“Open-Source Professionals are Welcome at Impetus”
If you think there is a dearth of financially viable opportunities in the world of FOSS, think again! Organisations like Impetus Infotech (India) Pvt Ltd welcome IT professionals with exposure to the open…
Kerala State Electricity Board Saves a Whopping Rs 8 Crore, Using FOSS
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) switched to open source solutions only a few years back, and now, not only manages the accounting and billing information of users across Kerala, but has made impressive…
OpenIndiana — a Free Fork of Solaris
OpenIndiana comprises the Illumos core, taken from OpenSolaris, with a set of GNU user-land tools. OpenIndiana can even be called an analogue to GNU/Linux, but instead of a monolithic Linux kernel, it uses…
The Magical Art of Compositing in Blender
Apart from being a great 3D modeller and one of the best animation programs, Blender is also a great compositing program (since the release of Blender 2.37a and later, till the release of…
A Novice’s Guide to Android Rooting, Recovery and Flashing
This is an introduction to customising Android (rooting, recovery and flashing), which is intended for those already acquainted with Android and wish to unleash the power of open source. We will cover more…
FOSS Trainer Powers Up 170 College Labs in Tamil Nadu!
“In India, open source software will have to come and stay in a big way, for the benefit of our billion people,” Dr A P J Abdul Kalam once said. Dr Kalam’s words…
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 4
Lisp has been hailed as the world’s most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic syntax and academic reputation. This is rather unfortunate, since…
Modify-function-return-value hack! — Part 2
In my previous article on this topic, we discussed some guidelines on how to write a secure application in C. The article focused on functions defined in the application itself. Now, we will…
The Comprehensive LAMP Guide — Part 3 (PHP)
PHP, the “P” in LAMP, is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is the most widely used programming language for Web applications because of its ease of learning, implementation and wide…
Device Drivers, Part 10: Kernel-Space Debuggers in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, talks about kernel-space debugging in Linux. Shweta, back from hospital, was relaxing in the library, reading various books. Ever since she…
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
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May 18, 2013
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May 17, 2013
santosh yadav — hello everyone!
i am trying to do gpio access and encounter segmentation fault.
so to overcome it i will have to map...
