Posted on January 29, 2007, 10:50 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
An excellent event! & as usual, Ramky was onto his clicking spree just as the event started – even he & the professional photographer kinda conducted their own BOF at the event Here is what Ramky had to offer me this morning Me @ my presentation Kartik & Me attending Karunakar’s presentation Coincidence – well, [...]
Posted on January 27, 2007, 3:23 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
I’m writing this entry while attending a Font development workshop by Karunakar & Ravi. The day went pretty well, with my presentation kickstarting the Localization track in Room 407 Everything went perfect, except that… The projector did not picked up my ATI display I had to give Fedora’s presentation on a Suse machine – thank [...]
Posted on January 26, 2007, 11:21 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Just checked my email & found a response from the Maemo Team – I’ve been selected for the N800 Developer Device Program Nokia N800 I’m feeling so happy – so happy that I cannot express it in words! & at the same time, dont know how to thank the Maemo Team – probably writing applications [...]
Posted on September 13, 2006, 9:09 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Umm.. this is what I thought I’d name it Yesternight, I was reading Text Processing in Python, when I wandered off to a section which talked of some HTML parsing. It immediately caught my attention because previously also I was trying to scrap html from my orkut account. A quick reading & I was ready [...]
Posted on July 4, 2006, 1:57 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
With 75,000+ Drupal power websites and an emerging industry supporting over 150 professionals, the open-source Drupal project and community is exploding. At the heart of this community is an incredibly active and productive group of contributors. Creating contributed modules, themes, bug fixes, and core enhancement, these individuals define the course of the Drupal project and [...]
Posted on April 13, 2006, 10:04 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
I found this on slashdot about a day or two ago & its really worth spending 10 minutes from your precious time. Peter has done nice work in providing a non anti-windows view on “How to make Gnome desktop better”. All earlier articles i’ve read regarding desktop usability were directed against windows usability, while this [...]
Posted on March 27, 2006, 12:23 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Something which was keeping me on my toes from past 1 month… Fedora Core 5 Related HowTo : HowTo upgrade from FC4 to FC5 using Yum
Posted on March 26, 2006, 7:59 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Okay, this was something i wanted from the day i saw FC5 release news. Gnome 2.14… was dying to try it (outside vmware & outside a vnc session!) But had absolutely no clue on how to start this upgrade as yum upgrade on vanilla FC4 just updates the system to latest package versions in FC4 [...]
Posted on March 21, 2006, 1:50 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Run vino-preferences & configure it as per your choice Then do “vncviewer makuchaku:0″ to access your desktop in rw mode You can add -viewonly to the above command to make it viewonly. [update] oh, forgot, you need to get vnc installed on your machine to use vncviewer yum install vnc [/update]
Posted on March 13, 2006, 3:38 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Vim 7 (cvs) can now do tabs, inline function completition… wow! Function completition in python script Spellcheck… Tabs… I’ll try my hands at Vim7 asap [& that means ASAP] Pics from Diwaker‘s photostream.