It was amazing how to get things done with drupal, the installation, setting the env on gnu/linux. Then moving on to developing a site with the look you want it to have, getting involved with modules, blocks, regions, tpl files, dpm, taxonomy, vocab and many more to get things going... all these in a localhost.
Finally(hope so) the hosting part
localhost -------------> public domain
Involved copying data, exporting and importing mysql data and some tweaking with the settings.php file to get the site up.
Was that it? Couldn't find my url in google search.

Specify the email address
Select the receiving email server as POP and specify the server - mail.gnumen.org
In place of the username give XXXX@gnumen.org (don't just specify the XXXX also give the domain name)
Select the sending email server as SMTP and specify the server - mail.gnumen.org:Port No.
In place of the username give XXXX@gnumen.org (don't just specify the XXXX also give the domain name)

Thats it

In order to upload the files from your HDD to remote site is fairly simple, use ftp, scp. Copy these files in the document root
Now with the transferring of info in the database (MySQL), export the tables in your database using phpmyadmin and then import them in the public domain using the phpmyadmin.
Before that remember to create a database and the user.
change the mysql entry in the settings.php file and that's it you are ready with you virtual space
 

Wanted to create a view which made use of group by and count function. But the view default had no such capabilty so and additional module was introduced in an ever growing list of module.

the views group by module

http://drupal.org/project/views_groupby

It worked fine :)

will try to give something back one day.

It was a simple task of accesssing the webpage from different box in a lan env, but for some crappy reason the wa3002g4 router won't allow the traffic to pass.Igniting the grey matter and a bit of googling found that most of the port in the router is blocked and those allowed are 80 and some other predefined services like tftp, telnet. The port 80 is reserved by the router to access the webadmin page. So thought of changing the port of my webserver to 8080.

NB:- I was able to ping between two boxes. Hmmmm

sudo vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf

we as a species are never content in a good way.

It's almost as if being opiniated is instilled in us from childhood.

Life - having felt things that no one cares to feel -

It's bit tricky how you perceive yourself. It can be either how the world looks at you or how you look upon yourself?

This virtual space is designed using drupal atop ext3 fs. The uderlying OS is without doubt GNU/linux.

I never thought of getting a virtual space of my own but then I realized that I was spending unusually  large chunks of my time in front of my box and noting things down on pieces of paper and retrieving it was getting frustating. So it's good get my things organized online :). lets see how this turns out.

In order to get the additional feature of drupal there was a patch released by mattman (http://drupal.org/files/issues/hide_submenu_01.patch) which to my dismay did not apply the patch to the module. So had to do it manually and since the patch was not that big I could easily carry out the task. There were helpful links in drupal on how to get the thing done.

http://drupal.org/node/534548

http://drupal.org/patch/apply

http://drupal.org/patch/create

First of all with just the inclusion of taxonomy I wasn't able to get the desired URL, let alone the hierarchical representation. For that include the pathauto module and include the pattern as blog/[termpath-raw]/[dd]/[mm]/[yyyy]/[title-raw] in the pattern for all blog entry paths of the node path settings in automatted alias settin.

To delete all the url aliases generated automatically as well as user created go to

site building -> URL alias -> delete alias