Waiting for Hardy 8.04

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Hi all,

Been just playing a waiting game to see when Hardy 8.04 comes out. In other news openoffice.org 2.4 just got out. Not just a new release but the site itself has been overhauled. Even the forums have been changed to phpBB 3.0 . All of this alongwith the promises of 3.0 up in September '08 . Well these guys are really gonna set the competition afire ;) I just hope the GNOME Office guys as well as KDE Office suite guys also come up with something appropriate.

One thing that would be interesting over next few days if they have been able to shave off some memory while giving new features. OOO 2.3 is pretty bloated as in memory consumption. Looking forward to what happens next. That's all for the day :)

Change

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Hi all,

Another day. Today I was just reminiscing how much things change. As far as my introduction to computers go it started with the advent of BBS'es which had become part of the nerd crowd at that time. This was circa 1991 - '92 . The people who used to run the BBS's had these monster big modems & they would connect to Internet through there ERNET connections . What the guys used to do was that all games & general stuff one could access by connecting to the BBS, for adult content one had to know where to look. Young kids who didn't know any better would go with floppies & get whatever they need. Something like Sneakernet . The media was not upto the mark, and some floppies worked while others didn't & generally people would get frustrated.

Now why am I talking of the past. Simply for the fact the same issues are still making people frustrated. While prOn may be easily available technical or business information is not easily found. Of course Tim's has an idea of the Semantic Web when that will happen or if that happens but as of now one can try enough to feel sleepy & sometimes not get the results.

So after boring u guys with my childhood stories I leave with the thought that everybody is able to find what they are looking for , till next time :)

Comments, suggestions, flames are all welcome :)

Fontconfig & KeithP

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Hi all,

Been rather busy hence no blogging although there have been no dearth of things to blog about. The most interesting thing is the fontconfig application which I used really for sometime today. The issue I went to a localised marathi site & had to get the fonts. Then after getting few issues with the GUI based tools finally googled & found the CLI way to install & update the font cache. When I did the job, just for the heck of it also read the documentation & found to be pretty good & upto mark. While lead to another round of googling & came to know that KeithP is responsible for this lovely package. For those who don't know KeithP he's the Intel guy who's responsible for all the funky graphics you are able to see on your intel graphics cards/chipsets.

He's probably going to go heaven for adding one more feather to his cap . Thanx KeithP :)