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I miss my Avro Keyboard. I don’t mind Linux at all. Once I got Xubuntu which feel faster and then added Compiz Fusion to make it look sexy and get the awesome Virtual Desktop shortcuts everything was good. Until I wanted to type in Bangla. You know Avro Keyboard’s Phonetic entry makes life so easy that you don’t have to learn to type Bangla at all. You just try to spell out the word in Roman letters and boom! it’s there in Bangla fonts. The typed the line above in whole minute. That’s how long it took me to find all the characters. Even in the phonetic mode.
Otherwise, Xubuntu is definitely slick. After adding Compiz Fusion on top of that it really makes for a killer environment. Though trying to live on the bleeding edge software can be a bit annoying if you don’t mind living on the stable edge then the application management could not be easier than Synaptic.
Having Firefox on the environment helps further since I don’t really miss my Win32 world as much until I need to get some work done and I need to get the VPN going. Yeah.. haven’t figured that one out yet. Well all in due time.. sometime 
My Xubuntu Desktop
Dear non-readers,
It has been a while since my last confession post. As most of you know, I have been back to the USA for the last 2 months or so. Catching up with work and the life I left behind for the 3 preceeding months kinda kept me out of everything. There has, however, been tons of updates on twitter which in turn shows up on Facebook. I’m sorry but I no longer reside in MySpace or hi5. They just were not working for me.
All that aside, I didn’t have much to say either. Occasionally a few ideas came up but I never got to actually write it down. There has been flickr updates with things around the house, but so far that has been it. Hopefully soon I will have tons of ramblings to fill your mind with.
Until then, with lots of love
bid
It has been a while people, and I’m still in Dhaka. Luckily my sister has managed to score a Bluetooth Dongle so I can finally post all those pictures that I have been filling up my phone with. Here are a few things that are around Dhaka that has little or nothing to do with the original franchise.
And then there are the ones which are actually originals and are true to the chain.
Ok fine, the last image is a big blurry but it was pouring out there so I couldn’t really get a good shot. But you can see Colonel General don’t you?
And finally I just have to point this out since I didn’t know about Cyprus befure I met my friend from there at GATech. So here’s to Alper whose country is now a top educational destination in Bangladesh (apparently).
Ok, so I was wrong about certain parts of my previous ramble. From my recent trip to BCS Computer City I can tell that even if the concept of a LAN is missing around my friend and family, it must be there somewhere in this city. I reason I claim this is mostly due to the tens of consumer grade routers being sold. Though as I mentioned before, many of these low-end consumer routers are being used to provide “cable internet” in many areas. There were even a variety of wireless access points, bridges and routers available, which points to the fact that WiFi must be in somewhere.
What was really interesting was to see the easy avaibility of ASUS, BenQ and LiteON products. Since these are all Asian brands the ease of importing them and their price points makes them a very promising supplier. I even noticed an ASUS EeePC amoung the variety of laptops that are readily available. Also it is much fun to see all the Chinese knock-offs that you can find
