FOSTA @ sourceforge

I got a mail from Joe Steeve in Glug-madurai list and came to know that glug-madurai is registered as a user group at Sourceforge.net and can get free Webspace. So, just registered a User Group names FOSTA (Free and Open Source Technology Association) and waiting for the approval.
I have decided to create the site using Drupal and will upload it as soon as the project gets approved :)

First Debian Conference at IIIT, Banglore

I have never used Debian and so didnt know much about it. I went to the Debian Conference held at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Banglore (IIITB). It was organised by IIITB students. The only two debian developers from India shared their Experiences. I was so happy when i came to know that both were from Tamil Nadu. One from Chennai (Ramakrishnan) and Another from Coimbatore (R. Ganeshan) ;)
They exposed the debian to everyone and now i'm planning to switch to Debian and become a Debian developer soon. Their aim was to increase the debian developers in india from 2 to 20. Hope that is achieved. Many people doesnt know about Debian and the target can be achieved, if we are able to spread a word about Debian.
To become a debian developer is not a simple and easy task. We need to learn the Debian Free Software Policy and it might take more than a year to get the GPG key to access the repository.
Check out this article for more details,. :)
http://lwn.net/Articles/147360/

Trip to my Native place

Suddenly decided to leave with my cousin to my native, :). Didnt get ticket to go to the place directly, so took ticket to Tutocorin, and from there i had to take another bus, which leave at 5:15 AM. Hopefully, i reached the bus stand at 4:15 AM itself.(Vivegam is fast :)) My cousin took another bus, as he already had booked tickets. He left at 7:00 PM and i left at 10:00 PM. But we both reached home at the same time.
I stayed there for three days. Its really a cool place. A small village near Tiruchenthur. This place is a small desert. So, farmers use ground water for cultivation. I went to a temple there on the first day. Second day i went to tiruchenthur temple. Third day was the actual festival in the village. Enjoyed it and returned to coimbatore the next day.
If i have to share my experiences, i have to write a lot.. :)

Sent off TCS friends.

Yesterday, the TCS training at Coimbatore (Teknoturf) got over for my friends. So i went to meet them to send them off. Met Divi, Vijay Kumar yesterday. Today, i met Praveen, Rathna and many others. Wish them happy journey. Most of them got places at Chennai.

Get-together

Today, i met my class mates,. Varun, Senthil Raja, Bala, Kosu, Maami, Paapa and so on,. We had lunch and had a nice time. After that, i went to meet Murugesh anna, and we went to Then-Tirupathy. It was a nice and different temple, 35 Kms from Coimbatore.
Also, After a long time, i talked with Koundan (Vignesh, Infosys). Happy to know that he got placed at B'lore. I'm just trying to swap with someone and get banglore.

Had a Nice day

Today, i woke up at 10. Murugesh anna called me, and asked me if we could go for a movie. We went to two movies today. "Daas" and "Feb 14". Daas was too bad. Didnt like that movie. Feb 14th was o.k. Also, after a long time, i went to a temple :)
He took me,.. The day went on fine today :)

Learning Gstreamer

Gstreamer is a library used to write any media applications. We can also create any plugins for gstreamer. Its so cool. I started learning the manual and installed the latest Gstreamer from CVS head. Had some prob with installing the gstreamer-plugins, yet successfully installed. Now, i'm just trying out the run a simple Ogg player. But, seems "pad-added" signal is not getting emitted. :(
Still trying to figure it out. Just waiting for Ronald to help me out,. :)

Registered Linux User

Just registered myself as a Gnu/Linux User at http://counter.li.org/

Just another day

Didnt do much today. Went to Ramya's place to install Gnu/Linux, but it was a flop. Her cdrom didnt work. :( Will have to try another day, after she repairs her CDROM.
Filed two bugs in Sound-juicer. Now building Anjuta,.. Will have to try to fix bugs in other modules too.

Met Nirmal's Brothers :)

Today, i went to my buddy's place and met his 2 brothers. Was happy to see them. Spent some time with them, had lunch, and i left. It was a great time to meet them all, but sad thing is that, everyone was here, but Not Nirmal :(
It would have been great with him,. I miss him ..

Friendship Day ?

Today, first sunday of August, being the Friendship day, i had a great fun with my junior friends. But, all my close buddies are not with me. Nirmal has joined Red Hat, Vasanth is doin his project work at Instead Business School, Frankfort, France, and Vignesh (Koundan) has joined Infosys. Havent heard anything from N.K (N. Karthik), hope he is doin fine.

If they were here, then it would have been so coool,. Anyway, i did have a great time today. We went out and had a nice time.
Happy friendship day everyone,.. ;)

Free Ubuntu CDs

We can get Ubuntu CDs for free, no shipping charge and nothing. You are also free to distribute the CD to any of ur friends. http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

Fixed the bugs in GNOME-CD

After filing three bugs in LOOPMODE and SINGLEMODE, i fixed the bug and attached the patch to bugzilla. Just waiting for the patch to be reviewed by Ronald.

Good placements for the juniors

Am really happy to see that, this year the campus placements are really good. One of my junior, Santosh, got into Trilogy, Three (Sabarish, Padmanabhan, Ramachandran) into CISCO, Sankari got into DeShaw, (Aarthi Anand, and two others) got into A&Z, Aarthi Ramachandran and some got into Deoliete and many.. All these people have got place already and this is their second placements. All this are my ECE juniors and other branch juniors have also made good placements this year. Am really happy about that,. ;)

3 Bugs on Gnome-CD

I just came to know about the Repeat option and Single track option in GNOME-CD, and found some bugs in that. Filed three bugs and fixed two. Now, trying to fix the last bug. Also, one bug depends on another, so only one patch has been comitted into the CVS. Ronald was busy today, so couldnt discuss about the other bugs with him.

SKYPE

SKYPE is a cool tool for Voice chat. We can also make calls to mobile and Landline anywhere in this world, but that is charged.
Skype is available for many platforms and can be downloaded from here
If you have unlimitted download limit, then u can use this cool tool. (30 min chat ~= 25MB (both upload and download))

Learn LibXML

XML is now used widely in most applications. I'm also using XML for the transformer.config file so that user can adjust the config file. To parse the XML file, many tools are available. I prefer LibXML and the tutorial can be found here LibXML Tutorial. It contains sample codes which shows how to parse a XML document.
Hope this tutorial is useful for someone else like me,. :)

Features included in Transformer

Transformer now gives the user the flexibility to allow for any transformation. The user can alter the file transformer.config under the $HOME/.transformer directory. Also, the actions of the transformer are recorded in the transformer.log file in $HOME/.transformer. Enjoy the feature. This is only in the CVS and not yet released.

Waiting for the results

I should have got the results today,. Donno what has happened,. Still waiting for the results,.. One of the patches in Sound-juicer got comitted today.

SAP Labs test

The test was on July 31st at Christ College, Banglore. More than 2000 were called for the test, and it was help simultaneously at Hyderabad too. The test was exactly like CAT Pattern. They asked 75 questions and we were supposed to finish it in 60 minutes. Thought didnt have enought time to complete the test, the test was o.k.

The results will be put up on Wednesday, Aug 3rd. Just hoping for the best... :)