I had recently bought MTS connection which gave a usb stick to connect it. It also gave a rpm for the GUI. Later I found that due to it, some software like vlc and skype had stopped working. I used to get errors like this: roshan@localhost:~/Downloads$ vlc VLC media player 1.1.3 The Luggage (revision exported)…
Coin denomination problem is a very common question asked in interviews. It involves Greedy Approach, Dynamic Programming and Recursion. You may find a lot of stuff on the internet if you just google out “Coin denomination problem”. A link that was really helpful for me to analyse the problem is http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jaa/CSG713.04F/Information/Handouts/dyn_prog.pdf. Some other helpful text…
This is a problem that I faced once earlier also. However, I never cared to solve it then. The solution to this problem is on http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html#binarycodecs. Simply download the tar and extract the tar. Follow the steps mentioned on the page. Posted from GScribble.
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,…
I started this project back in last summer. I wanted to learn something, and I had already been hit by twitter. As a result I lost interest in blogging, I always wished something like twitterfox so that I could blog whenever I wanted to, without opening firefox. It is a tedious task to open firefox…
These days I have no work to do, expect willing time :P, so I thought lets try “Sugar Desktop”, so I installed it using # yum groupinstall sugar then i logged out, and logged in to Sugar, which I later found out that there was nothing for me in it, then I logged out and…
Mukti is the annual FOSS festival of NIT Durgapur. We celebrated this from 5-7th Feb 2010. So here is the post on what we did. Since last year we have changed the pattern of what Mukti used to be, we try to bring FOSS developers from all over India, so that people here can meet…
Codecracker 3 was a major success among the three seasons of codecracker. Firstly, we went ahead to support four programming languages C, C++, Java and Python and secondly I was the admin ;-). This time we broke all the records of the past with the number of registered teams which rose exponentially to 195 :),…
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…