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Okular, the universal document viewer video

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | Community, dgplug, Fedora, FOSS, KDE, News, Tutorial | 9 Comments

Okular

Okular, the universal document viewer. It can open different file formats. Few formats are:

  • PDF
  • PS
  • Tiff
  • CHM
  • DjVu
  • Images
  • DVI
  • XPS
  • ODT
  • Fiction Book
  • Comic Book
  • EPub

You can watch the video here.

Marble video and Hi to planet KDE

Monday, September 1st, 2008 | Community, dgplug, Fedora, KDE, Python, Tutorial | 1 Comment

Want to say “Hi planet KDE” :)

Marble on my desktop

Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas. You can learn a lot about planet Earth by using it. It is written in Qt and cross platform.  Among the different features some are:

  • It can fetch data from Wikipedia
  • It can measure distance between places
  • OpenStreet map support
  • GPS device support
  • Shows satellite view
  • It also renders real time cloud over Earth

You can find the video here.

How to find your disk usage ?

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | Community, dgplug, Fedora, FOSS, News, Python, Tutorial | 10 Comments

In this video I tried to explain two commands, du and df .

New videos: Python tuple, list, dictionary and string objects

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | dgplug, Fedora, FOSS, News, Python, Tutorial | 2 Comments

I just upload few more videos at tv. These are on different python object/data structure available. To know more read here.

Paul W. Frields is going to talk on Fedora Docs

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | Community, dgplug, Fedora, Interview, News, Tutorial | No Comments

Paul W. Frields, the fearless Fedora Project Leader and long time contributor to the Fedora Docs project, is going to conduct a session on Fedora Docs as part of dgplug‘s summer training.

Venu: #dgplug  on irc.freenode.net
Date Time: September 4 , Thursday, 13:00 UTC

Máirín Duffy already conducted a session on Fedora Art , you can read the log here.

From BrokenMoko to OpenMoko, a late night journey

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | FOSS, GPS, OpenMoko, OSM, TangoGPS, Tutorial | 5 Comments

Last few days I was looking for a GPS device to test how they work and if I can do some OpenStreet Map work and I am not in condition to buy anything.

A BrokenMoko was lying on the table we use, from the time I came to Pune. TangoGPS is the GPS application in it. I tried a lot to figure out how to use that and failed. Later at night joined #openmoko , people (Specially Zorkman and Dave) tried to help me in every known way so that I can turn that on. Figured out the unit was running some FSO build (no idea what it is).

Finally around 1AM , <Zorkman> asked me to install some 2008.8 build into the SD card and boot from there. They told me all steps one by one :) Steps are:

  • Connect the OpenMoko to your system , create a USB connection
  • write a proper /etc/resolv.conf
  • Prepare the SD card by partitioning and formatting.
  • Download these roofs and kernel.
  • on the FR: mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mokokernel
  • scp 20080826-asu-stable-uImage.bin root@192.168.0.202:/mnt/mokokernel/uImage.bin
  • on the FR: mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/moko
  • scp 20080826-asu-stable-rootfs.tar.gz root@192.168.0.202:/tmp/
  • on the FR:tar -C /tmp/20080826-asu-stable-rootfs.tar.gz -xzvf /mnt/moko
  • download http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin
  • Read how to flash
  • Boot from SD
  • opkg update && opkg install gpsd
  • opkg install http://www.tangogps.org/downloads/tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk
  • echo GPS_DEV=”/dev/ttySAC1″ > /etc/default/gpsd
  • Turn on GPS hardware from setting menu
  • on the FR: /etc/init.d/gpsd start
  • edit your ~/.gconf/apps/tangogps/%gconf.xml and replace it with this.
  • edit /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and replace it with this.
  • Now fire tangogps and enjoy

Don’t forget to get out of the house to test it :)

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