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March 6th, 2011 No comments

FOSSMEET 2011 : Free and Open Source Software meet, February 4-6, 2011 at NIT Calicut, Kerala

December 3rd, 2010 No comments

FOSSMeet 2010 was a huge success. Now it’s time for FOSSMeet 2011

FOSSMEET 2011

 

FOSSMeet provides ample opportunities to meet people who are well versed in FOSS.

FOSSMeet is an annual event on Free and Open Source Software at National Institute of Technology Calicut. This event brings together FOSS enthusiasts from all over India. The 2011 edition of the event is scheduled to be held during February 4 to 6, 2011.

It started as FLOSS Meet @ NIT Calicut in 2005 which was a single day event. It is being conducted annually since then. During this period, it has evolved into one of the biggest Free Software conferences in India.

FOSSMeet 2011 is the 7th edition of this attempt at popularizing Free and Open Source Software in India.

 

It’s a perfect opportunity to meet and chat with FOSS folks. Don’t miss it !

For registration and more information  http://fossmeet.in/ 

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Get System Management BIOS table in Human readable format, DMI Decode

September 21st, 2010 No comments

Dmidecode is a tool which queries DMI/SMBIOS information and presents it in human readable form. DMIDecode runs on BSD systems and a variety of other *nix distributions. Let’s see it in action. Fire up a terminal and type:

dmidecode –t x

where x can be any of these valid type keywords:

  • bios
  • system
  • baseboard
  • chassis
  • processor
  • memory
  • cache
  • connector
  • slot
  • dmidecodet

    dmidecode –s x

    where x can be any of these valid type keywords:

    • bios-vendor
    • bios-version
    • bios-release-date
    • system-manufacturer
    • system-product-name
    • system-version
    • system-serial-number
    • system-uuid
    • baseboard-manufacturer
    • baseboard-product-name
    • baseboard-version
    • baseboard-serial-number
    • baseboard-asset-tag
    • chassis-manufacturer
    • chassis-type
    • chassis-version
    • chassis-serial-number
    • chassis-asset-tag
    • processor-family
    • processor-manufacturer
    • processor-version
    • processor-frequency

     

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