Pidgin 2.6.1, troubleshooting

I installed pidgin 2.6.1 today to check if it was working for me. But as soon as I started a voice conversation, it either crashed or game me the following error:

“Could not start rtp muxer session”.

The solution is to move your current ~/.gstreamer-0.10 to somewhere. Let pidgin create a new one. Then I made a call to one of my friends. He was able to listen whatever I said but I was not able to listen what he said. I still dont know why ?

This is where I found the solution http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6622.

TO-DO List

GScribble

1.Better editor for posts (Bold/Italic etc)

2. Proxy support Added HTTP Proxy support

3. Blogger Support

4. Release new rpms

openDChub

1. Release new version and rpms

A wonderful experience at Srijan

On Friday, the M.D. Mr. Rahul Devan took the entire Srijan Team to a outing so that people may get to know each other and decide what the company’s strategies should be. Though I am an intern over here but I also asked to be a part of the trip, which initially I had thought that I would bunk, but later I decided to go ahead and see it.

Mr Vivek Puri, who had just left IBM and joined Srijan, picked me up from Khanpur bus stop in his car and drove us to ‘Teri Resort’ on Faridabad-Gurgaon Express way. On the way I saw Qutub Minar (which I had been planning to visit since I came here) and Chattarpur Temple (which has a statue of Hanuman which is over 40 feet tall). We reached there at 9:40 AM. As he parked his car, we were taken to the conference room in a battery-driven auto-ricksaw. There was greenery everywhere. I must say they had well maintained the resort.

Then the proceedings for the day began. It started with the introduction of the 22 members of Srijan team. Everyone had to speak about his past, his experience with Srijan and his ambitions for future. I was overwhelmed with thoughts when everybody spoke how they wanted to help society some by teaching kids, opening schools at their respective villages. I would like to mention here are Mr Hari from Andhra Pradesh who was deeply touched by farmers of his village and some other nearby villages who were moving out of villages to cities in search of job, where they had to live on footpaths. He said that at some point of his life he would return to his village and teach them how to use new technology to get better harvest and earn money.

Apart from that I saw some people here are not very well educated but with the help of others they are also progressing. It was also great to see even the peons sat with and told their story.

I must say that in the past month that I have stayed here, I never felt this place like an office, its always full of humour.

Then we had lunch after that we again sat down and decided bout the strategies and points of success and failures of the company. Here they were trying to decide the company’s policy. The M.D. has always tried to make it a democratic place to work and thus he was seeking everyone’s say in how the company should be run. Almost everything from administration to finance everything was discussed. Later in the evening we played Cricket and guess what I dropped two catches

It was really an experience to be remembered.
It was really interesting to see a company shape up.

Working at www.srijan.in

The story began nearly one month back. I had hardly any work and no internship for the coming summer. Debayan forwardrd a mail from ILUG Delhi’s mailing list for an opportunity for an internship to work on Drupal. Since I had PHP knowledge and I had been managing the GLUG website, so I felt I had some chance. So I sent them a mail with my resume. Though I was not expecting any replies ( I had made similar attempts earlier also), still I made an attempt following my Golden rule – “Try, rather than repenting later that I should have tried”.  Two days later I got a reply that there would be a telephonic interview which happened the next day. The interview was okay. I hardly have anything in my resume that I could boast about. The person was Mr. Sidharth (thanks to the list of names of employees on my desk for the spelling).  He said that he would reply in 15 days about the confirmation which made me think that that they will dump me. To my amazement the same guy called me two days later that I was selected and asked about my convinience for work.

I was very happy and now I am at Srijan trying to digg deep into drupal. Today is my third day here. I must admit that sitting here 8 hours makes me so tired that I fall sleep as soon as I reach home. I hope that I do something great in the coming two months of my work here.

ScribeFire Plugin for Firefox

I like to use Firefox because of the add-ons it provides. I mostly use Fast Dial, Webmail notifier, Download Them all, Twitterfox, Google toolbar. Just now I installed ScribeFire blog editor. This is really a cool add-on. You just have to press F8 and you get a nice interface, go ahead and type whatever you want to and just publish your post.
I have written this post from ScribeFire and from now onwards I will use it to write posts. 

Some things I have been doing these days

I have become a kind of person who does not care about examinations any more and keep on doing some stuffs.

1. I always wanted to have a bot on our channel (#nitdgplug on Freenode, though we have very less to log, you all are welcome to our channel ). So i used eggdrop to create a bot and log messages. It is really a great software, and needs a hell lot of configuration. Here is the configuration bot file. Strangely wordpress does not allows to upload txt files, so you can simply rename it as bot.conf and use.
I made an important change to log all the messages and log it in directories whose name bears month name and year as Apr2009. I played with the configuration file and then it was done. Just create a directory with this name Apr2009 (three letters per month name.
This did the trick

logfile jpk #nitdgplug “logs/” //removed the name of file name
set logfile-suffix “%b%Y/%d%b%Y.txt” // I just added ‘%b%Y/’ to what it aleady was.

you can see logs of our channel at http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/irclogs/.

2. Today I created a video section for our website with wordpress. I was struggling with Drupal, even if it has a flash player module it is not properly documented (If you know tell me I will be pleased to know). With wordpress it was just a matter of 10 minutes. http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/videos.

This was really fun. Looking for more things to do .

why do i use linux

There are many people around me obviously I am talking about Windows users, who ask me this question.
I have a very simple answer.

1. I dont have to pay for it and to the various softwares that I use. Yes that is it. I realised this after Abhas Abhinav’s Talk during Mukti [strongest of all for me at least ].
2. I get the freedom to change and redistribute, it may not be important for those who dont code. For them the first reason may be a strong reason.
3. You cant install the same product on two different machines.
4. I feel that INDIA is a poor country ( please dont mind ) and if we cant stop importing hardware we can always stop importing paid software. So use FOSS.

Otherwise Windows is also a good OS, I donot intend to compare Linux and windows here, after all we all have used windows at some point or the other. There are also some very good softwares and games like counter strike which I left playing for my love for Linux. May be some time later I may create Counter Strike for Linux [joking] .

This is my opinion and I am FREE to keep any opinion. You may be against it.

some people are just unusual

I happen to know one such man he was my mentor, Johnny Jacob (just google him) when I was trying to hack Evolution in summer vacation last year. Nearly one and a half month back he contacted me to work on Evolution again. I was very much excited to do that but I was busy with dhvani those days. I thought that I would do that later on. But then I realized its time for me to think about a job. Yes I definitely need a job. It was then I realized that I cant afford higher studies at least now. So I have dumped the idea of working on any project for a few days until I get a job.
That man suddenly commented on my previous post I never knew he was following me. But it really feels good when some one remembers you.

Oh the installation on the server is finished need to configure everything. Will finish this post later.

Codecracker stats

After the event finished I calculated the stats. This really thrilled me

Codecracker stats:
Total teams that registered for the event : 118
Total teams that submitted solutions : 49
Total number of correct submissions : 44
Total number of submissions : 346

These are stats from Feedjit
The site grabbed attention of many people around the world !

We had people registered from USA and china also. The person from USA actually participated as seen from the image

The person from Bangladesh and China only logged in and saw the score card.


The rest visitors were from our country who actally participated in the event. Others landed accidentally i guess
People from many parts of India participated in the event.

This is what google analytics had to say :

I will elaborate the stats later on. I hope next year it sees participation from more places.

Codecraker Finals

I am writing this post from IT Dept lab from where the codecracker server is running. After a lot of problems and testing we finally managed to get codecracker working in Python and it has run smoothly without any failure till now. Now only 20 minutes are left for it to end. It feels good to be a part of an event as big as codecracker.
Rajat had set questions which were really tough than the last year. Mostly people from IIITs did the solutions. The stats will be given tomorrow morning. We had a team ‘ACRush’ from china. Unfortunately he did not participate. Till now we have more than 300 submissions. The stats will be out by tomorrow morning.
But the performance of students from my college was really poor.
The source code of codecracker will be out very soon.