Sun Microsystems has announced the Code JavaFX Contest 2009 contest. Students and developers across India can participate in this contest. This contest is aimed to generate enthusiasm for the JavaFX technology and to encourage developers to develop and contribute sample applications or games that demonstrate use of JavaFX in creating rich internet applications. Prizes will be awarded to those who submit the best entries as determined by the judges in accordance with these Official Rules. Prizes All verified, eligible Entrants [...]
I have added a new page: http://avinashjoshi.co.in/users-speak/ Here, I will be posting (in reverse chronological order), my blog users, visitors and Friends experience with FOSS and generally with my blog. So, If you like my blog and would like to put up your comments on that page, mail to mail at avinashjoshi dot co dot in and I will respond to your comments.
The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2. Other [...]
December of 2008, I attended and gave a talk on OpenSolaris at the FSFS conference @ Trivandrum (http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2008/12/09/fsfs-day-one-2008-09-12/). This is where I was enlightened about the reality of GNU by Richard M Stallman. Let me just put down my thoughts (mostly taken from http://gnu.org) The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. GNU’s kernel isn’t finished, so GNU is used with the Linux kernel. The combination of [...]
I guess we all know that Ubuntu 8.10 ships with OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 and, if you want to use the new and improved version, then this guide is for you! However, we will not do a fresh install of the OpenOffice suite, as we will instead only upgrade the current version in Ubuntu Intrepid. What do I need to get started? Ubuntu 8.10 (32-bit or 64-bit), which can be downloaded from here. OK, so… first thing, you must add the OpenOffice.org [...]
!Ubuntu Rocks! Introduction: Today morning as I got into my class, my little friend Aswathy (I call her achu) bounced up and asked me for help. On enquiring, what the matter was, she told me that she wanted to install IBM RSA for her projects; but she was having vista!! Ok now I knew that RSA works quite fine on Xp and her HP laptop did not allow her to install Win XP. Great. So to fix this up, I [...]
Source: http://amrita.edu/news2009/univ-news/naac.php The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarded an A grade to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. “It was perhaps one of the most complex accreditation exercises undertaken by NAAC,” said Assistant Professor Prashant R. Nair, who was appointed as a university-wide coordinator. “Over a hundred people in the university were directly involved with the accreditation exercise, serving as campus-level, school-level and department-level coordinators.” A large team was deputed from the national accreditation body in Bangalore to visit all 15 [...]
