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Archive for October, 2009
COSP Linux Workshop 09 Conducted
Oct 30th
Today i went to my university to deliver some lectures on Linux on our annually COSP Linux Workshop, which we conduct for new batches in october/november of every year. Okay, so i go there, enter the room and attendance is more than what i expected. Another good thing was participation from faculty members and then there is this great teacher, a great inspiration, Dr. Javaid Khursheed, he was there as well, really encouraged junior lecturers. (more…)
Fever strikes…
Oct 16th
If you are a frequent visitor (and even if you are not, from the posts calendar on sidebar) you can see that i haven’t posted anything in some while. Actually i am sick for almost a week. Suffering from strong fever, headache and flu. Today i am feeling a little better so compiled some posts but will publish them after i revise them.
Do pray for me
Run a VirtualBox virtual machine without a gui
Oct 12th
I was working with vbox and FreeBSD. I needed to do some experiments so first i made a template machine, then cloned it to make three clients. I was pretty annoyed by those 4 vm windows opened whereas i was doing everything over ssh and i was pretty confident that nothing could happen that would make me go to tty login. So i googled and came across this: (more…)
Untangling the Web with Mozilla Weave
Oct 10th
Syncing passwords and bookmarks is old hat. Mozilla Weave, a Mozilla Labs project is a tool designed to let you sync everything down to your tabs and do it securely. If you’re one of the many “road warriors” depending on Mozilla browsers, Weave is your ticket to a seamless Firefox experience across all your machines. (more…)
FishEyeTabs: Get rid of scrolling through a million tabs
Oct 8th
If you are Firefox user like me, chances are you would have a lot of tabs open round the clock. If you have a lot of tabs opened, Firefox’s default behavior is to use a scroll bar and you have to click arrows to go to next or previous tab. I personally get really annoyed by it. The other day i was sitting free so i was checking popular Firefox addons and guess what did i find? FishEyeTabs. (more…)
Rich Cross-Platform Desktop Applications Using Open-Source Titanium
Oct 7th
Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. At a high level, Titanium competes directly with Adobe AIR, although it differs from AIR in three major ways. First, Titanium is open source; it’s licensed under the Apache Public License (version 2). Second, Titanium is fully extensible; Titanium extensions can be written using a number of popular languages, including C++, JavaScript, Ruby and Python. Finally, Titanium opens up user interface programming to popular languages like Ruby and Python—a job More >
