17.10.2009

The mapping party at durgapur started at around 1:30 pm.Me with makghosh, rtnpro, bacharan kundu, swarnendu pal. Subhodip biswas joined us later.The mapping started right from our mess at saratpalli street2.We were divided in groups of two, one group consisting of me, makghosh, swarnendu and the other half was of rtnpro and bamacharan. Rtnpro and team were supposed to map the local and near by places and we started our journey from bicycle to the bit far away parts like NSHM, muchhipara. We started on our cycles, swarnendu had a real good idea of the place because durgapur is his native place, so we followed him. We went from steel park to aarah more, from all the beautifull places which i think i would not have seen if i would not have went out for mapping.We acctually explored some damn beautifull places small ponds, villages, mapped the whole lot of them for around one and a half hour till we reached to muchhipara via NSHM, were subhodip biswas was waiting for us.

Now was the time for a  7up break to make everything clear to us(as the brand goes “clear hai”).We rested for a while chilling ourselves with a bottle of cold drinks.Meanwhile rtnpro and bamacharan were busy mapping the nearer area, each and every street including mamra baazar and few other places. Now we along with the new member subhodip biswas who  had more GPS devices and he already came mapping few other places.The GPS devices was distributed among ourselves and now we went out to other places indivisually having GPS devices for everyone.While i was mapping the GPS device which i had kept on loosing the satellite signal due to trees. It was a good fun as i went to few places which i think would never have gone on myself and indeed few damn good places. We had planned before that we all will meet at the BCET college gate. I was a bit tired by the time till i reached first to the meeting destination then came subhodip biswas and makghosh was the last to come. We were damn hungry so now was the eating time . We went to a nearby restaurant and rtnpro(as he was resting in mess) was called by the time  bamacharan and swarnendu went to there home as they had to do some diwali rituals and were called by there family members.We along with rtnpro had nice food there along with lot of fun. And then all of us came to our mess and everybody went to there homes from there only. By the time it was 6 pm and we had mapped around 100 km.It was a great fun .

The Photos can be found at : www.flickr.com/photos/yevlempy/sets/72157622630695426/

It was 15 october 2009 that me with rtnpro,kishan and one of our class mates bamacharan kundu went to kokata for the cleberation of software freedom day at CSI auditorium @kolkata .It  actually is celebrated 19 day of september but due to some reasons ILUG-CALINFO the  Kolkata team (a Linux users group) organised Software Freedom Day. The programe started at 5:15pm at the CSI auditorium with around 15 people joining the talks.The programe started with talk given by Mr. A Mani on the Fedora project.It was followed by a talk by Mr Ratnadeep Debnath aka rtnpro on Fedora-12 Highlights and whats new in Fedora 12 as compared to previous released versions.Then was the time for a short tea break.Then was the talk by Mr. J. P. Mathews the CEO, of DPS Technologies india pvt ltd on using Linux on PCs with Limited Resources, he told us about the PC which his company has designed named SAPIENZA which is pre configured with Ubuntu GNU/Linux with very affective features at very minimal price.The programe ended at around 7:15 pm with audiance having query about various open source technologies.The event was a great success with people  getting in their head to foster a general understanding of software freedom, and encourage adoption of free software and open standards.

Many a times it so happens that when you trying to do some stuff with yum command when you are connected to internet.It shows

“Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit…”

you can resolve that by following the command

# ps aux | grep yum

This shows you the processes holding the yum lock.

Now you can do:

# kill -9 31542
or
# kill 31542


or whatever the processes may be.

Now your yum will work fine.

It was around 10:00 am that we started our journey to barasat university with myself,indradg,stephdg,rtnpo,meejan,kishan goyal and chandana boral.From bus to bus and again van,must say that was fun.We reached around 11:30 ,we went into the server room,first experience with HP Blade Server and UPS which was Liebert GXT-MT 6KVA UPS with a OpenComms Web Card.Indradg gave information about the ports and how to operate it,what was there cable line up and how to operate it a bit.Huge batteries with large power capabilities were there….

Now it was the time to start up,we had to download the Fedora 11 repository which was started up by rtnpro,he first of all had some problem with the rsync,called sushmit da,did a bit of googling,mean while kishan and stephdg went out to have some tea.rtnpro called subhodip da and finally started with it…

The work started,stephdg along with meejan and chandana made posters quoting “Do not switch off this machine.Work in progress ” .. Now was the time to go but rtnpro messed up a bit with system.He shut down the downloading process which was agin retrived by him and finally we got out at around 5:30pm.

It was a long day.

TAX CALCULATION ROR

03.07.2009

STARTED WITH RUBY.

The project started for me first of all by installing rubygems helped by my mentors Mbuf and Shrink.Figured out project needs web development + database management.

$yum install rubygems.

Then i had a small disscussion on using mysql as a backend.I had to install mysql too.

$yum install mysql

Going through ruby by the link (http://www.rubycentral.com/book/).