http://www.j4v4m4n.in It's My life Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:52:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone is not feeling good about FOSS Meet and its success. Yesterday we were not at all prepared for this kind of an attack in our irc meeting. But we managed to contain the attack by kicking out all the offenders and changing the channel to invite only. At first look ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2010/01/13/efforts-to-sabaotage-foss-meet-discussions/ When Unicode Consortium decided Malayalam 'nta' will no more be 'na chandrakkala rra' but 'chillu na chandrakala rra' from Unicode 5.1, a thought occured to me, "Unicode Consortium used to encode Malayalam and now whatever Unicode Consortium decides to encode becomes Malayalam in the digital world!" This post is attempt ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/11/07/unicode-or-malayalam/ Continuing with my Android hacks, I now can input unicode Malayalam on my T Mobile G1 phone !! [caption id="attachment_259" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Typed using Malayalam layout"][/caption] I have to say thanks to excellent work done by 'worry' at xda-developers forum. It took the whole day to download android sources (my hotel ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/08/16/now-malayalam-keyboard-in-android/ [caption id="attachment_254" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Malayalam wikipedia displayed with Meera font on Android"][/caption] This post by Kaippally inspired me to start working on Malayalam support on Android phones. I was a bit hesitant to jailbreak my T Mobile G1 phone because EFF advised me that this could be used against me in ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/08/15/malayalam-support-on-android-one-step-at-a-time/ Some failed attempts earlier to use my T Mobile G1 android phone as internet connection for my laptop did not stop me from succeeding this time. It is fairly complicated but if you have not other choice to get an internet connection, then you can follow this. You will need ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/08/14/use-your-g1-as-internet-connection-for-your-laptop-aka-tethering/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="198" caption="Free Dr Binayak Sen"][/caption] Tomorrow is World Health Day. Dr Binayak Sen spent the best part of his life working among the poorest people in India, who live far away from the government’s attentions, with no access to clinics, hospitals, doctors or medicines. He has saved thousands ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/04/06/arundhati-roy-for-release-of-dr-binayak-sen/ Fifth edition of the FOSS Meet @ NITC is getting ready. Its just a week away - Feb 27th to March 1st. Register today! http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/02/21/foss-meet-nitc-2009-is-here/ There was some discussions in fsug-tvm list about handling ntfs partitions in GNU/Linux. I thought I will summarise the steps here. ntfs is a minefield of Microsoft patents and linux support has been very carefull and write support came only recently. Now mainline kernel has ntfs module (not sure if write ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/02/21/using-ntfs-partitions-from-gnulinux/ First they killed Dalits. Then we said; "They deserve to be killed" We also adopted the same hindu brahminical strategies in our elite spheres to ward off dalits - (we still practice it proudly) Then they came to Muslims and killed them one by one. We also kept quite as we ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/02/09/then-they-came-to-us/ I have just submitted my comments to "Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies" that US Copyright office is seeking. My comments are in supports to class "5A Fred von Lohmann, Jennifer S. Granick, Electronic Frontier Foundation". My full comment is provided below Commenter’s Name: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil Proposed ... http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2009/01/30/join-the-battle-to-free-your-phone/