Fedora 21 release party @Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

What is Fedora???
Fedora is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open source license.

What is Release Party???
As the name implies, it is a party/get-together to promote or release something.

On 21st of December 2014, we had a release party for Fedora21 at +Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education. It was again one of the awesomely arranged software release party. The session began at half past two with a quick introduction of all enthusiasts present. There were participants from various organisations like IIT Bombay, Red Hat & C-DAC Pune.
The introduction to Fedora21 was presented by Pravin Satpute. 

Fedora21 has GNOME desktop environment. It is quite interactive than Ubuntu OS. We were introduced to various interesting applications of Fedora21. Fedora 21 includes OpenStack Icehouse. One can directly upload videos and images on any social media in one click.

We were introduced to Docker cloud. In simple terms, it is like sandbox or virtualenv in python. Here there is no limitation with the hardware space and you can experiment whatever you feel like which wont directly affect your machine. Even if you restart your machine, the docker experiments can be saved forever.

As it was a release party, there was a cake cutting ceremony and snacks to relish too.

The event was concluded by Rahul Bhalerao with a presentation on how to contribute & participate actively in Fedoraproject.

People can participate and contribute by following certain guidelines in various forms:

• translation,
• design,
• coding,
• user support,
• testing and usability,
• documentation,
• marketing,
• and many other contributions and interests.

Also read about FAS.

You can even earn badges with your contributions.

Lastly, there was openhouse, a kindof group discussion where we discussed about difference between Free Software, OSS and FOSS.

The concept was beautifully explained by Dr. Nagarjuna as follows:

Free Software has 4 freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish
• The freedom to study and change it as you wish
• The freedom to redistribute copies to help
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others

A free software charges you for their service. Rest you have all freedom to do whatever with the software unlike proprietary stuffs which charges you and even restricts you. 

He even explained how Android, though open source, forces users to have a Gmail account. This is just to scrape users's personal information.

We shell out so much on servers which scrapes our personal information. Instead it is very cheap to host and manage our own servers. Read about FreedomBox.

After the discussion, a group photo was captured and they gave away goodies like Fedora21 stickers, workstation and server DVDS and Red Hat keychains.

You can contact the fedoraproject group with this email id : apps.fedoraproject.org

For contributing or any queries related to contribution please contact : rbhalera@fedoraproject.org

Minimum System Requirements for Fedora21:

15GB Hard disk

1GB RAM

How to root your Android device in 2 minutes?

How to root your Android Phone???
Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's sub-system.
This can be achieved with less pain with the help of an android application called Framaroot. 
With Framaroot you can experiment with your device with full access of your device.

Steps to follow:

• Download Framaroot APK.
• If you downloaded the APK file on your pc connect the device to your PC and copy it into the SD card. if you have downloaded directly on the device to go to step 3
• Make sure that you have enabled the download of other platforms different from Google Play. You can check this in the following path: Menu > Settings > Unknown sources (ON)
• From your device, click on the Framaroot APK file and then follow all the on-screen instructions you see.
• Once the app is installed on your phone, launch GingerBreak app and when it will be opened click on the “Root” button in application.
• Wait a few minutes for the process to finish and reboot your device.
• If you want to check if you are already root or superuser in your Android phone or tablet you can download HowToRoot app from Google Play Store and click over the padlock in the top-right of the screen. It will show you a message about if your device is rooted or not.

The easiest way is also to Download 2.3.0 version of Root Genius and follow the instructions in the link. It will root your device in a minute.

Cynogenmod
This is an open source operating system for developers which comes with a rooted phone and it has various features like overclocking, where you can tamper with the performance of your android device and create your own themes for your phones.
CyanogenMod does not contain spyware or bloatware.
Check out this link to convert your normal android device to cynogenmod.
Also read the link.

NOTE:
Backups made in recovery are not safe unless they are made to a true external sdcard. If you want to experiment with above stuffs, make preparations for doing safe backup before running the installers.
Rooting varies with different devices. Please check your device compatibility with the apps before rooting.

Rendezvous with St. iGNUcius

WINDOWS = Where I Never Do Operations With Security

The mail said,
On behalf of TISS, we cordially invite you to a public lecture BY RICHARD STALLMAN titled "FREE SOFTWARE, FREE SOCIETY", ON THE 21ST OF JANUARY 2014, at the Old Conference Hall, TISS Main campus (Time: 5pm-7pm).

Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the author of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most widely used copyleft license, for free software. He will also talk about the relevance of software freedom in the era of networked computers.

A vehicle was arranged from IIT Bombay to TISS to attend this talk.

He gave a riveting talk on the following topics:

There is an ideological difference between the proponents of the terms "Free Software" and "Open Source".
The term FreeSoftware was introduced in the early 1980's by the movement we now know as the FreeSoftwareFoundation. Thus, the definition of FreeSoftware is focused on the freedom to share with your neighbor.
The term OpenSource was later introduced by another community including ESR, is more or less indifferent to moral issues concerning software sharing. The OpenSource movement argues that developing software using the "bazaar" philosophy (as described in TheCathedralAndTheBazaar) is superior. Hence the definition of OpenSource is focused on effective development using the bazaar model for business. While both discuss software whose users are permitted certain freedoms with respect to the code, OpenSource tends to focus on providing an economic/business argument for FreeSoftware. FreeSoftware focuses on providing a moral/ethical argument for OpenSource. The distinction is between "using/providing FreeSoftware is a good, morally right, thing to do" and "using/providing OpenSource Software is beneficial to you and your business". In most cases OpenSource software is also FreeSoftware, so the difference is mostly that the OpenSource community, probably in order to be more BusinessFriendly, refuses to subscribe to the ethics of the FSF. So, for the most part the effects are the same. Practically, however, the main difference is that OpenSource people think that closed software is OK, if not ideal, so if a XFree86 driver is closed source, that is OK, but the FreeSoftware people believe that these non-free software packages should be avoided if at all possible. OpenSource licenses do not restrict redistribution of identical or modified copies. Some FreeSoftware licenses place one restriction: that redistribution must be under a FreeSoftware license. Such licenses are called Copyleft licenses.
Licenses like BSD, MIT, Apache are not copyleft but are Free Softwares. There is only one license which is Open Source but not Free Software - Reciprocal Public License or RPL.
According to RMS, surveillance, censorship & non-free softwares are major threats to free digital society.

He also talked about Japan's restrictions on several websites, Wikileaks, Free speech not Free Beer, India's UID scam, how Javascript & librejs are not secure.

We even met Nagarjuna G., Research person at HBCSE.
At the end there was an auction session to get the GNU puppet which was then sold at ₹3000.

 Non-free software controls man

Reverse Engineering in NetBeans and TestCases

Requirements:
NetBeans 7.1

• Open NetBeans.

• Tools > Plugins > Settings > Add
• Name : UML
• URL : http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/updates/6.9/uc/m1/dev/catalog.xml
• In Available Plugins, tick "UML" and click on install button.
• After installation, restart Netbeans.
• Right click on project package name(Here sample)
• You will see "Reverse Engineering" in the drop down
• Select it -> Click on OK
• A Model folder gets created
• Inside it go to Model->package name(Here sample)
• Right Click on package name.
• Choose Create diagram from selected elements option
• Choose the diagram type you want. I selected Activity Diagram.
• Click on Finish.
• A prompt dialog appears. Click on Yes.
• You can now view Activity Diagram for your project.
• Likewise you can generate other diagrams.

Test Cases:

1. JUnit : Visit Link
Right Click on package name and select New->JUnit Test->Finish.
This will create JUnit test file. Right click on the file and select Test File.
It will produce the test result as follows.

 
Note : If you don't find JUnit option, install the plugin  by searching in
Tools->Plugins->Available Plugins

2. Functional & Regression Testing with TestNG :
If plugin is not installed, then visit link and click on Download.
Extract the downloaded file. We can view 3 nbm file.
Go to NetBeans.
Go to Downloaded->Add Plugins->"add those 3 files except maven.nbm"->Install.
Restart NetBeans.

Right Click on package name and select New->TestNG Test->Finish.
This will create TestNG test file. Right click on the file and select Test File.
It will produce the test result as follows.

3. Load Generator or JMeter or Stress Testing or Volume Testing :
Right Click on package name and select New->JMeter Test->Finish.
This will create JMeter test file. Right click on the file and select Test File.

4. Smoke Testing :
The results of this testing is used to decide if a build is stable enough to proceed with further testing.

5. Sanity Testing :
A sanity test or sanity check is a basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true.

6. Usability testing :

It involves a completely different set of skills and is a subjective form of evaluation, because it depends on the user population that will use the application. Results obtained in this way should not be generalized to other situations and users outside those in the test population.

7. Capacity Testing :

In short, capacity testing is about figuring out what the capacity of the system under test is. Typically, how many transactions per minute or how many simultaneous users a system can bear without crashing.

8.  Recovery Testing :
Examples of recovery testing:
While an application is running, suddenly restart the computer, and afterwards check the validness of the application's data integrity.

9. Reliability Testing :
You have to explain about NetBeans and how it supports reverse engineering with formula
Probability = Number of failing cases / Total number of cases under consideration

10. Ad-hoc testing :

Testing without knowledge of actual system to check functionality.

Ad hoc or regression testing is done after fixing defects to check functionality.

11. Black-Box testing:
If the source code is not available then test data is based on the function of the software without regard to how it was implemented. When performing a black box test, a tester will interact with the system's user interface by providing inputs and examining outputs without knowing how and where the inputs are worked upon.eg: Manually testing

White-Box testing :
The tester needs to have a look inside the source code and find out which unit/chunk of the code is behaving inappropriately. eg:Junit

Genymotion, the fastest Android emulator for app testing and presentation

==================
Install Genymotion
==================
Application requirements:
------------------------
    Oracle VirtualBox >= 4.2.12 (greater is better)
    Ubuntu 12.04

** To download ``Oracle VirtualBox`` visit https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download Genymotion from this link.

How to install
--------------
  #. In a terminal, run the following commands: 
     
      ``cd <path-to-install-Genymotion folder>``
      ``sudo chmod +x ./genymotion.sh``
      ``./genymotion.sh
     
  #. It will Launch genymotion and the main window appears.
  #. And immediately, a pop-up appears and invites you to add your first virtual device.
  #. Click the "Yes" button, the creation window appears.
  #. Click the "Connect" button.
  #. Fill the authentication window with your Genymotion Cloud username/email address and password
     **Note: Deafult username is ``aakashabt`` and password is ``aakashtest1``.
  #. Then click the "Connect" button.
  #. Once connected, you will see all the available virtual devices.
  #. Select a virtual device  ``Custom Phone 7 - 4.2.2 - API 17 - 1024x600`` in the list.
  #. click the "Next" button.
  #. Choose a new name for your virtual device and click the "Next" button.
  #. Your virtual device will now be downloaded and deployed.
  #. Click the "Finish" button to close the deployment window.
  #. Click the "Play" button to start your newly created virtual device.

** Important Note **
  #. If you close genymotion and want to use it again then just run following command:
     ``cd <path-to-install-Genymotion folder>``
     ``./genymotion.sh``
    
Thats it...

Android Screen capture:

1. Download and untar
2. cd to directory AndroidScreenCapture_1.1 (after untar you will get AndroidScreenCapture_1.1) on terminal
3. Enable debug mode in device(Settings->Developer Options->USB debugging)
4. Connect device to laptop
5. run java -jar AShot-1.1.jar on terminal
6. For first time it will ask for sdk location (provide it)    

sudo: must be setuid root error

Open terminal and do, 

su -

or

su  - root

Next, type: 

chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo

That's it!!! 

Scrape files from Browser with perl script

my (@arg) = @ARGV;
#perl script to scrape the slides from browser all at once
if (!@arg){
    print "USAGE: \n
       First arg : SEMISTER Number
       Second Arg: Semister Subject
       Third arg : UNIT Number
       Fourth Arg : Number of Pages
       IMAGE TYPE : JPG or PNG 
       Example: perl $0 3 DIF233 UNIT2 49 jpg\n";
     exit;   
}else{
    #print "$arg[0]==$arg[1] === $arg[2]==$arg[3]\n";
    system("mkdir -p $arg[1]/$arg[2]"); #creates directory where you want to store the slides
    system("cd  $arg[1]/$arg[2];"); #path to that directory
   
    #my $val="(?:jpg|png)";
    my $val = $arg[3];
      for(my $i=0;$i<=$val;$i++){ #from 0 to the number of slides the ppt has
   
     my $val1= "wget http://media.msconline.au-kbc.org.in/slides/semester$arg[0]/$arg[1]/$arg[2]/slides/complete/img$i.jpg"; #scrapes the slides from browser
      my $val2= "convert img$i.jpg slide.pdf"; #converts all slides to one pdf
     my $val3= "mv slide.pdf '$arg[1]/$arg[2]/'"; #moves the pdf to the directory created
      system("$val1");
     system("$val2");
      system("$val3");
    }
    for(my $i=0;$i<=$val;$i++){
        $c = `pwd`; #the directory is from your present working directory
        chomp($c);
        $aa = "$c/$arg[1]/$arg[2]/";
       
        #print "cp img$i.png $aa\n";
    system ("mv img$i.jpg  $aa"); #moves the slides to the directory created

    }

#http://media.msconline.au-kbc.org.in/slides/semester3/DIF233/unit1/slides/complete/img{0..63}.png
#http://media.msconline.au-kbc.org.in/slides/semester3/DIF233/combined/img0.jpg   
#http://media.msconline.au-kbc.org.in/slides/semester3/DIF232/unit2/slides/complete/img8.html
#http://media.msconline.au-kbc.org.in/slides/semester3/DIF232/unit2/slides/complete/img8.png
#run as perl down.pl 4 DIF%20004 unit1 63
}

Sources error during update

There are chances that while installing any package you might get sources error and update wont happen. Don't worry at all.
Just do,
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/<name.list>

Techfest 2014

Pranav Mistry @IIT Bombay Techfest talking about his sixth sense technology. The enhancement of this sixth sense technology now is useful for any deaf person to interact with anyone. A deaf person will do sign languages. Those sign languages are recorded by this sixth sense technology http://www.slideshare.net/atinav242/the-sixth-sense-technology-complete-ppt . The gestures are processed into words which are then transmitted to a speaker which has words to speech software. The speaker will then speak out the words which the person actually means. Finally talking about open sourcing his technologies.

IIT Bombay TechFest

Bharat Ratna C.N.R. Rao

ROBOWARS

Ferrari F340

The system network service is not compatible with this version ...Error solution(Ubuntu)

Check out by the command ifconfig whether what output you get.
If you are facing the problem there are chances you might not get the ip address in the output. For the naive people, in simpler words the output will be just one para and not 2 as it should be.
Try this link
http://pratiklahoti.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/ubuntu-12-04-the-system-network-services-are-not-compatible-with-this-version/

For me this link didn't work but for many the above link worked so try that out first.

My experiment:
1. sudo  vi /etc/network/interfaces
you will see the lines:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

instead type:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

Now do:
2. sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
Paste below lines:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1

now restart your network with:
3.sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

now check
4.ifconfig

5.ping joindiaspora.com
If this gives response, your net is working ....Hurray!

6.sudo service network-manager restart

This is basically called static ip.

Let me know whether it works or else what error u get take a screenshot and mail me.