The most awaited event for Sampada technical team. We are all joining out hands together once again on 21st September for Gnu/Linux Habba v2. This time we are at “Mysore”
Tentative Date: September 21st
Venue: (Tentative)
Dept. of Physics
University of Mysore
Official Event Website : http://habba.in
Activities :
Volunteers Meet:
IRC, #kannada
Friday evening, Saturday evening.
There will be more ideas, much more planning this time.
Be there!
Title: GNU/Linux Habba v2
Location: Dept. of Physics, University of Mysore
Link out: Click here
Description: Free and OpenSource Festival to guide you on Linux installation and more
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2008-09-21
End Time: 17:00
What is hacking? Who is a hacker? What does he do? Where does it start from? Is he a bad guy? Why they called him bad?
There are lots of such questions in every ones mind on “Hacking”. Hacking is nothing but fun for those who like to show off their cleverness in various things which might or might not involve Computers.
Would you like to see what RMS (Richard Stallman) says about Hacking? Read this link.
The way in which he have put things infront of us is brilliant. Its fun reading.
I have got my hands on Debian Lenny Beta DVD. Testing it while working on lot many things. Here is my first report on Language support. I wish all this works out-of-box when they release Lenny in coming month.
By default many of the true-type fonts are not provided/listed in Debian lenny default repo’s
You can find kannada deb file from the following link :
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/ttf-kannada-fonts/download
Download it :
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-indic-fonts/ttf-kannada-fonts_0.5.4_all.deb
and Install it :
# dpkg -i ttf-kannada-fonts_0.5.4_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package ttf-kannada-fonts.
(Reading database … 96233 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ttf-kannada-fonts (from ttf-kannada-fonts_0.5.4_all.deb) …
Setting up ttf-kannada-fonts (1:0.5.4) …
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-kannada-fonts
Regenerating fonts cache… done.
Now, logout and login back or restart your browser to start using these fonts.
nJoy!
A DailyMail post reports that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe suffers from dyspraxia. It was revealed by the star him self. It means he can’t tie his shoelaces. He is just 19 years old and he also added in his interview that he became an actor as he was not successful at school. You can read the complete report here.
This report reminds me of “Taare Jameen Par” movie directed and acted by out Bollywood hero Aamir Khan. I got to purchase a set of VCD;s of this movie from Music World yesterday which add a special discussion with the star and other experts who spoke about an another decease called dyslexia. Aamir khan stressed the point that all kids can show off their own potential in many different fields. Daniel Radcliffe is also one example for that. Its necessary to share these type of information in local languages in India as many parents who scold their children for not being good at studies without understanding the root cause don’t have the adequate knowledge. Aamir khan has done a great job by making such a wonderful movie to explain dyslexia. Lets spread this word to others and try creating a great place for such children who can prove themselves to be “Creative!”
I shall checkout of Aamir khan have got anything posted in his blog about the panel discussions which have added into the VCD and share it with you all.
Image source :China Daily
Image source : TOI
Vijender Kumar brings in brozne at Beijing Olympics for India. He created history in men’s light middleweight 75 kilogram quarterfinal boxing match August 20, 2008 by winning the first boxing medal in Olympics.
The Champ. Image Source : BBC.co.uk