MMA
Posted on August 7, 2011
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Wrestling (WWE) is entertaining. The way the ww[ef] superstars (Especially the ones like Undertaker, Triple H) are presented is fun to watch. Or the kind of high flying maveuveurs the wwf superstars are able to perform, it really is super cool. The only catch is - it is not a sport. The feuds are all pre- defined to juicen things up.
I recently came to know of UFC. I hope some day they start airing it in my part of the world.
[Read More]Console Gaming - Sony Playstation 3
Posted on July 6, 2011
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I have been thinking of this topic for some time. I am a happy owner of the old Phat PS3 Model. At one time, I use to do a fair amount of gaming on my computers. So when Sony marketed the PlayStation 3 product, it was cool to see a machine that did:
Gaming Movies, Music, Pictures Blu-Ray Ran Linux I convinced myself to buy a PlayStation 3, that I’d use it for playing with Linux apart from gaming.
[Read More]Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE
Posted on May 21, 2011
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With the final package, [fcoe-utils](http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fcoe-
utils.html), clearing the NEW packages queue, the Open-FCoE project’s Fibre
Channel over
Ethernet stack is
now in the Debian archive. I had anticipated to have access to FCoE hardware
by the time the packaging would complete but that didn ’t work out. It has
been delayed, hence the packages are in experimental. If you have access to
FCoE hardware, please test and provide your feedback.
Mukthi 11.04 - Free Software/Debian - Philosophy, Design, Merits
Posted on May 7, 2011
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I was invited to talk at the Mukthi 11.04 event
hosted at the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology.
I talked about Free Software/Debian - Philosophy, Design, Merits. The
focus was more on the philosophical aspects of why Free Software/Debian. The
slides are available
here.
CM7
Posted on May 7, 2011
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CyanogenMod does list Samsung Galaxy S in its list of devices, but given that it is marked experimental I was not very confident of trying it out. But yesterday, I took the plunge. Even though experimental, the ROM is pretty good. And the Cyanogen goodness just makes it awesome. This ROM (also being AOSP GingerBread) is Super Fast.
So in a day of use, my impressions:
Battery performance has turned out to be better than what I was used to.
[Read More]apt-offline 1.1
Posted on April 8, 2011
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I just completed the release of apt-offline version 1.1. This release has many
bug fixes, adds basic proxy support and has a new Advanced Options window
for the Get operation.
Microsoft, Nokia and Qt
Posted on March 7, 2011
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Nokia has [announced](http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia- working-together/) that it is selling off its Qt business. This needed to happen given the change in the company’s strategy. Microsoft is a software vendor providing Mobile OS, with Nokia being one of its consumers. For Nokia, to have a tier 1 alliance with Microsoft, it would have been important for the company to show positive gesture. With this move, Microsoft and Nokia will strengthen their partnership. This move will focus on tighter integration in between the 2 company’s portfolios.
[Read More]Patents and the Pharmacy Industry
Posted on February 26, 2011
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Mosf of us would be well versed with the Patent system in general. We have patents in every sector - Technology, Agriculture, Pharmacy etc. Most readers in our profession must already be well versed of the Pros/Cons of the Patent system in Software/Technology. Patents in software are more like ammunition. The more you have, the stronger you are. We don’t seem much cat fight in Software/Technology because not one organization own all the patents for a product.
[Read More]VirtualBox
Posted on February 17, 2011
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I recently ended up acquiring a Windows 7 Professional license. While I rarely have a need for Windows, that one rare instance is important. Many of the bank’s web interfaces are tightly dependent on IE. I do have a copy of CrossOver but that doesn’t help much. Most times, IE crashes when trying to render pages. Must be having some OLE dependency.
So I convinced myself to install Windows7. For my banking needs and also to catch-up on how that platform has been doing.
[Read More]laptop-mode-tools
Posted on February 15, 2011
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I just released laptop-mode-tools version 1.56.
This release adds many goodies. We now have a better calling application to rely upon, udev. The linux kernel generates many events based on conditions. udev is a framework that acts on those events and can call-in applications based on conditions. This is something I wanted to do for laptop- mode-tools.
Power State
First was power state. The power_supply subsystem can sense changes and generate events.
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