An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
Google recently announced thier "Summer of Code", a program to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software Development. On succesful completion of the project, the student will receive $4500 from Google. $50000+ to be earnt from the Gnome bounties itself. Two Evolution tasks are also a part of ...
I was using /opt/gnome2 as install prefix for my Gnome developement
on my SuSE Linux 9.3 box. One fine day, the /opt/gnome2 folder
disappeared suddenly. I didn't know how. I ran YaST update before that.
So, I assumed that YaST probably done something with this. Moreover ...
If you are interested to play with Evolution and you want to concentrate only on building and running Evolution from the CVS, you need not build the entire Gnome. Here are the steps to follow for building and running Evolution from CVS using 'jhbuild'.
After a long search, my house hunt came to an end. I found a house at BTM II stage. The rent of the house is INR. 5,500. Actually the owner said that the rent was INR. 6,000 and I had to negotiate on that. The deposit being INR ...
Laziness to type has given birth to a lot of things. Canonical abbreviation was mostly the first among all. When people first start to interact with the community on chat, IRC, mailing list, etc., they are mostly confused with terms like "IMHO", "HTH", "RTFM", etc. I do remeber the first ...
There is a shocking news that Larry McVoy decided to stop giving BitKeeper (distributed software configuration management tool) free for Linux developers. BitKeeper was exhaustively used by the Linux kernel developers. This will have a major impact on the schedules. Linus Torvalds is developing a new tool known as 'gits ...
If you are looking for additional RPMs that are not included by default in the distribution, please visit Pascal Bleser's page. A lot of essential RPMs are available here.
One of the forward that I got today! Sounds crazy; but interesting.
Trying Something New Everyday
Change is good. Change invites us to grow, encouraging us to experience new things, welcome new people into our lives, and ultimately change frees us from the mundane.
Many people are not comfortable with ...
Today when I was trying to use my online banking at ICICI Bank's website, I have come across an advetisement in thier page stating that "Don't want us to call? Register here". They have introduced an online system where you can register your telephone or mobile number to ...