Copyright violation??

I found out today that one of my developerworks article on KDB has been posted – word-by-word – over here. I am pretty sure it is a copyright violation. Of course, I have not been contacted regarding this but I am sure neither has developerworks given any consent for the same.
At least a line or [...]

Realplayer playlists in Linux

Finally, I was able to figure out how to create a playlist in Linux for Realplayer. Just open a “.ram” file in a text editor, put all your hyperlinks and local file locations, one per line, and save it. Realplayer will play it one after the other.

My contribution to Linux

I recently read a discussion on lkml about the software suspend facility that needs to get into Linux. There was a heated debate about suspend2 and swsusp and which one should get in finally. Andrew Morton stepped in and suggested that a third way is possible and that people should look at the kdump infrastructure [...]

Linux Desktop

Sripathi talks about some interesting reasons why Linux Desktop is getting closer in performance (or the lack of it) to Windows LWN today has pointed out two projects which are trying to do something on this front. It does seem like we will have a good desktop a couple of years from now.
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Conferences

November to January looks like will be a very hectic phase for me at work. Working on a paper for the CCGrid conference to be submitted by November 15. Then there is this new idea I am working on which we are targetting for a paper submission by January.
Of course there is also the Linux [...]

Resizing my NTFS partition

So I finally worked it out. Will wait for the broadband connection to appear at home. There are a couple of Linux based utilities which are freeware and can pretty safely repartition my NTFS data drive. Need a 100MB mini distro though. So, I am gonna download that from home and then get Linux setup [...]

Linus’ comments

There is a huge discussion going on making the timer interrupt frequency selectable from the default 1000Hz now. Yesterday, Linus got involved in the same. The result – some amazing comments on lkml I am posting below some of his non-technical comments. Enjoy maadi!!
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- I have to say, this whole thread has been [...]

28th September 2004

Ok, I’m back again….weekend was hectic. 4 subjects is a bit too much…but then, only 4 left….so ……
The spirituality course is turning out to be really interesting. Has got me thinking real hard. Have to admit its put forth some real provocative questions. There’s also this entrepreneurship course I am doing. Need to come up [...]

Long time inda poste illa

Mez back from Linux Kongress. Went really well. Sent out the latest patches last week. Therez been a couple of reviews….working on next set of changes.
Arun’s CET counselling happened today. NIE – IP. The folks at CET have become really efficient. Couldnt believe that the whole thing got over in 3 hours!!!
My last quarter in [...]

Things looking up finally

FInished the Kongress paper. Finished the RM assignment ) Made some real progress this week. Sent out my kexec based dump patches to lkml. Received some comments. Yet to post updated patches.
Not keeping all that well. Need a break!! Planning to take a week off after Linux Kongress. Right now though, PGSM exams are [...]