The Sun Club at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus conducted the first ever fossquiz ’09, a college wide FOSS contest. To start with, we had the registration on 21st and 22nd of January. Registration desks were placed in the College corridors. The first day, we had 50 teams registered and on the second day, it shot up to 96 registrations. The registration was in teams of two. The contest has three rounds: 1. The Preliminary Round – 29th January 2009 [...]
Man… I just cant believe this. I have a reliance data card, running on ubuntu. I get a download of about 20kbps. You must have read my http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/01/26/radioverve/ post. It is really a cool stuff. I started playing the online player since i saw the webiste that is at 10:30 am. You want to see the statistics??? avinash@avinashj:~$ ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:x.x.x.x P-t-P:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:90360 errors:80 dropped:0 overruns:0 [...]
Join Amrita university’s OSUM today! Amrita OSUM The Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer organization that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way. Through its on-campus activities, Sun sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members via technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web courses, through the Sun Academic Initiative program will be available to the OSUM to provide an opportunity to get its members Sun [...]
1. Proponent of free software gets marching orders! 2.. Tax returns! Kerala IT policy envisions an inclusive knowledge society, but it still remains just words. There is no effort to implement the policy in any of the initiatives the government is taking. The recent incident is the tax filing application which mandates use of Microsoft Excel fomat for tax filings and the macro does not work with Free Software replacements like Open Office Calc. More over the site is designed [...]
Yesterday, I gave a talk on “Current Trends in Communication”. My talk mainly focused on Blogging, how blogging can help you in the current scenario of “Recession”. This talk was mainly focused for students so as to give them an awareness on Blogging and its importance. I have attached my presentation in the Amrita-SunClub’s website. Resource (pdf): http://sunclub.amrita.ac.in/sunclub/files/Blogging.pdf
I depend on Reliance ZTE/CDMA for Internet access. I configured the dialing by using the wvdial PPP utility, and I issue the wvdial command ( See my earlier post on connecting to internet using Reliance ZTE modem ) to connect to the internet in Ubuntu 8.10. There were some issues and drawbacks with the wvdial daemon. 1. It used to crash frequently. 2. I need to type the wvdial command to connect to the internet and the terminal should always [...]
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement has brought about a remarkable change in the way software applications, and computer operating systems are developed; by actively engaging the end user in the process. The success of FOSS has spawned a number of interesting experiments such as the development of open content through sites like Wikipedia, open access and constructive approaches to the creation of knowledge, the growth of open hardware, and various other projects aimed at applying the ideals [...]
