Looking for a new job

Started looking for a new job. My first choice is some place where I can work in & on Free softwares.
Currently having 1year+ experience in HCL (my first job).
You can check my resume here.

Fedora in School

After getting two computers as donation, we are able to install Fedora at Bijra High School. Previously the single box was running Debian. If you see the enthusiasm among the students about computer, you will surely fill same :)
You can read the full story here.
Still looking for some donation of old boxes, so that we can enable LTSP there. If you can arrange some, please give me a mail.

gcc vs turboc

The war started between me & Ria. It was my worst fear and it came true today. We just started arguing over gcc & turboc. She was telling that turboc is better 'coz in the college turboc is the only choice. She fixed her mind on this.
The fight was like this..

Q: Why turboc is good?
A: Both clrscr() & getch() functions are there :)
Q: Why gcc is bad?
A: 'Coz other students in the college are not using it.

When she said "Windows is better than Linux", I just hung up. I don't know when I am going to call her back. :(
Still it is the choice, the choice of freedom.

Ria updates..Anjuta added

Yesterday night, was teaching my girlfriend(Ria) some basics of Data Structure in C. Still, she is not using Linux for doing codes, she prefers Turbo IDE, 'coz she can click there.
So, I decided to include Anjuta in Ria. Students in our place never saw an IDE in Linux for doing C/C++ codes.
Another main reason of "not using Linux for programming", is the lack of knowledge of the teachers. They learned only Turbo C++ editor as the student, so they keep teaching on that only. :(
Another myth is about the great conio.h. If it is not in your program, then your code is wrong :)
Students in my college never saw any source of the application(s) they run. The second year students are learning Data Structure, but they don't know how to use pointer/structure/function. Some of them also said that it is easier to code DS examples than the simple c examples !!

Koha server missing

After 3 months work, suddenly the Koha Server is missing. The office seems like a zoo.. :)

Ria Beta 1 is released

Ria, my sweetheart... Its for you.. :)

Ria is the installer for a collection of available rpms to enable different restricted media formats in Fedora. It will make installing them easier while fixing the dependency problems by itself. Currently it supports only XMMS, GStreamer & Xine.
It is a 21 MB CD ISO, a complete offline tool.

Note: GUI of Ria is not good enough. Will fix it in beta 2.
You can download it from here.

Up again

dgplug is up & running.. :)

Regular expressions

Trying to learn it properly.

Urgent help needed

Our lug site is hacked. www.dgplug.org by some crackers_child group.
Now I can't go to the site (latest news)
No whois information for that site..

What to do ?

Please send me a mail at kushaldas AT gmail [NOSPAM} DOT com

Yesterday something happened

That's sure.
I don't know what?
I don't know why?
But I did that.
Monday night was the most miserable night in my life. May be, due to that shock I did that.
I am not feeling well, too much stress for me.

Q: What I did?
Ans:
In the afternoon just called her mom, said a few general words, and then, simply told that "I want to marry your daughter".
Reply came in the usual way, she didn't want to think about it . So hope for the best in the future.

Q: What came next?
Ans:
Around 9.30 pm I got a call from her mom, I was afraid. She told, that they thought about me, and decided that there is no problem about the marriage :)
I was just jumping around the house. Uhh!! What a call!!
Now I am flying..............

Latest news:
Came back to the earth 'coz I am sick :(

I still love her

I DO

It was like a mid air crash with a Boeing :(

Resize image

use QT :)
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from qt import QImage
import sys

qm = QImage(sys.argv[1])
qm = qm.scale(600,480,QImage.ScaleMin)
qm.save('ch-'+sys.argv[1],'JPEG',100)

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o/p is good enough

Update:

If you find the output image is not good enough, then you might want to use
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qm = qm.smoothScale(600,480,QImage.ScaleMin)
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At last..

At last SF.NET accepted my new project request for "ria" . :)
Previously they rejected it twice.