Monday January 17, 2005
Sangeet Bahaar 2005 - a Tsunami Relief Charity Concert
On 22nd January, over two months of intense practice sessions and preparations come down to 4 hours of a grand musical experience at the 800-seat Campbell Heritage Theatre. Originally, Sangeet Bahaar 2005 was intended as a platform for showcasing Bay Area's talented musicians in Indian music - both film, and light classical genres, on vocals, and instrumentals. But, with the colossal tragedy unfolding in Asia, the organizers at Manoranjan Arts and Performances in conjunction with the India Community Center at Milpitas decided that donating the proceeds of the show for relief and rehabilitation would be the best course of action.
I am contributing to the concert by providing synthesizer keyboard support for many songs and am rendering one vocal solo film song. I am looking forward to the event and so are over 50 motivated participants. The details of the concert are here. (http://www.manoranjan.org/sangeetbahaar2005_charity.html)
Posted at 08:22AM Jan 17, 2005 by Shreedhar Ganapathy in Music | Comments[0]
Wednesday January 12, 2005
Solaris 10 x86 install experience
A few days ago I installed Solaris 10 for x86, build 74 L1, on a couple of my Gateway boxes with P-IV, 2.6 GHZ, 768 MB RAM and a 40 GB HDD. On one box, I cleaned out its earlier Win Xp installation after noting down the network address related details. On the other box, I upgraded from a very early build (b61) of Solaris 10 x86 that had been installed by IT support. Both the installations went very smoothly with no support call. All I needed was my hostname,static IP address, and other network details such as the nis address, dns, etc. I also had to do a "ypinit -c" to get the automounted dirs to show up as a ypbind was not happening at startup.
With the JDS 3 desktop, this is just great with the email client, browser and staroffice all integrated. The new JDS3 look and feel is also nice. I did not have the solaris companion CD so I just used sunfreeware.com's pkg-get utility to install some of the needed utilities and tools such as cvs client, gmake, emacs, etc.; The whole process took a little over an hour for each machine.
One thing that I felt was kinda awkward with the Sol 10 install was that the installer detected the upgrade case much later in the process, in that, it asked for all the networking details such as host name, ip address, nis server address, etc. and later determined that this is an upgrade. If it could detect an existing solaris install and get all these details from the appropriate locations from the disk and just go on with the upgrade, that would be even sweeter.
That apart, this was an awesome and easy experience considering that I have never done a solaris installation by myself.
Posted at 04:37PM Jan 12, 2005 by Shreedhar Ganapathy in General | Comments[0]
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