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Tremors were felt in early hours of morning in Mumbai on 17th September 2008. At around 3:15 a.m. mumbai was shook by an earthquake of yet unknown magnitude. The details should be confirmed by the media today. It was higher than the previous quake, that occured in June 2008. Co-incidently...

One of my friend uses spreadsheets for inventory monitoring. What he wants is that if he enters a delivery date for a certain item, then about a week prior to that an email should be dispatched to the concerned person regarding the needs, if the needful isn't done my friend will set off a...

There has been an intrusion in one of the fedora servers that was used for key signing of the apps. The extent of the damage is being analysed. Till then fedora users are requested to hold updates and also update GPG keys as when update is made available. Full Story :-...

As of today evening, we had some person who started spamming the unofficial IRC channel #think-digit at irc.freenode.net by uttering obscene words and impersonating the members. I would like to report the user to the ISP, which is BSNL. I know many will dissuade me by saying it's of no use...

ILUG-BOM will be holding a workshop on installing ubuntu and sabayon on EeePC on this Sunday. Interested people can check *db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/EeePC-session-details for further details.

Source : - *www.fossmeet.in/node/128

An interesting article by a gentoo developer, featured on planet gentoo. Source:- *planet.gentoo.org/developers/lavajoe/2008/02/18/linux_needs_zfs_and_badly Do check the planet too, there are some interesting comments that follow the article too.

Read more :- *www.linux.com/feature/127055

With gmail enabling IMAP service, I decided to switch over to using a mail client for accessing my multiple gmail inboxes. While reading a mails on local LUG lists, I came across a couple of mails which were signed using gpg. So, I decided to explore more on the topic and use gnupg for my...

Source:- *lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-11/msg00000.html

source : - *linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/28/0544226&from=rss Related links : - *www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux_driver_project_kickoff.html *www.linuxdriverproject.org/

I am looking for an audio CD player that can be used via CLI or atleast doesn't need gtk or kde libs. Right now cdfs + mplayer does the job but audio cd player would be much nicer.

I hereby announce the first stable release of Opyum, the Fedora Offline Package Manager, version 0.0.2. Opyum (pronounced 'opium') provides a set of tools to enable users, who do not have a good network (eg., Internet) connection at their ready disposal, to easily install new packages or...

source: *blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=379 Also see, *hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/04/28/0658206.shtml

*linux.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/compiz-on-solaris-x86-eye-candy-for-solariss-desktop/

Hearing all about how good emacs and vi are, I recently decided to try them and find out which suits me. So, I have begun my quest on search for whatever I can find on both of these. I will put it up in this thread as and when I find useful things. So, those who want to try any of the two can...

Read the article at : - *www.networksecurityjournal.com/features/open-source-security-tools-applications-resources-041007/

Read on *www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/and-they-said-the-mac-was-intuitive/ And please no flame wars this isn't in Fight Club.

Read on at *linux.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/test-drive-the-olpc-with-a-livecd/ I saw a demo of OLPC last week and have to say it's awesome considering it's price and form factor. I'm definitely downloading it's live cd, it's around 315MB. Here's the link to it...

I have been trying to solve this problem in C "Write a program to fill the entire screen with a smiling face. The smiling face has an ASCII value one." I did misunderstand the program and have made errors, but the program is here *rafb.net/p/oFCBvw86.html Now, the main problem is: I...