Tools and Software

[:http://trac.edgewall.org/|Trac] is indeed a very useful software. When swamped with too many things to do, this is a good tool to keep track of all the tasks and issues in a better way (at least it has been that, for me). It even has a wiki that is very much similar to [w:Mediawiki|Mediawiki].

It has been more than 5 years since I started using Linux - I've always been on GNOME, making a brief switch to XFCE in between. Although KDE is more eye-candy and better than GNOME in few instances, I never liked to use it much. But these days, there are many KDE applications that you probably cannot live without, if you're using Linux.

If Opera sets right the Indic rendering issues on Linux version of it, it might as well become the best browser for Indic languages on Linux!

So what do you do when you want to know all user names created on your mysql server? mysql> select distinct User from mysql.user

UPDATE: Just two days later to this post, 1.5.0.3 was released. Updating the note for that, and the link now holds 1.5.0.3 build of Firefox. Here's a shared build of pango enabled Firefox latest stable version - 1.5.0.3.

So, whats the relation between TvTime and Kannada? some of you reading this title might be wondering. There is! Kannada rendering on Linux, Ubuntu Linux - especially, breaks up once you install TvTime. The ttf-free-fonts package that gets installed with TvTime is the real culprit.

Epson's CX1500 works pretty fine on Linux. All I had to do to get it running was to "add the printer" with the GUI (the windows way) which was auto detected. Something to rejoice for non-geeks using Linux.