2 minutes guide to getting started with Launchpad/Bazaar via Lucid Ubuntu 10.04

I just added some contents from allready existing 5 minutes guide to make it 2 mins and work on Lucid. 🙂 Before i start you need to have 2 things allready done, 1. $ apt-get install bzr 2. A launchpad account. 3. Your public key submitted at launchpad. It means create a key is you …

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 …

Desktop Summit: My Experience meeting Gnome/Kde folks

First of all thanks to KDE e.V for sponsoring my trip. It was great place to meet g33ks and folks i been chatting mostly via IRC. I met many folks like Andre , Lydia and Aaron to name a few. I was happy to see participation of attendees from India most of them being GSOC students and contributors. The two freaks …

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, …

What i want to See in my Google plus : wishlist

To start with neither Google has paid me to write this nor i dislike WebEx or Facebook. Google has always changed the technology tread and yes they failed too sometime, like Google Wave. I love Google and its most important part of my web life. I got google plus and i was thrilled to see …

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 …