Posted by: eskay on: September 25, 2009
It was Software Freedom Day Celebrations at NIT Trichy. And how better could the day have been!! For the first time, Sun Club of NIT Trichy and GLUG-T, The Linux User Group joined hands to conduct the event. We had organized a workshop on cloud computing and Linux/Opensolaris Install Festival.
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Posted by: eskay on: March 14, 2009
It was a great day at college. 58 students eagerly waiting in the lab to learn a new technology – JavaFX. Vortex ‘09, the technical symposium of the Department of CSE, NITT, was in full swing. As a part of the symposium, a JavaFX workshop was organized by me.
The workshop was at 2:00 pm. And [...]
Posted by: eskay on: February 14, 2009
The JavaFX workshop was organized successfully as a part of Pragyan ‘09, The International Techno-management Festival of NIT Trichy. . It was a day long workshop organized by Sun Microsystems. The workshop was aimed at teaching how to use JavaFX software for developing rich Internet applications. The engineers explained how to use the technology to [...]
Posted by: eskay on: February 1, 2009
And finally, the Sun Club of NITT is formed with 20 enthusiastic students interested in learning and developing open source technologies. The club has been formed with the support of Sun Microsystems. I am presiding over the club as President with Aswin assisting me as Vice President. Prof. N. Ramasubramanian, HOD, Dept. Of CSE is [...]
Posted by: eskay on: November 29, 2008
Reliance data card ( Huawei ) works really well in Ubuntu, and getting it to work is very easy.
All that one must do is to plug in the USB modem and edit the /etc/wvdial.conf file:
Step 1: Edit the /etc/wvdial.conf file by typing in the following lines
Step 2: Run (as root) the commands from terminal:
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Posted by: eskay on: November 28, 2008
Many students have the habit of planning in advance what they must do during the holidays. Some decide they must learn a programming language, some might be planning to sharpen their problem solving skills, and a few others might be planning to bring out their creativity by trying their hand at designing.
The Open Source University [...]
Posted by: eskay on: November 22, 2008
Netbeans IDE can be used to create C/C++ Applications. Netbeans running on Linux Platforms dont require any additional configuration if the compilers are already available in the Linux distribution. But to get it working in Windows, a Linux-like environment will be required.
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
Here is a step by step guide to [...]
Posted by: eskay on: October 6, 2008
After one full week of preparation, giving lectures and handling lab classes, the Java programming workshop has finally come to an end. The workshop was conducted by me with the help of my friend, Aswin, as a part of Software Freedom Week celebrations.
This was the first workshop conducted in college by me after I was [...]
Posted by: eskay on: September 23, 2008
My college had been too busy with Festember, the cultural fest. So, organizing an SFW ( Software Freedom Week – celebrating opensource ) has got a bit delayed. Still, to keep the brains working a bit, I had given my juniors a ( rather simple ) task of penning down their views on open source. [...]