After a long, long, long..................... hibernation, I have finally decided to bring back my old blog to life. This is a part of my new year resolution and hopefully I won't be setting it to hibernation again.
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of my friend, relatives and loved ones. As a part of my new year resolution that I have taken, this is my first step. I will let you all know about my other resolutions in my subsequent posts.
Till then bye...Take care...and please do return to this blog.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sunday, February 17, 2008
More CCs added to my laptop's engine
Yesterday I upgraded my laptop with another GB of RAM. It had 1 GB previously now it's engine's volume grew up to 2 GB. Now I can try out few more tips and tricks on virtualization and can run windows vista to find out how much is sucks more. Vista users please forgive me for my last comment. Though I don't play much games but will make it dual boot with linux and vista so that I can play my favorite racing titles with breeze in vista and can use linux as my primary desktop.
I will soon update you all with this new experience. Be happy and let's rock.
I will soon update you all with this new experience. Be happy and let's rock.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
An Important observation
Today, I was visiting Acer India site to get details of a laptop that my friend Shayon will buy this saturday, when I found out a interesting thing. This site has been hacked and most of the information were not there and message relating the hacking is display.
A Screenshot :
A Screenshot :
Friday, February 1, 2008
LIFE IS A ROLLER-COSTER
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wont be elaborating about the hit number by Ronan Keating, rather, my life has became a roller-coster now-a-days. This is one of the most important reason for not writing anything for so long. Well many new things happened within this period. Most Important is that 2007 passed by and 2008 dawned in.
Well starting of 2008 has marked the start of the new fear in every new ELTP who joined IBM in 2007. The fear of loosing their FIRST JOB. I am also one of them.Whatever may be the reason but the software business in India is facing a recess period since the start of 2008. Partly because of the turmoil that US Market is facing, partly because of the strengthening of Indian Rupee and various other reasons which go over my head.
Lately, I have started taking a lot of interest on Linux Programming. Working out a lot to learn it. Work pressure in my office is also very high this days so I get hardly any time to work for my personal goals. This is another reason for being late to write.
So, it is full of ups and downs that I am passing through. Only thing I know is that a very thin string is holding me and my job with IBM. Its only a email from the company that will decide my future.
Is it that fate of every Indian S/W Engineers lie on the US Market or is it that the strengthening of the Indian Economy is a curse for our fate. I don't know the answer and its up to other S/W engineers in service sector to find out.
GOD help us......................
I wont be elaborating about the hit number by Ronan Keating, rather, my life has became a roller-coster now-a-days. This is one of the most important reason for not writing anything for so long. Well many new things happened within this period. Most Important is that 2007 passed by and 2008 dawned in.
Well starting of 2008 has marked the start of the new fear in every new ELTP who joined IBM in 2007. The fear of loosing their FIRST JOB. I am also one of them.Whatever may be the reason but the software business in India is facing a recess period since the start of 2008. Partly because of the turmoil that US Market is facing, partly because of the strengthening of Indian Rupee and various other reasons which go over my head.
Lately, I have started taking a lot of interest on Linux Programming. Working out a lot to learn it. Work pressure in my office is also very high this days so I get hardly any time to work for my personal goals. This is another reason for being late to write.
So, it is full of ups and downs that I am passing through. Only thing I know is that a very thin string is holding me and my job with IBM. Its only a email from the company that will decide my future.
Is it that fate of every Indian S/W Engineers lie on the US Market or is it that the strengthening of the Indian Economy is a curse for our fate. I don't know the answer and its up to other S/W engineers in service sector to find out.
GOD help us......................
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
'libjingle' Jingled through out whole day in my head.....
Santa will feel pity for me, that is for sure. On a day when jingling of bells can be heard from every where, 'libjingle' came as a menace to all the worldly pleasure and enjoyment that I could have done on this beautiful day. It was a rough journey and still I am not successful in my quest.
Many of you might be wondering what is this that completely ruined my day. Now, I don't think I need to give you a introduction of GTalk. So, libjingle is a library that powers GTalk's VOIP feature. For the last few days, I was in search of a Jabber client which has a support for Voice Chat in Linux so that I could talk to my friends while I am running Linux. There was no problem with the text chatting part. GAIM does a very good job for this.
Around mid last year, Google launched GTalk. It became a hit within no time. It uses jabber protocol for text chatting so finding a client to support Jabber was not a problem in Linux. But it released its library for voice chatting i.e libjingle under GPL at around december last year. Then Projects like gaim-vv came up but till today they have not released a stable version.
So I searched a lot in the internet to find out that there is a Jabber client called 'Jabbin' which has libjingle integrated into it. Thus it could connect to any Gtalk client and successfully communicate over VOIP Protocol. I thought that may be finally I have found what I wanted. There site has got pre-packaged binary for Fedora Core 5 ( jabbin-2.0-0beta.0blag.fc5.i386.rpm ). I downloaded that file and tried installing it.
It has two dependencies :
*) libexpat.so.0.1
*) qcm
I installed them using : yum install libexpat.so.0.1 qcm
After installing them I installed the Jabbin RPM.
rpm -Uvh jabbin-2.0-0beta.0blag.fc5.i386.rpm
Got installed successfully. I configured the Gmail Account using the tips given in their website. It gets connected to Gmail, shows all my online buddies and the text chatting works flawlessly. But when I try to place a call it gets connected but not sound can be sent and neither I can here any sound from the other end. Moreover, sometimes it gives segmentation fault and Jabbin stops. Googled for this problem but couldn't find out any proper reason for that. May be I wasted 6 hours of my precious time or may be not because I learnt many thing.
But till now the story was about what I did today. But what about yesterday???? It was worse than this. yesterday went off installing Jabbin from sources. i tried to build from source but I dont know what happened. Every time I tried to run the configuration script it gave a error that it cannot find xscreensaver extension and then stops. I was unable to build it from source. I worked yesterday from 8PM to 4AM at night to put it into right track but all my efforts went into vain.
The error that took away my sleep :
Anyway, I have not given up. I will try again and lets hope to listen to a friend's voice using jabbin very soon. And if anybody tries to install it in a Fedora desktop, always try the prepackaged RPM, do not try to build it from source.
Till now I can hear the jingling of the libjingle. And it will only stop when I will be able to make it work.
Bye 4 Now. Keep Rocking!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many of you might be wondering what is this that completely ruined my day. Now, I don't think I need to give you a introduction of GTalk. So, libjingle is a library that powers GTalk's VOIP feature. For the last few days, I was in search of a Jabber client which has a support for Voice Chat in Linux so that I could talk to my friends while I am running Linux. There was no problem with the text chatting part. GAIM does a very good job for this.
Around mid last year, Google launched GTalk. It became a hit within no time. It uses jabber protocol for text chatting so finding a client to support Jabber was not a problem in Linux. But it released its library for voice chatting i.e libjingle under GPL at around december last year. Then Projects like gaim-vv came up but till today they have not released a stable version.
So I searched a lot in the internet to find out that there is a Jabber client called 'Jabbin' which has libjingle integrated into it. Thus it could connect to any Gtalk client and successfully communicate over VOIP Protocol. I thought that may be finally I have found what I wanted. There site has got pre-packaged binary for Fedora Core 5 ( jabbin-2.0-0beta.0blag.fc5.i386.rpm ). I downloaded that file and tried installing it.
It has two dependencies :
*) libexpat.so.0.1
*) qcm
I installed them using : yum install libexpat.so.0.1 qcm
After installing them I installed the Jabbin RPM.
rpm -Uvh jabbin-2.0-0beta.0blag.fc5.i386.rpm
Got installed successfully. I configured the Gmail Account using the tips given in their website. It gets connected to Gmail, shows all my online buddies and the text chatting works flawlessly. But when I try to place a call it gets connected but not sound can be sent and neither I can here any sound from the other end. Moreover, sometimes it gives segmentation fault and Jabbin stops. Googled for this problem but couldn't find out any proper reason for that. May be I wasted 6 hours of my precious time or may be not because I learnt many thing.
But till now the story was about what I did today. But what about yesterday???? It was worse than this. yesterday went off installing Jabbin from sources. i tried to build from source but I dont know what happened. Every time I tried to run the configuration script it gave a error that it cannot find xscreensaver extension and then stops. I was unable to build it from source. I worked yesterday from 8PM to 4AM at night to put it into right track but all my efforts went into vain.
The error that took away my sleep :
xxxxxxxx$ ./configure
Configuring Jabbin ...
Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... ok
Checking for Qt >= 3.1 ... yes
Checking for the XScreenSaver extension ... no
Error: need the XScreenSaver extension!
Anyway, I have not given up. I will try again and lets hope to listen to a friend's voice using jabbin very soon. And if anybody tries to install it in a Fedora desktop, always try the prepackaged RPM, do not try to build it from source.
Till now I can hear the jingling of the libjingle. And it will only stop when I will be able to make it work.
Bye 4 Now. Keep Rocking!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, December 24, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
'TAARE ZAMEEN PAR'....What a movie.....
Mr Perfect has again shown to the whole world that not only he is a good actor but can also do wonders behind the screen. He has again proved himself after 'RDB'. His latest, as a actor and his directorial debut is such a film which everybody should see.
Today, I watched the film at 89cinemas. Actually thought of watching 'Kailashe kelenkari' but because I didn't get tickets for the same, I decided to watch the movie.
At first, I was a little reluctant because I heard that it is a children movie. But now after watching it I would suggest everybody to watch it.
'Awesome' is what I will say. Mr. Amir khan has again showed his class. And the little boy, called Isant Avasthi in the film, did a fantastic job. And ofcourse the great music by the Trio, Shankar Ehsaan Loy was simply superb.
A perfect film by Mr. Khan after Rang De Basanti. Simply Superb...
I would give a straight 4.5 /5 to this film. Actually hits the heart too hard. A must see for those who love so called 'different' films.
Please share your views regarding the film with me. Bye. Waiting for your comment on the film.
Today, I watched the film at 89cinemas. Actually thought of watching 'Kailashe kelenkari' but because I didn't get tickets for the same, I decided to watch the movie.
At first, I was a little reluctant because I heard that it is a children movie. But now after watching it I would suggest everybody to watch it.
'Awesome' is what I will say. Mr. Amir khan has again showed his class. And the little boy, called Isant Avasthi in the film, did a fantastic job. And ofcourse the great music by the Trio, Shankar Ehsaan Loy was simply superb.
A perfect film by Mr. Khan after Rang De Basanti. Simply Superb...
I would give a straight 4.5 /5 to this film. Actually hits the heart too hard. A must see for those who love so called 'different' films.
Please share your views regarding the film with me. Bye. Waiting for your comment on the film.
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