• Pen-GUI-n event is a new event in Mukti this year. I am assigned to coordinate this event. So I will have to learn some GUI programming for this first. After the exams are over I will learn at least GKT and pyGTk. Visit the link above for the details. And please take part 🙂 .

  • MUKTI is an annual national level technical symposioum on GNU/Linux and Free Software organinsed by GNU/Linux Users’ Group of NIT Durgapur. This year it is sheduled from 6-8 February, 2009. So be prepared all of you who want to participate. This year we have some new events with the regular events as in previous years.…

  • Linux Classes

    In continuation to the last class taken by Rajat Kansal, I was given the chance to teach some of my juniors some Linux basics. For that I had to re-install Linux which was in a mess due to my TGMC project. I had decided that I will not go beyond a certain level so that…

  • Linux Terminal Server Project or LTSP is our new PLAN for IOTA. So I downloaded KIWI-LTSP on installed that on openSUSE 11 with no problem using 1-click feature. More details about installation can be found here http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP . I started the server. After installation I used another laptop and enabled network booting from the BIOS.…

  • I was bored up with the green wallpaper of openSUSE which once I found very good. I decided to get some new ones. I browsed a few at http://art4linux.org. They have a huge collection of wallpapers , themes and login screens as well. Just take a look at my desktop

  • Web designing has always attracted me. Moreover websites have become more advanced over the time with the arrival of new technologies like ajax and frames. They have become lively like desktop applications. So I also wanted to learn these. During summer vacations I learned a little bit of PHP. It was so simple that withing…

  • Back to blogging

    Was very busy these days. To begin with Microsoft visited our college for interns for the first time and I could not even clear the written. I was really shocked with my performance. This really showed me how important coding was which I had lest for quite some time! I have realized this and have…

  • GIT is another software used for version control as SVN or CVS. Today when I was at gym Shreyank requested me to find out a possible solution for using GIT as he saw what I had posted earlier to use SVN and Pidgin. He was really very happy to see Pidgin working. I came back…

  • As our college has installed new proxy server, it has become difficult for people to use Linux. So I spent some time and then found out ways to resolve some problems. SVN can be easily configured to work behind proxy. In your home directory search for the .subversion directory. If the directory does not exist,…

  • And that is true. I have started attending more classes than ever before in this college except Majhi’s. Look its already 8.10 and I am writing blog because its Majhi’s class!  the coolest teacher of our department and I know that he will let me enter in the class even if it is 8.30. So…