Wednesday, October 12, 2016

২১-২২ বছরের জীবন যেমন




একটা মানুষের ২১-২২ বছরের জীবন কেমন হয়? আমার মনে হয় এই বয়সটা একটা ভ্যাবাচ্যাকা খাওয়া বয়স। এসময়ই জীবন নিয়ে চিন্তা করার ইচ্ছা হয়। এজন্যই তো এই বয়সে এসে এই "জীবন কেমন হয়" টপিক নিয়ে লেখার ইচ্ছা হলো। সবার ক্ষেত্রে অবশ্য একরকম হয় না। তবে অনেক কিছুই কমন থাকে এই বয়সের সবার মধ্যে। আমার ২১-২২ বছর বয়স কাটছে একটি মধ্যবিত্ত সাধারণ চোখ দিয়ে দেখে।
২১-২২ বছরের এই সময়টাতে একটা মানুষ না থাকে কিশোর, না থাকে যুবক। বাইরের দেশগুলোতে ১৮ বছর বয়স হলেই সন্তানেরা বাবা-মা থেকে দূরে থাকতে শুরু করে। সেদেশের ছেলেমেয়েরা ১৮+ হলেই অনেক বেশি ম্যাচিউরড হয়ে যায়।

Monday, July 11, 2016

নর্থ সাউথ ইউনিভার্সিটিতে পোলাপাইন আসলে করেটা কি? [ রহস্য উদঘাটন পোস্ট ]



  • আচ্ছা একটা ইউনিভার্সিটিতে ওয়েস্টার্ন ড্রেস পড়ে মেয়েরা ঘুরে বেড়ায় আবার সেই ইউনিভার্সিটিতে এত জঙ্গি আসে কিভাবে?
  • এতগুলো বড়লোকের ছেলেপেলে এখানে আসলে করেটা কি?
     
  • NSU তে নাকি টাকা দিলেই সার্টিফিকেট দেয়?
     
  • NSU এর পোলাপাইনদের নাকি পড়াশোনা করা লাগে না। এমনিতেই জব পেয়ে যায়?
  • NSU তে নাকি JNG 101 নামে একটা কোর্স আছে যেখানে জঙ্গিশিক্ষা দেওয়া হয়। TBA নাকি এই কোর্সের জন্য বেস্ট টিচার !

Friday, October 16, 2015

Mozilla Support Tour 2015 - Sylhet

I have been contributing to Mozilla for two years. I specially contribute in SuMo, which is the short form of Mozilla Support. We help users of Mozilla products by solving their problems, writing & updating support articles and much more. There were some significant events organized by our SuMo Bangladesh Community. After the success of SuMo Community Meetup , we were planning for a Support Tour in 3 divisions of Bangladesh.

As a part of our tour, we selected Sylhet division first. It is the northeastern division of Bangladesh. Known well for Tea gardens and tourist spots. I was so much excited as it was my first tour outside my city with Mozilla.

Beautiful Sylhet


It was 8 October 2015. Our bus started from Dhaka City at 12am. We were 6 fellow Mozillians.

First Day

Reached Sylhet City at 6am. We stayed at Hotel Supreme. Our first event was in North East University Bangladesh, located in Telihaor. Event started at 10am. We started right after taking breakfast. We have not slept for the night.

Mahay Alam Khan (aka MAK bro) started the opening introduction session. He explained what is Mozilla, Who we are and what we do. He also clarified about open-source community and our point of contribution.


Then Ashickur Rahman Noor started his sessions about Mozilla Support. He briefly explained Mozilla Support Portal and various contribution ways.


After that I (Raiyad Raad) started to explain how to localize KB articles in Bangla language. I think my session went bad as I was feeling so dizzy for lack of sleeping. Partcipants started to localize articles in Bangla. Then we paused to take Jummah Prayer and lunch.



The lunch was really good. Then Shashoto Seeam started his session. He talked about contributing in Support Forum. He introduced everyone to all the products of Mozilla.


Then Safwan Rahman talked about contributing in Kitsune, the codebase of Support Forum. He was searching for new contributors who know Python.


In the end of the event, many of the participants successfully contributed to Mozilla Support. Almost all of them localized a KB articles fully in Bangla. We taught them how to use irc channels to communicate with us.

Second Day

The next day started with drizzle. Most of the heavy rainfalls of our country occurs in Sylhet. We started for Leading University.

View from the 8th floor of Leading University

Again Mahay Alam Khan started the opening session. He showed a video of the web we want and explained that frame by frame. He also clarified about why we need the web to be free and open.



Then Ashickur Rahman introduced everyone to the Support Dashboard. He explained the ways of contributing in SuMo. Then he started to teach the participants how to update KB articles.




Some of the articles are distributed among the participants. They started to update them. We were roaming around the room and helping them.


After the lunch, Shashoto Seeam started an ice-breaking session. Every participants were asked to introduce themselves. We, the volunteers also introduced ourselves. We talked about our journey to Mozilla-  how we got involved, what we do and had lots of funny conversations. We gave surprise gifts to five participants. They were contributing in SuMo before. They seemed pretty surprised.





Seeam talked more about the support forum and how to help users. On that time, Safwan Rahman was collecting information about people so that he can find more contributors to contribute in Kitsune.

After that I showed how to help twitter users having problem with Mozilla Products by Army of Awesome.




The daylight was beginning to deem out and so was our event. We distributed swags and snacks among the people. Shot couple of cool group photos. Leading University was awesome. We found many interesting contributors from there. LU Firefox Club is also very active. Heartiest thanks to Rayhan bro, Tushar bro and other Sylheti Mozillians for arranging this beautiful event.


The must have group photo

Third Day

After two days of continuous events, we chose this day to relax and roam around the beautiful spots of Sylhet. We woke up very early and started our journey to Bichanakandi, a tourist spot close to the Bangladesh-India border. We were amazed by the awesome natural beauty. Then we went to Ratargul Swamp Forest. It one of the few freshwater swamp forest of the earth. 

Bichanakandi, Sylhet

Bichanakandi, Sylhet

Bichanakandi, Sylhet

Ratargul Swamp Forest, Sylhet

Ratargul Swamp Forest, Sylhet

Ratargul Swamp Forest, Sylhet

Ratargul Swamp Forest, Sylhet




                                                         Our Event on Reps Portal
                                                            More Photos on Flickr:
                                                       Event Hashtag: #SuMoTourBD


 

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Mozilla Bangladesh - SuMo Community Meetup 2015



SuMo Community of Mozilla Bangladesh has arranged a two day long meetup on 29 & 30 may. SuMo is the short form of Mozilla Support. SuMo contributors give support to users of different Mozilla products. There is an awesome community here in Bangladesh. I am also one of the contributor. I was lucky to get invited in this meetup. So, now I am sharing some of my experiences of these two days.

In SuMo, there are many articles to help users. We localize those articles in our language so that everyone in our country can easily understand them. There is also a support forum where we answer questions of users from all around the world. Last year (2014), we did some awesome jobs. We finished the Top 100 KB article localization. Then we localized all the support articles of all the products. It was a very difficult task. And we got huge success. We also localized all the articles of Firefox OS in Bangla. So, this meetup was mainly to celebrate our great success of the last year and plan for the upcoming days.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

ঘুরে এলাম বান্দরবন (পর্ব - ১)

সেমিস্টার ব্রেক শুরু হলো। হাতে অল্প কিছুদিন সময়। আগে থেকেই কোথাও যাওয়ার প্ল্যান ছিলো। মাঝে থেকে এক বন্ধু খাগড়াছড়িতে পল্টি মারলো। বাকি সবাই মিলে চটজলদি প্ল্যান করে ফেললাম বান্দরবন যাওয়ার। আমাদের সাথে ছিলো এক চাইনিজ (চাকমা) বন্ধু হেনড্রিক্স। তার ভালো নাম শুভ চাক। সে আগেই চলে গেলো বান্দরবন। আমরা চারজন - আমি, সুফি (তাফসীর), মাঝি (প্রিতম) আর তন্ময় রওনা দিলাম ঢাকা থেকে। রাত ১০টার বাস। সবাই কলেজের বন্ধু।

Monday, March 30, 2015

USB Drive Size Reduced After Making it Bootable [SOLVED]

Yesterday I booted my 32GB pendrive to make Hacintosh. After making the pendrive bootable I've found that it's size has been reduced to 5.35GB from 32GB. The same problem occured when I made it bootable to install Ubuntu. Here's the solution for this problem. I forget everything and then I've to search the entire web. So I'm writng here.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

How to update Firefox OS 2.0 to 3.0 (Nightly) with Windows

Last week I wrote about How to update Firefox OS 1.3 to 2.0 with Windows. Updating Firefox OS is much easier with Linux OS. If you're a linux user and feel comfortable with Linux then use it to update. This tutorial is for the Windows users.

I'm using Firefox OS Developer Preview device Flame. This process may not work with other Firefox OS devices. However, downloading base image of other developer preview phones from the manufacturers websites (eg. Geeksphone) & following this tutorial may work.

NOTE: If you brick your device I will not take any responsibility. Charge your device battery upto minimum 50% before updating. Disable screen lock before starting. Simply go to Settings > Screen Lock and tap to disable lock screen or passcode lock.

Please before proceed make sure that you've updated your device to the latest stable base image. Follow this tutorial HERE if your OS version is below 2.0. Go to Settings >> Device Information to check your current version.

1. Plug your device into your computer with a USB cable.


2. Enable USB Debugging:

To enable USB Debugging go to your phone's Settings > Device Information > More Information > Developer and then Tick "Enable USB Debugging".


3. Download Base Image:Choose a build to install (found on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/). You'll want one of the following:

I've chosen the first one. Nightly v3.0
Go to the directory and download b2g-XX.XX.en-US.android-arm.tar.gz and gaia.zip both three files. Extract them in the same folder in your PC.

4. Download other tools:Download the shallow flash script and save it in the same directory as the above two files: follow the link, press the Raw button, then use your browser's save functionality (right click & select save page as...) to save the page directly as shallow_flash.sh.

Also download the shallow_flash.bat windows script and install Cygwin which provides a Linux-like command environment on Windows.

Make sure that all the tools - Shallow flash script, shallow flash.bat, cygwin & base image files are in the same folder.


5. Now double click the shallow.bat file. A command window will appear and ask your permission. Write "y" and hit Enter. ('y' for YES & 'n' for NO). Then the install will start. Your phone may restart couple of times during the process.
Have a cup of coffee. And then you'll find that you're device is updated with the latest nightly build.

OMG! I bricked my device:If you brick your device by doing the above methods, then relax. You can get back to your old OS version with recovery mode. Just scroll through this article (Sorry, I can't simplify that for you): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Phone_guide/Flame/Updating_your_Flame
and start reading from "Fastboot Mode".

If you face any kind of problems during updating your device, please feel free to comment on this post. I'll try my best to solve them.


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