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Techfest 2008: Dream On…….A recap !!

Posted by Ankush Acharya on February 21, 08

Dream on……thats what i literally mean to say to the readers of this post !! ” There are things which could only be felt and not explained “……thats the impact which TECHFEST left on me…..!!!

Being at TECHFEST…….. i had the priviledge to meet Mr.Atul Chitnis and Sir Jon “Maddog” Hall.

  • Imagine…….. attending a class where your faculty is none other than The Executive Director of Linux International…….and you are having complete freedom to ask the dumbest question….(atleast i did so, and enjoyed that too) !!
  • Imagine……. a crowd of 30,000 singing “Vande Mataram”……60,000 hands clapping and waiving….. and the dance group from Israel performing on the same…… !!

TECHFEST came, rocked and went…..but the memories left would be cherished !!

The above said is a “zipped format” of what i experienced. Try to be a part of TECHFEST - 2009 if you missed this time……!!!!

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BarCamp @ Techfest 2008 - IIT Bombay………!!!

Posted by Ankush Acharya on January 17, 08

So you have attended seminars, workshops and even conferences…….How about an un-conference ???

Yes, this is what Barcamp is all about ……….UN-CONFERENCE !!! :)

Welcome to BarCamp @ Techfest 2008

A place where you discuss and brain-storm ideas, where you meet with people working on the same ideas which interests you……..and all those geeky stuff !!! A place where you get an open environment to learn…!

At Barcamp…..come face to face with —

Mr. Atul Chitnis: Founder of FOSS.IN (One of Asia’s Largest FOSS Conferences)

Jon “madogg” Hall: Executive Director of Linux International.

and many more to come………

Till date 78 Camper’s have already registered…………… DON’T MISS IT !!!

Visit: http://barcamp.org/techfest

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A GUI tool to view Linux(ext2, ext3, reiserfs) filesystem from Windows !!

Posted by Ankush Acharya on January 13, 08

Experimenting with files, somehow i corrupted my Linux partition last night. Being a novice user the only option left was a fresh Linux re-install, but before that i needed a backup of the files i created on the Linux partition.

X-Server not starting and i need a backup of the files (Simply, copying the files to Windows partition would do…..tried a lot but of no use -> Windows (NTFS partition !!))

Finally, found a GUI tool Explore2fs which could recognize the Linux partition from Windows………. and got the work done !!

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Hope it helps !!

PS: The tool is to be installed on Windows only !!

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