upgrading from sarge to lenny

One day I thought of taking a bold step and hence I started upgradin my desktop from debian sarge to debian lenny (For some it is the easiest thing to do.. but for some others it is certainly not.. I am in some others category)

in file etc/apt/source.list

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main


apt-get upgrade gives error

W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
4D270D06F42584E6


apt-get install debian-keyring

apt-get update

again W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
4D270D06F42584E6
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems.

Now I stopped and enquired with Omshivu what to do.. He said it could be ignored. Well ignorance is bliss sometimes. So I moved ahead..

Hm.. my /var directory is full and it says unable to write log .. :| let me clean it up and go for lunch

It is already 4.00 and it says still 3h5m left for downloading and my openoffice is just vanished.



apt-get install aptitude

Oh .. so many libraries installed just for aptitude ..? and several service restarts .. and now ..

apt-get dist-upgrade
...
...
...
1229 packages upgraded, 445 newly installed, 128 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1785MB of archives. After unpacking 1374MB will be used.
...
...
...

Hum.. I could have uninstalled loads of applications. But did not do it. You should be punished for your sins.

It is still showing 3 hours left and now time for me to go home . :(

Next day morning :
I come and see my system is upgraded and ready. But what there is some message which says pidgin was not able to downloaded and written as their is not enough space on device.

I checked the space it looks ok. update-manager was showing 702 updates available. when I started it was hanging.. Hopeless situation.. I called up Shashi my linux guru. some hints by him.

I ran the apt-get dist-upgrade again ..

now it is

1273 upgraded, 493 newly installed, 27 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 142MB/1907MB of archives.
After this operation, 1758MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Now the actual replacement of packages started... One by one applications are getting better both features and feelings wise.

It asks lots of files and configurations to be kept back and or to install the maintainters versions. it left to you what you have to keep..

For me it was nice experience to see the upgraded system.. But my openoffice was not upgraded and old installation was removed as well.

I did apt-get install openoffice.org
then for the utility locate apt-get install locate

some not needed libraries.. run apt-get autoremove to free up some space ( be careful chances are that you may lose something you needed)

thats it.. you system is upgraded and runnning .. Now I had the kernel with HIGH MEM support and now it has gone need to recompile kernel for that..

Will do that sometime friday ,,

Till then good bye ..

ಅರಿವು - ಕನಕದಾಸರ ಪದದ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಭಾವಾನುವಾದ

why you need

Why we need holy water when truthful men are around us
Why to fear hunger when donations of daily bread is made

Why acquaintance with one who does not obey elders.
Why a body which does not help the others.
Why a birth which does not pray god.
Why a king who does not care for his subjects.

why wealth if it does not serve self and others.
why a mans' life if it does not command respects.
why to stay where your deeds are mistaken
why the luck which you cannot share with your family and friends.

Why a wife who does not follow you.
Why a friend who cannot borne differences
Why greediness when you born without paying anything
why others when Lord Adikeshava* is there

* Adikeshava means the first person "The ultimate"

extending logical volume on HPUX

#lvextend -L 128 /dev/vg00/testvol
#umount /dev/vg00/testvol
#extendfs -F vxfs /dev/vg00/testvol
#mount /dev/vg00/testvol


http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/hp-ux-l/to-extend-logical-volume-in-hp-unix-1993114

http://www.unixguide.net/hp/hplvmtasks.shtml

ನನ್ನ ಮದುವೆಯ ಮಮತೆಯ ಕರೆಯೋಲೆ

ಅಕಸ್ಮಾತ್ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಂದೆ ಹೋಗಿ ನೀವು ಬರೋದಾದ್ರೆ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಂದೆ ಹೋಗೋದು ಹೇಗೆಂತ ನನಗೂ ಹೇಳಿಕೊಡಿ. ಒಂದು ತಪ್ಪನ್ನ ಸರಿ ಮಾಡೋದಿದೆ :P

ರಾಜಕುಮಾರ್ ರವರಿಗೆ ದಾದಾ ಸಾಹೇಬ್ ಫಾಲ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಬಂದಾಗ

ರಾಜಕುಮಾರ್ ರವರಿಗೆ ದಾದಾ ಸಾಹೇಬ್ ಫಾಲ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಬಂದಾಗ ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಓಪನ್ ಏರ್ ಕ್ರೀಡಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಸನ್ಮಾನ ಸಮಾರಂಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ಮತ್ತು ಅಶೋಕ

Dave Packard's speech to HP Managers in 1960

The following are few excerpts. ( I am still searching for the full text of the speech on internet).

“I want to discuss why a company exists in the first place….I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make money. While this is an improtant result of a company’s existence, we have to go deeper to find our real reason for being….A group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company…to do something worthwhile—they make a contribution to society….The real reason for our existence is that we provide something which is unique.”


"At times it seems the most efficient way is to hire a group of people, work them as hard as possible, and when the job is finished, send then home. Well, even if this is the most efficient way, we have never operated in this manner.......................... So we feel it is our responsibility to provide opportunity and job security to the best of our ability. "


" Whenever we discuss overall company objectives, we touch on our responsibility to the community at large..... But none of these can be accomplished unless the company makes a profit. "

"Profit is a measure of our contribution to our customers...... Profit is the measure of how well we work together. "

----
Are you Managers hearing these....?

Why Seena moved from XP to Ubuntu

I was buried deep in work (as usual) and suddenly out of the blue, Seena Called me. He wanted to buy a computer and was looking for some advise from me.

“A Computer?? For you??” I asked.

Seena was working in one of the many industries in Bangalore as a storekeeper. He got fired from there and he worked as an assistant for his former boss. His boss got a job, and closed this business. Not having too many options left, he rented a small shop and started his own business - recharging currencies for the mobile phones. He now wanted to improve his business by offering to copy images/music to the mobile and handhelds of his customers. Luckily for him at this very time a small land deal came through his in-laws and got him the moolah. So the need for a computer and so the call to me.


Being a simpleton, he does not know about the copyrights or copylefts, and if somebody tells him that copying the songs of A R Rehman on to the storage media of his clients mobile phones is a punishable business... he just wonders why and he would never understand the point. Not with so many people doing the same thing.

As usual I tried to escape the responsibility, and I know my suggestion was not very helpful to him. A couple of weeks later he called me and told that he had bought a HCL Computer with so and so configuration for such and such price. It had windows XP installed on it. I congratulated him and wished him good luck.

I was pretty sure that I would be hearing from him soon.

As expected he called one noon and told that he had virus on his computer and it was causing a lot of trouble. He was trying to copy something to a memory card of a customers and suddenly some folders started creating in his computer and even though he keeps deleting them, they KEEP COMING BACK!!!

Now the things get challenging for me. No, its not the virus that are challenging. Its Seena because he does not know what a virus is, how to overcome them, what an anti-virus will do and how to update it. I suggested Linux. More trouble – he does not know difference between XP and Ubuntu. He does not even know what Microsoft is. Heck, the chap doesn’t know what an operating system is.

I tried to explain him what an operating system is, and asked him to install an anti-virus. I even thought of gifting a legal version of some anti-virus to him, so that he could update it regularly. When I told him updating needs Internet connection, he said that an Internet connection would cost him few hundreds every month and his business was not yet profitable and he cannot afford it.

I visited him and after listening to all his problems, and seeing how he was actually managing this “Copying to memory card” business, I told him to more to an open-source operating system. He could still run his business without worrying about virus and without internet for a few more days.

I loaded ubuntu 8.10 on his system and whole thing was done in half an hour. I taught him how to use Ubuntu, how to open his windows partitions and copy the files from there onto the customer storage medias

Unfortunately I had not carried the opt-on CD which have mplayer or codecs for totem. So he could not play his collection of avi, mp3 and mp4 media files.

He was happy about all this. Somehow I knew that a call would be coming to me very soon.

Two weeks later he called me.

"Manjanna, I have got viruses in the version that you loaded also. Please delete everything and reinstall everything newly."

"What...?” I wondered.

"I have got viruses in Ubuntu also. Please reinstall everything again"

I was perplexed. I visited him on that very evening. He showed me a memory card - probably NCP. When loaded and opened there were already some files in it. Autorun.ini and some .exes. His interpretation of those files was that it was some virus. His previous experience with the windows XP and virus looked similar.

I inserted my mobile phones memory card into his system and kept it there for almost half an hour, and nothing new got created. No virus.

Then what are those files? They are the software loaded by the manufacturing companies so that they are readily work with the mobile phones. I am not sure whether he was convinced or not. His business continues and hopefully will flourish someday.



This whole episode has raised a few Questions in my mind. These hardware companies, in trying to make their hardware ready for M$, keep some software on the storage media.

Is it a fair business practice?

As if this was not enough, I came across a Video CD that has a .swf and some .exe files. This VCD can work only with M$ system.

I know this saga will continue when I install mplayer and other codecs to play different kinds of media on Seena’s System.

Somehow I know that this is not the end. In fact, I think “its just the BEGINNING…”

PS : Special thanks to Praveen for editing this write-up.

Shoe lacing styles

I found this blog which describes the lacing styles. If I am right.. some time back I read that break dancers use a separate kind of shoe lacing which will have no knots.. This link does not have it but it is quite interesting link

http://ritemail-amazing.blogspot.com/2008/09/shoe-lacing-style.html

BCube -- BisiBeleBath

ಬಿಸಿಬೇಳೆ ಬಾತ್
ಒಂದು ಅಳತೆ ಅಕ್ಕಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಅಳತೆ ಬೇಳೆ , ಒಂದು ಅಳತೆ ತರಕಾರಿ ಐದು ಅಳತೆ ನೀರು. ( ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ ಮತ್ತು ಟೊಮೇಟೊ ಇರಬೇಕು)
ಮೊದಲಿಗೆ ಬೇಳೆ , ತರಕಾರಿಗಳನ್ನು ನೀರಿನೊಡನೆ ಒಂದು ಚಮಚ ಎಣ್ಣೆ ಮತ್ತು ಒಂದು ಚಿಟಿಕೆ ಅರಿಷಿನ ಪುಡಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಬೇಯಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು. (ಸುಮಾರು ಒಂದು ಬಾರಿ ಕುಕರ್ ಕೂಗುವವರೆಗೆ)
ಅಕ್ಕಿ ತೊಳೆದು, ಒಣಕೊಬ್ಬರಿ ತುರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಬಿಸಿಬೇಳೆಬಾತ್ ಪುಡಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಬೆರೆಸಿ ಮೇಲಿನ ಮಿಶ್ರಣದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಬೇಯಿಸಬೇಕು. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ರುಚಿಗೆ ತಕ್ಕಕ್ಷ್ಹ್ಟು ಉಪ್ಪು ಸೇರಿಸಬೇಕು. (ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಬಾರಿ ಕುಕ್ಕರ್ ಕೂಗುವವರೆಗೆ)

ಪ್ರೆಷರ್ ಇಳಿದನಂತರ ಒಂದು ಬಾಂಡಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಒಣಮೆಣಸಿನಕಾಯಿ, ಕರಿಬೇವು, ಗೋಡಂಬಿ, ಬೇಕಿದ್ದರೆ ಕಡಲೇಬೀಜ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು. ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿದರೆ ಬಿಸಿಬೇಳೆಬಾತ್ ರೆಡಿ.

ನಮ್ಮಾಕೆ ವೀಣಾ ಹೇಳಿದ ಹಾಗೆ

Bisibelebaath

for one measure of rice, equal measure of toordal and equal measure of mix of vegetables and five measures of water. (onions and tomato are part of vegetables)

first boil toor daal and mix of chopped vegetables in a cooker adding a spoon of oil and a spoon of turmeric powder till it gives single whistle.
then add the rice cocunut scrapes, and bisibelebaath powder along with salt. continue boiling for another whistle.


Fry dry chillies, coriander leaves, cashewnuts, groundnuts in oil add it to the above cooked dish. and surve hot Bcube.

As told by my wife veena,

ಟ್ರೈನ್ ಟು ...!!

ಒಂದು ರೈಲು ಹೀಗಿತ್ತು ...!!! :)