13 May 2010
Having already installed (what would be) F13 on my work and personal laptops the traditional way – by installing a fresh copy (since I wanted to modify the partition layout), I tried an upgrade on my desktop. My desktop was running Fedora11 and I moved it to Fedora13. I wanted...
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15 Apr 2010
Thanks to Nicu’s excellent step-by-step howto on creating artwork with inkscape and the Open Clip Art Library, I managed to create this today: <p>This is for a couple of friends who are planning to organise a summer camp for kids in the locality. Thanks Nicu! <div class="blogger-post-footer"> <p>This is a...
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07 Apr 2010
A few volunteers from India associated with the Fedora Project wrote articles for Linux For You’s March 2010 Virtualisation Special. Those articles, and a few others, are put up on the Fedora wiki space at Magazine Articles on Virtualization. Thanks to LFY for letting us upload the pdfs! We’re always...
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12 Oct 2009
An outing after quite some time. While thinking of overnight / day-long trips, I felt some nearby destinations for the overnight trips might be overflowing with people on account of a long weekend (Fri-Sat-Sun, on account of Gandhi Jayanti on the Friday). So it was decided we’d go for a...
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11 Sep 2009
Navin gives a small demo of RHEV-M, the management platform for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product:
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25 Aug 2009
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/usain-bolt-is-no-takeru-kobayashi/
Go get it!
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29 Jul 2009
http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 I have used Debian since several years now and have always been either on the ‘testing’ or the ‘sid’ releases on my desktops / laptops. I never felt the need to switch to ‘stable’ as even sid was stable enough for me for my regular usage (with a few...
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13 May 2009
I wrote a few comments about introducing “guarantees” in software – how do you assure your customers that they won’t be left in the lurch if you go down. It generated a healthy discussion and that gave me an opportunity to fine-tune the definition of “insurance” in software. Openness is...
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25 Apr 2009
The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with some interesting feedback. I was asked why I didn’t add reiserfs to the tests and also if I could test with larger files. The test itself had a few problems,...
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15 Apr 2009
Making apps use the fallocate() syscall instead of writing zeros to a file is the preferred way to init a file with all 0s. I was pleasantly surprised ktorrent already does that (but via a non-default config option): I would like it if they made posix_fallocate() the default, if available...
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