First create a file which contains all the user name, one entry per line

#vi userlist.txt
user1
user2
user3
user4
user5
Save and exit with ‘Esc:wq’

Now create the following bash file to create the user as per the ‘userlist.txt’.

#vi usercreate.sh

#!/bin/sh
for i in `more userlist.txt `
do
echo $i
useradd $i
done
Save and exit with ‘Esc:wq’

Change the file permission

#chmod 744 usercreate.sh

Run the file

# ./usercreate.sh

Now we have to change the passwords. Let’s say we want <username>@123 [need to use the same combination for the pasword, that can be same as <usermame> or same character with the <usermame>] as password. So for user user1 the password will be user1@123, user2@123 for user user2 and so on. Create another bash file as follows:

# vi userpassword.sh

#!/bin/sh
for i in `more userlist.txt `
do
echo $i
echo $i”@123″ | passwd “$i” –stdin
echo; echo “User $username’s password changed!”
done

Change the file permission

# chmod 744 userpassword.sh

Run the file

# ./userpassword.sh

“…. Now check from SSH/FTP it should work fine”

]]> http://pranavzspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/first-impression-on-google-wave/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:24:53 +0000 Pranav http://pranavzspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/first-impression-on-google-wave/

Few hours back, I got my coveted Google Wave invite. Ever since it had been announced, I had been excited for the open preview invite. While I didn’t get invited on the first round of invites, my proverbial Golden Ticket came today from one of my friend. I was really excited to see “wave-noreply” in my Gmail. A grin intantiated on my face on seeing this!

Even there are high priority tasks in office, I surfed on the Google Wave for some time today.
Indeed, I got into the interface and bounced around the boxes like a six year old on a sugar rush. What’s this do? What’s that do? I made a wave and started trying out all of the headers and extensions (those are the little programs you can add to your toolbar inside of wave). It was symphony of button mashing orchestrating a flurry of trial and error. As people came on, the discoveries continued to abound. In this, We can see what people are typing letter by letter, unlike “Vijay is typing… Vijay is typing… Vijay is typing…” until he hits enter. This is really a kool feature indeed. I was really excited to use this with one of my friend. We started the chat like this… “I can see you typing!” “I can see you typing too!”. lol
I really wondered and felt like using a desktop application.

As there are many posts and write-ups about every aspect of Google Wave, I will go a different route to describe my ultimate impression.

While I don’t have the experience of fatherhood behind this, I have heard the story of new parents looking down at their baby laying in the crib the first night and thinking to themselves, “This child can grow up to be anything.”  It is the feeling of being in the humbling presence of raw potential. And it is this brilliant potential that makes me excited for its applications to services and scenarios in the library world.

An application like Google Wave means that every library in the country can now offer excellent free internet reference service. It means that colleagues within a library and across systems, library associations, and the country can collaborate on projects. It can be used to create teen spaces, more interactive homework guides, and to serve as virtual book clubs and other community projects. In my opinion, it is the best platform for electronically exchanging ideas at present. It’s potential is only limited by its developers and users. Take that statement at its face value. I can’t say whether it will be big or small, but it has the potential for both. It is an excellent next step application; now we have to see how it pans out.

Esto me lo pasó el Mai de El Mariscal Bisteces (pásenle, ese blog está bien chingón):

W.O.A. Metal Battle 2010: Capítulo México

Bases:

Se convoca a participar a todas las bandas de metal que cubran los siguientes requisitos:

• Que resida en territorio mexicano y cuyos integrantes sean mayoritariamente nacidos en México, mayores de edad y cuenten con pasaporte vigente. Mayoritariamente significa más del 50%.

• Que no tengan actualmente o próximo a firmar un contrato con sello discográfico alguno. Contratos de distribución no entran en esta categoría. (Este punto es flexible, los contratos por un disco por ejemplo, no aplican. La idea es que no estén “atados” a un sello.)

• Que tengan material propio con el que puedan cubrir un concierto de 30 minutos.

• Se requiere cubrir una inscripción de $1, 500 (Mil quinientos pesos moneda nacional, pago único), que se usarán para pagar servicios como renta, PA, producción y publicidad. Para mayores informes escribir un mail a blut_aus_metal@yahoo.com .

Las bandas que radiquen en algún punto del interior de la República Mexicana deberán llegar al DF el día que les toque su eliminatoria, por sus propios medios. ***Probablemente, y dependiendo de la cantidad de bandas que se inscriban, podríamos hacer eliminatorias regionales. Sin embargo, este punto aún es tentativo.

Premios:

• El primer lugar representará a México en la Vigésimoprimera edición del festival internacional Wacken Open Air, a llevarse a cabo los días 5, 6 y 7 de agosto de 2010. La banda ganadora competirá en el W.E.T Stage, en la final internacional del W.O.A Metal Battle.

Además, el Circo Volador ofrece al segundo lugar la oportunidad de grabar un disco en sus estudios. El compromiso final es la entrega de dos masters. Rock dreams ofrece 50 playeras al primer lugar, 30 al segundo y 20 al tercero. Dilemma ofrece a las bandas que queden en los primeros tres lugares la opción de abrir algún concierto, aunque esto se extiende a todo el universo de bandas participantes. Es decir, los primeros tres tienen prioridad en la búsqueda de bandas abridoras, pero todas tienen oportunidad. Metal Eye Foto ofrece también sus sus servicios a los tres primeros lugares, con detalles por definir más adelante.

Eliminatorias:

• En cada eliminatoria se contará con un mínimo de TRES jueces elegidos por la producción del concurso (referentes importantes en el mundo del metal: músicos, promotores) . El fallo de los mismos será inapelable e incontrovertible.

Los grupos, fechas de eliminatorias y demás posibles situaciones derivadas se harán públicos una vez que termine el periodo de inscripción.

Él o los conciertos de batalla se llevarán a cabo en el Circo Volador.

El orden en que tocarán las bandas se determinará vía sorteo abierto, el día de cada eliminatoria.

Una vez definidos los horarios, la impuntualidad será motivo de eliminación, sin excepciones.

Los resultados se darán a conocer al finalizar cada eliminatoria.

Las eliminatorias estarán abiertas al público.

Instrucciones y extras:

El ganador del concurso DEBERÁ PAGAR SUS GASTOS DE VIAJE HASTA ALEMANIA. Si se lograse algún tipo de apoyo económico, se anunciará en su momento.

En caso de que la banda ganadora no cubra con ese requisito en los tiempos acordados, mismos que se definirán con claridad en las semanas venideras, los organizadores se reservan el derecho a escoger a una banda que habiendo participado y demostrado buena calidad, pueda cubrir este requisito.

Prensa Ocesa (5255) 2122 5675

ljasso@cie.com.mx

Ya saben, si tienen una banda y hacen música pesadota y chingona, van, es una gran oportunidad, carpe diem.

Hey folks,

SQL Server User Community, Madurai is presenting a 10 days winter camp on ‘ Microsoft SQL Server 2008′ @ KLN College of IT in the month of december. Its quite a long program to learn deep into the application development & administration of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 . The registration fees is only Rs.200/-.

Participation certificates & resource DVD’s will be provided during the Winter Camp. II / III / IV year students of KLN College of IT & KLN College of Engg. can enroll in this camp. Other college students, kindly contact us.

The detailed schedule will be sent after the confirmation of dates. Remember, there are only limited seats available. Not only this, you can also win Rs.25,000/- worth software goodies.

For registration, fill up the form in the link given below:
KLNCIT Winter Camp 2009 Registration Form

Do you know, in December 2008 too we’ve conducted two successful winter camps (.NET & SQL Server) in our college. For details, refer the following links..
.NET Winter Camp 2008 (15 days)
SQL Server Winter Camp 2008 (5 days)

For further queries regarding winter camp 2009, feel free to contact
Thirunageswaran (IV CSE) : +91 – 9003737914
Avenash (IV CSE) : +91 – 9994421524

or write us at klncit.ug@gmail.com

Forward it to all your friends..

Thank you,
KLNCIT Winter Camp 2009.

Finally, we got more registrations in IBM Software Development track in Winter Camp – Season 2. So, currently all the registrations have been closed.

For Microsoft SQL Server 2008 track, the registrations are open & students of Madurai are invited to register in our winter camp & get hands-on experience in developing & administering Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

And in this track, we’re also providing the Dreamspark DVD for students, which contains original developments softwares like Visual Studio 2008 Professional edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Developer edition etc. which students can use it for their academic purposes.

So, hurry up & register for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 track in Winter Camp – Season 2 & get knowledge as well as more goodies too

The refined invitation mail for this track will be published in the following post..

So, finally a week to go for winter camp season 2.

Those who’re attending will get the following resources:

• 2 Resource DVDs
• Dreamspark DVD (only for SQL Server Winter Camp attendees)
• File , Pen
• Notebook
• And the new 2010 monthly calendar (Madurai User Group’s first calendar)

This page will describe the process of creating a JSF application and running it within 10 minutes.

Requirements

• Maven 2

Generate the web application

First we start with a maven archetype

mvn archetype:generate

Choose option 18 which is a (maven-archetype-webapp)

For the group id enter: test

For the artifactId enter: jsfTestWeb

cd to the project directory and modify the pom.xml file. It should look like this…

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>test</groupId>
	<artifactId>jsfTestWeb</artifactId>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>jsfTestWeb Maven Webapp</name>
	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>3.8.1</version>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
			<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
			<version>1.2_02</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
			<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
			<version>1.2-b19</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
			<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
			<version>1.1.2</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>taglibs</groupId>
			<artifactId>standard</artifactId>
			<version>1.1.2</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<build>
		<finalName>jsfTestWeb</finalName>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
				<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
</project>

Modify the WEB-INF/web.xml

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
 "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >

<web-app>
  <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>

  <servlet>
  	<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  	<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
  	<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
  	<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  	<url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <welcome-file-list>
  	<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

Create a WEB-INF/faces-config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd"
              version="1.2">

<managed-bean>
	<managed-bean-name>message</managed-bean-name>
	<managed-bean-class>java.lang.String</managed-bean-class>
	<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
<managed-bean>
	<managed-bean-name>messageModel</managed-bean-name>
	<managed-bean-class>test.MessageModel</managed-bean-class>
	<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
</faces-config>

Create a jsp helloWorld.jsp

<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" %>

<f:view>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>Hello World JSF Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <h:form>
		<p>This is a simple hello world page using Faces.</p>
		<p>Enter your message here: <br/>
		<h:inputText valueChangeListener="#{messageModel.printMessage}" value="#{message}" size="35"/></p>
		<h:commandButton value="Submit" action="submit"/>
    </h:form>
    </body>
    </html>
</f:view>

Create a managed Bean

src/main/java/test.MessageModel.java

package test;

import javax.faces.event.ValueChangeEvent;

public class MessageModel {
	public void printMessage(ValueChangeEvent e) {
		System.out.println("old value was: " + e.getOldValue());
		System.out.println("new value is: " + e.getNewValue());
	}
}

Run the JSF application

Save all files and run the application in jetty.

mvn jetty:run

The application should come up when you point your browser to http://localhost:8080

Type in some text and you should see some output on the console window.

Right click on the page and click view source. You will notice JSF generated code.

That’s all for Now!

Recently I released vjassdoc version 0.3. This version brings a lot of new features and improvements to the parsing and the database creation.

The class Parser has some new methods like “addDatabase” and “removeDatabase” which allows user to add or remove SQLite3 databases with parsed Jass or vJass objects.
The object id’s will be updated automatically when they’re added to the object lists.
Besides I’ve moved some class constructor code into methods like “parse” which allows you to parse files several times instead of creating a single “File” instance and deleting it after parsing its content.
The method “autoCompletion” of class “Parser” allows users to get a list with possible auto completed objects which originally was intended for being used in vjasside.
Most of vJass syntax features like hooks, keys and modules are supported now. Additionally you’re able to parse locals and parameters.
If you’re a developer maybe you’ll notice that there’s a new class called “Compiler”. This class was the first step replacing JassHelper’s job to compile Jass to vJass code.
The option –syntax allows you to enable a kind of syntax checker which lists all found errors in the end of the parsing process.
These two additions and the fact that there’s a new scripting language called Zinc assured me of changing to the GNU programs Lex, Yacc and Bison to create Lex and Yacc files for Jass, vJass and Zinc.
The famous Jass parser/syntax checker pjass does already use these programs to get automatically created parsing C functions.
If you compare pjass to the vJass syntax checker which is used by JassHelper, you’ll recognize that pjass allows you to get much more than one syntax error. Besides vJass’s GoldParser is not cross platform, I think. So maybe one day I’ll have written a new vJass and Zinc to Jass compiler which unites parsing, syntax validation, auto completion API, database read- and writing and HTML documentation generation.
Note that this doesn’t mean that all written source code of vjassdoc is useless now. Only the parsing part of the class “File” will be replaced by those new improvements.
By the way the new tool vjassdocgui which can be compiled with the KDE 4 libraries is contained in the new release archive, too.

Home security companies are great for people who want to always keep their home safe and secure. Before you choose your security company though, you need to know the basics about security companies. When you know what security companies have to offer, and you know what qualities make up a good security service, then you will be able to choose the company that offers the greatest amount of benefits for your home.
In selecting a company to study the types of services for companies. Research about the company's security system is more advanced features for more information. When a company's security needs for your advanced options, you will know that you are working with the competent and detail-oriented companies who will provide the highest quality of service. When a company can install advanced security systems, of course, is to install the system using simple technical skills.
In selecting the companies that will provide your security to make sure the company offers the type of services you are interested in. You also want to make sure, the company offers services that you acquire in the future. In this way you will choose, you need protection for your home extension, you can simply update your existing company.
Control is another issue for security system owners. Some owners prefer the company to handle all of the details about their security system. These types of systems do not give very much control to the homeowners. If you are looking for the ability to control your system with the push of a button, make sure the company you choose provides systems with user controls that are easy to access.
It is also a good idea to investigate the safety of the contract you and your company complete the signing ceremony. When you know exactly what you're buying in advance, you will not be anything that might be in your service plan, including additional expenses by surprise. In this way, you will know the exact installation fees, maintenance fees will be before the actual delivery of services.
After getting to know the details surrounding the purchase you make, you are sure how much it will cost you install your security system know. You will know how much the installation and the costs you will know how much will be additional charges. In this phase, see, you also no additional fees that may be hidden in the services provided.
When choosing an integrated company for your security needs, we provide the services you buy are of the highest quality.

Trev was designed for the city—short trips on good roads, carrying one or  sometimes two people. In Trev’s home city of Adelaide, 98% of cars travel less than 100 km each day and the average daily distance travelled is just 32 km.

Driving around the world will be a challenge. Zero Race will compress three years of commuting into 80 days. Each day, Trev will have to travel up 250 km—without stopping—before lunch. After lunch: another 200-250 km.

Trev travelled about 500 km each day of the 2007 World Solar Challenge, but could travel only 80-120 km before we had to stop and recharge. To travel 250 km without stopping, we will have to increase the energy capacity of Trev’s battery from 5.3 kWh to about 13 kWh. This will increase the mass of the car by about 50 kg. Even so, Trev will still weigh less than half the weight of a small conventional car, and still be a lot more efficient.

The new battery will be fitted under the floor.

There are many other tasks required to prepare Trev for a long trip, including:

• fitting a new brushless motor and motor controller
• improving the brakes and suspension
• improving the canopy hinge and latches
• getting Trev registered for on-road use.

We are still looking for volunteers to help with this work. Even if you can’t join us in the workshop, you can participate by contributing to discussions on the Team Trev Google Group and on Trevipedia.

You can now view all archives of the Zoning Department online, and print them out too.  Just type in an address and there you go.

http://webapps.phila.gov/zoningarchive/

Amig@s de ElBaraMetal, siempre es un gusto postear materiales de bandas propositivas dentro del metal y el hard rock que se consideren visionarias, audaces y sobre todo, innovadoras, pero en el buen sentido de la palabra, no siguiendo ese cauce “trendy” de voltear hacia el Indie rock y eso, sino en otros caminos más oscuros, menos transitados pero que igualmente ofrecen alternativas sonoras de interés marcadísimo para los asiduos rockeros de cepa.

Uno de esos grupos es 3, una banda que ya cuenta con amplia experiencia y bastantes discos en su haber, estos son unos cuates que se han distinguido por navegar indistintamente en diversos géneros musicales con gran éxito, entre ellos el bossa, el reggae, el funk, el progresivo, el metal, el pop rock y demás por mencionar algunos.

Pues bien, este desarrollo musical diverso, casi siempre fundado en las bases del rock, es lo que ha llevado a 3 a tocar con grandes exponentes del metal progresivo como Dream Theater, Opeth y Bigelf entre muchos otros, y precisamente el lanzamiento hace unas semanas de su último material es lo que nos concierne revisar.

Después de varias minuciosas sesiones de escucha del álbum puedo llegar a la conclusión de que este es uno de los mejores trabajos de 3, aunque carece de estructuras extremo progresivas que han dado un sello único al grupo, me explico: Revisions es un disco que se compone de canciones y rarezas que nunca se terminaron de grabar o de concretar durante los últimos 10 años.

Debido a esto es que se escuchas estructuras más sencillas, más musicales, pero definitivamente estructuradas en forma y contenido de tal suerte que se han convertido en canciones con alto contenido melódico y de muy buena manufactura en el arreglo y la ejecución.

Yo destacaría dos canciones: Lexicon of Extremism, una instrumental de tamaños considerables, y la abridora Anyone Human, pero en general el disco cumple su cometido, nos entrega canciones más accesibles sin perder la esencia de 3, que lo mismo se mueve en el rock suave que en el rock más pesado por momentos: todo se mezcla y se consigue un disco elaborado y accesible al mismo tiempo.

Este material, para aquellos que se quieran aventurar más en los límites del rock pesado y otras cosas, está de este lado.

Carpe diem.

9NKDFSYXSUXC

The figure below depicts a UML sequence diagram of the behavior of a simulator during the execution of a user defined scenario. Before the code has been written and tested, one can interpret this diagram as a set of interrelated behavioral requirements imposed on the software. After the code has been written, it can be considered a design artifact that reflects what the code does at a higher level of abstraction than the code itself.

Interpretations like this give credence to Alan Davis’s brilliant quote:

One man’s requirement is another man’s design

Here’s a question. Do you think that specifying the behavior requirements in the diagram would have been best conveyed via a user story or a use case description?

Dear Student,

When the market is down and the job scenario is bad, only those students will stand out from the rest who took an extra step to demonstrate to the world what technical calibre they have!

Here’s an exciting contest specially designed to increase your chances to finding employment in the industry.

We would like to invite the final year students to take part in AIEPIC (All India Engineering Project Innovation Contest) which is being organized by siliconindia with the support of companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, CA, NetApp, EMC, Tibco and Mindlogicx.

Participating on this platform will give you direct visibility among the leaders of several leading multinational companies.

We are not asking you to do anything new here. The same project, which a you execute as part of your final-year curriculum, can be submitted for AIEPIC. Winners will be picked based on the relevance and innovativeness of the chosen subject for project, the method or process of executing the project and finally the results of the project.

What’s more?

1. We have more than 3000 professionals with several years of work experience volunteering to mentor you. By participating in AIEPIC, you stand to gain by interacting with these experts and enhance the technical depth of the project they are executing.

2. Keeping you in mind, we have built a Project Bank where you will find several exciting project ideas proposed by hundreds of industry leaders.

3. There are several exciting awards and incentives to the finalists. There could be awards for best projects at college and state levels too.

4. In addition, up to 10 semifinalists in each branch will compete for a Peoples’ Choice award, which will be selected by popular vote from the AIEPIC website. 

So what are you waiting for?

Log on to www.aiepic.com and register.

For more details, contact Jeyanthan, AIEPIC Student Ambassador & IV Year ECE student of KLN College of IT @ +91 – 9865190884

Amig@s de ElBaraMetal, la verdad es que este post me nació por el puro gusto, no se necesitan tener pretextos ni razones aparentes para justificar el hablar de un gran, grande, grandísimo disco de rock and roll como lo es The Dark Side Of The Moon, obra de los igualmente enormes Pink Floyd.

Corría el año 1973 cuando Pink Floyd, pioneros del rock progresivo y fieles seguidores de la psicodelia y la “locura” rockera de los años 60, editaron para la posteridad este álbum, considerado uno de los mejores discos de la historia, y tal vez, el que más influencia ha generado desde entonces en músicos de todos los géneros, no sólo del rock.

Y es que DSotM es un ejercicio complejo de creatividad musical, de una inventiva hasta ese momento inexplorada, que sin pensarlo siquiera, explotó y generó ondas expansivas de emociones encontradas en el entramado “floydeano” de la musicalidad exquisita de Gilmour, las letras profundas de Waters y las ambientaciones geniales de Wright y los beats secos pero volátilmente frágiles de Mason.

Todo el disco es genial, es verdad que hay que estar de un humor especial para escucharlo, ya que funciona mejor si se da uno el tiempo para oírlo de principio a fin, pero algunas piezas funcionan igualmente por separado, como la comercialmente magistral Money, Time y su genial introducción (pocas veces he podido escuchar algo más sencillo y a la vez tan complejo de emular y por ende, hermosamente rockero) o Us and Them, con todo el sentimiento explosivo que guarda en sus entrañas progresivas.

De colección este disco, hace poco salió por ahí la reedición especial del 25 aniversario, un disco remasterizado que salva algunos de los sonidos exquisitos del original, este si es para que se lo consigan en original (aquellos que todavía no lo tengan, que creo, serán, o deben ser, pocos).

De todas formas acá hay un sitio donde se lo bajan para que, después de darle unas dos o tres escuchadas, y si todavía no lo tienen, se lo pidan a Santo Clos o a los Reyes Magos ahora que se viene diciembre.

Carpe diem.