My enlightenment desktop

A blog post after a long period. But this time I have some nice thing to share about my Linux desktop. This is about new window manager Enlightenment another astonishing window manager. My hats off to the opensource development community behind this. After some sought of initial hickups in getting this wm working, i had some glassy cool wm working right. I used pbone yum repository to get it installed. My attempt of compiling the package failed due to various dependencies. Very graphical classy desktop with with less memory consumption, that impressed me a lot. A top show this wm is using only 3% of my system memory and a watch on cpu cycles also reveals the fact that this wm is awesome. Good collections of themes, animated desktop wallpapers, easy interaction with online updation. Out of the themes i like a theme named as Grunge Good collection of desktop gadgets, including cpumeter, clock, temprature, weather forecast etc. Here are 2 screenshots i would like to share across. The 'e' in the middle is animated which is a rotating one.

Haridwaril manikal muzhangumbol - A malayalam story

Just completed reading one of the good story i ever read. Somehow the story touched me a lot. Story is all about the feelings and nature of one person named Rameshan. Somehow i was seeing a pinch of me in this character, lot of similarities. Story has a very tragic ending. Worth reading this novel, I recommend.

Good article

Just read one of very good interview with Java champion Heinz Kabutz. One of the interesting thing in noted is the usage of StringBuffer and Java 6 optimization. Interview link

_user_password_dynamic_validation() while installing Drupal

I faced a problem while installing Drupal in my Fedora 9 box with apache 2.2. I see the following error in my apache error logs [Sun Mar 29 20:04:32 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function _user_password_dynamic_validation() in /usr/share/drupal/install.php on line 710, referer: http://localhost/drupal/install.php? profile=default&localize=true Fix for this issue is, manually update the table values If you are using mysql mysql -u USER -p Enter your password mysql> use Issue the sql statement UPDATE system SET status = 1 WHERE name = 'block' OR name = 'user' OR name = 'node' OR name = 'filter'; Hit Drupal again. Voila the error gone and the page displays.

Post about old malayalam Songs

Today is my last sunday in Boston, a trip which was fully packed with work. Did not get any time to enjoy. Most of the time i was doing either work or spend my time in apartment itself. Though its the last sunday i thought of staying back and watch TV. Last fews weeks i started reading malayalamanorama online and today i came across a very beautiful article written in malayalam by one Rekha K, I dont know about this lady - But this article i'm sure i'll remeber. Its an article about old malayalam songs, some of the phrases really touched me and its packaged in a very beautiful way. The topic name is 'Oduvil Nee ethumbol'

Dream come true

A dream I was carrying for a long time finally came true when the American Airline carrying me landed in Boston Logan airport yesterday 10.30 PM EST. Yes i'm writing this post from Boston. I was over joyed when the first snow fall on my head, its the first time in my life i'm seeing snowing, great experience, though its cold -5C, i dont feel the coldness may be because i'm over joyed. After customs and emigration clearance I came out of the airport EXIT around 11 pm and a somalian cabbie gave me the first shot of 'Hello, how are you doing - welcome to Boston', I remeber of the malayalam actor Jagathy that time - One of his movie in which he acted as a photographer in Ooti used to say to vistors 'welcome to Ooty, nice to meet you' and infact that is the only english he knows. But my cab driver knows english and had a very nice ride in the late night. Thanks to my cabbie again that he doesn't know the place where i want to go. I enjoyed the entire ride around 30-35 minutes - amazed seeing the skyscrapers and the snowing city. Such a nice experience.

Okay the first day in Boston is about to end with the beautiful flavoured Bacardi and me :). I feel like finishing the entire 2L today itself :)

Lesson: JavaBeans Concepts (The Java™ Tutorials > JavaBeans(TM))

Lesson: JavaBeans Concepts (The Java™ Tutorials > JavaBeans(TM)) - A good tutorial from Sun about Java Bean