Oneiric release party across India

So what i did is, asked for of my friends in Mumbai, Hydrabad and Delhi share there event related photos of Oneiric release party. That is what i will be doing mentioning about them. 🙂 INMANTEC     Gaurav is assistant dean IT and a Open Source freak who is trying his best to turn his college …

Software Freedom Day, Chennai, India

Its been over 8 months since i moved to Chennai, the southern part of India. Chennai has a strong free software user as well as contributor base. I was invited as speaker at an engineering college (jaya college of engineering). I was amazed to see the enthusiasm among student s about free software. The college …

ImageMagick and mogrify. : My command line tool for watermarking.

One fine day i decided i want “watermark” on my photos too, i know am not a great photographer but just for sake i wanted one. I am too lazy to do anything from GUI so i searched a bit and came to know about ImageMagic and mogrify. I simply installed it on my ubuntu …

My first Ubuntu Cloud Days ..

Its been long time i blogged, this blog is about the amazing IRC session we had during 25-26 july. Another thing i would like to tell is i participated as presenter as well as a student. Interesting session were taken by Ubuntu Cloud developers and from members of OpenStack Team. I took session on cloud-init, …

command 4 today : june 24 2011

apt-cache showpkg I been using Ubuntu/Debian for over 5-6 years now but never got an opportunity where i had to check the available version of particular software in repository and know about its dependency and also reverse dependency. sudo apt-cache showpkg ftp Package: ftp Versions: 0.17-19build1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status) Description Language: File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-i386_Packages MD5: e4165975d9905e3c75c5c1aa9714d90d Reverse …

Openstack Book released!!

Well its over month we at Csscorp , my current workplace released a complete beginners guide on the deployment of Openstack for Ubuntu natty. All the information for the same can be found at http://www.cssoss.wordpress.com Am lucky to be part of the team where i got my first hand into cloud computing and i can …

spellchecker in (OO) open-office on ubuntu !!

After 2 hrs of brain storming on weekend in my office finally got spell checker working for my open office 3.2 on ubuntu 10.04. i had to take expert help from Hobbes, nigleb and lastly Indranil dada and it worked. sudo apt-get install hunspell  myspell-en-us openoffice.org-help-en-us Once this is installed  open a open office document …

Setting up Monit (On Ubuntu) ..

Apart from playing with the Source Code Open Source Software has given us. Installing Monit :–   sudo apt-get install monit This command will install Monit on Ubuntu. In order to Start the Monit we need to edit file  “/etc/default/monit” and set the  “startup= 1” This will start the Monit, but we need to do …

Curious case of Redmine Upgrade

Well i call it curious cos i been just told to upgrade Redmine without giving any other details. some strange situation :– [php] $ dpkg -l rails [/php] gave me nothing (omg my redmine instance running without Rails) After some googling and #redmine irc channel i figured out like python easy_install and ubuntu/debian ruby uses …