Virtual Machines

For the last weeks lab, based on virtual machines, I used virt manager, a GUI for installing. I never used virtual machines before, but when I used it, I think its easy and very useful. On my Fedora system I installed ubuntu and it works fine. Next thing I am gonna do is I am gonna install OS-X on by Fedora.

My v0.2 release

The version 0.2 for my MDRK project is released now. For version 0.2 I've build glimpse on mock and verified that it works. I've packaged Ext JS and build it on mock and verified that it works. I've tried building Ext JS on koji but did not work that well. There are some issues which will be taken care of. After building Ext JS on koji, I can submit my package in fedora repository (Its a long process though). I've also created my repository on Liberia for the packages having licensing issues, and so cannot go to fedora repo. You can download some of the packages from the link below.

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Creating_an_MDRK_spin

Kickstart file on HTTP server

This lab was to understand how to perform automatic installations using kickstart file. Kickstart file, once created can be placed on cdroms, floppy drives, USB drives etc. or even on NFS servers and can be used from there. For my lab, I decided to upload my kickstart file on HTTP server and use it from there. It's actually easy. Boot your system from the boot media you have i.e CDROM. At the boot prompt issue the command linux ks=http:/// (in my case: linux ks=http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~mdvyas/MDRK/ks.cfg) and wait for it to install. Easy isn't it ? I also burnt it into a DVD. In my DVD I had isolinux.cfg configured to point my kickstart file to HTTP server. So next time I dont even have to issue that command, just put in the DVD and it'll do everything by itself.

SPR720 Package Review Lab

I really like the idea of this lab. In this lab we had to review a package from bugzilla and find an error in it and comment on it. Actually Prof. Chris wanted us to go through the Fedora Package Review Guidelines, but how, so he asked us to go through the packages on bugzilla, review one package, find an error, and comment on it and show what you've commented. Now unless you go through the Fedora Package Review Guidelines very well, you wont be able to get the error in it. In fact I looked more than 20 packages but didnt find any error. Then I went through the guidelines well and was able to find some small errors. Anyways, heres the link to what I've commented

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469474#c4

Thanks to Chris Tyler

Arcade Project

Finally we've got something to work on, not quite yet, but most likely by this tuesday .i.e. Tue Nov 04, 2008. Yes I'm talkin about our arcade machine. After looking so many machines, we've decided to buy this one now. I wish this was a bit more nicer and cleaner, but it is (far) better than ones we saw earlier, and of course we can always make it look nicer. This box is in a working condition, the ones we saw earlier were not even in a working condition and even the prices were high. Once we get the machine, we can start working on it.













PS:
There are some talks going on to name this machine JailFreezer(In contras with our Freedom Toaster), cause everyone will stick to the machne to play games, anyways just kidding ;-)

LPT730 Assignment

Here's a small effort made by me and milton to create the game of BlackJack using JavaScript, XHTML and CSS. It is not the world best BlackJack game made ever, but without much knowledge of JavaScript XHTML and CSS, making this game in less than three hours was not too bad. This game was part of our LPT730 assignment. Here's the link to try the game, I hope you like it...


http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~mdvyas/BlackJack/blackJack.html

Any comments and/or suggestions are always welcome :-)

My Project

As I've taken the MDRK (Mozilla Developers Resource Kit) project, I was trying to build the rpm for glimpse today. After some efforts I was able to build my rpm package for glimpse. First of all I downloaded it, extracted it, configured, installed and bingo its works ! Easy....
Just until I came to the second part. When I started to build as an rpm, initially everything works
fine, till the build process. I was having some hard time when it came to the install part of it. It would exit showing some wired error. I tried to make some changes in the .spec file and see if it works, but no luck. I googled it, again edit it, run it but not much improvement. This process kept going for a while, and now I was about to bang my head on the keyboard and I saw chris tyler passing by so I asked for his help, and he helped me very well. Now I know what the problem was. It was unusual problem with Makefile. It was not installing glimpse because Makefile didn't had the proper information of the DESTDIR, so it was not able to create directories in right place. So after creating the patch for makefile and adding few lines in .spec file, it finally worked. Thanks to chris for his help.. So now I've build the rpm which takes me to the 0.1 release of my project. I learned a lot new things today. I've also packaged an antivirus and a utility called Net Activity Viewer for one of my lab SPR720. I'll proceed with packaging extjs probably, not sure though.