evolution data file management

the data files for evolution is not .evolution in the home folder.
the data files are located at
.evolution
.gconf/apps/evolution
.gnome2_private

i still have a few questions as to where exactly is the address book located.
copying .evolution alone couldn't solve my problem.

"B.Tech Stinks" not a bad post by a b.tech student

http://kishore-asok.livejournal.com/2007/08/16/

http://pramode.net/2007/08/17/btech-stinks/

in many an occasion, it's better not to elaborate.

freedom walk

a few of my friends have initiated a walk from kasaragode the north most district to trivandrum the sound most district of kerala. the details of which can be found freedomwalk.in.
three of them anoop, cherry and sooraj started from kasaragode on 2nd of october, gandhiji's birth day.
the walk is about freedom.
the walk has to be a successful event if and only if we people can extend a hand to support the venture through prompt initiative.
feel free to have a look at the schedule and make your contributions

a monsoon in malabar

here is the tour plan as i propose it
be prepared to walk in rain, as it is a monsoon season.
june 4:
8 am : reaching calicut railway station
8 to 10 : dress change at beypore resort,
10 to 12: visiting beypore port, walking into the sea through the break waters, and watch dolphins (if you are lucky enough), uru making,
lunch at soni's home
2-6 : kappad (where vaco de gama landed) visit, sand banks(turtle hatchery) and travel in a country boat.

travel to nilambur which is about 100 kms away to the eastern end of kerala and staying at nilambur (the exact name of the village we are going to stay is pullippadam; 2/3 rd of the village is forest)

saturday early morning, trekking to oli water falls. will be difficult to reach the top of the falls, if it is raining heavily). also you can expect leach bites, take it easy, it is a harm less creature, and salt is the weapon we have to fight with leaches.

by around noon, we will visit canolyś plot(worldś oldest teak plantation), teak museum, butter fly garden. much more are there, where to go around depends on time availability.

in the evening we are going to travel to wynad and stay there at night.
sunday early morning , watching sunrise from "sunrise valley".
after that we will go for a trekking to edakkal caves. then kayaking in a natural lake.
around 5 pm, travelling back to calicut.


awaiting comments
jemshid

matlab controlled robot

my friend junise has done a wonderful job.
he has made a robot which can be controlled easily from a matlab environment with just one line of code

establishing internet connection thorugh gprs in ubuntu

one of the difficulties with gnu/linux as many people have pointed out was lack of nokia pc suite for establishing a gprs internet connection. last day i have succesfully configured wvdial to work with a nokia phone with gprs internet facility. the solution is given below

connect the phone to pc thrugh usb data cable.
open a terminal and execute the command sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

read the echoed messages on the terminal.
the above command configures the /etc/wvdial.conf file to an extend.

open /etc/wvdial.conf (the command is sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf)

on seeing the file one will able to identify the modifications to be made.

close the file.

inorder to connect to internet.
execute the command wvdial

to terminate connection press cntrl + c

for any further assistance feel free to call at 9349101566 or email at jemshidkk@gmail.com

science camp by agragami

the post is about the science camp being conducted by agragami, an organisation at ulliyeri(the panchayath to which i belong to). the program, a science camp, was held on 30th of april, wedneday, 2k8.
The program is meant for high scholl students, and there were 45 participants.
Started with a talk on "theory of evoulution". The after noon was meant for a collective learning experiment and i was fortunate to be the co-ordinator of the collective learning program.

The first challenge i faced was to make the children speak freely, with out any fear and inhibition. The ice breaking attempt revolved through a tiger exercise, whistling, discussion about films. The lunch was served by the participants them them selves, as a social transactions experiment. The after noon section straight away moved on to a few theoretical discussion about science and discussions about a few scientific theories. Then there were a few group discussion sessions.

The topic given for discussion was "do we need language to thing". The discussions were held on multiple levels, and finally concluded that language is not necessary for thinking, and which is quiet contrary to my argument on this topic.

Then an experiment which involved all the students were conducted to give them a feel of evolution theory.

the glass beed game of life

Fuzzy Neuro System

Many people are involved in doing projects in neuro fuzzy systems.
And many people refer to the mathematics of fuzzy logic as the reference for their work.
But if you have a good conceptual knowledge about mathematics and if you willing to look into a fuzzy neuro system closer, you can see something interesting.

In strict sense, a fuzzy neuro system has nothing much to do with fuzzy or with intelligence artificial.

Rather
it is a very long and complex algebraic equation.
and i could draw similarities between neuro-fuzzy systems and "finite element method".

what do you say?
The question is to people who can play a glass bead game with mathematics.

14/4/08

years back i had the habit of writing diary in the evening or before i go to sleep.
right now sitting in the office.
time to leave for home.

i am currently involved in a finger countable number of projects. The expertise required for the projects are different.
I have two roads here.
complete one project and proceed to the next or
parallel processing with task switchings.

which one should i resort to?

invite your comments.

accounting solution: gnucash

it all started when i was being consulted by a resort for automating their financial book keeping.
a simple search in synaptic would have solved my search for the ubuntu´s favourite accounting software, but i resort to giving a call to my friend anoop and that worked.

gnucash is a convenient tool for accounting, it´s a free software and sofar i couldn´t face any bug in it. those who need any help regarding gnucash, feel free to contact me.

vhdl complete solution with ubuntu

i began my explorations in vhdl about an year back.
and the tool was quartus 2 from altera which works on windows platform.

this year i have shifted to xilinx ise.
the linux version of xilinx can be installed in ubuntu,
this tool is not available in ubuntu repository, but those who need it can download it free of cost from the xilinx website.

image processing : octave is my tool

i am using octave2.9
i have been using matlab for years when switched to octave i found many a functions are not available in octave which is installed from the ubuntu repository.

but i could get most of these functions in a google search.
and i need to make minor modification on functions make them work for me
thought of putting those image processing functions which i find useful here in thos blogspot

and for any queries regarding image processing feel free to scrap or email or reply or call me