Smurf finally pointed the domain to our DNS — and Ubuntu-BD.org is finally up!

I’ll spent next few days on designing the site. Wait up for the announcement, guys!

I was almost going to order an iPod Nano, but luckily I came across some life-saving review sites. After few days of analysing information from various sites and sources, I finally ordered my iPod today — not Nano, but Shuffle. Sure Shuffle doesn’t have a display or a click wheel, but for a careless person like me it’s the best choice. Shuffle is virtually bomb-proof, which is just what I’m looking for. Nano is too delicate for me to handle!

Laser engraving comes free with this $105 gadget, and my one will have my name engraved. I’m expecting the shipment to arrive by mid June.

I got myself an AverTV Studio 203 internal TV tuner card today. The good thing is that this nifty device works as a FM tuner as well. I can finally watch TV and listen to radio lying on my bed!

Features of this TV card:

• TV on PC

(no clue for guessing that!)

• FM radio
• Personal Video Recorder (PVR)
• Fully functional infrared remote control
• Album feature for still image capture
• Capture screen size up to 720 x 480 for NTSC
• Video source and sideo Standard Selection
• No feature connector or VGA loop-back cable required
• Supports color and picture adjustments
• Supports ACPI power management function
• Closed captioned for NTSC (VxD only)
• Coax, composite and S-Video Input
• Supports NTSC, PAL N, PAL M

Timeline: May 7 – May 8

The tiresome 2 day Technical Lead Teacher’s traning ended today. The TLTs got hands-on training on:

• Assembling Pentium 4 computers
• Installing OS (Windows XP and Mandriva Linux)
• Installing and updating application programs
• Securing a box
• Anti-virus and malware protection
• And more.

I just cleaned up the old wiki page on Software Freedom Day (SFD) site and updated with the SDF 2006 celebration information. On September 16th, Software Freedom Day 2006 will be celebrated around the world including Bangladesh. This year’s budget is 30,000 taka and BLUA will be organizing it as usual.

The official Ubuntu-BD mailing list has been created, and it’s at:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd

This mailing list is intended for Bangladeshi Ubuntu users, developers, translators, and volunteers. More details on my announcement here.

Join the list, Ubunteros!