BW interview with Linux
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Business Week has an interview with Linux Trovald. Very interesting and quite insightful. My favourite quote Q: Some say Linux and a lot of open-source projects ...11 Topics from August, 2004
evil yahoo chat rooms
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Yesterday I logged into the yahoo chat rooms after a long time. Man, those guys lack the brains of a piece of rock. One guy kept repeating his question ("Is there anyone who ...
justification for being lazy
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Been reading the book extract from "how to be idle" . Some nice points made in the extract. It is your patriotic duty to work hard - another myth, particularly convenient ...
some notes on intalling a new window manager on RedHat
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Two days ago I installed the Fluxbox window manager(WM), a very nice and lightweight WM. I had to do some digging around on the Internet and startup script files to get ...
naming conventions
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I have a very particular style of naming variables and functions in programs. I usually prefer the Linux Coding Syle I keep my variable and function names in small case ...
Cheat Sheets Galore
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The Farm: The Tucows Developers' Hangout has a list of of quick reference cards available online. I have to get the reference cards for emacs, HTML and HTML entities printed ...
BCP's Photo Gallery of ENIAC parts
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Electronic Numerical ntegrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the first computer. BCP's Photo Gallery has closeups of the vaccum tubes and transistors of the ENIAC. Hard to get ...
international order scam
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A few days back, a message was posted to the india-gii mailing list, with the following spam message. Return-Path: <collectstore2 at yahoo.com> Received: from ...
most useless profession in the world
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Last night I thought of a question. What do you think is the most useless profession in the world ? i.e. if all the members of that profession are wiped out, you would not ...
first comment
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Congratulations to Teju for being the first to put his comment on my new blog. Thanks dude for being a good friend :smile: Defined tags for this entry: My take on life