Prakash Advani's Blog

This is Panasonic’s third generation of mirror-less Interchangeable Lens Camera. The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G3.

Whats cool:

• 16-megapixel
• 3D photos with optional lens
• 3.0-inch free-angle LCD with touch control
• New Pinpoint AF feature, just touch anywhere on the screen to select a focal point
• 1080/60i HD video capability in AVCHD format
• ISO 160-6400
• 4 fps continuous shooting (20fps at 4MP)
• Electronic View Finder
• HDML Port
• SD / SDHC / SDXC card support
• Micro four-third standard

What would be even better:

If it had an in-body image stabilisation, which is there in Olympus micro four-third cameras.

At times I am not able to print, on typing lpq it gives and error message “Printer not ready”.

I don’t know why this happens, but created a simple script which just resets the print and then its ready to print.

This is what the script looks like:

sudo sed -i -e ‘/StateMessage .*lpd failed/d’ -e ‘s/State Stopped/State Idle/’ /etc/cups/printers.conf

service cups restart

Happy printing !

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Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering a $25 Ubuntu PC. Its very tiny, has an HDMI port at one end and USB at the other. This brings in a very low cost computing solution to the market. Its also low power consumption due to the ARM processor.

Vital Stats!

• 700MHz ARM11
• 128MB of SDRAM
• OpenGL ES 2.0
• 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
• Composite and HDMI video output
• USB 2.0
• SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
• General-purpose I/O
• Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

I have been slashdotted!

“Delivering the keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest, Hungary, Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical’s goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users in four years. Canonical has not officially provided any data on how many Ubuntu users there currently are — in fact, the number is quite difficult to track. However, according to Prakash Advani, a partner manager for Central Asia at Canonical, there are an estimated 12 million Ubuntu users.”