Tuesday, January 23, 2007

TCE Alumni Portal...

Finally the portal designed by me with my friend is launched to public access today. It is designed using Drupal. In that portal, we have facilities for mailing, groups, forum discussions and blogs for every registered user. I hope the portal will surely make alumni to participate in all college events like placement recruitments, alumni meets,etc.,The link of the portal
http://alumni.tce.edu

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

finally my prob solved..!!!

In my box i installed OpenSolaris in one hard disk(hd0) and the windows in in another disk(hd1)..
I found difficult in accessing both operating systems from the same grub..Finally i found a solution for this using the grub function map( )
grub> map (hd0,hd1)
grub> map (hd1,hd0)
The map option makes virtual swap between the disks and both the hd0 and hd1 appears virtually as the first disk. Now i can easily enter my windows from the grub without changing the disk every time as i did before..Now i can work in unix environment and see films in windowsXP(what else can we do with windows:-)) without much efforts..meet you with my next "Drop"..bye

FOSS tools-makes programming simple..!!!

Last week i got an opportunity to attend a seminar on FOSS debugging tools by Mr.AnanthShrinivas, an alumnus of our college working in Sun Microsystems.The session was very informative and he showed the demonstration on various debugging tools like GDB-the GNU project debugger, Valgrind, ltrace, mtrace..All the tools are cool to work with. I worked with GDB before the session when my friend introduced it.This session added extra ideas about GDB..The valgrid demonstration was interesting as it pointed errors with memory management in the program with error line numbers.very cool tool..Next i attended a seminar on DBMS and Internet programming tools by Mr.Senthilkumaran,SpikeSource India Limited..He covered various FOSS DBMS tools like MySQL,PostgresSQL,small foot-print databases like SQLite and some informations on the products of SpikeSource..These sessions introduced some interesting tools and i need to work more on it..