Archive for May 2009

GIT vs SVN

Red1 asked on the Adempiere forum is shifting to GIT from SVN a good idea , i think it is here is why?
local , distributed, branched ,small , fast, staging area….. more on whygitisbetterthanx

First commiter from India

Well it is official now i am the first commiter from India for Adempiere.For those who don’t know what Adempiere Business Suite is its an industrial strength open-source software solution that combines ERP, CRM and SCM support for business processes. ADempiere provides a framework for extending and customizing to meet business needs. here is a short video about Adempiere

Nominate Adempiere for Best Community Project Award

Show your support for the FOSS projects you use and love by nominating them for SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.

converting HTML to txt

Well we all face it converting .html format to .txt format , was converting two files to txt format html2txt was of not  much help, did not want to go the vim way ,perl or python was overkill  lynx came handy

lynx -dump index.html >index.txt

Upgrade to 9.04 Ubuntu from 8.10

Resisted the upgrade for long since i got reports of network and sound cards not working properly  with Jaunty , i took the alternative cd route to upgrade. As expected my sound card stopped working  added this line to make it work

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 enable_msi=1

other things looks ok so far .