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A "Package", the name seems very familiar but what exactly is a package when it comes to a web hosting manager. As the names itself says its meaning. Yes!!! it's a collection. But when you ask "what ?" the answer is "The collection of some predefined specifications". Thus a package can be explained as a collection of predefined specifications which define what a user or domain may have access to. WHM should have at least one package configured to start creating new user accounts with it.

A white screen shows up while submitting a form in your Drupal Site? There could be many possible causes for WSODs (White Screen of Death) in Drupal, such as PHP error reporting settings, memory exhaustion, etc. If the exact reason could be figured out, fixing becomes much easier. For treating this specific WSOD issue on form submit, check for the following symptoms:

STATUATORY WARNING: Get ready to be Terminally Surprised (and you thought you knew programming?) It was one normal Friday Morning, and Tingu was thinking of how to spend the rest of her day, when Binny came along with sl and bb to make Tingu's day... Friday 30 March 2012

If we are using a custom font on our webpage and if that particular font is not installed on a user’s computer, then there is a good chance that our website would become unreadable. One of the best solutions to overcome this scenario would be to embed the said font file into the CSS in the webpage source. Checkout the most simple method of embedding fonts within a CSS.

In a common secnario if a user types the url of a Drupal based website without the 'www'.prefix they will be automatically redirected to the  required site with the complete url. This is very convenient for most web users who do not want to type in the obvious 'www' prefix. Webmasters can configure this by changing the settings of the Drupal .htaccess file. However this will  be a problem if the Drupal site has a mobile version with an 'm.' prefix. Users wishing to access the mobile version of that Drupal site will inevitably be redirected to the main website.

Git is a popular version Control System that is Free Software. Created by Linux Torvalds to manage the development and deployment of the Linux kernel. The advantages of Git prompted developers to use it in many other software projects which required a robust version control system. Recently Drupal made the official transition from CVS to Git citing its advantages. So If you want to be a great developer you should get to know Git and its strengths when compared to existing Version Control Systems.  Read on to get a better perspective on Git and its importance to Drupal.

We had recently received the opportunity to provide video conferencing and live streaming services for the recently concluded fourth International FOSS Conference conducted by ICFOSS which was conducted from till 27-12-11 and concluded on 29-12-11. The technical support we offered was designed to be simple and can be replicated with minimum of effort to cover any other Free Software event. We have created an article on the technical aspects of setting up video streaming in Ubuntu and posted it on Ubuntu Manual. Check out the post on How to stream your webcam videos live online using Ubuntu. Feel free to share it with other FOSS enthusiasts who want to organise similar FOSS related events.