Harsh J

Announcing a nice-looking dark theme, Tinge color scheme for gEdit (Text Editor for GNOME):

Tinge (v1.0)

Preview (In Python):

Download Instructions:

• Click here to download (Or right click and choose Save As…)

Installation Instructions:

1. Its very simple! Simply run your gEdit and go to Edit - Preferences - Font and Colors tab.
2. Under the Color Scheme list, click the Add… button and select this downloaded Tinge.xml file from wherever you saved/moved it to.
3. You’re done! Enjoy the colors as you develop!

Named it Tinge just for fun and cause it really just a tinge more than the Darkmate. Also inspired by Monokai’s theme here.

Yeah, just heard this sad news this morning

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan, according to the New York City police. Signs pointed to a suicide or an accidental overdose, police sources said. Mr. Ledger was 28.

NYT

His film, Batman Begins, in which he plays The Joker, is coming out soon, and is his last

R.I.P Mr. Ledger ..

After I discovered the existence of this very wonderful screen program a few months ago, I’d always been trying to use more and more simple command-line / console based programs rather than those GUI heavyweights which both use up resources and clutter my desktop.

At first I learned vim basics via vimtutor, but I gave up using it as a default text editor and still preferred the gedit warmth. But vim was powerful, no doubt, and definitely more faster than moving your mouse around to activate events and work with dialog boxes. But it just didn’t fit well with me that I launch it each time I need to dump some text or write something up quickly. Only while programming something up did I summon its need. The jump to console applications here was not so good!

Next up, I tried the most popular thing screen is famous for, the IRC client called irssi. This one simply blew me away. After all, in an IRC you do nothing with a mouse, all you do is talk with the keyboard, and run commands too with it. So why the GUI, I wondered, and ditched the good old XChat and its various scripts for a much more simple console interface, the mighty irssi. Running it within a screen session gave me more comfort of not having an icon blinking or simply residing on my tray or various other bars and that I could connect to the session anytime I desired. Takes about ~1 MB for one server (irc.freenode.net) with 4 channels auto connected. Jump to console applications for IRC - Very good!

Next up was the media requirements. While video was out of the question, cause I can _never_ give up Mplayer+GUI whatever comes my way, I looked at Console based audio players to satisfy this urge. I did some research on popular and non popular ones and am currently using Plait, which I think is the perfect thing I’d need. Its revolutionary, and is based on a hinting system. It (plaiter) takes about 600~ KB of my RAM for a list of 10 songs. Directly streams them to the audio device or any even an online stream if desired, at no or very less resource costs! An example follows:

$ plait staind not outside
Now this command above will play all songs in my library which are by Staind but will not play those songs matching the name Outside.
Awesome isn't it?

The shift here, for music, is still quite a bumpy one so far since pausing / stopping is a bit tedious but I have made ways for it by mapping my keyboard’s (a Samsung SDM4500P) multimedia keys to its commands. More about this in some other post over time here.

The last thing I’ve shifted to a console application is the beautiful rTorrent client. This client is an amazing one. Its light as irssi, perhaps even lighter, cause its just taking ~1 MB of my RAM and its got all the features of a good client including PEX and DHT in it. Only issue with it is in its torrent list managemen. Its still under heavy and active development with very clean documentation so that shouldn’t be an issue for too long, and am happy with this anyway. Moreover, rTorrent uniquely is different cause it directly transfers from your file-system to the network stack, and vice versa, so very minimal amount of memory is used! Console based application for torrents - fairly good!

I’ll blog about each of these items and more as I encounter simpler alternatives to my major tasks soon here, detailing on how to install them, set them up and other usage details. Very soon.

A final list of software I’ve talked about in this post:

• screen
• vim
• gedit
• irssi
• plait
• rtorrent

More soon! I’m loving the consoles!

Results for all odd semesters B.E. and B.Tech (Engineering Degrees, for IT, CSE, ECE, EEE, ME, etc.) (3rd, 5th, 7th) will be out this week, as these ‘rumours’ go

UPDATE: For Even semester 2008 results news click here.

This post is about the previous year, so click here to go to the newer page for better comments.

Here’s a list of websites you can check for your results. Add in the comments if you know some other ones!

1. Anna University Official Website (Results Page) for 2007-2008 Odd Semester (B.E./B.Tech)
2. Anna University Official Website Links (Site I, II, III, IV)
3. Square Brothers UG Anna University results (Server 1)
4. Square Brothers UG Anna University results (Server 2)
5. ICQ Results for Anna University UG 07-08
6. Get Free Source Results for Anna University UG results
7. Webdunia Anna University results for UG
8. Chennai Online Results for Anna University UG 07-08
9. India Results results page for Anna University UG 07-08

More will be added once results get out.

Added ATB - Trilogy album’s song lyrics.

Album Art:

Here’s the list:

Track Number - Artist - Album - Title

01. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Justify
02. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Desperate Religion
03. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Renegade
05. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Stars Come Out
06. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Feel Alive
07. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Made of Glass
09. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - These Days
10. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Better Give Up
11. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - Some Things Just Are The Way They Are
12. ATB - Trilogy Lyrics - The Chosen Ones

(Rest tracks on Trilogy - 2 Disc Edition don’t have lyrics, just deep and enjoyable music.)

Download ATB - Trilogy or buy it, worth either way.