ratnadeep debnath

For some time now, I have been working on wordgroupz. Since version 0.2, I have added some new features. The new features include dictionary support: online webster dictionary from dict.org and offline wordnet. For implementing the online dictionary support, I used the server interface of dict.org. For offline, I used the dictionary databases of the wordnet application and the python-nltk library. I also included wiktionary support this time. I used to find it tedious opening a notebook, browser to search wikipedia/wiktionary, copy-paste notes....

Today I released wordgroupz v 0.3b. New Features -1. Dictionary support – online dict.org webster, offline wordnet2. Wiktionary support – lookup details of the word on wiktionary, download pronunciations if available3. New interfaceDependencies for wordgroupz:1) gtk, pygtk22) python-nltk3) wordnet4) pywebkitgtk5) BeautifulSoupTo install wordgroupz for fedora:1) download [http://rtnpro.fedorapeople.org/rtnpro.repo](http://rtnpro.fedorapeople.org/rtnpro.repo) into /etc/yum.repos.d/2) as root do: yum install wordgroupzTo install wordgroupz on any other linux OS:1) download [http://rtnpro.fedorapeople.org/wordgroupz/wordgroupz-0.3b.tar.gz](http://rtnpro.fedorapeople.org/wordgroupz/wordgroupz-0.3b.tar.gz)2) Untar it: $tar xvf wordgroupz-0.3b.tar.gz3) Change directory to wordgroupz-0....

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....