Satish's Blog

here is a screenshot of my Fedora 8 desktop with the new theme , it is just great ...... i am lovin it !!

well i have compiled the latest kernel (2.6.25) , without any problems on Fedora 8. ... it appears to e a notch faster than the previous stable release, ....... but i have realized one thing, on Fedora, just compiling and installing the kernel image also automatically generates the 'initrd image, . While it does not on other distros, most of which i have used !!!

i had absolutely nor problems with compiling the latest kernel and installing it on my laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 . The only cliche was that when i copied the config file from my installed kernel for the compilation , my sound drivers were not enabled by default , so had to check them out manually, then i just used the make-kpkg provided with ubuntu , to make the kernel headers and image debian files , which i installed and then booted. The only thing left to be configure is the WI-FI card, ipw3945 card.

ext3grep seems to be one awesome of a creation . It was a result of, what drives most work in this world, ' a personal itch ' . The description and details given by the creator Carlo Wood are too great for me to provide a new definition over here , so take a look at the HOWTO here, http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html , the page has a really good explanation of how ext3 works and how actually ext3grep retrieves the files . You can have a look at the various releases of the utility //code.google.com/p/ext3grep/downloads/list and one can download the latest release from http://ext3grep.googlecode.com/files/ext3grep-0.5.0.tar.gz i bet it is one thing every linux user should have at hand , because as Carlo says , it happens to everyone sooner or later . The utility still need s a lot of testing and improving i guess, so joining the mailing lists would be a great idea .

The first planned saturday round-up at the LUG , VITU , took place yesterday in the evening . It was a pretty private one , but the discussions that went on were great . Lot of plans were proposed for improving the website and for involving more people . A lot of techincal and interesting discussions also went on . A review on the discussions can be found at : http://220.225.214.101/forum/57 .

well i should say the past week has been tough , preparing for the exams and also working on this, . . and the good news is that i have almost achieved the initial goals for which this idea was proposed on the forums at www.vit.ac.in/lug/ , some of them are as simple as just uninstalling all the packages that were installed after a particular date using YUM . Well here goes a short summary of some of the work i have put in , the code consists of a set of perl scripts that parse the log file created by yum and then decide which are the packages that are to installed or uninstalled , all these perl scripts are managed by a single 'bash' shell script and this executes the rpm -e and the other commands used for manipulating the packages , and the main puprose for this idea was initially proposed was to undo the changes done through yum and i have achieved that , but at present the scirpts look kind of crude and lack a lot of valuable documentation i should be able to give a lot o...

finally i have installed debian , and if it doesn't sound routine i should say i have mixed feelings about the whole thing, first of all i was very happy that all my multimedia needs were satisfied with the installation DVD itself , but there are many other issues, my external storage device suddenly shows up problems , i will post a detailed review of my installation a litlle later !!!!

i can't write a kernel module, there is no module.h, and later i found out that the kernel headers rpm which comes with fedora doesn't have this header , ............. i was still hopeful , tried compiling the kernel back from the source rpm, but what i ended up finally with were nothing but the same old rpms provided in the Installation DVD, ......... the other day i decided to get 'into' GNOME, my gnome headers won't work , ........ and had enough of crashes , god knows when my nautilus is gonna crash , the day before i was in the middle of a seminar and my desktop was gone, .......... i have decided to move on to something sturdier and faster , .... ordered Debian etch , .... but have yet to test it, ...... curse the Courier fellows my DVD's are yet to reach me :-) .........