http://debarshiray.multiply.com/ <br>"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas"<br><br> -- George Bernard Shaw<br> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:30:38 -0000 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:28:00 -0000 http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/logo http://debarshiray.multiply.com 100 100 <p><a href="http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-04-08/"><img src="http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/2000/200/2767/2767.strip.gif" border="0"></a></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/160/Expectations Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:28:00 -0000 <p>So I deleted my <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> account and joined on to <a href="http://identi.ca/">Indentica</a>. Identica runs on the AGPL'ed <a href="http://laconi.ca/">Laconica</a> and I am hoping <a href="http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/">Rakesh</a> keeps his promise of packaging it for <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> sometime soon.</p><p><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SG08cgoKCB0AAH@Jhf81/logo.png?et=EFRBrNbWuZQNoZDO5751pg&#x26;nmid=0" border="0"></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/158/Identica Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:53:00 -0000 <p>Recently the <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india">fedora-india</a> list saw a raging debate on the legitimacy of Web sites like <a href="http://fedora.co.in/">Fedora India</a>, which try to distance themselves from the upstream project through disclaimers like:<br>"Copyright (c) 2008 Kulbir Saini. I am not related to Red Hat or<br>Fedora Project. The content on this site is my own views." <br>... and yet continue to use a domain and Web site name which suggest otherwise.</p><p>It all started when <a href="http://kushaldas.in/">Kushal</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-June/msg00078.html">brought up the issue</a>, sparking a <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-June/msg00089.html">few</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-June/msg00100.html">clarifications</a> from the owner of the domain.</p><p>To me the issue is not about whether someone has taken permission to use the logo or not. Whether or not someone is employed by Red Hat or a part of the Fedora Project [1] also looks completely tangential to the discussion.</p><p>The point is can someone claim to use such a domain as his own personal space to write about a community supported project, when he is not even a part of the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RegionalTeams/India">Indian Fedora community</a>.</p><p>Can someone who is earning good money by working on Fedora [1] still claim that he is not part of i... http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/157/fedora.co.in Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:34:00 -0000 <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/17/zimbabwe">"... How can a ballpoint pen fight with a gun?"</a> -- Robert Mugabe</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/156/A_ballpoint_pen Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:27:00 -0000 <p>Today while messing around with <a href="http://bonii.wordpress.com/">Vivek</a> somewhere in Kolkata, I came to know about an interesting piece of news regarding <a href="http://nitham.ac.in/">our alma mater</a>. Read it <a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/State-wants-IITs-temporary-campus-at-Hamirpur/317715/">here</a> and <a href="http://northernlines.in/2008/06/02/himachal-takes-matter-setting/">here</a>.</p><p>This is has to be either utter stupidity or sheer brilliance, and I do not know which one.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/155/Temporary_IIT_--_stupidity_or_master_stroke Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:18:00 -0000 <p>After a prolonged bout of laziness, I decided to finally do something about <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org">Savannah</a> <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20327">bug #20327</a>. <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/secsh/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer/">SFTP</a> support for <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">Wget</a> might be useful. After all some of the <a href="http://filezilla-project.org/client_features.php">cool</a> <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus">fellows</a> <a href="http://winscp.net/eng/index.php">are</a> <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&#x26;sektion=1">already</a> doing it.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/154/SFTP_support_for_Wget Fri, 30 May 2008 16:32:00 -0000 <p>Although I use <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt</a> to read my office email, for various reasons I have stuck to <a href="http://mail.google.com/">GMail's Web interface</a> to access my personal email account. However, I often missed an easy way to send encrypted/signed mails like the other non-Web clients.</p><p>Then I came across <a href="http://getfiregpg.org/">FireGPG</a> yesterday. Now, is there is something similar for <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/">Epiphany</a> too?</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/153/FireGPG Wed, 28 May 2008 04:39:00 -0000 <p>The <a href="http://library.gnome.org/">GNOME Documentation Library</a> does not render well on Internet Explorer 6.0.x.</p><p><a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/SDUNXAoKCB0AAEVyrTM1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SDUNXAoKCB0AAEVyrTM1/library-gnome.png?et=TDzWKiDpJw29VBNY3XbqiA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0"></img></a></p><p>Firefox 1.5.0.1 seems to be much better.</p><p><a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/SDUYlwoKCB0AAE@L-sQ1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SDUYlwoKCB0AAE@L-sQ1/library-gnome-firefox.png?et=kVL8DJS37fOeoGwMmAvy8Q&#x26;nmid=0" border="0"></img></a></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/152/httplibrary.gnome.org Thu, 22 May 2008 05:55:00 -0000 <p>Just came across a post on the <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf">info-fsf</a> mailing list about <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-fsf/2008-05/msg00002.html">WBUR Boston adding support for Ogg Vorbis</a>. Interestingly <a href="http://www.wbur.org/listen/">they</a> recommend <a href="http://www.xmms.org/">XMMS</a> as a audio player along with the other more "popular" options.</p><p>Just point and click on <a href="http://www.wbur.org/listen/feed/ogg.m3u">http://www.wbur.org/listen/feed/ogg.m3u</a> to listen to the Ogg Vorbis stream.</p><p>This was my first attempt at listening to Internet radio on a free software operating system and was quite impressed by the audio quality. (I have a 2Mbps ADSL connection from Tata.)</p><p><a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg"><img src="http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/ogg_data/play_ogg_medium.png" alt="Play Ogg"></a></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/151/NPR_station_WBUR_Boston_adds_support_for_free_audio_standard Thu, 15 May 2008 19:30:00 -0000 <p>Arjun, <a href="http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/">Rakesh</a> and myself made a quick dash to <a href="http://nitham.ac.in/">our alma mater</a> over the last week-end. We managed to eject the juniors from the room which was mine till a year back, and basically had a great time. Many thanks to <a href="http://bonii.wordpress.com/">Vivek</a> and Shishir for obliging and making our stay a pleasant one.</p><p>Finally here are some photographs that Arjun sent me few minutes back.</p><p><a href="/photos/hi-res/27/3"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/4/photos/27/300x300/3/00046.jpg?et=4sQdUEm0kxXpCl9aMVvEnw&amp;nmid=94742772" border="0"></a> </p><p><a href="/photos/hi-res/27/4"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/4/photos/27/300x300/4/00051.jpg?et=HEf84rzfrQQgojsxW9sEJQ&amp;nmid=94742772" border="0"></a></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/150/A_quick_jog_down_memory_lane Tue, 6 May 2008 16:58:00 -0000 Some of the walks down memory http://debarshiray.multiply.com/photos/album/27/NIT-H_revisited Tue, 6 May 2008 16:51:01 -0000 <p>I read <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/64138/isro-sets-record-launches-10-satellites-in-one-go.html">about it</a> in yesterday's morning newspaper. Made me proud and happy.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/149/The_perfect_10_--_ISRO_sets_world_record Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:11:00 -0000 <p><a href="http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/webcomics/"><img src="http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/webcomics/f9delay.png"></a></p><p>Here is some more: <a href="http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/webcomics/">http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/webcomics/</a></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/148/Sulphur_release_party Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:01:00 -0000 <p>Even though I had experienced some <a href="http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/63">weird developements myself</a> last year, it had somehow <a href="http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/65/Fiasco_beginning_of_the_end">ended on a happy note</a>. However <a href="http://bonii.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/gsoc-idiosyncracies/">this one</a> seems a bit too much to fathom.</p><p>All along I had believed that past credentials as a contributor is an ace up your sleeve when it comes to <a href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google Summer of Code</a> selections. Favouring someone because their only motivation to contribute is $4500, and downgrading an existing contributor because they will "anyway continue to do good work" is the kind of distorted thinking that I like to hate.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/147/GSoC_gibberish Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:08:00 -0000 <p>More than 70% of my attemps to view the archives of <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/anjuta-devel">anjuta-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> are met with this:<br><a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/SAc7LQoKCB0AAC8jgEg1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SAc7LQoKCB0AAC8jgEg1/Screenshot-500.png?et=pPti8e6Gz8zDSScC4Ah1sQ&amp;nmid=" border="0"></a></p><p>Add to that the following "sponsorship notice" at the bottom of every post.<br><a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/SAc7QAoKCB0AAC5Zc@U1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SAc7QAoKCB0AAC5Zc@U1/Screenshot-mail.png?et=xGHq20Xu5x4MvMuXjy01qg&amp;nmid=" border="0"></a><br>Finding such stuff on the <a href="http://anjuta.org/">Anjuta</a> developers' mailing list just underlines the irony. :-/</p><p>I have never realized what people find so special on <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge.net</a>. Malfunctioning list archives is a serious issue in my opnion. Now that Anjuta is officially a part of <a href="http://gnome.org/">GNOME</a>, I hope they find some better place to host their mailing lists.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/146/Sucky_SourceForge Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:56:00 -0000 <p><a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/SAc0RgoKCB0AADJ7lY81"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SAc0RgoKCB0AADJ7lY81/Screenshot.png?et=RIBC%2CC4H8fCAYvyDA%2B6lIQ&amp;nmid=" border="0"></a></p><p><a href="http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/?skip=10#item19142">Thanks to</a> the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Project</a> I have a paid subscription to <a href="http://lwn.net/">LWN</a> now.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/145/Thanks... Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:27:00 -0000 <p>I like this: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-March/msg00047.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-March/msg00047.html</a>.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/144/ssbinbin Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:28:00 -0000 <p>I spent much of the extended weekend (Friday was Doljatra &amp; Good Friday) trying to get the camera on my Intel Macbook to work on <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a>. You can find almost all the non-Fedora specific information is available at <a href="http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/">http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/</a>.</p><p>So I went ahead and created a RPM (review request: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438561">#438561</a>), spent some time fiddling with udev because I was not getting a /dev/video0 to represent the camera, and then discovered that the USB device ID (obtained from lsusb) had to be explicitly specified to ift-load to get the firmware to actually load on to the device.</p><p>As mentioned on <a href="http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/">http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/</a> <a href="http://www.ekiga.org/">Ekiga</a> was a breeze to set up, but&nbsp; <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/">Cheese</a> was not. Cheese 0.2.4 which ships with Fedora 8 kept crashing with a SIGSEGV somewhere deep inside the <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/">GStreamer</a> library. It was a classical case of strcpy(des, NULL). So one has to grab Cheese 2.22.x from Rawhide and update GStreamer accordingly. If you happen to have the gstreamer-plugins-bad packages from Livna then you might be in... http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/143/Macbooks_Built-in_iSight_camera_on_Fedora Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:30:00 -0000 <p><a href="/photos/hi-res/26/15"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/2/photos/26/300x300/15/kerala022.jpg?et=D61,Tb8idkb,Jq5Sut9T6g&amp;nmid=86511474" border="0"></a></p><p><a href="/photos/hi-res/26/2"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.debarshiray.multiply.com/image/5/photos/26/300x300/2/kerala002.jpg?et=AWnpaV0zbsc7l2AOGrVcTA&amp;nmid=86511474" border="0"></a></p><p><i>None of these photographs are taken by me and I believe they are in the public domain. If you hold the copyright to these and do not want them on this site, please let me know.</i> </p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/142/Kerala Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:20:00 -0000 None of these photographs are taken by me and I believe they are in the public domain. They are from an unknown source. If you have any rights over them and do not want them on this site, please let me http://debarshiray.multiply.com/photos/album/26/Kerala Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:15:51 -0000 <p><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/eog.png" border="0"></p><p>GNOME Kashmiri seems to be in <a href="http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=37">good hands</a>.</p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/141/LANGks_eog Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:06:00 -0000 <p><a href="http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=34"><img src="http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/screenshot.png"></a></p> http://debarshiray.multiply.com/journal/item/140/GNOME_Kashmiri Sat, 8 Mar 2008 06:32:00 -0000 A collection of photos during my visit to Bangalore for FOSS.in http://debarshiray.multiply.com/photos/album/25/FOSS.in_07 Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:14:12 -0000 Durga Puja celebrations in http://debarshiray.multiply.com/photos/album/24/Durga_Puja Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:45:15 -0000 A few pictures of my Apple Macbook http://debarshiray.multiply.com/photos/album/23/MacBook Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:15:31 -0000 Some photographs taken during my visit to Durgapur on 17th August, 2007 for a Durgapur Linux User Group http://debarshiray.multiply.com/photos/album/21/Durgapur_LUG Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:17:13 -0000