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• Kushal Das: Tor Browser and Selenium 30 May 2018

  Many of us use Python Selenium to do functional testing of our websites or web applications. We generally test against Firefox and Google Chrome browser on the desktop. But, there is also a lot of people who uses Tor Browser (from Tor Project ) to browse the internet and access…

• Kushal Das: PyQt5 thread example 29 May 2018

  PyQt is the Python binding for Qt library . To write Qt5 code, we use PyQt5 module. Like many others, my first introduction to GUI application development was using PyQt. Back in foss.in 2005 a talk from Sirtaj introduced me to PyQt, and later fall in love with it. I tried to…

• Kushal Das: Fedora 28 template is available on QubesOS 28 May 2018

  In case you missed the news, Fedora 28 is now available as a template in Qubes OS 4.0 . Fedora 26 will end of life on 2018-06-01, means this is a good time for everyone to upgrade. Use the following command in your dom0 to install the template. The template is more than 1GB in…

• Debarshi Ray: GNOME Terminal: a little something for Fedora 29 24 May 2018

  Can you spot what that is?

• Kartik Mistry: અલવિદા વિનોદ ભટ્ટ! 24 May 2018

  * વિનોદ ભટ્ટે ગઇકાલે એટલે કે ૨૩મી મે એ બધાંને બાય-બાય કર્યું અને ગુજરાતી હાસ્યસાહિત્યનો એક યુગ પૂરો થયો એમ કહી શકાય. વિનોદ ભટ્ટ અને બકુલ ત્રિપાઠી અને અશોક દવે – આ ત્રણ મારા માનીતા હાસ્ય લેખકો છે. વિનોદ ભટ્ટ એક વખત અકસ્માતે મળી ગયા ત્યારે ઓળખી શક્યો નહોતો (તેઓ સેલ્સ ટેક્સ કે પછી…

• Sayamindu Dasgupta: Testing the “wide walls” design principle in the wild 23 May 2018

  Seymour Papert is credited as saying that tools to support learning should have “high ceilings” and “low floors.” The phrase is meant to suggest that tools should allow learners to do complex and intellectually sophisticated things but should also be easy to begin using quickly.…

• Shrinivasan: Project Idea – Call for Contributors – web scrapping West Bengal Public Library Network 22 May 2018

  Hello all, We have bengali wikisource friends requesting for web scrapping PDF files from a dspace based library . http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/ The site seems down some times. But will be up in few hours. Can any one contribute to this project? If you are…

• Shrinivasan: 30 Project Ideas for contributing to Indic Wikipedia Projects 22 May 2018

  Last week, I had an interesting meeting with Panjabi Wikimedian community and CIS-A2K team. Panjabi wikimedia community is small in count. But each of them are contributing with their best. Many of them doing 100-days-of-wiki, personal wiki edithathon for 100 days. Few of them…

• Kartik Mistry: 102 નોટ આઉટ 14 May 2018

  ગઇકાલે સહ કુટુંબ 102 નોટ આઉટ માણવામાં આવ્યું. 3ડી ન હોય એવી ફિલ્મો જોવાનું વધતું જાય છે એ સારી વાત છે. ચલ મન જીતવા જઇએ પછી લાંબા વિરામ પછી સરસ બ્રેક મળ્યો. ફિલ્મની આડઅસર રૂપે સૌમ્ય જોશી વિશે ગુજરાતી વિકિપીડિયામાં લેખ અનુવાદ કરી રહ્યો છું. હા, 77 વર્ષ બાકી છે પેલા ચીનાનો રેકોર્ડ…

• Jaikiran Pai: Apache Ivy 2.5.0-rc1 released - Now allows timeouts on resolvers 14 May 2018

  A few weeks back, we released the 2.5.0-rc1 version of Apache Ivy. Apache Ivy is a dependency management build tool, which usually is a used in combination with Apache Ant. The download is available on the project download page This release is significant since the last release…

• Shrinivasan: Project Idea – Need a web interface for Tamil TTS 11 May 2018

  Hello all, The Tamil TTS system provided by IITM and SSN College of Engineering had one issue. It can convert one tamil string to audio at one time. https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install Because of this, we can not do parallel conversion. Few full text books took 4-5…

• Jaikiran Pai: VMWare vijava - The curious case of "incorrect user name or password" exception 11 May 2018

  In one of the projects I have been involved in, we use yavijava (which is a fork of vijava ) library to interact with vCenter which hosts our VMs. vCenter exposes various APIs through their webservice endpoints which are invoked through HTTP(s). The yavijava library has…

• Debarshi Ray: GNOME Terminal: separate menu items for opening tabs and windows 11 May 2018

  Astute users might have noticed that the GNOME Terminal binary distributed by Fedora has separate menu items for opening new tabs and windows, while the vanilla version available from GNOME doesn’t. With separate menu items This has been the case since Fedora 25 and was achieved…

• Kushal Das: SecureDrop development sprint in PyCon 2018 09 May 2018

  SecureDrop will take part in PyCon US development sprints (from 14th to 17th May). This will be first time for the SecureDrop project to present in the sprints. If you never heard of the project before, SecureDrop is an open source whistleblower submission system that media…

• Swaroop C H: PodSync 07 May 2018

  PodSync.net converts a YouTube channel into a podcast. This is a beautiful bridge that lets me listen to DJ mixes by “Confused bi-Product of a Misinformed Culture” without having to use YouTube.

• Rajeesh K Nambiar: Adventures in upgrading to Fedora 27/28 using ‘dnf system-upgrade’ 03 May 2018

  [This post was drafted on the day Fedora 27 released, about half a year ago, but was not published. The issue bit me again with Fedora 28, so documenting it for referring next time.] With fedup and subsequently dnf improving the upgrade experience of Fedora for power users, last…

• Swaroop C H: “Notes on structured concurrency” 01 May 2018

  https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/ Such clear thinking and elucidation around concurrency!

• Kartik Mistry: છૂંદો 01 May 2018

  દર વર્ષની જેમ પણ આ વખતે “કેરીનો છૂંદો” બનાવવાની પ્રક્રિયાનો આરંભ થઇ ગયો છે. મને યાદ છે કે પહેલાં રાજાપુરી કેરીઓ ઘરે લાવીને જાતે છીણીને છૂંદો બનાવાતો હતો. હવે, છીણ બજારમાં તૈયાર મળે છે એટલે ઝંઝટ ઓછી. તો પણ, દરરોજ તડકામાં છૂંદો મૂકવા અને લેવા જવાનું તો હોય છે. મૂકવા જવાનું તો ઠીક,…

• Debarshi Ray: Libre Graphics Meeting 2018 30 Apr 2018

  I spent the last seven days attending Libre Graphics Meeting in sunny and beautiful Seville. This was my second LGM, the first being six years ago in Vienna, so it was refreshing to be back. I stayed in one of the GIMP apartments near the Alameda de Hércules garden square. Being…

• Swaroop C H: Back to WordPress 30 Apr 2018

  Four years ago, I migrated this blog from WordPress to Jekyll , with the intention of using whatever format I want to use inside Emacs… Subsequently, my posting rate dropped drastically to just 13 posts in 4 years! I don’t think that was a coincidence. Tools matter. I believe…

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