Category: Technical

ActiveX + GCF

<activex title=”Media Player” scriptName=”MediaPlayer” control=”{22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95}” name=”mediaPlayer” parentWidget=”CStdMainWindowComponent.window” parentWidgetHint=”RightDockWidgetArea” /> Gives you this 🙂 Not only can you load ActiveX controls, you view/edit properties in the standard property editor component and can also script them. Moreover, if you load KParts on…

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Support for ActiveX and KParts components in GCF

In my talk on GCF at Akademy, I said in my plan-of-action list that GCF would support ActiveX and KParts components. When I said that, I had imagined that the whole thing would take a couple of months time. Being…

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I heard the GODs speaking…

I can really salute to two godly talks and speakers today… Andreas Aardal Hanssen (on GraphicsView) Zack (on Gallium 3D)

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Akademy 2008 Day 0/1/2

I arrived here on Friday. Flew to Paris with Girish and from there took the train to Bruxels with a whole bunch of KDE devs.. By 4:00 we were at Friends Cafe and got all the registration done. There are…

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Company TShirts

We got a few TShirts printed with our company logo. Looks nice… and here is a team pic (all of us are wearing the TShirts). Meanwhile, I am all set to go to Belgium for Akademy. The flight is at…

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I think everybody should read this…

BRIEFING NOTE ON THE IMPACT OF SOFTWARE PATENTS ON THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN INDIA– by LAWRENCE LIANG, ANURANJAN SETHI and PRASHANTH IYENGAR http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/whysoftwarepatentsareharmful.pdf (Thanks to venki for bringing this to everybody’s attention in planet.foss.in).

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Need to revamp JEE??

I read this article today: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/JEE_fails_to_get_the_best_IIT_dons/articleshow/3307741.cms. Atleast some IIT profs seem to think that the whole thing needs to be revamped. “I am looking for students with raw intelligence and not those with a mind prepared by coaching class tutors….

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Couldn’t file I-T returns? Don’t panic

The last date to file your income-tax return is just three days away. But if you are a salaried individual and can’t file your return by July 31, don’t worry. Because you still have a little less than two years…

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I used to think that I was alone in this… but I am not :)

UGC has listed out a bunch of names of management universities that are “fake”: http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html. It is not surprising to see IIPM’s name in that list. “Indian Institute of Planning & Management(IIPM),133/4,Qutab Enclave,Phase-II, New Delhi � 110 016.” I always…

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GUI for “Sequel – Circuit Simulator” is based on GCF

Over the past year and a half we have been working with the EE department of IIT Bombay in creating a easy to use GUI for their Sequel circuit simulator. I have had an opportunity to work with Prof. Patil…

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Got my VISA…

I got my VISA to travel to Belgium for Akademy. That was the last of the hurdles to clear for making the trip happen. With that out of the way, I am now 100% sure that I will be flying…

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So you want to be a programmer?

http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Programmer-.html&Itemid=29 I thought that this was a very interesting article. +20Million to this point “I often get personally asked, and see the question come up online a lot, what courses a person should take in college if they want to…

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Dell XPS 1530 arrives :-)

I got my new Dell Laptop today. It is an absolute treat. Some powerhouse laptop it is… 15in Widescreen Truelife LCD, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, Core Duo Intel Processor, NVIDIA 8600 MGT, Integrated WebCam, WiFi, Bluetooth headphones, noise…

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Akademy preperations…

Got my tickets booked to Belgium, booked my stay, got the conference invite.. next step: apply for VISA. I have also placed an order for Dell XPS 1530. It should arrive anytime next week. I was thinking of buying it…

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