Solve Korganizer Day/Month View problem

Korganizer is the default Personal Information Manager(PIM) for KDE.

I love its integrated components as Kmail, Kalendar, Akregator, Journal, To-Do list etc.

The calendar gives various views as Day/Week/Month etc, which makes me to Getting-Things-Done.

The latest kubuntu 9.04 has some problem in calendar’s Day/Week view. It shows nothing

It should show Day and Month view.

googled  and found the solution in the following links.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185852
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/376433

The configuration file for the KOrganizer is
~/.kde4/share/config/korganizerrc

It has the following section

[Views]
Enable Month-View Scrollbars=true
Separator AgendaView=210,679,0
ShownDatesCount=7
TodosUseCategoryColors=true

The above links says to set the value of Separator AgendaViewto 0,0

I set as “Separator AgendaView=132,428″ for a box and it worked well.

If you get the same problem, try changing the value and get it fixed.

Now the Day/Week view is working fine.

Thanks for the KDE community.

Rocking KanchiLUG

Kanchipuram is a small city near chennai, tamil nadu.

Yes. My native is kanchipuram.

It is my looooooong dream to have a Linux User Group in my city. It was being a dream for ages.
Now, atlast, a energetic group of students made it.

They learn linux and other FOSS technologies themself and discuss every sunday.

They have a mailing list, blog

http://www.freelists.org/list/kanchilug

You can join in the mailinglist and guide them.

See how they are conducting their meetings.

This the team with full spirit to learn and spread the FOSS.

Follow their activities at their blog http://kanchilug.wordpress.com

Wishes for the team.

Drupal Chennai meet 2009!

Annoucing Drupal Chennai meet 2009!

Key speaker: Sivaji, A young Computer Engg Graduate from Jaya engg college, who has been actively involved in GSoC. He will briefly talk about his GSoC project, Enchancing Quiz module. And brief us on how we could contribute to Drupal and some of the below questions:

How to contribute to Drupal?
How to submit a patch?
How to apply for a CVS account?
How to contribute a module?

Let meet again and have some Drupal fun…

Start: 

2009-07-04 14:30 – 17:00 Asia/Calcutta

Venue: Netlink Technologies Ltd. 6th Floor Acropolis Chennai

6th Floor, Acropolis, No 148, Cathedral Road, Mylapore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600004‎ – 044 43923800‎

http://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=mylapore+Acropolis+&ie=UTF8&sll=13.045710,80.260599&sspn=0.026088,0.038418&ei=_OVJSv2YLI_4vAPb0cGGCQ&sig2=AQQmGN2T8aHf2sathBgLOg&cd=3&cid=13045741,80260620,6148400419116772844&li=lmd

Organizers: 

Shyamala@drupal.org

Brainstorm site needed for OpenOffice

Today, I was taking with some friends who are MS Office lovers.

I bet them that OO will satisfy all their needs and let them have a test run.

Installed OO 3.0 and let them to do the normal things in writer and calc.

Fine. They can do their normal things. But they have to unlearn most things.

Their hands go on some short keys and mouse gestures. But they can’t
find their favourite
button or function there.

Atlast they come up with a point that they can’t come out of MS Office
because if its usability.

They advised me that OO should have to improve a lot in usability
compared to MS Office 2007.

My wish is to have a Brainstorm site for OO to get the inputs from the
users to get ideas.

Have to ask to the OPenOffice contributors.

Ready to develop a FOSS application? Here is a call for you

CARE is an international voluntary organization working for the
socio-economic development of some of the most marginalized and
economically challenged communities in over 65 countries.

One of the strategies for alleviation of poverty is through promoting
accessible credit for small enterprise to the rural poor. For
efficient management, this requires a database application which can
track community members’ savings and loans. We are looking for
developers who can provide a web-based solution towards this end.
Specifically, we are looking for expertise in the LAMP stack.

Experience in microfinance would be a definite advantage, although
domain expertise would be provided by CARE staff. The software will be
used by small, local NGOs whose staff may have only basic computer
operating skills and therefore, requires a certain simplicity in the
user interface. Those committed to using OSS to help fight poverty
would be welcome.

This is a good opportunity to be associated with an NGO and could be
your contribution to fighting poverty. Although we would like this
assignment to be taken up on a voluntary basis, CARE would certainly
reimburse expenses incurred in the course of this assignment and also
consider a compensation if you so insist..

This initiative will be coordinated by the CARE office in Chennai, but
could also be done through our Hyderabad office if the person cannot
travel to Chennai.

For more information on CARE:

www.care.org
www.careindia.org

Christopher Vasanth
cvasanth @ careindia.org

Disinfect it…

These Pictures are property of Drake Emko & Jen Brodzik

Solution for Slow Performance of Kubuntu 9.04

It is so interesting to get new ubuntu releases and start to work on it.

After a long period, I returned to KDE.
Kubuntu 9.04 gives KDE 4.2 which is a major release of kde history.

I have been a quite long time as 2 years with KDE 3.
It is very nice to see that it is getting matured.

The User Interface is excellent.
I love it.

Let me try the new kubuntu.

Downloaded the ISO from torrent and burned it.

Live CD is wonderful.
But it could not recognize my laptop’s graphics card.

My laptop is IBM Thinkpad T41.
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
I have 2 GB RAM.

I dont know why no graphics is found and kubuntu gave me a shell prompt.

Rebooted and went via a safe graphics mode.
It gave me a very low resolution as 800×600.

Not happy with this resolution.

Rebooted again and got the shell.

gave startx

Viola!

Kubuntu came with its full resolution.

Then installed as usual in a normal way!

Then,still got depressed with the new Kubuntu.

It is too too too much slow.

Every single action is responding in a terrible slow manner.

searched net and asked in kubuntu irc.
atlast found a link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

The fix is to add,

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Section “Device”
        Identifier      “ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9600″
        Driver          “radeon”
        Option          “AccelMethod”    “XAA”  #either XAA or EXA. “XAA” is the default and safe choice
        Option          “EnablePageFlip” “true” #only works with accelmethod “XAA”
        Option          “TripleBuffer”   “true” #This *might* help if you use something like Beryl and have slow video playback.
        Option          “DynamicClocks”  “on”   #This is for laptop users, it saves energy when in battery mode.
        BusID           “PCI:1:0:0″             #must match your lspci output
EndSection

This fixed the slow performance issue.
Now my kubuntu is rocking.

Long Live Kubuntu!

Going for Kubuntu 9.04

After a quite time, I again moved for KDE.

Tried and satisfied with KDE 4.1 with kubuntu 8.10.

Today Installed Kubuntu 9.04 which has KDE 4.2

It is interesting to explore the new things.

Kmail is many excellent changes with UI and look.

Will explore and update the new changes.

Chennai Python Group Meeting on April 18

After a long gap, Chennai Python Group is going to have a meeting.

Date: 18 April, 2009 Saturday
Place : AU-KBC centre, MIT campus, Chromepet. Chennai.
Time : 3.00 pm to 6 .00 pm

Any one can discuss any topic about python.
This will be a great chance for python beginners and students.

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.94795&lon=80.14164&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

Dont Miss it.
Free For all.

To Join Chennai Python Group,
http://groups.google.com/group/chennaipy

Google summer of code 2009 meetup at chennai

There is a GSoC meetup planned where you can meet few summer of coders from the past and everyone who is planning to participate this year is welcome to share/exchange ideas and clear up any doubts they have regarding the program. Some of the students from the past years who will now be mentoring are also going to be present

So in case you happen to be in Chennai and can make it, please do

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 4:30:00 PM IST
Agenda: Discuss/Share/Talk/Have Fun aka Feel the Love of SoC
Venue: CCD, IIT Madras Campus.

Whom/How to contact:
Join the GSoC – Indian Community Mailing Lists:
http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-india?hl=en
Or catch any one of us at ##gsoc-india on irc.freenode.net

People who have confirmed so far:

• Akarsh Simha – GSoC 2008 student for KDE/Kstars and GSoC 2009 Mentor
• for the same IRC Nick – kstar
• Arun Chaganty – GSoC 2008 student for Gnome, IRC Nick – vimzard
• Sudharshan S – GSoC 2008 student for Openmoko, IRC Nick – Sup3rkiddo
• Ajay Kumar – GSoC 2008 student for Sahana, IRC Nick – ajuonline
• Sivaji – Going to apply for GSoC 2009 student for Drupal, IRC Nick – sivaji

Thanks to sivaji for the information.

http://sivaji.ubuntu-tam.org/blog/content/google-summer-code-2009-meetup-chennai