We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances.

It was a great to see the native port of Google Earth for Linux, which was released 2 weeks ago. I downloaded it last week, but installed it today on my Mandriva box. I ran it, but it crashed.

I retried, but it kept on dying at random intervals. It lasted from 30 seconds to 15 minutes, while showing me the sneak peak of it’s capabilities. I zoomed on Buriganga river and saw some ships. The national stadium at Gulistan looked remarkable too.

I’m sure that the random crashes has something to do with my X server configuration, but right now I’m feeling too lazy to search for a fix. Google demanded that it works under Fedora 5 and Ubuntu 5.10, but I didn’t bother to check. I’ll patiently wait till the stable version of Google Earth 4 is out!

I just patched my kernel to version 2.6.17, which was released this morning and codenamed “Crazed Snow-Weasel”. Not much pain while patching.

Just a little stat on this production release:

• 652 files and 416664 lines has been added
• 632 files and 507448 lines has been changed
• 350 files and 308710 lines has been deleted

Get the patch from Kernel.org’s FTP or HTTP server.

Toby Phillippe is the newest “bideshi” member of BLUA. Originaly from Sacramento, California, Toby worked as an IT person in several firms in Washington DC and Silicon Valley. He’s now settled in Dhaka with his Bangladeshi wife whom he met at work while they were in USA.

I met Toby through BLUA mailing list, and decided to meet today to discuss about the upcoming Linux workshop at North South University. We met at Banani Halvetia and discussed about various IT related issues regarding Bangladesh. He’s a very friendly person, and showed his keen interest on helping our LUG. I wish I could get the same level of support from our deshi members!

Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) was released today, making it the perfect day to announce the new home of Ubuntu Bangladesh.

I’ve been working on-and-off on the site for the last few days, tried MediaWiki, MoinMoin and TikiWiki, but finally decided to go for PHP-Nuke, which is not a wiki but a CMS. The site is happily running from an US server, hosted by our sponsor Dualnic. Check it out!

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!

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!