Graphical Boot Screen in OpenSolaris is known as HAPPY FACE.

unlike Linux boot entries in Open Solaris we have 4 line to change

you will find 3 lines listed as

splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground d25f00
background 115d93

You need to delete these lines, this can be done by first pressing “e” on boot menu and then pressing d keeping cursor on the line to be deleted.

next we need to edit line starting with “kernel$” and remove the following portion.

,console=graphics

This will let you boot Open Solaris in console mode and can in turn let you find errors occurring.

Note : this same feature could be implemented as a second entry in Grub. detailed post on Grub will come as soon as i get time from my busy schedule for penning it down.

working on HTML / CSS as well as graphing / charting for the project.

the toolset i am using

1. Open Flash Chart
2. FaceBox
3. Jquery
4. Jsp
5. MySql

A simple tip i am writing as i was experimenting with Facebox, Open Flash Chart, and a large array of javascript in one page.

and i found one error.

while the default samples provided at open flash chart website work fatastically when working alone but have a piculiar to flash problem while working with jquery specially facebox.

when a facebox method is called it goes in the backround while the flash remains in the foreground. no matter what z-index game you try but flash always remain on top of facebox.

A bit of googling yielded http://joelg.info/problem-with-flash-appearing-on-top-of-facebo

but this talked about adding a parameter in flash embed object code in HTML

but while working on advance javascript only method of open flash chart i was using just swfobject code and hence to obtain above requested feature we need

X.addParam(”wmode”, “transparent”);

to be added in the function calling. where X is the SWFobject.

Hope this helps someone else finding solution a bit easily.

Note : tested on Firefox 3.5 and IE 6.0

I tried it in various scenario and seems to be working fine for me (FF 3.5 only till now.)

To add the bookmarklet just drag this link to taskbar : Extract Favicons

Note : been a lot busy these days with my official work and some inhouse development. for the curious ones : currently working on implementing

1. flot
2. Open Flash chart

Besides these working on SQL optimization for my inhouse project.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-profiles/

I have got time just to add my current working version to wordpress plugin’s repo.

but will need support from community to add more sites to it…

people wish to go for crossover office only because wine lacks a proper graphical bottling interface.

DESCRIPTION

Wine has a lot of gui scripts but none of them by far support bottling.

if we can implement bottling in wine by gui a lot of possibilities will open up.

I am currently using two bottles

1) XP

2) 98

and these two bottles are sufficient to work  with majority of softwares, some have problem’s running in XP runs fine in 98 and some vice-versa.

but one more important thing needs to be taken in mind and that is proper configuration of wine directory.

for this i suggest use of winetricks its a shell script and will not have much problem in converting it to GUI one.

NOTE’s For those who wish to work on this project.

Bottling trick

WINEPREFIX is mainly used to work with multiple root directories of wine or what we call bottles

So if you wish to run default wine i.e. (~/.wine) then you can directly run it

but if you wish to use other version the syntax will become

WINEPREFIX=”<actual directory>” wine <executable name>

replace <actual directory> with the directory location, and <executable name> with the name of executable file.

WineTricks

But you also need to setup wine directories properly so that most common task’s can be performed easily.

so you should download wine tricks and check its code

the essential softwares for each bottle that i use are listed as

1) XP

cc580,corefonts,gdiplus,gecko,jet40, libration, mdac27, mfc40, msxml4, pdh, tahoma, vbvm50, vbrun60,  vcrun6, volnum winver=XP

NOTE : instead of usign fake ie 6 registry hack i prefer use ies4linux and install ie6

2) 98

winver=98, wsh56, vcrun6,vbrun60,vbvm50,tahoma,msi,  cc580, corefonts, dcom98, gecko, je50,libration, mdac27

Note : here also use ies4linux for this directory also.

HOPE THIS IDEA Work’s out some day.

Update @ 14 july 2009

we got a working shell scripting on this concept local copy here as well as at pastebin copy here curtsy Smegzor @ digg

note: if you want to suggest any change please do it on pastebin link.

I have created a local copy as a preventive measure against any mishap.

1. front page loading speed.
2. size of the front page in KB.
3. Limit calls to external url’s
4. and a lot more suggestion’s given by Yslow

After week’s of efforts i think now my front page is considerably faster.

Note : need comments from visitors if my assumption is right or wrong.

Now i am listing my speed up attempts.

1. After looking at the whole theme that i am using now its a modified glossy blue by N Design Studio for 3 columns and as i am using this theme exclusively for my blog and in not any mood to change it sooner. so i went ahead and actually made a lot of PHP calls to static mainly call’s looking for blog name and link location as well as path’s (mark my words this means i am reducing dbase connection in turn reducing load on server)
2. Then i went on and reduced a lot of plugin’s like one plugin i was using exclusively to add my twitter feed in the feed’s list i removed it and add static reference in header.php
3. Next i went to one aspect of by blog i.e. widget’s, earler i used to have a large array of liked images from lot many blogcolelctions but now i have reduced them down (currently 1) which also i am thinking of removing.
4. but in case you do need those then atleast make sure that imge is on your server so that external server call can be reduced.
5. Next stop was my sociable plugin, in those early days of socializing i was not satisfied with all those icons also, but now as the focus is now one content so off goes my long list of sociable icon’s currently reduced to 6 only and that too not being displayed on cover page.
6. now working on how to reduce JS call’s and CSS by tying to combine then in minimum possible files.

working on more to speed it up even more will be back with more updates on it soon.

After my initial post there were a lot of blogger typing down there thoughts on the event.

Started with Tarun chandel’s “Post BlogCamp Pune Self-Analysis kit”,  enhanced by Dhananjay Nene’s word in Why I was disappointed with Pune Blog Camp 2, more thoughts added to it by Mahendra Palsule @ Pune Blog Camp 2: Reflections. and a lot more to it by blog’s listed here

1. sandeep @ mousetrap
2. BlogCamp Pune 2 – Overview : By rahul Bansal
3. aniket shaed his feeling here
4. deep ganatra raising a concern shared by a lot of people
5. nikhil verma shared his Experiance here
6. and a contrast thoughts of a personal blogger by henna achhpal here asking What’s in it for personal blogger.

All these has a lot of different reaction on me while on one side i was thinking it went all right coz i had no expectations earlier as i already said but then it could have a been a lot of fun just by adding some more to it. and then a fundamental question struck to me, its not just work of un- conference un-organizers to deal with this what was your contribution to it. And then i was dumb-stuck for sometime but then came up with list of topics i can contribute to or discuss about

• Peek into wordpress plugin development (basic intro) based on  My profiles plugin(still under development)
  
• Wordpress customization tips including (speed enhancement)
• Changing world of internet with web 2.0 / 3.0 and its importance to us. (intro to web 2.0 for those new to this concept)
• A peek into the world of blogging clients. I am talking about clients not servers. (ex scribefire or bleezer or flock)
• Why i still blog even though i am also lot more then just active @ twitter, orkut, facebook or what not.

And as a headstart i will try posting some material related to these on my blog also
So how are you going to contribute to the camp next time??

1. “Law of Two Feet”, using your two feet you move to place where you can learn, share or enjoy. If you are not in such a place move to it or start a discussion of your and others would gather around you
2. What has happened is what was suppose to happen

After his words It was introduction time and all of a sudden people were back in bussiness and i was amazed to see a large number of blogger with personal blogging or technology as its key focus area.

While the introductions were on we found people ranging from 15 yrs old Farhad to scientist named Puskaraj apte who also happen to find his long time lost pal Anupam Saraph then came introduction from sneha gore who has just completed her thesis on urban blogger’s. Then the most surprising for me were the people from Lokayat they were out there for a mission details on the blog. but was even more surprised (and not so surprised also) to see a large crowd who

claim befoehand only that they don’t blog but are here for there marketting firm.

Then as the introduction ended Wall wiki was on its place for sesssion details to be filled up.

After filling up it looked like.

wall wiki 1

wall wiki - 2

Along with all the talks going on my attention shifted to sahil Khan (@sahilk) flaunting his twttier id on his T-shirt. – that’s a cool way to know people about you.

Then as people were all drifting towards different direction i came in touch with Gaurav Pant a.k.a. DEXTER (@gauravggs) from PLUG (Pune linux user group) and nikhil Kumar Verma (@gryphusnick) and then we three shared a long chat about stuff’s ranging from Geek talk, geek life, How for geek’s its fun while in front of the screen, and then about freelancing to Cryosleep and then topic drifting to demolition man as example of cryosleep concept to andriod cell phones and google lattitude and then shifting to stolen laptops and recovery methods.

Then i went for my first session and that was How to migrate from blogger to wordpress by Rahul Bansal (@rahul286) Slideshow here, his session was good and it showed all the hardwork they have done in creating the plugin. But could not stop myself from chipping in (advantage of unconferance) and adding some cautions about keeping wordpress installs uptodate, overall a nice and properly worked presentation.

Next i went on to attend the session by lokayat people they started with talks on social political topics which to be very frank are not my cup of tea but when it came to the topic of Free Softwares that was were I waw all ears for it. This ended on a good note. Then lunch and after that i was a bit off track with sessions mainly focused on SEO and how to make money. and then suddenly it looked as if camp will end @3:30 only.

But the day just was not ready to end yet and there we were listening to the standup comedy act by Abhishek thakkar and his finding nimmo talk

Some of the most funniest ones were

1. I want my nimmo to understand my word in formats like (ftp kitchen; mget food)
2. A matrimonial profile reading “I an looking for a panther”
3. A matrimonial Profile reading “I want someone to help me in my BED Situation” – by a guju girl (try speaking in gujrati accent and you will get what she want)
4. There can never be a love triangle (only love angles)

But still a lot of ground remained untouched or rather soft touched only

but as in the begining tarul said “What has happened is what was suppose to happen” so no regrets about the event.

On the other Hand would like to see following thing’s in next camp

1. Talk on Legal issues involved with blogging in india.
2. Have a presentation on urban blogger’s and blogging – sneha gore (may be the right person for this)
3. How to write quality content.
4. Talks on blog platforms other then wordpress and blogger / blogs.

UPDATE : Please check BLOG CAMP PUNE 2 REACTION CONTINUES for more details about post camp reactions

What is BlogCampPune?

BlogCampPune is a FREE unconference focusing exclusively on blogging, organized by bloggers for bloggers. It‘s built upon the principles of the famousBarCamp (ad-hoc unconference) focussed on sharing, learning and new ideas. This is going to be an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction between attendees. Any blogger who wants to contribute is welcome and invited to join. In the spirit of BarCamp, if you attend, be prepared to present something (even if it’s just 10 minutes).

When : 27th June 2009

Where: SICSR (Symbiosis) 7th Floor Atur Center, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony Pune Near the OM Super Market

Google Map

Tickets

The Registrations for the Blogcamp Pune 2 has started. Grab yourself a ticket right away. http://blogcamppune.eventbrite.com

Speak at the Blogcamp Pune

If you want to speak on a topic or run a session/discussion at the Blogcamp Pune please mention your idea while you are buying the ticket. http://blogcamppune.eventbrite.com

More Info : http://barcamp.org/BlogCampPune2

I have registered for the even already.

I have been working on Unix Shell scripts for standalone work and came across the need for various types of input validation.

The basic need of Input validation comes when we have some other program’s depending on the input and those programs being sensitive to type of data  being send to them.

so i have compiled some neat hacks for this specific purpose….

You can check at the bottom for a detailed usage of the functions that i have created.

A direct download is also available here

function num_check()

{

read -p "$1" as

until expr $as - 1 >>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

do

read -p "$2 should be numeric please enter again" as

done

echo $as

}

function char_check()

{

read -p "$1" as

while expr $as - 1 >>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

do

read -p "$2 should not be numeric please enter again" as

done

echo $as

}

function null_check()

{

read -p "$1" as

while [ -z $as ]

do

read -p "$2 should not be null " as

done

echo $as

}

function alphacheck()

{

read -p "$1" as

while echo $as | grep [0-9!@#$%^&*()-_|] 2>>/dev/null >>/dev/null

do

read -p "$2 should be alphabet only" as

done

echo $as

}

#

#       sample calling for the script

#

#

#z=`num_check "Please enter the no" "Customer no" `

#echo $z

#echo `expr $z + 1`

#y=`char_check "Please enter the name" "Customer name"`

#echo $y

#echo $y | wc -c

#x=`null_check "Please enter enrollment no" "enrollment no"`

#q=`alphacheck "Please enter the name" "Customer name"`

#echo $q

I hope this helps someone

Waiting for comments and corrections……….