I am a Hindu, so what? I take every opportunity to celebrate. So I went with my dad to one of these eateries that exemplifies the “Today pleasure, tomorrow diarrhoea” category. Well I don’t actually have diarrhoea now but what happened in the morning was … well figure it out. Later that day my dad [...]
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Well, I was browsing around in /etc/init.d and I found this: shriphani@psp-laptop:/etc/init.d$ ls -ltotal 368 \-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1386 Sep 13 2006 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1850 Jan 14 2006 acpid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5884 Feb 26 2007 alsa -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8710 Jan 12 2007 alsa-utils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root [...]
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I finished my GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) task a few days back. I was writing the docs for different unix platforms and it was nice to have a person from caltech monitoring my progress. I won’t say it was fun filled because it was not. I literally had to struggle to get those commands [...]
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I just returned from iLugHyderabad’s meeting. It was fun. I met a lot of interesting folks who had dabbled with the new release of Fedora. It is not like I am tempted to try out fedora but it was fun meeting the Fedora enthusiast Rahul Sundaram. Let me recollect what happened during the meet. The [...]
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Well the topic says it all. I have switched to debian gnu/linux and my engineering skills were tested. I faced troubles at almost every stage after installation. Let me describe the process. I got myself a debian cd, put it in the cd – drive, restarted my laptop and after hitting the enter key about [...]
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So, here we are at this very important juncture in life. Probably three months from now, I shall be clicking “Send” on each of my college applications. But first an update on what I have been doing. I am trying to write clean code and create a backup script. It seems to be coming on [...]
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Today, an unsuspecting user arrived at #computers on IRC with a complaint about a dead disk. Linux to the rescue was what we said immediately ! We made the individual download Ubuntu (sshhh…). Two hours later the download was fixed and we were working on the problem. Point 1: The drive was behaving oddly. We [...]
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My iPod began behaving oddly today. I plugged it in and tried to copy an entire album to /Music/Evanescence. To all those wondering, let me tell you that rockbox offers you to listen to music placed anywhere on the iPod’s filesystem. That way I don’t need to stick to the default iPod way of organising [...]
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I got my feisty cds this morning. I installed feisty immediately and considering that one of the ubuntu devs on #ubuntu told me that feisty’s way of handling storage devices had changed, I immediately did: shriphani@psp-laptop:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda3 UUID=1a97343a-e3ed-48e2-9db4-ea67228fb1aa [...]
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