Am very happy to say that my talk has been selected for this year`s Desktop Summit in Berlin. I will be talking about “Indian Government Adoption to FOSS.” The complete list of talks are here https://www.desktopsummit.org/program I just hope to get Visa on time. š
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Report: ilug chennai meet & natty release party
I been traveling across colleges and places in India so from now onwards i will be putting all details and information about it on my blog. I been escaping it for a while. Its been almost 3 months for me in Chennai and finally i attended LUG-Chennai meet up. Thanks to Srini for giving me …
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Moved to Lucid !!
All this while since 2008 i was happily using Hardy on my laptop but since the official support is getting over soon i preferred reinstalling from fresh. I was thinking to install 10.10 but today only i came to know that my CD drive is nomore. Thanks to USB boot, i managed to have get …
Python Local Enviornment setup on Ubutnu
I have never coded in my life so its time to learn and do sumthing !! In my previous Job where i was supposed to code in Python and i was not quick enough to do that, i came to know about this Virtualenv funda. We need a virtual environment so that we can install …
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 hunspellĀ myspell-en-us openoffice.org-help-en-us Once this is installedĀ open a open office document …
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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 fileĀ “/etc/default/monit” and set theĀ “startup= 1” This will start the Monit, but we need to do …
Delhi days ..
Its been almost over 15 days i left Delhi and moved to Pune 2 work for a startup. One thing i realized during these days is never compare Delhi with any other City of India. I remember my days of cribbing autowallas in Delhi, trust me they are better than the ones across India. š …
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 …
Recovering the deleted JPG files.
Its been some time i posted here, my apology. It was great last evening as me Achet and Tanya wer out 4 dinner and at same time we been clicking our photos. Tanya unknowingly deleted all the photographs we had taken that evening and she was feeling way to bad. I knew there must be …
Curious case of denyhost and ssh.
I been using denyhost on my own server and many other boxes i been taking care of. I was getting error whenever i tried connecting to my server “ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host” After checking logfile i figured that its happening because of the denyhost. The documentation at the denyhost website explains how to …