Joining IRC rooms
(IRC room of php in Pidgin)Now after successfully logging into irc.linuxchix.org IRC server and getting into a few rooms, I then, tried out to google for more IRC servers and rooms, but could not find much. Suddenly, I realized that, I had overlooked the default server name that appears, when I choose IRC protocol in Pidgin, namely
irc.freenode.net
I just logged in and it had thousands of rooms(yeah, u heard it right)And I first logged in to two rooms, namely php and centos.Now, note that sometimes, the nickname that you use might have been used by someone else
so issue the command:
/quit
then go back to Pidgin, and change your nickname to some "not-so-common" ones;Come back again and try to join the room. If it is accepted, then issue the command
/register your-password
and viollaaaa, you are IN
IRC rocks
(Pidgin to the rescue again)
I have been using Pidgin for a long time now to chat with my friends both in Google(gmail) as well as in Yahoo using this single super cool client. The usual trojans and boot-ins, that is so common among Yahoo messenger users, wont simply, just work in Pidgin, and thats the beauty of it.
Now the IRC story
I had heard about IRC, a long time ago - the intial impression I had was that, it was a place where hackers met. And 6 months back, one of my friends namely Mr.Manu Unni - who was chief project lead in localization of Open Office in Malayalam, again told me about the great world of IRC and told me to look our for my Linux queries there. As soon as I came back home, I installed a shareware IRC client, but to my dismay, found it rather intriguing and not so easy to use and I gave it up altogether.
Fast forward to today, I just Googled for IRC, came across an wiki entry on the same. But it was pretty boring(its not usually like that,though - wiki entries are one of my best sources of info), but I got a pretty interesting link referring to rfc(Request for comment) of IRC. Next I got a list of free IRC's from wiki. And i was surprised to see our dear own Pidgin there.
I googled for configuring Pidgin and IRC and got these links
- IRC for beginners : Just beginner stuff, to get you started
- Aussie Linuxchix : Joining the IRC channel - a nice guide to installing and using Pidgin
- The IRC Prelude: A detailed view, on IRC communication, including jargons and ways to talk and so on.
Currently I am logged on to the server irc.linuxchix.org and its really cool feeling to know that, you are part of a whole new world of gurus and students alike.
Rather that just burst in, I plan to learn the netiquettes of IRC cha tfirst and then proceed further.
It worked !!!!!!!
As mentioned in my previous(last) post, when disabled the feature - "turn off usb device on standby" , I am able to connect to the Internet even after the pc is back after a stand-by session. Hooray!!
(Before I had to log-out and then log-in after each standy!!)
Labels: hacking, internet, IRC, modem, net connection, pidgin
Linux from scratch adventure
Yesterday I tried out my luck again with Linux from scratch. The last time I tried it was, some 6 months back. At that time, i was a bit shy about partitioning and formatting the drive in a particular file system. And therefore I could not proceed much with the Linux from scratch project.
(Note: LFS(Linux from scratch) teaches a user step by step on how to build a complete linux system frm groud up)
But 6 monts later after trying out more than 5-6 linux distributions and ofcourse a lot of partitioning and formatting, I decided to try out LFS again. This time I hit with success.
I successfully compiled the binary utilities package(screenshot is attached below)
Also the library C compilation( glibC) went on smoothly, screenshot is attached below(I have made the schema 'green on black' JUST FOR THE HORROR OF IT !!!!)
But today the great adventure did not proceed further, since I kept on getting the error message
grep: /mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include/ssl: No such file or directory
I checked out the Linux from scratch faq site(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/) and got this reply. I must try this tomorrow
With the new Ch 5 build procedure, the most common cause of this problem is forgetting to apply the specs patch.
What happens is that the path to the dynamic linker embedded inside the executable is still pointing at /lib/ld-linux.so.2 and when one goes to run the binary inside the chroot where /lib/ld-linux.so.2 does not exist yet, the very unhelpful
No such file or directory error message is shown.
You can test this with readelf -l {binary} | grep interpreter. It's output should be: Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2.
So guys, keep your fingers crossed, and lets hope for the best. More updates tomorrow
Yeah and one more thing, today our church priest had called and told me his printer was not working. I immediately went over to the place, checked out the printer and settings and stuff like that and just tightened the power cord and VOILA and printer sprung into action
I also downloaded the latest version of Gaim namely, Pidigin from the pidgin download site - http://www.pidgin.im/pidgin/download
Thats all for today,
bye guys
(Note: LFS(Linux from scratch) teaches a user step by step on how to build a complete linux system frm groud up)
But 6 monts later after trying out more than 5-6 linux distributions and ofcourse a lot of partitioning and formatting, I decided to try out LFS again. This time I hit with success.
I successfully compiled the binary utilities package(screenshot is attached below)
Also the library C compilation( glibC) went on smoothly, screenshot is attached below(I have made the schema 'green on black' JUST FOR THE HORROR OF IT !!!!)
But today the great adventure did not proceed further, since I kept on getting the error message
grep: /mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include/ssl: No such file or directory
I checked out the Linux from scratch faq site(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/) and got this reply. I must try this tomorrow
With the new Ch 5 build procedure, the most common cause of this problem is forgetting to apply the specs patch.
What happens is that the path to the dynamic linker embedded inside the executable is still pointing at /lib/ld-linux.so.2 and when one goes to run the binary inside the chroot where /lib/ld-linux.so.2 does not exist yet, the very unhelpful
No such file or directory error message is shown.
You can test this with readelf -l {binary} | grep interpreter. It's output should be: Requesting program interpreter: /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2.
So guys, keep your fingers crossed, and lets hope for the best. More updates tomorrow
Yeah and one more thing, today our church priest had called and told me his printer was not working. I immediately went over to the place, checked out the printer and settings and stuff like that and just tightened the power cord and VOILA and printer sprung into action
I also downloaded the latest version of Gaim namely, Pidigin from the pidgin download site - http://www.pidgin.im/pidgin/download
Thats all for today,
bye guys
Labels: gaim, linux, linux from scratch, pidgin, suse
