Opera Mini 5.1 on Ubuntu 10.04

I use this stupid 1GB package thing, and sometimes borrow from my friends. Anyway you count, 1 GB is really not that much, if it's the only connection you get, I mean without net @ school lab or whatever.
@twitter I was following @omgubuntu , and there I found this link.

Following there instruction, like always didn't somehow work. I did install Java SE, but when I was trying to set the jar file to open with Java, I could not find JAVA as a option.

Anyway, here goes step by step what I did to make it all run

1. Go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center > Type Java in the search button and install  OpenJDK JAVA 6 Runtime

2. Download Micro Emulator from here. Then extract it. In the extracted folder you'll find microemulator.jar . Right click on it, go to properties. Go to the tab "Permissions" . Put a "Right" in order to execute it as a programme. Then go to the "Open with" tab. Click "Add" then select OpenJDK JAVA 6 Runtime.

3.Now download Opera Mini from operamini.com, select the version you wish to try and download both the .jar and .jad files.

4. Navigate to the folder where you have extracted the microemulator file. Now locate the file 'microemulator.jar', and double click it

5. Go to file > Open MIDlet >now choose "Opera mini.jad" Remember JAD, not JAR.

6. "Opera Mini" will will be listed in the app list. Click on the "Start" button and bingo :)

7. Go to "Options > Select device", click "Add...", navigate to "microemulator\devices" and select "microemu-device-resizable.jar"

8. Select the "Resizable device" profile you just added and click "Set as default"

9. Now you have full screen Opera Mini ! yay !

Avro in Ubuntu 10.04

Few days back, dad was yelling at me. Why? Cause "Bijoy" was not working on my Win7. It had Avro already installed, but I don't know probably some mishap happened to the fonts, nothing was being displayed. I was so annoyed.

Good thing was I had dual boot with Ubuntu (10.04). So I tried to write Bangla by going to system > preferences > keyboard. There I added the Bangla keyboard. By that was not a great solution. It was not the Bijoy Layout, so I could not write anything useful. Then I googled a bit and came up with a solution which made my use the iBus.

This is how it was done ... System > Preferences >  IBus Preferences ... There I had to go to the Input method > Bangla > unijoy ! Thing was done :) I successfully wrote the thing dad was asking me to.

Then, I wanted to use Avro Phonetic Bangla. That thing is amazing I mean. So googled a bit. Luckily I followed Mehedi Hasan (Avro/omicronlab Lab Head). There I got a link which made me use scim and follow some other steps. However I failed to run Avro. I needed to install a package.

This is what I did to get Avro running in Ubuntu 10.04

1) Install scim from Ubuntu Software Center.

2) Download installer from http://scim-avro.googlecode.com/files/scim-avro_0.0.2-1ubuntu9.10_i386.deb
3) Change permission [Mark as executable]

4) Here I want you to do something which will help you in the step 5 .
Open Terminal & write
      sudo apt-get install scim-anthy
5) Again in terminal type
      im-switch -c
  
   You get this

Now you will see available options to choose from, watch the number beside scim. I have scim in 6, probably you'll have it in 6 too, if no, change the number

6) Now log off and log in again from your system or simply restart your system.

7) Open gedit or any text editor, and press  (ctrl + SPACE) , now you get AVRO PHONETIC started :) , press (ctrl + SPACE) to switch back to English. Simple as that.

For the original Avro step by step guide :

  http://www.omicronlab.com/blog/support/avro-phonetic-in-ubuntu-linux-lucid-lynx/

  http://omicronlab.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2029

The Reason Behind Supporting A Team

It's World Cup 2010!

All we friends are divided into teams like Argentina, Brazil, Germany, England, Portugal & so on. It's just not about supporting a Team, but also passing about odd comments over other teams & we friends are constantly fighting over it. Brazil scores, Argentina fans gets sick. And if Messi somehow fails to live to the expectation, all Brazil fans will come forward to say how stupid team Argentina always been.

I was sickened after hearing some odd comments about Argentina from a close friend of mine couple of days ago. So when I was alone, I started to give it a thought, why he supports Brazil. Man why I support Argentina? I had no perfect answer. Still kept trying and below is what I figured out.

I can show reasons behind supporting Argentina cause I like Latin football style. But Brazil is almost identical to that. So why not supporting Brazil? No answer this time.

I won't talk about football much. I rather talk about Cricket, I understand cricket a hell lot better and watch much more often. Well, I support India! And the question knocks in again. Why supporting India? Why not Pakistan or Sri Lanka? Or Australia?

Well I started to support India since I started to watch Cricket before going to school even. All of my family members supported India, Tendulkar was then in superb form & Novojit Singh Sidhu was quite a six heater. I used to watch test matches, one days whole day cause I was left in home only with my elder brother who used to be quite busy with his studies. Supporting India comes from that part of life & when India played against Bangladesh, I had quite a hard time when I should be happy. When India hits 6 or when a wicket falls... lol. Already from that point of time, I had to fight with local picchis (little childs as you say :P) how India is the true champ. Time passed by, and whole school life I fought with and quarreled with Pakistan supporters, something we learnt from our elders.

My point is, the reason behind supporting particular team is not something we mostly directly do. Our family, friends, even religion influences. And why fighting over something which actually we directly don't choose? And with our fights, we made it harder for us to appreciate others or shift our support to another team.

And at this point of my life, I feel in between this fights, we often (or max times? ) lose the true spirit behind games. We forget to appreciate the better playing team & sarcasm grow on us. If we still have to divide us among different teams, let's not forget to appreciate others & encourage. That's the true spirit and sign of a true winner.



P.S I think you are right, Argentina plays slightly better than most other football playing teams :P

Let's Just Begin

Life is what?

At this moment nothing is changed a bit... Just a new era of depression.

I am getting too much tired of fighting it off. I am damn tired and bored. And sadly I don't see a way out. So I decided to give my mind a flow here in words...

Electricity is another thing with which I don't get along. Whenever I turn on PC, or TV it's gone! And whom to complain? God is responsible for this :-l God you're so ... (whatever), already you got me somewhat depressed and why you needed to get this place so much wet with rain that there were multiple faults in electric line :@ :@ When I'll die, I have so many questions to ask you :@ :@ Start doing your homework...

Don't know what I'll be doing now. Guess will pass some with MIT Single Variable Calculus Course




#Could not finish it yesterday. Before I could finish, electricity was gone again :-l

So yes, Let's just begin at least !