Mid term exams end. This time, the exams ended in a week. It’s a big headache when they go on for a longer period.
@ankurb Futile, if they don’t get noticed.
@apoorvkhatreja Twitterrific is awesome. It’s simplistic, intuitive for most people and it supports everything the Twitter web app does.
Airtel Broadband Subscribers are requested to sign this online petition: http://afup.broadbandfor…
Software Engineering seems like a lot like Organisational Behaviour. To much rote learning. Maybe I should’ve gone to the cluster lab today.
@apoorvkhatreja Don’t know about the interface, but the build quality wasn’t all that bad. Actually, I don’t like the K530 interface.
@apoorvkhatreja I quite liked the E250. Is it not a good phone?
If you clicked any pictures at Freed.in make sure you upload them to this Flickr Pool: http://www.flickr.com/gr…
If the location bar is something you need on a web browser, then #Safari4 doesn’t let you remove the bookmark button before it. Sucks.
@ankur_sethi When I retweeted your previous tweet, I saw the same hideous ad.
@ankurb The reason I like it is that there’s more space for content that way. What’s the point of having the title displayed twice?
It’s feeling odd to see an ordinary address bar without the blue loading indicator on #Safari4.
It’s going to take time to get used to the tab menu on Safari 4. The close tab button is on the left. The tab reorder handle is on the right
Safari 4 Beta: Great browser. Mac OS X or Windows. Learnt a few lessons from Google Chrome.
LinkConnect - Downlo.. http://tinyurl.com/czbon4
@apoorvkhatreja Cool.
Retweeting @ankur_sethi:WTF do Airtel think they’re doing? Intercepting my HTTP requests to show me ads? (http://tr.im/gJco)
@apoorvkhatreja Are you eligible to send invites? Send me one, if yes.
@apoorvkhatreja Back on Twitter?
BarCamp Delhi 6:
A lot of people have registered for BarCamp Delhi 6. All those of you who plan to attend the e.. http://tinyurl.com/d2al4a
@ankurb Thunderbird is awesome. So is Mail.app. Why would I search for a client just so that I can access Y! Mail?
@ankurb Well. I don’t think I’m facing the problem now. But when I did, I was forced to switch to Mail Classic to type out emails.
@ankurb Equally easy with labels. Most Yahoo! users using Gmail wont use IMAP. Because they aren’t used to having such free services.
@ankurb Where you enter your email text. Is that a feature only Gmail offers?
@ankurb Ridiculous. #gfail because of a single outage? Trying to mimic a desktop app doesn’t make Y! Mail better.
Gmail may have been down, but I was still able to access and send email through my desktop IMAP app.
When I call Y! Mail unstable it’s because I was unable to select the body on the email composition tab. On multiple browsers.
@ankurb Come on man, most people who use Y! Mail Classic can’t stand the new Y! Mail. Also, it almost always feels like an unstable build.
@ankurb You can’t fool people into believing that Yahoo is better. Their services may be at par. But even that is saying too much.
@ankurb Whom are you trying to fool?
@jeetblog This might interest you. http://tinyurl.com/dn6cdp
@jeetblog He was featured in one of Yahoo’s advertising campaigns. http://is.gd/kEm9 He’s been a Google hater ever since.
Register for barcamp now. http://www.barcampdelhi…. #bcd6
Designing T-shirts for myself. Tired of my wardrobe.
Because of the number of updates I’m getting lately, I’m actually happy Twitter stopped sending me sms updates.
@ankurb You mean like when you support Y! Mail because you were featured in one of their newsletters? :)
Please vote now and RT. http://foss.in/news/2009…
@kanduri Can you do me a favour and pick up a WP T-Shirt for me, if they’re available?
@ankurb tattoos?
Capt. Haddock on stage to give the vote of thanks. #freedin
Capt. Haddock on stage to give the vote of thanks.
Something weird just came up on the screen. Looked something like WMP6. #freedin
DDUC. State of the art. Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP. #freedin
Won’t it be fun to see a BSOD on that Windows XP computer on stage just about now? #freedin
@animeshkmr Aren’t you the one who uses Windows Vista on your second partition?
Story telling at #freedin
Whoah. They have Ubuntu and Solaris development clubs at Thapar Univ. #freedin
Now talking about FOSS usage at edu institutes in India. #freedin
@animeshkmr Still at freedin?
The collar microphone is unnecessary. The dual mics on the podium are more than sufficient. #freedin
People are answering their own questions at #freedin. This is awesome.
I’m so fucking tired of the semester system. Have exams on Monday. Can’t attend WordCamp Day 2.
Gurteshwar: Uncensored news on the web. It’s the best place for citizen journalists. #freedin
Popular search keywords in the past month include “girls in bars’, “ram sene”, “pink chaddi” and “mumbai terror”. Pretty obvious. #freedin
Gurteshwar Singh is going to talk about Social Netwo….Transformation Tools on the web.
@kanduri Macs rule!
JNU’s network isn’t troubling us that much today. Logged us out jut once till now. #freedin
Struggling to increase font sizes on stage right now. That’s why kwrite sucks. #freedin
Marble is 80MB of source code, it’s biggest feature is it’s extensibility #freedin
Apparently the answer is http://edu.kde.org/marbl… #freedin
42 not the answer to Google Earth, the universe and everything else? #freedin
openSUSE advertisements at #freedin
Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla’s BoF on the FOSS Survival Guide was awesome. I’m guessing KK Mane’s Python BoF is just as good. #freedin
@animeshkmr Everybody’s getting impatient. Difficult to choose between a Python BoF and a talk on Google Earth. #freedin
Whoah. Someone is going around talking about how beautiful Twitterrific is! #freedin
@ankurb Is WordCamp over?
Django Scaling: Using AJAX to make content cacheable, CSS and JS compression, connection pooling and memory caching #freedin
Audience: Django is a rapid web development framework written in Python. #freedin
Presentation on Scaling Django Databases by Supreet Sethi. #freedin
The SSS committee room is where the rest of #freedin should end.
The SSS committee room at JNU is full. This BoF has attracted a lot of attention in the past hour. #freedin
Brainfuck: Interesting name for a programming language #freedin
@kbhargava Where are you getting all this information?
@kbhargave Where are you getting all this information?
BoF: Amazing SVN Tutorial! #freedin
BOF: No age limit for someone to start programming. Program now, if you want to. #freedin
Person experiences using CVS, SVN and Bazaar #freedin
Person experiences using CVS, SVN and Bazaar
Importance of version control systems. #freedin
A lot of stress on looking at the source of day-to-day applications #freedin
When everyone expects you to Free Software, they don’t want you to abandon proprietary software completely. #freedin
Informal introduction at the BoF #freedin
“Students ka band baj gaya hai” #freedin
At the BoF on the FOSS Survival Guide.
The GNUKhata developers asking for help with GUI design and implementation. #freedin
@kanduri Wow. And I thought the event was a place for Wordpress users.
Releasing the GNUKhata Beta with documetation in a few week. #freedin
@freedin Is the BoF today on the FOSS Survival Guide?
@kbhargava Can’t really compare the events.
GNUKhata certainly doesn’t seem like it’s in it’s alpha stage. The only thing I haven’t seen till now is documentation. #freedin
Using templates to create modules for GNUKhata. Neat. #freedin
People sniggering at the KISS concept. #freedin
Showing us some GNUKhata source code now #freedin
RDBMS in postgresql, Python the core language, UI using glade-gnome-3 #freedin
RT @ankurb To follow updates from WordCamp India, go to http://tr.im/wciupdates #wci For freed.in http://tr.im/freedin #freedin
GNUKhata: Distributed 3 layer architecture, RDBMS backend, XMLRPC application logic, thin client in development #freedin
GNUKhata: Replacement of proprietary software #freedin
GNUKhata presentation #freedin
@ankurb The people at freedin are free to come whenever they like. Not like WordCamp. :)
2nd Day #freedin kickstarted by Gora Mohanty!
Hall empty as of now. #freedin
At #freed.in Day 2
When I use other notebooks, the first thing I start missing is the beautiful trackpad on the MacBook Pro.
@ankurb I was referring specifically to the people who came to our college.
@kanduri Why don’t you ditch theluminar and just post here instead. Your posts are occasional anyway.
We had people from PLUG at our college a month back who had registered for #freedin but none of them seemed to have come for the event. :(
#freedin tagged flickrstream http://www.flickr.com/ph…
http://twitpic.com/1l3y1 - Google, overloaded?
Some talks seemed to be well rehearsed, some not so much. #freedin
Freed.in Day 1 ends. Maybe if we have no lunch and only a post-event feast then more people might have stayed.
#freedin
I regret not getting my MBP today.
We are enjoying ourselves seeing Animesh talk about “grid computing”. #freedin
@animeshkmr thoda credit to de de.
In the future, we should have more talks like these. We’re see what people are doing instead of them telling us how it’s done#freedin
The complete wikipedia XML dump - just 4gb? #freedin
Whoops I looked at the previous schedule. The current talk is on offline wikipedia. #freedin
The talk on hacking through paid networks was a bit dull. Hope this GNUKhata talknis better. #freedin
The internal network at JNU sucks. Keeps blocking access every 15 minutes. #freedin
Dr. Lynn talking about the internet services that scientific research requires. #freedin
@kbhargava there was a weird siren sound coming from your computer that attracted a lot of attention.
Dr. Lyn : Talking about the XML based osdd data flow at JNU. #freedin
Currently talking about setting up Condor jobs. #freedin
Wireless back at #freedin
Correction. Live updates. Follow freedin
@ankurb are the speakers loud enough?
Dr. Andrew Lynn talking about OSDD.
Follow freedin now to get live updates from the event.
Follow freedin now to get love updates from the event.
Kishore Bhargava kickstarts freed.in. #freed.in
At #freedin
Updates from Freed.in: Though my tweets may be intermittent, I’ll still be posting them live from Freed.in.. http://tinyurl.com/afk2n6
Photos @ Freed.in: http://www.flickr.com/ph…
@kbhargava The theme that your blog switches to when it detects the mobilesafari agent, doesn’t allow you to post or view comments.
@ankurb lol. That’s not what I meant.
People who still haven’t registered for freed.in can register tomorrow at the event.
RT @kbhargava: RT @rajeshlalwani #freedin - the only valid reason for not being at Freed.in = You don’t love Freedom.
The food at JNU is extremely reasonable.
At JNU, got the wifi working finally.
@freedin Why are comments disabled on most of the posts on http://freed.in/2009 ?
Twitterfon’s search tab is awesome. Apart from the looks, this twitter client is awesome.
Looks like I will be switching to the oh-so-bubbly Twitterfon from Twitterrific just so that I can retweet. :(
Does anybody have any idea about iPhone twitter clients that are light on the battery?
RT @freedin: Schedule is finally out - http://tinyurl.com/ajxm9g
@freedin Awesome. Sad the event coincides with WordCamp though.
@ankurb Actually, I asked someone whether I could use OS X at the event without be shot. He said yes.
@ankurb Actually, I wont be involved in the talks this time. Turns out we don’t have a lot of time.
@ankurb You think so? ODPs only.
@ankurb TimesURLs take forever to resolve. Why don’t you try some other service.
Freed.in ‘09: Freed.in is this amazing community event at JNU where people from various parts of India com.. http://tinyurl.com/dg9pwd
@ankurb Could you spread some buzz about Freed.in?
Google SMS never sends me my own tweets, even though the RSS Feed that I use has them. That’s exactly how I wanted it to work.
@shivaas Glad you stopped using Potty.
@ankurb Yes, there’ll be WiFi access.
Register for Freed.in at http://tinyurl.com/9cpkmx
@ankurb Maybe, maybe not. Exams start on Monday. Don’t know whether I can afford to spend so much time.
Everybody in Delhi should try to make it to Freed.in, which is a great place to meet the interesting people on active mailing lists.
@ankurb Coming for Freed.in?
Windows Live Sync: Windows Live Sync is a service that let’s users keep files on multiple computers in syn.. http://tinyurl.com/cvgc5w
Most people hate the Systems Programming paper because they don’t fulfill the most basic of requirements. Using the command line terminal.
What the new Pepsi Logo really means. http://www.suckatlife.co…
Amul and the Pink Chaddi Campaign: This is an interesting campaign against the Sri Ram Sena and the Bajrang Dal… http://tinyurl.com/degrlp
@sidjha what’s that about?
This Vakow! service that many people talk about is incredibly slow. In fact, I can’t even see it’s homepage load now.
Looks like vakow is overloaded almost the whole day. Drat, no sms updates on MTNL.@
Testing the vakow tweet-by-sms service.
Blocking Orkut: The dedicated 2 mbps network in the college labs had become so painfully slow that those who man.. http://tinyurl.com/c33e4g
Nokia 7210 Supernova iSync Plugin: Changed a few lines of code, with the help of the comments on this page and c.. http://tinyurl.com/b4tdz9
Bought a 7210 Supernova. I love the S40 interface improvements.
@ankurb We couldn’t find stuff related to Beowulf clusters. The *notable* stuff is all there. I don’t want that, do I?
@kanduri you want to play HD video on a 8” netbook screen? :S You do know why netbooks were created, don’t you?
It’s amazing how Yahoo! Search indexes only the buzz. Most of the work we do in the cluster lab is possible only because of Google.
Ubuntu notifications and desktop effects: Looks like Ubuntu notifications are slowly going to go the Growl way. .. http://tinyurl.com/ctqm3o
@ankurb about all the work.
Freed.in is coming closer. I’m worried.
I wonder whether Mark Shuttleworth really wants to rip off Mac OS X like he says he does.
I hate the WG311v3. Because ndiswrapper is really unstable with this particular card.
Tired of Sony Ericsson’s shifty interface. Going to switch to a Nokia 7210 Supernova, the cheapest full featured S40.
I managed to move to the next semester without having to repeat any exams. That includes Systems Software. I’m not sure I’m happy.
I’ve somehow got to talk about the W3 validator as a software engineering testing tool today.
How can one not like ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’? Hilarious movie.
@shivaas more than anything else, 10rupees.com was a great playground.
@mrkurt makes sense to bring it back.
It’s about time Adobe started paying attention to a lighter but full featured mobile version of Flash.
Ars Technica Sidebar News Menu:
Ars News Menu: Old and New The new design looks fresh but the menu for the new.. http://tinyurl.com/dfsojy
£1 VPS Hosting: Rapid Switch is a web hosting company which has the perfect package for a person who thinks abou.. http://tinyurl.com/dddl8w
It sucks to have deadlines dictated by people with copied projects because it is difficult for me to hurry and complete my project on time.
@apoorvkhatreja The lyrics of that new Zeest song suck man. Don’t know how you like em.