THE DAILY CHORES

well this is a documentation on the advances that i made these two days after deciding on a project.not exactly “a project” for the sense of the word but after i got the category of my project fixed.This is my 1st summer training with dgplug and i learn here loads daily.The irc sessions are really worth attending with experts advicing,guiding and teaching you!this training started on 25th of june at 1900 IST.well again a thanks to my friend ratna deep debnath for channelizing my energies and efforts into something so valuable and meaningful.

The 1st session got me introduced to the other trainees and the mentors present.each had to mention their name,place and domain of interest as their introduction.this session was conducted by mbuf.the 2nd class was also taken up by mbuf(Shakti Kannan)on the etiquettes of an trainee in an IRC session.well few people by this time had already started choosing and finalising the projects they were interested to work in.however being a newbie in such a savvy session i felt quite at sea.i thought i knew nothing much to choose atall a project!however on 1st july when i was hanging about #dgplug and people were off topic .kushal das happened to ask me about the project i was inetersted in pursuing.i was a fool to let down my spirits and exclaim that i was a novice and incapable of handling any developmental project maybe.The result was obvious i got thoroughly scroned by Mbuf and Kushal.these are the things they exactly said:

kushal> kopecks, you can gain that while working on a project
<mbuf> kopecks: idea of doing project is to gain the expertise;
<mbuf> kopecks: nobody has any expertise before doing a project; otherwise there is no fun in it;
<kushal> none of us had that from the time of birth
<kushal> kopecks, you work, you fail, you learn
<kushal> that is how we all learn new things

<mbuf> kopecks: if you expect to eat biriyani every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner, you will feel bored with it;

well thats how i learned that i am capable or atleast can groom up myself enough to do a project.IMPOSSIBLE IS A WORD FOUND IN A FOOL’S DICTIONARY.

while following the mailing list i came to know about Vivek Khurana(no_mind) who was to    mentor web based php projects. since i had already wanted to do such a work i seized my opportunity and mailed him back as to the eligibility required of the candidate.he replied that a good network connection as well as a latest linux version and th ecandidates willingness was enough capability.so i was ready for this job.

the following day i got up right in the morning i guess around 5:30 and clicked on to the internet. i realised my prime necessity was to install lamp in  my system.i went through hoards of websites giving accounts as to what lamp is ,its usability etc.

i got hold of several informmations like the combined usage of LINUX+APACHE+MY-SQL+PHP(PERL/PYTHON) is termed as lamp in a system.

i had been a complete fool to think i will be getting a software called lamp like i had owned a WAMP while attempting this work before.I stumbled across free downloads of lamp claiming to display a colorful lamp at my systems taskbar.it took me sometime before i laughed at my own thoughts!however frustrated ,without getting satisfactory resultsi went through score sof websites giving this instructions and that on how to install lamp on my system.i tried my hands at many but to no avail.NO AVAIL. i felt i could simply break my lappy with rage.however i wrote to my mentor no_mind.he asked me where i was getting stuck.i said the SElinux config part and he said first disable it and then proceed.still i wasn’t successful.what a pity!

on 1st july morning at about 7:00am i came back full with determinationto get the work done.

this day i came across a useful site:http://linux.learnhub.com/lesson/2867-linux-apache-mysql-and -php-lamp-server-configuration

this site was informative but not much.again i was a good old fool here to think  [reinch@introdesk ~]$…….had been a command.it was embaressing.i tried this on my terminnal.command not identified was the output.took me some time to realise that [reinch@introdesk ~]$.

was the authors linux prompt!you people must be having a good laugh.never mind have your day.next i again pinged my mentor and he let me have a unofficial fedora site which finally saved me.i’m going to put up the address in case many may find it useful:   http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

no_mind said have you configured your yum ….i said no…….he said then nothing i suppose will work!so i  configured package installation.this site had been immensly helpful.

apart from that i asked no_mind :”how to chk the status of  my software eg:apache?”

he said: run rpm -qa httpd

i got the idea that you need to just type the name of the package which contains the software inplace of httpd in order to check its status.therefore after doing a walloping update and installing of about 26mbs i tried the command    rpm -qa mysql mysql-server  and i got the version number  5.2.0   next i  tried the same with php.i got the result as version 5.Well to be true i never knew all these commands before but i learned it in a day.now i understand mbuf truely.the briyiani part .next i have started learning php programming.went through a tutorial and noe am going through program writing and types.

good to quote frost here:

“and miles to go before i sleep”……..I guess i am going to make this php project work.heartiest thanks to mbuf,kushal das,mether,tuxmaniac,no_mind and co.