Monday, October 12, 2009

Software Freedom Day 2009

Software Freedom Day 2009
Every year the third Saturday of the September is http://softwarefreedomday.org/.

I too made participation this year as part of ILUGC, here are some of my snaps...

When I address the audience.
http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/SoftwareFreedomDay09#5383205139800717858,

Visiting the stall
http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/SoftwareFreedomDay09#5383207302460428402

With my friend Raja on right & Baskar on left
http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/SoftwareFreedomDay09#5383206845270907378

Empathy

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.

Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip.

Empathy could installed uisng yum
$su -
#yum install empathy

Once installation is over then weed need to setup user account, which is similar to exist in pidgin.

Enjoy the voice chat with pidgin...

Thursday, October 1, 2009

fun train


we all know about ls and ls -l, what about sl and sl -l.

check it out its all about fun.

To install: yum install sl

enjoy linux with fun...

chm file in Linux

my Linux box runs with FC 10 on top of it I have gnome. I have a necessity to view the chm file in gnome. when I google I found a handy tool called gnochm.

Installation is as simple as # yum install gnochm*

done...

To run it. we suppose to say, gnochm file_ebook.chm
enjoy reading your ebook.

have Fun,