Journey of the Journeyman

It had been quite a while Aditi and I had seen a movie in a theater together. If my memory serves me right, it was Spiderman, 2003. The last Hindi flick was Lagaan, 2001. Today, after a long time, we went to see a movie. It is called “Taare Zameen Par”. It was a movie […]

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I was going through a thread on an ACPI issue with nForce4 on the kernel list. An interesting set of bits from Linus Torvalds hurled at Rafael Wysocki.
You seem to put a lot of trust in a piece of documentation.
Do you realize how those pieces of paper are written? They are written by people who […]

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Its 1:58 AM. Still could not get my wireless card (Dell D620, Broadcom BCM94311MCG) to work with the new 2.6.24-rc5 kernel. But could get my speakers working with the freshly compiled ALSA driver from Intel. Ah ! Santana’s Europa never sounded so sweet !
Yesterday we went to Nanking, a chinese eatery inside Sigma Mall on […]

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The Linux/FOSS movement in Bangalore is apparently hot, but for some reason the flow in the mailing list has ebbed. This post is not delivered with any hint of sarcasm or snigger. Just that a sense of potentially irrational tragic wonder.
Maybe too many books available ?Maybe the openness in the Open Source Movement is on […]

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Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. We’ll fix it in software.
Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. […]

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There is a unequalled thrill in struggling late into the night, fixing a tricky bug, and (strangely) having dinner all alone. Tragic hero, programmer.
The last time I did this was in 2006, I think. Toiled at the CT bay, rewrote parts of CT install (which yours truly has contributed to in modest proportions) to fix […]

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I got an email from a certain bank educating me about the safety of statements-via-email.Your PDF Advice on E-mail is ‘password protected’ and 128-bit encrypted to provide you additional security.
Made me think:

Does the public really understand the significance of this ?
Is there really a significance ? For the end-user, its just a password.
If […]

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At work, many of us are consigned to using a Windows desktop, for reasons that are beyond our control. Linux fanatics would say, “Change your job”, but well sometimes that is not an option. At the same time, you have that itch to try out a certain se/awk/grep combo or a quick perl script. Here’s […]

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Its 4:17 am now, have been struggling since the past 1:15 mins or so. Building the latest Linux kernel from scratch. BAck at this game after a really long time. After about 9 attempts, including some aborts from yersterday, got the system to boot. Feeling like Edison. Now this customized kernel is optimized for my […]

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Slashdot carried an article on how McKesson is bringing in Linux into Healthcare.Hello, anybody listening ? GE got Linux-based CT scanners into the market way back in 2002. Yes, let me brag a tbit, please. I fought that war. We moved the whole goddamn scanner console from IRIX to Linux. We even had our own […]

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