Archive for July, 2009

Social life on the Internet!

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

$subject of the topic might not be new to anyone reading this blog post. But it might be new to know that not all Technology Savvy people use the internet or surf websites as frequently as the end users do. i.e. The people who build the technology use it less than the consumers. One can find this statement dangerous as well as loosely coupled, since I don’t have any statistical data to prove it, but I think it is the fact. I have been in this industry for more than five years now, but earlier I have never been involved with the social networks, like orkut, twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Myspace, YouTube, etc or blogs even, over the internet as frequently as I am using now. I know there are faces around, who take the advantage of the internet and the facilities less than what actual consumers do with respect to social networks. Why is that?

What are the reasons, many tech savvy people use social networking websites less than the end users?

  • introvert or don’t want to open thyself to the world (can’t help with)
  • not good at writing (that doesn’t mean you should not do it. you will learn it eventually)
  • not enough content or ideas to write (start with something, you will get it automatically as I do)
  • not enough time (I don’t agree with it. If executives, celebrities, or the biggies can find time to do it, why can’t you?)
  • don’t like it (no force, but you will like once you get involved with it)
  • what to write? (read what others are writing, will help you to understand the trend)
  • what to surf? (once you are connected to the social networks, eventually you will start getting updates about the latest technologies or happenings in the world)

There will be various other reasons of not getting involved in the social networks over the internet techies will have. Post them here and get the answers.

Thanks!
Ankit

Growth of Indic Localization for Firefox

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

In late 2004, Firefox localization work started for two of the Indic languages (Gujarati and Punjabi) and respective language communities managed to get both of the languages included with Firefox 1.x release by 2005. Look at the status of the Indic languages for Firefox today… 11 Indic languages! It’s amazing! Three cheers for all localization contributors as well as good support from the Mozilla and Mozilla l10n team.

Firefox Version 3.5 3.0.x 2.x 1.x
Indic Languages Assamese

Bengali (India) Bengali (India)

Gujarati Gujarati Gujarati Gujarati

Hindi Hindi

Kannada Kannada

Malayalam

Marathi Marathi

Oriya

Punjabi Punjabi Punjabi Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu Telugu
Total Indic Languages 11 7 2 2
Total Languages 70+ 60+ 40+ 30+

Download the latest version of Firefox 3.5 and provide your feedback to the Mozilla and L10n development communities to make your web experience better and better with Firefox.

Firefox downloads: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Cheers,
Ankit

Plymouth on Fedora 11

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Plymouth has been working perfectly on my Fedora 10 box after I edited my grub.conf file to match the vga modes required for my display. After upgrade (or fresh install) to Fedora 11, it stopped working again. No idea, what went wrong. Tried digging through the problem and came across the nice guide: http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/161/26/2/13/

All I needed to do apart from modifying grub.com was, change the theme to solar from default (text).

su – root
plymouth-set-default-theme solar
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

Thanks my-guides.net

Turning off: http://l10nblogs.indianoss.org/

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Last weekend, I setup my blog with WordPress installed on a new domain (www.ankit644.com) and migrated my blog posts, comments everything from http://l10nblogs.indianoss.org/ properly. It seems to be working fine now.

So, I will be taking down http://l10nblogs.indianoss.org/ by next weekend…