Lately, I have been working on adding new features to wordgroupz like dictionary support, wiktionary support, pronunciation support. I have also made some changes to the wordgroupz gui optimized for the new features. **wordgroupz** v 0.2 screenshot:The dictionary support features online dict.org webster dictionary and a offline wordnet dictionary. I used the server interface to retrieve definitions from it.I used the nltk library to retrieve definitions from wordnet dicitionary database.I implemented the wiktionary support using webkit, BeautifulSoup and urllib2....

It was a great experience at the FAD in Red Hat, Pune. The FAD was conducted for two days, 29th and 30th May, 2010. Day 01 Siddhesh took a session on autotools. The session was informative and interactive. I came to know how the big Makefile and Configure files are automatically generated from makefile.am and configure.ac (Makefile.in is first generated though, then the Makefile). Siddhesh used the linkc program for the purpose....

I got a nice and long review for my first package of xnoise :). You can read the review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586433 I made the suggested changes – 4c4 < Summary: A media player for gtk+ — Summary: A media player for GTK+ 6c6 < License: GPLv2 — License: GPLv2+ 12c12,14 < Source0: xnoise-0.1.2.tar.gz — # make dist #to generate xnoise-0.1.2.tar.bz2 Source0: xnoise-%{version}.tar.bz2 15,16c17,20 < BuildArch: i686 < BuildRequires: vala, vala-devel, intltool, libtool, autogen, automake >= 1....

This is the first time I am packaging a software. I chose xnoise. I have been using xnoise (compiled from the source repository) for sometime and I like it. What is Xnoise? Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle. Xnoise uses a tracklist centric design and uses a hierarchical tree structure media browser. It also has a plugin interface. Xnoise is always running in a single instance,...

Kettu is the new web interface for transmission bit torrent client. It is written using javascript and jquery. I wrote a small patch for kettu to filter the torrents on the basis of activity. Here activity means if the torrent is either uploading or downloading, i.e, upload_speed + download_speed > 0 KBps. Here’ s the patch I wrote : diff –git a/index.html b/index.html index 2a8ff97..b54b6b4 100644 — a/index.html +++ b/index.html...

Today we’ll be discussing a basic c code, the famous hello.c, which will be loaded as a kernel module and discuss some of the basic aspects related to it. #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/module.h> MODULE_LICENSE (“GPL”); // included in module.h, tells about the license the code is having. static int __init hello_init (void) { printk (KERN_ALERT “Hello, worldn”); return 0; } static void __exit hello_exit (void) { printk (KERN_ALERT “Goodbyen”); }...

I’ll be honest, I am neither a kernel hacker nor a device driver writer, but I want to be one. I am studying the Linux Device Drivers 3, the LDD 3. It is an effort from my end to document what I have understood from reading the LDD 3. There might be some errors or misinterpretation on my part and I will be glad if anyone corrects me. I will be trying to keep the things as correct as possible....

We ( me, Bama and Subhrodeep) left for Ganga Sagar Mela from ISKCON, Mayapur along with ISKCON devotees on the Monday morning of Jan 11, 2010. We had lots of fun in the bus. Fisrt, our bus was special. It was the bus in which there was the Gour Nitai deity. We started the journey with Narsimha Arati and we prayed for a safe journey. Then we chanted the holy names and the devotees from outside India started melodious kirtans....

Yesterday, I finally completed downloading the Fedora 12 i686 DVD iso. I then tried to install Fedora 12 from iso, as I did when I installed Fedora 11 from its ISO image. But this time, when it came to customizing the packages, it was asking for a network connection to get the softwares from the online repositories ( when no Install Disc was inserted) and when I kept the F11 DVD inserted in my laptop, it took the package list from the F11 DVD....

Saturday, 31 October, 2009 I set up an offline Fedora 11 mirror in BCREC. I used the fedx makefile for the purpose of syncing the repository from my pocket HDD to the mirror PC ( an HP dual core system with Fedora 10 installed in it). I then setup a dhcpd server in the machine with the help of gdhcpd. I wrote a how to use the service and put it on the Desktop....