• Will F1 it be more interesting this year?
    Just heard the news that all the regulation changes this year arefinal and all cars are conforming to it.This means the engines will need to last three times as much asbefore, the tires will have to do the same and the downforce isreduced by whopping 25%.This should put ferrari right back on the place where all teams weretill now, thats on the edge of their capability. Unfortunately withmaclaren's record last year i have no speculations to make about them.Hopefully all other cars don't have...
  • Boy i feel like living in stoneage!!!
    Just read this!!"Are we becoming irrelevant? Is it time to give up? I don't believe that either is true. I see our competition facing challenges of their own. Linux keeps re-writing major portions of the kernel and has stability issues. It now depends on 3rd party vendors to integrate and make stable releases of the code. FreeBSD took over the huge task to implement fine grain SMP and after two years of effort they still don't have a production quality system. OpenBSD is still touting its...
  • Screw Ferrari, i am for Jordan now
    Why?They hired Kartikeyan !!!!!Finaly a possibility that an indian anthom will be sung at the podium.(hey i can dream, can't i?)Neway lets hope this brings the F1 racing closer to india and possiblyone day even a race will be held here.
  • Ferrari is here to stay
    Just read the news that last week Ferrari concluded the final dealwith FIA for the year 2008 through 10.I just wish it will be Alonso who takes over from Schume, whenever thetime comes. The end of the daced will be lot interesting then.On a related note, last weeks meeting was total desaster, only Ferrariturned uup all other nine teams simply chose not to show up, ha ha ha!!! :-))Read more about that herehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4217409.stmCan't wait for F1 2005...
  • Kontact is cool....
    Today I managed to set up my colinux kmail IMAP/exchange account. Just minutes after that i got a meeting request from my collegue, and to my pleasent surprize the request was now followed by Accept, Reject link.This must be newest addition to Kontact, the request was an ms exchange request. To make things clearer i closed the kmail and fired up kontact. And from that i opened up my inbox and clicked on accept. And hurra!! a new meeting was added to Kalendar. So this makes aditya's KMAIL/...
  • Fighting the patents threat.
    I was just thinking (again). The main argument made during the petentsdebate is that only the big companies get to have the large petantportfolios. And with that they get secure cover using crossliscencingarragements. In effect nobody can sue them because they can countersue them right back.And the small little individual developer is left stranded. He mightbarely be able to get one or two patents but getting 500 of themisn't possible.But i have a solution. Why not each of the OSS groups start...
  • Coincidence
    Just after one day of my post on memory, This article"Making Memories Stick"[scientific american] shows up on slashdot. It quite covertly supports my thoughts , i think...
  • Swappiness or forgetfullness?
    I was just thinking about the linux vm swappiness algorithm. High swappiness has a bad effect on some systems and although the kernel vm is very well tuned these days the solution is more practical and not theorotical. In extreme cases the situation _could_ render system unusable for atleast few seconds. Neways so i was just trying to fugire out what will be a theorotical way to prevent swap thrash or atleast its ill effects. So that i will be garunteed of responsiveness at all times. I kept...
  • KNOPPIX + CoLinux howto
    Following a long battle to get some kind of modern linux system installed on my work pc, i succeeded in installing CoLinux with KNOPPIX rootfs. This is a short description of steps involved which can be treated as a crude HOWTO Software to be downloaded 1.Colinux latest release from colinux.org. 2.KNOPPIIX ISO image or a CD. 3.QEMU for windows,you can get it at freeoszoo.org. (needed if you don't have a CD and don't want to burn one then you will also need or for some reason can't boot from...
  • The glass should be half empty
    I was wondering, why do they call people who see as the galss beinghalf full as optimistic? In my view it should be exactly opposite. Thepeople who see the glass as half full are actually missing out on thepotential of the glass to accomodate the whole double of the water italready has. Any one who is having a glass half filled is just goingto sit there and not do anything about it cause, hey! he _has_ a glasshalf _full_. So basically if we have more and more people who see theglass as half...