Make Your Computer / Laptop Use Less Power

Making your computer use less power is a necessary but difficult to implement issue… unless you know where to look and what to do. You want to use less power to conserve battery life of your laptop; you want to use less power on your servers to save on electricity...

Ideas for a greener future

Well, at least the metaphorical kind. Maharashtra State and Osram India are in a collaboration to distribute CFL lamps free of charge to replace the ubiquitous tungsten bulbs. Very nice to read such news when you begin the day. This achieves a three-fold advantage: one, the state will have to...

Quote by Nat Friedman

I recently got to meet Nat Friedman of Gnome fame. Thanks Moshe for the opportunity. While Moshe and Nat did most of the talking (about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship), I just kept listening and learning. I had an interesting story to mention, though. A couple of ex-colleagues from Codito had witnessed...

Paradise regained

So the Taj Mahal made it to the new seven wonders of the world. A distinguished jury deliberated over a period of several years to narrow down the list from hundreds, I believe, sites and monuments, to seven. To make the selection completely fair, a panel of judges from the...

Using network aliases to have multiple IPs

If you have a network at home (or office) and get IP addresses assigned by a DHCP server (router, DSL modem, etc.), but want to address individual machines by a static IP (because you run servers on them), you should define network aliases, which enable you to define multiple IP...

Kernel hang on install; LEDs blink

I was recently installing Kubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) on a new Intel Core 2 Duo System. The kernel kept panic’ing during the install; the video would get garbled and the caps lock and scroll lock LEDS kept blinking. That would suggest a hardware problem. I tried playing with several BIOS...

Quote: Greg Kroah-Hartman on Linux development model

“It is a web of trust. Linus trusts 10 to 15 people, I trust 10 to 15 people,” Kroah-Hartman said. “I trust that they’ll be around to fix the problem. And that’s more important than getting it right in the first place.” This is from the OLS Day 1, covered...

Trees at Sinhagad

IMG_2874.JPG Originally uploaded by AmitShah <p>Three trees against a beautiful cloudy blue backdrop on a recent trip to Sinhagad This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA.

Second lightning picture

IMG_1049.jpg Originally uploaded by AmitShah <p>Second shot of the captured lightning This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA.

Lightning picture

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/am1tshah/661613966/" title="photo sharing"><img src="/assets/661613966_75904aa0fb.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/am1tshah/661613966/">IMG_1053.jpg</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/am1tshah/">AmitShah</a>.</span></div> This is a photo of a lightning that I captured in Bangalore in the May of 2006. It took me 30 minutes and a good 30 shots to get a couple which actually...