On recommendation of a colleague, I watched this movie ‘The man from earth‘ yesterday. The movie is based on a conversation between some people. The protagonist, John Oldman(who is a professor), was packing stuff to move on to a new place, when suddenly some of his colleagues from the university dropped by to say good bye.…
I have moved my blog to http://roshansingh.dev/blog/. Please update your bookmarks. Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/roshansingh?format=xml 1. Why did I move my blog? I wanted some web space for random stuff that I do. So I thought it would be better if I bought a domain and webspace for me. 2. What was the cost for hosting and…
Some very good discussion here on stack vs heap. Read it entirely. Though it sounds theoretical they are very important when you get to real world problem solving http://stackoverflow.com/questions/79923/what-and-where-are-the-stack-and-heap And some more over here for stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26158/how-does-a-stack-overflow-occur-and-how-do-you-prevent-it
Its been quite sometime that I have blogged. To begin with I have joined a job at Huawei Technologies in Aug this year. I really dont get much time for doing anything cool after a hectic 9-10 hours(9:30 ~ 7) a day schedule. And weekends pass by sleeping. I have spent three months at Bangalore,…
Four years back, I was there at BIT Mesra, after counselling, I waiting for my final seat allocation. Finally after waiting for 3 hours, the result was pasted in a white sheet in a board. Suddenly a huge crowd had gathered to see their respective results. After 5 minutes I managed to reach the board,…
It has been quite some time that I have blogged. I am now a Fedora packager, have packaged three applications – GScribble, Artha and opendchub. All are available in the updates repository :). Apart from that I made the Mukti website (http://mkti.in). I must confess that it does not look that good because I am…
It is that time of the year when we at NIT Durgapur celebrate our FOSS festival called Mukti. Mukti is the FOSS festival of NIT Durgapur. With the sole aim of promoting Free Software, some contest, games, workshops, talks etc are conducted during Mukti. It brings together the FOSS enthusiasts, newbies and corporates together under…
Somehow the default Iced Tea Webstart throws NullPointerException which I dont know how to debug. I downloaded SUN JDK and installed on my machine, you can use your package manager also. It usually gets installed in /usr/java/jdk-<version> and /usr/java/latest links to the latest version installed, so it is better to use the later. Then download…
I installed pidgin 2.6.1 today to check if it was working for me. But as soon as I started a voice conversation, it either crashed or game me the following error: “Could not start rtp muxer session”. The solution is to move your current ~/.gstreamer-0.10 to somewhere. Let pidgin create a new one. Then I…
GScribble 1.Better editor for posts (Bold/Italic etc) 2. Proxy support Added HTTP Proxy support 3. Blogger Support 4. Release new rpms openDChub 1. Release new version and rpms Posted from GScribble.