So..which one are you? This is an endeavor to find what is in the minds of the FOSSians about themselves. Just to find how many are fanatical, how many are pragmatic and how many are opportunist with respect to FOSS. Add your opinion as a comment to the blog post and let the community know [...]
Archive for April, 2007
26 Apr
5 Types of FOSSites
I and HereBeDragon were discussing about the various kinds of people we have in the Indian FOSS community, when he started listing the different types of FOSSians.
Here’s a 5-point classification of FOSSites. What type are you?
a)The Diehards – They are firm believers in FOSS philosophy and will not accept anything other than FOSS and sometimes [...]
24 Apr
Words of the day – 15 (Aussie Slangs)
For a difference, I would like to post some commonly used slangs from the land of Kangaroos. The original source of the slangs is australian explorer.
Ace! : excellent
Arvo : [...]
18 Apr
Biscuits, Songs and Free Software’s Philosophy Explained
G0SUB has forwarded an interesting mail regarding Ubuntu, giving it Free and how about making money with it. As the guy who posted the original query did not have any idea of philosophies associated to Free/Open Source Software, I decided to write a enlightening reply to him. A couple of years of performing GNU/Linux advocacy, [...]
17 Apr
Second foot in the web space
Am not rich enough to get a web space for me and hence been calling this blog as my home page. Happened to see googlepages today through one of my friends and checked it out. Thought of creating a page to see how good it is and it came out not so bad, though some [...]
16 Apr
Words of the Day – 14
One of my friends had a couple of words in the status message she had in the messenger. Though I know what they meant, wanted to know more about them. Here are the outcomes,
mundane : adjective : worldly, earthly, belonging to this world; common, ordinary, day-to-day.
Common usage : mundane life – routine life, mundane affairs [...]
15 Apr
From Edgy into Feisty
Since I bought my laptop been running Ubuntu in it. Started with Dapper Beta, upgraded it to stable, then moved to Edgy Beta and then to stable and now, I have moved to the latest Ubuntu Feisty (not sure whether it is Beta or RC). Dapper is still the best distribution out there, though succeeded [...]
12 Apr
Words of the Day – 13
Time for updates from this month’s RD, some ‘ad’ words.
adage : verb : proverb; a traditional saying.
advent : noun : arrival of; beginning of; coming of;
adept : adjective : skilled.
adamant : adjective : unyielding or inflexible.
adverse : adjective : highly opposed to; not in favor of.
adherent : noun : supporter; compliant.
admonition : noun : advice [...]
9 Apr
VLBJCET Workshop – Experimentation Success
Every time we conduct a workshop in some college, we try to improve our method of delivering. We started years ago by taking our own computers and trying to show things with them. With time it improved to they providing us some computers and we try to show with them. Things further changed that we [...]
8 Apr
Incubator at Kongu Engineering College
We landed at the campus of Kongu Engineering College on the afternoon of 6th April 2007, being driven in a Tempo traveler which was big enough for 4 of us. On our way, we interacted with the two students who had come to pick us up from Coimbatore and tried to get as much information [...]
3 Apr
PyProgram #4 – Who is on duty ?
We had an interesting problem posed in python mailing list, though it is not a very tough one. But still, practical problems are a fun to solve. This guy wanted to know how he can find which group is on duty. There are 4 group of fire-fighters each cycled on duty for a day one [...]
