Spell checker and Late night coding..

 Posted on May 21, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

It was a wonderful week end. Myself and Benzi were working on the spell checker for Malayalam. In April we had done lot of research on this. We did the coding for the dictionary representation in the Binary Retrieval tree (TRIE). Saturday night we did the candidate list generation coding. It is a wonderful experience to code in the late night – one laptop and two persons to code!!!. Every thing worked fine. [Read More]
Malayalam  SMC  spell checker 

Plus meet May 2007 at Tippus Fort , Palakkad

 Posted on May 8, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

Anivar, Praveen, Hiran, Sujith and myself reached the fort at 10.15 AM. Anivar, Praveen, Hiran and Sujith were wearing T-Shirts with Debian Logo. Riyas has reached already.Meeting started at 11 AM. Around 20 members participated in the meeting. Meeting place was FREE and OPEN as you have seen in the pictures. We sat under the tree in the form of a ring. Students from MES kuttippuram, GEC Sreekrishnapuram and GEC Thrissur participated. [Read More]
debian  foss  palakkad  plus  SMC 

Free software Alternatives or replacements

 Posted on April 4, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

What will be the impact of a Discussion on a mailing list regarding

freedom concerns.

See the Old thread on PLUS

http://lists.sarovar.org/pipermail/plus-discuss/2007-January/000628.html

& Old gnu Page

http://web.archive.org/web/20060516072757/http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html

If community is vigilant about Freedom lets see what happens

http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html

The Word “Free software Alternatives” changed with “Free software

replacements”

freedom  replacements  software 

Debian Installer Etch Release Candidate 2 released

 Posted on March 21, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second release candidate (RC2) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. Unless release critical issues are discovered, this will be the version of the installer that will be included in the release of Etch. There are no real major changes in this release, but we have been able to use the time since RC1 to fix quite a few important and minor [Read More]