Linked lists session on #dgplug, Friday, 8pm IST

Posted: 2008/09/04 18:55:11

Debarshi will take a session on linked lists at #dgplug tomorrow 8pm IST. This is a part of the summer training sessions

Comments

Ksnapshot, the photographer in your computer

Posted: 2008/09/04 00:31:40

ksnapshot, the photographer in your system

Ksnapshot, the photographer in your computer. This application helps you to take screenshot or snapshot of your system. You can use those screenshots to describe your problem/points in a better way. It can even take snapshot of any particular window or a region. You can even add some delay, after which it will take the snapshot. Watch the video here.

Comments

Okular, the universal document viewer video

Posted: 2008/09/02 01:21:03

Okular

Okular, the universal document viewer. It can open different file formats. Few formats are:

  • PDF
  • PS
  • Tiff
  • CHM
  • DjVu
  • Images
  • DVI
  • XPS
  • ODT
  • Fiction Book
  • Comic Book
  • EPub
You can watch the video here.

Comments

A road trip to Bijra video

Posted: 2008/09/01 12:36:56

I don’t remember if I blogged about this video or not. We are running Fedora 7 based LTSP system there with all KDE EDU applications.

I remember of writing about this though.

Comments

Marble video and Hi to planet KDE

Posted: 2008/09/01 01:53:24

Want to say “Hi planet KDE” :)

Marble on my desktop

Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas. You can learn a lot about planet Earth by using it. It is written in Qt and cross platform.  Among the different features some are:

  • It can fetch data from Wikipedia
  • It can measure distance between places
  • OpenStreet map support
  • GPS device support
  • Shows satellite view
  • It also renders real time cloud over Earth
You can find the video here.

Comments

How to find your disk usage ?

Posted: 2008/08/31 03:02:26

In this video I tried to explain two commands, du and df .

Comments

New videos: Python tuple, list, dictionary and string objects

Posted: 2008/08/31 03:00:49

I just upload few more videos at tv. These are on different python object/data structure available. To know more read here.

Comments

Paul W. Frields is going to talk on Fedora Docs

Posted: 2008/08/27 19:37:28

Paul W. Frields, the fearless Fedora Project Leader and long time contributor to the Fedora Docs project, is going to conduct a session on Fedora Docs as part of dgplug’s summer training.

Venu: #dgplug  on irc.freenode.net Date Time: September 4 , Thursday, 13:00 UTC

Máirín Duffy already conducted a session on Fedora Art , you can read the log here.

Comments

From BrokenMoko to OpenMoko, a late night journey

Posted: 2008/08/27 14:52:38

Last few days I was looking for a GPS device to test how they work and if I can do some OpenStreet Map work and I am not in condition to buy anything.

A BrokenMoko was lying on the table we use, from the time I came to Pune. TangoGPS is the GPS application in it. I tried a lot to figure out how to use that and failed. Later at night joined #openmoko , people (Specially Zorkman and Dave) tried to help me in every known way so that I can turn that on. Figured out the unit was running some FSO build (no idea what it is).

Finally around 1AM , <Zorkman> asked me to install some 2008.8 build into the SD card and boot from there. They told me all steps one by one :) Steps are:

  • Connect the OpenMoko to your system , create a USB connection
  • write a proper /etc/resolv.conf
  • Prepare the SD card by partitioning and formatting.
  • Download these roofs and kernel.
  • on the FR: mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mokokernel
  • scp 20080826-asu-stable-uImage.bin root@192.168.0.202:/mnt/mokokernel/uImage.bin
  • on the FR: mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/moko
  • scp 20080826-asu-stable-rootfs.tar.gz root@192.168.0.202:/tmp/
  • on the FR:tar -C /tmp/20080826-asu-stable-rootfs.tar.gz -xzvf /mnt/moko
  • download http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin</li>
  • Read how to flash
  • Boot from SD
  • opkg update && opkg install gpsd
  • opkg install http://www.tangogps.org/downloads/tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk</li>
  • echo GPS_DEV=“/dev/ttySAC1” > /etc/default/gpsd
  • Turn on GPS hardware from setting menu
  • on the FR: /etc/init.d/gpsd start
  • edit your ~/.gconf/apps/tangogps/%gconf.xml and replace it with this.
  • edit /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and replace it with this.
  • Now fire tangogps and enjoy
Don’t forget to get out of the house to test it :)

Comments

Dolphin, the file manager in KDE4.x

Posted: 2008/08/25 20:20:05

Dolphin is the file manager in KDE4.x. It is made focusing on usability.

Dolphin in KDE4

Here is video tutorial on dolphin

Comments

Contents © 2004-2014 Kushal Das - Powered by Shonku