I got up at 8am today to start studying for my internals that will be starting on Monday. I thought, before I start studying, I should read todays paper and thats where I stumbled upon this wonderful article, very nicely written by Suchitra Srinivas. I thought, I must share this with all and thats how [...]
FOSS Quiz ’09 Prelims – Great Success!
On January - 30 - 2009
The Sun Club at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus conducted the first ever fossquiz ’09, a college wide FOSS contest. To start with, we had the registration on 21st and 22nd of January. Registration desks were placed in the College corridors. The first day, we had 50 teams registered and on the second day, it [...]
My India, My Pride!
On January - 26 - 2009
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most artistic materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!” – Mark Twain (Writer, America) I came across this [...]
Radio VeRVe – my statistics
On January - 26 - 2009
Man… I just cant believe this. I have a reliance data card, running on ubuntu. I get a download of about 20kbps. You must have read my http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/01/26/radioverve/ post. It is really a cool stuff. I started playing the online player since i saw the webiste that is at 10:30 am. You want to see [...]
In search of Comfort Zone….
On January - 26 - 2009
It was a hectic day! Aghosh and I got up at 4 in the morning, to get going on a 3 hour journey to Ernakulam to attend the fossmeet @ mec just because Atul Chitnis, Shreyas and Santosh – the major players in foss were coming to speak there. I was lot more excited as [...]
RadioVeRVe – The Best of Independent Music from India
On January - 26 - 2009
Radio VeRVe, a 24×7 online radio station is a great effort started by Gaurav Vaz (gaurav@radioverve.com) and Shreyas Srinivasan (shreyas@radioverve.com) that plays only independent music from India. The best part is that this awesome software was built only on FOSS technologies!! Here are some of the details from the Radio VeRVe website: Why RadioVeRVe? We [...]
Amrita Open Source University Meetup (AOSUM)
On January - 24 - 2009
Join Amrita university’s OSUM today! Amrita OSUM The Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer organization that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way. Through its on-campus activities, Sun sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members via technical demonstrations. [...]
[xkcd] Windows 7 – A Cartoon
On January - 10 - 2009
This is a cool cartoon comic that I got from http://xkcd.com/ – Must read
[Kerala] IT policy says Free Software, but everywhere its still proprietary
On January - 10 - 2009
1. Proponent of free software gets marching orders! 2.. Tax returns! Kerala IT policy envisions an inclusive knowledge society, but it still remains just words. There is no effort to implement the policy in any of the initiatives the government is taking. The recent incident is the tax filing application which mandates use of Microsoft [...]
Mr. Stallman & The Church of Emacs
On January - 9 - 2009
Richard M Stallman told the Kerala crowd @FSFS, Trivandrum about the Church of Emacs!!
Current Trends In Communication
On January - 9 - 2009
Yesterday, I gave a talk on “Current Trends in Communication”. My talk mainly focused on Blogging, how blogging can help you in the current scenario of “Recession”. This talk was mainly focused for students so as to give them an awareness on Blogging and its importance. I have attached my presentation in the Amrita-SunClub’s website. [...]
[Reliance NetConnect] Setting up an automatic internet connection
On January - 7 - 2009
I depend on Reliance ZTE/CDMA for Internet access. I configured the dialing by using the wvdial PPP utility, and I issue the wvdial command ( See my earlier post on connecting to internet using Reliance ZTE modem ) to connect to the internet in Ubuntu 8.10. There were some issues and drawbacks with the wvdial [...]
FOSS Meet@ MEC
On January - 6 - 2009
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement has brought about a remarkable change in the way software applications, and computer operating systems are developed; by actively engaging the end user in the process. The success of FOSS has spawned a number of interesting experiments such as the development of open content through sites like [...]
m3m.in – Email to SMS service in India
On January - 6 - 2009
The Revolutionary New Solution from Netcore that will dramatically increase personal and group productivity in your enterprise in today’s world, email is mission-critical and SMS is ubiquitous of the 250 million subscribers in India and the 60 million who have an email address, only 4 lakh have a Blackberry. Now receive all your Emails via [...]
Little known facts about the TABLE tag…
On January - 6 - 2009
Wondering as to how you can just give the outer border for a table in HTML????? – Read On The <table> tag has three little-known attributes: summary: specifies a text summary of the table for browsers that can’t display it (or speech synthesis etc) frame: controls the outer borders of the table (used in conjunction [...]
The Best way to hack into GMAIL!!
On January - 5 - 2009
Today was a great day…. Our classes ended at 2:40 pm. My friends and I went to get sanction for using laptop in the hostels(Leaving my HP laptop switched on and connected to the plug point). My friend Namitha logged into my laptop and connected to the internet using the data card as she wanted [...]
