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TUX and its lyfe’s instigation…

September 5th, 2008 by Sachi


The concept of the Linux mascot being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux in 1996. A Little Penguin, also known as the Fairy Penguin in Australia and the Blue Penguin in New Zealand, inspired Torvalds to suggest using a penguin as the Linux mascot. According to Jeff Ayers, Linus Torvalds had a “fixation for flightless, fat waterfowl” and Torvalds claims to have contracted “penguinitis” after being gently nibbled by a penguin.

The first person to call the penguin “Tux” was James Hughes, derivative for “(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)”.

Tux was created by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released version (0.54) of GIMP, a free software graphics package.

Tux has taken on a role in the Linux community similar to that which Mario holds in the Nintendo community. As such, several computer games, mostly free and open source and/or for Linux, have starred Tux, including: Age of Empires III, Chromium B.S.U., FreeDroidRPG, OpenArena, SuperTux, Tux Kart, Tux Paint, Tux Racer and Wormux.

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Google launches web browser named Chrome

September 1st, 2008 by Priyesh

After releasing a number of applications such as Picasa, Google Desktop, Google Earth, Google Office, etc. now Google has launched its Web browser in competition with Internet Explorer and Firefox. The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. The browser is currently available for Windows, and would be soon available for Mac and Linux.

Here is a Screenshot:

 

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Banglore Meri Jaan

September 1st, 2008 by Shanky

In a land far far away , with it’s population density enough to populate three united states  during it’s journey of 50+ years as independent land  , Somewhere , Somebody decided it should have a it’s own Silicon valley . It was then autoMagically decided why not Make Banglore the next silicon valley and the rest is history , so to speak [Disclaimer : i love writing disclaimers in between posts ;P ].
Now lady luck decided to make life of Banglorities more intersting , so she gave them what other contemprorary silicon valley lacked ;  Heat , Dust  and Yeah More Heat ; in somewhere between this came population pressure , failing Public travel Infrastructure , Good Old Metro Construction and hence the public property destruction , Reluctance of local’s to speak any other language other than Kannada and SIGN Langauage [which BTW now i am quite good at], Inefficient One-way’s , Did i say heat :S .
With so much intersting going on in banglore i decided let’s chart why i miss in banglore in comparison to north india , and what i would love to  have in north india.

So , what i miss in banglore :
(1)My friends told me “There are no winters here” , WTF . i studied in a place where i saw snow fall twice , i lived in a  place where winters were the most pleasent season in whole year [agreed that it was partly due to school holidays due to extreme cold :) ] . I hate monotonosity and Banglore is Monotonous in terms of season .
(2)Hindi , i can’t stres more . Dude i love hindi , it’s my mother toungue . It simply doesn’t matter if i wirte in english or speak english . Hindi for me addcitive , and when Urdu mixes in it , it’s simply irrestitble .
(3)Coffee ..huh , i don’t count Barista  or Coffe caffe day as any thing close to good coffe from India Coffe House.
(4)Tea .. it’s total yuck out here.
(5)Spices , Man i am just not able to digest south indian spices :( . Even now my intenstines have formally lodged comlain to My stomach . What kind of spices they use , after eating food , everything in my stomach burns like hell *made a mental note of finding real good north indian resturant *
(6)Rush , well i can’t really complain as i am still jobless and others have tons of work to do , but still it would be cool to have a life little bit slowed down .
(7)Posters saying “i believe in Banglore” , this kind of mass propaganda / sub-nationalism is aimless and just for securing votes..
what about karntaka  ,  karnataka also needs people beliveing in it , and not farmers commiting suicide due to poverty.

Now , what north india needs
(1)Recognizing the fact there region is totaly underdeveloped . i still wonder why noida , faridabad or delhi didn’t become as a IT hub instead of banglore. I think it has something to do with politics , local populcation’s illetracy and ignorance , and Maybe ignorance of government’s part too.
(2)Better Public infrastrutuctre, this is actually what we need in every city in India , irrespective of region [except few good preplanned cities ]
(3)Conservation of local heritage , this is definately needed .
(4)Learn more about common language [which definately is english :(
(5)there are many more thing we could learn from banglore , infact whole india needs this kind of devotion .

and the what i hate about everywhere .
(1)People stare at me as if i am some Freak / Alien  . Dude i am just 6 feet 4 inch human who has no idea why people stare at him.
(2)Buses have roofs , which were made with a unjust consideration /assumption that a indian could not be above average height of 5'6".
(3)Public transport is totaly sh*t.
(4)Procastination [though i am total expert in that]
(5)Ignorance of security measures , both by its enforcers  and common public .

This ends my rant on how to be jobless and still be complaining ; oh, sorry this wasn’t the topic , in any case decide a title for this rant on your own :)

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September 1st, 2008 by Priyesh

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In short news :) My Qttwitter was featured on Linux.com

August 21st, 2008 by Shanky

In short news :) My Qttwitter was featured on Linux.com
http://www.linux.com/feature/133001

So i a resuming my work in QtTwitter
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=77375
and i am planning to use http://code.google.com/p/twitlib/ Library for twitter API’s instead of making myself one from scratch.

excerpts from Linux.com article :
Six Twitter clients for the Linux desktop and one for the road
By Lisa Hoover

Twitter is a popular social networking utility that’s gaining popularity as a micro-blogging tool. Registered users can post messages — also called Tweets — via the Web interface, but many prefer to use desktop applications that offer additional functionality and move Tweeting out of the browser entirely.

Qt Twitter Linux is a barebones KDE client developed with Qt and C++. Since it was built using Twitter’s APIs, messages sent via this tool appear instantaneously in Twitter’s timeline as if they were sent directly from the Web-based interface (all Tweets show what app the sender uses by default). While Qt Twitter Linux doesn’t come with handy features such as search and archive, it’s great for dashing off quick messages.

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