WHATS THE HELL IS THIS 'HAL' ?

Horrible days for me because while booting Ubuntu throws an error 'HAL not initialized'. I dont what the hell is that. But had a small google on that then understood it something very important 'Hardware Abstraction layer'

below gives aleast what that means http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/hal-device-manager

see the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction_layer


But enjoy learning from Linux

Creating DDS for Physical File (PF)

Physical file creation in AS400 (DDS)

Physical file is like a Table in the oracle database . Using select statments and RUNQRY its possible to access the table


step1: wrkmbrpdm ( in command line )



F6 option is for creating new DDS,RPG,CL etc

The source file for DDS is QDDSSRC and library for me it is DAVNAV1

Source member is the name of the Physical file and source type is PF( Physical file )



Now we are entering into the DDS creation. We have to follow below sequence

1. File level entries
2. record level entries
3. Field level entries
4. Key field lvel entries

step1:
The Functions(F4 - Prompt )- UNIQUE have used for keyword is used to indicate that the value of the key field in each record in the file must be unique ( duplicate records are not allowed )

step2:

In record row give the Name type - R and also the corresponding optional text also can be mention in the function field

step3:
The fields (analogy columns) can be mentioned in next line

step4:

Key field level entries is the last preceeding with 'K'

The DDS can be saved by typing 'FILE' in the top and enter





Compiling the DDS is easy using the option 14-Compile and errors can viewed through the spool files using 'SA' corresponding to the PF in screen



Entry
Meaning
A
Character
P
Packed decimal
S
Zoned decimal
B
Binary
F
Floating point
H
Hexadecimal
L
Date
T
Time
Z
Timestamp

Notes:

strsql from command

insert into student values ('Naveen',1000,50) 1 rows inserted in STUDENT in DAVNAV1.

AS400 machine learning

Its very difficult for me to study these IBM (iSeries)machines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i, but slowly am getting some basic  findings .

Two weeks back I got access to one online AS400 machine through internet . So learning RPGLE ,CL and basic commands we can practice in my UBUNTU.

just telnet pub1.rzkh.de 

then can start WRKMBRPDM ( work with members)

JOB SATISFACTION

Let me  brief  this word 'job satisfaction'

100 percentage saturation in the word 'JOB' is achievable or not ?  I would say horribly unanswerable question. 

Most of the students( case of Me too ) reaching  MNC s and sells their brain to silly things ..simply silly things or keeps most of the time  their brain in switch off state.

Sometimes I feel salary matters, but someone like me coming from Electronics background and trying to expertise in MS excel or something , pains me why i have studied 4 years in Btech. What is the meaning of Btech ....

But of course I am sure that  there are solution to overcome this by selecting good career path and doing something effective or good .But I am not sure whether it is achievable for me. May this is because I like this idle state more than going for a risk.

If you are doing something with Full mind and getting preferable outcome and benefit , then its a state of satisfaction or saturation. ( This is my definition for satisfaction )

May I show you some cases of this :

1. Doing something with full mind and not getting enough outcome ( really discouraging feeling )

2. Not getting full mind to do thing,  may be because  the feeling of nothing gains from present work, can not expertise in this field or very poor idea on the present work etc

Sometimes I feel why  I can't find out the correct path .. what I know ? Nothing I know to do myself . But I have some in built abilities , may be those can not make much output as money .. but I would like to say those works I likes more .   

But I am hearing lot of advise like if we try to put  full mind and effort , it will produce more outcome and satisfaction .. try to expertise in the current working field. But I am not sure that is correct or not.

Job satisfaction rate  depends on individual, but much he utilize his brain and effort on his favorite area  even though  the outcome is less ..its somewhat manageable otherwise mind will not set anywhere .. that is what my experience 

I will never ever leave my interesting areas and always try to learn something new ... at least I will keep this as  my hobby  that may increase my mind satisfaction level.

 

 

 

   

"should I learn C++ or Java?"

This is the question coming to my mind when I am reaching 2 year software experience . Some days I will get some energy to learn again. Today is something like that . While searching through Swaroop blog http://www.swaroopch.com/posts/ , I got some interesting links ... Let me share this as I got some spark to learn again .

In dreams now I am getting these questions ( really , not joking )

1. Should I learn C++ or Java ?
2. Do I need to go for master degrees , continue in Job ? .
3, whether Mtech or MBA ?

I don't know how to solve these . am very poor in decision making. Now I am getting a Joke from Pramode Sir. For last year main project we were not able to select one project , But we had three, four in our list . We asked Sir , he said ' Selecting a project will become a project ' . ( please ignore if you are not getting the joke)

Yea... similar kind of decision making stuff again in life. Which way ? ..
The links I got is really interesting .( ha ha, Yet I haven't finilized my way ). But just this is motivational or energetic .See this below.

A Career in Computing by Bruce Eckel => http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=259358

education-without-mortgaging-your-life ==>
http://personalmba.com/education-without-mortgaging-your-life/

stock market tutorial

I have gone through tutorials for how to enter into stock market. I need to start from zero. Everything is new ... But it gives opportunities for us to learn unknown area about money or market or financial system. We can play with money wisely as well as it increases our analyzing ability.

FEELING ALONE

This is quite difficult for me to stay alone in a single room in chennai. Things are not going as I expected...... disappointment. No activities I have now. Mtech studies are also canceled....

Money Making

Enjoy online money making.....

But its very hard as well as tricky....

Shaastra 3rd day ( my second entry to shaastra)

This day some more encouraging because I could see open house ( means - all departments exhibit their labs and explain courses, tools they are using)

Labs :
Mechanical lab:
This was a good experience for me to mechanics. They have explained the power steering mechanism, testing of a braking system ... etc
Electrical Engineering :
They are some more active in IIT. I could see some good projects as well as posters of different technology like semiconductor, optics ..etc.

Projects:
1. Image processing , QPSK,noise addition, transmission and receiving
2. Sensing the pressure of a diaphragm (which is pulsating) inside a bucket of water,reading the data for plotting graph ,measuring diameter variation
3. Optics
4. Semiconductor technology explanation

companies sponsoring to them : benchmark Tenet

Computer Science:

I have seen
1. FPGA lab( Altera board, VHDL program burning, quartus( forgot name) software )
2. Robot show ( laptop controlled wheel chair)
3. one SRM student explained me one telos board
Actually the board was connected to USB of Linux Os CPU. Using 'make' command he burnt the program to the board. The program is to read temperature and humidity of the room. Interesting stuff is, the board was connected to similar four boards at different places by wireless. They were also reading temp and humidity. He set an apache and mysql to display the current and last 10 set of informations.

IBM person talk
cell processor, ibm semiconductor areas...etc

WANT 2 FLY AUTOMATED
This was a project demo of IITM students. The project designed by different (electronics and aerospace) department students in IIT. Their coordination,programming and mechanical skill is really amazing....

Shaastra 2008 (Second ENTRY to IITM)

IITM Shaastra 2008 was a good as well as bad experience to me. With out knowing the schedule ( was aware of FOSS conference ) and location of programs at 1 o clock , I entered in the IITM. But the programs were going on 2.5 km inside from IIT entrance gate. Walked through out the way, that had given chance to enjoy the beauty of IITM campus (even temples are there inside) .

Shaastra's beauty
Big big companies are sponsoring to this tech festival. L&T infotech,google,HSBC, GREDGE....etc. When I reached Elephant circle ( Gajendra circle), had seen big,big malls – one for Indian army, another for winergy ( wind to electric energy conversion) .
Talks, puzzles, conferences, workshops ( haven't seen ) all very standard programs.......

Shaastra's Bugs,
But I haven't seen the electronics, electrical,computer science or civil engineering IITM students projects or experiments exhibited in the ground. No project exhibition like mini projects or final year projects are less ( may because of first day ) or not there . Hardly you can see those stuffs. Then I understood, in that case GECT ECE's 'Quintessence ' or 'Insignia' (CS program) are giving more importance to exhibition of projects. In this particular thing the contribution of IITians to Shaatra was less. That is really really sad thing.

I think, IITians are more concentrating on entrepreneurship or business type stuffs... that also good . But IIT is famous because of technology, science and BRAIN.... not that much in business. But IIT can develop that too.... good. But only that, is bad.

Events participated.
Meanwhile got a chance to listen one RTI officer talk. That was really inspiring, as well as I wondered these type officers are there in Indian government. After having lunch and tea( very costly, don't know what the time was !!), wandered here and there without knowing what to do. Because, don't know the schedule... what program? which auditorium ? ...CLT,ICSR,DOMS.....etc. I enquired about the program schedule ... But I didn't get ( asked two places. First person direct me to registration people sitting place in IIT ground. Second person didn't care me that much). Really I feel bad.


FOSS Debian

Finally at the end of the day , I got FOSS Debian conference taken by Kapil ( http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/). Don't know more about his background. But he studied mathematics and now addicted in debian as well as in FOSS. He explained about patch and diff. I didn't get more( thats my problem).But he had started a Ubuntu vs Debian fight...funny moments.
The words that strike while listening.
1.ar xv /var/cache/..... / 20.4.somfile.db
2.flpsed -0.5
3.quilt push
4.quilt remove
5.fakerrout
6.dkpg -buildpackage
7.gpg

Packages overview for Kapil Hari Paranjape

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=kapil@debian.org#par

And last when I looked into my watch, the time was 7.30pm. I knew that, “ I will miss the workshop on 'hacknight' in late night( 10.30pm to 'overnight' - no end time -) ' . No other way , have to return.