Sunday, August 29, 2010

[SOLVED] OALD7 installation on Ubuntu 10.04!

:D Well.. . as crazy as if sounds .. . I finally managed to Break the Code! :P


IF you-don't-follow-my-blogs OR you-don't-remember-stuff THEN
URL.refer (http://mrdigerati.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-what-i-did-on-v-day.html)
:-) 


oops!
END IF;
// Yeah Some PL/SQL *HIT I'm into these days.  Sucks?


Anyway! Coming to the point. I looked for answers like almost everywhere and couldn't really find even one...! Finally I went deep and mined some stuff, similar issues that the gamers were facing. Hail Loki.


ISSUES:
#1 (regular usage)

$ ./installation.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on Linux / x86_64

#2 (using x86 emulation)
$ linux32 ./installation.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
/home/nikunj/.setup5913: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load 'atal'
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1

Both the times it said:
Please contact Loki Technical Support at support@lokigames.com
The program returned an error code (1).





Anyway. 'linux32' should've ideally worked but .. . . there was more.




WHAT I DID TO MAKE OALD7 run:


#1. To run 32-bit apps on 64-bit Linux, you first need to install these prerequisite packages:
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-sdl dpkg-dev


#2. Then I downloaded the i386 package from the Ubuntu site.
libGTK1.2: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/libgtk1.2/download


#3. Deflate (Unzip/Un... hmm... Deb?) the libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386.deb (right-click and extract) and then go inside the folder hence created. Deflate data.tar.gz and go inside ./usr,
$ cd libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386/usr/lib (in short)


#4. Now we need to copy the files (lib? Modules?) to the location where OALD7 desires to find it!
$ sudo cp -v -i * /usr/lib32


#5. Try installation now. [ERROR. still?]
(Even after that another library was required)


$ linux32 ./installation.sh 

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
/home/nikunj/.setup6372: error while loading shared libraries: libgmodule-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load 'atal'
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1

#6. Then I downloaded two i386 packages for the Ubuntu site.



Follow the same procedure (#3-5) for libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-19build1_i386.deb


:D and voilĂ  .. . :P this is what you get! Don't kill me :P


Looks Kinda...  hmm....Nude!!

I don't know why but just couldn't see any TEXT :-| I closed my eyes, trusted my senses and from the last time I installed it without this 'Chick Chick'. Pushing the third Check-Box would save all the Sounds etc and makes it offline! :) DO THAT.

Finally :D ..... Legen --- wait for it ---- Dary!!!

Update:

Installation of OALD8 is easy! :P Quick.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Yearbook09 is "kinda" online!



:D Guess what has been made available online! :P
The yearbook09!!

TheKNOL@GoogleGroups

TheKNOL@Blogspot

Cheers!! and do leave comments! :P

Update: Yearbook09 is a book we informally (not with the college's support)... created (designed)... advertised... published.. for our final year engineering students in 2009 (as a memoir of all our college life). Of course it would not have been possible without the contribution of the batchmates... we took a nominal fee (rest came from the efforts of the marketing team) and provided them with the published book.
300 copies were published in a batch of 450 students. Trust Me that's a lot. :P
The book contains:
  1. Contact info of each and every student (section-wise)
  2. Profiles (saving their current state of mind.. as "accomplishments, future-plans, I'll always remember.. and general comments") written by them [this is going to be fun some years down the line]
  3. KNOL-Poll (We had the final year comment about various things relevant to us and give votes for various titles like "Mr Handsome" and "Miss Attitude")
  4. GroupPages (for sharing the fondest memories of your friend-circle with the world)
  5. Articles/ Poems to keep the spark and the theme alive!
  6. Chronology (all the eventful events happened during our stay)
  7. College ka Map with legend :P
  8. Buddy Pages
  9. Societies/Clubs etc
  10. Class Awards.
To look at the individual pages (preview) please visit the Picasa Album.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Earlier Today...

Viewers Discretion is advised.
[Content Below can Bore you to DEATH!]

well well... :P
I tried a lot to search for a certain someone called bai...!! :( but none of the bais thought it'd be safe enough!! :-/ [No Shiney Mentions here please.. I'll get touchy]

[We are 4 guys in a 3BHK! :P Brand New!! If you care i can totally flaunt more! hehe]
On second thought.... Do we look this ugly :( !!
Anyway... I thought instead of waiting for this "Inta paisa mein inta-etch milega" types Bai... (you know by now.. everyone in the neighborhood knows we need one :O ... so do the security guys...) I put the wiper and Domex (Jo mujhe Virasat mein Bhaiya/Bhabhi se mila hai) to good use.

WHAT THE HELL!!?? :D
[Glad you asked...!]
The mission involved motivation and initiation (and a hell lot of VELLA-giri) and how can I forget the wiper [due regards]!! It all started this afternoon... when Batra was just leaving.. and I was getting exhausted from excessive monitor staring (24 Season4).. MehraJi was relaxing in his Jeans and Anup tinkering with the Rubik's Cube..! I hit the space bar... Came out to grab some water and looked at the floor.. I paused for a while.. when I realized that I could take it no longer. Absurd epiphany and "Leadership by Example" suddenly became very relevant [thankyou Infosys for the word!] and so I began moping the floor...! :P under the Guidance of Mehraji.. I secured the Kitchen...! and soon Anup joined and they took over. Please zoom in AND observe the reflection on the floor!

There was something else going on.... and to know that... here is the background story!!

Well the story dates back to the month of March (2010)... when Bhaiya/Bhabhi were here in Pune (India)... and I had moved in with them in their furnished apartment...! Things were going fine.. even better [think y!].. until one day... [what was i thinking!!?] I asked them to come upstairs and take a look around! "Heinous crime" as I call it. :-/ Since then "Ms Bai" mentions exponentially increased... "I needed one" they said..! "You mean the apartment needs one right??"!
To add to it.. a cousin of mine also joined their side and I was left alone with my Laptop [which is often addressed as my "Wife"]..!
In another exciting turn of events, Mom and Dad scheduled their Pune visit in the month of April (an attempt to have a small family reunion.. which was real FUN btw!). And so it occurred to them to see how is their younger kid was doing [that'd be me]... even though Bhabhi didn't spill the beans [we respect secrets! :D haha.. eachothers']! :| They would have seriously killed me agar woh pahunch gaye hote mere room tak! :P :| so I tried to dodge, change the topic.. false excuses.. everything I could... :P and this one time I even offered them the key to my place.. just to see how determined they were!! :D yielded and yay! .. I came out clean. Hope they'll just see the pictures which I'll "email" them!! [OH! wait.. what if they follow me too!! :O D-Day!]

Do check the images!! :P and please ignore the obscenity! :P

Well people often ask me (considering the popularity and the number of comments on each post) this question.. that who do I blog for.. :P the Future-Nikunj, I say!


Update (25/04/2010):
I finally cleaned my room(as well)!





Update: 20100501
:-( I've moved to the Hall... !! Sad... yet.. Its fun as well! :P Check it out.



Sunday, March 21, 2010

[The KNOL] What if it wasn't called CRAP?

So on one of my other blogs.. I was telling.. what were the names which initially clicked...!
:D KNOL is the (free online monthly in-house) magazine of my college.
Blog link at the bottom....!!!!


my thot pool
free for all
my space
ePrayas
my bulletin
e Creation
e Parika
e Rachna
my world
write all read all
e-co-friendly
channel W

Well that's what we thought before we could narrow down it to "CRAP" and later "THE KNOL"!
:D When I say "WE".... I mean.. Isha & Me!! Back in our Third Year....!!!!
and this list has some valid additions from Swati Dutt :P [I think!]

Ask why NOW!!!
Ah!!! Was going thru my documents... Those were the times of OpenSUSE10.3. :P
Thought its worth sharing and keeping here as a good memory!

Regards, [hehe]
Nikunj Lahoti,
System Engineer,
Infosys Technologies Limited [ting]

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Wardriving: Why don't they educate properly??

Wardriving:

Well.... if you want it quick.. picture this.... I was generally sitting in a friend's apartment and when I chose to connect to any available network [don't get intimidated by the UI: its Ubuntu 9.10]..  It successfully gave me the IP via DHCP and I could open pages... surf web. All Good right? ... not my fault if someone is not using a LOCK in his HOUSE (but doesn't mean that give me liberty to go Steal). I could've acted like a parasite on that connection (eating all their bandwidth) without this poor guy even knowing what's wrong... but what if someone sends a Hate-Mail to the President using your access-point (without you even knowing!! Think: You got arrested for "nothing". Such a Shame!!) or trigger some terrorist activity?
As my brother says... "It-cannot-happen-to-me" attitude is an ego-booster but ignorance is not always beautiful. It actually has happened in India... //TODO quote

So, why go thru all that trouble? There are several measure you can take, choose one and be sure you stay out of it, avoiding anything like that from happening to you. For instance:
  • You can restrict the Mac-Addresses which can connect to the connection
  • Otherwise you can have a secured connection, have a password to connect to the accesspoint, without which no machine can't get connected.
Consider this post just FYI. The Term is called Wardriving. [makes sense though]

PS: My other posts below tell us how to ensure your accesspoint is secured connection.
PPS: Why don't they educate properly?

Saturday, March 06, 2010

The College Bhraman!

Hehe..! I didn't get anything for anyone! :P well they deserved!! True Story!
Will probably.. surprise them.. the next time I meet :D [yeah!! no one read my blogs anyway!]

I came back.. last week and started working... :) Its fun at Office...! With mails like "Burger Party at my Cubicle @ 3:30!!"... "Sweets at my Desk!"... :P I also took Pedas... and Ganga Jal.. when I got back after a long vacation!

Proof:


















(Udit, Anshul, Niharika, Mani, Ritika and Mukul.. and TheRedEyed Me! Back in the old cafe!)

PS: Vaibhav.. Bulbul and Mishi! :| I totally forgot to call you out...!!! Knol developments and Yearbook thing... ate all my time! :D But I had fun!!
PPS: After spending 4 years at my lovely-wified college...! Broadband feels like HEAVEN!!
PPPS: 23rd Feb, '10

Friday, February 26, 2010

[FIXED] Multiple Terminals: Simultaneous Broadband Access

So I was trying to connect my Laptop and Desktop simultaneously to the Internet (Vuze was feeling left out on my machine), but the PPPoE won't let you authenticate (with same or different credentials) for other systems, when once connected to a system. It tells me that "the phone line is busy".

For the utter vellaness of my life... I studied the router manual but heck couldn't find the "next" button (.. :( See PDF) for the first two days [I thought probably my router was a different make and so couldn't follow the advanced settings instructions]. Finally I got the right manual (see PDF again) and got this sudden brain-wave to click on 'next' sheepishly (Mahn! they should tell us on the first page that there are going to be a total of 'n' pages for the complete configuration! X( ..... Sucks!!)

OK. So I kept tinkering, it wasn't a big deal anyway! :P Ah! My Week full of Sundays is about to get over... :( Does that mean.. no more Blogging?? :(

Well what I did was kinda simple... I just logged on the router setup as 'Admin' [opened 192.168.1.1... easy!!] and changed configurations. Reboot the router and wait for it to stabilize.

The Network is now password protected and no need for any PPPoE client :P anymore [it has been set to the PPPoE mode from Bridged Mode], it automatically connects.
[Heyy!! Does this mean that the post below has gone to a waste?? :O ... well Lets just call it a lesson learned.. (wink)]

I read the stuff and found out that this mode separates the Network and our systems providing an internal Firewall (and that's why its the recommended setting). You should totally do that.

Well find below the link using which you can very easily avoid war-driving issues... and get rid of the PPPoE mess...!! Save Time. Awesome!! now I can seamlessly connect to Internet thru my mobile device as well. Life looks good again.

Links:

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Print Your Blog!!

Awesome invention:

http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/blog2print/googleblogger/index.html

Get the whole blog printed!! Would work best for an avid blogger or his best-friend.
:) You can even categorize the book in years... get the PDF instead.

Its not for Free of course.. but the shipping is.

Happy Blogging. Ciao

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

[SOLVED] BSNL Broadband over PPPoE in ACER Aspire 5738 :) on Ubuntu & Windows

Well for a few days I'm at home and this awesome 256Kbps (upto 2 Mbps) line was introduced to me. I even downloaded some "stuff" via Torrents, FTP. Awesome download speed (Whole 700Mb in 50mins. That's news!)!! And of course, there always is this strong urge to fix things!

Connecting from Windows XP via Wireless Anyway the drivers which came along with the ACER Utility/Resource disk couldn't get my wifi running (I knew the Card was okay as it worked just great in Ubuntu). I tried to download every possible driver matching the product name... Even those for Windows7 sometimes :P [all futile attempts]...
Atheros, RALink, Intel, ShirPeak... but nothing worked. I gave up (anyway.. almost all of my time Ubuntu is the sole OS I use, so that didn't bother me much).

Here at the starting the 'pppoeconf' [see the section below] wasn't working right. So had to switch on my Windows for a go. You know what...!!! I even forgot the password..!! [had to resort to FingerPrint Access :P Cool! Futuristic!].. anyway.. I changed it from the Administrator Account later.

I searched online for tools which can update my Drivers and find those for the 'unknown' ones. I found a few links... like:

DriverMax: Sucked Bigtime.. MaxTime. It wanted to force me to make an account before even using it and connect online. Bloody... I wanted a wifi driver :P You know, this has been a major paradox... "To Connect to the Internet you need to download a package from the Internet itself" [Linux users.. ever heard of ndiswrapper?]. It got uninstalled in seconds.

UKD: (probable short for UnKnownDevices) It's hosted at HalfDone.org. Elegent GUI did the trick and showed me some info about the NetworkController:

* Windows Description - Network Controller
* Hardware ID - VEN_8086&DEV_0083&SUBSYS_13058086&REV_00
* Device Category (Class) - Other devices
* Enumerator - PCI
* Detected Chip Vender - Intel Corporation
* Detected Chip Device -
* Detected Vender - Intel Corporation

* Detected Device -
* Device Status Flags - Detected, Unknown, Present, Not Phantom, Category Visable

I copy pasted the entire string in Google and on that page (it wasn't in EN btw) there were some links I sporadically clicked and reached a page which said its "Intel WiFi Link 1000 Driver 12.5.0.57 REV:A". Bingo!

DriverRobot: in the mean time I was working on this thing [Multi-Processing you know]. DriverRobot is FREE etc and after the full analysis wanted to go Online to show the possible updates available for the entire computer, but the best part: it allowed me to save the probe as an HTML page and when I opened it under a working Internet connection, it gave me the same Driver Name, Wireless_LAN_Intel_12.5.0.57 [192.4Mb download].













192.4Mb... Oh! Come on. I searched and downloaded the HP driver sp44954.exe (3.5Mb).
Works Great.

Rest is all a cakewalk. PPPoE id/password and you are thru.


Connecting from Ubuntu Via Wireless Ubuntu saves me of the trouble to download and install Driver. Wouldn't it be amazing if all the drivers come bundled along with the OS itself. Linux totally nails it... in this regard (ting).

Well just now I managed to configure Internet thru BSNL-Broadband in my Ubuntu as well.
Connect to the access point, you get an IP-address using DHCP. Now you need to use the 'pppoeconf' program.
$ sudo pppoeconf
[sudo] password for user:

and it shows you a nice decent GUI. Go thru all the recommended settings and its done. And starts the connection instantly.
Just make sure you Press "NO" on this page.

You can check the IP etc using 'ifconfig'.
$ sudo ifconfig ppp0
and you see iNet addr, and P-t-P. All's good.
Later you can use 'pon dsl-provider' and 'poff' to toggle PPPoE status.
Good thing right? :)

Well the best part that now I can resume the downloads in Vuze.
Its 24's-Craze coming up!


Update:
Well I restarted the system only to find out that neither the DSL pppoeconf is working nor is my system connected to wifi. So I tinkered a bit a found out... the 'pppoeconf' makes an entry in the /etc/network/interfaces and then the NetworkManager stop managing the Wifi (it says: Device not managed). Either you can delete/comment all the lines from
/etc/network/interfaces other than the two lines containing 'lo' [using 'gksu'].... *
Using gksu, you can open an application in root mode. (Think: su)
Press ALT+F2 >> Enter 'gksu gedit' >> open the file (interfaces) now and make changes.

Connect to the preferred accesspoint (after probably a restart) and 'pppoeconf' again.
But its not worth it.

* or.... you can yourself make a shell script to make that happen.

sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "ncryption"
dhclient wlan0
pon dsl-provider

:) instead of "ncryption", enter your essid (with/without the quotes).
you can later check 'sudo plog' to see if it says something like this:

local IP address

IP address

primary DNS address

secondary DNS address

Happy Tweaking. Ciao.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

On Viewers Demand :)














Alright!! :P

So this is it.... ;)
kinda cheap yet A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

Beat that!! Acer Aspire 5738!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

This is what I did on the V-Day

Ah! You thought I'd write about gifts etc!! Sucker!

1) Download just a few files from the big torrent.

Was extracting Scrubs episodes (downloaded earlier by a friend of mine thru torrents)... multi-volume RARs. But one volume was damaged... No Clue how! So, I used Transmission-BitTorrent Client for a change (generally I use Vuze); Had it eat the torrent (the only torrent I could find... was the complete Season4... and I couldn't find the Scrubs-S04E04.part01.rar ... so I started downloading the full episode). It showed me all the Directory structure and finally I could uncheck all the boxes... and then just download the missing Scrubs s04e04. :P Cool Right?


2) see the blog below..!! I used VirtualBox!! Minor change in the Network interface emulation (Make it Bridged. If its NAT already) when you use the Chromium OS.
;) It should work fine. Also the build you have access to...
[if you've not compiled it yourself from the 'git' builds] may have been hacked etc.. so you are advised not to use your Personal Gmail account for access. Create one now... and use.
:P Identity theft... buddy. Prevention is always better...! ;) You'd never want to install and use it as the only OS on your computer. TRUST ME!


3) Trying to figure out how to get OALD7 installed in my Ubuntu amd64. It has some 32 bit binaries GTK issues.
// issue definition begins:
On: $ sudo ./installation.sh

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on Linux / x86_64

// So i searched etc and finally... issue2
On: $ linux32 ./installation.sh

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
/home/nikunj/.setup8014: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load 'atal'
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1

Both of the times it cried about some support etc:
Please contact Loki Technical Support at support@lokigames.com.

// Issues end here. I hope I'll resolve them one day.

& hey of course I blog-D today! CAN we count that as 4?

PS: The posts are incomplete and gibberish on will. Thanks for reading. but y would you put yourself thru this pain! ??? M blabbering JLT. Ciao

Virtual Box in Action


So Currently I'm running:

> Google Chromium
> OpenSolaris amd64
> WindowsXP SP3 activated (not 64bit though)



Alright. Many thanks to Chip Mag for providing the Chromium VMDK for the Developer Build [20 Nov its saying].... I could actually try that. Nothing's new on the outside.. plain old Chrome Browser.. and buggy(on network connections etc) on the inside... but its meant to be fast, light and apt for users browsing internet. On the Virtual Machine it boots up real quick. Good thing. Will post back on Chromium soon.

Please notice in the images that there is the VirtualBox status bar at the bottom.
























The Light UI (see the menu options). You need to login thru your Gmail ID/Password.




OpenSolaris
in Action:


























And our dear Grand-Pa :) 2001-2007.
Windows XP






















(All Lies :P) -- JK. I recently downgraded from Windows7.
Acknowledgements: Torrentz.com



PS: A VirtualMachine lets you install the whole OS [as you can boot iso images and cds] and you can simply click and delete at whim. Clean Separation. No Conflicts or side-effects. No changes to actual partitions etc. Migration of the virtual disk is simple [just like I've used Chrominum]. Take snapshots of the system and rollback. It won't crash/freeze your host system :P... Go BETA testing!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Ubuntu-9.10-dektop-amd64

Arre... Pulchritude is the term!!

Ubuntu9.10 totally supports each and everything on my Acer Aspire 5738.
And performance is Legendary so don't "wait for it" and get it installed in your machine as well.

Everything has become so simple now. I started working on Unix(and derivatives) in 2005 when I got into college. There was no MP3 support... Geekish installation... problems like no USB support... (want to freeze your system??... Just plug in the USB drive!!)... and other issues. Now, they are accompanied by OS-installers which are more user-friendly than the software-installers in Windows itself... and you can even install it as a software inside windows! :) Cool Right?

Ubuntu has always been the number one... and will be. Its debian based distribution. Even with the display effects etc.. it works like the most stable thing I've ever seen.
The package manager gives you each and everything you'd need to add frills to your desktop! java is not there but gcc is! It rocks... is what the blog says anyway.
I'm working inside that only. :-)

The CD comes bundled with almost everything you'll ever need... for Office.. Multimedia or Internet... maybe routine maintenance...!

Think about the Grandpa Windows XP: its some 570MB and can never be of any use if not accompanied by a driver disc or utility softwares. So, why use something pirated when you have something better (serious understatement) for Free!!?

Think about it...! Will edit this post to be a better read.. soon! Ciao

Thursday, January 21, 2010

I'm a Netizen!!

Acer Aspire 5738 + Unlimited Wi-Bro :)

I'll be online people....!!!
Its a promise ;)

Thanks & Regards,
Nikunj Lahoti

Oops!! The office ka effect... :P

Sunday, January 03, 2010

So Pune it is...!

Watch out :)
Many of my college friends got Pune while others got Bangalore.. Hyderabad and Chandigarh. The postings came just minutes before the big [not really] Compre(-hensive examination).
People started calling me in certain scared tone... from the examination hall (you know... I have a reputation to study till the last possible minute) ...to know their posted location. For Some it was good news.. for others it was this constant struggle.. trying hard to concentrate on clearing the 65% bracket.. and context switch
to think about all possible options to change to their DC (by swap).. traversing thru all the faces they've ever seen in the campus!
Thank God I didn't have to do that. Pune had been my top preference for ages together... :D

So after the Final Final exam (in which btw I got a big A [Such a Raja Munna I am. Hehe. I managed to get 4.99 CGPA over all]) everyone was kinda poker-faced because of their own issues or they wanted to be with all these top favorite friends who got different DCs.
Finally.. the date of release came: 18-Dec-2009... and we got on board... :P

Mysore mein everyone was fresh out of college. It was probably the best hostel life.. college life I ever had. Anyway.. my college life has finally come to an end. Just like all the other good things. Chalta hai....! New Life... huh!?
Lets see what does Pune has to add to my journey.. ;) ... to
[destination is still unknown. LOL]

Update: I've taken a 3BHK with friends.. (of course on rent..) and currently furnishing it :D
and going office regularly... :P