AssaultCube

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, i is a FREE multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that’s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer with fast, arcade gameplay, it’s addictive and fun!

With efficient bandwidth usage, it’s low-latency and can even run over a 56Kbps connection. It’s tiny too, weighing in at a lightweight 40 MB package available for Windows, Mac and Linux. On the correct settings, it can even run on old hardware (Pentium III and above).

website : http://assault.cubers.net

Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a fast-paced 3D deathmatch game with high-end and complex graphics effects. It is intended to be played over the Internet or over a local network. Several different game types, such as classic deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag are available. Though it also supports a single-player mode and playing against the computer. The game brings deathmatch back to the basics, with perfect weapon  balancing and fast paced action, keeping itself away from the current trend of realistic shooters.

Nexuiz is an Arena First Person shooter coming soon to consoles. Nexuiz is fast paced with extremely competitive game play. IllFonic brings Alientrap Software’s Nexuiz to next-gen gaming consoles around the world while staying true to the game play refined over the years through development. IllFonic introduces a new Victorian influenced art style that is simultaneously futuristic and sophisticated. Nexuiz for consoles is powered by CryENGINE 3.

Nexuiz will feature a dynamic mutator system that allows players to change the rules of the match as its being played; as players rank, new mutators become available for them to use. Leader boards are designed for social networking, letting players feel more engaged with the community.

website : http://www.nexuiz.com/

Warsaw

Warsow is a fast paced first person shooter consisting of cel-shaded cartoon-like graphics with dark, flashy and dirty textures. Warsow is based on the E-novel “Chasseur de bots” (“Bots hunter” in English) by Fabrice Demurger. Warsow’s codebase is built upon Qfusion, an advanced modification of the Quake II engine. Set in a futuristic cartoon-like world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets, Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Speed and movement, that’s what Warsow is all about. Like a true cyberathlete you jump, dash, dodge and walljump your way through the game. Grab those power-ups before your enemy does, plant the bomb before anyone sees you, and steal the enemy’s flag before anyone knows what’s going on!

website : http://www.warsow.net/

Sauerbraten

Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

Sauerbraten is a networked fast-paced 3D first-person shooter game. It supports rather modern graphic effects and a some nice graphic details.
The game client also works as the map editor. It is even possible to create and/or edit a map together with other people over a network connection.
Sauerbraten might be considered unsuitable for children.

website : http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net

Tremulous

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based First Person Shooter (FPS) game with elements of a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like a Real Time Strategy game. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more.

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the “Armoury”. The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.
The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

website : http://tremulous.net

proxy server

Install Squid
Install squid and squid-common

sudo aptitude install squid squid-common


Edit the squid config file.

sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf


Set the allowed hosts.

acl internal_network src 192.168.0.0/24 (Where 192.168.0.0/24 is your IP range.)
http_access allow internal_network

Set the correct permissions.

sudo chown -R proxy:proxy /var/log/squid/
sudo chown proxy:proxy /etc/squid/squid.conf


You will need to restart squid for the changes to take affect.

sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart

Now open up your browser and set your proxy to point to your new squid server on port 3128

Authentication
If you wish to use authentication with your proxy you will need to install apache2 utilities

sudo aptitude install squid squid-common apache2-utils

To add your first user you will need to specify -c

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/squid.passwd first_user

Thereafter you add new users with

sudo htpasswd /etc/squid.passwd another_user

Edit the squid config file

sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf


Set the the authentication parameters and the acl

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid.passwd
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm NFYE Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 3 hours
auth_param basic casesensitive off

acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl sectionx proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow users

So this is what your squid.conf should look like.

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0

acl internal_network src 192.168.0.0/24
acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl Safe_ports port 631 # cups
acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync
acl Safe_ports port 901 # SWAT
acl sectionx proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl purge method PURGE
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access allow users
http_access allow internal_network
http_access deny manager
http_access allow purge localhost
http_access deny purge
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all

Redirect the all HTTP traffic.
If you would like to redirect the all HTTP traffic through the proxy without needing to set up a proxy manually in all your applications you will need to add some rules

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1:3128
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128


Where eth1,eth0 are the LAN, WAN devices and 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of your LAN device.
If you wish to monitor the performance of your proxy you can look as some log parser’s (sarg, calamaris, ect.)

After all, probably you feel the need to monitor the performance of your proxy. Unfortunately, most of the squid log parsers in the Ubuntu repository are configured for Squid 2.x. Nevertheless, squid 3 uses the same log format, so you can change the log file path in your parser config file (sarg, calamaris, etd.) or simply link the log directory of squid 3 to the correct path

ln -s /var/log/squid3 /var/log/squid

Source : kuscsik

About PenyuLAN

Penyu Radius is a special unit under Millennium Radius Sdn Bhd (“MR”) which has been setup, organized and operated in Dungun, Terengganu, MALAYSIA since January 2010.

PenyuLAN is a free software to monitor computers in a local area network. PenyuLAN is most suitable for internet café monitoring system. However, the features are also useful for school computer labs for monitoring purpose.

PenyuLAN can be used on local area network (LAN) whereby it will connect to the client PCs through the IP using designated port number.

PenyuLAN can perform the following remote control and monitoring on client PCs:-

1. Lock and unlock screen
2. Logoff
3. Restart
4. Shutdown
5. Send warning message
6. Capture screen
7. Check running program

Screenshot

Additional features which are suitable for internet cafe operations are:-

1. Record time and amount of usage for each PC
2. Currency is based on computer regional setting
3. To record food and beverage and other services
4. User account control
5. Comprehensive management report

PenyuLAN comes in three (3) editions which are Ganu Edition, Keropok Edition and Ikang Edition. The only difference between these editions is on the number of computers it can monitor.

As to date, PenyuLAN software is totally free without any limitation on number of use or any advertisement or nagging screen. For Keropok and Ikang Editions, you need to register to activate the software and registration is free.

With Penyu Radius software, internet cafe operators can now automate their business operation with free cyber cafe software. PenyuLAN is a cyber cafe software which is easy to use. PenyuLAN cyber cafe software will update PC monitoring usage for every second. This will allow the administrator to monitor PC usage with most updated information.

They are  also offer software customization to suit your special needs. PenyuLAN is not only suitable for internet cafe but also useful for schools or colleges computer lab. You will find it easier to monitor every computers in your computer lab.

Make sure you get the latest version of PenyuLAN software to ensure your cyber cafe operates with the latest version. They are gradually fix any problem with PenyuLAN cyber cafe software. Improvement and enhancement has been continuously performed to ensure their users get the best performance out of the free cyber cafe software.

You can download PenyuLAN from here : Download Site

Millennium Radius
(Dungun Branch)
No 4, Jalan Pak Sabah
23000 Dungun, Terengganu
MALAYSIA
Tel: 609-8444 277
Fax: 609-8445 277
Email: penyu@penyuradius.com
URL: http://www.penyuradius.com

According to wikipedia the last public version of Yahoo! Messenger for Unix was released in September 2003, while an unofficial beta (v1.0.6) from a Yahoo! employee was released around the same time.

But they keep upgrading the version for Mac? And now it is version 3.0.1 for the current beta released on March 26, 2010.

Yahoo Messenger has some great features that was making it so popular, and most of our customers was familiar with it, although there is an alternative like gyachi, kopete, pidgin, and empathy, our customers prefer to use Yahoo Messenger instead of those alternative instant messengers, and why?

Because Yahoo Messenger is so user friendly and easy to use, and one frequent reason is when using alternative instant messenger such as pidgin, most of our customer being afraid to create their account even without password.

The Linux / Unix version of Yahoo! Messenger is terribly outdated, and probably won’t even connect. The Windows version does not run well, even under Wine. The web version of yahoo messenger quite good but the customers still want the native version of it.

Yahoo Messenger On Mac

Yahoo Messenger On Linux

What we really need?

So do we need another yahoo messenger replacement? I dont think so, what we need now is an enhancement of current open source instant messenger program that could mimic the original Yahoo Messenger, and we are still waiting for it.

From my experiences running a cyber cafe business and provides certain solution to the others cyber cafe owners, Ubuntu Linux 10.04 or the previous version of it, is the perfect choice to be the server and the client operating system for cyber cafe purpose.

It has everything except POINT OF SALES software, dont believe on me? try to click ubuntu main menu > Ubuntu Software Center > Search for cyber cafe and you’ll get nothing except blank white page. But try search for point of sale and you will get “lemon point of sale” but this software wasn’t meant for cyber cafe purpose, it was created for general such as restaurant or book store.

One thing until now what Open Source Operating System such as Ubuntu or perhaps I should say Canonical still couldn’t beat Microsoft is the supports from game developer, but currently i heard that Steam is coming to Linux, until now we still need to using wine and other emulators to play warcraft III, counter strike and so on.

For me, that is why the progress in running gaming center or cyber cafe business based on open source software was far too slow and just few small company had put their interest to develop a billing system or pos system for linux operating system but still their software lacks many of important features, I didn’t say I am condemns their software, for me it’s a good effort for them and us, but we are still waiting for the perfect point of sales for open source cyber cafe.

Others POS system such as OpenbravoERP, OpenbravoPOS, OpenERP are good software makers but still the softwares wasn’t meant for cyber cafe, internet cafe or gaming center.

Why is this happen? I don’t know, or maybe they think that running cyber cafe and gaming center business using an open source product couldn’t help the progress to expanding the influences. Instead of that, still some of others contributor was willing to spend their time, money and privacy to creating POS system such as ccl, mkahawa, gbilling and others, but still to software need more support on their development. Ubuntu or Canonical should supporting them in their software development(cyber cafe billing system).

So if you asked me what is the perfect POS system for open source cyber cafe should it looks like? If you look to the Cafesuite.net features then we might get some point how it should be. And if we takes their features to suggest what kind of billing system we really need for cyber cafe cafe then it’s could be just like below:

Security

It should provides many levels of security, ensuring that your business is always under control.

Workstation lock

Unused workstations can be securely locked so that no one can use them without proper authorization from the operator.

Operator profiles

You can create many profiles for your employees with different access rights. Not every one should be able to change crucial options or pricing schemes.

Encrypted data files

All databases used by CafeSuite are encrypted which ensures they can’t be tampered with by unouthorized individuals.

Backups

It’s possible to create backups of data files automatically evey given period of time. Your data will be secure even when your system crashes.

Ease of use

The user interface is clean and feels very natural even to begginers. The integrated help system will guide you in case of any problems.

Customer accounts

It’s should makes it really easy to manage large database of customer accounts. You can create different types of accounts for your customers — time accounts, cash accounts, debt accounts and unlimited accounts. You can assign beneficial charging rates to customer accounts to reward devoted customers.

Customers will be able to log on by themselves using their account ID and password. It’s also possible to create smart, magnetic or barcode cards for your customers, so that a simple scan of their card will log them on.

Reservations

It should provides unique graphical workstation reservation system. Simply select a time period on the workstation chart to create the reservation.

In case of a very big traffic, you’ll appreciate the Waiting queue function, allowing you to manage the waiting list.

Reports and statistics

The software provides you with a range of reports and statistics summarizing your business performance. Starting with very general reports, you can even get a list of all operations performed by your employees minute by minute.

Flexible charging rates

Real strength of the software lies in the flexible charging rates system. You can configure many schemes of pricing, including periodical discounts.

You can assign different charging rates to computer groups, beneficial pricing can be used with customer accounts. You can even create traffic discounts that adjust prices depending on the number of free computers in your cafe.

Support for external devices

You can use barcode scanner, magnetic card or smartcard reader to logon users with accounts and sell products. the software also supports receipt printers for printing receipts and account tickets.

Integration with Printer

The software integrates with Printer allowing you to keep control over your printers. Once a customer prints some pages, the software will notify the operator about that and calculate the charge automatically.

For your information, I’ve waiting the Cafesuite for linux, they said to running the software on linux since 2006 but until now there is nothing at all.

For me I would like to add some features to the above, it should supports diskless terminal client, for now I’ve tested CCL to be able to lock down diskless client. I think I should makes an article or tutorial about it.

Post installation

After a successful installation and boot to the newly installed Ubuntu Lucid with out problem, now it’s time for the post-installation. You might consider to create a user if you want, login as root with your previous password:

Step 1. You will need to edit your hosts file

So I want to install Ubuntu Linux for my other system without using a cdrom, but I dont want to do it on that system, instead of that I want to install it via my current working ubuntu desktop that Im using right now.

Actually I want to build a firewall system complate with hotspot gateway and freeradius. But for now lets start with the basic installation first.

You could follow the instruction from ubuntu help community by Curtis Lee Bolin : Installation From Linux or you can continue to read it from here because I made a little modification for the installation method and I add the instruction for the post-installation and how to setup a firewall base system.

How to install without CD

You can install Ubuntu directly from Ubuntu using debootstrap. Debootstrap installs some essential packages in a directory for use with chroot. Note that the essential packages does not in itself make the system bootable. It just installs what you need to chroot to that directory and use apt-get to install other packages witch makes ubuntu usable.

Step 1. First turn off you computer and plugin your hard drive to it, after turn it on back then check that you have debootstrap installed if not, then you should run the following command below:

# sudo apt-get install debootstrap

(NOTE: if you want to install a newer release than your current system, you normally need to install the backported debootstrap version, see: UbuntuBackports)

Step 2. Partition device and make a file-system, to make it more easy, I use cfdisk to create partition for the other drive.

We will assume /dev/sdb is the storage device for your fresh install. I use my thumbdrive to show you an example how to partition the other drive for another system to setup an installation of ubuntu linux from your current ubuntu desktop.

Remove former partitions and create the new on.

# sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb

cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17.2)

Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
Size: 2056257536 bytes, 2056 MB
Heads: 64   Sectors per Track: 62   Cylinders: 1012

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
sdb1        Boot        Primary   W95 FAT32 (LBA)                   2056.00

[ Bootable ]  [  Delete  ]  [   Help   ]  [ Maximize ]  [  Print   ]
[   Quit   ]  [   Type   ]  [  Units   ]  [  Write   ]

Use your arrow key to the [ Delete ] option to remove your partition on the other drive:

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
Pri/Log   Free Space                        2056.00

[   Help   ]  [   New    ]  [  Print   ]  [   Quit   ]  [  Units   ]
[  Write   ]

Create new partition from free space, then you will see your drive is empty, now select [ New ] to create your new partition and select [ Primary ] :

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
Pri/Log   Free Space                        2056.00

Size (in MB): 1500

You need to enter new size limit for primary partition, press backspace then enter the size yo want, for example I use 1500MB and 500MB++ for the extended and swap partition.

Now create the rest of your free space as an extended and swap, to change type of your newly created partition navigate to [ Type ] press Enter and select 83 for linux and 82 for swap.

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
sdb1        Boot        Primary   Linux                             1499.34
sdb5                    Logical   Linux swap / Solaris               556.67

and select your primary partition as bootable by press the option [ Bootable ]. The write down your partition and quite cfdisk.

Are you sure you want to write the partition table to disk? (yes or no): yes

then [ Quit ] and start to make the file-system

# sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Step 3. Mount that new partition.

# sudo mkdir /mnt
# sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Step 4. Create the new install.

# sudo debootstrap lucid /mnt

Step 5. Copy files to the new install to keep your repositories

# sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /mnt/etc/apt/

Step 6. Chroot to your new install.

# sudo mount –bind /dev /mnt/dev
# sudo mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
# sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Step 7. Upgrade the new install.

# apt-get update
# apt-get install language-pack-en-base

Note: I install the language-pack-en-base before upgrade to avoid perl warnings as shown below.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_US.utf8″
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

then continue with :

# apt-get upgrade

Step 8. Install Grub and Linux Kernel.

# apt-get install grub-pc linux-image

Step 9. set root password.

To set a root password.

(NOTE: You must at least set a root password if you aren’t adding a user)

# passwd

It should now be safe to reboot, you may want the next few things.

Step 10. If you want to access it with ssh after reboot.

Use vi or install nano to edit /etc/hostname.

Remove anytext in this file and add the hostname you would like.

# vi /etc/hostname

yourhostnameyouwant

and then edit /etc/network/interfaces

# vi /etc/network/interfaces

Add this lines to /etc/network/interfaces. This will start eth0 at boot and request an ip with dhclient.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Next you need to install ssh

# apt-get install ssh

Turn off your computer, remove the new installation drive and plugin to the other system, and bootup the system. If you want the Ubuntu Gnome desktop, continue with Step 11, but if you want to setup a firewall base system, so just skip the Step 11 and Step 12, so it safe for you turn off your system and boot the drive from other system.

Step 11. Install ubuntu-desktop.

# apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-standard

Step 12. Reboot and keep those fingers crossed.

# sudo halt or sudo reboot

To be continue on Part 2

If you new to Ubuntu Linux, sometime you might face a problem in configuring display in Ubuntu Linux, it’s might cause of un-supported monitor or lcd on your system.

To solve the problem you could done it by following the instruction below using the xrandr. First open your terminal from your desktop, go to Ubuntu Main Menu button > Accessories > Terminal, and type the following command  to find your default display adapter:

# xrandr

# Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800

default connected 1280×800+0+0 0mm x 0mm (you’ll see the default word that I just bold it, is my default display adapter, but it might different with your’s)

1280×800       50.0*

1024×768       51.0

960×540        52.0

840×525        53.0

800×600        54.0

800×512        55.0

720×450        56.0

680×384        57.0     58.0

640×512        59.0

640×480        60.0     61.0

576×432        62.0

512×384        63.0

400×300        64.0

320×240        65.0

# cvt / gtf 1280 800 60 (note: you can use cvt or gtf, but dont type both just one) i.e # cvt 1280 800 60

then you will get the following messages

# 1280×800 59.81 Hz (CVT 1.02MA) hsync: 49.70 kHz; pclk: 83.50 MHz

Modeline “1280x800_60.00″   83.50  1280 1352 1480 1680  800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync

Then to add new mode run the following command :

# xrandr –newmode  ”1280x800_60.00″   83.50  1280 1352 1480 1680  800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync

after that add your desire mode to the default display adapter of yours by using the command line option below:

#xrandr –addmode default “1280x800_60.00″

And to set up your screen display with new resolution, run the command below:

# xrandr –output default –mode 1280×80

Before and after screenshot:

800×600

1240×800

According to Linux Journal, one of the widest uses digital distribution management software called Steam a multiplayer and communication platform developed by Valve Corporation, is Officially comes to Linux.

I’ve read about React OS and follow their progress for almost a year, but still don’t have a time to try it. But until now few weeks ago I manage to spare my time for this operating system, just download their live cd version, about 30MB something like that, and run it using qemu.

First of all, I cant believe it, just 30MB for live CD? It’s so damn small working live cd for gui operating system that was build from scratch to mimic Windows NT/2000/2003 operating system.

But unfortunately the development of React OS too are slow, from my opinion if React OS got some really big funds, this new open source operating system will makes Microsoft suffered enough.

Why? Because it’s run microsoft standard software such as office 2000, peripherals driver for windows 98/ME/NT/2k even XP, although it does has some limited in supporting other software and driver, but for me React OS will be the next big thing and key player for the next generation of Open Source Operating System Class.

And further more, React OS will be benefits cyber cafes and gaming center business in reducing their TOS. That is sound cool heh? If this OS really support 70-80 percent of windows games, no more headache for business owner to figure out running a windows based games in linux using wine.

About React OS

What is React OS actually? ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system based on the Windows NT architecture, providing support for existing applications and drivers, and an alternative to the current dominant consumer and server operating systems.

Where can I find more information about React OS?

You can browse them from here : http://www.reactos.org/en/about.html

React OS Screenshot

Unreal Tournament

React OS Shell

Flash and Firefox