Kerala - God's own Country

Population:32 Million
Population Density: 819 / km2
Language: Malayalam

• Number 1 state in Technology Diffusion Index, April 2002
• Number 1 State in Human Development Indices (HDI) by Planning Commission, GoI April 2002
• Number 1 State in Law & Order, Sept. 2000
• Number 1 In terms of Peaceful & Pristine Environment
• The life expectancy for an American, with all his chairs and cushions, is 77 years, while the life expectancy for a Keralite male is 73 compared to 64 years in India.

                                             Life Expectancy                 HDI
               Kerala                           73                                0.64
               India                             63                                0.59
               China                            71                                 0.72
               USA                              77                                 0.94

• After the latest in a long series of literacy campaigns, the United Nations in 1991 certified Kerala as 100 percent literate. Your chances of having an informed conversation are at least as high in Kerala as in Kansas. Its current adult literacy rate is 91 per cent compared to India’s 65 and the US's 99. Ernakulam was declared as the country's first totally literate district in 1991.

           Literacy  
                             M               F              Total
          Kerala          94             88                91
          India            76              54                 65
          China           95               86               91
          USA             97               97                97

• Kerala’s birth rate is 14 per 1,000 females and falling fast. India's rate is 25 per 1,000 females and that of the U.S. is 16.

• Kerala’s infant mortality rate is 15.3 per 1,000 births versus 57.0 for India and 7 for the US.

• According to the India State Hunger Index, Kerala is one of the four states (AP, Punjab and Assam) where hunger only "serious"

• Malappuram district is India’s first computer literate district

• 1st wireless district in the country

• Rated as the most baby friendly state with the lowest infant mortality rates and the best Health Care Model by UN.
  
  
  

Though Kerala is mostly a land of paddy-covered plains, statistically Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's truly no place like it.

Few good brians from the state include: 

• FORMER PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE MR.CHENGARA VEETIL DEVAN NAIR
• The first non-Tamil Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - Makkal Thilakam, MG Ramachandran (Ramachandra Menon)
• Chief Justice of India
• Indian Foreign Secretary
• Indian Defence Minister
• Chief of "Chandryaan' , the Indian Space programme
• The first individual oscar winner Rasool Pookkutty (A.R.Rahman is the second)
• Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister
• Chief of the new National Investigation Agency -"Radha Vinod Raju"
• Principal Secretary to Prime Minister
• The only Indian to contest for the UN Secretary General's Position
• The chief of Staff for Security to UN Secretary General
• Mr. V K K Menon, the 1st Defence Minister of india.
• The man behind White Revolution- Mr. Varghese Kurian.
• The man behind Green Revolution - Mr. M S Swaminathan
• The brain behind National Integration is Mr. V P Menon who assisted Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
• The man who recalculated the distance to moon for 1st manned mission - Dr. Sudhakar.
  
  
  

Reference: 

http://www.ashanet.org/library/articles/kerala.199803.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model#Human_resource_development_indices

Flute music collections

Check out some mind blogging flute music collections @  
http://flute-music-mp3.blogspot.com/

I liked most compositions under "Flutes Of World mp3 songs" 

• Andean Nocturne - Bolivian Mocheno 
• Canyon Echo - Native American Flute 
• Cry of the Dragon - Japanese Ryuteki 
• Eagle Dance - Moroccan Fipple Flute 
• Emerald - Irish Porcelain Flute 
• Flute Traveller - Alto 
• Ghost of Palenque - Mayan Clay Recorder 
• Kotory (Little Bird) - Japanese Shinobue 
• Love Song - Native American Flute 
• Man Jiang Hong - Chinese Di Tzu 
• Morning Prayer - North Indian Bansuri 
• Mountain Spirit - Chinese Ba Wu 
• Rain Forest - Chilean Ocarina 
• Sanctus - Silver Flute 
• Shepherd's Hymn - Romanian Panpipes
• Song of Sunda - Javanesse Suling 
  
  
  & ofcourse the one by our Remo Fernandez

Its an amaizing collection from the blogger. Great work !

Configuring TFTP server in Ubuntu 8.10

1) install required packages - "sudo apt-get install tftpd tftp xinetd"

2) Create "sudo vim /etc/xinet.d/tftp" file and insert the following code:

service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /tftpboot
#disable = yes  // This needs to be commented
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
}

3) Create a folder "sudo mkdir /tftpdboot"

4) chmod -R 777 /tftpdboot

5) Start tftpd "sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd start"

6) Testing

6.1. /tftpdboot/123.txt
6.2  chmod 777 /tftpdboot/123.txt
6.3  tftp 192.168.51.100    // If the client is at 51.100
6.4  tftp> put 123.txt
   Sent 833 bytes in 0.0 seconds
6.5  tftp> quit

JavaFX on Netbeans 6.5

1. Download all .nbm files from http://updates.netbeans.org/netbeans/updates/6.5.1/uc/final/stable/patch3/javafx2/
2. Quit NetBeans
3. cp org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm temp
4. unzip org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm
5. Edit info/info.xml and delete org.openide.modules.os.MacOSX from it.
6. Delete all files in "META-INF" folder
7. Unzip netbeans/modules/org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar using jar - jar xvf org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar
8. Delete in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF the required module org.openide.modules.os.MacOSX
9. Delete the previous jar file - rm org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar
10. Re-archive jar content - jar cvfm org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF org
11. Make all files executable in netbeans/javafx-sdk/bin - chmod u+x netbeans/javafx-sdk/bin/*
12. Delete the downloaded org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm in TEMP directory and Zip all content of TEMP (1) rm org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm (2) zip -r org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm *
13. Use the modified org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm with the other .nbm
14. Start NetBeans - Goto tools -> Plugins - Select Downloaded tab - click on Add Plugins - Browse to the directory of the downloaded .nbm files - Select all .nbm files - click on Install- Avoid the Warning message(Continue) - Restart NetBeans !

Nokia: Internet through WIFI

http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/archive/index.php/t-87441.html

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx

Installing TinyOS-2.x in Ubuntu intrepid (8.10)

Thank to
http://nmlaxaman.blogspot.com/2009/01/installing-tinyos-2x-in-ubuntu-intrepid.html

To Install java on your intrepid use the following command:

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-plugin

To verify that the correct version of Java is installed the following command can be used:
java -version

This command will print the current version of java that is active. Should there be more than one version of Java be installed on the operating system, the following command can be used to list the available java versions:

update-java-alternatives -l

This command list all the available Java runtime environments on the Ubuntu system. To change from one version to another, the following command can be used:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s < JRE version >

Mostly 'JRE version' needs to be one of the folder name under /usr/lib/jvm/

Once java is installed sucessfully the follow the points below.

1) add bellow repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Though it is for hardy, it is working for intrepid also

deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu hardy main

2) with following commands you can update the apt-cache and search the required packages thin you can install the required version and all.

apt-get update
apt-cache search tinyos
apt-get install tinyos-2.1.0

3) then install python development package (headers)

apt-get install python-dev

4) Edit /opt/tinyos-2.1.0/tinyos.sh and change the CLASSPATH env-variable as bellow

CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java/tinyos.jar:.

4) Import /opt/tinyos-2.1.0/tinyos.sh in your .bashrc; include bellow code snippet to ~/.bashrc

if [ -f /opt/tinyos-2.1.0/tinyos.sh ] ; then
. /opt/tinyos-2.1.0/tinyos.sh
fi

5) Now execut bash again or restart the terminal and chech your enviorenment with bellow command. It will check the enviorenment and report you the status. (Ignore the WORNING returned due to graphvis version)

tos-check-env

6) Lets compile the first application

cd $TOSROOT/apps/Blink
make micaz

for simulator

make micaz sim

Making a calendar of upcoming events in drupal

** Minor modification of ( http://drupal.org/node/326061 ) ** Thanks to fhsm.

Install below mentioned modules under /sites/default/modules

• CCK
• Views
• Calendar
• Date

Step 1:

Go to Administer › Content management › Content types > add content type

The following settings are largely a matter of site needs and personal preference:
Under “Submission form settings”
Title = “Event”
Body = “Details”

Under “Work flow settings”
Decide to best fit your site. It is worth considering unchecking “Promoted to front page” if you expect to have numerous small events posted.

Under “Comment settings”
Make decisions which are appropriate for your site.

Save your new event content type.

Step 2:

From the content type screen (Administer › Content management) select manage fields next to your new content type.

Add a new field

Label = “Event Date and Time”
Field name = “event_datetime”
Type = “Datetime”
Widget type = “text field with custom input format”

Save your newly created event date/time field.

Step 3:

Create your first event
Create content > Group Event
Fill out the form for your event and save it.


Step 4:

Configure your calendar view

Administer > Site building > Views

This is where the hurt started for me 6 hours ago...

Enable the Default Node view: calendar (Calendar)
Clone the default view

View name = “calendar”
View description = “Calendar of group events”

Nextshould take you to the views edit screen

Down the right side you'll see all the different types of calendar (page, block etc) just work with the default view to start (it should be where you are by default).

In the Arguments panel
Click Date: Date (node.changed)
Near the bottom of the page under Date field(s):

uncheck = Node: Update date
check Content: Event Date and Time (field_event_datetime value)

Click Update

This set the start time of your event instead of the node update time as the argument for the view.

Click Add ... for Fields, and select the following:

Content: Event Date and Time (field_event_datetime value) Default
Content: Event Date and Time (field_event_datetime value2) Default

(remove) the default item "Node: Published"

On the Filters panel click the “+” logo to add a new filter
Check = Node: Type
Click add
On the following screen
Leave operator = “Is one of” and check = Events to limit your calendar to only the event content type.

Click Update

On the Sort criteria click the “+” to add a new criteria

Check = Content: Event Date and Time (field_event_datetime value)

click Add

Save it all by clicking Save