When I moved to Bangalore, I managed to bring with me a reasonable collection of books. I had a *free* bookshelf in my earlier house that I could manage to keep them safe somewhere. When I moved down to my current house, what I lacked was a decent bookshelf to stack my books. As a [...]
Archive for September, 2008
25 Sep
For Reading (25th September 2008)
When I closed the Feed Reader this morning, I realized that I had a dozen tabs opened in my browser due to all the clicking I did from the feeds. I thought of making a blog post out of it as most of them seem to be interesting enough.
Gnome 2.24 is out
Next is an interesting [...]
16 Sep
The Firefox Fluster
When people speak about successful Open Source projects, what tops the list is the famous Open Source browser that’s been used by people not only on GNU/Linux, but on Windows and Mac as well. Firefox has always been the one prime example that OSS projects can be successful and famous. But no project is without [...]
14 Sep
One day for freedom, for software
Most countries celebrate Independence Day to celebrate some kind of freedom associated with their countries history, a liberation from something which had been keeping them under chains, something which had been restricting them, confining them under the rule and wishes of someone else other than their own men. Indeed, Indians know the better of this [...]
13 Sep
the naming meme
This happening with two happening planets in the interweb of our blue green planet, the Planet Debian and Planet Ubuntu, so I thought of putting it into Planet FLOSS India too. Kartik had already posted and here comes mine…
What have you named the computers you own?
My Laptop’s ex-name: Helios (Influenced by Aaron Toponce’s post long [...]
9 Sep
Reading docx files with OpenOffice
There are problems not because we use some lame software, but because our lesser sane friends decide to use some non-FOSS software which produces documents in some proprietary format. This has become too common since people started moving to Microsoft Office 2007 that the earlier .doc documents became a whole new challenge in the form [...]
7 Sep
Catching up
Am either lazy or find no time to sit and craft a blog post. Anyways, need to catch up with things once in a while and keep this blog alive.
Ubuntu Developer Week happened between September 1-5 2008 at #ubuntu-classroom in irc.feenode.net. It was very informative and useful, introducing to a wide variety of topics from [...]
