Day: July 28, 2016

Top 4 open source alternatives to Slack for team collaboration and Chat

by scmgalaxy KGeneralLeave a Comment on Top 4 open source alternatives to Slack for team collaboration and Chat
Off course Slack is market leader in terms team collaboration and Chat but here are the list of 4 open source alternatives to Slack for team collaboration and Chat.
Slack 
Slack offers a lot of IRC-like features: persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, as well as private groups and direct messaging (again, historically based on IRC).[14] All content inside Slack is searchable, including files, conversations, and people. Slack integrates with a large number of third-party services and supports community-built integrations. Major integrations include services such as Google Drive, Trello, Dropbox, Box, Heroku, Crashlytics, GitHub, Runscope and Zendesk. In December 2015, Slack announced their app directory, consisting of over 150 integrations that users can install.[21] Users can add emoji buttons to their messages, which other users can then click on to express their reactions to messages.
More info – https://slack.com/
IRC
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a protocol which dates back to the late 1980s. Since it’s been around so long, there are numerous open source implementations on both the client and the server side.
Coming with its age, however, are numerous drawbacks. It lacks many features one might expect in a modern chat client, from security to identity management to even just being able to easily transmit non-text components, like images, files, or emoticons (the latter might be seen as a plus to some, however). Some features have been implemented after-the-fact through bot services, including nickname management, logging, and other features, but these vary from server to server.
IRC does still have some things going for it, though. It’s nearly universal, and clients are available for basically every platform out there. Though the command-driven interface isn’t necessarily intuitive for beginners, many clients re-implement commands through a GUI. And if you’re doing upstream open source development, there’s a good chance you’re already hanging out in IRC anyway, so adding a team server might be a path of least resistance.
Let’s Chat
Let’s Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It’s designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams.
It’s free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.
Let’s Chat is a side-project of the development team at Security Compass. (A real life 10% time project!)
More –
Mattermost
As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings all your team communication into one place, making it searchable and accessible anywhere. It’s written in Golang and React and runs as a production-ready Linux binary under an MIT license with either MySQL or Postgres.
Rocket.chat
Rocket.Chat is an incredible product because we have an incredible developer community.
Over 200 contributors have made our platform a dynamic and innovative toolkit, from group messages and video calls to helpdesk killer features.
Our contributors are the reason we’re the best cross-platform open source chat solution available today.
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How to Set or Configure Proxy in Linux and Windows System? – scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KUnix / LinuxLeave a Comment on How to Set or Configure Proxy in Linux and Windows System? – scmGalaxy
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Setting the proxy configuration in Linux and Windows
If you use a proxy server or firewall, you may need to set the http_proxy environment variable in order to access some url from command-line.
Windows Command line
set http_proxy=http://your_proxy:your_port
set http_proxy=http://username:password@your_proxy:your_port
set https_proxy=https://your_proxy:your_port
set https_proxy=https://username:password@your_proxy:your_port
Windows GUI
1. Open the Control Panel and click the System icon.The System Properties dialog is displayed.
2. On the Advanced tab, click on Environment Variables. The Environment Variables dialog is displayed.
3. Click New in the System variables panel. The New Sytem Variable dialog is displayed.
4. Add http_proxy with the appropriate proxy information
Windows Registry
IE can set username and password proxies, so maybe setting it there and import does work
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyServer /t REG_SZ /d name:port
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyUser /t REG_SZ /d username
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyPass /t REG_SZ /d password
netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie
Command to enable proxy usage:
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Command to disable proxy usage:
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Command to change the proxy address:
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” /v ProxyServer /t REG_SZ /d proxyserveraddress:proxyport /f
Linux 
export http_proxy=http://your_proxy:your_port
export http_proxy=http://username:password@your_proxy:your_port
export https_proxy=https://your_proxy:your_port
export https_proxy=https://username:password@your_proxy:your_port
export https_proxy=https://%username%:%password%@your_proxy:your_port
FAQ
1. How to escape if password has a @ character
Ans – try %40 instead of @
2. What is the file name where it stroed the proxy in Ubantu
Ans – /etc/environment
3. How to set proxy inforamtin in Apt?
Ans – Adding following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf has solved the problem:
Acquire::http::proxy “http://10.1.3.1:8080/”;
If file does not exist, create it. Do not confuse it with apt.conf.d directory.
4. How to set proxy inforamtin in linux Profile?
5. Why manual export failed to affect apt-get with the proxy info?
Ans – The reason your manual export failed to affect apt-get is because sudo ignores that environment variable by default (i.e. it doesn’t pass it on to the command). For one-off runs, you could do sudo env http_proxy=http://10.1.3.1:8080 apt-get update. Otherwise, you could configure sudo to allow http_proxy to fall through.
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