This is the requirement of all the people in my college and many others. Initially it was a big problem for me also but later I was able to resolve it. Additionally you can take a look on http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories which I have noticed just now and it actually explains you how to add repositories to…
I am overwhelmed by the response of people to my previous post on installation of openSUSE from hard drive. So I have decided to give all the instructions from basic. I will discuss the general things, applicable to all distros, and the installation of openSUSE 11.0 in particular. “Distros” if you do not know is…
openSUSE 11 was released during vacations. So I was waiting anxiously to download and use it. The day I came to college put my luggage in the room, managed to get the LAN wire patch ( I did not know where mine was) and checked for the internet. To my amazement the connection was proper…
Last night after a lot of counter strike and a LDTP installation, my back said, “i wont let you sit more”. Then I went to bed and started to think about the classes. Yeah ! I some times also think about my classes. When it had not started I thought it is high time why…
It gives me immense pleasure to declare that my first bug fix is now accepted and available in the svn.It was committed to the trunk long back and I was waiting for it to become publicly available. Now it is available 🙂 You can see my name in the Changelog. i have fixed one more…
Finally I have moved past the difficult time 🙂 and have fixed another bug . Added some general checks to validate the email id and phone number. This one was easy. It gave me some opportunity to work with “GLib” which can be used simply like the general int,chars etc and it has various added…
It happens at least twice a week for me that i land into awkward situations 🙁 . Last week everything was working fine for me. I was trying to learn things and do something and eventually meeting with success. But things have become really difficult for me since Jony ( the person mentoring me) has…
As we all know that GNU is itself a recursive acronym which stands for “GNU Not UNIX”. While studying how translations are done and managed in opensource softwares i found out two amazing naming patterns “I18n & L10n “. Can you understand anything ? No, I also could not get anything. I18n stands for internationalization…
Yesterday after sitting continuously for 7 hours i was able to fix a bug on Evoltion. Was easy though, but I had no idea where to start. #evolution and #nosip (jony) ( IRC CHATROOMS ON Gimpnet) were very helpful. This was the bug . I was searching everywhere for glade files everywhere as we (SDU…
It has been a painful experience downloading and installing EVOLUTION. Huh! due to my GPRS connection which is very slow it took me a long time to download it also i had to begin from starting for two times as my modem hung. Later, I did not know that for installing these things we need…