In my project there was need for writing few admin scripts in python to create database account and database for a user.
In case of MySQL we connected to mysql database (admin database) and then performed the DDL queries like create database.The connection string we used is
conn=mysql.connect(host=”localhost”,user=”username”,passwd=” “,db=”mysql” ).
It worked well.In the same way we [...]
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Admin Scripts in pgdb
Posted in FOSS, Techstuff, tagged FOSS, portgresql, python on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Tecuthsav’08
Posted in Techstuff on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
As a part of golden jubilee celebration of our college Thiagarajar College of engineering,Madurai,there is gonna be a mega event “TECUTHSAV” to be conducted in our college. It is a National level technical festival starts on 13th of February and continues till 17th. All the departments of our college together conduct this event.Many interesting and [...]
Confused!!! -Dot blindness
Posted in Techstuff, tagged gmail on December 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Are Gmail usernames dot sensitive or not? I had this confusion.
If there is a gmail id say geetha[dot]krish@gmail.com and if by mistake if some one sends mail to geethakrish@gmail.com (without dot) it is getting delivered to geetha[dot]krish@gmail.com. I wondered how that is possible. Then Gmail’s help center told me that u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com is same as [...]
An unpleasant news
Posted in FOSS, Techstuff on August 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today I was reading The Hindu newspaper. On the very first page i found a headline “100 High Speed PCs for Madurai Bench”. I started reading into it. It has been said that 100 PCs with Intel Dual core processors have been alloted for judiciary purposes in Madurai Bench of High court.Its a good news.But [...]
A Tech talk by Angelo
Posted in Sun Stuff, Techstuff on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday as a part of Sun Club activities there was a tech talk by Angelo Rajadurai, Sun Microsystems, Santa clara. He [...]
Solaris 10 with JDS on my Grub.
Posted in Sun Stuff, Techstuff on April 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I had Solaris express in my laptop with CDE-a proprietary desktop environment which sounded little bit difficult to use. Once I subscribed for Solaris10 DVD in Sun site. I got it this month through air mail. After finishing my semester exams I tried installing it. Now I have got a Solaris with JDS(Java Desktop System) [...]
Sun Club Inauguration
Posted in Sun Stuff, Techstuff on February 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Last Friday, we had Sun Club Inauguration in our college. Principal was expected to inaugurate it but unfortunately he was not able to make his presence there. We also invited all the Deans and HODs, students [...]
A meet with first and second year students.
Posted in Sun Stuff, Techstuff on February 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hello folks meeting u after a long time. A few weeks back , my friend keerthi-the ambassador(I call her ambi) from Sun Microsystems to our college started her Ambassador initiative program with the second year and first year students of CSE and IT department of our college. We friends agals,bala,ashok,ananth and myself were helping her [...]
FOSS 2007
Posted in FOSS, Techstuff on January 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
FOSS2007-a six day Seminar on FOSS tools started on 8th of January.The flying start of this seminar was by Mr.JoeSteeve – an alumni of our college and a foss enthusiast.The [...]
THE TWO SUPER-DUPER SEARCH ENGINES OF TODAY…….
Posted in Techstuff on December 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »
We now find two big companies(Google and Yahoo) on an online battle-ground bringing their innovations and new delivery of products. I went through a search engine which combines the search results of both Yahoo and Google. ie., it searches Google and Yahoo at the same time. As the name suggests it is GahooYoogle where [...]