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Step 1
change your repositories:
$ sudo sed -e 's/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
Step 2
open synaptic:
$ sudo synaptic &
Step 3
Click ‘Reload’ button –> Click ‘Mark All Upgrades’ –> Click ‘Apply’
Notes
- This is a shorter method than first upgrading Feisty and then upgrading Feisty to Gutsy as given here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
And the three steps mentioned above work (I have tried).
- The Gutsy interface is much better. See here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710tour. (latest gnome, gdm, kdm, thunderbird-2, etc. )
- Above procedure can also be tried to upgrade from ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) to 7.10. For that, step 1 would be:
$ sudo sed -e 's/\sdapper/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
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HTH
Nitin Munjal
Microsoft: “ TechVista, Microsoft Research (MSR) India’s annual research symposium, features some of the best recognized scientists from across the world as speakers. TechVista brings together the research community, academia and government onto a common platform.”
I recently got the opportunity to attend the “symposium” and it made me clear why such a “hype” was attached to the event (besides the poolside lunch at the five star hotel [intercontinental eros], it was good). As claimed by MS, it really did brought together the research community (plenty of Phd’s, abundance of people from good institutes), academia (many of them were able to inspire me(!)) and government (Kapil Sibal [Sci-Tech minister], Arun Shourie [ex-disinvestment minister], yeah and their speech was inspiring too). In addition there was a project poster exhibition and some Microsoft fellowship awards (which carry an astonishingly 20 grands(!), yeah you heard/read me right).
Session one : Dr. Rick Rashid (VP, MSR) spoke about new upcoming technologies Microsoft Surface (technology), Program Termination (research), Storage (Sky Server)(application), Streaming Model (predicting jams, tracking each persons movements [what was that? breach of privacy. huh?]).
This was followed by a presentation by Prof. Eric Grimson who talked about the role of computational application in image guided systems. Main focus was to ensure the robustness and reliability of the system (since it could cost a precious life).
Prof Krithi Ramamritham majorly talked about aAqua (which pretty much seemed like some general web forum until he introduced scalability [cross lingual archive], usability and availability[delay tolerance] issues).
Session (they named it “special session”) : Rick Rashid, Craig Mundie, Kapil Sibal, Sirini Koppolu. Rick gave a nice demo of PhotoSynth , which brain stormed Kapil Sibal and he came up with ideas of project collaboration with MS (3D views for Delhi’s historical monuments and for international museums and making it public)[huh?].
Session two : Who doesn’t get fascinated by robots especially when they can do things like this:
Note: They are not remotely controlled.
Prof Manuela M Veloso and her team (currently |team| = 16) have worked for over 10 years(!) for this.
This was followed by presentation by Dr. Tony Hey (time for a short nap). The session concluded by Dr. Michael Kass who spoke about the animation in general and the Clothing Animation at Pixar in particular (used in movies like ‘Incredibles’ and ‘Ratatouille’).
The day was concluded by Dr. Arun Shourie who gave a motivating lecture on “need for research in india”.
btw: did you knew that India produces 45 PhD’s a year as opposed to US’s 1500. (surprisingly pathetic. right?)
Hell no! 
finally had to create a new filter.
New filter–> if subject contains ‘like the same books’ –> move to ‘Trash’.
[on popular junta demand]
of late, a lot of people have been asking this question. i did a research last night and found reasonably good solutions:
C/C++:
download and install MinGW (c/c++ compiler) from: click here
notes: install it in any directory say F:\Program Files\MinGW
download and install crimson editor (our IDE on windows) from: click here
notes: install it in any directory say F:\Program Files\crimson
Now start crimson editor
Open Preferences dialog box and select User Tools page
Select an empty slot and fill with the following arguments.
- Menu Text: Compile C
- Command: F:\Program Files\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe
- Argument: $(FileName)
- Initial dir: $(FileDir)
- Hot key: Ctrl+F7
- Capture output: Yes
- Save before execute: Yes
notes:
for C++ use command: F:\Program Files\MinGW\bin\g++.exe
for hot key, click on the hot key textbox and press Ctrl+F7
Open Preferences dialog box and select User Tools page
Select an empty slot and fill with the following arguments.
- Menu Text: Execute Binary
- Command: C:\Windows\win32\command.com
- Argument: /C a.exe
- Initial dir: $(FileDir)
- Hot key: Ctrl+F5
- Capture output: Yes
- Close on exit: No
- Save before execute: No
Now you are ready to compile/run c/c++ programs
create a c/c++ file, press Ctrl+F7 then press Ctrl+F5, a nice popup window will show the output of program
Java:
download and install j2se development kit: click here
download and install jcreator: click here
run jcreator (it automatically detects the j2se environment)
You are ready to create java projects/files. then go to build->compile project/file. next build->run project/file.
download and install eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
download and install cygwin: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
(now you are ready to use linux packages on windows)
now ask rohitj on how to install kdevelop… hehe ツ
HTH
Nitin Munjal
how to login to multiple accounts (gmail/yahoo etc)
as such using only one instance of firefox (one process only), its not feasible (linux/windows).
so in linux,
create a new instance
$firefox -no-remote -P
create a new profile
$firefox -CreateProfile
in windows,
simplest workaround is to install this ietab plugin (this integrates internet explorer in firefox): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
or 1. create a firefox shortcut at your desktop
2. in the properties of the shortcut change the application name to C:/whatever/firefox to C:/same-whatever/firefox -P
proxy settings (for iitk junta only)
use the following proxy configuration url
for vsnlproxy
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~nitinm/vp
relproxy
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~nitinm/rp
proxy
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~nitinm/p
ernetproxy
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~nitinm/ep
why should you use above scripts?
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