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 …

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 …

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 …