This is continued from here.
Well, the build from qt-copy progressed, this time faster because I wasn’t reading techbase instructions much. If you remember my first build, it filled up my /home and later unmentioned in my blog, creped in few problems. I was able to run KDE4 applications from KDE3.5.8, KDE4 Desktop using Xephyr and even by running separate instances of X on virtual consoles, but not a full KDE4 session from login manager. It just used to hang. 
I wished I could save space by not having KDE3.5.8, just a tiny wish in my mind which accidentally came true when I un-installed gcc4.1 and g++4.1 (since I wanted to use 4.2 ). I used adept, and I didn’t realise that many packages were being removed until I took a glance at the screen to find that it was almost done. That includes kdm, xserver, all kde applications and finally adept itself.
I still wonder if I accidentally touched any other package other than gcc and g++.
Right now, my PC runs minimal KDE4 session, firefox, konversation and yes of course kdegames; well, call it playground/games. I’ve been playing kapman since I could finish building this up.
Oh, this reminds me, another small error I made during kdegames build. I ran svn up without checkout on libkdegames and libkmahjongg. The error came to light when I tried to build kapman. I asked around in #kdegames without trying to debug and passed on the confusion to many there.
I hadn’t build kdegames and how would kapman pick libraries from it then? It struck me when my belly rang a hunger warning. So, it was taken care of after dinner.
Now on KDE 4.0.71, with broken plasma. 
Its been ages (well, months may be) since I installed Windows. My last weekend project needed me to install about 48 copies of WindowsXP-Home edition for a new testing & training center - Primora.
Call me lucky, there were 4 people from the machine vendors and my gf also volunteered to lend a hand. All in all, the machine build with peripherals and windows installation on all 48, took 6 of us the whole day.
Since my days at Satyam, I’ve not been involved in such a scale of installation. Another similarity - Primora purchased all original licensed Microsoft products for its students. We rarely get to see any testing & training center do that.
The class rooms are real good, think of anything from new powerful machines, to sleek TFT monitors, full length board, projector and Air Cooled rooms. That’s huge investment for a start-up. It is backed up by the world class experience (~15 years on average) of partners of the company. And it is not their first start-up.
One of a kind training center, that the students should be on look out for.
It’s inaugural batch starts today; I’m sure Primora will rock.
Rejoice all students, finally an end to the long wait for GSoC results.
This time google is funding 1125 students; they received over 7,000 applications for this year.
Post announcing results open by Leslie Hawthorn.
All students should be thankful to LH and whole team as well as the participating organizations for this program. It is a real effort demanding task to carry out such an enormous scale program.
As for KDE, this year’s accepted projects are listed here.
I should thank the whole KDE team for their effort on this. 
My application ‘KDragons’ didn’t make it to the selected list; may be it was too stupid.
So, that’s the end of my GSoC road for this year. Now to finish my leftover builds on KDE4 and I should be ready enough to write some patches. I should try to get my SVN account on KDE in another month or so.
KDragons needs hosting somewhere now, may be on kde-playground or if not, my choice would be launchpad.net
Hmm, its 04:35, I am not yet feeling sleepy. Guess results scared the sandman away! 
KDE 4.0.x build with kdegames from trunk has managed to take lot of space on my /home. I could have tried building from trunk on /home with different directory. It would have been fun to have both builds together.
I was sure this will end up somewhere before the build and fill up space again. So, I decided to repartition my whole disk for a new start.
My data backup was not much, all my deb packages from apt archives, some documents, wallpapers and few Dragon Ball- Z episodes. Thats it and my blackbeauty was ready for a new installation.
kubuntu 7.10 32-bit found its new home sweet home on my PC.
Current partitions include /boot = 156MB, /home = ~46GB, /var = 5GB, swap = 1.3GB, / = ~25GB
I started building qt-copy again and this time from trunk. Internet was damn slow that night, and as usual slow things make me sleepy and I dozed off again.
Next morning, I completed qt-copy build.
The PC is still in the same state; I had to get back to some unfinished web work for mukt.in 2008
While the mentors might be pondering over my simply simple application for GSoC, I am making efforts to build the development environment.
KDE’s Techbase has a very well written documentation; thanks to everyone who contributed, it made my life a little easy.
The build was smooth until I compiled qt-copy. It failed due to insufficient disk space on my /home. This was obvious, since I had /home of 3GB only.
I use a very peculiar partitioning scheme. On an 80GB IDE Harddisk, I make 11 partitions, having /boot, /, swap, /usr, /var, /opt, /home, /code, /data, /musik, /vm-os.
While, reinstalling my distro with a huge /home would have been the sane thing, I decided to drop my /musik and /vm-os and created a /home of 15GB. I knew I have to build this again, but then continuing at this point would give me more experience.
So, by saturday night I was done with the kdebase build and was using KDE4 applications on KDE3.5.8 Desktop. At this point, my free space on /home was 6.1GB; I had option to delete my *.o files to free up space, which I didn’t exercise.
At #kdegames (irc.freenode.net), jpwhiting and milliams pointed me to kollision, it was fun and I was scoring points until I started understanding how to play.
I fell asleep on my keyboard that night (happens many times); next day’s fun on next post.
Phew, I am back home after a long and tiring stay at Chennai again. I say tiring because, there was not much to do in the extra 3days of my stay due to missing the train.
Luckily I didn’t miss the KDEGames meeting. It was decided that there will be a student’s meet for all GSoC participants of this year. That’s really sweet of the kdegames team.
My GSoC application (KDragons) to KDE has moved from status ‘Available for review’ to ‘Ranking in progress’.
I am back to building KDE4 on my desktop.
At mukt.in, the website theme has been updated with something that looks and feels like open source software atleast. The theme is still under development, so please do not get mad with the colors yet.
The blog and ToDo links have been removed.
Blogs will be updated under volunteers section and ToDo goes in the discussion forum. We’ve decided to leave the wiki as a playground/sandbox for everyone. Selected Ideas from wiki will make it to the website.
Our chat still runs mibbit ajax based web irc client; one of the drupal modules. I wonder if it supports connecting to any other irc server. We may have to configure this to auto-join irc.devnode.org; thanks to devnode for enabling us on their webchat server.
mukt.in welcomes suggestions/comments anytime.
This is how I was feeling yesterday >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Wondering why? Because I missed my train; thanks to the auto-driver’s newly found so called short cut route, takes over an hour to travel 16kms with more than 6 traffic signals to get me boiling angry.
Another auto-driver brings me back in 28 minutes flat via normal route.
Well, this is like paying to miss the train. Especially when travel rates of auto are soaring high in Chennai.
Plus I couldn’t cancel my ticket; not even partial refund (It was booked under tatkaal scheme).
I cannot take a train today; I don’t want to miss my first KDE Games Developer meeting. The next best deal I got was on tuesday-April 8. Thanks to Srihari and also his girlfriend for the lift.
I wanted to reach home on Sunday morning and finish building KDE4; feeling sad now.
That would have enabled me experience some PyKDE extensions before the meeting; now I guess I’ll have to just sit shut up during the meet.
Hoping for things to turn out well.
A sudden travel trip has landed me in Chennai again.
People searching for me in Hyderabad? Yay, I will be back. Don’t you guys worry.
Yesterday, I experimented configuring Trac in cgi mode; hopefully soon I should be able to use mod_python also. It will be posted on this blog for knowledge sharing.
Today, I read few things about Windows Terminal Server 2003 and its licensing modes.
(No weird looks please, I am still a faithful Free & Open Source Addict)
Much to my surprise, the documentation/techinfo of the product on Microsoft’s site talks more about licenses than technical issues.
Bleh, to them
Now, about mukt.in (I guess this will be the first post with category mukt.in) - Shriphani is still our hawk-eye blogger; I am just going to pen down the developments from my side.
As promised to my team, I’ve started the artwork today. April 2, 2008. I know it is quite a delay already, but then I hope to catch up soon.
So, here is the first variant of mukt.in - 2008 launch logo. >>>>>>> on right >>
Anyone interested to improve on the mukt.in artwork series can get in touch with me at #mukt at irc.freenode.net to get the image sources. If you don’t have an IRC client, you could login here; use a meaningful Nickname and select Channel list as #mukt.in
Unfortunately I am still on xcf. Will soon be moving to svg after building KDE4.1 on my desktop.
Now hungry; going to hunt for food. Ciao
