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The Fallible Maker

2011-03-13T10:15:00.000-07:00

Beseech in belief and I grant you your soul.

Ever pondered how much a The Maker had laid his faith on The Believer. He created The Believer with so much of faith that he didn’t even leave a trace back on The Believers body. We, The Believer, never got to know that He, The Maker, created us with his own hands. Never in this life he came in to say that I created you, be gratified to me. He was so selfless that he was busy creating different forms of us while we were busy naming ourselves Ram, Rahim, Jhon or maybe Malcovich. He was so mesmerized with his own work that recognition was not required. But err is human, and since he created us, infallibility didn’t abscond from him. He did as grave mistake as could do, he believed that once created we will obviously praise him for his work which, while construction never got into him. But now he was lurking for the insatiable fame that he wants to be bestowed upon him for creating us. But instead he got nothing, zilch. So he started on what next big mistake he could do, messiah!. He started sending Messiah, this time he named them Jesus, Mohammed or Krishna, with much enthusiasm and fanfare he sent them in un-usual ways sometimes without fornication even some were airborne. We realized that greater forces play in this world than we know, later as they grew they told about him, The Maker. But mistake done is done and any correction can’t mend it completely, and repeated mistake is always punished, and so was The Maker. His fault this time was simple he created too many of them, all of them worked but with different prophecy and principal, results were varied and devastating. Instead of the Maker, we mistook messiah as our creator, further bifurcated was the ways of worship, like some being human sacrifice, which sometimes even the Maker never dreamed of. His errors were far more stretched with our actions crusades and wars, devastating and producing carnage of his own work. He’s still brooding over what can be done but as his created time ticks, his researched created sculptors are pinned to mother earth day by day. Was he so difficult to comprehend ?? or is some force greater than him has other notion for him. He still ponders on how to be perfect.

(Amen | Allah | Jai Sri Krishna)

If you can find out a solution for this mail him at maker.falliable@goddam.it.

(well this is from one old mail when i didn't think of blogging :) )

Radix Sort

2010-07-22T14:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a sample implementation of Radix sort, which internally implements count sort to store intermediate results. It sorts the data in O(n), yeah a linear sorting method. Amortized values will be O(kn) where k is the average length of typename. Sorting uses LSD -> MSB movement;
Also sample implementation is in C++ and works only for unsigned int. It can be typcased to work for int, long, float and even string.

http://code.google.com/p/samcoder/source/browse/trunk/codebase/src/RadixSort.h
http://code.google.com/p/samcoder/source/browse/trunk/codebase/test/RadixSortLSD.cpp

Radix Sort wiki -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort

Happy Coding!

Listed Algorithms

2010-07-20T13:01:00.000-07:00

Well in continuation of my effort to understand Algorithm. Here's a simple approach.
I gonna dump all my new codes in this opensource project and anyone is free to browse/use the source code. Well mostly they are copy cat from Introduction to Algorithm. But many a times it will vary. Most of the code is tested but i cant gaurentee accuracy. :)

http://code.google.com/p/samcoder/

BTW: QuickSort is checked.
http://code.google.com/p/samcoder/source/browse/trunk/codebase/src/QuickSort.h

EnjoY!

Linked List (C++)

2010-07-15T20:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a trivial linked list that i developed few hours back, use it for pedantic purpose. Obvious to say i don't bother what you do with the code.

#include <iostream>
namespace stdds 
{
 template <typename T>
  class Node {
  public:
   T mData;
   Node<T> *mNext;
   Node(T pData):mData(pData),mNext(NULL){}
   Node(T pData,Node<T>* pNextNode):mData(pData),mNext(pNextNode){}
  };

 template <typename T>
  class LinkedList{
  public:
   Node<T> *mHead;
   LinkedList(){mHead=NULL;}

   bool InsertAt(T pData,int pSequence) {
   }

   bool PushBack(T pData) {
    Node<T> *tTempNode;
    if(mHead==NULL) {
     tTempNode = new Node<T>(pData);
     mHead = tTempNode;
     return true;
    } else {
     tTempNode = mHead;
     while(tTempNode->mNext!=NULL)
      tTempNode = tTempNode->mNext;
     tTempNode->mNext = new Node<T>(pData);
     return true;
    }
   }

   bool PopFront() {
    if(mHead!=NULL) {
     Node<T>* tTemp = mHead->mNext;
     delete(mHead);
     mHead=tTemp;
    }
   }

   bool Insert(T pData,int pPosition) {
    Node<T> *tPrevious = NULL;
    Node<T> *tCurrent = mHead;
    if(pPosition) {
     int iCount=0;
     while(tCurrent!=NULL) {
      if(pPosition==iCount) {
       tPrevious->mNext=new Node<T>(pData,tCurrent);
       break;
      }
      tPrevious=tCurrent; 
      tCurrent=tCurrent->mNext;
      iCount++;
     }
    } else {
     mHead = new Node<T>(pData);
     mHead->mNext=tCurrent;
    }
   }

   int Find(T pData) {
    int iCount=0;
    Node<T>* tTemp=mHead;
    while(tTemp) {
     if(tTemp->mData==pData)
      return iCount;
     tTemp=tTemp->mNext;
     iCount++;
    }
    return -1;
   }

   void RemoveAt(int pPos) {
    int iCount=0;
    Node<T>* tCurr=mHead;
    Node<T>* tPrev=NULL;
    if(pPos) {
     while(tCurr!=NULL) {
      if(iCount==pPos) {
       tPrev->mNext=tCurr->mNext;
       delete(tCurr);
       break;
      }
      tPrev=tCurr;
      tCurr=tCurr->mNext;
      iCount++;
     }
    } else {
     mHead=tCurr->mNext;
     delete(tCurr);
    }
   }

   void Remove(T pData) {
    RemoveAt(Find(pData));
   }

   bool Print() {
    if(mHead!=NULL) {
     Node<T> *tTempNode = mHead;
     while(tTempNode!=NULL) {
      std::cout<<tTempNode<<" "<<tTempNode->mNext<<" ["<<tTempNode->mData<<"]"<<std::endl;
      tTempNode=tTempNode->mNext;
     }
    }
   }
  };
}

FreeBSD - enable su for users.

2009-12-10T13:09:00.000-08:00

While tinkering with freeBSD it convinced of its abilities qualifing as development box. Well at home FreeBSD runs over Fedora (in VirtualBox - Bridged Networking mode) and i can ssh to it both from desktop and laptop. But its really a wonder that FreeBSD denies root access remotely (aka. ssh). One easy and rather non-acceptable way is to allow root to login ( enter PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ), but it breaks the whole secure feature of FreeBSD.
The optimim way is to add a user to do 'su' which later can be used to remote login.

Steps to add user to root group (wheel).

# pw user mod -G wheel
# groups

For new users just add it to wheel along with default group while doing adduser.

Next you can allow su for all users.
Follow these steps.

# vi /etc/pam.d/su

and look for
'auth requisite pam_wheel.so no_warn auth_as_self noroot_ok exempt_if_empty' and comment it.

Happy sshing. "_"

TCP Header.

2009-03-06T12:36:00.000-08:00

Learn this for if you are into networking.



    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |          Source Port          |       Destination Port        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Sequence Number                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Acknowledgment Number                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Data |           |U|A|P|R|S|F|                               |
   | Offset| Reserved  |R|C|S|S|Y|I|            Window             |
   |       |           |G|K|H|T|N|N|                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |           Checksum            |         Urgent Pointer        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Options                    |    Padding    |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                             data                              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                            TCP Header Format

          Note that one tick mark represents one bit position.

Details http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793#section-3.1

SamTwitter (My last 100 twitter msg)

2009-01-27T10:43:00.000-08:00

follow me on Twitter

Mood Swing

2008-12-29T09:40:00.000-08:00

Monday
Monday monster is here, it will hunt you down, drag u by your feet, slap an early morning bath, throw u inside the cubical cell and strap u the electric chair. u can prey forgiveness but it wont listen. suffer my baby all week long. ;(

Tuesday
I was dragged, pushed, eaten and labored by Monday monster. Tuesday daemon is pinging me back.

Ubuntu - Auto mounting HDD at boot

2008-10-17T16:27:00.000-07:00

After fidlling lot with Ubuntu finally here the sequence to auto mount HDD partitions and make them behave properly.

1. Open /etc/fstab. Add these lines.

/dev/sda2 /media/Vista ntfs-3g defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/SOFTWARE vfat defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 0 0

2. Make the corresponding directories in /media ( remember to mount the HDD partitions in the /media not the traditional /mnt else Ubuntu wont show it as HDD ).

3. Test the fstab success

sudo mount -a

4. To find all the drives entries use fdisk or blkid

sudo blkid

That's it, next reboot all partitions will be auto mounted.

iMac defeated

2008-10-11T00:33:00.000-07:00

Finally tweaked ubuntu to defeat the display superiority of Mac. It aint so easy since Ubuntu is as ugly as anything can be. Unfortunately connonical didnt realize that users "look" at the monitor, so looks should be pleasant. But no big deal, not everything should be done by them lets fix it.

Simply install avant-window-manager and conky to get the look.

Installation guides.
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/11/three-little-things-to-make-your-ubuntu-desktop-beautiful-and-productive/
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/09/27/gmail-weather-beauty-right-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/

For Mac-user's envy here's the screenshot.

Mplayer

2008-10-11T00:04:00.001-07:00

Well sometime linux can be frustrating and when it comes to mplayer nothing can me more worse. After lots of head banging i found a simple and elegant way to do it. Simply type in the following commands and mplayer will be up n running.

1. Add mplayer repositories. For that open /etc/apt/sources.list and augment these two line.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse

2. Run these two commands.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer

3. Run Mplayer, If all goes fine you can have a gala time. But for it was not so. Mplayer took lots of loading time while disabling screensaver. I read that a conflict b/w comfiz and mplayer. So simply goto mplayer>right click>preference>misc and uncheck "Disable screensaver" stuff.

4. In case mplayer not finding video out device. open ~/.mplayer/config and search for line "vo".
Simply add the output device name like xv. Finally your mplayer conf should have something like "vo=xv". To list all supported device type `mplayer -vo help` that will list you out all the option..

mplayer -vo help

5. Worst, mplayer's got dumb. Simply mplayer>Right click>preference>Audio Tab select "pulseAudio".

Hope this helps

Working with DVD/CD Images in Linux

2008-07-29T13:24:00.000-07:00

PowerIso is a cool utility to decompress/Change format of .daa .iso images. I tried it on 2.4GB file and it worked cool for me

PowerISO Download site (http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm)

Installation Command

tar -xvf poweriso.tar.gz
sudo cp poweriso /usr/bin
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/poweriso

Simple convertion command (.daa to .iso)

poweriso convert input.daa -o out.iso -ot iso

Mounting ISO Images to folder

sudo mkdir /mnt/test
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 out.iso /mnt/test

Creating USB Minix Key

2008-07-18T12:24:00.000-07:00

Finally i succeded in creating USB Key containg Minix3.
Steps are simple

Download the USB Key image from Minix Download Section
Next determine the USB device.
lshw -class storage
df -k
Use fdisk to format USB Key in Linux Primary format.
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Use "dd" to make a raw copy of the Image downloaded.
sudo dd if=usb_image-3.1.2a of=/dev/sdb bs=1024
Next Reboot your computer and select "USB Device" to boot from.

Last step is kinda luck, depends if your BIOS allows booting from USB Device. If Not all other step goes in vain :).

Networking (Host Interface) in xVM

2008-07-17T15:22:00.000-07:00

All those who use Sun Virtual Machine (xVM) to run guest OS over Ubuntu (esp XP) and trying very hard to achieve proper network setup, then you are at the right place. I will show you how to give your guest OS proper native network setup.
Sun VM supports 4 kinda Network Adapter

Not Attached (behaves as network cable is un-pulgged).

NAT (Good if you want to sruf web and download coontents, not much communication with host OS).

Host Interface (Provides almost real network adapter kinda support).

Internal Network (Some kinda secure and fast stuff as per document).

We will use Host Interface to achieve our network structure.

Software requirement:

Bridge Utility
```
apt-get install bridge-util
```

Uml Utility
```
apt-get install uml-utilities 
```

Next provide the access right to the tap0 device


sudo chmod 0660 /dev/net/tun
sudo chgrp vboxusers /dev/net/tun

Next create the tap0 device

sudo tunctl -t tap0 -u

Now create scripts files to control Starting/Stopping the tap0 interface

StartTap0.sh

 
#!/bin/sh 
gksu brctl addbr br0
gksu ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
gksu brctl addif br0 eth0
gksu ifconfig $2 0.0.0.0  
gksu brctl addif br0 $2
gksu dhclient br0

StopTap0.sh

 
#!/bin/sh 
gksu brctl delif br0 $2
gksu ifconfig eth0 down
gksu ifconfig $2 down
gksu ifconfig br0 down
gksu brctl delif br0 eth0
gksu brctl delif br0 $2
gksu brctl delbr br0
gksu ifconfig eth0 up

After the scripts are ready open xVM and navigate to network adapter tab, Set the following config.

Attached to : Host Interface

Interface Name : tap0

Setup Application : ~/StartTap0.sh

Termination Application : ~/StopTap0.sh

All set just boot up the guest OS, fill in the password and enjoy full fledge network. At Guest OS Network adapter will only take static IP, remember to set it to something under the same subnet mask. Thus enjoy complete Network (lets play). :D

Banshee (Removing library entries)

2008-07-06T13:04:00.000-07:00

In case you use Banshee (Music player) and trying to remove 1000 or more songs, then you are in serious trouble. Banshee got some issues with banshee.db query string, ie while performing this operation it overflows raising exception. Still Banshee being a reliable player quiting it is not an option. So here's a way to remove the complete lib in jiffy.


cd ~
cd ./.config/banshee
ls
banshee.db covers  plugins
mv banshee.db banshee.db.old

That's it, you have moved Banshee library nowhere but to something that banshee will never use.

Caution:
You need to import all your songs again on Banshee, still its better than deleting individual files.

Allah Updesh!

2008-07-04T21:43:00.000-07:00

Sad but true!
Every once in our monotonous life, exceptions happen to make us ponder. Perhaps we wonder on stuffs that are materialistic and meaning-full to our existence in general, but mind being a wanderlust demarcates no boundaries. Well something of that sort happened, no not to me but to that day cab driver.

But triggering such offset thought need a very strong initializer, so here the catalyst - A drunk person. The catalyst come's to the cabbie and pleads "will you drop me at kottagurad,PLEASE". God man! he was all smelling like a bloated sausage filled with alcohol but he had the courtsey to say "Please" in a tone too childish and very frank. Cabbie replied in a jiffy saying NO!

But that's the beginning of the churning of thought process for him. He would have never spoken a work except "kaha jana hai?" while he was going to gimme a "Allah Updesh". Well here was a chain of thought going in his head, started instantly by quoting "Dost bhi bula raha tha pine ke liye, bola pe le kisi ko nahi pata chalega (friend asked him to drink, saying no one will get to know)" and more blah vlah saying never drink while driving, never drink when on duty...but then he realized something so true and so pure that i could sense his guilt.

The guilt was subtle "he failed to help a fellow human". He though maybe he could have dropped the person and helped him reach his destination. With a blaze verses of Quran hit him like stone, to help all is broken, he had sinned. How should he repay.

Here is his Updesh log:
"Insaan, Insaan se door jaa raha hai, saala koi parwah hi nahi hai. Jab saab ek hi aadam se paaida hue thab kya hua ki insaan insaan ko pyaar nahi karta. Ussi ko pyaar karna jo risthey mein aate, same type ke hote. thoda alag wale ko cut le kahte. Insaan ko koi padwah hi nahi ki koi jeeta ya marta hai"

"kya ho jata agar us piyakkar ko kottahguda tak le jata, par nahi insaan ab aisa kar hi nahi sakta, usko toh wahi chahiye jisse usko fayeda ho. kabhi nahi soochete ki saab bhai bahen hai. Waise toh galat koi nahi hoota par kaun toop ban gaya hai paise kamake, kitna bhi itoop ban jaao akhir mitti le jaati hai. Bachta hai insaniyat. Jo aapne doosro ka bhala kiya wahi rahta hai".

Next was unexpected but directed towards to me (IT professionals and other earning educated people)
"Waise sir aap bhi dekho na aapme ek baat hai, ek IT hai jisse aap paisa kamate hai, safal hote hai. Aaapke maa baap ne lakho kharach kar aapko honhaar banaya soo aap bada ban sako. Koi kaam de to usko pura kar sako. Par kya aapne us hunar ko kisi gareeb ko baatne ka soocha. Nahi paisa nahi kisi gareeb ko sikhane ki koshish jisse woh bhi kuch kar sake?? Galti aapki nahi Insaan ki hai. Usse doosre Insaan se pyaar hi nahi hai, maddath ku karega"

Cab screeched only to break me from my lessons. Well post hearing i had to still shake myself. Did i really listen to what he said??. I am now wondering.

Ends Allah Updesh.

Living with Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 1525 (Post install life)

2008-07-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

Well as Dell shipped my Inspiron 1525, the first notion in my head was i paid 5K for a crappy Vista. Being a hard core fan of linux & owner of pre-historic pentium4 desktop, i always thought so. But with all my guts and conscience i will be saying "Vista Rocks". Well not really on scale of performance and all, but looks are real beauty. I never found any distribution more beautifull that Vista. Vista ran on my Dell Inspiron like a bull, with 4GB of RAM at its disposal it satisfied itself with 1.5GB usage at normal working condition. Also Dell installed Media direct, real crappy stuff for a developer like me.

But then thats it, 2 hours of discovery and its done. i dont need the vista (for which i paid 5K) anymore. But it did serve the purpose of browsing website and helping me choosing the first linux distro that gonna run over my laptop. After much search i found Dell has official support for Ubuntu (after cursing why this service not available in india) so i settled for Ubuntu ( a distro i longed for long). Amazingly my friend had the Ubuntu 8.04 CD burned and ready for me. I popped in the CD and off goes ubuntu, detecting every possible hardware. Glad i decided this penguin to be my pet.

Amazingly Dell had crapped my HDD by 20GB, i decided to clean all stuff. Took the Vista CD, formatted all the partition, installed Vista over a 50GB partition. Popped Ubuntu again and installed it from Live CD. Thats it. Ubuntu Installed. Every piece of art started churning to live.

But as i have experienced for 3 years, linux make you search. Well ubuntu is great as software installation is not a problem, just apt-get it. But once i upgraded to 2.6.24-19-generic kernel problems propped from thin air. So here's the list of problems and my solution.

My hardware config (in case you are interested)


sudo lshw -short -sanitize
H/W path               Device      Class       Description
==========================================================
                                  system      Inspiron 1525
/0                                 bus         0U990C
/0/0                               memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/400                             processor   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5850  @ 2.16GHz
/0/400/700                         memory      32KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701                         memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/400/1.1                         processor   Logical CPU
/0/400/1.2                         processor   Logical CPU
/0/1000                            memory      4GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0                          memory      2GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1000/1                          memory      2GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous
/0/100                             bridge      Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2                           display     Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1                         display     Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1a                          bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1a.1                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
/0/100/1a.7                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1b                          multimedia  82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                          bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0            eth0        network     88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
/0/100/1c.1                        bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0                      network     BCM4312 802.11a/b/g
/0/100/1c.4                        bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5
/0/100/1d                          bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.7                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1e                          bridge      82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/9                        bus         R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/100/1e/9.1                      system      R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
/0/100/1e/9.2                      system      R5C843 MMC Host Controller
/0/100/1e/9.3                      system      R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
/0/100/1e/9.4                      system      xD-Picture Card Controller
/0/100/1f                          bridge      82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.1            scsi3       storage     82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0      /dev/cdrom  disk        DVD+-RW TS-L632H
/0/100/1f.2            scsi0       storage     82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk        250GB WDC WD2500BEVS-7
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1   volume      70MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2   volume      50GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3    /dev/sda3   volume      30GiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4    /dev/sda4   volume      152GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/5  /dev/sda5   volume      50GiB HPFS/NTFS partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/6  /dev/sda6   volume      60GiB HPFS/NTFS partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/7  /dev/sda7   volume      20GiB W95 FAT32 partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/8  /dev/sda8   volume      86MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/9  /dev/sda9   volume      972MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/4/a  /dev/sda10  volume      21GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.3                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
/1                                 power       DELL RN87384
/2                     wlan0       network     Wireless interface

Amazingly post installation sound went bloop. So just update alsa for the new kernel.


sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo m-a update
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i alsa

Next was 3D Cube, just open config manager and set cube (also add 4 workspace to get cube effect)


compizconfig-settings-manager

Next came the wireless adapted (LED stopped blinking)


apt-get install linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic

Next install some cool player, along with their codecs


apt-get install banshee*
apt-get install mplayer*
apt-get install xine* 
apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

Started banshee found the media button (play/pause/stop/next/back) are working cool but volume button are screwed. Fix is simple, goto System>Preference>Sound Set the Default Mixer Track to the one which works for you. Here's the one i set.

Fortunately every other stuffs working cool, so i am happy this posts not dragging more. Any more issues found/resolved will be appended for you (me).

BREAK; OUT;

2008-04-23T12:39:00.000-07:00

How would you behave, if one girls starts sobbing in you office cafeteria and begs for some private space (aka begging everybody to leave the place). Nothing ?? Well that's not what i felt when it happened to me.

Amazingly my office cafeteria is called "BREAK-OUT' zone. Not bcos people freak out in there but bcos freaky people try to break out tough problems (ofcourse company work) that they think is blocking their head. Well many of us just drop in to see the beautiful Hyderabad from 7th floor. Even the rocky terrain of "Banjara hills" looks like paradise when you desire to get out of the office. Well thats a completely different story. Someting not normal happened apart from the coffee machine choking for milk and overburnt milk heater. A lady sitting with all her composure suddenly started shouting (with deep asseration) "WIll you all please Shut-up ??" she said few more line in a jest meaning "She wanted some personnel space of her own".

Well that's not it, it makes me think upside down. My company is one that picks so called "the elite" ones IITians, ISMites ( :D ) and NITians. These supposed to be the most toughened students morphed into cutting edge professionals. They are not only trained to be technically skill-full but also tough management, psychology, economics and stress management. But i see all this going into vain.

Well why ?? Is a valid question.
Who am i with all professionally skilled but composed of completely depleted personality. One who cant keep bothering stuff inside his own head. One who is feeling empty even after working 12 stringent hours. One who is having zero personal life but only night life. One who cant pursue other carving stuff in my life, just because i want to grow professionally ??. Well its not like that people are weak mentally. Maybe they are but life makes everybody grow stronger. Help them face hardship with a smile in face. Then what can be so drastic in that persons life, that she had to break down in-front of everybody??. Isn't she also one of the same annealed student who has been grilled to be tough and strong.

Guess there's some flaw in our system.

OR maybe the cafeteria is intentionally labelled "BREAK-OUT" zone. Guess this being a US company where "BREAKING-OUT" is much common and HR having prior experience prefers letting people "Break-Out" instead of pouring all troubles on them.

Some day i will also utilize the "Break-Out" zone to break out on somebody on whome i would like too.

Well there's no conclusion of this posting, i just thought so hard...i had to type it down.

getCodeReviewSuccessRate()

2008-04-18T14:06:00.000-07:00

Well one of the most frustrating fact for a Software Developer is that in backdrop lies a cruel tester. No offences attached, even when it's been told ..told and again told that testing is an required phase...and bugs detected are nothing personal...i still dont feel COMFORTABLE with this concept of testing. Well howz its not personal man ?? I wrote the whole code, so more bugs means lesser reliability index for me. So at core i would hate a tester. Esp if the testing is done in semi-understood state, where all well thoought concept are questioned/categorized as bugs. Well i guess, this a non-evasive situation where all you can do is pray (or bribe).

From the eyes of an tester (beholder), its his duty to cleanse the code. Form my p.o.v he is the "devil crawling outside my door".


NativeTester *objOldTester = new NativeTester("AIRHEAD");
NewAgeDev *objOldTesterToNewDev = reinterpret_cast (objOldTester);
if(!objOldTesterToNewDev->canICode())
{
  std::cout<<"REMEMBER I WAS A AIRHAED ?? HOW CAN U EXPECT ME TO CODE";
}
return somebug;

Well it's me...i was born and brought up as Software Developer...but what about the person who is typecasted to an developer ?? Well i guess he will be elated everytime he finds a bug in his code. Awwh man awesome, my code has a bug. :D...
Comon man u no tester now ... dude u need to fix it well now, so dont be happy.

Below is one of the screen/code walkthrough session stuff ( ie: WTF/min )

As truly said "Coding is routine, buggs are the real twisters".

Blogger->timeWasteCalc()

2008-04-13T13:28:00.000-07:00

Few days on blogspot and any programmer can see its unlimited potential.

But here's a stuff for fun, its simply a time counter that clicks every second and calculates the time spent over the page. I added this to my page. Quite unrealistic but it ready to go on for days :D/

Howz the look man ??

Where's the code??.


<div id='TimeKeeper'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
   function TimeCounter() {
   var tDay = document.getElementById('tDay');
   var tHrs = document.getElementById('tHrs');
   var tMin = document.getElementById('tMin');
   var tSec = document.getElementById('tSec');

   iDay = parseInt(tDay.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
   iHrs = parseInt(tHrs.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
   iMin = parseInt(tMin.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
   iSec = parseInt(tSec.childNodes[0].nodeValue);



   if((iSec+1)==60)
   {
     tSec.childNodes[0].nodeValue = (0);
     iMin++;
     if(iMin==60)
     {
       tMin.childNodes[0].nodeValue = (0);
       iHrs++;
       if(iHrs==24)
       {
         tHrs.childNodes[0].nodeValue = (0);
         iDay++;
         tDay.childNodes[0].nodeValue = (iDay);
       }
       else
        tHrs.childNodes[0].nodeValue = (iHrs);
     }
     else
      tMin.childNodes[0].nodeValue = (iMin);
   }
   else
     tSec.childNodes[0].nodeValue = ( iSec + 1 );
   }
   var stop = setInterval("TimeCounter()",1000);
   window.onload = TimeCounter;
</script>
<h2><a 
href='http://samcoder.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogger-timewastecalc.html'>
HOW LONG DID I WASTE YOUR TIME
</a></h2>
<table border='0'>
  <tr>
    <td><span id='tDay' style='font-size:35px;'>0</span></td>
    <td><span style='font-size:35px;'>:</span></td>
    <td><span id='tHrs' style='font-size:35px;'>0</span></td>
    <td><span style='font-size:35px;'>:</span></td>
    <td><span id='tMin' style='font-size:35px;'>0</span></td>
    <td><span style='font-size:35px;'>:</span></td>
    <td><span id='tSec' style='font-size:35px;'>0</span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>DAY</td>
    <td/>
    <td>HRS</td>
    <td/>
    <td>MIN</td>
    <td/>
    <td align='center'>SEC</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>

What the hell i do with this code??
You need to add this code to Blogspot template.

Can you be more clear??
Just search for the code in the template's HTML View.

<div id='sidebar-wrapper'>

Is that all for the ticker??
No.You also need to add the top code.

Well that's all for the counter :D.

!SPIT()

2008-04-13T08:56:00.000-07:00

Admist many a things, it happened to me once and i thought about it multiple time.

Well i saw a orphan "SPIT" lying on road, well that's a very common experience in India. I saw it, felt disgusted and automatically quenched my tongue back to help my saliva glands secrete a personal bout of saliva, which i will wobble inside my mouth to create spit. All this was a daemon process which is a reflex and i would spit on the spit, as an ovation or holy water that my spit is sacred enough to nullify someone's disgusting spit.

Well but post this event i thought, if i also spit then i burn down to the same category of the disgusting person and well my spitting doesnt change much (as the road's already marred). But then i had to do something from this to happen and atleast i dont want to be an active contributor to such an nonsensical but important stuff . What could i do i thought, as i was being torn into two segment the "Indian Action" and the "Non-Indian Developed Country Action". Well if was in Singapore maybe some police man could have spotted me and billed a 50$ fine. But in India i am all liberated. There's no-body to govern me in here, leave that no-one will even notice that i am spitting (over a spit). And if someone do notice it, at max he/she will gimme a screwed and disgusted look (as if it matters to me). Or if he/she is true indian in nature, he/she will spit back on the same spot or at somewhere in a near vicinity.

Is it important that what i am doing, some one has to discontinue right. Maybe i should be the bearer for the noble cause. To keep even my country clean ( well many Indians dont extend their toughts of cleanliness beyond the premises of their dwelling ).

But then for a new civilization to rise, the older one has to crumble. I had to squash my own instincts , crush them to dearth, i had to do it. I had to swallow the bout back again. I felt the path the saliva followed inside my body, and felt how my mind was liberated. I felt all this in a moment go. But i would like to remember for the rest of my life.

Well my Indian instinct was killed for this stuff but i was back at bargaining while buying Stevens from a local book shop. :D

Well not all Indian habit are bad.

NewtonVirus *objNV = new NewtonVirus();

2008-04-07T11:03:00.000-07:00

Well what more to say, it can destroy a days work, or atleat provide you with coffee break. Play it over a proud Mac user.

Category :Fiction, virtual reality, call it animation

sam->initBlog()

2008-04-07T00:03:00.000-07:00

Well here i am.
Where ?? Blogging sphere man. Well amazing this was the last stuff on earth that i intent to do but after much tracking bhale and miss un-know blogs i realized that even i can/should blogg. Well this is no offence meant for either of two. They inspired me in their own way.

Bhale -> is close enough to be friend, he inspired first by compiling awesome blogg and then pestering me to join in the band. well thanks bhale for your brave effort. Getting a programmer out of his programming routine is kinda accomplishment.

Miss un-know -> well i mean no-one to her neither she means anything to me. But then there's certain qualities of few people that glare like sun. As i asid to her, she makes mundane common stuff look vivid & colourfull.Read this post of her, and i bet there's hardly a way you can resist blogging. But then its all exaggerated.

Well thats they, but i am i.

Leisure is something i, we and you like. Reading blog is same, its pleasure to learn about others (without the pain of asking them). But blogging is tough, you need to put your thoughts into words (god help me in doing that). But all this is not much of problem, the real problem is someting very subtle (But i will declare it).

Real reason for not blogging :D
i am a hard core programmer, i was intending to build my own website which would have its own blog section (but blame it on my busy schedule), and would never appreciate myself using blogspot for blogging (though its made specifcally for this). Well thats my funda. But still i will blog, help the world learn abt me and unserstand me (if anybody cares to do so :D).

Someday i will rise to the level of regular blogger, then i can say "haoo" (reference movie 300). In the name of blogg and almighty google. i will blog.