It looks like Jamil “miya” and others have been doing a fantastic job with the Bangla translation of Mozilla Firefox. They have already released a build for Windows XP (arrgh!!), and hopefully, if things work out as planned, a build for GNU/Linux will also be available soon. Here’s a screenshot:



In other news, there might be a new file manager for XFCE soon. This would certainly help in our low cost PC/Internet access device plans. I was also wondering whether having Velocity as a file manager in XFCE would be good idea. But, Thunar seems to be even more user friendly, and development on Velocity seems to have slowed down, so I guess at the moment, Thunar is our best bet.

Finally got Beagle to run on my laptop. It is a little resource hungry - and the intitial indexing can take really long. Apart from those two annoyances (well, I don’t suppose the second one is much of a headache), Beagle seems to be shaping up really nicely, and I really hope that it takes care of my xchat logs in the future ;-). Next, I plan to look at iFolder.



And by the way… A very happy Holi and a very Happy Easter to everyone.

Arrgghh…

My Internet connection was down for almost a week due to the strike at BSNL. Even my landline service was quite flaky, and during the past seven days, the only reliable way of contacting me was by calling my Hutch mobile. Anyway, the strike seems to be over now, and services are being restored (slowly, that is).

During the past few days, I have been digging into Jabberd2 (configuring this thing seems to be a really complicated affair), and into loudmouth. The plan is to implement a kind of virtual class room by integrating this into Senpai. The end product may not be very useful, but it is a good coding exercise for me :).

During the week, I got together with some of my college buddies, and watched Constantine. Didn’t like it very much. Also did a proper (non jhbuild) upgrade to GNOME 2.10 during the week, and after applying the patches from here, the experience has been really good. During the upgrade process, after applying the native file selector widget and Indic rendering patches to Firefox, I decided to make the switch from Epiphany. Though Firefox seems to be a little more “heavier” than Epiphany, tools like this and this make things bearable.

..and since I had nothing much to do, I also re-did my hacker head (since some people didn’t like the earlier one). Hope this one looks better.