Open Source - Punjabi by Nature

I have never seen anywhere such a system,but in KDE 4.4, in which Indian Calendar systemcan be choose at Desktop system. In kde, choose systemsettings->Regional & Language->Language-> Time and Date.There is  Indian Calendar, so after login and logout,you can check it.Following image has enough detail about it.



KDE 4.4 with Phalgun Month
Month: Phalgun
Day: Som (Monday)
Year: 1931

with time, software becoming more useful and more
close not only to hi-fi people, but general public.
After all those are for them, by them.

I got N900 for Testing Punjabi on it.
While need to install fonts, I was not
clear about rendering after installing
fonts. it is based on Maemo Linux, so
you can install/use application easily

After install openssl-client/server,
scp lohit-punjabi fonts from fedora
machine to N900 and 'fc-cache',
run 'fennec'.


While after reboot, I can see the
Punjabi in mail and other places
(no interface translation available yet).
Most Important thing was Rendering,
which is just working and good enough
to use. fonts was installed on N810, but
there is Punjabi Rendering was broken


More Screenshot you can check here

from i18n Point of view, following task with status:
---
-Fonts- Working - Need to package
-Rendering - Working - Nothing to Done
-Input - Need to Work - Need to Package
---

Now Android:
No Indian Language is supported as such, but
got a chance to check Samsung Galaxy Spica
It has Hindi Interface, but Rendering broken.
Same as Apple iPhone.

Now it seems Nokia should work fast, but less
hard to provide Indian language as Rendering is
working and just installing fonts can
help to enable support.

After many year, I was working on Microsoft

Word/Power Point. version it 2007 (2010 Beta),

both has common problem for Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

rendering. While Input Character with Bindi

(ਸ/ਗ/ਜ/ਫ/ਲ) and use (਼) with it, then input

any dependent vowel, it delete the (਼)

character.

ਗ + ਼ + ੀ = ਗੀ

it is happening only with Office only,

while WordPad and NotePad is ok.

is here and Test case is below.

---

----

Character + Bindi + Dependant Vowel = Resutl

---
Failed Case

ਸ + ਼ + ਾ = ਸ਼ਾ
ਖ + ਼ + ੈ= ਖ਼ੈ
ਗ + ਼ + ਿ = ਗ਼ਿ
ਜ + ਼ + ੀ = ਜ਼ਿ
ਲ + ਼ + ੁ = ਲ਼ੁ
ਫ + ਼ + ੇ = ਫ਼ੇ

-----
PASS Case

----
ਸ਼ + ਾ= ਸ਼ਾ
ਖ਼ + ੈ=ਖ਼ੈ
ਗ਼ + ਿ=ਗ਼ਿ
ਜ਼ + ੀ=ਜ਼ੀ
ਲ਼ + ੁ=ਲ਼ੁ
ਫ਼ + ੇ=ਫ਼ੇ

---

Try to delete and paste Dependent Vowel at end.

Don’t know how to Find Revision/Version of MS Office and how to report to Microsoft:-(

I got Dell Studio 1457 with Intel i7 processor yesterday.

for Fedora 12 installation major problems:
1) Broadcom Ethernet is not detected (fixed)
2) Once Display Blank, reboot and then only start,
(this was true for anaconda also) (still not working)
3) No Sound (still not working) Fedora Bug 562695

Dell Studio 1457 Smolt Profile

Installation:
after 4 attempt to install Fedora 12, (3 failed
with no display), I get message that there is
no Network device detected on your machine,
so please use DVD or Complete CD (I was
using network install). (that is why
keep DVD with you at home:-) )
Got KDE Live CD, installation was quite fast,
Ethernet was not detected, but Wireless
was working (it is intel half-mini card).

Rebooted and Display gone. After waiting
for few minutes, reboot again this time
display was working (now after shutdown,
I need to reboot 2 times to get display working)

Broadcom Ethernet:
there is workaround given here (Fedora Bug)

---
modprobe -r tg3
modprobe broadcom
modprobe tg3
modprobe tg3 ----

it is working, but need to use this each time

Video: ATI detected and worked on proper resolution automatically
Audio: Still not working


KDE System Monitor showing 8 Cores (i7 has 4 core / 8 threads)

Amanpreet Singh

Quality Engineer (Desktop/i18n)

Red Hat Inc.

Career Objective

              To utilize my skills for delivering the values to company, working on software quality assurance assignments and become a satisfied person in life.

 

Certifications

    Red Hat Certified Technician Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5

    B. Tech in Computer Science From Punjab Technical University. in 2004

    Diploma in Cyber Law (Government Law Collage)

 

Domain Knowledge

 

    Bugzilla knowledge and work flow

    Desktop, GUI, manual Testing

    Version Control System like CVS, SVN, git, mercurial

    Knowledge for Localization and Internalization (Unicode, fonts, Rendering, Input)

    Packaging skills (RPM)

    Deep knowledge of Open Source Software and Community Software Development.

    Involvement in various open source projects: Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, Openoffice.org, fedora

 

Skill Set On LINUX

              Back Office Network Setup: NFS, FTP, SAMBA, HTTP

              Basic Shell, python Programming

 

Knowledge Pool

              Platforms: RHEL 3/4/5, Red Hat Linux 9, Suse 7.2, 8, 9.x, 10, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac Leopard 10.5/10.6

              RDBMS: Oracle 8i, MS SQL, mySQL

 

              Programming Languages: C++ (basic) , Visual Basic 6

 

              Web Tools: HTML, PHP

 

              Web Server: Apache

 

              Networking: Windows 2000, XP and Red Hat Linux 9/RHEL 4/5, Suse, Fedora, Debian

 

Work Experience

Red Hat Software Service India Pvt. Ltd (http://www.redhat.com)

Red Hat is Software Development Company. Major Product are Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora is project sponsored by Red Hat. Red Hat is well known company to provide solution based on Open Source.

From Feb 2006 to till working

Formal Title: Employee

Position: Quality Engineer

Job Profile: Maintain Desktop/i18n Quality check for RHEL products

• Designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements software programming applications.
• Supports and/or installs software applications.
• RHEL Software and Internalization Testing
• Writing Test Case and execute specific to various Linux application
• Errata Packages Testing in all 7 Architectures, including IBM's 'Z' Series Mainframes
• Executing tests and analysing failures.
• Develops test automation tools.
• Participate in and co-ordinate weekly team meetings.
• Direct the work of other Quality Engineers.
• Providing accurate and timely status of testing efforts and quality statistics to the broader product team.

Additional Responsibility

System Administrator for server to provide installation tree with various Release. NFS, FTP, HTTP access to Engineering team and maintain wiki.

 

Red Hat Software Service India Pvt. Ltd ((http://www.redhat.com)

Red Hat is Software Development Company. Major Product are Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora is project sponsored by Red Hat. Red Hat is well known company to provide solution based on Open Source.

From Aug 2005 to January 2006

Formal Title: Employee

Position: Technical Translator II


Job Profile: Maintain Punjabi Language in Open Source Software

        RHEL Software and Manual Translation

     Understand Various Localisation Tool and method to Localise UI+Doc

     Quality check for various GUI application for Language

     Maintain Punjabi Language in Open Source Software

 

 

Punjab Linux Technology Group

Open Source Team working in Punjab Area for Provide Free and Open Source Software. Major Task is provide Punjabi Interface to Various Software.

Team is formed in August 2003 for giving Push to Open Source Software

Website: http://punlinux.sf.net/news

Founder Member of Punjabi Core Computer Team

Position / Title: Founder Member

Job Profile: Team Leader

Lab Setup with Linux (Fedora Core 3) and Windows

   Analysis, Design, Development, and Testing phases done thoroughly.

    Training to the users.

    Co-ordinate with various projects to include Punjabi

Result:

     Punjabi is supported at All Linux Platforms from Red Hat Linux, Fedora to Suse, Mandrake, Debian.

     Openoffice.org (office sutite) translated

     Firefox, Opera (Web browser) translated

     Thunderbird (Email Client) translated

    Punjabi Dictionary is made available.

 

Nestle India Ltd. Moga

    Nestle is Major Milk and Food Production Company. Moga has Biggest Milk Plant in South Asia. With Milk, Nestle deal in coffee, other food product.

    Website: http;//www.nestle.com

    Profile: Programmer

    Position / Title: Trainee (Jan 2003 to July 2003)

    Job Profile: Visual Basic/SQL Core Programmer

    MARS (Management of Agriculture Route Services) developed in Visual Basic 6.0 and MS SQL server 2000.

    Inventory Management System

 

Training and Seminars

    AMD CodeAnalyst Training

    Corporate Compliance and Ethics Training

    Red Hat Engineer Accreditation (Bugzilla Process flow, Errata Tool and Workflow, Content Definition, Brew Build system, Red Hat Test System)

     Red Hat Enterprise Linux Training for RHCT certification.

     Attend Linux Asia 2004 and 2005

     Punjabi Team representation in Indlinux Meet September 2004

     Punjabi Team representation in Indic Messup February 2008 (Rendering, Sorting Indic Language)

     RHEL 4 Release in April 2005

 

Academic Qualification

B. Tech (June 2004)

PSEB (10+2) (March 2000)

PSEB (10) (March 1998)

 

Strengths and Interests

High work time, Flexibility, adaptability & openness to new ideas, organized & planned working, listening patiently, High degree of temperament and patience.

Take Initiative for New Project and product.

work with less or Remote monitoring

 

Current Salary:

Salary Expected: As per Company Rules (negotiable)

Time to Join: 1 month


Address & Contact Number:

Home Address:

S/O S. Hardial Singh Brar

House # 1, Street No 20 Basti Gobindgrah

MOGA (Punjab) INDIA

Phone  Mob # (91) 9890312427 (Pune)

Email : apbrar@gmail.com

Passport: Ready

Remote: Yes

Travel: Based on Job Requirement

While I skipped using KDE from last few months,
after release of KDE4 Beta, tried again.

first impression "Woh!"

please check few screenshot of KDE4 on Fedora 13 (Rawhide)

1) Desktop with few

2) Adding few more widgets (Mac's Impression)


3) Google translate English to Hindi, Amritsar Weather



4) Activities, which still I failed to understand what and how to do with this:-)


Hope to KDE4 more acceptable in daily work than previous KDE4 releases....

During Repair of Dell XPS Laptop, I lost Windows 7's
Cover, which I got as Upgrade from Vista (so no
sticker on laptop). It includes Windows Serial No.
It lost this morning, and I installed Windows
without this key, but as need to activate within
30 days, I have to find some solution.

Two Software I found for this work (as I had already
installed Windows 7 on my old bad sector hard disk)
Belarc Advisor
It has Free, Personal Use, working perfect
Recover-Keys
Free for Demo, not perfect and PAID:-)

Finally, I attach old harddisk, boot windows 7 (old installation),
install both software, Recover-keys find few things
Office, Call for Duty and 1 more, but now Windows key,
Then install Belarc Advisor and it create report and
show me in Web browser, yes it contains Windows keys
with IE serial key. So I got the key to Windows Activation.
It save money and something that Punjabi don't like to do...;-)

More information about OEM Windows Version here.

While searching for latest, faster Mobile processor,
I just stuck for Intel's Latest Intel i7-720QM.
Surely it seems quite good, but how much from
currently with me? (Intel Core to Duo P8600 and
Intel Core to Duo P9600)
Few Differnce you can get with i7 vs C2D are
following:


Processor NumberP9600P8600i7-720QM No. of Cores224 No. of Threads228 Processor Base Frequency2.66 GHz2.4 GHz1.6 GHz Max Turbo Frequency

2.8 GHz Cache6 MB L2 Cache3 MB L2 Cache6 MB Intel® Smart Cache Bus/Core Ratio
9.0
Bus TypeFSBFSBDMISystem Bus1066 MHz1066 MHz2.5 GT/s FSB ParityNoNo
Max TDP25 W25 W45 W
Processing Die Size107 mm2107 mm2296 mm2 No of Processing Die Transistors410 million410 million774 million

Intel® Turbo Boost TechnologyNoNoYes Intel® Hyper-Threading TechnologyNoNoYes Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)YesYesYes Intel® Trusted Execution TechnologyYesYesYes AES New Instructions

No
i7 based laptop has hal battery life than P8600.

Dell is start selling Laptop with i7 processor, while Intel is going to release
i5 and i3 Mobile Q1 2010.

First time, just before to login to write this
post, I was stuck with Macbook, where
my user password in English character,
forgot to change keyboard back to English
(from Punjabi), while Close MacBook
(which I often do).
When I opened, it was asking for password,
tried 2-3 times, but failed, then I found that
keyboard layout is Punjabi (not English),
so it was not accpecting password.
I tried Keyboard Shortcut to change like
Fedora/Gnome did. (+ keys),
but it was not changing, Rebooted, but still
asking for password.

Finally I found solution, hard learning, but it
works
Press key + (also
key also w0rks).
may be helpful in very rare condition, but it is
working this way....

Windows 7 has Unicode 5.1 Support for Punjabi,
it is very easy to enable this support on Windows.
If you take care during installation and select Punjabi
(it is Punjabi (India)), in Language list, then
it is very easy.

I have put few screenshot here to Enable Punjabi Support
Control Panel
Load the control panel by clicking on the "Start"' menu and pressing the "Control Panel" icon. Make sure you are in category view. Select the icon that says "Clock, Language and Regional Options" and then select "Region and Language"




Region and Language
Select the "Format" tab and make sure you select the option saying "English (USA)" and select "Punjabi (India)".

If you are outside India, please use "Additional Settings" and Change Currency or Select "Location" Tab to select Location.

INPUT Punjabi
Type Punjabi On Desktop
Now you can see icon near Notification area with "EN" as shown


You can use the combination ALT + SHIFT to switch between different keyboard layouts (e.g. from a English Keyboard to Gurmukhi and vice-versa).

Don't know Punjabi Keyboard?
if you are new to Punjabi input and don't know Punjabi Keyboard Layout, there is easy solution to input Punjabi "On-Screen Keyboard".
On-Screen Keyboard can be accessed by clicking on the "Start" -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Ease to Access -> On-Screen Keyboard"


I liked On-Screen Keyboard, which also has Punjabi Support,
just open Keyboard and select Punjabi from Icon (or Alt+Shift),
the you can see the Keyboard in Punjabi.

Complete Detail on Community Website.
Please share it with Punjabi, ask to read/write Punjabi (Gurmukhi) on
their Computer. Ask to Use Unicode, so that we permote our
language over web...

I was trying to get Maemo 5 device, but
finally I got easy method to install it on
desktop machine with help of instruction
over here.


I am working to find a way to include Punjabi (and other
Indic) language to device. Few steps I completed:
Locale-Extras - Updated all Indic locale files
Indic - Project to include all i18n stuff for Indic languages
Keyboard Layout - Virtual/On-Screen Keyboard (which has no Indic support yet)

still I am not able to add my language in it, but find few things
different from my desktop machine:
/usr/share/i18n-locale-resolver/
more time required to work on this, but I have next Internet
connection in coming weeks.
This system setup on Ubuntu AMD64. Often forgot to
put variable vdso32=0 for kernel at boot time.