In my quest for free hosting services with MySQL and PHP support, I came across two today. Though they are not at all comparable with Profusehost, which I use now; it will be good for those who won’t like ads placed on their pages. These two provides 200MB storage space and 5GB bandwidth per month. They supports FTP too. They are byethost13 and AwardSpace. On the other hand, Profusehost provides 2GB storage space, 100GB bandwidth per month, C-Panel, Fatanstico, FTP, SMTP, POP supports and many more. Also, the Profuse community provides good support too. The free hosting has two options; one with ads on all pages and the other, post for host which needs to do 30 posts a month in Profuse community.

Also, I installed Joomla for the SMC site. I tried to make a few changes but there were few problems related to displaying Malayalam.

Today, I registered the username ‘tvmanukrishnan’ in IRC and from today onwards, I’ll be known by that name in IRC. I tried to get the name ‘tvm’, but its owned by someone else. Yesterday, I was assigned the work of documenting the Malayalam installer of Debian. Hope I could complete it soon. Also, the problem with IT@School GNU/Linux install CD got solved. It was a bug and another boot image is available to overcome the problem. Thanks for Vimal Joseph for helping me to find the solution. The solution can be found here. Also, a patched image is available for download. It can be seen here.

The chats in IRC is now becoming a part of my daily routine. Today it was mainly about organizing a program at MES college of engineering to make the public and students aware about free softwares and its ipmortance and significance. Sub topics included booting problem with IT@School GNU/Linux in some mother boards, configuring GPRS internet in Debian and all. The chat log follows.

Today, I had a good time experimenting with Pidgin Guifications. Pidgin Guifications is a plugin of the multi protocol free messaging software; Pidgin – which was formerly known as gaim. Though its still in developing state, it has options through which users can create notifications of  their taste. After experimenting with it, I finally designed one for my use. It looks somewhat like this.

Looks nice; isn’t it? Try Pidgin and make your own guifications. Pidgin can be downloaded free from www.pidgin.im

Today, I had my first active discussion in #smc-project IRC. The chat was mainly related to a web crawler project, which programming language to study. The discussion log follows…