liveusb-creator is a tool to create live Fedora USB keys from Fedora live iso(s). I just tried create one logo for it. Took the idea from oxygen team.
The new one ^^
To many things in todo list. That means no Freed :(
Have to cancel my ticket.
This blog entry is a continuation of Soumya’s entry.
When I started Linux User Group of Durgapur (dgplug) , the main idea was very simple , learn and teach others. By saying teach others I meant teach your fellow class mates or juniors or sometimes the seniors also. Soumya started working with me almost from the beginning. After I came to Bangalore for job , he took all charges in Durgapur. He tried to get few juniors to whom we could give the batons for the coming years. But suddenly we are feeling that those guys also left the collage sooner than we expected.
It is always good to see people working on the upstream projects, but for that completely forgetting the base is not good as I think. Our motto is “Learn yourself and teach others” but they made it “learn and don’t teach others”.
Maintaining a LUG from 2000km apart is not easy. I had to spent a lot on my phone bill to do so as Internet is not an option for most of my lug guys. I used to call them and explained over phone different technical stuffs. Again I started doing so as the local guys are not at all interested in helping peers. Basic rule is still same: give them software, tell them how to install , tell them to how to use them. Being a Fedora Ambassador I believe that is helping me to make a larger user-base. I got few more people into Ambassador project and thought they will keep the good things going. But it seems they are only using that identity while asking leaves from the collage authority :(
In the same time I had opposite kind of experiences too. Ramu , who is a colleague of mine is doing nice work. Today Prashad is also agreed to join the team :)
For me getting new users is more important than new developers as if users grow, the developers will grow automatically (my personal opinion). In last night I am being able to help a new dgplug member to successfully using IRC, Inkscape (as she is an artist), python and create a new blog for her. Today I found she went to her other friends and then introduced them to the same technologies and they are on to it. It is always fun to see them playing with these new tools :)
But the whole thing sometimes looks like an educational institute, new people -> they learn -> they get jobs -> they forget about the institute !!
We will keep trying to get new people, tell them the nice things from the Free Software World. I am going to West Bengal in March to visit my doctor as the right arm is not in good shape (I can not feel anything in few parts of it). During my staying I will try to spend as much time as I can with these new comers, will try to spread the message that dgplug is just not another website or just few people, it is a personal relationship which help us in every ways of life………
Can anyone point me to a Hello World tutorial for python fastcgi in Apache in Fedora. I am trying to configure Apache, and do a simple example, but failed totally :(
In the last weekend , I had the best trip of life ever. I went to visit a place called Bylakuppe. Bylakuppe is the location of “Lugsum Samdupling” (established in 1961) and “Dickyi Larsoe” (established in 1969), two adjacent Tibetan refugee settlements in Karnataka in India. The trip was arranged by Dr Vivek M of the BWS group. We met at Mysore Bus stand around 3:30PM on Friday. I never been to Mysore before, so I was kind of excited for the trip. We took a volvo bus and reached Mysore around 6 in the evening, had some dosa and started the next bus ride to Kushalnagar. It was kind of strange that the place and /me both are sharing the same name :) After we crossed Mysore city, suddenly rain started and the next thing came in kind “What will happen to the next morning shoot ?”. Luckily there was no raining at Kushalnagar. We reached there at 9:53PM , the last couple of minutes of the bus journey shaked everything in my body, the road was really bad. The city was already almost dead, very few people on the streets. Vivek booked a hotel couple of days back , so we went straight into hotel, came out again for the dinner. There was one international hotel with national price :P I also saw couple of strange hoardings , like “Hotel Top in the Town” , “… Hi tech dental clinic” . Had a good sleep after that :)
Woke up at 6 next day morning , got ready, and went for Namdroling. It is around 5-7Km from Kushalnagar. It is famous for the Golden Temple.
Started clicking and kept going on, after 9 we met two other fellow BWS member , Anita and Sandeep. Next stop was Sera Je. On the way went to small temple in Old Camp 3. The priest and some other members of the local community to have some prashad , I had Chang (read about it in “Tintin in Tibet” ).
At the end we went Kugyudpa monastery and found one interesting football match is going to start. The monks changed their cloths and become football superstars.
Next day, at Golden Monastery , one special event was there for losar (the tibetan new year). Never saw such colourful cloths before. They chanted the mantras, did the puja and then there were few dances by local camp 4 people.
We also found the surprise of the trip, Steven Seagal was in Golden temple on a personal tour. Never thought of finding him so near :)
As I said earlier this trip is the best so far in my life and more important the place is so beautiful. Anyone can simply forget all the worries in his/her life there. I had peace in my mind , irc or email never came to my min. I want to go there again and again. Trying to fix another trip on April. You can find the full photo set here.
In this mail Luke Macken introduced a tool in Windows which can create live USB key from Fedora live ISO images. Tried and it simply rocks :)
I tried to add a simple GUI frontend for it, you can download the GUI version from here.
UPDATE:
If you are getting a missing “MSVCP71.dll” error, then please copy the file into system32 folder and then run the application.
I added few more photos to my flickr set. The last 45 photos are the new ones.
Here is a nice tutorial for the beginners who wants to move to GCC/Free Software world using KDevelop. The KDevelop-Project was founded in 1998 to build up an easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for KDE. You can write in C/C++/Java/Qt/Python and many other languages in it. At the end of the tutorial , there is a nice shortcut table for KDevelop.
