When ever I recommend Ubuntu as an alternate desktop to my students and colleagues, they say that it is not possible to read Malayalam news papers on internet with it. Most of the (silly) Malayalam news papers use Indic scripts with proprietary encoding. They will render only if you install the fonts properly. This post… Continue reading Padma: A Transformer for Indic Scripts
Month: October 2008
Internet via BSNL WLL phone on Ubuntu
One of my students brought a BSNL WLL phone saying that it is not getting recognized on Ubuntu 8.04. The model of the phone was HTL Clarity ( I suspect it to be some Chinese phone). I plugged it into my ubuntu system and fonund out the usb id via the lsusb command. The id… Continue reading Internet via BSNL WLL phone on Ubuntu