moving...
to
anshprat.wordpress.com
reasons:
1) I dont like the Google servers holding any and everything about me..
2) wordpress SEO is much better than blogspot
3) To try out more OSS things..
Monday, September 03, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, or WHATWG, is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies. The WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software.[1] Ian Hickson, the editor of the WHATWG specifications, has since moved to Google. Chris Wilson of Microsoft was invited but did not join citing the lack of a patent policy to ensure all specifications can be implemented on a royalty-free basis.[2]
The WHATWG has a small invite-only steering committee called “Members” who have the power to impeach the editor of the specifications. Anyone can participate as a Contributor by joining the WHATWG mailing list. The mailing list has about 700 subscribers.
The WHATWG was formed in response to the slow development of web standards monitored by the W3C. The WHATWG mailing list was announced on 4 April 2004,[3] two days after the initiatives of a joint Opera–Mozilla position paper had been voted down by the W3C members at the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents.[4]
On 2007-04-10, the Mozilla Foundation, Apple and Opera Software proposed[5] that the new HTML working group of the W3C adopt the WHATWG’s HTML5 as the starting point of its work and name its future deliverable "HTML 5". On 2007-05-09, the new HTML working group resolved to do that.[6]
Specifications
The WHATWG has been actively working on two documents.
- HTML 5 (formerly titled Web Applications 1.0) is the fifth major version of the HTML and has been adopted by the W3C as the starting point of the work of the new HTML working group.
- Web Forms 2.0 is an update to HTML forms. The spec will no longer be developed standalone but the features will be folded into HTML 5.
Additionally, there is a very early draft called Web Controls 1.0, which is not actively being worked on.
hi again..
after a long time am posting a blog about my own life..
well its going at a pretty good enough rate ..lolz..
well there arent many things at the moment about which I should be worried at the moment.
Actually there aint much to talk about rt now..
busy learning a couple of new things..
a couple of words which are around me now a days..
analyst
jumbled thoughts
garbled
sceptic
me!!!
after a long time am posting a blog about my own life..
well its going at a pretty good enough rate ..lolz..
well there arent many things at the moment about which I should be worried at the moment.
Actually there aint much to talk about rt now..
busy learning a couple of new things..
a couple of words which are around me now a days..
analyst
jumbled thoughts
garbled
sceptic
me!!!
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Human mind..
Its really surprising how fast your mood can change.. just a couple of minutes ago, i was in a happy mood.. happy coz of a certain friend.. and thinking abt no one else but emma.. (yeah Emma Watson.. the Hermione of Harry Potter or should I rather say Hermione Weasley.. ) And just then she scraps me and am now all mad and angry at her.. thought its nothing much but it just shows how volatile the human nature / mood can be..?? Or is it just me..??!! Hey, but am also human rt..?? :O
Its really surprising how fast your mood can change.. just a couple of minutes ago, i was in a happy mood.. happy coz of a certain friend.. and thinking abt no one else but emma.. (yeah Emma Watson.. the Hermione of Harry Potter or should I rather say Hermione Weasley.. ) And just then she scraps me and am now all mad and angry at her.. thought its nothing much but it just shows how volatile the human nature / mood can be..?? Or is it just me..??!! Hey, but am also human rt..?? :O
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Memories n the future..
Got a mail from annie.. though it was just a notice/info mail sent to all her friends list but still it was a nice reminiscence from the back..
I have quit ,first as the president of RMI, the oncampus Robotics and machines Intelligence group, an affiliated group of IEEE, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer and then left it in its entirety.. that is ceased to be its member either. That I did so a sto better manage my studies. But now I have taken up the managership of Pragyan 's CSG. Don't know how much of help and how much of hindrance its gonna be for my future. Hope am able to discharge my responsiblites well and to every one's satisfaction, including my parents, i.e, I get a decent enough GPA and a "good" enough job.
Talked to mimi after a very long period of time. I was having my reservations on that front as well, but with her I think I can let things go the way they are going.
Got a mail from annie.. though it was just a notice/info mail sent to all her friends list but still it was a nice reminiscence from the back..
I have quit ,first as the president of RMI, the oncampus Robotics and machines Intelligence group, an affiliated group of IEEE, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer and then left it in its entirety.. that is ceased to be its member either. That I did so a sto better manage my studies. But now I have taken up the managership of Pragyan 's CSG. Don't know how much of help and how much of hindrance its gonna be for my future. Hope am able to discharge my responsiblites well and to every one's satisfaction, including my parents, i.e, I get a decent enough GPA and a "good" enough job.
Talked to mimi after a very long period of time. I was having my reservations on that front as well, but with her I think I can let things go the way they are going.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Hari got placed with IBM today.. News like that brings smile to your face.. Hari has been the one person who has inspired me to learn the most.. and even though he might not even know that but hes one person whom am sure a hell lot of person take as an idol.. maybe including myself..
His soft spoken nature really inspires you .. and his modesty is one of its kind.. There are quite a lot of unspoken words within me, which, well.. err, will remain unspoken.. And knowing myself, it seems difficult that I ll be sharing quite of myself with anyone else..
His soft spoken nature really inspires you .. and his modesty is one of its kind.. There are quite a lot of unspoken words within me, which, well.. err, will remain unspoken.. And knowing myself, it seems difficult that I ll be sharing quite of myself with anyone else..
Friday, August 10, 2007
Every time I see her, a sudden pulse races through me, or rather the right word would be , I miss a heartbeat. And the worst part is that its more as if I want to escape. I can call her up if I want but is it worth it? Maybe I am being a fool. But maybe being all by myself without really ever sharing myself is the best way I can do for myself.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
wikipedia installation is goiing on. Finally the things that worked for me is this..
importDump.php
MediaWiki 1.5 and above includes a command-line script 'importDump.php' which can be used to import an XML page dump into the database. This requires first configuring and installing MediaWiki. It's also VERY slow; to import a large Wikipedia data dump into a fresh database you may wish to use MWDumper, however, mwdumper has compatibility problems with some Linux Distributions and does not provide robust error reporting. Please see the installation notes concerning mwdumper for a list of known problems and systems affected by problems with mwdumper.
As an example invocation, when you have an XML file called temp.xml
php maintenance\importDump.php < maintenance\temp.xml
As an example invocation, when you have an XML file called temp.xml with an output log and in the background:
php maintenance\importDump.php <>& progress.log &
You can then display the log entries real time to the console screen by using the tail command. This command also allows you to break out of the program and reinvoke it periodically to check the status of your import:
tail -f progress.log
For more on this topic visit the given link
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Surprise, Surprise..
Suren's post is just a few days old.. but yet it comes as the first result on google when i search for Anshu Prateek. hmm.. time to switch to wordpress..?? Even though blogspot is now a google service, am a bit tempted to switch to wordpress especially after using their wordpress mu for the LAN.
Suren's post is just a few days old.. but yet it comes as the first result on google when i search for Anshu Prateek. hmm.. time to switch to wordpress..?? Even though blogspot is now a google service, am a bit tempted to switch to wordpress especially after using their wordpress mu for the LAN.
busy yet ..
installing the fresh dump of wikipedia for the college LAN. After a few failures by using xml2sql,etc, Now am using mwdumper and directly putting the data into mysql. Here is one of the best pages that I found for installing wikipedia on a local computer. PS: Am working on Fedora 7. Windows user may find this useful. Other than this, there is also webaroo for windows. I have even tested this with windows Vista. The webaroo uses about 5.5 GB of disk space. Whereas the actual wikipedia dump for august is about 12 GB in xml format and 2.6 GB approx in bz2 format. The latest dumps can be downloaded from here. As to what you should download from there, read this.
Another important thing to be installed for wikipedia offline usage is mediawiki.
Here is an easy way of installing wikipedia for offline usage on a fedora based system..
Steps to get mwdumper to work on Redhat and Fedora Core Linux Distros with mysql 5.x
* 1. Destroy any existing database: i.e. mysqladmin drop -p (enter root db password)
* 2. Recreate the database: i.e. mysqladmin create -p (enter root db password)
* 3. DO NOT install MediaWiki until the database in uploaded. If MediaWiki is installed, mwdumper may not work.
* 3. Run the tables.sql function supplied with MediaWiki from the MediaWiki root directory: i.e. mysql -u root -p < maintenance/tables.sql
* 4. Start mwdumper: i.e. java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 | mysql -u root -p
* 5. You will have to manually enter admin status for WikiSysop accounts and run the upgrade.php script on the MediaWiki database in order to obtain WikiSysop access or install over the previous MediaWiki installation and import the databases in order to activiate the WikiSysop account. Add the following MediaWiki PHP file to your /maintenance directory by cutting and pasting the text, and name the file createBcrat.php, then recreate the WikiSysop account by executing the example scripts provided. The attached PHP file is for the MediaWiki 1.9.3 release.
file createBcrat.php
/**
* Maintenance script to create an account and grant it administrator and bureaucrat group membership
*
* @package MediaWiki
* @subpackage Maintenance
* @author Rob Church
* @author Jeff Merkey
*/
require_once( 'commandLine.inc' );
if( !count( $args ) == 2 ) {
echo( "Please provide a username and password for the new account.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
$username = $args[0];
$password = $args[1];
echo( wfWikiID() . ": Creating and promoting User:{$username}..." );
# Validate username and check it doesn't exist
$user = User::newFromName( $username );
if( !is_object( $user ) ) {
echo( "invalid username.\n" );
die( 1 );
} elseif( 0 != $user->idForName() ) {
echo( "account exists.\n" );
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
# Insert the account into the database
$user->addToDatabase();
$user->setPassword( $password );
$user->setToken();
# Promote user
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
# Increment site_stats.ss_users
$ssu = new SiteStatsUpdate( 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
?>
Steps to recreate WikiSysop and add the account to groups "sysop" and "bureaucrat"
from your MediaWiki root directory, enter the following commands:
php maintenance/createBcrat WikiSysop
php maintenance/changePassword --user=WikiSysop --password=
You may have to enter "password" twice in order for the account to work properly, which is why there is a call to "changePassword" after the account has been recreated and assigned sysop and bureacrat status.
mwdumper is not the correct tool if you want to maintain an existing wiki as it may not always work correctly if the MediaWiki databases have already been installed on the Fedora Core releases and may not provide useful output as to any errors occurring. Most of these problems are related to record and insertion rejection of SQL requests by the underlying MySQL database version you may be running. You may wish to test mwdumper with your particular OS distribution with a trial run to see if you encounter any of these problems. There are several fixes for some of these issues.
Known Problems
* mwdumper will fail with: ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 2187: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes if your dumps contain large sections of unicode characters with Cherokee Unicode and other unicode texts and in most cases does not work at all with these dumps, even with the defaults in mysql set to utf8. One solution to this problem is to increase the max packet (request) size which can be input into mysql via INSERT commands. Try changing set-variable = max_allowed_packet=20M in your /etc/my.conf file and restart the mysqld program.
* mwdumper does not report errors when uploading to a system with a database that is not freshly created.
* mwdumper may not always complete the dump, even though it is reporting that it is and even if you have followed all the procedures listed here. Due to the lack of proper error handling in the program, it may be better to just run importDump.php if you encounter problems with this tool.
* if you run into problems using mwdumper to input directly into mysql on a particular Linux Distribution or version of the mysql database, consider setting up mwdumper to convert the XML dumps into an intermediate .sql file then import the output file directly into mysql rather then allowing mwdumper to do so.
* try passing the '-f' switch (force) with mysql to force record insertions into your MySQL database if mysql starts rejecting updates from the mwdumper program or reports duplicate key errors.
installing the fresh dump of wikipedia for the college LAN. After a few failures by using xml2sql,etc, Now am using mwdumper and directly putting the data into mysql. Here is one of the best pages that I found for installing wikipedia on a local computer. PS: Am working on Fedora 7. Windows user may find this useful. Other than this, there is also webaroo for windows. I have even tested this with windows Vista. The webaroo uses about 5.5 GB of disk space. Whereas the actual wikipedia dump for august is about 12 GB in xml format and 2.6 GB approx in bz2 format. The latest dumps can be downloaded from here. As to what you should download from there, read this.
Another important thing to be installed for wikipedia offline usage is mediawiki.
Here is an easy way of installing wikipedia for offline usage on a fedora based system..
Steps to get mwdumper to work on Redhat and Fedora Core Linux Distros with mysql 5.x
* 1. Destroy any existing database: i.e. mysqladmin drop
* 2. Recreate the database: i.e. mysqladmin create
* 3. DO NOT install MediaWiki until the database in uploaded. If MediaWiki is installed, mwdumper may not work.
* 3. Run the tables.sql function supplied with MediaWiki from the MediaWiki root directory: i.e. mysql -u root -p
* 4. Start mwdumper: i.e. java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5
* 5. You will have to manually enter admin status for WikiSysop accounts and run the upgrade.php script on the MediaWiki database in order to obtain WikiSysop access or install over the previous MediaWiki installation and import the databases in order to activiate the WikiSysop account. Add the following MediaWiki PHP file to your /maintenance directory by cutting and pasting the text, and name the file createBcrat.php, then recreate the WikiSysop account by executing the example scripts provided. The attached PHP file is for the MediaWiki 1.9.3 release.
file createBcrat.php
/**
* Maintenance script to create an account and grant it administrator and bureaucrat group membership
*
* @package MediaWiki
* @subpackage Maintenance
* @author Rob Church
* @author Jeff Merkey
*/
require_once( 'commandLine.inc' );
if( !count( $args ) == 2 ) {
echo( "Please provide a username and password for the new account.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
$username = $args[0];
$password = $args[1];
echo( wfWikiID() . ": Creating and promoting User:{$username}..." );
# Validate username and check it doesn't exist
$user = User::newFromName( $username );
if( !is_object( $user ) ) {
echo( "invalid username.\n" );
die( 1 );
} elseif( 0 != $user->idForName() ) {
echo( "account exists.\n" );
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
die( 1 );
}
# Insert the account into the database
$user->addToDatabase();
$user->setPassword( $password );
$user->setToken();
# Promote user
$user->addGroup( 'sysop' );
$user->addGroup( 'bureaucrat' );
# Increment site_stats.ss_users
$ssu = new SiteStatsUpdate( 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 );
$ssu->doUpdate();
echo( "done.\n" );
?>
Steps to recreate WikiSysop and add the account to groups "sysop" and "bureaucrat"
from your MediaWiki root directory, enter the following commands:
php maintenance/createBcrat WikiSysop
php maintenance/changePassword --user=WikiSysop --password=
You may have to enter "password" twice in order for the account to work properly, which is why there is a call to "changePassword" after the account has been recreated and assigned sysop and bureacrat status.
mwdumper is not the correct tool if you want to maintain an existing wiki as it may not always work correctly if the MediaWiki databases have already been installed on the Fedora Core releases and may not provide useful output as to any errors occurring. Most of these problems are related to record and insertion rejection of SQL requests by the underlying MySQL database version you may be running. You may wish to test mwdumper with your particular OS distribution with a trial run to see if you encounter any of these problems. There are several fixes for some of these issues.
Known Problems
* mwdumper will fail with: ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 2187: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes if your dumps contain large sections of unicode characters with Cherokee Unicode and other unicode texts and in most cases does not work at all with these dumps, even with the defaults in mysql set to utf8. One solution to this problem is to increase the max packet (request) size which can be input into mysql via INSERT commands. Try changing set-variable = max_allowed_packet=20M in your /etc/my.conf file and restart the mysqld program.
* mwdumper does not report errors when uploading to a system with a database that is not freshly created.
* mwdumper may not always complete the dump, even though it is reporting that it is and even if you have followed all the procedures listed here. Due to the lack of proper error handling in the program, it may be better to just run importDump.php if you encounter problems with this tool.
* if you run into problems using mwdumper to input directly into mysql on a particular Linux Distribution or version of the mysql database, consider setting up mwdumper to convert the XML dumps into an intermediate .sql file then import the output file directly into mysql rather then allowing mwdumper to do so.
* try passing the '-f' switch (force) with mysql to force record insertions into your MySQL database if mysql starts rejecting updates from the mwdumper program or reports duplicate key errors.
Monday, August 06, 2007
A nice day..
Went to Madurai yesterday for organizing a quiz on behalf of IIM. Left hostel at 5.30 in the morning, IIM officials picked us up at 6. My friend Suman had come along. THere were in all four of us, the two of us and two IIM officials. Both of them work with BHEL. The second as a R&D person. Well the bus travel was a bit clumsy but thereafter it was all nice. The first thing that I noticed on getting off at the Madurai bus stand was that it was ISO certified. Wow..!! And here we are still thinking about getting the same for Pragyan. Anyways.. then we went off to the school where we were supposed to organize the quiz.. And then as there was still time left for the quiz to commence, we went off to the grandeur that Meenakshi Temple is. Its really huge. It was just the beginning of what was going to turn out to be as a real nice day. Saw quite a number of nice people.:) Anyways it was a nice day but the only thing that I didnt do and I am happy about is that we didnt exchange numbers.. Well that gives you n idea what the whole nice day was all about. Anyways, I had this feeling that maybe she wanted to exchange the numbers, and maybe aI would have had done so myself but eventually it never happened. And in the end am not so sad about it. Its better to have such small "happenings" to pep up your life rather than hoping for things that never turm up or happen the way you want them to. Or worse, cause you distress. It was a nice day. And at the end of it, I am a happy man!!
Went to Madurai yesterday for organizing a quiz on behalf of IIM. Left hostel at 5.30 in the morning, IIM officials picked us up at 6. My friend Suman had come along. THere were in all four of us, the two of us and two IIM officials. Both of them work with BHEL. The second as a R&D person. Well the bus travel was a bit clumsy but thereafter it was all nice. The first thing that I noticed on getting off at the Madurai bus stand was that it was ISO certified. Wow..!! And here we are still thinking about getting the same for Pragyan. Anyways.. then we went off to the school where we were supposed to organize the quiz.. And then as there was still time left for the quiz to commence, we went off to the grandeur that Meenakshi Temple is. Its really huge. It was just the beginning of what was going to turn out to be as a real nice day. Saw quite a number of nice people.:) Anyways it was a nice day but the only thing that I didnt do and I am happy about is that we didnt exchange numbers.. Well that gives you n idea what the whole nice day was all about. Anyways, I had this feeling that maybe she wanted to exchange the numbers, and maybe aI would have had done so myself but eventually it never happened. And in the end am not so sad about it. Its better to have such small "happenings" to pep up your life rather than hoping for things that never turm up or happen the way you want them to. Or worse, cause you distress. It was a nice day. And at the end of it, I am a happy man!!
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Ok, just read one of my own posts again and that is so...^^*&^*..
Anyways I have quit as the president of RMI even before I actually had the job. Kinda funny, but thats true. I walked out of it coz I dont think I could handle the responsibility. Anyways, I have been feeling much lighter after that decision. Maybe am feeling lighter coz of the fact that I dont really need to work for that any more. Maybe am relaxed coz .. so many things happen...
Anyways..
And people around you arent always actually the way they are... Whatever that means.
Anyways I have quit as the president of RMI even before I actually had the job. Kinda funny, but thats true. I walked out of it coz I dont think I could handle the responsibility. Anyways, I have been feeling much lighter after that decision. Maybe am feeling lighter coz of the fact that I dont really need to work for that any more. Maybe am relaxed coz .. so many things happen...
Anyways..
And people around you arent always actually the way they are... Whatever that means.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Only me...
He he..
Just googled for my screenname "anshprat".. got two results only and both were actually mine only.. seems like am really one of a kind..!!
One was about my zorpia account and the other one was about my blog..
He he..
Just googled for my screenname "anshprat".. got two results only and both were actually mine only.. seems like am really one of a kind..!!
One was about my zorpia account and the other one was about my blog..
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
ok.. about the amount of petabytes that google has..
I didnt do much research befor I posted that blog.. I posted just because I felt so..
anyways on wikipedia, they say google uses just 2Petabytes as of 2006.. hmm..
I didnt do much research befor I posted that blog.. I posted just because I felt so..
anyways on wikipedia, they say google uses just 2Petabytes as of 2006.. hmm..
My blog is becoming more like a scratch notepad for me.. i just put anything and everything that I find interesing.. and maybe thats what a blog is for...!!!
By the way, I just asked a senior of mine who did his internship with google, (he worked on orkut) about the estimated percentage of space/memory google has in all wrt to the internet thats open to public..
My guess was it would be something b/w 40% to 60% since google caches almost any and everything + its various services...
But the answer I got was baffling..
He said it would be number times over than the overall space in public domain on internet..
He wont give me the details as he couldnt coz the privacy/copyright or whatever issues.. but as far as I made a guess and as per what he said was partly right is that google never deletes anything that goes into their servers.. that means any draft you made on gmail whether you sent it or not, discarded it or not or emptied your trash or not is always there on the google servers.. its only that you dont have an access to it once you supposedly "delete" it.
Well I wont say or comment much on it.. but just guess what the privacy-rights people can make out of it in any piece of it was true. Any picture you ever uploaded, any status you ever put in you gtalk or gmail or orkut or anything you ever put through a google networked service or on any other service and if it was crawled by google, then atleast one copy of it is saved on the google servers for god knows how long. even if you supposedly remove it from the public domain, its always there somewhere hidden in the deeper realms of the google guys. What they do or can do with it is anybody's guess..
By the way from the same senior, google crawlers crawl about a few petabytes of data every WEEK..
Btw, 1 Petabyte == 10^6 GB.
So its anybodys guess how much is their disk storage considering google started in sep 1998...
By the way, I just asked a senior of mine who did his internship with google, (he worked on orkut) about the estimated percentage of space/memory google has in all wrt to the internet thats open to public..
My guess was it would be something b/w 40% to 60% since google caches almost any and everything + its various services...
But the answer I got was baffling..
He said it would be number times over than the overall space in public domain on internet..
He wont give me the details as he couldnt coz the privacy/copyright or whatever issues.. but as far as I made a guess and as per what he said was partly right is that google never deletes anything that goes into their servers.. that means any draft you made on gmail whether you sent it or not, discarded it or not or emptied your trash or not is always there on the google servers.. its only that you dont have an access to it once you supposedly "delete" it.
Well I wont say or comment much on it.. but just guess what the privacy-rights people can make out of it in any piece of it was true. Any picture you ever uploaded, any status you ever put in you gtalk or gmail or orkut or anything you ever put through a google networked service or on any other service and if it was crawled by google, then atleast one copy of it is saved on the google servers for god knows how long. even if you supposedly remove it from the public domain, its always there somewhere hidden in the deeper realms of the google guys. What they do or can do with it is anybody's guess..
By the way from the same senior, google crawlers crawl about a few petabytes of data every WEEK..
Btw, 1 Petabyte == 10^6 GB.
So its anybodys guess how much is their disk storage considering google started in sep 1998...
Do you know?
First 4 alphabets ( 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd') which are quite commonly used; do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 !
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 !
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in thousand)
Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 !
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)
And Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting
First 4 alphabets ( 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd') which are quite commonly used; do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 !
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 !
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in thousand)
Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 !
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)
And Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting
Harry Potter..
I was surprised that all the harry potter books are easily available for download for free.. now thats sure shot piracy.. though I paid for the last book, I have also been reading only pirated books mostly so far.. But its time to change now..
I was surprised that all the harry potter books are easily available for download for free.. now thats sure shot piracy.. though I paid for the last book, I have also been reading only pirated books mostly so far.. But its time to change now..
Though I use linux a lot now a days I mostly use it as a user w/o knowing much of the intricacies involved. And mostly when I run into troubles, usually its either google or Hari who s there to give a helping hand. Here is something that he helped me with and which I gracefully flicked from his blog gee.. thanks Hari..
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29.
Where is the remaining dollar?
Where is the remaining dollar?
Monday, July 30, 2007
wow.. my first open source usage was maybe the firefox.. or maybe something that I used unknowingly.. but in the past one year I have been ardently using Open Source.. It so happened that when I went back home last vacation it took me a couple of clicks to get acclimatized to the windows environment. Even still I preferred keyboard shortcuts and command line over the GUI. I mean they are improving their GUI with each new release.. I started working on Fedora Core 5 and now its Fedora 7.. Beryl is nice.. And the best thing is Firefox v3 now adopts the OS theme.. so it looks just like your OS. Looking forward to use it with an apple or vista..
Ok I completely went off the track.. This post was suposed to be about the use of open source with mobile phones..
check these out..
http://trolltech.com/products/qtopia/greenphone
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
Ok I completely went off the track.. This post was suposed to be about the use of open source with mobile phones..
check these out..
http://trolltech.com/products/qtopia/greenphone
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
Knowledge pays..
I realized this in the past few days..
And am talking literal pays.. cash
We conduct workshops and we earn.
People earn php and linux classes and they earn..
Aactually har's blog contained a "my blog is worth" tag and it was in a about $7000 . I put mine through the same test and all I got was $0. Ok not all that great. Lets see if I can work about it.
I realized this in the past few days..
And am talking literal pays.. cash
We conduct workshops and we earn.
People earn php and linux classes and they earn..
Aactually har's blog contained a "my blog is worth" tag and it was in a about $7000 . I put mine through the same test and all I got was $0. Ok not all that great. Lets see if I can work about it.
Scared...
That's what I am..
Am putting this out now coz someone asked what was I scared of ?
Well, am scared of the days to come..
Theres so much to do and so li'l time..
I hardly know anything and the list of the thins that I suppose I should be doing is..
..
..
OK am not putting the list of all that I am supposed to be doing bcoz I dont think that putting up that in public domain is going to help me in any sense..
Am scared..
and its such a lonely boulevard..
But I enjoy this a bit as well..
The solitary reaper..
When I see the people, it aches a lil ..
or rather there's this desire..
But when I see the pains, I think its better to be this way..
Maybe am scared of the pain...
Maybe am scared of it all..
who knows what tomorrow has in store for me..
lets see what happens once we are there...
but can I wait for that day..
or rather I should start working for the days to come...
Lets work...
That's what I am..
Am putting this out now coz someone asked what was I scared of ?
Well, am scared of the days to come..
Theres so much to do and so li'l time..
I hardly know anything and the list of the thins that I suppose I should be doing is..
..
..
OK am not putting the list of all that I am supposed to be doing bcoz I dont think that putting up that in public domain is going to help me in any sense..
Am scared..
and its such a lonely boulevard..
But I enjoy this a bit as well..
The solitary reaper..
When I see the people, it aches a lil ..
or rather there's this desire..
But when I see the pains, I think its better to be this way..
Maybe am scared of the pain...
Maybe am scared of it all..
who knows what tomorrow has in store for me..
lets see what happens once we are there...
but can I wait for that day..
or rather I should start working for the days to come...
Lets work...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Finished the last harry potter last night.. took me about 12 hrs of reading in 2 sittings of 6hrs each with a break of abt 2hrs in b/w as I went to dinner with friends..
As to what the book is all about, you ll find a hell lot of people all over the net telling you about it. So sorry am not saying anything about that. I ll only comment about some of the things I personally felt for about.
The first thing is something thats been up in my head for quite sometime now. No matter what the story is, why the heck does it always have to revolve or say start with a girl? Snape did all that for his love. True there are people in the story like Albus Dumbledore, in whose life it seems there were no personal attachements of that kind, but the morale is the world revolves around love.Even Dumbledore became noble only for the love of his sis. Otherwise who knows he would have had been the Lord of Tom Riddle himself!!!! Anyways I guess what am putting in here isnt exactlywhat I had in mind when I came in here to put out..
And Ron gets Hermione... Who the heck wants to be Harry anymore...!!!
But as they say, Fame eludes them who run after it and runs after those who want to elude it.
So I guess is true about any and everything else.
Except for the things that are concerned with hardwork.. but maybe a bit of luck is involved in there too!
As to what the book is all about, you ll find a hell lot of people all over the net telling you about it. So sorry am not saying anything about that. I ll only comment about some of the things I personally felt for about.
The first thing is something thats been up in my head for quite sometime now. No matter what the story is, why the heck does it always have to revolve or say start with a girl? Snape did all that for his love. True there are people in the story like Albus Dumbledore, in whose life it seems there were no personal attachements of that kind, but the morale is the world revolves around love.Even Dumbledore became noble only for the love of his sis. Otherwise who knows he would have had been the Lord of Tom Riddle himself!!!! Anyways I guess what am putting in here isnt exactlywhat I had in mind when I came in here to put out..
And Ron gets Hermione... Who the heck wants to be Harry anymore...!!!
But as they say, Fame eludes them who run after it and runs after those who want to elude it.
So I guess is true about any and everything else.
Except for the things that are concerned with hardwork.. but maybe a bit of luck is involved in there too!
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Back in college..
A lot happened in the last two months on the personal front..
made a hell lot of realisations..
And ....
Finally got a single room in college hostel..
simple love the place of my own..
Though at times it did feel that maybe single is a bit too single ..
but you have to pay a price for everything rt..
other than that..
trying to make something meaningful outta of my life..
Take care.. bye
A lot happened in the last two months on the personal front..
made a hell lot of realisations..
And ....
Finally got a single room in college hostel..
simple love the place of my own..
Though at times it did feel that maybe single is a bit too single ..
but you have to pay a price for everything rt..
other than that..
trying to make something meaningful outta of my life..
Take care.. bye
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Hi again,
after a long time..
why back to this place..??
When I started writing the blog, my main reaso was so that I can tell people what I feel.
It may still be the same, but with a li'l difference..
Now it is to tell abt things which I wud have otherwise told to only my close frnds.
But now I cant as now they have a life of their own..
n me being in there in their life in my previous avatar might be a bit interfering..
or rather I might not be comfortable sharing things with them AND their better ones..,
I mean they r my friends, their friends r my friends too..
BUT the difference is.. my friends are mine..
my friend's friends are not..
Theres so much to say.. but maybe the only option left is the way to go I am going right now.
Its the way to hell, but there doesnt seem to be any other option left..
I dont have time enough to do any other thing now but to do what I am doing..
The irony is can I can keep talkin about the stuff but I cant talk what the stuff is..
And the people with whom I can, they are not there..
They are.. but still they arent.
Bye
after a long time..
why back to this place..??
When I started writing the blog, my main reaso was so that I can tell people what I feel.
It may still be the same, but with a li'l difference..
Now it is to tell abt things which I wud have otherwise told to only my close frnds.
But now I cant as now they have a life of their own..
n me being in there in their life in my previous avatar might be a bit interfering..
or rather I might not be comfortable sharing things with them AND their better ones..,
I mean they r my friends, their friends r my friends too..
BUT the difference is.. my friends are mine..
my friend's friends are not..
Theres so much to say.. but maybe the only option left is the way to go I am going right now.
Its the way to hell, but there doesnt seem to be any other option left..
I dont have time enough to do any other thing now but to do what I am doing..
The irony is can I can keep talkin about the stuff but I cant talk what the stuff is..
And the people with whom I can, they are not there..
They are.. but still they arent.
Bye
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