Ruminations Galore

I know I didn’t quite deliver on my promise. I last made a blog post in January, promising that never again would a month go by without me posting something. And yet, here I am apologizing for the lack of posts these past four months. Thing is, I’m really neck deep in work. There’s lots [...]

Drivel is a GNOME client that supports several blogging software such as MovableType, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress and several others. It’s purpose, at first sight, appears to be increasing the life expectancy of your mouse, by reducing the number of clicks you normally need to make before making new entries to your blog. While, this hardly [...]

Yeah! So this explains all those test posts using Drivel I just thought I’d take a quick short break from all my CLI Magic series articles and write something about a graphical tool for a change. Drivel has its obvious advantages. For one, being a desktop blogging client, it reduces the number of clicks you [...]

I recently wrote an article on SoX, the swiss army knife of sound manipualtion programs. The article was published on Linux.com on Monday. It’s my 8th article in the CLI Magic series FTA: Sound eXchange (SoX) is a command-line sound sample translator. This Swiss Army knife of sound tools can be used to convert file [...]

Is a glass half full or half empty? This eternal question sums up the challenge of interpreting a software license. So how does one avoid the pitfall of a wrong interpretation? Here is my thumb rule — never ignore the spirit in which the software license was created in the first place. The _biggest problem_ [...]

Ever since the word (neigh, rumors) got out about a possible new version of the GPL being worked upon, people have been restless. There were talks about the issues this new version might and should address even before any official announcement was made by the Free Software Foundation that GPLv3 was a possibility. Now that [...]

Can’t believe I didn’t blog this. I have been too busy sorting some things these past couple of months and the coming exams don’t make tasks easier. Anyway, this article is about Conky, a lightweight yet powerful system monitor. From thr article: Conky is a lightweight system monitor that provides essential information in an easy-to-understand, [...]

I recently wrote about GPLv3 and what people have been saying about it. The article focusses on the specific DRM problem in regards to Copyleft/GPL and also on Linus’s views about the signing keys. As I have long been interested in software law and have also occasionally blogged about a few licensing issues, I thought [...]

Yoohooo! The sequel to my article on Dialog and Xdialog is up. This one focusses on Kdialog and Zenity — tools that can be used to create GTK+ and QT dialog boxes. That is, frontends made with Zenity are rendered exactly like any other application under GNOME. Ditto for Kdialog udner KDE. They are both [...]

This article aims to somewhat easing a new users command line experience. While interacting with friends, I often found that the most compelling reason for not trying linux was the command line. Things like tarballs and gzipped files, scare some new users, as they don’t want to do anything on the command line. While this [...]