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Wooww!! Yesterday found one sooper dooper hot wi-fi spot(Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology provides free wireless to Barista, Koramangala Customers )Sad part is the signal quality seems to be not good enough for my laptop’s WiFi card to pick for usage though I am able to scan the cells. G0SUB is the one who benefited out of it. We sat there for around 6 hrs :O with me trying to get the link up and g0sub enjoying the free wifi. We then moved to have dinner at a nearby restaurant. Today I decided to try for a second time to install AIGLX/Compiz on my Compaq M2208TU laptop running Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

I followed this how-to. Well.. There seemed to have been a recent update to the compiz repos and it worked. The rotating cube is terrific and definitely a wonderful eye candy as well as pretty much makes you “use” the Virtual Desktops.

Again there is always a sad part following a happy time…

My window borders are not displayed and I am unable to Suspend to RAM when using Compiz. I will have to switch back to metacity to go into suspend mode

AFAIK this is a known problem, recently reported by quite a few people, and I sign off by hoping that this will be resolved as soon as possible. Till then its back to metacity!!

The Linux Demo Day at Jaya Engineering college saw its first day through today. The day begun with me coming from Bangalore today morning at around 4:30 AM. Got woken up by the call from Parthan saying that they would be reaching my place in another 10 minutes at around 6:30 AM. Got to run around a bit but was pretty much out of house at around 7 AM Long and eventful journey to Jaya Engg College. (Yes it was eventful with our ‘Thimingalam’ Thyagu and benevolent Dictator Raman arguing on RTI Act.) We reached the college campus at around 8 AM. After initial hiccups everything was up and running and students were raring to go.. The event was inaugrated by Mr. Atul Anand I.A.S (eGovernance) and Mr. Rajagopal (CDAC). The place started buzzling with activity near the stalls and lectures by Raja (superman) in the seminar halls parallely on FLOSS philosophy. We, the LUG volunteers played the role of mentors and helped the students out of any queries posted by the visitors that they were not able to handle. The visitors comprised of School students to Polytechnic students to Engineering Students. It was in all a great event put up by the students. You guys have the potential. But yet a lot of scope for improvement. I would not be able to attend the next day due to several personal commitments But the photos taken on Day 1 are available here.

For more photos:

http://www.tuxmaniac.com/gallery/ (LDD at Jaya Album)
Thanks to Harish (Chairman, Linux Campus Club, JEC), Mr. Kumaran (HOD, CSE Dept) for the wonderful reception and hospitality.

So the dates are fast approaching for the next LDD (yes, its called GNU/Linux Demo Day) Its on August 19,20th 2006 at Jaya Engineering College, Chennai. After a damn successful Demo Day at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu early this year with over 4000 (Oooooo Isnt that figure beating a lot of bigwig events ) visitors in and around interior parts of Tamil Nadu, we are expecting around 2K visitors from various schools, college (Arts/Science/Medical and paramedical/Engg). The model is simple and neat. People who would like to do something similar in your locality here it is an Free and Open Model

1. 2 to 3 weekends prior to the Demo Day the Chennai LUG volunteers go and train the student volunteers of the respective host college on various topics ranging from Installation to Networking to Programming tools available to Educational software to …. (list goes on)

2. The Linux Demo Day is generally a two day event with the first day being general intro lecture sessions and some hands on. The second day will be a “Full Student show” with the trained student volunteers handling queries from the visitors. Ofcourse if they are unable to clarify or are not clear we “The LUG Volunteers” are always around to help them out. In this way we make learning interesting for those volunteers and also inspires the non-volunteers to be a part of the FOSS world.

Here are some(infact very few) photos from the previous LDDs conducted at MIT, Chennai and Arunai.

But this time its gonna be two days of Demos by, for and of the students of JEC, Chennai. All the very best to make this a grand event and add one more feather in the cap of Indian Linux Users Group- Chennai and ofcourse (more specifically) “YOU” guys.