bad week... i mean really bad week

after this , i am ok.. but not everything is back to normal... mainly the drinking water.

lets see.

edit- the slideshow here , will give you some idea of what happened here.

make money from it but dont start to count, if you do, the value will be zero.

I as a computer user, programmer/developer and professional in it, find things about IT as good and nice as you might feel about breathing air around you. ( meaning its just normal to me, for you may be too abnormalish and if forced to define in a word, you might take solace in saying it as "geeky" )

So , just a couple of days ago, I was told to watch movie called Revolution OS by my friend named dhaval faria. He was the one who told me about movies called "Pirates of silicon Valley" and "Antitrust". Pirates of silicon valley is supposed to be biographical story of Apple computers starting from the times when steve jobs, bill gates and steve ballmer all were in colleges and how microsoft tied up with IBM but made them pay royalty for MS-DOS and how Apple went to making the first gui based Mac OS also has tit-bits of the xerox system coming with same idea but apple managing to get it running first. Antitrust is just hypothetical hollywood movie.

Watching revolution OS was like going through time-travel of my life in the past 8-10 years and i am in state of somewhat elavation.

My first experience with computer was at a computer-fair at my school which had games to play. (mayb it was running IBM dos... i guess ) when i was in grade 9. I remember playing super galaxy , pacman, bomber man and couple more whole day spending all the money just on the games which i was given for eating food at stall and travel. next was when i was in junior college i took programing course (basic, lotus 1-2-3, foxpro 2.5 for dos) and the labs had windows 3.1 later at the end of course, the labs started installing windows 95 (this was in year 1994-95).

After good gap, i started doing web programming and at that institude, got first
introduced to Windows 98 and at end of the course Windows 98 se was release. again some years went by where i lost quiet some years doing nothing in computers...

In year 2000, I went to a iDevelop 2000 conference a oracle developers seminar. I remember one of the speakers saying why are they putting i before everything because of the internet boom, everyone wants to put "i" to the name for what they are doing and it looks cool. THIS is where i was introduced to Linux in flesh. for good 2 years i was hearing Unix and linux are the alternative forces in the world existing but never really got my hands on it. except seeing unix 3.0 running in labs of my institude. I had internet connection and used to read about Linux and the "free movement" but at the Oracle seminar i saw Linux running in front of my eyes first time.

I remember seeing Linux running at the small demo-setup in lounge. I went near them and just lookd around. the banners, pamplets read Redhat Linux. opposite to them were Sun's sparc system running. I went near the redhat booth and asked the person in tie-suit what is this running. He said this is Linux operating system built and customised by redhat with KDE as windows manager and had Oracle for linux setted and running. i asked him where can i get linux he said i am already given it in my developers kit (i still have the oracle 8 set with redhat 6.2) I got home fired up my pentium 500 pc and tried installing end a broken pc.

so cause of that i totally forgot about it. until a couple more years later i decided to join a institude for linux advance administration course which just catapulted me from noob to not a noob.

but from year 2000-2004 between that, i was heavily involved with microsft and related things too. i still remember paying heavily for Whistler CD and getting my eyes hazy seeing the GUI advancement and things in it. so much so that i grabbed a offer to become microsoft beta tester and went on to test Windows 2003 server edition, Office 2003 server edition, Visual basic .Net. Plus also i grabbed offer to take formal introductory training in VS.net at Microsoft's training office right here in bombay. Mr. Sanjay Shetty (Regional director for MS), and teams at that center were extremely kind to us (me and dhaval) during those training sessions. (still got the white papers from those sessions )

now during 2002-2003, i was living in duaility between windows and linux. Not knowing what seriously to get into, which will "pay-off" in future, but at start of 2004 I got a offer from a person named Bill Stanley in texas to work as linux server support engineer, and cause of that offer, now i am completely into Linux although never away from windows.

Now today after watching RevolutionOS just brought all things back to me. Dhaval told me its about GNU and linux and you will like it. He is Microsoft MVP doesnt really loves linux and he is telling me see a good movie on Linux made me confused really. I watched it and was really enjoying it.... and kept thinking this is such a good movie on linux and all the things that happened why would dhaval expose this to me ... a die-hard microsoft developer telling me something good about linux just didnt make sense to me UNTIL i saw the last 4 minutes of the movie... the way VAlinux share went from USD $200-$300 per share at its debut in 1999 to USD $ 2 per share when it quitted from market couple of years later. seeing that made sense to me why dhaval told me watch that movie.

Edit :- http://www.dhavalfaria.com/

Also, Dhaval read this blog and below is his response in chat i just had .

[13:58] anshu_pg: humm.. the revolution os was fun
[13:58] dhavalhirdhav: ya
[13:58] anshu_pg: I AM UR WORST NIGHT MARE ....... that line just cracked me up
[13:58] dhavalhirdhav: even me
[14:12] dhavalhirdhav: abe saaale.. woh 2USD kee wajah see mein nahi bola ( didnt tell you to see movie for that 2 dollar drop in VALINUX share)
[14:12] anshu_pg: lol then?
[14:12] dhavalhirdhav: I just told u so that real open source kaa meaning pata chale..(I told you so you get the meaning of real open source thing)
[14:12] anshu_pg: heheh
[14:12] anshu_pg: reallly?
[14:13] dhavalhirdhav: abe and I dont hate Linux.. I like it.. but the way its marketed.. I hate that thing
[14:14] dhavalhirdhav: update kar (do update)
(in progress)

its fedora 4 on my thinkpad.

this is my fedora 4 running on laptop... just running for past week.. need to get things finely combed on this one.. and doesnt look easy-peasy job.

anyway . i am liking it.

the god of XP themes release's new one.

stefanka has released a update to his famous XP msstyle Royale inspirant. its bloody fantastic.

I would like to raise a fund of alteast 500 USD which can be used to tell Theme makers like Stefanka and Kol to make themes for Gnome and KDE :D what do you think?

BTW stefanka's InspirantSE page =>> stefanka.DeviantArt.com

one day when talking to Louis

below is the chat log with my friend louis green.

[22:58] Anshuman:lou
[22:58] Anshuman:have u installed gentoo?
[22:59] Louis(laptop):no why?
[23:00] Anshuman: well u dont know ... thats good.. dont evn bother with it
[23:00] Louis(laptop): y
[23:00] Anshuman: cause its not simple.
[23:00] Anshuman: there is no installer.
[23:00] Anshuman: you have to configure the script to make it isntall for your machine
[23:07] Louis(laptop): :S
[23:07] Anshuman: so u got confused :P
[23:07] Louis(laptop): the is a name for people like u, I can't think of its, but it is unique to u
[23:07] Anshuman: LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
[23:08] Louis(laptop): do u have OCD for Linux?
[23:08] Anshuman: umm might not be widely know among normal people
[23:10] Louis(laptop): so u have Obsessive, Compossive Disorder for Linux and Penguins?
[23:10] Anshuman: yes.... oh ... yesss... totally
[23:11] Anshuman: i start sweating and get nervous if i stay away from linux for too long
[23:11] Anshuman: get twitchy and all that stuff


rest is just normal chat ;).

Xp desktop.

simple plan... you know me

I've open my eyes
I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light
I can't remember how
I can't remember why
I'm lyin' here tonight

And I can't stand the pain
And I can't make it go away
No I can't stand the pain

Chorus:
How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

Everybody's screaming
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I'm slipping off the edge
I'm hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again

So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't

How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

- lyrics of "How could this happen to me"

targetting my home from satellite.

Nope i am not unveiling my ICBM code to nuke the city where i live in. but looking a satellite's point of view on my home.. well kinda.

its google map's software. i just downloaded, my good friend in manchester (but evil too.. in a goodway.. err ... nevermind) saritha just pinged me on messenger and gave this link to Softpedia.com.

So far all i did was use maps.google.com in browser but to no avail. so let me just stop typing and show you what i saw.

1)

In this first pic, you can see the bay of bombay.

2)

Now this are the little (cities if i can) within bombay.. My place lies between thana and kalyan.

3)

Now this is just kalyan.

4)

my attempt to find someone... on terrace.... moon bathing *.. :-( no luck.

*its midnight here now... got it .

and....... my linux desktop shot.

how did i forget to pimp my desktop screenshot? ... forgive me. :D

1) here is the busy looking version, when all things are running.


2)and here all things closed down. cleaner looking.

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graphically wasted

so i wasted my time doing this three things..
1)a button with sunken center

2)same button with raised center (could had improved but i got lazy)

3)Signature thing. i like this one totally. most time was taken by this one.


total timepass = 1 hour.

go FLAT and you are OUT.

I "aquired" this game called Flatout (homepage). But its so not flatout.

you can call Need for speed underground 2 flatout.. but not this. but flatout is kinda real, you really have to manuveure your car around the corners in dirt, snow and tarmac and you get the feel of all the different surfaces while doing this.

For everyone i know who played this game, IN snow, no one likes, well ya driving in snow notoriously edge, but for me I enjoyed it. just have to get that feeling going ( on the brakes) and you just sail.

so below are some screenshots. enjoy them.

Tools of trade.

So when i install a new server. I always install couple of tools. very spiffy and saved me tons of time. (literally) when doing things like changing 100 plus strings in a (conf or host) file, or making RPM's and DEB files from compiled tar ball.

so here are the tools.

1) RPL (homepage):-

Overview
rpl is a UN*X text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new strings in multiple text files. It can work recursively over directories and supports limiting the search to specific file suffixes.
rpl [-iwRspfdtx [-q-v]]

2) Checkinstall (homepage):-

After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation, using the excelent installwatch utility written by Pancrazio 'Ezio' de Mauro (p@demauro.net).


soon i will add more here.

coming soon... Internet by Google. (literally)

Like what Napster did to Music and kazaa did to downloading "things", i think broadband on Powerlines is whats needed for internet to spread like wildfire, where its still not has done.

According to this article here on wirednews site.
"Coming to a home or office near you could be an electric Internet: high-speed Web access via ubiquitous power lines, of all things, making every electrical outlet an always-on Web connection.

If it sounds shocking, consider this: St. Louis-based Ameren and other utilities already are testing the technology, and many consider it increasingly viable. This truly plug-and-play technology, if proven safe, has the blessings of federal regulators looking to bolster broadband competition, lower consumer prices and bridge the digital divide in rural areas.

Now after reading the above para's,you might say "yeah yeah, now wake me up in a year or two when this thing is really running and not a paper tiger".
if so, go back to sleep cause the above wired article is from 2003 and this is 2005.

Then today i read the news saying Google Invests in Power-Line Broadband. here. so what does this mean? and why is this important ..... they said it same thing some 2 years ago too, so this might follow same suit too. well i say nya.

Cause this time, there is money involved and lots of it, almost US $100 million plus. this is what is needed for such good technology to kickstart.

so are we going to see Googleisp.com / isp.google.com ??? umm mayb... lets see (or as i say sometimes.. lasssiiiii ).