TAMILNADU GOVT. FREE LAPTOP

Tuxmath: maths game for windows

2012-06-11T00:11:00.000-07:00

Our laptop is loaded with 67 GB of educational contents.
They provide lots of books, materials, audio, video educational contents separately in local partition.
They also provide some educational games like tux-typing, tux-math.
Tux-Typing is installed by default. But tux-math was not installed.
don't worry you don't have to download it separately.
They already place the installed inside the Educational contents.
just go to TUX TYPE folder

you can see the tuxmath installer for windows platform.
You can easily install the tuxmath by double-click on the installer for windows.

Tuxmath is an open source game provides an exciting way to learn and expert in mathematical
skill. Being open-source its available for gnu/linux distributions.

boss, ubuntu and other debian users just type the

$ sudo apt-get install tuxmath

command in terminal.

for more information about tuxmath game just visit http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath/

Adding debian repositories to boss linux

2012-06-09T09:54:00.000-07:00

Elcot provides a way to use the open-source technology for the students by
installing boss linux in laptop.
I know many of us don't even like to boot into boss linux. Simply
we neglect and go to windows stright.
They gave much more than other linux based operating systems.
They installed restricted extras, audio video codecs, vlc media player, wine 1.2(but now wine 1.5 is available) java and more.
Boss linux also have some drawbacks. Their repositories are just too old.
we can't install firefox browser by telling

$ apt-get install firefox

it will show some error message. simply firefox is not in their repositories.

So i'm going to show you how to add debian repositories into boss linux. Don't get freak debian is also a gnu/linux operating system. many popular os's like ubuntu is based on debian. Boss is also based on debian linux.

so debian binaries are fully compatible with boss linux.

let us begin..

open your terminal and goto /etc/apt/ by telling

$ cd /etc/apt

now

$ sudo gedit sources.list

and add this two lines at the bottom

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main

if you don't want the boss repositories just add # before that line.

now close and type

$ sudo apt-get update

after fully updated the indexes you can now easily install debian binaries
into boss linux.

just try to install firefox

$ sudo apt-get install firefox

drop your valuable comments..
they give me some boost to write more..

changing the language settings from tamil to english in windows 7

2012-06-05T04:40:00.001-07:00

In this post we are going to see how to change the default language
in windows 7. In our laptop default language set by the elcot is tamil.
If you open your vlc media player you can see the menus in tamil language.

If you feel it's very hard to control you can change the language
easily to english.

All you have to do is just open your control panel

Then click on the Region and Language

in Formats tab click on the drop down menu.

now change it from Tamil(india) to English(india).

Now you see the menus in english.

please drop your comments..

arising knowledge for tamilnadu students

2012-06-04T02:29:00.000-07:00

This should be the revolutionary idea by the government of tamilnadu.
providing free laptops for the students is not an easy task at the same time
this idea can make the tamilnadu students evolve against the
technological giants of other countries.
i am proud to be a part of it.
this blog is all about the laptops provided by the tamilnadu govenment.

we are going to share lots of tips, tricks, tutorials about the free laptops.
my only aim is to make the students more productive and give them a right way
against the cyber world.
please don't hesitate to ask any questions regarding to this topic.
also inform your friends about this blog to learn new things.