Whats on Your Mind ?

Tried boot­ing OLPC from USB , OLPC has a secu­rity fea­ture to not boot from exter­nal devices by default , it comes with a secu­rity lock , we can remove this by

a) Get­ting a Devel­oper key
b) Flash­ing the firmware

The idea is to boot from USB device and run Ubuntu from USB then some apps over it, hope AMD proces­sor with 256 MB of Ram can take all this.

Michael Judd setup an aster­isk sys­tem for adem­piere com­mu­nity to use. once the accounts for peo­ple are cre­ated you can access it using a voip soft­phone or a hard phone.

With the ser­vice we can cur­rently con­fer­ence, and call exten­sions for free. Mike have the servers located in data cen­tre in Lon­don which has plenty of band­width. (1,000GB/month) he has some inbound UK num­bers which can be routed through dif­fer­ent call groups and queues. You can sched­ule time­zones and only route to cer­tain exten­sions at cer­tain times of the day (so as not to wake you up at night).

Cur­rently, there is no out­bound call­ing (as that costs money), but he can add addi­tional tele­phone num­bers for dif­fer­ent coun­tries and route them directly to you.

Peo­ple who want to join the sys­tem will be able to call and trans­fer calls to each other — so this could be used as a col­lab­o­ra­tion tool for support.

Mike is presently look­ing for other inter­ested par­ties to try this out — please con­tact michael dot judd at aku­na­group dot com if you are interested.

I have tested it using Ekiga on 256 Kbps band­width from Air­tel Broad­band ser­vices , it works well some screen shots below

account set­tings i have done in Ekiga

ser­vice:
user­name:
pass­word: (same for voicemail)

You can try the fol­low­ing num­bers:
102 — Mike Judd
304 — Satyag
# — Direc­tory
*43 — echo test
*60 — speak­ing clock
411 — Direc­tory dial by name
*97 — voicemail

You can try other sip clients from this Sip soft­ware list and report to mike how things are work­ing at your end

When you use Python inter­ac­tively, it is fre­quently handy to have some stan­dard com­mands exe­cuted every time the inter­preter is started. You can do this by set­ting an envi­ron­ment vari­able named PYTHONSTARTUP to the name of a file con­tain­ing your start-up com­mands. This is sim­i­lar to the .pro­file fea­ture of the Unix shells.

This file is only read in inter­ac­tive ses­sions, not when Python reads com­mands from a script, and not when /dev/tty is given as the explicit source of com­mands (which oth­er­wise behaves like an inter­ac­tive ses­sion). It is exe­cuted in the same name­space where inter­ac­tive com­mands are exe­cuted, so that objects that it defines or imports can be used with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion in the inter­ac­tive ses­sion. You can also change the prompts sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 in this file.

If you want to read an addi­tional start-up file from the cur­rent direc­tory, you can pro­gram this in the global start-up file using code like if os.path.isfile(‘.pythonrc.py’): execfile(‘.pythonrc.py’). If you want to use the startup file in a script, you must do this explic­itly in the script:

import os
file­name = os.environ.get(‘PYTHONSTARTUP’)
if file­name and os.path.isfile(filename):
execfile(filename)

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

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

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

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

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 .