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#bck9 the tag !
My first barcamp in India was here . I am very thankful to Amrita group for arranging bus facility and providing us free lunch which IMHO in a barcamp is quite surprising . After a small fresh-up I met...
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Dist & Desktop Upgrade/Change !
Yes its the debian language , and I did do a change/upgrade of distros while the desktop was more or less changed . I am talking about lenny to squeeze which asked me to download lot of stuff . Since I...
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Chamba - swatanthra movie project
First time when j4v4m4n called up and told me about the "chamba project" I was not interested because making a animation movie is a very expensive process in terms of time and efforts as learnt by me...
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Drupal : Rules Module
I hardly am impressed with drupal considering my irritability in configuration . It would have been because of the poor usability in Views and CCK modules . The ironic part is that both those above...
View ArticleVirtual box is nice
I have used qemu before and also glanced at virtualbox but this time I was using it for real . encountered this when booting a 64 bit edition iso : VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled,...
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Export osm files to shape files
Shape files of ESRI is a standard geospatial way of representing points, lines and polygons . Its maintained by ESRI and is a open specification .More details at shapefile @ wikipedia . I have used...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 ( AMI alestic) fix for debian
As many of the people , I started using Alestic AMI which is quite popular among debian users . A simple apt-get update and upgrade gave me these issues .Issue with locale . dpkg-reconfigure locales...
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MInidebconf pune Day 1
It all started with a very irritating journey and a long wait at pune bus stop in the morning . Nopes things didn't at all get worse :D . We couldn't read the no on the buses cause we never learned...
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Gnome 3 Rocks !
Comparing to the criticism KDE4 has I think gnome3 has learned from KDE mistakes and is a better release :)I might be partial in my opinion looking out for weirder interfaces and not sticking to the...
View ArticleDemise of a machine
http://look-pavi.blogspot.in/2005/09/my-own-computer.htmlSome of the nice memories associated with it .As thepost says september of 2005 was when I got my own computer where I assembled all the parts...
View Articlemachine this time
How did I buy it ? well in the most dissapointing manner ever possible !To start with I had less time to search for a good one , but I thought AMD phenom with 6 cores would be a nice one . The one...
View ArticlePulse Audio on LMDE
Pulse Audio on LMDE was giving choppy sound especially when playing flash . I noticed that it also occurs with multiple audio applications .I strangely due to a broken hard disk was running on LMDE...
View ArticleHell ya I was right !!
Remembering those days two months earlier when I was not sure of my motherboard hence submitted it to repairs with graphic card , I had written a post demise of a machine !I was very happy to hear that...
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Bugs / issues whille installing debian wheezy from USB
Debian wheezy - The new testing release from debian had some issues while getting installed on my machine va USB .First I downloaded the weekly snapshot and made it bootable on USB using the tool...
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Protesting against internet censorship - Hyderabad
Why Protest ? Blockage of internet sitesPlan to introduce new ways of curbing internet freedomAmendment of copyright law to introduce censorship Where ?The proposed place by Anonymous and Free...
View ArticleEventful day
Could tag the day as #event as it started with me going to #OpenDataHyd of which the first word is the only thing open about it , the least I say of it the better , though well organised it lacked...
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Ubuntu release event + FOSS team hangout
It was as the title says both ubuntu 12.04 release and a hangout of old and new buddies revolving around various FOSS circles :)Me and logic went to get the cake which me and praveen illa ordered...
View ArticleBMSITGLUG - An impromptu session on OSM
It was pravi who made me stay in bangalore which actually was a stopover en route to Hyderabad from FOSS Meet @ NITC . And since we caught up with Raghavendra who luckily teaches at BMSIT and leads the...
View ArticleDebian sid - intel + ati graphic driver issue
Having both intel and ATIhybrid graphics is a pain and you definitely need some tool to switch between the graphic cards . One thing which perfectly works is the ATI propreitary driver catalyst . I...
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Lennovo thinkpad Edge E530 simply rocks on LMDE !
I have never seen such a seamless installation though I faced minor glitches with a package called live-installer-slideshow which I understand is the reason why installation hangs on LMDE march 2013...
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Trying Open suse 12.3
undoubtedly its the Klyde availablity which brought me back to OpenSuse after quite a long time and I am impressed :)Installer of Open Suse is just amazing . The GUI tools are clear cut professional...
View ArticleBuggy broadcom driver
YES , I hate them for the entire nuisance in wireless linux . They did announce that in 2010 they would be releasing open source drivers .The situation still is worse , I am using the package...
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The current state of Free / Open Mobile systems
Having had a N900 , I was very much excited about Free / Open mobile systems.So the choices we have are :Sorted by AvailablityFirefox OSSailfish OSMaemoOpenmokoDebianFirefox OS phones like ZTE Open,...
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A track which works
This is a GPX track which is colour coded from red ->yellow -> green depending on the speed. I used JOSM for this display.The colour coding can be selected as per the speed ranges, I selected...
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Why I chose Jolla
I know its so common to buy a phone that someone might wonder why I am blogging about this. Well Jolla is not just a phone but a platform for various things I can do with my hand.Yes the first thing...
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