tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62699231729686147652011-04-22T01:28:20.240+05:30Musings about Life, Linux, Gadgets and other random things...vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-77233984113406248362009-01-31T23:35:00.000+05:302009-01-31T23:36:16.524+05:30

Hey All, so I have started blogging on my own site...

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-14776185543010182282008-03-12T11:19:00.003+05:302008-03-12T11:23:16.417+05:30

While we are on the calendar applet, there's one more addition to the calendar applet's abilities -- that of showing different timezones on a world map! The screenshot is attached. Notice how the parts of the world where it is day time is shown in a lighter shade of blue. I have added Shanghai and Mountain View as other timezones and you can see the red dots that indicate them on the world map!

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-61355563084008714622008-03-06T17:25:00.002+05:302008-03-06T17:33:51.385+05:30

My last couple of posts about Hardy were rants about some niggling bugs. However, now I'll start listing nice features that have been added in the new release.Like the title says, the calendar applet now shows the weather info! See attached screenshot which shows the temperature alongside the date and time!

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-56649631622603834452008-03-05T14:06:00.005+05:302008-03-06T17:24:17.638+05:30

The battery applet in gnome that gives the status of the battery (whether your laptop is plugged in to AC power or if its discharging, etc.). This applet doesn't refresh. In fact, it holds previous state of the battery.One example is as below:Update: This bug has been fixed now. The latest update fixes this!

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-61140941247513702702008-02-29T13:50:00.000+05:302008-02-29T14:00:52.598+05:30

I installed the all the latest Hardy (8.04) updates and a bug which was present in Gutsy (7.10) resurfaced. The package in question is xserver-xorg-ati. The thing is, with this package, gnome uses a wrong screen size. I use an external monitor with my laptop and it is capable of 1280x1024 resolution whereas my laptop LCD can only do 1024x768. However, gnome thinks that even the external monitor

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-33585374554077803792008-02-29T13:42:00.000+05:302008-02-29T13:44:53.783+05:30

So, I've been using the Ubuntu Hardy Alpha for more than a month now. I like some of the improvements in the upcoming release and there are some rants as well. I'll keep updating with all the new things that are there in Hardy, good or bad :-)

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-9978880548807872007-11-26T11:40:00.000+05:302007-11-26T11:41:52.213+05:30

This is one watch I won't mind buying...OLED Wrist watch

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-63617800656984095482007-11-07T17:39:00.000+05:302007-11-07T17:43:12.703+05:30

Raster starts work on OpenMoko!Now, Enlightenment goodness to an OpenMoko phone near you!Like raster says, Hello Moko!

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-25096412224836971782007-10-18T17:44:00.000+05:302007-10-18T17:47:43.358+05:30

This is getting crazy! Video editing on emacs!!! I mean, I use Emacs as editor, mail client and planner, but video editing!!! Anyway, here's for those who have got used to the keybindings ;-)http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/80956

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-18457443583772130512007-10-17T16:45:00.000+05:302007-10-17T16:48:53.466+05:30

I recently watched the video of Linus Torvalds talking about Git and also do some perforce and subversion bashing.Here's the other side of the story from one of the subversion developers.

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-58637916453463455602007-10-16T17:44:00.000+05:302007-10-16T17:48:23.431+05:30

Over the weekend I was thinking as to why our country has not progressed as much as we would like to. The answer has been in front of us all the time and I am proud that I have realized why!The reason for our slow progress (if at all), is because we have been ruled by the Congress party for most of the 60 years after our independence from British rule. And the answer lies in the name of the party

vikashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994924512383840632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269923172968614765.post-59324668523204304752007-04-02T11:34:00.000+05:302007-04-02T11:55:27.337+05:30

After using Ubuntu for quite some time, I decided to go back to my old favourite Debian. So I installed Debian Sid on my laptop Friday last. I'm an emacs user. So one of the first things that got installed was emacs-snapshot :-). Unfortunately I need to hack on Java for some days, so I went ahead and installed jde as well. I fire up emacs to do some python coding and I get this error --File mode

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