Kelaaaaaaaa

Few days back got a message from one of my friend saying ,

Hey i sent you many messages but i have not received even a single message from you . So i will delete your number ... gud bye ...

Well i was kind of shocked and surprised to get such a message since she was one of my best friend . I checked my inbox after i got this message and found no new messages . Cursing my bsnl network n times and the ECE enginner who would have desinged my mob another n times , i decided to call her and explain what happened .

I called her and was kind of surprised to see her laughing. I asked her ¨What happened ?¨
She asked me to read the message. I was about to explain her what happened, but something sounded fishy. So i told her that i will do that and this time the message said

Hey i sent you many messages but i have not received even a single message from you . So i will delete your number ... gud bye ...


Sardar sends this message to customer care ;-) Be cool Good evening .

Note :: A big time Kela but seems even she got it when she got the message ;)
So no probs :) :) . "Memories saved" :) :)

Gift time :) :)

Gifts are always fun :)
Finally i managed to give a nice senti gift for alagu.
It was a small painting, but a nice one :)
But better than the painting is the small C snippet which we wrote for alagu

It goes like this

#include <lrsl.h>
#include <kadalai.h>
using namespace freenet;
#define work fun
#define alagu YAHOO MAN
int main () {
int gujjala, gujjalambal, lab :)
string alagu[] = { "deltaman",
"npiuman",
"Yahoo !! man ",
"dealboy"
};
cout << "It is fun to have you in sunlab !! ";
cout << "We will miss you !!! " << endl;
}


That says it all :) .
I will surely miss him next sem :-( :-( :-( :-( :- ( .....

The meeting starts at 8 ....

"Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be "
I have admired this quote many a times . :-) :-) . Infact it is one of my fav .

Today i got a message saying
"Hey..Dulta meeting today.. At 8pm .. Sun Lab ..Every1 must come.. So be there.. !

Being confused about whether i am a dulta member or not, i finally decided to attend this meeting . Not because i decided to work dulta, neither i am afraid about chucked out of dulta , but i was jobless and anyway i will be in SUN lab working for my SOC. So i did not mind attending the meeting .

But things went really great . I never realised that the 8 PM is "dulta's 8 PM" . And just today i came to know that there is a timezone difference of 30 minutes between IST and Dulta's Time :) :)

I went to sun lab at around 7.45 (foolish me) and started coding for LDTP in the SUN systems. Yazhini,
Padmini and Deepak Kumar Jha came there on time (all three compsci's ) . Some 10 mins after that , Nitin (a prod guy ) came to me asking whether there was a dulta meeting there or not ? .

I was really really curious to know who sent that message. I really hoped that DK sent that message ( he was the only senior present there ) . But seems he did not send that message . Finally i asked yazhini and padmini not to waste their time and they went back to their hostel by 8.30 . DK also went to room saying that he has to finish his English report.

Finally "the man" who sent that message came exactly at 8.35 :) :) . I expected him to say a sorry to the members waiting there . But again i was surprised to see him to start directly as
"Ok everyone check http://dulta/info and i want it to be nitt.edu by tonight . Think we have to work tonight blah blah blah blah ...".

I also like this quote
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
Richard Cecil

I really wish these people learn this someday soon .
But yes , i learnt some new stuff from this strange experience .
1. Dulta is always waste of time.
2. Never ever make anyone wait for you.

Two stories :)

This is my blog and i have all rights to crap here . This blog may appear as total crap for few, may mean more to few . I really don't care what you are gonna think about me after you read this .

Read the following two stories

Story 1
Once upon a time , there was a crow and a fox . Both of them were hungry and the crow somehow managed to steal a vada from a paatti . It flew to a near by tree and planned to eat it there . This fox was very cunning and planned to steal the vada from the crow . It said all nice nice things about the crow and asked it to sing a song . The crow started singing kaka and the vada fell down . Fox ate the vada and ran away .

Moral of the story
Dont bring the vada outside the canteen and don't sing while eating a vada.

Story 2
Once upon a time there lived a crow . It was very thirsty . It searched for a water everywhere but could not find water anywhere . Finally it found a pot with very little water . But the water level was too low for it to reach . But this was a clever crow and saw pebbles lying around the pot. It dropped these pebbles into the pot one by one and slowly the water level rose. The crow drank water and flew away happily

Moral of the story
Dont know :)

My Seniors :) :)

Again i was jobless :P googling something arbit , when i saw the "I am Feeling Lucky" button in google.
It is one of the features in google which i have never used. I always prefer seeing the list of search results and click atleast 10 of them :P

But it made me think for a moment . Am i lucky. And the answer is "YES" .

Why should i be feeling lucky ???

I think i have got the best seniors one could ever have . They are friendly, simple and spending time with them , anyone will have loads and loads of fun :) :) :) . And yes they are real "fundoos" who has done amazing things during their college life :) :) :)

And the best part is i never felt anyone as my senior. They are actually my "best friends".
The list goes like this .

Satya Madhav Kompella (Madhav)
Met him in my first year . Taught me C and C++ in the cry classes :) . A real fundoo but simple down to earth . Wish i could meet him sometime
Shankar Ganesh (Shagan)
My LDTP senior :P . OMG . This guy surely rocks . FUN FUN FUN . That's all i had when i spend time with this guy.
Manu (Manu)
Learnt a lot from him . An ideal senior :) . Mr . Perfect in everything. Only kandu without a GF in college :)
Allagappan Muthuraman (Alagu)
Helped me learn lots and lots during my second year in lrsl . :) He is really an amazing guy
Manas Garg (Manas)
My Spider senior . God . That explains everything :)

Note :: Sorry for few mistakes in the blog :P . I wrote this one in prasanna's algorithmic tricks class and obviously you tend to make mistakes when someone is disturbing you with dfs , bfs , dp etc :) :) .
So got confused betweeen a mallu and a kandu :) :)
And yes , i should have put "AJAX alagu" there , that would have made things clear :P

Shutdownday :O

This is what www.shutdownday.org says
--
It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?
Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!
Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?
International Shutdown Day
--

I voted for "I Can" , though i have no clue what i am gonna do on that day.

Hmmm , maybe sleep , spend time chaating with friends. I just hope i dont go mad after few hours without computers :P . Cha without computers no movies, no coding , no songs , no games , no browsing :( :(

I am planning to shutdown few servers under my control . Let us see how it goes :) :)

I hate CT's :(

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer
---Oscar Wilde

Wow , this suits my college cycle tests also . The one and only thing which i hate in my college is CT's :( :(.
Those 3 days ,
I try to read something and end up sleeping the whole day.
I think that i wont go to octa, end up making a night out there.
At the end i always find that i have never read the syllabus even once and wont be able to finish the full portions :)

And this time i noticed that some of my friends who are real padipps were also getting frust coz of CT's

Some of the messages or quotes which they mentioned during their peak of frustration .

1. Dude , tell me one thing . Why do i feel so sleepy when i try to study and never when i'm in lab ?

2. It is study time :( i mean sleepy time ;)

3. Aah i never disliked studies so much

4. Cycles prep Aa? It sucks !

5. :( :( I'm going to himalayas. No more CT's in my life.I will take lots of food stuff, eat and roam aroud there.

6. CT SUCKS

7. If there were one more CT, i would have killed one of these prof and gone to jail..

8. Lets kill mala, then they will postpone the CT's

9. Lets mail Bush that Osama is hiding in CSE dept . He will bomb the dept and they will cancel the CT's :)

The list is long and i cant post everything here . God save these frust people. Save me from my dept :) :)

The end of internet

Was checking out the settings of google reader and found this quite interesting .

The next bookmark is an innovative way to read your subscriptions. It allows you to use Google Reader through just one link - clicking on it takes you to the next unread item, marking it as read in the process. It is particularly useful for subscriptions which only include snippets or when you want to read an article in context.

But when i clicked the tab i got a page saying
I myself dont believe in end of internet and the page was not the end of the internet , since that page still had a link to some other page . The links said it all
http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

The contents of the page (for those who dont want to go to end of the internet )
The End of the Internet
Congratulations! This is the last page.
Thank you for visiting the End of the Internet. There are no more links.
You must now turn off your computer and go do something productive.
Go read a book, for pete's sake.

Forgot mysql root pass ?

Recently forgot mysql root password for one of the servers i maintain . Little bit googling helped me to reset the password .
Just copy pasted the tutorials i saw so that i need not google again .

If you have set a root password, but forgot what it was, you can set a new password with the following procedure:

1. Take down the mysqld server by sending a kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld server. The pid is stored in a `.pid' file, which is normally in the MySQL database directory:

   shell> kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/hostname.pid`
   

   You must be either the Unix root user or the same user mysqld runs as to do this.
2. Restart mysqld with the --skip-grant-tables option.
3. Set a new password with the mysqladmin password command:

   shell> mysqladmin -u root password 'mynewpassword'
   

4. Now you can either stop mysqld and restart it normally, or just load the privilege tables with:

   shell> mysqladmin -h hostname flush-privileges
   

5. After this, you should be able to connect using the new password.

Alternatively, you can set the new password using the mysql client:

1. Take down and restart mysqld with the --skip-grant-tables option as described above.
2. Connect to the mysqld server with:

   shell> mysql -u root mysql
   

3. Issue the following commands in the mysql client:

   mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('mynewpassword')
      ->             WHERE User='root';
   mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
   

4. After this, you should be able to connect using the new password.
5. You can now stop mysqld and restart it normally.

Quiz is finally over :) :)

If at all if someone gives me the right to scrap three events from pragyan i will surely opt for junkyard wars, technical quiz and udaaan . These three are actually very good events when you are a participant. But when if you are the one who is responsible for the quiz software for these events, that too with all three events starting one after another , surely you will go mad.

Everything started when i made a foolish decision to attend a delta meeting . The meeting is to discuss about delta induction. I was trying to make a quiz manager at that time ( inspired from manu's quiz manager ) and thought i will do one for delta induction, which can be used for pragyan also . ( never realized this was such a big blunder ) . Somehow managed to changed few things in manu's code and finished the delta inductions.

The whole headache started few days before pragyan . All three event manager contacted us few days before their events. Actually i was kind of shocked by what they asked me . One wants a timer while the other says i dont need a timer :( :( . Err what is your fscking problem if there is a timer :(.

The worst part i did not code a single line in the pragyan quiz manager :( . It is coded by one of my junior and i saw the code just 3 hrs before the event. Of course i went mad , called up my junior every now and then asking to explain about what the code actually does.

Finally junkyard wars started 4 hrs late , udaan 5 hrs late and tq some 14 hrs late :P

Took a resolution that will never take up any more work in pragyan :( .

Pragyan '07

The big event is gonna start soon !!!

"So where will you be from

February 1 - 4 ?" .

Thats what the website says :).

I am doing bytecode and quiz management this time :) . Bad that i could not do anything for dalal this time :( .

Allergic to Allergy test :(

Met a doctor for my sinus problem few days back. He said that a small surgery has to be done, but even before that he wanted to me to take an allergy test so that he can find what all things i am allergic too.

All he said was that they will do something to your hand . With my very little biology knowledge ( actually i managed to pass my 12th bio ), i assumed that they will test whether dust is allergic to me ( coz that's the only allergic agent i could remember at that time ) . I assumed that they are gonna put some dust in my hand and somehow test whether i am allergic to that .

But the lady in the lab had different plans . She took 5 syringes . I was really sorry for the person who is gonna have those injected . I never liked injections , just because you know it is gonna pain and no way you can stop that :( .

That lady took a box which had around 50 small small bottles and asked me to show my hand. Now i realised that one of the injections among the 5 she had was for me . Ok i had no other option now . I cant run away from the lab saying i hate them . Anyway they looked small , so i was OK with them :)

34 bottles in the box she had were arranged properly as 8 , 8, 5, 5, 8 in each row . The rest of them were scattered . There was strange feeling that she is gonna inject them all to me , but thought she will mix everthing and give it in one single injection.

To my horror, she used the first syringe to inject medicines from the 8 bottles from the first row one by one . At the end of 8 injections ( within 45 seconds ) i thought it is going to be over and i can leave.

But no , she opened the next syringe and started with the next row. I was kind of shocked now and the slightest thought of all 5 syringes injected to me almost gave me an heart attack . But i thought no one will be cruel enough to do that and after the second row ( that makes 16 injections ) , she will let me go.

I almost fainted when she opened the third syringe. I stopped her and asked whether she is going to inject all these . She said "YES".

Finally she was kind of enough to reduce the number of injections by 2 ( thank god i did not have dog in my house , so those test is not required it seems )


Within 3 minutes , 32 injections. That is really a record for me . Finally realised what an allergy test is ( my bio knowledge atleast improved ) . :(

Note :: It might be funny when you read this , but if you are gonna take an allergy test , certainly it wont be that much fun . So stop laughing and get back to work :-) .

MY FC5 Crashed

Well , seems this is the first time linux hates me. I have seen lots of problems with linux but most of them are generally a software not installing coz of failed dependencies or some file system error which a fsck will solve without any major issue . But this time it really screwed me .

The reason why it crashed is simple . "Improper Shutdown". Was in a hurry when mom shouted the n th time to have breakfast that instead off the normal shutdown , switched off the power button . But never realized that will lead to the tragedy. Next time the comp never booted and even when i tried to boot in single mode , it just displayed two linesof error ( which i donn remember now , one of those lines had something about journal ) .

Tried hard to rescue my files but in vain .

Lost lots of work coz of this crash :( :( , like

1. Files related to the hacking contest i planned to conduct. Though i have the files uploaded in website , they are not the latest and anyway lost the mysql db )
2. Spider SMS ( not exactly. The prev night sent the code to prasanna , so almost got the files except for the todo and some other files )
3. ByteCode . A single web page which i managed to design for bytecode . Had to start again
4. Glug-t site . Set of web pages designed for the Gnu Linux User Group- Trichy :(
5. Spider site . A few extra features for the Spider site .
And ya all the downloads i did :( .
6. A patch written for ldtp as an extra option for ldtprecord

So learnt a few lessons from this crash

1. Always shutdown the comp.
2. It is better to have your /home and /var in a seperate partition
3. Backup the files every now and then in a seperate partition
4. Backup myqsl regularly

So one good thing about the crash is that now i have installed Ubuntu and recording can be done in that even if it is gnome 2.14. And i certainly like apt-get than yum . Hoping the get the repo's soon :)

ACM Regionals @ Coimbatore

The ACM ICPC 2006 Regional Contest was held on December 16th & 17th , 2006 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, coimbatore, and our team ( me , evo and vasu ) was one of the top 50 teams selected for the onsite contest .

The travel to coimbatore was really weird this time. This is the second time i am going to coimbatore (last time with Manas ) and never knew where amrita is :( . To make things worse , the train stopped at thirupur coz of some technical fault . Had to travel from thirupur to coimbatore by bus and then from there to amrita . As usual was late by a few hours and missed the tour of the contest :( ( actually it does not matter since it was Day1 ).

Then after meeting evo and vasu there ( OMG , they were discussing some problem already ) , we went for the "grand" campus tour . The cook book said "Campus Tour - Teams and coaches tour the plush greenery Amrita University Campus, campus facilities" . But it turned out to be one of the worst tour . The guys who came with us for the tour were so "dumb". They used to show us a basketball court and say "This is our basketball court " . As if we all thought it is a football court. Anyway another sad part is that the "greenery" we expected in amrita is nowhere to be found . Bad that this time the contest is during hols :( :(

After lunch had the first practice session . We were able to solve all three ( though presentation error rapped us and the guy who seems to answer our doubts is one of the dumbest i can ever find. We used to ask him , what is the presentation error . Our output seems to be fine and he used to reply "Yes, there is a presentation error." ) . And anytime our Codelabs is far better than mooshak. Our Codelabs has a better interface than the mooshak , since codelabs is not a single web page and hence one can predict what will happen if the page is refreshed ( unlike in mooshak you have to remeber your last action )

After dinner , had the second practice session and this time we did not get one question :( . Anyway it was total fun being with vasu and evo around . Especailly vasu always had some funny stuff to tell us.

Day II
Break fast at 6.30 :-( and i got up at 6.40 ( One of the difficult thing for me to do :( ) . Contest started at around 8.00 PM and ended at 1.00 PM. We were able to solve three problems and ended up 23 rd . The final standings can be viewed here . Planned to start early but had to wait for the certificates .

The problem set can be found here

Came back to chennai the next day.

Phobia

As usual, was jobless at home with a new broadband connection , so chumma timepassing when i found this site

So some of them which i might have now or can develop any time is .

Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions. //Err , cant decide :)
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. //Very rarely , on bio pracs days, not now
Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. // this word itself makes me scary
Iophobia- Fear of poison. //ofcourse who is not
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia) //who is not afraid of snakes
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper. //Just the exam papers , nothing else
Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites.
Pathophobia- Fear of disease.
Peladophobia- Fear of bald people. //yeah all my profs are bald
Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.
Polyphobia- Fear of many things. // ???
Scolionophobia- Fear of school. // not now but 3 years before "yes"
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias. //After seeing the long list certainly "yes"

Hey come on, what happened to all those important stuff ,
Phobia of exams
Phobia of attendance
Phobia of getting caught in class
Phobia of teachers

Seems a lots is still missing in the list :)

Geek Toons

Checked out some of the geek toons in geek.com ,
Some of my fav here ;)

Foss.in 2006 at Blore

Date :: 23 Dec 06 Time :: 4.00 PMPlace :: Cisco Blore

Shagan and evo has already mentioned to me about the great speed at which you can access net at cisco , but i have never taken them that much seriously . But when i sat in shagan's comp to surf net , MY GOODNESS , was really amazed by the network speed there . Just to test the download speed , started a fc6 download and it downloaded around 7-10 MB in 15 seconds . Shagan later told me that this speed is bit slow and i could have got better speed if i had used wget for downloads :O. Then shagan went to play tt with his friend ( no need to mention that the friend is a female and tt was just a lame reason for kadalai ) , while i went blore central (just to kill time, had no intention of purchasing anything there).

Date :: 24 Dec 06Time :: 10 AMPlace :: IISc Blore

Somehow i got up early ( 8.30 ) , managed to catch a bus to IISc and reached there at 10.00 AM. Taggy was already waiting for me there .The event is supposed to start at 10.00 AM with an opening ceremony by Atul Chitnis. This guy though never spoke tech , spoke really well . With few do's and dont's like switching of mobile, asking questions etc etc , he finished his speech at 11.00 AM ( remember he started at 10.30 AM )

Next was the speech on Linux and the art of minimalist development by Suparna from IBM. One of the topics which we wont understand anything is the kernel and unfortunately she is a kernel developer. But topic on what she spoke is simple. It is actually about keeping things simple, solving problems in a clever way etc etc . Though we could grasp these concepts , the examples she gave went wrt kernel over our heads :(

Next speech is by Noor from Wipro . He spoke about something called sUSBix. Though i dont remember much about his speech now few points which i noted down in my notebook says suspend2 JFFS - Journaling Flash File SystemHis speech is about working from the OS booted from a pen drive and then we can carry the pendrive to anywhere and using the pendrive there so that all you need to carry when you want to port your work from office to home or home to office is just a pen drive. The advantage he mentioned is that since the root and swap are present in the pendrive itself , you need not reopen your applications and other stuff once we put it in standbymode. Say if i had opened gedit at home , when i use sUSBix and boot the comp at office , i will have the gedit opened . This is really a big advantage . Some of the todo's of this project are like increasing the portablity between two comps of totally different type , etc etc

Then was the speech about "Writing as SMS Service with Free Software". Actually i was a bit interested in this because i thought something from this can be useful for spider sms, but it turned out that he spoke about something very basic which smsd already uses for sending sms. He showed a demo of sending a message if the delivery is success and getting a web page in sms.

Next was the OpenJDK - Opensource Java . I actually slept in this session . So you could guess how boring it will be for me. Then next lecture was also not interesting ( atleast their topics were not intersting ) that we went for a small walk outside IISc . We planned to bunk the next hour ;) though we decided to stay just for the Secure Linux programming

It was 5.00 PM now , the topic was "Secure Linux Programming" , by Jaimon Jose from Novell. The slides he showed us was good and had nice content , though it would have been better if he had got more examples on them or atleast explained about them in depth.He actually spoke about (rather showed slides for )Buffer OverflowInteger Overflow Race ConditionTemp filesDynamic Memory etc etc He gave a nice link for Linux Secure Programming ( http://dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programming-HOWTO/)
Thats it for the day . We could not take more . We bunked the next hour about "Solving the fundamental structural problem of the free software movement" and i came home ) .

I was actually tired after those long long lectures . Since it was a long time since i have listened to a lecture properly (classes are either for sleeping or sending messages , infact anything other than listening) . So slept early .

Date :: 25 Dec 06Time :: 8.30 AmPlace :: Shagan's Home

Just now got up . This means i am going to miss the first speech . Actually i wanted to attend the first one ( coz it is about KDE and not kerenel ) but now it seems impossible. Finally managed to get a bus and reach shivajinagar bus stand at 10.00 . Given some one hour to travel from shivajinagar to IISc , i can reach there by 11 and atleast attend the PHP5 Rasmus ( the guy who wrote PHP ) .

But seems Murphy's laws never fail .
What i did from 10.00 to 12.30 in shivajinagar can be explained as

for (count=0; ; count++) {
Ask someone which bus goes to IISc .
If that @$$ does not know which/what IISc is curse him 100 times and wait for someone else
If he says to wait in some lane , go to that lane and wait there
After 10 mins , ask someone there and surely he will point me to some other lane.
Go to the new lane.
if ( count > 50 ) {
for every 5 people you ask hereafter , say "fsck" and proceed }
if (count >100 ) {
for every 2 people you ask hereafter sak "fsck" and proceed
}
}

Inbetween this one of the drivers who told me that the bus will go to Indian Institute of Science , droppd me at Indian Express .
All i could is curse more and more and somehow went to IISc at 12.50 .
Then attended the speech about "Hacking the Slug" by Sudhakar from Google .Actually we never knew anything about what he is going to say before the speech . He showed us the Slug , a device which can be used as a firewall , proxy server etc etc . He showed a demo how it can be used .

Next was "Makefiles" by Sulamita from Brazil. She was really tensed when she spoke about makefiles ;) . Taggy was feeling bored coz one could not talk anything interesting with makefiles. I knew Makefiles was really a vast topic and she did cover something which will make one write Makefiles upto a decent size. All i have explored with Makefiles is to add a new file to be compiled in ldtp and that was simple . Search for any one of the files already present and add the new file to the list you see. But writing make files from the scratch is something i just hope i never have to do .

The topics after this were a bit boring or something which we have never heard at all . So we decided to bunk the next two hours ( bunking the last speech has become a habit and we did this the next day too ;) ) . Taggy came home to shagan's home today and we went out for dinner. Went to garuda mall, had dinner there [ ofcourse shagan payed ;) ] came back to home late.

Date :: 26 Dec 06Time :: 10.00 AMPlace :: IISc Blore

Atleast today reached IISc on time .
First one was "Impact of Indian Copyright and Patent Law on FOSS" by Sunil Abraham . We actually thought that the speech will be boring and no tech , but the interactive session was really good . People actually came up with various doubts which this guy was able to answer properly.

Next one was the Webmarker by Natarajan from Yahoo . This one was also good and interesting .He explained to us how the webmarker was done , algorithms was used in that , the webmarkers that were present before this one was released , the problems with this webmarker etc . This one was really interesting , coz the way he showed us the demo and discussed the problems in the webmarker was good. Actually people who were listening suggested some nice ideas and hacks which can be incorporated into the Webmarker to make it better.

Next one was "Ten Tips To Turbocharge The Team: Getting Smaller User-Groups Moving". I attended this just to get some nice ideas for GLUG-T. The speaker gave some good links and also answered properly during the interactive session.
Some of the key points which i got from his speech are.1. Maintain a proper mailing list . The more active the mailing list is , the more active the glug is .2. Have a proper FAQ page somewhere so that the topics/problems which were discussed earlier need not be discussed again for the newbies again.3. More number of glugs is always better.

After lunch , had a two hour session on "Writing KDE Applications" by Aaron Seigo. This guy was really cool who explained us about how to write applications in KDE4. Actually it was very similar to GTK except that here you have OOPS concepts, so you have classes for everything. He explained about the filedialog and other classes.

Then was the Tutorial Session on LDTP . Met nags and Casanova here . Here was one session where i knew almost everything what the speaker is going to speak. Casanova spoke for an hour or so. He explained about from the basics, i.e what library ldtp uses , how it works . He showed a demo of ldtp with gedit and a demo recording too. Maybe he could have shown more demos and extended the session a bit.
Even today we bunked the Closing Keynote and the Closing cermony and came home early.

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World Diabetes Day

Fscked up coz of coding :P

Sometime back, taggy showed me Google code search where one can search inside the source code.
And not surprisingly , the first thing he searched in source code was for "fsck" , "bitch", and "porn" .
Actually both of us were not surprised with the results. Taggy infact went to the extent of creating a graph to compare the occurence of these words in the source code. :)

Seems the coders and getting more and more frust when there code does not work and they show all their frust in their source code . Maybe a grep for "fsck" will give more shocking results :P.

If you wann to see the stats of the occurence , check out taggy's blog here

Some of the strange and nice things which i saw in the search were

1. sofia-sip-1.11.8/libsofia-sip-ua/su/sofia-sip/su_wait.h
88: #define SU_WAIT_CONNECT (FD_CONNECT)
#define SU_WAIT_ERR (0) /* fuck this shit */
#define SU_WAIT_HUP (FD_CLOSE)

2. linux-2.4.33.3/lib/vsprintf.c
8: /*
* Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
*/

3. CGI.pm-3.23/t/lib/Test/More.pm
381: else {
# Can't use fail() here, the call stack will be fucked.
my $ok = @_ == 3 ? ok(0, $name )

4. twisted/names/authority.py
239: ORIGIN = line[1]
elif line[0] == '$INCLUDE': # XXX - oh, fuck me
raise NotImplementedError('$INCLUDE directive not implemented')

5. includes/htmlarea/plugins/SpellChecker/spell-check-ui.js
36: }
// we should use innerHTML here, but IE6's implementation fucks up the
// HTML to such extent that our poor Perl parser doesn't understand it

6.HTTP/Request.php
613: // magic quotes may fuck up file uploads and chunked response processing
$magicQuotes = ini_get('magic_quotes_runtime');

7. Guppi-0.40.3/src/libguppidata/guppi-data-tree.h
40: should be treated as *read-only*. If you change them, you could
really fuck things up. */
typedef struct _GuppiDataTreeNode GuppiDataTreeNode;

8. Acme-Scurvy-Whoreson-BilgeRat-1.1/lib/Acme/Scurvy/Whoreson/BilgeRat.pm
59: ($backend && $backend->isa("Acme::Scurvy::Whoreson::BilgeRat::Backend::$params{language}")) ||
die("For fuck's sake, the fucking backend's fucked");

48: die("Read the fucking manual you shitwit and at least use the constructor right!")
if(!$class || join('', keys %params) !~ /^(language)?$/);

9. directory_administrator-1.4/src/main.c
48: // diradmin_user * fuck = NULL;
83: gtk_widget_show (mainwindow);
// fuckyou ();

10. src/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/ofstream_members.cc
88: bool test = true;
const char* strlit01 = "fuck war";
const char* strlit02 = "two less cars abstract riot crew, critical mass/SF";

Ofcourse i cannot copy paste all the 32,600 search results here :)

So do i swear when i write code ??
Of course i do , even i am a programmer right. While testing the sms code for the spider server, it used to creash often. Though i found out that i have not read the mysql manual properly , this is the source code i wrote to find the error.

cout << "Mysql Connected Successfully\n ";
update_query = Query("INSERT INTO hari_feedback VALUES ('','a','b','c','d','e','f')");
cout << "INSERT INTO hari_feedback VALUES ('','a','b','c','d','e','f')";
cout << "Query Returned " << update_query << endl;
if (update_query == NULL ) {
cout << "Fuck\n";
}

mysql_affected_rows (&sqlHandle);
if (pid == -1)
{ cout << "Query Failed\n";}
else
{ cout << "Success\n";}

And ofcourse a ls in the /tmp folder in the nosip folder shows this

fileXo1MAJ
fucku.py
fucku.xml
fuckyouman.py
fuckyouman.xml
fuckyou.py
fuckyou.xml
gcalc.py
gcalctool_log.xml
gcalctool.py
gcalctool.py~
gcalctool_run.xml
gcalctooltemp_log.xml
gcalctooltemp.

Seems even i am fscked up sometimes when it comes to coding :P