Falling in Love...

Wow!
I'm falling in love yet again!
Since I'm upgrading to KDE 3.4, i'm using Gnome these days & ... it feels soo "Non-Windows-Like" & "appealing" that i just cant wait to emerge Gnome 2.10.
Also i'm dying to try the new KDE 3.4 which *might* be emerged by tomorrow afternoon.

I wished i could use both of these together (usefully)...
BUT, i'll have to settle with one at a time...
What a pitty!

:-( :-) :-( :-)
Different moods... Different desktops!
The power of choice! ...The power of freedom! ...The power of Linux!

Open Source Panipat

Welcome back :-)
Here I'm, spending 3 full days at Panipat, almost fighting the "4th war of Panipat" :-D
Well, it was a war against "closed-source-software", a war against "proprietary software", a war for the GNU movement!

The stay was at Manuj's place & aunti-ji used to cook some realy lip-smacking meals. The NFL colony (where i stayed) is like a town in itself. 80% of NFL people knew Manuj. He's quite popular over there ;-)


Up on agenda were two presentations, one for NC College of Engg & the other for Asia Pacific Inst. of Engg & both went absolutely great.

The staff @ NC college is the "most helpfull staff" i have ever seen. The helped us alot during our presentation. Students at NC were cool, with some of the brightest minds.
  

Atmosphere at APIIT was amazing. Though campus placements were on, but the zest in students for the presentation was no less! The faculty was equally interested in Linux & open-source.
   

The presentations went so good that i'm confident that if 250 students (in all) attended the presentations, 80% will give it "atleast" a thought & 50-60% will try open-source software either at home ot at college.

This trip was a bit different than others. Neither was i paid for the presentations, nor did i got any contract from these colleges, but still, i feel damm happy.

You can say... "its my way of contributing back to the community to which i belong!"
Hats off... to Manuj & Open Source Panipat!

Opera 8 Beta 2

Version - 8.0 Beta 2
Build - 987
Platform - Linux
System - i686, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6
Qt library - 3.0.5
Java - No Java Runtime Environment installed

Okay, Okay, The "Opera 8 beta" thing looks cool, is damm faster, scrolls better than firefox, starts quicker than FF, tab mgmt is alot better & its L&F gels better with my KDE theme... but stil cannot beat firefox on three "basic" issues!

1. Its not free! These text adds are bugging me!!!
2. It still dosnt supports Gmail's https/python duet, yahoo's "dynamic add-bcc" thing, blogger's non-html version. It dosnt comes with Flash pre-packed, FF bookmark importer... the list is endless!

3. I miss my FF plugins, specially the "auto-copy" plugin.

On a rating of 1-10 (float), i'll give it 6.50

WTF!
How do i get current image size of my image on a web-page in opera???
Why dosnt this preview button works???
grr...

& the saga continues...

As strong ...as the weakest link!

A network is "always"... as secure as its weakest link!
...& most of the times, this weakest link is an idiot network admin.

Without even breaking into any server, without sniffing anything, without trying any dictionary/brute-force attack, ***SomeOne*** got into a n/w, went through all the user-names/passwords, n/w policies, admin accts, everything... just because an idiotic "admin", had dumped his mysql database into a "world-readable" directory under his apache document-root, which nikto very easily detected!

What a "super Idiot admin"!!!

This "www-session" at 6:38 pm, is enough proof of my sayings!

HappHakk ;-D
makuchaku

ThreePointZero

There is currently no timeline for GNOME 3.0, but whenever it happens, it will be our first opportunity to make a clean break from the 2.x series, which has a number of compatibility concerns. This page should serve to document and remind us of all the things we want to rectify, but won't be able to do without breaking compatibility with 2.x.

http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero

[snip]


http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
One nifty little app!

LFY people should read this!!!

It should be made compulsory for all members of LFY team to sit down & read this magazine!
Jeez man!
This magazine is just 55 pages in length & way-way ahead of LFY. Okay, its not so technical, but still, 10 times better than LFY. Coverage of articles, designing of magazine, etc... is amazing. I wished, i had a hard copy of this magazine!

hey scribbler! are you listening...



& ya, you can have your own "free" digital subscription from Here.

Reason to smile...

Even Yahoo! mail uses Qmail to do "qewl" stuff.

[code]
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
[/code]

Perhaps, it gives me an extra reason to smile & keep qmailing.....

makuchaku
me@makuchaku.homelinux.org

Life has never been so Qewler!

Yup,
finally got mail send/recv, both working.

From now onwards, please redirect all my mails to me@makuchaku.homelinux.org

thnx,
me@makuchaku
Good Night

You have got mail!

... well not exactly!
but after 3 days of head banging, archive searching, forum trotting, more head banging, piddi fights, frustrated "unsuccessfull" logins, finally, ...piddi's mail has arrived!

[code]
Makentoo makuchaku.homelinux.org # telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to makentoo.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Hello there.
user piddi@makuchaku.homelinux.org
+OK Password required.
pass ****
+OK logged in.
[/code]

phew!
chk out comments to this post where i'll post, how exactly i managed to get this login!

wallah!
finally, vpopmail with authvchkpw module is working..............
Yahooooo!

My worst fear...

Oviously!
Its setting up a mail server!

From past 2 days, i'm banging my head against docs for qmail to get it running on gentoo. Qmail's docs are good, infact wonderfull, but being on a non-legacy system, i need to be extra-extra carefull. I cannot afford to make mistakes as every mistake can set me back by atleast 2 hours of re-compilation. Hence, golden words for me are : "Learn from other's mistakes" :-D

Anyways, i WILL set up Qmail this week & give my family members their own address, like :
--------
piddi@makuchaku.whatever.i.can.get.free.com
--------
however big it may look!

Signing off,

We have moved!

LoL,
From the first room to Last room.




Hence... Welcome to GnuTech Labs!




Now atleast GnuTech has a dedicated room for R & D :-)

Music? Anyone?

I (makuchaku), in no way, endorse music piracy...

Graduating...

Feels good when things start working out...
Finally graduated to NetBeans IDE with a J2ME mobility pack... now i can design those cool GUI's for my moku!

SMS... spam?

Steps to become a cool SMS spammer...

1. Get a series 60 cell-phone (nokia)
2. install python for nokia
3. choose a victim!
4. use this script

import messaging
from time import sleep

for i in range(howManySMS):
        print "Sending SMS --> ",i
        messaging.sms_send("Victim_number",u"Now dodge this SPAM... hehe"+unicode(i))
        sleep(15)

5. Dont blame me if u get caught!



:-)
makuchaku

Microsoft to Release New Internet Browser

Feb 15, 2005 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)
Microsoft Corp. will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the world's most popular Internet browsing software, with new, built-in security features, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.

In a speech at a major security conference here, Gates said Internet Explorer 7.0, with new anti-spyware features, will be released for preliminary testing this summer.

The move comes three years after Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, launched a major initiative to improve the reliability and security of its software, which runs on about 90 percent of all personal computers.

Hello small world!

What ... am i?

What extension am i?


:-)
Definitely not an 8.3 format!

Amazing Python!

I'm accessing Python console running on my 6600 through my Linux box... amazing!

Makentoo bluetooth # sdptool add --channel=1 SP
Serial Port service registered
Makentoo bluetooth # sdpd
Makentoo bluetooth # rfcomm listen /dev/rfcomm0 1
Waiting for connection on channel 1
Connection from 00:0E:6D:93:40:7E to /dev/rfcomm0
Press CTRL-C for hangup
....


Open another xterm & "cu -l /dev/rfcomm0"

& voila!

>>> hosts=[u"maku",u"makentoo"]
>>> appuifw.popup_menu(hosts,u"select host")
0
>>> import socket
>>> sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_BT,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>>> socket.bt_discover()
..........

Technology is amazing... truly amazing!

Welcome to LA '05

As always... Linux Asia started with a "wicked" goofup!

Windows XP in the first (inaugural) keynote!!!
What a shame!
Mr. Rahul, the editor of LFY was literally hiding his face :-D Being seated just next to him, i missed one of the best shots my camera could have catured! Obviously enough, it was replaced soon after.

But hey! Thanks to XP, things started off with a good mood. Welcome note (quite long) by Dr. Deepak from IIT Mumbai was excellent.


Other keynotes/Q&A sessions also were interesting. Specially the Panel discussion on "Is Linux ready for the Desktops?"... oh, BTW, I plan to write an article on same for "xxx" :-)

All in all, 1st day at LA '05 was quite interesting.

One major-major thing that happened today... was that it shifted my mindset from a "JOB" to my own business... When I'm good enough, why can't i exploit my skills for my own company? When I have a good business model, when I have a targetted segment, I think, its worth a risk!

--
makuchaku

up next... GTK#

My first program, had to be a "hello world" :-D

namespace GtkSharpTutorial {

	using Gtk;

	using GtkSharp;

	using System;

	using System.Drawing;





	public class helloworld {



		static void hello (object obj, EventArgs args)

		{

			Console.WriteLine("Hello World");

			Application.Quit ();

		}



		static void delete_event (object obj, DeleteEventArgs args)

		{

			    Console.WriteLine ("delete event occurred\n");

			    Application.Quit ();

		}



		public static void Main(string[] args)

		{

			Application.Init ();

			

			Window window = new Window ("helloworld GTK#");

			window.DeleteEvent += new DeleteEventHandler (delete_event);

    			window.BorderWidth = 10;

			

			Button btn = new Button ("Hello World");

    			btn.Clicked += new EventHandler (hello);



       			window.Add (btn);

			window.ShowAll ();

    

			Application.Run ();

    		}

	}



}

then...
mcs helloGTK.cs
mono helloGTK.exe