All of us (well, at least some of us) like to test the limit of existing things.. That’s what I tried to do with the below given program. I decided to find the limit of the directories created in directories for an ext3 file system using mkdir(). Any one of you could find the reason [...]
Today, I have read the blog of Praveen (http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2010/05/26/webm-support-for-fedora-13/) about how he added support for webm in Fedora13 (for ffmpeg). Though I heard about Google releasing VP8 codec as Free Software, I never thought of downloading a .webm file( What’s the use of it , if you can’t play it ). However, after downloading the [...]
Most of us believe that the people who follow THE CHURCH OF EMACS are very serious guys with little sense of humor. That’s not true … Just follow this URL for some serious techie FUN : http://www.gnu.org/fun For example, when you run command in Linux: $ ^How did the sex change^ operation go? -bash: :s^How [...]
Today, I have visited the “ChickenWarrior” game page in Betavine: http://www.betavine.net/bvportal/application/ChickenWarrior/index.html I was amazed to see the number of downloads for that silly simple game: 902 Now, I really feel sad for what I have done. I just created a small game like program for my K300i mobile out of curiosity. All it did was [...]
Year 2008… In one fine morning, I received a mail from my manager in Sony, informing that, I will be visiting Sony Headquarters, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. I will be visiting japan along with the list of people given below: 1. Satheesh-san (Senior manager) 2. Sonali-san (Senior Engineer) 3. Saneesh-san (Engineer) blah… blah.. Stay will be [...]
I was sort of happy with my Debian lenny installation in my laptop. However, the time taken for booting the machine was slightly higher (specially when I set the wlan on dhcp). So, for a change, I have switched to Opensuse 11.2 today. Till now , everything goes well. Opensuse 11.2 boots in a minute [...]
Wooooww.. I am still intoxicated by the charm of Foss.in/2009. I can’t believe that it is over. It was , by far, the best FOSS event that I have ever attended. The reason why I felt it most attractive was it put the “zip on the mouth” and provided you with two powerful hands which [...]
I have started my journey from Bangalore to Kozhikode on October 23. The purpose of my journey was to conduct a workshop on Tathva-09, the three-day annual techno-management festival of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C). A week before this, Vivek (my friend from GEC who is currently doing in MS in NITC, a [...]
Today, I got a mail from Greg Kroah-Hartman !!! from Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> to linux-usb@vger.kernel.org cc Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>, “Maxin B. John” <maxinbjohn@gmail.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> date Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM subject [PATCH 056/142] USB: serial: Spelling correction in Motorola USB Phone driver hide details 7:25 PM (24 minutes ago) From: Maxin [...]