finally, i have managed to install (or restore u can say) osx86 on my lappy. first installed 10.5.6, then updated to 10.5.7 > 10.5.8. now its installed with linux-unix-windows. let me give u a clear cut idea what is working or not….

model: dell studio 1535
cpu: c2d 2.1Ghz
graphics: intel gma X3100(max 1280×800)
audio: intel idt (2 headphone and 1 mic jack port)
usb 2.0: 3×1 v2 and 1×1 usb/esata combo
hdmi: 4 pin
s-video: 15 pin
card reader: ricoh 8-in-1
express card: 32
ethernet: 1000mbps broadcom 5784m
wifi: dell 1510 ‘n’ card (broadcom 4322 chip)
bluetooth: dell 370 bt card
firewire: 1394
touchpad: alps tracpad with two finger scorlling
cam: 2 mp
finger print scanner: dont know

here is the result for osx86 10.5.8 on my dell….

video: working with full resolution
audio: working but not controllable (headphone port working, but inbuilt speaker wont mute)
hdmi: not checked
s-video: not checked
ethernet: not working (driver properly not installed, still experimenting)
wifi: working n controllable
bluetooth: working n controllable
card reader: not working (driver properly not installed, still experimenting)
express card: not checked
hdmi: not checked
s-video: not checked
firewire: not checked
finger print scanner: not working

very soon i will be uploading a video. till then good bye….

at last, i have my own domain . google apps is a really solid rock. so instead of purchasing with other registrar, i decided to purchase the http://aniruddhadas.info domain with google. though its actually register ur domain with godaddy or enom. but u get google apps standard edition setup freely for ur domain. its worth the money. cost only 10$ a year. i also get all the new domain features from godaddy.com. my new domain will be redirecting the traffic here at wordpress.com untill i configure my home page and other stuffs.

i will recommend u all to consider purchasing a domain from google. the prob is that its only supports very few tld registration currently.

got a account for google wave from google. lets see whats this all about and how its gonna change the web wave. right now i can invite my friends and others. so if u want a google wave invite plz drop ur comments with ur peoper email address here.
my google wave id is aniruddhadas4u [at] googlewave [dot] com

only 8 invites left.

was wondering how to run a vm on a terminal server (no gui), and remotely access that vm through rdp on a remote box. the first thing u do is installing the virtualbox on that server using ssh from the remote box. then u have to create a vm (ofcourse) to connect. i will use winxp as a vm guest. my host is kubuntu (does’t matter). and i will use krdc to connect to that vm.
i am gonna a create a winxp vm with 256mb ram and 6gb of hdd capacity. here wat i will do in the server to creat the the vm:

VBoxManage createvm -name “Win XP” -register
VBoxManage modifyvm “Win XP” -memory “256MB” -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 nat
VBoxManage createvdi -filename “WinXP.vdi” -size 6000 -register
VBoxManage modifyvm “WIn XP” -hda “WinXP.vdi”
VBoxManage registerimage dvd /home/WinXP.iso
VBoxManage modifyvm “WinXP” -dvd /home/WinXP.iso

definitely u need to have the winxp iso file stored on that server. now lets start the vm, but remember the terminal server has no gui, i am still in the ssh mode connected with this server. so u will use a great tool of virtualbox called “VBoxHeadless” which enable us to run any vm through virtualbox with vrdp enables at 3389 port.

VBoxHeadless -startvm “Win XP”

u will see something like this in the terminal…

VirtualBox Headless Interface 3.0.12
(C) 2008-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Listening on port 3389

as u can see the vrdp of that vm in listening on port 3389 (default port for rdp). u can change this port too. for this and many other options plz see the manual or man/help pages.
now lets connect to this vm. remember one thing u will not give guest ip address and port for connecting to the vm, but the host ip address and the port on which the vm is running and vrdp is listening. u can also use rdesktop (a cmd line tool) in linux. so in krdc, i used 192.168.1.1 (the ip of that terminal server) with no port mention, cause by default the port for rdp is 3389 and any rdp client knows that.

finally, i managed to connect and explore the winxp with out hampering the terminal server for gui.

one and only, my very childhood friend (maro langgotia yarra) avijit has came from dubai on a long vacation. i was planning for a out as usual. so this time we went to the kolkata zoo to see how animals are doing besides getting bored and carbonated. jayanta also joined us on this useless journey. hope we will enjoy a bit.
after seeing the condition of the zoo, i really have to say “the animals and birds of the kolkata zoo doing a great great… favor to the people to staying in that nice rotten place day after day without protesting and killing each other or going crazy like me”. i tried to take some nice pictures. all i have published on my flickr account. we also had a plan to go to birla planetarium near victoria garden, but for my health prob we missed that way. yea, they were both so cool with this that they could have burn me immediately and serve to the tigers n hippos, happily.

we are the birds, we can fly

one thing i forget, which was the best part for me. yes, the lunch. we had a pretty spicy but not heavy meal there. i ordered chinese, cause thats the only choice available in that only restaurant inside the only zoo of kolkata. the price was like  our ass with a oiled bamboo. anyways, the quality was not bad. here is what i ordered:

main dish: 3 plate mix fried rice (with egg, chicken, pron and other vegs)
side dish: one chicken manchurian (boneless)
one chilly chicken (boneless)
one bottle of chilled n clean mineral water and thats all.

** if u wondering why i mention the ‘boneless’ thing, well, ‘withbone’ also was there, that’s because

 

ps.: the health prob was due to this meal.

installation of opensolaris 2009.6 on virtualbox v3.0.6 completed. configuration given, was:

base mem: 768mb
cpu: 2 (with acpi,io-apic,vt-x enabled)
video mem: 128mb
3d acceleration: yes
remote display: enabled on port 3389
hdd capacity: 20.91gb
space taken by os: 3.4gb
network: bridged adapter
shared folder: has not configured yet
guest additions: not installed yet

install log: http://pastebin.com/f52d4bc7b

everything running without any error. but on boot time getting a cpu error:
cpu0:

i didnot install the guest additions, cause that may be makes the resolution not works properly. will try later. currently its in 1024×768 mode with max of 1280×800 resolution and working perfectly.

highest uptime by my dell notebook. its a studio 1535 model. some torrents were downloading, thats why i needed to keep it running for a long time. its nothing compare to others uptime. but for me, its a good record to celebrate

16:35:40 up 2 days, 3:07, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.57, 0.47

searching for an good and easy genealogy software, or atleast a site which is free and updated. this is actually for my own family and my mother’s family tree. and i need it now. lets see………..

finally, found one. its called gramps. but its not an easy or simple software. runs fine on kubuntu. its too complicated. but if u spend time with it, u will understand how flexible it is.

installation of centos 5.3 is complete under virtualbox v3.
installation of oracle 10g r2 (10.2.0.1.0) is complete on centos 5.3 under virtualbox v3.

oracle 10g up n running successfully. need to write a init script for autostart oracledb at boot time.

enterprise manager can be accessed and working fine, but somehow i just cant access the isqlplus. need to look at the ports and services which r open n running.

too late, its 4.40 in the morning here. zzzzzzzzz…………….good.zzz…..night…zz…morning….