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well it is a lot easier than on Fedora 8( which i could never complete though i posted the method here ), it is just the installation of an RPM , just do this if u want to write any GUIs with Ruby based on Qt4 yum install kdebindings u are ready to roll !!!

i have been learning gui programming with Ruby, .. it is a lot more easier designing GUI's with languages like Ruby or Python , than C . I actually wanted to write a kernel installer , which would work like this , .... nothing related to the kernel is involved in the functioning of the installer , here is how it would go step by step .... : ask for the kernel archive file .(or may be just ask for the patch file and do the rest as same after applying the patch ). process the available config techniques based on the presence of libraries (like make gconfig, make menuconfig , make xconfig, ... etc) ask the user to choose the config technique give the option for the user to load the .config file from the installed kernel and then compile the kernel , the progress being shown in a display window and then complete the installation and ask the user to reboot to use the new kernel i just got this idea, .... does a tool like this already exist, ... or would it be worth it , to develop so

so if you have used the user_relationships module in Drupal ( 5.x) , u would know that the My relationships link in the navigation menu , when clicked displays a page with two internal tabs, 'all' and 'pending'. If u didn't like the tabbed display , (i did not like it , so i made this change)u can as well change it to display any one of the options , pending or all , this is what has to be done , u will have to edit the hook file for the user relationships module , so the required file is "your drupal installation"/modules/user_relationships/user_relationships_hooks.inc find the following code in the file and make the following changes . $items[] = array( 'path' => "relationships/list", 'title' => t('All'), 'access' => $view_access, 'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM|MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK, 'wei

This is an excellent initiative by one of the members of the Fedora Ambassadors Project , Susmit. He created a list and we( members from india) have been adding to it. It is a list of volunteers , who could copy Fedora install media for people who would require them. This is not limited to the present release and will continue for all the future releases i guess , ... here is the link , .... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts

i installed the qt4-ruby bindings just now. It is a little confusing ( for me atleast), so i describe here the process to install the bindings, (for linux, i am using Fedora 8)..... -> install qt4 on your system -> get the qt4-ruby bindings from the RUBYFORGE site or from the following link, the following link might contain an old version , so go to the rubyforge site for the latest stuff, .... http://www.filekeeper.org/download/eerpini/qt4-ruby-1.4.10.tgz -> install cmake on the system if it is already not present on a Fedora system u can do this by just using 'yum install cmake' -> then extract the archive and change to that directory , -> then run ' cmake .' this will automatically configure and create makefiles . -> then run ' make ' this should automatically install the bindings, just write a sample ruby program to check if it works !

I could not find a proper answer when i wanted to install RadRails on eclipse . This is how it is done , .... in the Eclipse menu go to Help-->Software Updates --> Find and Install.... then in the pop - up window which appears ,.. Search for new features to install and then click next and then u will have to add 2 new remote sites, .. the details for the sites are the ones which were very difficult to obtain , they are site 1 : Name :RadRails URL : http://radrails.sourceforge.net/update site 2 : Name :RDT URL : http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release then click on finish , u are almost done with the installation , u have to just follow the instructions from here on to finish the installation .

can understand ur feelings .... this sometimes happen to me also .. its called the controversy of the way we live life !! ... Every day we look at the sky dreaming of what would happen but not quite sure of what is our desire ...then comes the pigeon ... disturbing our peer sense of onlooking insight into our future .. but then again .. thats how lief goes ... like a rail ... chuk chuk ... thoy thoy ... its fast .. and sometimes u don't even catch the glimpses of what is going on ... so ... whaT my intension behind the mail is ... pigeons may come on the platform .. but what makes u outstanding is when u kill the pigeon on the spot and roast it and eat it up ,... and say ... blurp !! ... i am satisfied now .. i can continue my ruby !! ... and then catch up with ruby in rails .... let go pal .. this is life ... u've done ur part ... its up to others to decide ur credentiability .. but never loose hope in urself !! . and always stay on focus ... thats the way the great karthi

Hi ... How are you?? I am fine thankyou...Do not bother mailing back :).. I am doing great and am currently on the platform... Long to go before I get on the rails.. Well, I am a star waiting to be adorned by Ruby and PERL.. I have to make a rail journey once my platform work is done with. There seems to be one thing that bothers me... Piegons!!! They are on the platform as well.. But, why rails for them?? They have the sky... While they'll be airborne once they are done, I'll be on rails.. Believe it or not, I am not even going to get sailing!!! Rail gadi.. Rail gadi... Chuk chukk.. chuk chuk chuk... A very bored Programmer

the little book of ruby is one of the best things i have ever seen , it describes all that is to ruby , the most part of the language in a very short and sweet way . This book is all u need if u want a brief introduction on Ruby . But the Ruby cookbook provides lot more information . It provides some very neat questions, indeed some of the best questions i have ever seen . My journey into ruby has just started today , so have to see how all this finally turns up !

the latest kernel release is 2.6.25.3 , and i have already compiled it and no problems at all. All i had to do was copy the config file from the 2.6.25 version and compile the new versiion .

The random number generator function in the C lib is quite predictable. My friends at LUG@VITU, wrote this function which generates a random number by utilizing the noise level from the devices from a file in /proc . I have made small changes to the make file to create a library when compiled and thus the lib can be directly installed . I have also added make install support to the code .The code is available at : http://www.filekeeper.org/download/eerpini/random_lib-1.0.1.tar.gz

the next version of the endswith program which i had started a few weeks ago , is out, this release contains a library function implementation of the endsWith program called iendswith() , a header file has been included in the source code, including this header file and after compiling the library , the function iendwith can be used in regular C programs , ........ unlike the actuall endwith binary, iendswith only returns the number of matches for the given pattern in the given directory ..... i am presently working on a library function implementation which could return the matching file names in the form of a string stype structure, .... but that needs some work,... the included library function is just a rework of the original program. More changes have actually gone into the Makefile , just running make compiles only the binary as usual . Running 'make library' compiles the library function and creates the endswith.a library . A test driver function has also been included