Tag: LFY September 2011
“Open-Source Professionals are Welcome at Impetus”
If you think there is a dearth of financially viable opportunities in the world of FOSS, think again! Organisations like Impetus Infotech (India) Pvt...
Kerala State Electricity Board Saves a Whopping Rs 8 Crore, Using...
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) switched to open source solutions only a few years back, and now, not only manages the accounting and billing...
OpenIndiana — a Free Fork of Solaris
OpenIndiana comprises the Illumos core, taken from OpenSolaris, with a set of GNU user-land tools. OpenIndiana can even be called an analogue to GNU/Linux,...
The Magical Art of Compositing in Blender
Apart from being a great 3D modeller and one of the best animation programs, Blender is also a great compositing program (since the release...
A Novice’s Guide to Android Rooting, Recovery and Flashing
This is an introduction to customising Android (rooting, recovery and flashing), which is intended for those already acquainted with Android and wish to unleash...
FOSS Trainer Powers Up 170 College Labs in Tamil Nadu!
"In India, open source software will have to come and stay in a big way, for the benefit of our billion people," Dr A...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 4
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic...
Modify-function-return-value hack! — Part 2
In my previous article on this topic, we discussed some guidelines on how to write a secure application in C. The article focused on...
The Comprehensive LAMP Guide — Part 3 (PHP)
PHP, the "P" in LAMP, is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is the most widely used programming language for Web applications...
Device Drivers, Part 10: Kernel-Space Debuggers in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, talks about kernel-space debugging in Linux.
Shweta, back from hospital, was relaxing in...
