Installing Flash player for Firefox and Chrome x86_64

The flash player available at Adobe download will not work with x86_64 bit browser. Adobe has released the 64 bit player, but it is yet in Labs!. The 64-Bit player beta version can be downloaded from Flash Player 10.1 Beta 64-Bit.

Unzip the download,

tar xvfz libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

For firefox 3.5.4, just copy the extracted file libflashplayer.so to
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ folder in Fedora 12.

For Google Chrome, create plugins folder in the directory of chrome installation, which most of cases will be /opt/google. Then copy the libflashplayer.so to plugins directory.

Now start chorme with

google-chrome --enable-plugins


Now flash content should display!

OpenRISC Operating systems

OpenRISC from OpenCores is among one of the best open source processors available. I have been working on this processor for quite sometime. The processor has good support of free toolchains, which can be downloaded from OpenCore website. The processor already has freely ported operating systems available. Linux, eCOS and RTEMS are available at the website.

eCOS which is C++ based OS, did not compile with latest version of GCC available at the OpenCore website, but after some posting on the forum I found some solution. I managed to get some older version of the GCC for OpenRISC, which supported C++. More details I have placed here here. Some patches for the same are also available.

I found some more operating systems ported by enthusiasts, one is FreeRTOS and uC/OS-II too!.

FreeRTOS port can be found at matzz, it has some compilation errors, which can be solved by simple modifications to Makefile.

uC/OS-II too has port, which was good news when I accidentally discovered, but news turned sad, because OS didnot compile. The ported OS available at this website. The OS was ported with older version of uC/OS-II(2.16), which is not available at Micrium website now!!. So will have to spend some carefull effort in upgrading the port to newer version :(. Recently I found a successfull port of uC/OS-II for v2.86, its compiling with no problem!!.
http://www.win.tue.nl/~mholende/ucos/

Gross Domestic Product of India

Well I stumbled on this, Google has good feature, called public data. As of now couple of data are available .

The data is so surprising, just check how well india is growing!!,



GDP growth rate is one which is most spoken off. India stands among top in GDP growth rate. But in overall earning of country, which houses one third of world population, figures are not at all encouraging.

An Event Management website in Joomla

It is always intriguing question on how to build an event management website. Write a website from scratch or use an event management hosting service provided by commercial websites like EventBrite etc.., or build one using available web components?. Time to launch and low cost of development and reliability are major deciding factors.

Here I write down my experience of developing an event management website from joomla. The development of it took very less time, considering I am not very experienced web developer. All you need is some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and Joomla.

Installing Joomla

Joomla is freely available Content management platform. This can be downloaded from the website www.joomla.org. Installing Joomla is made simple with well guided wizard and documentation.

Creating Joomla Template

The main task is creating Joomla template for graphic and custom layout required. Well this can be done easily by porting a simple HTML website template!. A tutorial to do joomla template is available here, compassdesigns.net has good tutorial explaining in detail how to make Joomla Template from HTML template.

Event Registration

The registration form available with joomla is not customizable. Most events require customized registration forms. I found one such extension from ChronoEngine.com called Chronofrom. The extension provides rich set of features for customized registartion form, captcha, E-mail verification and Notification, Validation of fields, just to mention few. Now how to view the registered users, chronoengine have another plug-in called chronocontact.

Photo/Video sharing

Joomla has built-in facility to display images but not videos. There are couple of plugins available at Joomla extensions to display the videos too.

Event Location Display

Events generally require a guided map for user to reach the event place. Google maps extension for Joomla is an tool handy for this. Just register yourself to get an Google Identifier for your website and its done, you can use google map on your website.

Joomla built-in feature for Banners good enough for handling the advertisement requirements.

Inside YouTube

Here is some insight into YouTube, from YouTube developer. Oldstuff although