Its been some time since I stopped writing here because I had my own site running drupal at http://satish.playdrupal.com, but today something happened which will work to change my life in the coming years.
Whether for the good or bad, things after today will be in a new chapter in my life ,and as a resolution I have decided this blog and write stuff onto its pages, so those of you who have visited this blog and left in disappointment may not need to do so anymore. I will follow this post with a series of posts on using Linux for the common user.

This blog is not active anymore , u can reach me at :
http://satish.playdrupal.com

well it is a lot easier than on Fedora 8( which i could never complete though i posted the method here ), it is just the installation of an RPM , just do this if u want to write any GUIs with Ruby based on Qt4
yum install kdebindings

u are ready to roll !!!

i have been learning gui programming with Ruby, .. it is a lot more easier designing GUI's with languages like Ruby or Python , than C . I actually wanted to write a kernel installer , which would work like this , ....

so if you have used the user_relationships module in Drupal ( 5.x) , u would know that the My relationships link in the navigation menu , when clicked displays a page with two internal tabs, 'all' and 'pending'. If u didn't like the tabbed display , (i did not like it , so i made this change)u can as well change it to display any one of the options , pending or all , this is what has to be done , u will have to edit the hook file for the user relationships module , so the required file is
"your drupal installation"/modules/user_relationships/user_relationships_hooks.inc
find the following code in the file and make the following changes .

$items[] = array(
'path' => "relationships/list",
'title' => t('All'),
'access' => $view_access,
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM|MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK,
'weight' => -10,
);
if (true || ($approval_required && $edit_access)) {
$items[] = array(
'path' => "relationships/requests",
'title' => t('Pending'),
'access' => $edit_access,
'callback' => 'theme',
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM|MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
'weight' => -9,
'callback arguments' => array('user_relationships_pending_requests_page', $user->uid)
);
}

change it to the following ,...

$items[] = array(
'path' => "relationships/list",
'title' => t('All'),
'access' => $view_access,
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM/*|MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK*/,
'weight' => -10,
);
if (true || ($approval_required && $edit_access)) {
$items[] = array(
'path' => "relationships/requests",
'title' => t('Pending'),
'access' => $edit_access,
'callback' => 'theme',
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM/*|MENU_LOCAL_TASK*/,
'weight' => -9,
'callback arguments' => array('user_relationships_pending_requests_page', $user->uid)
);
}



we are just changing the menu hooking behaviour, ... this is just a choice of look , a small tweak , nothing more,...... u can just ignore this if u like the tabbed display .

This is an excellent initiative by one of the members of the Fedora Ambassadors Project , Susmit. He created a list and we( members from india) have been adding to it. It is a list of volunteers , who could copy Fedora install media for people who would require them. This is not limited to the present release and will continue for all the future releases i guess , ... here is the link , ....

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts

i installed the qt4-ruby bindings just now. It is a little confusing ( for me atleast), so i describe here the process to install the bindings, (for linux, i am using Fedora 8).....
-> install qt4 on your system
->get the qt4-ruby bindings from the RUBYFORGE site or from the following link, the following link might contain an old version , so go to the rubyforge site for the latest stuff, ....
http://www.filekeeper.org/download/eerpini/qt4-ruby-1.4.10.tgz
->install cmake on the system if it is already not present
on a Fedora system u can do this by just using 'yum install cmake'
->then extract the archive and change to that directory ,
->then run 'cmake .'
this will automatically configure and create makefiles .
->then run 'make'
this should automatically install the bindings, just write a sample ruby program to check if it works !

I could not find a proper answer when i wanted to install RadRails on eclipse . This is how it is done , .... in the Eclipse menu go to
Help-->Software Updates --> Find and Install....
then in the pop - up window which appears ,..
Search for new features to install
and then click next and then u will have to add 2 new remote sites, .. the details for the sites are the ones which were very difficult to obtain , they are
site 1 :
Name :RadRails
URL : http://radrails.sourceforge.net/update
site 2 :
Name :RDT
URL : http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release
then click on finish , u are almost done with the installation , u have to just follow the instructions from here on to finish the installation .

can understand ur feelings .... this sometimes happen to me also .. its called the controversy of the way we live life !! ...

Every day we look at the sky dreaming of what would happen but not quite sure of what is our desire ...then comes the pigeon ... disturbing our peer sense of onlooking insight into our future .. but then again .. thats how lief goes ... like a rail ... chuk chuk ... thoy thoy ... its fast .. and sometimes u don't even catch the glimpses of what is going on ... so ...

whaT my intension behind the mail is ... pigeons may come on the platform .. but what makes u outstanding is when u kill the pigeon on the spot and roast it and eat it up ,... and say ... blurp !! ... i am satisfied now .. i can continue my ruby !! ... and then catch up with ruby in rails ....
let go pal .. this is life ...
u've done ur part ... its up to others to decide ur credentiability .. but never loose hope in urself !! . and always stay on focus ...
thats the way the great karthik lives ,.... and thats why he is called the magestic and magnificent !! ..

Regards ,
*******... the magesty himself

Hi ...
How are you?? I am fine thankyou...Do not bother mailing back :).. I am doing great and am currently on the platform... Long to go before I get on the rails.. Well, I am a star waiting to be adorned by Ruby and PERL.. I have to make a rail journey once my platform work is done with.

There seems to be one thing that bothers me... Piegons!!! They are on the platform as well.. But, why rails for them?? They have the sky... While they'll be airborne once they are done, I'll be on rails.. Believe it or not, I am not even going to get sailing!!!

Rail gadi.. Rail gadi... Chuk chukk.. chuk chuk chuk...

A very bored Programmer