Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}

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OLPC Operating System Sugar On a Stick!!!

Sugar is the desktop environment originally developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computer/education project and as of May 2008 being developed under the umbrella of Sugar Labs. Sugar is used on the OLPC XO-1 laptop computer and is also available as a session option on Ubuntu and Fedora. Unlike more traditional desktop environments, …
Conky Lands on top of Windows!!!

I showed you how to install Conky, which is a free software system monitor for the X Window System in my last post. Some of us have experienced that if we add Conky to the Session/Start Application list, after booting Conky tends to appear on top of all windows. If you kill the Conky process …
Conky – a light weight system monitor for Linux Systems!!!

Conky is a free software system monitor for the X Window System. Not only monitoring system, with a little bit of scripting, it can be useful to know your new mails, weather info etc. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, …
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Review!!!

Ubuntu is an open source operating system with the intention of supplying an up-to-date, stable operating system for the normal computer user. In addition to stability Ubuntu try to target ease of use and installation. Ubuntu can be used on almost anything including Desktops, Business PC’s, Notebooks and many others that are able to support …
Experience of freed.in!!!

Freed.in is an event thats held at JNU where people who are interested in FOSS come from various walks of life. The aim of this event is to motivate people to move over to FOSS by having talks from people from ILUGD, other local FOSS communities and other FOSS developers. This time discussions and talks …
Compress Pictures In Linux(Modified)!!!

I got the script to move the new compressed images into a new folder that would be located in your home folder. As i explained before you need imagemagick installed on your system to run the script. In ubuntu it can be installed by typing in the terminal sudo apt-get install imagemagick Heres the script …
FOSS Workshop!!!

A workshop on Free and open source softwares was conducted at Acharya Narendra Dev College on 29th of January. The workshop was kicked of by the screening of a movie Pirates of The Silicon Valley which tells us about the history of Apple and Microsoft. Following the movie was a presentation by Mr. Gora Mohanty …
Compress Pictures In Linux!!!

I have made a script to compress a set of images so that they can be mailed as images taken form a digicam are normally of 10 or 15MB and to upload a set of images is a pain in the ***. :) Firstly you need to install package Imagemagick… In ubuntu you can install …
FOSS for Windows!!!

I got a a lot of requests to publish a list of free and open source softwares(FOSS) for windows. This would be useful for people that are not comfortable to move away from windows. Windows version FOSS version Microsoft Office OpenOffice Suite Internet Explorer Firefox Outlook Thunderbird MSN / AIM / Yahoo / Gtalk / …
Kerala Government initiative….

Kerala has taken an initiative towards FOSS which has being in the news for a long time now. But the interesting thing is that there site is not like a typical government entities website which are a simple HTML page and in which half of the links don’t ever work(example ICAR). But the kerala gov …

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