I should be more organized

Yesterday for reaching FOSS.IN venue, I had struggled a lot and reaching there, cursed myself for being not very planned and organized.
Left my delegate pass at office itself and could not attend today.

How Bram is helping Uganda

Please take some time to read his report here:
Bram's Report and
Pictures.

coming from FOSS.IN

Satisfied after attending the talk of Alan Cox. :) He spoke about why and how of OpenSource. Noticably he was a nice person. Had a photo shoot. Shall upload when I get it from my friend. I think the video and the slides will be availble at FOSS.IN soon.

Rapple 1.0 Release :)

Project Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapple
Home Page: http://rapple.sourceforge.net

From: Alan Moran
Mailed-By: lists.sourceforge.net
To: rapple-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Nov 27, 2005 6:06 PM
Subject: [Rapple-devel] Rapple 1.0 Released!

I have just released rapple 1.0 via FRS onto
sourceforge.net. This release (along with tests,
resources and website docs) has been tagged
Release-1_0.

Many thanks to all involved in meeting this deadline.
There are still places where we can improve and
features we can add but I think it is important that a
functional version is made public so that we can begin
to understand how end users see the tool. The
progress we have made so far in quality (e.g., unit
test framework) and documentation (e.g., Doxygen and
website) is great and gives us a good basis to start
from.

I have tentatively put together a roadmap for release
1.1 (you can see this on the website now) so let's put
some ideas together for what should be done and what
we need to fix or improve on in the current
implementation!

Thanks for all your input!

Regards,
Alan.

leetspeak

Not a python version yet. but a simple C version is here:

http://sarovar.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=62

senthil_or@WXP-GWQ581S /cygdrive/c/uthcode
$ ./a.exe
This is a leet speak!
7/-/15 15 4 1337 5|o34|<!
Funny Little Program!
|=(_){\}{\}`/ 117713 |o1206124/\/\!
Can you decode this?
[4{\} `/0(_) [)3[0[)3 7/-/15?

todo:

As I am learning python.While browsing, just came up with a small program idea.
English to Leet speak translator.

sale item

C Programming Language Course

lets see.

wikipedia featured picture of the day

Noticied it today. If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org, you might find the featured picture of the day.





Otters

Digraphs in vim

How do you get Digraphs in vim?

Find the available ones by:

:diagraphs

Then in the insert mode, Cntl +K
Cntl +K At gives the @
Cntl +K Co should give the copyright symbol.

Discover Sherlock holmes in your mailbox

http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/ just registered to received the look alike copies of The Strand Magazines Sherlock Holmes series every friday till Jan 2006.
Will ofcourse make a good and would be a collectors edition as well.

All your text belongs to Vim

How to have your txt file icons associated to vim icon.
- Go to Control Panel
- Open Folder Options and File Types Tab
- Under the Registered File Types click on TXT.
Now, before changing the program from NotePad to Vim.
Click on Advanced. ( If you don't have Advanced, wherein you have already changed the default program, click restore and then you get the advanced)
In the Edit File Type Dialog box. Click Change Icon and browse to gvim.exe or vim.exe in your installation. There you get the standard vim icons. Associate them and then carry on changing the default program from notepad to the sweetest vim.

btw, I am searching for this icon for association and unable to find as to which file contains this.

Read TinTin; Python doc and others..

Just finished reading, Cigars of Pharoh. Yeah, it was indeed interesting. Reading TinTin always enjoyable and you feel the amusement either in the way the story goes, or at snowy's expressions!
It was funny, when TinTin is thrown in inside the Indian Jungles and finds himself admist of elephants. He saves one elephant and the group of elephants accept tintin and snowy as their guests. Tintin while being amongst them learns the elephant language; creates a tumpet using the bamboo trees and informs snowy that he would like to see if he can speak with them. He tests by asking a shower to the elephant and there you see in picture of TIntin in trousers taking the water shower from elephant tusks.

Python for the first time was gripping. Need to go more.

lj.net

trying with a client for LiveJournal. lj-net
lemme see how it looks. Work with Silktest going on and daily dose of vim as well.
need to get back to rapple quickly and majorly and take up withuthcode as well.
More todo:
- Python
- Linux networking.
- egovernance.

mpegtv for Linux

Got some VCDs from Home. Apollo 13, Dil Chata Hai, Nala Damayanthi,Terminator 2, Bad Boys,Lion King,Aladdin and got "The Making of the Mahatma" today.
Xine, Mplayer,Totem Player have always created havoc with Fedora and had decided that today at I shall explore a good number of options to get the VCD thing working on my linux.
While trying, stubled across Mpegtv (http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html). The Only software which worked straight after the install for VCD so far!. Phew!. But this does not follow the Linux way of doing things. This is a shareware not a free software.
But for quick and dirty way of enjoying movies, me gonna use mtvp

If you have a your Totem player playing your VCDs you get at shops, plz let me know how and what did you do. I have tried many many options few months back and gave up due to lack of time, I shall pull back this exercise again.

Back from Home

Visit to Madurai was very eventful. Interesting times of my life. Spent some 9 days at Madurai after a long long time ( june 2002? after the college got over). A good and relishing break.
Hope you all enjoyed your Diwali!. I enjoyed mine, very well.