02 Jul 2008
Much hue and cry was raised earlier this year when Sania Mirza, the #1 Indian woman tennis player, kept her feet close to the Indian flag on a table. Michael Ballack, the captain of the German football (soccer) team, returned home from the Euro 2008 championship and does this: What...
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30 Jun 2008
Bill Gates, in his new role, has these thoughts to offer:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/Speeches/Co-ChairSpeeches/BillgSpeeches/BGSpeechWEF-080124.htm
Quite simple and effective ways to help the needy and also continue doing what you currently are.
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20 May 2008
Wildlife: Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s DNA Revived in Mice That’s just wonderful if we can save tigers Tech: Getting started with awk Trivia: How Coffee Changed the WorldStory of coffee’s discovery Eco-friendly: Scott Adams is building an eco-friendly houseHe’s also designing his home in an open way, inviting reader comments and...
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21 Mar 2008
A kid walks to her father. She wants a chocolate. She knows the father can’t refuse, but mom has tighter control over whether she can really have it. The kid is smart. She tells her dad “mom says I can have it if you agree”. The father says “OK”. Then...
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21 Mar 2008
I was invited at the Convergence 2008 conference on Virtualization at the IIT Bombay. I thought it would be fun to have competitors looking at you while you tell everyone why your hypervisor is the best. It was a slight disappointment, though, as Citrix (Xen) and Microsoft were absent. VMWare...
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21 Mar 2008
I frequently read a few blogs and whenever I come across some interesting ones, I lose hours of productive work. One such blog I came across was indexed from the freakonomics blog. It has me hooked.
eg:
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18 Dec 2007
Foss.in/2007 is over and I’m back home. The slide deck on my kvm talk is now available. This was the first time I went to foss.in and I really liked the experience. More than the talks, it’s the corridor discussions and meeting up with people that’s really the most interesting...
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03 Dec 2007
There’s an amazingly horrible piece of software that manages network connections on KDE: knetworkmanager. And with my recent upgrade to Kubuntu Gutsy from Feisty, it has been behaving as wildly as only a chimp could. So I decided to simply not use it. There are a few workarounds, like deleting...
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23 Nov 2007
I will be speaking at the foss.in/2007 conference in Bangalore on the 7th of December. My topic? Virtualisation: The KVM Way. foss.in is the premier conference in India on Free and Open Source Software, and sadly I’ve not had the opportunity to attend it all these years. And to think,...
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23 Nov 2007
The KDE project’s forthcoming release 4 of the K Desktop Environment is something all KDE fans are looking forward to. It promises many enhancements and a redisgn of the desktop to free us of the decades-old desktop interface that we are used to using now. It’s becoming increasingly easier these...
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