Thursday, January 18, 2007

WikiMapia -- An excellent Example of Community

Wiki were the Best thing after Tea, Which is easily shown By one of the most popular site on internet Wikipedia.

Today in open Source World Almost all Documentation is done through Wiki, My favorite one is Ubuntu Wiki.

And What happen when a marvelous technology from Google and Community Comes Together. WIkiMapia is the Online Version Of the Masterpiece Google Earth, (BTW google earth is Available on Linux too, Read here)


Here`s a screenshot



It`s nice to see it says the Exact Location From Main area On the Title bar

WikiMapia
rightly says Let`s describe the whole Earth.

Shabdanjali the Hindi Dictionary

I saw the Shabadanjali Dictionary while working with Shashi Palekar ji on her Paper on MultiLigual Dictionaries.But it was ISCII based and requires a plugin to display the characters which is never a good idea. Unicode rocks and should be a standard application.

While surfing i found shabdkosh.com and the Unicode version of shabdanjali for windows, which can be easily implemented with Linux.

For Installing the dictionary just Use

#sudo apt-get install stardict

and extract the files in /usr/share/stardict/dic.

Linux Installfest@RKGIT

Get All You Want in Jagriti-2007...!!

Stall Name :- Linux InstallFest

Base Idea:- Free Installing Linux Distribution on PC and Configuring it for user

Introduction :- An InstallFest is an event, Co-ordinated by Ghaziabad
Linux User Group and RKGIT, at which people get together to do mass/Free
installations of Linux OS other open source software.
It is an advocacy and community-building event, where
novices bring their computers along and experienced users help them
in Installation and troubleshooting problems.
InstallFest welcome all skill levels from complete novice
to expert.

Purpose:- Helping Users from all NCR To Install the Linux OS on there
PC`s.

Resources :-
www.installfest.org

RULES AND REGULATIONS:

1.Each participant need to register first either on spot or on website.
2.It is open to everyone.
3.Users needed to bring PC for Installing the Operating System on their PC
4.Certificates will be awarded for participation.
5. Lug Membership option will be provided

Address:



Rendezvous@ Jagriti:- RAJ KUMAR GOEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

5 Km. Stone (Opp. Jain Tube Co. Ltd.)

Delhi-Meerut Road, Ghaziabad, India

honeytech@gmail.com

Detail Will Be Updated Soon..!!

So here i start my Tech Blog

I have been bugged by my Fellow people and Juniors several time to write everything which i do, But since i am one of the most lazy guy in the world(atleast a contender). I never tried even.

But now i feel Documentation is a good thing for any coder, so here i am starting my technical Blog, My Previous blog http://rockybhai.blogspot.com is there and will remain a mirror of my life always