Copy-and-paste

What’s with people who want to write blogs, want to put up happenings in their lives, want to share the thrill they had… but end up copying stuff from others’ blogs? Are they too lazy to do that? Or can’t find words to express their feelings? Or did they experience...

Greetings and Thanks

Diwali greetings to everyone… and thanks to everyone who wished me. I could not receive and send SMSes from 21st - 26th of Oct., so if I’ve missed any of your messages, this blog post is for you :-) <div class="blogger-post-footer"> <p>This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA....

Updated patch for Kernprof for the 2.4.32 kernel

SGI’s kernprof is a Linux kernel profiling tool that can generate call-graph information for the running Linux kernel. It doesn’t profile kernel modules, though. The latest patch on their website is version 0.13 for Linux 2.4.20. Applying it to 2.4.32 results in some rejects. I’ve resolved the rejects and am...

Lage Raho Munnabhai

Lage Raho Munnabhai, the newest film to hit the theatres is an absolute treat to watch. It’s funny, it has a good story and makes us think about the Mahatma. After Rang De Basanti, this is another movie this year that has a social message. RDB was more patriotic, LRM...

Tiger!

The Junglees went to BR Hills the weekend of September 2-3. Sowmya has written about it over at her blog. My best experience from the whole trip was a tiger sighting. We had just entered the restricted forest area at 6 in the morning; everyone was too sleepy, but the...

Steve Irwin No More

Steve Irwin, famously known as the Crocodile Hunter, is no more. He died because of a stingray while filming a documentary. He wasn’t just a wildlife enthusiast, the way he explained stuff on TV was great as well. Having watched many of his documentaries on crocodiles, other reptiles and other...

What would you do with eight treadmills?

Here’s a very nicely choreographed video that shows four people dancing around on eight treadmills. <p></embed> This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA.

The Big Picture: The Death Duel Between LCD and Plasma

[From digg.com] I’ve been watching the LCD and Plasma TV markets for some time now; I intend to buy one. Here’s one article on the two. Another home entertainment technology death duel is under way as 2 different TV technologies, LCD and plasma, vie for dominance of the big-screen, flat-panel...

Must-watch Sonu Nigam mimicry video

</embed>Everyone who’s a Sonu Nigam fan and everyone who’s not (quite a difficult thing to find such a person) will enjoy this. Especially watch out for his renditions of S. P. Balasubramaniam, Kailash Kher and Adnan Sami songs. Also mimics Anu Malik and Udit Narayan’s voices. Simply awesome. Also look...

Settings for the XAVI router

Some people have been asking me what the settings are for my XAVI router given by Tata Indicom / VSNL broadband people. If you have the misfortune of owning a Tata broadband connection, here are the details: Connect to the router using a web browser (default: http://192.168.1.1/) Login. Default username/password:...