Google launched its Google AJAX Libraries API earlier this month. Its a good idea to take advantage of this especially if you are using Blogger.com . Right now wctang seems to be only other blogger.com user I who mentions Google Ajax Libraries API.
Guess, I can now consider using one of javascript libraries for the next redesign of this blog.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Monday, 7 July 2008
The other day shakthi mentioned (scrapped) that he ordered a Neo FreeRunner I am tempted to get one for myself, checked the openmoko site and found that Jaipur based IDA systems distribute this product in India. The cost of Neo FreeRunner is in India is Rs.20,000 .
IDA Systems Pvt Ltd
11 Uniara Garden
Jaipur 302004
+91 141 3243321
http://www.idasystems.net/freerunner
NB:The IDA Systems Neo FreeRunner product page has picture of Neo 1973 not FreeRunner !!
Sunday, 6 July 2008
I spent sometime on Friday evening exploring Hyderabad Central University campus, I spotted this in a corner of the art department's studio.
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Everyone loves Auntie Beeb, here is one more reason to love her more. While the rest of the media regularly pumped stories about Bill Gates departure from Microsoft BBC NEWS published this article by RMS. Perhaps the wordplay of word 'Gates' in the title says is all.
Excerpts from the article
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
If you are interested in Machine Translation(MT) then you should read this great introductory article on Apertium MT system. Well I didn't know that Apertium is the open-source Systran (the engine that powers Babelfish) Did you? .
At the time of writing this post, there are no stable language pair for Indian languages in Apertium, If you are interested in working on one, do send me a shout out.
Kudos to Jimmy O'Regan for writing this one.
Monday, 30 June 2008
Here is quick steps to install Flash Player 9 plugin for firefox on Gnu/Linux. Just uncompress and run the install script, no root level permissions needed for this.
[arky@lab Desktop]$ tar zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz -C /tmp
install_flash_player_9_linux/
install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
[arky@lab ~]$ ls /tmp/install_flash_player_9_linux/
flashplayer-installer libflashplayer.so
[arky@lab ~]$ /tmp/install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.
Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.
You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as a non-root user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in your home directory.
Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.
NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.
Press ENTER to continue...
----------- Install Action Summary -----------
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:
Mozilla installation directory = /home/arky/.mozilla
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y
NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.
Installation complete.
[arky@lab ~]$
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