Quarter Century
25 not out …!!!
HP zd8000 and Redhat Fedora Core 4 Linux
It has been really a good time working in Linux after a long break. I managed to download latest stable release of Fedora Core 4. The last version I used was fedora core 2. Once it was downloaded my plan was to install the Linux in my laptop (Hp Pavilion zd8000). So far I was using Microsoft Windows Xp home edition on my laptop. Single partition I hate the most. So I need to do a lot of backup work. Now the DVD writer was very handy. I backed up all my needed important files into DVDs. It took me great deal of time. Now I partitioned the same into smaller ones with capacity around 20GB each.
After that I installed Windows XP home into the main partition and kept one partition for Linux. And installing drivers and other needed stuff on window xp took some time. Then I burnt only the first cd ISO and rest I kept in the main partition. I installed the Fedora from local hard disk. I did this since I planned to install everything from the cds. I saved 3 cds ;-). I partitioned manually and It looks something like this.
Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3187 25599546 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 3188 12161 72083655 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3188 5737 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 5738 8287 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 8288 9562 10241406 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 9563 9594 257008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 9595 9725 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda10 9726 12161 19567138+ 83 Linux
The installation went smooth. It took nearly 45 minutes to complete. I booted up and so far all went cool. Some issues I faced
- My Screen was really bad
- Sound card failed
- And fedora needed some good apps related to playing media.
I don’t want to explain how I fixed these issues. And there were more issues and I fixed them too. I referred these websites to fix the issues. These guys are cool.
- http://www.humboldt.edu/~te8/misc/hpzd8230us.html
- http://jaymzworld.com/pages/zd8000.shtml
- http://www.iomonkey.com/linux/hp_zd8000/
Once I fixed all the issues mentioned above the fedora on my laptop was really cool and worked amazing. Did i forget to mention I didn’t log into windows for three days now.
Added few lines in /etc/fstab file to mount all my windows partition.
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see ‘man fstab-sync’ for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win-1 vfat user,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win-2 vfat user,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win-3 vfat user,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win-4 vfat user,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
I found If I install Yellow dog Updater, Modified (yum) it will make life easier to install packages for fedora. You can refer to http://www.fedorafaq.org/ if you wish to tweak your fedora installation.
Some commands I used to install new softwares.
- yum install vlc
- yum install xmms
- yum install firefox
- yum install gaim
- etc etc. Now updating packages and installing new on fedora is very easy.
exciting for past three days with Linux. I will update more in the days to come.
Google Under Attack
Denial of Service —- Google Master is under attack……
Wow this is the second time Google is facing this problem. I think so 
But once anything goes big it has to face these issues…. thats natural poor Google…
Wordpress 2.0 n Organizer
I was wandering around the new structure of new wordpress 2.0. It is completely different from ancestors. It seems to me if I want to make the Organizer to work again I have to redo from scratch. And the images and files are integrated with the database and it needs more time to do ;-).
Cool to know that wp has no more simple interface to post and work around. It is getting a little tough. I really hate working with the new interface. Even though the old upload style was on different pages it was easy to work around. Now organizer has to work with files structure in the upload directory and syn with database and database post with post and so many interlinks. Wow …!!! working on it…
Confused and tensed state
Hi bloggy
Lot of confusion and tension prevailing in my life right now. I am in the course of shifting my job. So I have started the work for migrating the job. So I am little worried and tensed what is gonna happen next next. But whatever it is I have to face it. The current job what I am gonna take brings me back to PHP :-). This one thing make me feel very happy and comfortable.
After a long time I am downloading Redhat Fedora Core 4 Stenz for working in Linux platform. And I heard the new company is working on Zend studio too. And I am gonna try out the Zend studio for the first time. I have coding in PHP for nearly more than 4 years now. But it was always my Editplus which helped to code. Now I am trying something new.
Bloggy I will keep you updated what is happening next next :-).
Gowealthy GLMS Launch
It was nice afternoon indeed. Expecting all the marketing executives to arrive from other offices.. (hot looking babes… hehehe)
Mr. Peter Penhall addressing the marketing executives who attended the launch.
Bahrudeen and Suneer preparing for the live project demo with laptops…. (Show offs :-D)
Next I tried presenting the project to all. I really donno how much they understood ;-). But they all applauded nicely since refreshments were up next hehehe 
Its hogging time … heheh nice food..I hogged a lot..
People Behind the scene, Bahrudeen, Suneer and me
Abdul Ravoof and Abdu Rahiman, the senior brothers :-P. Both of them gave ideas and support throughout the project. Ravoof helped us by giving nasty criticism which no one will ever dare give us. Abdu always helped us by getting the needed plug ins and software for development. Most of the time both these guys made our day worse.
Mr. Mohandas, Lamiya, Divya, Gina and Nazia, our major support for the project. Mr. Mohandas needs a special mention since he was the one who kept pushing us to the limits and made all this possible. Divya and Nazia played a main role in beta testing the software. Lamiya and Gina helped with error messages and English. Heheh I accept my English sucks…. 
Sajeer helped us with some design and Vipin did the network and system support.
Last but not the least, Tharvieesh helped us a lot. He used to drop us back home after office hours, helped us in arranging the needed things for the presentation and also the food. He is a energetic young man who always needs some work to dooooooo…
Did I forget to mention, Gina and Divya helped us by making coffee and tea whenever we asked them. But later we had to compensate the same by making coffee for them…
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