• Ah!!! ACER travelmate 4151 NLCi
    I just got myself a shiny new acer laptop.....Now trying to get everything working under linux....The major annoyance is that none of the dstributions right now suportboth SATA drive _and_ i915 graphics card on board....Ubuntu fails with SATA cdrom and does not detect it in install, sodoes mandrakeKnoppix installs well but fails to detect i915 and XF86Config-4 doesnot help even with the kernel driver loaded .... :-(( so i am stuckwith Vesa modeWill try gentoo now that being the last option, i...
  • Managers and leaders
    I just read a quote somewhere,"Great managers do things right, Great leaders do the right things."I see a very robust and unparalleled implementation of the abovestatement. But before we do a case study lets analyse it. If you wantto do a thing you have to do it right in order to succeed. If you wantto succeed you not only have to do the things right but you also haveto do the right things. But doing right things does implicitly meansnot doing the other variety. And unfortunately a Great...
  • Come Again?
    Thats what i said when i heard about apple's new anouncment.....What a shocker.... Apple switching on to intel platform. This must beon hell of a spin for all the 'Mac'ers. I don't think even pakistanturning away from taliban measures up in front of this :-))). Mysypmathies lie for all the poor soles who now have to try and inventnew reasons for why CISC is better than RISC within two years and howwe were just fooling around for last 15 years.Neway does this impact me right now???? well for...
  • Linux cult is dead, long live Linux enterprise.
    Take a look at this. An article by Stuart Cohen, CEO OSDL."Take Torvalds' key lieutenant overseeing the Linux kernel, Andrew Morton. He's no amateur hacker. Morton worked for 10 years as a development manager at NortelNetworks building carrier-grade global telecommunications software. Carrier-grade systems must meet service availability requirements in the range of five 9's -- 99.999% uptime. So he knows all about business...
  • Free* fonts under GPL
    I remember a thread on scribus mailing list about usage of GPLed fonts. While bathing today it struck me suddenly, that its a non issue. Basic problem somebody raised was that, if a document is prepared using GPLed fonts they are linked into it and thus the document itself becomes a derivative work and then it must be distributed under GPL. I for one don't have any problem with that. Only professional documentors which right now get paid against a doc layout and content liscencing are in...
  • Bainback (sad slashback mod )
    Today its been 5 days since the Bapu passed away. I am still not in shape to write about him. But i am well enough to try and start to move on. So as a first step i am updating this blog. Lot !!! i mean lot has happened within last two-three months. The lack of updated entries in my blog is not without reason and there has been lots happning in outside world too... the world outside my life, the world of slashdot, formula one and lkml that is.(Nothing to do with _real_ outside world.) This blog...
  • In memory of Bapu (my grandfather)
    I write this as we break the news of my grandfather's demise to mygrandmother. Its been hard two and a half weeks in the ICU for him andfor everybody. Bapu as we called him, lead a very peaceful life. Heearned his reputation amongst the Ahamdabad University community,raised a family of two daughters and a son (my father) and thensatisfactorily retired to settle in pune.I am too depressed right now to express my true feelings, may be someother day. Right now i just wanted to mark this moment as...
  • The good old days !!
    I almost gave up on a piece of really complex dma/interrupt code yesterday. All the failing scenarios were eating up my mind for the whole day and then through the night.Then it hit me in the morning right after i wonke up. And whola!!! i was back in action. Suddenly there it was my interrupt handler in action doing asynchronously the things i commanded it to do. Hmmm.... where have i felt that warm feeling before????Well i am so surprised to see myself at the same place i was in 7th grade....
  • Autocommenter updated
    I ditched the cproto based earlier version of my automommenter. It was just ugly and too hard to maintain and fix.Today i managed to upload the replacement based on unix shell script. Its been around on my desktop for a while and is working on atleast most common scenarios. It is a bit over engineered though but given my nature everything i do usually is :-).Neways give it a try if you like. You can find it through my home page link at right hand side.BAINhttp://abhijit.adotout.net
  • Homebrew glider anyone?
    Take a look at these ....http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000573027090/http://members.shaw.ca/sonde/For several weeks now i have lingering thought about actually tryingmy hand at something like this. Last week i actually made someprogress on the design side while i was visiting home.I got the basic requirements jotted down and a rough grand plan.Feasibility...