'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 :

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS.....

Wish u all, Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

'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.

Microsoft and the LAMP Story

Recently, in this months Linux For U Magazine, I read a interesting story about Microsoft.

It says that during a event organised by Microsoft in India, the lamp lighting ceremony was not done which is a normal tradition in India. Now the question is, why did Microsoft refrain herself from lighting a lamp. May be because of the abbreviation 'LAMP' (which stands for LINUX APACHE MYSQL PHP/PERL) has something to do with the open source world. Microsoft however denied this with a reason not so interesting.

We can only laugh at this hilarious act. It only depicts Microsoft's attitude towards the open source world.

New Avtar from Sandeep Ray's Stable.

I don't know how many of you must be knowing Sandeep Ray. To keep it short, his introduction goes like this....He is the son of the great Satyajit Ray and a renowned film director.

Today, a new avtar is coming out from his stable. A film on his father's one of the greatest work ' Kailashe kelenkari(1974)' is releasing today. hope it will be a great hit like his previous film 'Bombaier Bombete'. All the bengalies out there must be eager to find out everything about the movie.

I will watch it very soon.

THIS IS HOW MY PRESENT GNOME DESKTOP LOOK.......CHECK IT OUT

I was always fascinated by the look of a MAC Desktop. It was something which every person bitten by the bug called 'computer', would love to have in their Intel Platform computer.

Few days back I was just googling around in my office, when I suddenly stumbled upon this interesting post in How-to-forge website.(Here)

Another interesting thing that I found out was that this project is a gift from a Indian to the open source world. His name is Anirudh Acharya.
This was primarily tested on a ubuntu machine. But I Installed it in my Fedora 8 Desktop with some configuration. Check out whether you can distinguish between 'Linux+Gnome+Mac4Lin' and a normal Machintosh desktop.

Now tell me What is this???








Nice Icon Set and Fonts





Nautilus --- running with the Theme loaded.







This is Compiz-Fusion with Mac4Lin.





This is how any window closes in my desktop





Switching between workspace has never been so easy. Thanks to compiz-fusion.





'Vista' is like a child in front of this.












This is what even Vista doesn't have.


















'Vista' is so proud of itself because of this effect.....Good Joke.
Mamu, earning money is very hard. Some pays nearly 15K and another 20K for hardware to get this.
I pay nothing. I just show a "Thumbs Up!!!!" to the Linux World.

"LONG LIVE THE TUX GOD"

Finally, Mozilla Firefox running with the Safari browsers theme.





'WOW!!!' is what I can think off.


What do u think?????




Finally, I want to thank Anirudh for such a wonderful creation and pray to God for this project to do well in FOSS 2008.

ALL IT NEEDS IS LITTLE TIME ( WHICH MOST OF US HAVE ) AND LITTLE PATIENCE TO GET USED TO LINUX. SO MY FRIEND IT IS A REQUEST TO ALL OF YOU TO JUST TRY OUT THIS ATLEAST ONCE TO BREAK SOMEBODY'S MONOPOLY. THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC WORLD, WHY SHOULD WE ALL HAVE SOMEBODY TO RULE OVER US. WHAT DO U SAY GUYS???( O O AND OFCOURSE GALS. THIS WORLD IS OPEN FOR THEM TOO...HE HE HE....JUST JOKING...NO HARD FEELINGS PLZ)