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install fest @KGEC

February 24, 2009

On 21st feb , We (/me ,Arindam ,and Ratnadeep ) boarded the 5.40 AM bus to kalyani (for the FAD at Kalyani Goverment Engg.College,Kalyani). However we faced a small political unrest@memari that made us leave the bus and board the next available local train . Finally after changing 3 trains we reached there .Rohit (KGEC) [...]

Random Scriblings

February 3, 2009

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. [...]

Vote

December 8, 2008

I voted
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his wish

October 12, 2008

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Axis 08 ..detailed report

October 3, 2008

I am little bit better now so considered writing a detailed blog post on Axis 08 .
Susmit worked hard to get some dvd’s, stickers and posters ready for the trip. So we finally had about 37 dvds and at around 450 stickers .
On 24 th we boarded the train and reached nagpur on 25th . [...]

DirectUpload plugin and rest .

September 2, 2008

A belated post regarding my GSoC work .
A wiki page regarding my work is setup . It is available here
Some Screenshots of my work .
1 . GPSBabel Plugin :

2. Input box of GPSBabel Plugin .

3. Layer Formation .

DirectUpload Plugin ScreenShots are here :
1. DirectUpload Plugin .

2. On successful upload .

some points

May 21, 2008

* last night i came to know that I have semester exams from 3rd of june to somewhat end june
* Coding for GSoC 2008 will start from 26th of may ,so working hard with infrastructure .
* Got Fedora 9 and waiting eagerly to install and see KDE4
more to come ..

call for good administrators……is it ??

May 10, 2008

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/- [...]

Vmware server and LTSP 5

January 15, 2008

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 [...]

Music .. play it

December 29, 2007

Being an engineering student , i was only exposed to hard rock [ a fashion statement for colleges of india ] ( very irritating though). it has been few days i have been tasting some pop and different taste of songs .
kids favorite hannah montana has become my favorite also … she sings well ( [...]

Bijra High School project status

December 14, 2007

It has been a while since the last update ……
Bijra High project finally started with a good thrust. After a grand inauguration which created all the buzz. there were quit a number of news media covering bijra high school project .
Some of them are .
Etv Bangla : The Bengali counterpart of Etv network .the [...]

Bijra High School gears up

November 14, 2007

It has a while since my last post. Some of the important news are
Tommorow (14 th Nov 2007) Bijra High School will receive the bijra server along with client machines.
On 15 th Nov 2007 Bijra High school has decided to make a grand inauguration by Vice Chancellor of our university along with few administrative officials [...]

Festival Time

October 22, 2007

hah ! Durga puja is over…Wishing everyone a “Subho Bijoya” and Happy Dushera to all.

Fedora package

October 13, 2007

Now straw is back again as a fedora package.
Straw is a desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. Its aim
is to be a faster, easier and more accessible way to read news and
blogs than the traditional browser
Whowatch , my another package is also now available for fedora.
Whowatch is an interactive console utility that [...]

Vroom …vroooooooooom….nah it wont work !

October 2, 2007

Oh..damn..i am now in search of a good bike . Now those oil machines ar pretty expensive for me.So i am thinking of a cycle
As my budget is strictly below 10k so i cant afford trek or firefox bikes. Also trek or firefox have no bike stations/dealers in the eastern part of India …pretty bad [...]