Fedora Activity Day@BCREC by dgplug

So finally the Fedora Activity Day which was supposed to be held during Horizon’09 in April was held over two in 14th and 15th May,2009. The reason was that horizon got canceled due to some reason.
Here is a complete jot down of the whole two day experience
Day 1 :
We started a little late.At around 12 [...]

Past few days (including mukti09)

Last few days were hectic to me as there was lot of things that was happening around me .
6th Feb : It was Mukti 09 day ,  a national level tech fest on opensource at NIT Durgapur . Me and Arindam had to do a talk cum workshop there .Our Pre Mukti talk was canceled [...]

Random Scriblings

Theres quite lot to  say :
1. Gave one more talk on OSM at mukti 09
2. Visited Kolkata Book Fair and help folks at IOTA stall .It was awesome .Detailed blog coming up
3. Fedora talk at mukti 09 on 6th .Event page up (need suggestions)
4.Visited bijra today and had lot of feedback (complaints) from them .
5. [...]

Finally cambridge is here : WOAH

So finally its is here,f10 cambridge ,
Scheduled my download already ,

read release notes here
download it here

Fedora on mac ..rocks

It has been two months since i bought my macbook .I mostly use my desktop for daily work and mac OSX was serving me well . However due to need i started setting fedora on my mac . Arindam did that previously and his fedora installation was fine .
After installation , i found that apart [...]

Back from Axis 08

Axis 08 is a tech fest organised by NIT Nagpur . We (me ,Susmit, Arindam ) went there and conducted seminar cum workshop . (our scheduled of 3.5 hrs were genoursly extended to above 8 hours over three days .) Now i am back home and have a nice time with Fever . I am [...]

Sending a Freemedia DVD.

I am a part of Freemedia team for Fedora . and this is the first time I am actually sending a DVD outside apart from my local requests .The request i accepted is from Dewanhat , Cooch Behar , West Bengal .
I burned the DVD, put it into a Floppy/CD Mailer Envelope and went to [...]

call for good administrators……is it ??

India has shortage of bandwidth, demand more  and provider less . So in a small city like here ,it almost impossible to ask for good connections , My so called ISP is actually airtel broadband given via local cable operators .Thep provide good download speeds and this is where the problem starts .
you pay 900/- [...]

dgplug@NIT-DGP and @BCET

Today I suppose is a good day in dgplug’s history . We were scheduled to visit NIT@DGP and BCET today. Naturally we started off a little late but managed to reach NIT in time.
NIT@DGP had organized a seminar cum discussion session,with mostly students from 3rd year and 2nd year our primary concern is to get [...]

Dgplug install fest

This time install fest went really good. The day before we asked the student that since no college labs are available so whatever we will be doing will be concentrated to laptops only ,so those who have should bring their laptops . And students brought not only theirs some even borrowed from their friend and [...]

Vmware server and LTSP 5

I tested LTSP 5 in fedora 8 using vmware server 1.0.4 build-56528.
There are certain thing that is needed to be taken care off .
By default a bridging in configured between your ethernet card and vmware which is known as virbr0 . Now as most internet connection are served over dhcp, so there are chances of [...]

Ltsp 5 in fedora 8

I have made a pdf file that contain a little bit more detail description of making LTSP 5 running in fedora 8 (i386) .
This contain detail about configuring configuration files as well .
Hope this will help .
You can find the file here
p.s . :
This file contains details about [...]

LTSP 5 and fedora 8 … a hard way

This is a follow up to my previous post regarding LTSP 5 and Fedora 8 .
The installation part is pretty simple and is same as told before . But need some tweaks to make things work . I am detailing them here ..hope it will help .
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One most important point is ,
xinetd service must [...]

LTSP 5 and fedora 8

Since my involvement with Bijra High school project and working with ltsp , I am simply loving this thing . So i started playing with it . This is my first post .. more to come gradually .
Installation .
Ltsp 5 has still not being integrated to fedora. I downloaded the tarball of LTSP 5 from [...]

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