08 Jul 2011
Jared Smith, the Fedora Project Leader, has announced the Pune bid has won for the APAC FUDCon for 2011. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011 If you’re planning to attend, there’s information on travel and costs on the bid page above. A few community volunteers who will speak at the event can be sponsored, subject...
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18 Mar 2011
It’s a terrible tragedy that has struck Japan: first the earthquake, and then the tsunami. The earthquake shocks were handled quite well by the structures: it was a very high severity earthquake. However, the tsunami that followed later caused a lot of damage: water flooding the streets, houses floating on...
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12 Mar 2011
I wrote an article on mind maps in the BenefIT magazine for the March 2011 issue. The people at BenefIT are nice enough to license the content under a CC license, so I can host the pdf and point you to it: Mind-maps.pdf This article talks about how mind maps...
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01 Mar 2011
If you’re trying out a kernel newer than 2.6.38-rc6 and find your LCD brightness doesn’t go up to its maximum, here’s some help: boot into an older kernel, set the brightness to maximum, then reboot into the newer kernel, and now you’ll get the max. brightness that you’re used to....
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22 Jan 2011
Most of us lead sedentary lifestyles these days – most of our time is spent in front of computers. This slowly is causing a lot of problems people from previous generations haven’t experienced: back aches, knee problems, wrist pains, myopia, among others. And just going to a gym or putting...
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31 Dec 2010
The presto plugin for yum has worked great for me so far. It’s been very useful, not for the lack of download limits, but for the time saved in getting the bits downloaded. The time saved is significant if the bandwidth is not too good (it never is). However, I’ve...
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31 Dec 2010
I just finished reading Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s ‘The Grand Design’ (wikipedia link; Amazon link here). It’s a great book to get up to speed on where physics stands as of today in our understanding of the universe. Physicists come up with theories to explain why the world behaves...
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30 Dec 2010
A very delayed post on the Fedora Miniconf and foss.in/2010. foss.in/2010 was held on the 15th, 16th and 17th of this month in Bengaluru. I could confirm my attendance very late, so I missed out on the CfP and a chance at speaking in the main conference, but I could...
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28 Sep 2010
My ISP uses a web proxy that one has to log into to access the Internet. This logging in is a manual, repetitive process, which is easily automatable. So I embarked on a few hour-long project to get to the proxy, supply login credentials and configure NetworkManager to auto-login via...
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14 Sep 2010
Guest and Host communication should be a simple affair – the venerable TCP/IP sockets should be the first answer to any remote communication. However, it’s not so simple once some special virtualisation-related constraints are added to the mix: the guest and host are different machines, managed differently the guest administrator...
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