It was 8th, Monday afternoon when I left Amritapuri Campus to attend and talk at the FSFS (http://fsfs.in) conference at Trivandrum. I met Unni, my seinor with whom I left for Trivandrum. We caught a bus from Vallikavu to Karunagapally (KNPLY) from where we got Fast Passenger bus to Trivandrum. On reaching Trivandurm, I went to Unni’s home, got a warm welcome with hot Cuttlets followed with a superb tea . It was fun. Saran, myy batch mate came to [...]
Gnunify is an annual gathering of the techies. It is organised by the students of the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) in association with the Pune Linux Users Group(PLUG) to provide a platform for exchange of ideas and knowledge among the industry professionals, students and academia. GNUnify symbolizes the philosophy behind Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). It makes an effort to unify and strengthen the FOSS movement. Initiated in the year 2003, GNUnify has soared to become an [...]
Your modem is a peripheral device to Linux, like a CD-ROM drive, hard drive, or a mouse. Your modem will be connected to a serial port, which means that one of the serial devices in the /dev directory actually points to your modem. You may notice that there’s also a file, /dev/modem, which serves as a placeholder for your modem. Initially this file doesn’t point to anything. To simplify your operations, so that applications like minicomand seyon need only refer [...]
2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture. 9-11, December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram The Free Software Movement, started about a quarter of a century back, pioneered the various movements for freedom in the digital world – for instance, free knowledge represented by Wikipedia or freedom of creative works from copyright restrictions represented by Creative Commons. We also see a new form of social production where collaboration becomes more important than competition, where people from different [...]
Check out the FOSS.IN/2008 photos (Amrita’s Point of View) [flickr album=72157610639943400 num=30 size=Thumbnail] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Through my lenses: FOSS.IN 2008 You can find Kushal’s event report here (11MB).Do check out page 16 where you can see two of my classmates who were “Hacking” on something
