Archive for September, 2008

Its my birthday, its my birthday

| September 26th, 2008

Yup , its my birthday, and i have now completed 29 years of age, feel old.  hehe , not really , first thoughts in the morning were, wtf have i been doing all my life, not accomplished anything, then i saw my wife and felt relaxed again, marrying was the best thing i have done in my life and im not looking out to top that , so went back to sleep for another half an hour till my mom woke me up , wished me and gifted me a 3 series Tintin comic book, wo!, that was something , i had even forgotten that  i used to read comics, really brought back a lot of good memories of the days when i would stalk all second hand book shops and the library in my building called keith’s book shack,  man, that keith’s book shack was the primary source of my education, haha, that Uncle ( owner of the book shack, in india everyone elder to you is a uncle, im called uncle nowadays) would grumble as i would sit in his own shop and read all his comics without paying for them, but he would never stop me , nor did his children who would relieve him during the afternoons and late evenings . so many summer afternoons spent there, phantom, mandrake the magician , flash gordon, mad comics, tintin, asterix,war and western comics,mandy comics, ( ya i used to read those too), enid blyton, hardy boys, nancy drew, famous five, secret seven and then on to . sidney sheldon, ken follet and my long time favourite , the great robert ludlum. nowadays i read rarely the last four novels were all Salman Rushdie ones . He pretty much is my second favourite author after Joseph Heller, Oh, Joseph Heller , Catch -22 saved my life, i learnt to laugh at myself because of that book , second favourite book would be God knows.Oh Man the younger days when all i would do  was watch star world on T.V ( simpsons, titus, frasier, futurama are my all time favourite shows) and read books and comics, then i joined college and got corrupted with booze and smokes and rock shows and a general shoot myself in the foot attitude, but everything i guess was worth it .

No work on the dynataz frontend at all, on the slitaz frontend, added the qt libraries in the slitaz repositories and a few more programs, gns3 comes up fine but i cant see any graphics. Im just too busy in my actual office work which itself is not bad, wrote a shell script to backup cisco routers having a snmp rw string to folders with the company name and location, i am continuing now on it as i have to show a web interface for the same, which i intend to do with awk and bash, i have downloaded awkiawki and nanoblogger plus im reading upon the networking with awk manual to get a hang of  it, also i wrote a few scripts in bash which would login to a router and get its version info, cut out the parts we dont need and send it to a text file, another script which which will troubleshoot a link which is down within a mpls vrf, now this is very interesting. if i complete it , its going to be of  tremendous use within my company, Once all this over, ill be back to dynataz and maybe ….just a teeny weeny maybe….. a attempt at the ccie service provider qual.

Bye then.

Real Player in CentOS -5.1

| September 11th, 2008

Real Player in CentOS
Download the Real player bin file from “http://www.real.com/linux”
Then Just save it in your home directory
Now change the permission level to executable “chmod +x RealPlayer10GOLD.bin”
Wait one thing is pending ok now you need to install an dependency package and believe me its going to be
tough time Ha..Ha..Ha.. just kidding ok you just need to do “yum install libstdc++.so.5″
Now boom just execute this and you begin your Installation of Real Player”./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin”
Just follow the instructions always give yes as the answer to every question you get and i make sure you
will be done with it with in less then two minutes minutes

gns3 working on slitaz

| September 8th, 2008

Finally got GNS3 working on my Slitaz box. Now to PyInstaller.

video of slitaz

| September 4th, 2008

made just a test video of slitaz , using aterm and capturing the screen with recordmydesktop , download it here

http://www.in2dwok.com/downloads/slitaz.ogg.ogv

compiled dynagen on iso

| September 2nd, 2008

can anyone download this iso and check it, it contains a compiled version of dynagen , remember to be root to start dynamips and dynagen.

download it here –> http://www.in2dwok.com/downloads/dynatazpre.iso

update

| September 2nd, 2008

a bit of inactivity on the routing front, but lots of varied activity on the slitaz front. made 2 different iso’s one with NTFS and thunderbird preinstall and the other with joomla pre-installed , which has given me a idea to make another cacti live cd based on slitaz.

Also a new iso for dynamips and dynagen should be up by saturday, i have tried but am still not able to compile sip and pyqt on my slitaz machine, qt latest version i was able to do, but then on it’s own is pretty much useless for me, so GNS3 is still not on the new livecd , but the new live cd will have the latest cooking version, no firefox this time but midori instead, which is good enough atleast to check all the forums. hopefully size will be even lower this time.

I tried reading and trying to understand a lot on how to use the freeze utility which should basically compile dynagen and remove the need for python on the system hence lowering the size even further, but no luck there, Anyways the new version will be called the veetee version. so its either this saturday or the next wednesday.

update : did manage to get a dynagen executable. with size being 2.7mb , i used pyinstaller for it, now ill go for a few more shots at getting gns3 to work, ( qt takes over 3 hours to compile :(