Why are we so afraid of doing things we love doing? Specially those which make you feel happy. Be it work, personal life, friends, or just anything. 3 years ago when I was at the brink of taking an important decision (personal and professional) – I read this article by Paul Grahams who went at [...]
This Saturday/Sunday, I’ll be off to GNUnify’07 for a presentation on Fedora, titled – Internationalization on Fedora – What & How. GNUify – Schedule | Wiki Okay, just found out, I have the first presentation slot in the morning! phew! That means getting up again at around 6… whoa!
On wednesday, I reopened the bug 206439 when Aman pointed the following to us… Okay, this seemed a translation bug. Down to the debugging & I found that Comment 12 was where the bug coming from. Giving it a round of translation was the first thing on my mind… which was not very well received [...]
The Official GNOME 2 Developer’s Guide After reading a few pages from Ritesh’s book, I was simply mesmerized! If offers just the details you need to understand the what & how of GTK+ and GLib libraries. The saying goes correct… Good books are worth all the investment. Order your own copy for INR 495 (~= [...]
I’ve been long using FC on my system, not to mentioned installed it about a hundred times… but I never came across this option (actually I never knew it untill I saw Aman using it). When at the boot promt (during the installation), use this linux vnc With *vnc* as an arg, the installation will [...]
Yesterday, the much awaited soccer tournament started with we playing with L&T. Though we lost 3-Nil but Pai (our goalkeeper) & our defenders did a fine job. While Amit & Salil lead nicely from the front. Lots of improvements will be required to take on the next team & i hope i’ll also step in [...]
Last time i met him, Manuj had a dream in his eyes & two certificates of attendence in his hands. Today, his hands are fuller with a certificate of RHCE & my eyes are full of appreciation for him. Great work Manuj, keep it up http://manujmohla.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-rhce.html
Reading GTK’s source code made all the difference Have a look at the code [update] New updated code here
Utilizing a saturday to its best… Tomorrow is a holiday… at home, the electricity will be out from as usual 8:30 AM, no water form 11 AM… so whats the point in staying at the room? Why not utilize the night & then the day & be a bit more productive Its 11 PM here [...]
Finally i did managed to change the font using pango…. Hurray! The code for above is here