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ILUGC Monthly Meeting June 20091 comment

technofreak wrote 5 months ago: The monthly meeting of ilugc, which usually happens every second Saturday, for the month of June 200 … more →

Tags: Meets and Conferences, Events, F/OSS, ilugc, Linux, LUG, Meet, Meeting, talk

wireless usage - february and march 20092 comments

technofreak wrote 8 months ago: The day I read a blog post about setting up vnstat to monitor network usage, I had one setup for my … more →

Tags: Just Scribbles, Internet, Monitor, Network, statistics, Usage, vnstat

For Reading (25th September 2008)

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: When I closed the Feed Reader this morning, I realized that I had a dozen tabs opened in my browser … more →

Tags: Pointers, Andrew, News, Updates

The Firefox Fluster2 comments

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: When people speak about successful Open Source projects, what tops the list is the famous Open Sourc … more →

Tags: Pointers, ubuntu, Do You Know?, Read Today, firefox, problem, eula, Licence, Copyright

One day for freedom, for software

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: Most countries celebrate Independence Day to celebrate some kind of freedom associated with their co … more →

Tags: FOSS Community Activities, happenings and events, FSF, SFD

Reading docx files with OpenOffice3 comments

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: There are problems not because we use some lame software, but because our lesser sane friends decide … more →

Tags: Support for Linux/FOSS, docx, Converter, document, ODF, MS Office

mere updates

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: There are two reasons for this post, first is that people have started feeling I no more blog, and s … more →

Tags: happenings and events, Do You Know?, ubuntu, News, Foss.in, bug-triage, Debian, 5-a-day

Usability by Celeste1 comment

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: I made it yesterday though it was late into the midnight, attending Kubuntu Tutorials Day at #kubunt … more →

Tags: FOSS Community Activities, happenings and events, ubuntu, Usability and HCI, Tutorials, Usability, Tutorial, Kubuntu, LOG

Tasque

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: Heard about this wonderful little GNOME app called Tasque from nixternal’s blog post today, ch … more →

Tags: Pointers, ubuntu, tasque, ToDo, Application, Hardy, Gnome

fossconf chennai 20084 comments

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: Chennai chapter of Indian Linux User Group had geared up for their new avatar as conference organize … more →

Tags: FOSS Community Activities, Meets and Conferences, fossconf chennai, Report

the new KDE era begins

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: All Ks are excited and rather celebrating. Wonder why? Because their new baby is out and it’s … more →

Tags: happenings and events, Qt and KDE, Do You Know?, Release, KDE, KDE4

Notes from Roger's OpenJDK talk1 comment

technofreak wrote 1 year ago: I happened to be the Hall Marshal during Roger’s talk on OpenJDK (or Open Sourcing Java) durin … more →

Tags: Do You Know?, Foss.in, notes, Conference, openjdk, Java

(Python) ipython1 comment

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: When I was just peeping into the discussions at #python, I saw a few talking about ipython. On first … more →

Tags: criticism and reviews, Python, iPython, shell, Interactive

its story time

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: Read this interesting story “The Ants and the Grasshoppers” by Jim Hutchinson today in P … more →

Tags: Fun-to-Read, Story, antsandgrasshoppers

Not an easy ride1 comment

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: I still have the memories of doing beta testing for Edgy and fighting daily with broken packages. It … more →

Tags: criticism and reviews, Problems, Issues and Bugs, Upgradations and Installations, ubuntu, Release, upgrade, gutsy, Review

RBC TCConfig is now in Google Code2 comments

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: When I joined Comat this August, the project which I had to start contributing was RBC TCConfig. Tho … more →

Tags: Pointers, Do You Know?, RBC, tcconfig, comat, googlecode, F/OSS, Project

(Ubuntu) Gutsy is Ready!3 comments

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: Time to run the update manager as the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 7.10, codenamed Gutsy Gibbon, is … more →

Tags: ubuntu, Release, upgrade, gutsy

Missed Freed1 comment

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: Actually I was planning to be a volunteer for freed.in, but at the end couldn’t even be a dele … more →

Tags: FOSS Community Activities, Meets and Conferences, Freed, foss.un, ubuntu, project day

chroot is not a security gate!1 comment

technofreak wrote 2 years ago: Happen to see a /. article about popular misconception of chroot being a security tool. I have heard … more →

Tags: Pointers, Do You Know?, Security


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