concrete architecture of the repository, administrator can little bit think about it seeing the projects type, number of people involved in it, number of projects in a repository and etc.

Firstly,I will be taking about the configuration of svnserve for giving light(unencrypted) authentication mechanisms.Encrypted authentication is explained here. Svnserve is simple in configuration and useful for the repository used by small number of people and the people who are sharing it are not beyond the local network.

For configuring svnserve, there is directory in the repository named /conf. This directory contains three files named authz, passwd, snvserve.conf.Configuration of these files can give permission but username and password will be plaintext.

In general, the filename named svnserve.conf can be edited as follows.

[general]

non-access = none

auth-access = write

password-db = passwd

authz-db = authz

relam = firstrepo

There is one more section [sasl] in this configuration file. This file is not configured for unencrypted connection.

Now, in [users] section of passwd file , username and password is added. It is added as:

abc = abc123,

left hand is username and right hand side is password. In each line, one username and password is kept.

And, authz file is configured for giving per-directory permission.Taking into the account of the following architecture of the repository, the per-directory premission to the following users of the passwd file is given as an example.

In the [passwd] section of the psswd file following users and their password are added as:

[passwd]

buda = buda123

asur = asur123

charlie = charlie123

The architecture of the repository is:

outer/outer1/inner1

outer/outer2/inner2

Among the above added user, buda is the administrator. He has full read and write control over the repository. And asur and charlie can read whole repository but asur can write /inner1 and charlie can write /inner2 only.And all the other can't neither read nor write.For achieving this we can configure authzfile as follows:

[authz]

[/]

buda = rw

asur = r

charlie = r

*=

[repository:/outer/outer1/inner1]

asur = rw

[repository:/outer/outer2/inner2]

charlie = rw

SVN and its configuration

Subversion is a free/open source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows us to recover older versions of our data or examine the history of how our data changed. Thus this can be regarded as "time machine"

I have configured svn server for the people of an organization giving SASL authetication and per-directory authorization. Here are the steps and solution to possible problems. First, i am going to revise some of the important svn command for Linux(Debian).

First of all we need to install a package named subversion from package manger.

sudo apt-get install subversion

After successful installation of the software, we can easily create the repository.

svnadmin create /path/to/repository creates the repository

Once repository is created, some of the files will be added in the location of the repository.Three sub-directories that will be available are /conf, /db, /hooks, /lock. The use of these sub-directories will be explained later.

After creating the repository we need to import the data in the repository.For importing data,create the directory to which needs to be imported. The following command imports the data into the repository

cd /path/to/import/directory

svn import file://localhost/path/to/repository --message "some additional information"

The above command is for the local system. If you need to import for repository which his in network, then following command works

svn import svn://host-address/path/to/repository --message "some additional information"

Once the data are imported, it gets stored in the /svn directory. Now, we need to get the working directory.For getting the working directory we can enter the following command.

First of all we need to create the working directory where we want to keep the working copy.

mkdir /path/to/working/directory

cd /path/to/working/directory

svn co file://localhost/path/to/repository

This is for the case when repository is in local system. And for the repository which is in network, the following is the command:

svn co svn://host-address/path/to/repository

Once the working copy we get, we can make changes on that copy and test it and if we really wants to make changes then we can commit it. Committing makes changes to the repository file too. We should not have a misunderstanding that it will make change into the original repository file. The changes will be made to the files which will later be released as new version.Committing can be done as using the following command sitting in the working directory.

svn commit