A Fedora workshop was organised at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on Friday, June 14, 2013. The participants were students from the Master of Computer Applications (MCA) department.

The forenoon session began with an introduction to Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) and Fedora. I explained the various project and communication guidelines that students need to follow, and mentioned the various Fedora sub-projects that they can contribute to. System architecture, and compilation concepts were also discussed. The need to use free and open standards was emphasized. Copyright, and licensing were briefly addressed.

After lunch, a programming lab session was held to see how students solve problems. Their code was reviewed, and suggestions for improvement were given. Klavaro was shown to students to learn touch typing. I also gave an overview of GCC using the “Introduction to GCC” presentation. The concept of using revision control systems was illustrated. A demo of Fedora 18 (x86_64) was shown, and the same was installed on the lab desktops.

Thanks to Prof. Parvathavarthini Mam for working with me in organizing this workshop. Thanks also to Prof. Shirley for managing the logistics.

Few photos taken during the trip are available in my /gallery.

It’s better later than never. It’s been two week since the Google Summer of Code 2013 results were announced and I am glad to say that I got selected this year.

I will be working on Darkserver Improvment under Fedora. One can see a draft of my proposal here. My mentor is Kushal Das and i am really helpful for helping me out in the whole process both in code and application.

Source: http://chennaigeeks.in/blog/event/chennai-geeks-june-hackathon/

Event: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon

Start: June 22, 2013 10:00 am
End: June 23, 2013 5:00 pm

(Yes. Two days)

Organizer: Chennai Geeks
Phone: 9940138729
Email: madhuvishy, me

Venue: RailsFactory

Address: 38/39, 3rd Floor, Whites Road, Royapettah
(Corporation Bank Circular Building, Opp Sathyam theater car parking),
Chennai, TamilNadu, 600061, India

Register at: http://goo.gl/gImAq

Theme: Android apps development.

Workshop: To help those who are new to Android, we have a 6 hour free
Android beginners’ workshop during the hackathon, on Saturday. The
workshop will be run by Yuvi Panda, who works for the Wikimedia

Foundation. More on the workshop, can be found here.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda/Android_beginners

Adding coolness: We are planning to have a cool Internet of things

gadget display during the hackathon the Internet of things enthusiast
community in Chennai. If you have a cool gadget to show off, you
should chime in too

Free for all.
Anyone can join.

ನಿನ್ನೆ ರಾತ್ರಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಬರೀತಾ ಕೂತು ರಾತ್ರಿ ೨ ಗಂಟೆ ಆಗಿತ್ತು, ಮತ್ತೆ ೭:೩೦ ಗೆ ಅಲಾರ್ಮ್ ಇಟ್ಟು ಮಲ್ಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೆ, ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ ವಿಚಿತ್ರ ಕನಸೊಂದು ಬಿದ್ದು ೬:೩೦ ಗೆ ಎಚ್ಚರಾಯ್ತು..

ಆ ಕನಸು ಒಂತರಾ ಮಜಾ ಇತ್ತು, ಅದನ್ನ ಊಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿಕ್ಕೆ ಸುಲಭವಾಗ್ಲಿ ಅಂತ ಒಂದು ಚಿತ್ರ ಬರೆದಿದೀನಿ. :)

ನಾನು ಎಲ್ಲೋ ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇರ್ತೀನಿ, ಆಗೊಂದು ನಾಯಿಮರಿ ಬರುತ್ತೆ ಅದು ನನ್ನ ಎಡಕೈಗೆ ಬಾಯಿ ಹಾಕಿ ಬಿಡುತ್ತೆ, ಏನು ಮಾಡಿದ್ರೂ ಬಿಡಲ್ಲ, ನಾನು ಸುಮಾರು ಸಲ ಕೊಡುಕಿದ್ರೂ ಅದು ಬೀಳಲಿಲ್ಲ.. ಇನ್ನೇನೂ ಬೇರೆ ದಾರಿ ಕಾಣದೆ ಹಂಗೇ ಅದನ್ನ ಎಳ್ಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇರ್ತೀನಿ.

ಅಷ್ಟರಲ್ಲಿ ಎಚ್ಚರಾಯ್ತು.

From GlusterFS website

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads.

Gluster CLI has limited features to view and filter the volume info. I started a small project to enhance Gluster CLI for personal use. As of now it consists of a tool to list Gluster volumes in tabular format. Other intersesting features includes filtering the output based on name, type, status, bricks etc.

Clone the project(I cloned it to /home/aravinda/sandbox/)

cd /home/aravinda/sandbox
git clone https://github.com/aravindavk/glusterfs-tools.git

Create a shellscript to call gftools /usr/local/bin/gfvolumes

#!/bin/bash
python /home/aravinda/sandbox/glusterfs-tools/gftools/volumes.py "$@"

Make gfvolumes executable

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gfvolumes

Now we can run sudo gfvolumes to see the list of glusterfs volumes. Type gfvolumes --help for help.

All Volumes

Name Filter

Status Filter

Type Filter

Show Bricks

Additionally it can output filtered details in JSON format.

JSON Format

We can easily import this in our python script.

#!/usr/bin/python
from gftools import volumes
gfvols = volumes.GfVolumes()    
ok, vols = gfvols.get(name='^gv[0-9]$', status='down') # Various filters available
if ok:
    # Do action

Note: root permission is required to run gluster command, so run gfvolumes as root(sudo gfvolumes)

Future plans:

1. Adding more filters
2. Adding more admin tools
3. Creating RPM/DEB packages

C & S Welcome.

I attended my first ever Red Hat Summit last week and got the opportunity to present as well. I also got the chance to meet my team in here after interacting with them for almost an year now.

The summit got kick started with on 11th June with Jim’s keynote. Jim came on the stage wearing  jeans. How cool is that !!!

Two take aways for me from his keynote were:-
1. Connect …
This was the theme of the summit this year. Connect with different engineers, vendors, community to write better code,  create a eco-system which can benefit all the participants.

2. Technology choice = Innovation choice.

In this era all the innovations are happening in open way. Open innovations allows users to participate in the technology innovations. This can not happen in closed way. And the technology choice made by the companies, vendors now would lay down the innovations in coming years.

I came to know that on 12th there is 5K marathon scheduled for Summit attendees  to honor those who affected by the tragic events at the 2013 running of the Boston Marathon.  The venue for the Summit was on the very same to street. So, I decided to participate on that and did it. It was great fun.

After finishing 5K run

 Later in day I attended Paul Cormier keynote, which was was mostly focused on  Open Hybrid Cloud. After that I attended few talks and posted my visualization project about collecting the performance stats from different Gluster nodes upstream forge.gluster.org. 

My talk was scheduled on 13th June at 4:50 – 5:50 PM. After attending the Brian Steven’s keynote   I mostly worked my presentation. I gave the talk with Ben and I think it went very well.

After my talk Performance team went for the group party. During that I got to hear that how well I got mixed with the team, as it was like I have always been working from here. Sometime working completely remotely from the team can be very challenging. I was happy to hear that.

Before leaving for the company party I met our CEO Jim Whitehurst.  The company party which was sponsored by IBM. A band from Montreal Alter Ego performed there. They were awesome, everyone was on their feet.

After the company party we went for Pub Crawling, in which we have to go six different pubs and drink. I was with few of my team members and some other very senior guys. We managed to cover 3 pubs. Last pub was very live. I met our CTO, Brian Stevens there and chatted with him. It was 2 AM when I returned back to the room.

Last day of Summit just had few sessions in the morning. Most of attendees either with had hangover from last night or have gone. The attendance was very low.  After all the sessions got over I went for group lunch with Red Hat Storage group.

Overall it was a great experience. I got meet so many great people. I hope to participate in more such events.

તો અમારું ઉપરોક્ત ઝોમ્બી આજે છ વર્ષનું થયું છે એની લાગતા-વળગતાઓએ નોંધ લેવી

તમામ તસવીરો ગુગલ-નેટ પરથી લીધેલ છે

.. આવું લખાણ બ્લોગની લગભગ દરેક પોસ્ટ પર લખતાં લોકોને ખબર નથી કે તેમનું ‘લખાણ પણ નેટ પરથી લીધેલ છે’ એવું અમને ખબર છે!

* છેલ્લે આવી પોસ્ટ એપ્રિલ અંતમાં લખાઇ હતી. ત્યાર પછી ફિલમો જોવાનો ખાસ સમય મળ્યો નથી, એટલે છેલ્લાં દોઢ મહિનાનો મસાલો અહીં એક સાથે રજૂ કરવામાં આવે છે (અને, એ પણ માત્ર ત્રણ ફિલમો – જરા વિચારો – મારા પર કેવી વીતતી હશે )

૧. ગો ગોઆ ગોન (૨૦૧૩):

ઝોમ્બી ફિલ્મ. સારા ડાયલોગ્સ અને બેકાર સ્ટોરી. છતાંય, બાબાજી (પેલા બ્લોગ વાળા નહી!) અને બ્લડી ખૂની મન્ડે ગીતો ગમ્યાં. કવિને પણ જોયું અને તેને ઝોમ્બી વિશે વિગતે સમજાવવામાં આવ્યું.

કવિન હવે ગોઆ જવા માટે રેડી છે (કારણ કે, તેને ઝોમ્બીઓ જોવા છે!)

૨. યે જવાની હૈ દિવાની (૨૦૧૩):

એમ તો આ મુવીનો `રીવ્યુ` છેલ્લી અપડેટ્સ પોસ્ટમાં લખેલો જ છે, પણ સંદર્ભ માટે: આ એક એવી ફિલમ છે, જેના કારણે આજ પછી હિન્દી ફિલમ થિએટરમાં ન જોવાની પ્રતિજ્ઞા લેવામાં આવી છે (તેમ છતાંય, કોઇ વાર જવું પડે તો, સસ્તાં શોમાં જવું તેવો ઠરાવ સર્વાનુમતે પસાર કરાયો છે).

૩. ઉડાન (૨૦૧૦):

ક્યારનું બાકી રહી ગયેલું સરસ મુવી. રામ કપૂરને પહેલી વાર ઓફ-ટીવી જોયો (જોકે આમ પણ હું ટીવી જોતો નથી, ક્યારેક જોવાઇ જાય એ વાત અલગ છે). લગભગ બધાંનો અભિનય એકદમ સરસ. દરેક મા-બાપે જોવા જેવું.

Rockchip’s RK3188 processor is one of the fastest ARM Cortex-A9 chips around. The 28nm quad-core processor outperforms the chips found in the Samsung Galaxy S III and Google Nexus 7, for instance. And it’s a relatively inexpensive chip, which explains why it’s proven popular with Chinese tablet and TV box makers.

Most devices featuring the RK3188 processor ship with Android 4.1 or Android 4.2. But soon you may be able to run Ubuntu, Fedora, or other desktop Linux operating systems on an RK3188 device.

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Hi,

This post is to spread the word – Water. To spare a moment to think about – Water. To help grow awareness about this source of life – Water. Do share!

I was thinking of writing this post since I read this column about the must watch environmental documentaries. Initially it was to be more about interesting documentaries to watch. It’s not about documentaries any more. It is about – Water.

Ever since I read that column and saw these movies – Blue Gold: World Water Wars & FLOW: For Love of Water – I’m seeing more and more similar stories and patterns. Ex: In this news they say Egypt is ready to wage war against Ethiopia for the later is planning to build a dam on the river Nile. In another story folks in Chile are protesting against a big multinational corporate which wants to build a dam on their pristine river. And today these pictures about water shortage in Delhi. What could be more ironic than to have one of the oldest river, on the banks of which lord Shri Krishna himself once played and bathed, flowing in your backyard and yet you are thirsty for Water.

Actually, being an Indian, none of this or what they show in the above documentaries comes as surprise or news to me. For these situations and fights are quite commonplace in India. Yet, what surprises me is how less do we talk and discus about these issues in comparison to all the drama and brouhaha about PRISM and surveillance states and digital privacy & rights and gay rights and gun control and if you are in India, you see drama over arrest & pardon of an actor, IPL cricket, spot/match fixing, and to top it all octogenarian senior most politician throwing tantrums like a 10 year old girl and the others cajoling him out of it. It’s crazy! All these things don’t even matter to everybody like Water does.

Even more surprising is how some of us justify wrong doings of big corporate multinationals and powerful bodies. I had heated debate wherein I was explaining about this movie Blue Gold and how people are protesting against big corporates for building dams and pumping billions of galleons of water every day from natural water sources and how it is practically drying those sources. And they come back saying private companies are perfectly justified in trying to maximise their profits and value to their shareholders, that is why they exist. I should/could not hold them responsible on moral or ethical grounds. I was absolutely stunned and surprised beyond shock for a moment.

I understand that private companies work to maximise their profits and I’m okay with that. But if you pump billions of galleons of water every day for that profit and value to your shareholders, I think it is wrong. And it should take less than common sense to see that it is wrong.

Along with all the global political and financial deficit we carry today, we also have greater crisis/deficit in being able to know right from a wrong and good from a bad.

Some of these links below:-
—
[1] Water shortage in Delhi – http://blog.tehelka.com/photo-blog-water-shortage-in-delhi/
[2] Egypt on war against Ethiopia – http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Egypts-Instability-Triggers-a-New-Proxy-War-Against-Ethiopia-and-its-Allies.html
[3] Chilean protest – http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/10/rios-libres-video-2-the-history-of-the-dam/
[4] Environmental documentaries – http://calamur.org/gargi/2013/06/07/lokmat-column-must-watch-environmental-documentaries/
[5] Blue Gold – World Water Wars – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb4WG8UJRw
[6] Flow – For Love of Water – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmWdco0glEA
[7] Satyamev Jayate – Water – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqVAHBiGLic
[8] Truth About Tigers – http://www.truthabouttigers.org/home/

We are looking for 2D or 3D artists in Blender.

Create Animation for INFITT13 <http://www.ti2013.infitt.org/> -
Tamil Internet Conference going to be held in Malaysia.

We will pay according to your work.

Anybody who is interested and good in Blender Animation[2D/3D],
mail immediately for more details.

E-mail: thangam DOT arunx AT gmail DOT com

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According to this interview,  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will default to classic mode in GNOME.  That makes a lot of sense considering the conservative nature of the distribution.  There are other bits of interesting info including XFS becoming the default filesystem and an official upgrade tool (probably based on fedup).   Well worth the read

Date: 15th June
Venue: #wfs-india channel on freenode
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm IST
Registration: http://www.wfs-india.org/form/registration-form-git-workshop-june-15-2013

Traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend African Network For Localization (ANLoc)'s Terminology and Localisation in Africa and Beyond Conference earlier this year. It gave me an opportunity to learn the history of African languages in cyberspace and meet the people behind various multilingual initiatives. The conference brought together language professionals, academics and open source developers to learn about terminology development and localization platforms.

Language is the key for unlocking the potential of Africa. The African Network for Localization (ANLoc) is a non-profit that supports African language technology development. The ANLoc partners were instrumental in the numeration and standardization of 100 African languages. The ANLoc partners and sub-projects developed Unicode fonts, keyboard input systems, translation tools and terminologies for African languages. They also devised training programs for building sustainable volunteer driven localization communities.

The conference featured technical talks, break-out sessions and brainstorming sessions. There were in-depth discussions on the various facets of multilingualism in cyberspace in context to African languages, the challenges of translating computing terms in African languages, the use of machine translation methods and the development of linguistics resources such language dictionaries and terminologies. The conference organizers maintained a good balance of discussions, along with practical hands-on workshops. The size of conference made interactions easier. It was good to meet Mozilla localization contributors from over 10 African languages during this event.

ANLoc's project localized widely used open source Mozilla Firefox web browser in many African languages. The ground realities of mobilizing and sustaining communities in Africa are apparent. Finding contributors is difficult. Most contributors refrain from volunteering due to economic reasons. The overall economic development and access to digital technologies is limited to few regions in Africa. The availability of Internet has improved but the cost is still prohibitively high. I shared my community building experiences from similar resource constrained environments across the world.

Participated in break-out sessions on developing style guides for localization and Mozilla localization processes.
The FirefoxOS localization sprint was organized as part of the event. The localizers worked in groups to translate Mozilla FirefoxOS mobile operating system using Pootle web translation platform.

Talked about Android Internationalization and adding African language fonts and keyboard support to Android. Android currently supports few major African languages: Swahili, Amharic, Zulu and Afrikaans, but more African language coverage is needed. Cheap Android devices are flooding the African market. Today, the first internet experience for many is not on a desktop computer but on mobile phones. Mobiles play a great role in accessing information and even transfering money.

The brainstorming sessions were very interesting. The problems discussed were both at an economic and social level. These problems are similar in nature to the countries where I have been working for the past few years.

The lack of availability of African local content on the internet was a major hurdle. The African diaspora spread across the world and few local governments and non profit organizations were involved in developing local language content. The tide seems to be turning now, with increasing availability of the Internet on mobile phones. Social media and user generated content is now bridging the gap.

This conference gave me a framework for my future activities in Africa. I'll be traveling to East Africa to participate in Tech4Africa Nairobi Tech Day and organize localization hackathons. Such events will help us work on Mozilla Firefox in some of the major languages and help build sustainable Mozilla communities in Africa.

WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces a poster competition on women’s, LGBT and gender-related issues in India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural Freedom Day celebrations. You stand to win exciting prizes by your participation.

Background

India is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country one billion strong and growing. India’s most pressing problems include official corruption and the suppression of women and the LGBT community.

A substantial section of India’s well-to-do people have embraced modern technology, from cell-phone toting farmers to tweeting teenagers, technophile home-makers to artistic designers, and more who are coming online, communicating, coding and interacting in real time.

And yet, these people are still struggling to find their voices while retaining basic human values within our society. Your challenge is to bring out your virtual brushes and pictorially depict this struggle while celebrating their diversity.

Exercise your creative freedom with Free/Libre open source software and other technologies. Your poster may be the inspiration that gives people a voice to fight for their rights, a vision of a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that gives them the freedom and space to dream while allowing them to explore the problems of their culture and livelihood.

Who Can Participate?

Anybody can participate*.

Those with no previous experience with poster-making/digital art can start with Tux-Paint.

* We will not be able to send prizes to regions falling outside the country, but anyway do participate.

What Are We Expecting?

We expect great posters that has one or more of the following attributes:

1.  Conveys a positive message with educational value on feminist issues.
2.  Highlights social evils.
3.  Demands reforms in a powerful way.
4.  Rectifies common misconceptions about gender and sex.
5.  Conveys deeper aspects of the development of social evils.
6.  Says something on the participation of women in the free software movement.

How To Participate?

•  Read this announcement.
•  Prepare your posters as per the guidelines below.
•  Submit you posters along with form at this submission link.

Submission:

Click Here for Submitting Your Entry

Competition Rules and Guidelines:

1.  A registered participant can submit any number of entries.
2.  All entries must be done using free software tools like GIMP, TeXLive, ImageMagick, TuX Paint, Inkscape, ScanTailor, Scribus, Synfig Studio, Asymptote, Libre Office and Open Office Draw. These tools are available for ALL operating systems including Ubuntu, Fedora, other GNU/Linux distributions,  PC-BSD, M$-Windows. We prefer submissions in xcf, .eps or other good image formats.
3.  All entries must include an outline of the main steps involved and some proof of the use of tools. A description (in less than 200 words) of the intended message of the art work should also be included.
4.  Entries will be licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike -3.0 (with Attribution).
5.  Photos and other art works used in the poster should be suitably acknowledged.
6.  Entries should be no smaller than A4 size and no larger than A2 size.
7.  No plagiarism. Submitted posters should not be copies of other people’s work and should involve substantial creativity of the artists.
8.  Only entries that pass minimal sanity check will be displayed in our e-gallery.
9.  Decision of the judges will be final and binding.

Important Dates:

Submission Begins: 1st June’2013
Last Date of Submission: 14th June’2013
Announcement of Results: 15th June’2013
Gallery Update: By 24th June’2013

Panel of Judges:

• A. Mani
• María “tatica” Leandro
• Shweta Srivatsava
• Sourav Sen Gupta

Competition Coordination:

• A. Mani

Prizes:

• Flash drives with Fedora and /or Books for top three entries.
• 2 consolation prizes.
• Certificates of Merit.

In case of any difficulty, please contact A. Mani or post your query in our mailing list or google group or talk to us on IRC #wfs-india at freenode.

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ಊಟಕ್ಕೆ ವಾಸುದೇವ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಭರತ್ ಸಿಗ್ತೀನಿ ಅಂದಿದ್ರು, ಅಲ್ಲೇ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ, ಅವರಿಬ್ಬರು ಬರ್ಲಿ ಅಂತ ಕಾಯ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ.

ಹಂಗೇ ನಿಂತಿರುವಾಗ ಒಬ್ರು ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರು, ಯಾರಪ್ಪಾ ಇವ್ರು ನಂಗೆ ಗುರ್ತಾಗ್ತಿಲ್ವಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು, ಆದ್ರೂ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದೆ. ಅವರು ಯಾಕೋ ದುರಗುಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಹೋದ್ರು. ಎಲಾ ಇವರಾ ಅಂತ ಹಂಗೇ ಓಡಾಡ್ತಾ ಕಾಯ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ, ಮತ್ತೆ ಒಬ್ರು ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರು ನಾನು ಮತ್ತೆ confuse ಆಗಿ ಹಿಂದೆ ತಿರುಗಿ ನೋಡಿದೆ, ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ದೇವಸ್ತಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಣೇಶ ಕಾಣಿಸಿದ.

ಅವತ್ತು ಹುಷಾರಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಹತ್ರ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ, ಮಾತ್ರೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಹೇಳಿದ್ರು

"ಇದನ್ನ ತಗೊಳ್ಳಿ, ಆಮೇಲೆ ಎರಡು ದಿನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬನ್ನಿ"

"ಸರಿ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್" ಅಂದು ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೆ.

ಆಮೇಲೆ ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರೆ ತಗೊಂಡೆ, ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸುದಾರಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಮೂರನೇ ದಿನ ಸಂಜೆ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಹತ್ರ ಹೋದೆ.

"ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಾ ಈಗ?"

"ಆರಾಮಾಗಿದೀನಿ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್, ಅದೇ ನೀವು ಎರಡು ದಿನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೇಳಿದ್ರಲ್ಲ.. "

ಯಾಕೋ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಒಂದು ಕ್ಷಣ confuse ಆದಂಗೆ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು.. ಇವನ್ಯಾವನಪ್ಪಾ.. ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೋ ಸರಿ, ಅದನ್ನೇ ಅಕ್ಷರಷಃ ಪಾಲಿಸೋರೂ ಇರ್ತಾರಾ ಅಂತ ಯೋಚಿಸ್ತಾ.. ಅದೇ ಚೀಟಿಯನ್ನ ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ನೋಡಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ರು..

"ಇನ್ನು ಒಂದು ದಿನಕ್ಕೆ ಮಾತ್ರೆ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲಾ, ಅದನ್ನ ತಗೊಳ್ಳಿ.. ಆಮೇಲೆ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಆಗದಿದ್ರೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬನ್ನಿ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಬರೋದೇನೂ ಬೇಡ ಪರವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ" ಅಂತ.

Myself and Prof.Partha were looking for generating PDF files with Tamil and English content using Latex.

Found that.
We can generate multi lingual pdf files using latex easily.
We need to supporting fonts installed anyhow.

Here is the sample code for this.

\documentclass{article}
%Always start xelatex files with these in preamble. This helps in defining the script and fonts
\usepackage{fontspec}
%Set the main languge next as main font.
\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Lohit Hindi}

%Set rest of the languages l;ike this. Experiment a bit. script=punjabi did not work. Replaced with gurmukhi and it works.

\newfontfamily{\tam}[Script=Tamil]{Akshar Unicode}
\newfontfamily{\tel}[Script=Telugu]{Akshar Unicode}
\newfontfamily{\kan}[Script=Kannada]{Mallige}
\newfontfamily{\Guja}[Script=Gujarati]{Lohit Gujarati}
\newfontfamily{\ben}[Script=Bengali]{Lohit Bengali}
\newfontfamily{\Punj}[Script=Gurmukhi]{Lohit Punjabi}

%English does not need any script specifiction! Just define the font.
\newfontfamily{\eng}{Arial}
\begin{document}
%No need to define script as this is the manin font set. Like defalut.
नमो पकवते नारायणाय! \\
%Switch language like this. { begins the changed line. \xxx denotes the switched  language. Use the same definition as denoted in preamble. } will end the switch and default to main unless again specified.
{\tel నమో పకవతే నారాయణాయ!}\\
{\kan ನಮೋ ಪಕವತೇ ನಾರಾಯಣಾಯ
}\\
{\Guja નમો પકવતે નારાયણાય!}\\
{\Punj ਨਮੋ ਪਕਵਤੇ ਨਾਰਾਯਣਾਯ!}\\
{\ben নমো পকবতে নারায়ণায়!}\\
{\tam நமோ பகவதே நாராயணாய!}\\

{\eng namo bhagavate naraayanaaya}\\
%the next line does not begin liekt he ones above. so it defaults to mainfont which is devanagari.
शुभम।
\end{document}

Check the output too.

Thanks for Dr.Vasudevan Tirumurti for the latex file.

* સૌથી પહેલા, નવા સ્ટોકની સચિત્ર માહિતી:

નંબર ૪: કિમ્બલ રેવન્સવૂડ – મધુ રાય.

* ઉપરોક્ત પુસ્તકોની સાથે-સાથે કવિનને એક સરસ ‘સ્કેટ બોર્ડ’ મળ્યું છે. અમારા નીચેના ફ્લેટ વાળાઓએ હજી સુધી બૂમો પાડી નથી. એમની આ સહનશીલતા બદલ તેમનો ધન્યવાદ!

* મસ્ત વરસાદ ચાલુ છે. રવિવારના સવારના બે ભવ્ય કાર્યક્રમો મોકૂફ રાખવા પડ્યા હતા. સાંજે સમય કાઢીને અમે ‘યે જવાની હૈ દિવાની’ જોવા ગયા. જિંદગીમાં કરેલી ભૂલોમાંની એક વધુ ભૂલ. મુવી શું કહેવા માંગતું હતું તે ખબર ન પડી હા, થોડા ડાયલોગ્સ સારા હતા, દુનિયા દર્શન કરાવ્યું. DSLR/કેમેરા દેખાડ્યા. ઉદેપુરનો મહેલ જે અમે ક્યારેય દેખવાના નહોતા, તે બતાવ્યો. પણ, અંતે ભાઇ ભારત પાછા આવ્યા. કરણ જોહર મૂર્દાબાદ!

* બ્લડી ખૂની મન્ડે!

It feels great to be on planet KDE.
This opportunity came as a pleasant surprise , Season of KDE.
Putting aside my project proposal for GSoC "Integration of Face Recognition in Digikam" as
one of my fellow (now a GSoC er on the same project). I have decided to focus my attention
on "QtScript integration in Digikam". More on this in a while.

Following my last post, the Script Console in Digikam’s GSoC branch has the FULL Qt API available by default.

Now you can access the full range of Qt Widgets from Modules like
QtCore, QtGUI, et al.
Use all the modules available in the Qt API as follows:
Open the script console in Digikam from tools->Script console
and type out :
var a = new QWebView();
var url = new QUrl(“your Url here”);
a.load(url);
a.show();
and then click on the Evaluate button.
The screen shot shows the result

Stay Tuned, More to Come !
Until….. Next time !

KDE india Community is Organizing its first conference at Bangalore and I am thrilled to be a part of the organizing committee. I am going to the Konf ( As i would like to call it, lovingly  ) that’s no news, i love KDE ! but this blog post is for the vast majority of my friends who have no idea what KDE is , and what it means to be a part of.

Read On , to  know more about what to expect at the Konf , and why you just have to be there !

1. Artists :

KDE is a *HUGE* project and we have brilliant artists in our KDE art team. Seen our shiny new poster or the stunning artwork on the website ?  Those are Courtesy Eugene Trounev, be there to talk to him personally ! He is also giving a talk about “Graphics & Open Source: Survival guide” . You don’t have to be a software guru to attend this talk, just bring the artist in you

2. Photographer :

As a photographer you try to capture all the moments you cherish ! You almost definitely use a photo-management application like Adobe Lightroom or the likes. But my fellow developer Aditya Bhatt will introduce you to “digiKam: Professional Photo Management” a *Free* photo management app that you just have to know about ! If you are excited about “automatic lens correction”, “Online sharing Integration” in lightroom, digikam had it for a very looooong time ! Be there to know more about it !

3. Person Managing a large diverse workforce (a.k.a Manager):

Before i start off on this point , let me put you in perspective. KDE is a project which has, as far as i know, thousands of active contributors, so it is very very big ! Now, I introduce our community ninja (a.k.a community manager, formally) Lydia Pintscher. She directly interacts with all of the thousands of the contributors , when required , and is very good at managing people. So , i am sure you can definitely learn a thing or two from her ! Plus have a lot of fun at the conference !

4. Gamer

You are an avid gamer , right ! Ever wondered what goes underneath your shiny new game that makes it tick ? Be there to attend the talk “Glue games with Gluon” Shantanu . I am sure , your time will be very well invested ! not spent

5. Programmer / Technology Enthusiast :

You my friend are in for a treat ! Frankly this blog post will be an injustice to all the amazing tech talks lined up. Just head over to http://kde.in/conf/talks/ to treat yourself !

6. User :

You guys are very important part of the community ! we the KDE community are always open to new ideas and criticism / suggestions.  Please do drop by and bring in your friends too ! Your visit would definitely be fruitful . We also have loads of Hands-on Sessions , please bring in your laptops if possible

7. School Kids / College Students :

Guys and Gals , you just have to be there ! Heard of Google Summer of Code ? Google Code-In ? We have a LOT of ex-GSoC ers attending the Konf , come and meet them personally ! Also get to know about the project that interests you ( a must for GSoC & GCI ) and there is no better way than to get introduced by the people who actually develop for the project !

If you have queries about the event , post a meesage to conf@kde.in or Just register ! at  http://kde.in/conf/register/

NOTE : Use the below discount codes, don’t forget to bring your college IDs  :)

• Student discount: KDEIN_DIS_STU
• Teacher discount: KDEIN_DIS_TCR

That’s all for now ! and See you at the Conf.

–cheers

Kunal Ghosh

OpenIndiana is a project created from the ashes of OpenSolaris. When oracle decided to close the development of OpenSolaris, some brave folks forked the kernel and put together a user-space to form OpenIndiana (OI), Its a great distro ! Above all its got software innovations (ZFS , dtrace, crossbow etc) which the linux userland can just dream of (Though systemTap , btrfs are quite commendable as well.)

OK , so i have this great new distro and i love KDE so i want to see if my favorite softwares (Kate , amarok, digikam) work on OI or not. And sure they do ! (/me feels good here ) the KDE – Solaris team has already created a repo with the latest KDE 4.6 packages. So , now i am convinced that i must start using OI. So i dump the dd image onto a USB stick and connect it to my laptop (a Dell Studio 1450). Now the fun stuff starts OI doesn’t boot !!!!

After reading countless blogposts and consulting people on IRC (DrLou on #openindiana apparently had the same problem as me , and we sat together for 3 days (with breaks ofcourse trying out everything that we could find) . In the mean time i had posted my problem to the OI discuss mailing list as well. Finally after a 2 day wait , i got replies from the OI gurus on the discuss mailing list. The message from Garrett D’Amore was particularly useful , he suggested me to add the -k option to the kernel line in grub and boot , this would fire up the In-Kernel Debugger the KMDB when i pressed “F1-A” during the boot process. But alas ! this didn’t work either Now i was desperately in need of some new ideas. Garrett’s post hinted me to check out more OI kernel flags. As it turned out, in an obscure wiki entry in BigAdmin (the solaris admin wiki) there was a mention of the flag “-B acpi-user-options=2″ i appended the kernel line with this option and presto ! OI booted !. Now this was after 3 days of “beating around the bush” debugging and it felt great . So, i headed over to #openindiana and told DrLou about my findings , and after a few tries even his laptop booted !! Yay ! (Supposedly this acpi bug comes to haunt users of solaris , from time to time )

Now all that i had to do is to create a new beadm ( look up the solaris man pages , you will be amazed !) and add the bionicmutton repo to OI and that’s it, i have KDE 4.6 on OpenIndiana. OI Looks and Feels much better now

This blog post is to document two things:
1. ” -B acpi-user-options=2″ might get OI to boot on your machine.
2. Never give up any problem , if you are facing it , you can be pretty sure someone else is facing it too ! stick to the problem and solve it.
(And after you solve it , in the Spirit of Good Will , share it with others by documenting it in your blog/wiki)

KDE solaris needs a lot of polish and could do with some more contributors. So if you have some spare time , drop by at #kde-solaris , #openindiana , #illumos on freenode.

That’s all for now ,
Until next time
Kunal

I woke up this morning to see my F18 instance not giving me the GNOME login screen. It just hangs after systemd brings up wpa_supplicant.service. And, throws this message:

systemd-readahead

Failed to read event: value too large for defined datatype

I fired up an F18 live-usb to see open a browser and check if there any existing bugs. Indeed there was one. It’s in ASSIGNED state. But I haven’t delved deep into the issue.

I quickly tried a few things :

• Start the systemd-readahead-replay service manually

   $ systemctl start systemd-readahead-replay.service</ 

• Try to invoke Xorg from a virtual terminal with the below CLI

  $ Xorg :0 -background none -verbose \
    -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt1

• Boot into runlevel 3, and type init 5
• Remove quiet from Kernel command-line, to find more verbos logs. No errors absolutely in /var/log/Xorg.* or /var/log/messages

All to no avail. I was drawing a blank and didn’t have any alternative, I’m working remote currently, and I only have this Lenovo X220 with me. I decided to just upgrade to Schrödinger’s Cat (i.e. Fedora-19). Why not? – I’ve been working for months with Fedora-19 composes on more than 5 servers just fine (but they’re all just minimal @core only virt hosts). I invoked the below command and went for my lunch…

$ yum update yum; yum clean all \
  yum --releasever=19 distro-sync --nogpgcheck -y

…voila — after download/update/cleanup/verify of 4770 packages, Schrödinger’s Cat is ready !

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* બીજાની સારી સાયકલ પ્રત્યે મન ભટકાવવા દેવું નહી.

ગઇકાલે બાઇકશાર્કમાં ગયો ત્યારે મસ્ત પર્પલ કલરની સાયકલ (હવે તે કલર પર્પલ હતો કે પોપટી, રામ જાણે! આપણે તો અંધરંગભક્ત સાયકલનાં બની ગયા હતા!) જોઇને મન મોહિત બની ગયું. ત્યાર પછી જ્ઞાન થયું કે, જેવી છે મારી કાળી-લાલ સાયકલ, મારી જ છે. તો એ નિમિત્તે સરસ હેન્ડગ્રીપ નંખાવી અને સાયકલ વધુ સરસ બનાવી દીધી. હજી ટેઇલ લાઇટ અને સ્ટેન્ડ બાકી છે. જે આવતા અઠવાડિયે ઉમેરવામાં આવશે.

* અત્યારે કવિનનું વેકેશન ચાલી રહ્યું છે, અને સમગ્ર વેકેશન દરમિયાન તેણે રખડી ખાવા સિવાય કંઇ કામ કર્યું લાગતું નથી (મોસ્ટ હેપનિંગ-એક્સાઇટિંગ  એક્ટિવિટી: શેરીનાં કૂતરાંઓને પથ્થર મારવા. તા.ક. કોઇ ઝોલાંધારી શ્વાનપ્રેમી એક્ટિવિસ્ટે પગલાં લેવા નહીં, નહીતર તેમને પણ પથ્થર ખાવાના આવી શકે છે!). અને, મેં મારી જાતને કવિનને સલાહો આપતો સાંભળ્યા પછી યાદ આવ્યું કે અમે વેકેશનમાં શું કરતાં હતાં? આ જ. રખડી ખાવાનું.

છેલ્લું પેપર ક્યારે પતે એના ઉત્સાહમાં હું ઘણીવાર છેલ્લા પેપરમાં ભોપાળું-ધબડકો વાળીને આવતો. (હા, કોલેજમાં પણ મારે હંમેશા છેલ્લાં પેપરમાં ઓછા માર્ક્સ જ હોય.) વેકેશન શરુ થાય એના પહેલાં ભવ્ય પ્લાન્સ બનાવ્યા હોય કે આમ કરીશું ને તેમ કરીશું. શરુઆતમાં તો બહુ ઉત્સાહથી કંઇક નવી પ્રવૃત્તિ કરવામાં આવે અને પછી ધીમે-ધીમે આખું વેકેશન કારણ વગરના રખડવામાં પસાર ક્યારે થઇ જાય એની ખબર ન પડે. મોટાભાગનું વેકેશન જોકે મામાનાં ઘરે કે બાનાં (નાની) ઘરે જ વીતાવવામાં આવતું. મને યાદ છે ત્યાં સુધી વેકેશનમાં હું ક્યાંય ફરવા ગયો નથી (સિવાય કે આજુ-બાજુ નાનકડી ટ્રીપ્સ).

હા, વેકેશન એના માટે તો હોય જ છે. કવિનને કોઇ જ પ્રકારના ક્લાસિસમાં એની મરજી વગર મૂકવાનો ઇરાદો નથી. એ અત્યારે એના વેકેશનનું છેલ્લું અઠવાડિયું મસ્તીથી કાઢી રહ્યો છે. દા.ત. કાલે પહેલાં વરસાદમાં નહાવાનું

અને હવે, ઉનાળું-દિવાળી વેકેશન મળતું જ નથી (એટલે કે, લેવું પડે છે!)

ILUGC Monthly Meet (June 8 2013 )

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on
Free Open Source Software in Chennai since Jan 1998. We meet regularly
on every month second Saturday with technical talks and discussions on
various Free software.

Check our website http://ilugc.in for further details.

Join our mailing list at http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

We have our Meet on June 8, 2013

Check the details below.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (June 8 2013):-

Time : Sat June 8, 2013 (3.00 – 5.30 PM)

Venue:
Venue: Classroom No 3,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

1.

Topic:

Implementing Web based SMS Management using Kalkun and Gammu in Raspberry Pi

Duration: 30 Minutes

About Speaker: S. Baskar, CEO, LinuXpert Systems, baskar AT linuxpert.in

Links to read:

http://kalkun.sourceforge.net/
http://wammu.eu/gammu/

2.

Topic: Website building using Django

Duration: 20 minutes

About Speaker: Sibi, Researcher in TCS Innovation Labs.
psibi2000 AT gmail.com

P.S: Plan is to give a demo of small website creation.

3.

Topic:
Photography Basics and Techniques.

Description:

Provides an insight on to the Technical aspects of Photography and
techniques for better photography.
Exploring wikipedia commons and how to contribute to wikipedia using
photography.

Duration: 1-1:30 hours

About speakers:

RavindraBoopathi – An Photography Enthusiast, working in IT industry,
with contributions to wiki commons and magazines. Practices
photography as passion and hobby.

Pradeepkumar – An Photography Enthusiast, Working in IT industry,
Practices photography as passion and hobby.

4.
General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.

All are welcome. Entry Free

Contact:
Shrinivasan – 98 41 79 54 68

–
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan

My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com

Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

Open Stack June month meetup is planned at chennai on

Saturday, June 8, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Venue:

CollabNet Software Private Ltd,
The Lords, Block II,
4th Floor #1,2,

North Extension Area
Ekkatuthangal, Guindy
Chennai-600032, India

Phone: +91 44 4220-3700

Map : http://bit.ly/11utU2l

Land Mark: Virtusa Building, Block 2, 4th floor.

Register here to attend the meeting.
http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/120677342/

Free for all.

Anyone can register and attend.

Agenda

Collabnet team – Keynote Session (20mins)
Openstack for Academia: RajaGopalan Varadan
storage systems on OpenStack, Swift and Ceph: Yogesh Girikumar
Puppet & OpenStack : Kavit Munshi: Aptira

Hi-Avalibllity in OpenStack : Syed Armani : Hastexo

About OpenStack:
OpenStack is a python based open source cloud computing framework.

It is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing project

that is free open source software released under the terms of the Apache License. The
project is managed by

the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in
September 2012 to promote, protect and empower OpenStack software and

its community.

More than 150 companies have joined the project among which are AMD,
Intel, Canonical,

SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, VMware and Yahoo!.
It is portable software, but is mostly developed and used on the Linux

operating system.

The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that
control large pools

of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a
datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering

their users to provision resources through a web interface.

Links to read:
http://www.openstack.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

* વર્ષોથી અમારી ઇચ્છા હતી કે અમારી પાસે એક કેલિડોસ્કોપ હોય. કારણ કે, જ્યારે અમે નાનાં હતાં ત્યારે અમને એ બહુ ગમતુ હતું. મોટાભાગે મેળા દરમિયાન ખરીદવામાં આવતું હતું અને થોડા સમય પછી તેનું ડિસેક્શન કરવામાં આવતું હતું. થોડા સમય પહેલાં જ્યારે અમે અમદાવાદ ગયા હતા, ત્યારે પરિમલ ગાર્ડન રોડ પર કેલિડોસ્કોપ લઇને બેઠેલા ફેરિયા જોયા જે રિક્ષા સડસડાટ જતી રહેવાના કારણે ‘મિસ’ થઇ ગયા! હવે, આ વખતે જ્યારે અમદાવાદની એક કલાકની માઇક્રો મુલાકાત લીધી, ત્યારે યાદ રાખીને કેલિડોસ્કોપ લેવામાં લઇ લેવામાં આવ્યું (રુપિયા ૪૦ રોકડા), આ દરમિયાન, એક સરસ ‘એપ’ થી કામ ચલાવ્યું (ફ્રી અને ઓપનસોર્સ એપ છે), જે પણ સરસ નીકળી.

અને ત્યારબાદ,

મિશન પૂર્ણ!

I am personally very sad to see Fedora's name in this announcement. As an Indian, the text on that page is too much offensive and not sure what Fedora has to do with that particular issue. I am not against anyone but the way Fedora's brand name is being used in random things, I am not sure where all places I will see the brand Fedora in future.