Blog Archive 2012 Org-Mode, LaTeX and Minted - Syntax Highlighting Mar 10 2012 C++ Refactoring Using Clang → Mar 10 2012 Sikh Rights Group Protests Sonia Gandhi’s Presence in the United States → Mar 03 2012 Byzantine Generals’ Problem → Feb 28 2012 The World According to David Cheriton → Feb 27 2012 Octopress Linklog Feature → Feb 27 2012 2011 Building Hadoop and HBase for HBase Maven Application Development Jun 20 2011 Making Mac Applications to Make Use of Memories Larger Than 4 GB Jun 19 2011 Plotting a Weight Chart Using Emacs Org-Mode and Gnuplot Jun 19 2011 Permanence Jun 12 2011 Making GNU Emacs Detect Custom Error Messages - a Maven Example Mar 09 2011 GNU Emacs and MIT Scheme on Mac OS X Mar 06 2011 Apache Software Foundation Mar 05 2011 2010 Halford - Foothill - Moody - Page Mill - Alpine 32 Mile Loop Oct 02 2010 Halford - Sunnyvale Saratoga - Fruitvale 20 Mile Loop Sep 19 2010 Halford/Foothill/Arastradero 30 Mile Loop Sep 18 2010 Introduction to Test-Driven Development in C++ Using Boost Test Library Apr 30 2010 Simple GNU Emacs Keyboard Macro Demonstration Apr 03 2010 Mozilla Thunderbird 3 and Google Contacts Addon Issue Mar 28 2010 Getting Untruncated Command Line Options Passed to a Solaris Process Feb 24 2010 Dumping Core File From set-UID, set-GID ‘Ed Processes in Solaris Feb 23 2010 Random Links for Week 7 Feb 20 2010 Chainloading OpenSolaris From GRUB 2 Feb 20 2010 Enabling Virtual Consoles in OpenSolaris Feb 19 2010 Tack Sharp Eyes Jan 18 2010 2009 Beginning Alpine Skiing Dec 30 2009 Random Links for Week 50 Dec 12 2009 Random Links for Week 46 Nov 14 2009 Random Links for Week 45 Nov 07 2009 Random Links for Week 44 Oct 31 2009 Fix Mouse Cursor Jumping to Top Left Corner of Screen on OpenSolaris Sep 12 2009 Random Links for Week 36 Sep 06 2009 Per-user Mercurial Installation Sep 05 2009 GNOME Metacity Dual Screen Issue in OpenSolaris 2009.06 Jun 03 2009 Creating OpenSolaris Live USB Sticks Jun 02 2009 Setting Up FTPS Using Vsftpd for Wordpress Plugins Auto Upgrade May 31 2009 Turning Off Loud System Beep in OpenSolaris Gnome and GDM Apr 01 2009 2008 Getting (Some) Things Done Dec 13 2008 Oh No, Not Again Nov 14 2008 Identifying What Is Holding Up Your Boot Speed in Linux Aug 02 2008 AT&T Store Apple iPhone 3G Preorder Status Checking Jul 24 2008 Completely Clueless Jul 23 2008 Modifying Control and Caps Lock Keys Under OpenSolaris and Linux Jun 14 2008 Privacy Issue in Chennai Passport Office Status Enquiry Page Jun 06 2008 Dumping Core File From set-UID, set-GID ‘Ed Processes in Linux Jun 05 2008 Remote File Editing on GNU Emacs Using TRAMP Mar 29 2008 Breaking a Long Silence! Mar 28 2008 What a Lousy Weekend! Feb 03 2008 CppUnit CompilerOutputter Error Output and Emacs Jan 20 2008 How to Unit Test C++ Private and Protected Member Functions? Jan 02 2008 2007 Fix One; Break Two! Dec 21 2007 Name Change - Praveen Ravi Kumar Dec 20 2007 My First Car Dec 20 2007 Xorg 7.3 and AMD ATI Driver Fglrx 8.40.4 Issue Sep 26 2007 Font Issues in Shiny Gnome 2.20 Under Debian Sep 25 2007 இருவது20 உலகக் கோப்பை இறுதிப் போட்டிக்கு இந்தியா Storms Sep 22 2007 Domain Name Change Sep 22 2007 Java Microsystems, Inc., JavaOS and JavaFire Aug 23 2007 Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Jul 27 2007 Hello, Bay Area! Jul 25 2007 Adieu, My Darling! Jul 14 2007 Career Update Jul 04 2007 All EB Categories Become Current! Jun 15 2007 Visiting Chennai Jun 10 2007 Is H1B Misused by Indian/US Outsourcing Firms? May 16 2007 Preventing Directory Listing in Apache May 14 2007 URL Redirection Using PHP May 13 2007 Random Links May 12 2007 Sun Streaming System Is Launched Apr 27 2007 Google Maps Humor Apr 20 2007 Cell Info Display on Motorola ROKR E6 - How To Apr 02 2007 Goodbye, Nokia 5500! Hello, Motorola ROKR E6!! Mar 31 2007 Boycotting Products Advertised by Indian Cricketers Mar 25 2007 Proxy Settings in Xchat-gnome Mar 17 2007 A Trip to Manila Mar 13 2007 SSH Instead of Telnet - a Must Know Fact! Feb 14 2007 Home -> Cyberhome via BSNL Jan 21 2007 Undoing a Wrong Commit in Subversion Jan 18 2007 Dual Monitor Setup on GNU/Linux Using Xinerama Jan 17 2007 Testing if a Process or Thread Is Alive Jan 10 2007 5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me Jan 04 2007 2006 Solaris and Linux Multi-netboot Dec 22 2006 Feed Is Now Powered by FeedBurner Dec 19 2006 தூறல் Dec 18 2006 Quixtar, Another MLM Trap? Dec 12 2006 Messed Up Flight Dec 04 2006 Xorg-x11-xauth Needed for SSH X Forwarding to Work Nov 15 2006 Java Now on GPL Wheels Nov 14 2006 Telemarketer Repellant Nov 09 2006 Google Code Search Oct 06 2006 RAM Problems in My Laptop Oct 03 2006 Emacs Font Problems in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) Beta Sep 30 2006 ‘Axel’ed Ubuntu 6.10 Beta @ 30 Mbps Sep 29 2006 இது கூட தெரியாதா? Sep 13 2006 Fixing Comments Count in Wordpress Sep 13 2006 Status of Gnome 2.16 in Debian Sep 13 2006 C and C++ Puzzles Sep 04 2006 The Crocodile Hunter Is Hunted by Stingray Sep 04 2006 Back After a Long Vacation! Aug 21 2006 Hosting Migrated to a New Server Jul 29 2006 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 for This Christmas Jul 25 2006 Endian Check Confusion Jul 24 2006 Tata Indicom - Worst Broadband Service Jul 24 2006 Finding a Loop in a Singly Linked List Jul 17 2006 A New Look for the Journal Jul 15 2006 Oh No! Site Migration Again Jul 12 2006 Power of Pair Programming Jul 10 2006 Heights of Forgetting Jul 03 2006 Bought New Virtual Server Jun 29 2006 Pattern Clock - Wake Up the Hard Way! Jun 27 2006 SSH Through HTTP Proxy Jun 27 2006 A Pre-processor Macro Taking Variable Length Arguments Jun 26 2006 Gnome Startup Failure + Loads of Work to Do = Xfce4 Jun 24 2006 Naming Your Network Interfaces in Linux Using Udev Jun 24 2006 Quick Update May 31 2006 Environment Variable Issues With “Sudo” & “Apt-get” Duo Apr 04 2006 Sneak Peak at Google’s New Search Interface Mar 27 2006 Google Finance Mar 21 2006 The Network Is the Computer Mar 20 2006 Wordpress Editor Annoyance Mar 18 2006 The 2006 Fast 50 Mar 15 2006 Explore Mars Through Google Mar 13 2006 Enceladus May Have Some Form of Life? Mar 10 2006 The Future of HP-UX Mar 03 2006 My Fastest Apt-get Mar 01 2006 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Printing on Debian Feb 28 2006 Long Time No Post? - an Update Feb 27 2006 Arg! I Am Breaking My Head Feb 10 2006 Puzzle of the Week - Week #5 Feb 03 2006 IPTV - a Fast Growing Segment Feb 03 2006 Got B1 Feb 02 2006 Puzzle of the Week - Week #4 Jan 28 2006 Journal and Gallery - Now in New Look Jan 28 2006 Puzzle of the Week - Week #3 Jan 21 2006 Howto: Cisco 3000 VPN Gateway Connectivity on Linux - Vpnc Jan 17 2006 Cooking Party Starts at Home Jan 15 2006 Puzzle of the Week - Week #2 Jan 14 2006 Site Migration Complete Jan 14 2006 Sigh - Site Migration Again Jan 12 2006 Puzzle of the Week - Week #1 Jan 07 2006 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #52 Dec 31 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #51 Dec 24 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #50 Dec 17 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #49 Dec 10 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #48 Dec 03 2005 Bangalore to Nandhi Hills Nov 28 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #47 Nov 26 2005 Cisco to Buy Scientific-Atlanta Nov 19 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #46 Nov 19 2005 Solution for Puzzle of the Week - Week #45 Nov 19 2005 Some Scientific Facts Nov 17 2005 Google Analytics Nov 15 2005 My Last Day at Novell Nov 14 2005 FM Radio Stations in Bangalore Nov 13 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #45 Nov 12 2005 Quite Descriptive! Nov 11 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #44 Nov 05 2005 Search and Replace in MySQL Nov 04 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #43 Oct 29 2005 Puzzle of the Week - Week #42 Oct 22 2005 MIT Explains Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break Oct 21 2005 Changing Gnome Splash Screen Oct 15 2005 Ubuntu 5.10 Again on My Desktop Oct 13 2005 My Linksys Router and Indian Government Officials Oct 03 2005 Su|do|ku Sep 30 2005 Greg Chappell’s E-mail to the BCCI Sep 27 2005 Indian GNU/Hurd Users Group Sep 27 2005 My GPG Key Sep 26 2005 Fake News About Google OS Sep 23 2005 To Try GNU/Hurd Again Sep 22 2005 Mallu Accent - “Simbly Funtastic” Sep 19 2005 Sesa Goa in Lime Light! Sep 19 2005 Modern Phone Features Sep 18 2005 Why Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon Sep 17 2005 My Net Speed Doubled Sep 16 2005 Gallery 2 Available Now! Sep 15 2005 My Pulsar, Now Here! Sep 12 2005 Leaving to Home Sep 07 2005 No Mercy for Sify From LJ! Sep 06 2005 My Name in Evolution 2.4 Sep 06 2005 My Gnome Desktop Sep 03 2005 All About a “BENCH”er! Sep 03 2005 The Fever Runs Me Mad Sep 02 2005 Back to Blogging Aug 29 2005 VOIP Adapters Aug 28 2005 VOIP Contact Aug 27 2005 Updated Version of IP to Country Database Aug 16 2005 Wordpress Setup Moved to a New Server Aug 09 2005 Server Migration :-( Jul 20 2005 New Way to Produce Hydrogen Jul 14 2005 GNU Source Installer Jul 13 2005 Installation Business Again! Jul 08 2005 OMG, Robots to Play Guitar? Jul 08 2005 Service Manager Pain Resolved in Gnome Now Jul 07 2005 No Software Patents: 648 - 14 Jul 07 2005 Yet Another Linux Distribution? Jul 06 2005 LiveLAMP Available: $10,000 Server Software Solution Free Jul 05 2005 Reinstalling Windows on a Dual Boot Machine Jul 05 2005 We Don’t Need GPL Anymore? Jul 04 2005 Going Home After a Couple of Months Jun 29 2005 Settled With the IRC Nick for FreeNode - Prav33n Jun 27 2005 This Is How You Could Be Misunderstood on IRC! Jun 24 2005 A Busy Week Jun 24 2005 Who Will Google Buy Next? Jun 15 2005 Novell Annual Day Celeberations Tomorrow Jun 10 2005 Debian Web Collage Screensaver; Porn on Debian? Jun 10 2005 Top Hit for “Mallu Rap” on Google, Yahoo and MSN Jun 09 2005 The Evolution of a Programmer Jun 09 2005 Blogger Code Update Jun 09 2005 Damn It! Jun 08 2005 Minor Problem With Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD Image Jun 08 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Is Out Jun 07 2005 “The DaVinci Code” and My Reading Habit Change Jun 06 2005 Google Announces “Summer of Code” Jun 02 2005 Why ‘/opt/gnome2’ Disappears in SuSE Linux 9.3 May 31 2005 Building and Running Evolution From CVS Using ‘Jhbuild’ May 31 2005 Found a House Atlast May 30 2005 Canonical Abbreviations May 27 2005 A Setback for Linux May 26 2005 Additional RPMs for SuSE Linux Professional May 25 2005 Learn C# May 25 2005 Making Change May 25 2005 ICICI Bank Respects Your Privacy May 25 2005 House Hunting at Bangalore May 19 2005 Configuring GMail on Novell Evolution May 13 2005 Joined Novell May 11 2005 My Last Day at HCL May 06 2005 Chess Problems - eBooks May 05 2005 Novell Evolution Architecture Overview May 04 2005 Python Challenge May 04 2005 How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets May 03 2005 Linux Applications List Against Windows Applications Apr 28 2005 Building Gnome 2.10 From Source Apr 28 2005 Switched to Ubuntu 5.04! Apr 28 2005 Be Realistic, Indian Cricket Fans! Apr 27 2005 Hard Disk Crash! Apr 26 2005 Planning to Buy a New PC Apr 25 2005 Visited Three Temples Today! Apr 23 2005 Scorpio’s Romance vs. Cancer’s Romance Apr 22 2005 Valgrind - Debugging and Profiling Tool for X86 Linux Programs Apr 21 2005 How to Build Gnome 2 From Source Code? Apr 21 2005 Swapping Integers Without Using a Temporary Variable Apr 19 2005 A Big Crash in the Indian Stock Market Apr 15 2005 தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழத்துக்கள் Apr 14 2005 Laloo and Gates Apr 14 2005 Tightly Packed With NFS UG2 Apr 13 2005 Computer Components Price List Apr 08 2005 Quit Smoking (Again and Again and Again) Apr 07 2005 “Welcome to India” (Mallu Rap) - Lyrics Apr 07 2005 I Am Back Apr 05 2005 Leaving to Munnar Tonight Apr 01 2005 Planned to Use Coppermine Apr 01 2005 Gmail to Offer 2GB Space? Apr 01 2005 Tamil GNU/Linux Tutorial for Beginners Mar 31 2005 A Mallu Rap! Mar 31 2005 The Birthday of a Family Mar 30 2005 Ganguly Humors Mar 30 2005 My Geek Code Mar 30 2005 My Blogger Code Mar 30 2005 The Bears Started Thier Attack Mar 30 2005 IP to Country Plugin Is Now Up Mar 30 2005 An Open Letter to Ganguly Mar 30 2005 Browser Detection Plugin Up Mar 29 2005 Names and Stories Mar 28 2005 MIT, India on Wikipedia Mar 28 2005 பிரிவின் துயரம்! Mar 28 2005 Ganguly’s Irresponsible Play Mar 28 2005 Altering the Header Tags in PHPNuke Based Sites Mar 28 2005 Novell Desktop Will Surpase Windows Mar 27 2005 EPIC 2014 Mar 27 2005 Some Minor Hacks to Gila Mar 27 2005 Icons, Icons! Mar 26 2005 An Intersting Blog Mar 26 2005 Novell Acquires Tally Systems Mar 26 2005 Bootsplash Themeing Mar 26 2005 Subscription to Comments Is Now Up. Mar 26 2005 Threaded Comments Now Supported Mar 26 2005 TSCII to Unicode Converter Mar 25 2005 நட்பின் வலி! Mar 25 2005 JVisitors Plugin Is Now Up Mar 25 2005 Tamil Unicode Fonts for Windows Mar 24 2005 This Site and MSIE Mar 24 2005 NTC Annual Trip Planned Mar 24 2005 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT at a Rock Bottom Price at Amazon; Are They Cheating? Mar 23 2005 My New Blog Mar 22 2005 New Canon EOS Digital Rebel for $360? Mar 22 2005 Just Created a photo.net Account Mar 22 2005 My New Blog Mar 22 2005 Did Man Really Set Foot on the Moon? Mar 22 2005 Quitting HCL Technologies Mar 19 2005 News Update About Me Shortly Mar 18 2005 Gallery 2 Suspended Mar 18 2005 Disabling PHP Safe Mode Site Wide Mar 18 2005 Gallery 2 Installed Mar 18 2005 User Mode Linux Mar 17 2005 Do You Overspeed? Mar 17 2005 Emami IPO Application Rejected? Mar 17 2005 Engineer in Hell Mar 17 2005 It Is Almost Decided in Favor of Munnar Mar 17 2005 Launching Gallery Is Getting Delayed Mar 16 2005 My Bike’s RC Is Lost Mar 16 2005 Airtel, Please Stop Spamming! Mar 12 2005 This One Really Deserves a Good Laugh Mar 10 2005 Planning for an Excursion Mar 10 2005 Applying for More Public Issues Mar 10 2005 Jet Airways IPO Allotment Status Mar 10 2005 No Photos Taken in the Recent Past Mar 09 2005 BSE SENSEX Slides on Profit Booking Mar 09 2005 Planning to Go for BSNL Dataone Broadband Mar 09 2005 Amazing Laptop Deal at Amazon! Mar 08 2005 How to Know if You Are Addicted Towards Smoking? Mar 08 2005 BSE SENSEX Approaching 7000! Mar 08 2005 HSBC Online Banking and Firefox on Linux Mar 08 2005 Chill Down Guys; It Is Not a War! Mar 08 2005 Threaded Comments. Mar 07 2005 Spammers, Face Your Karma Here! Mar 07 2005 Gila Rocks! Mar 07 2005 Open Source IP Router Mar 07 2005 Gallery or Coppermine? Mar 07 2005 Hello, World! Mar 07 2005 2004 Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Released! Nov 09 2004 Planning to Move Out of Blogger Soon. Nov 05 2004 All About Nocotine. Nov 05 2004 Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 Released. Nov 05 2004 Longhorn Screenshots. Nov 04 2004 Rectoscalar Waves - Yet Another Hoax?! Nov 03 2004 Back to Work. Oct 26 2004 How Veerappan Walked Into the STF’s Trap! Oct 19 2004 Sandalwood Smuggler Veerapan Is Shot Dead Atlast! Oct 19 2004 Intel Cuts Prices on Laptop Computer Chips Oct 19 2004 Happy Birthday, Tom! Oct 18 2004 George Bush, Too Intelligent to Be the President! Oct 18 2004 Veeraanam vs. Cauvery! Oct 18 2004 Rain Is Our Villian This Time! Oct 18 2004 Kungumam Draws Traffic to My Blog! Oct 17 2004 No (Smoker) Vaccancies : US! Oct 17 2004 Netbeans IDE on Debian. Oct 17 2004 Sarge -> SID! Oct 17 2004 Debian GNU/Hurd K7 CDs Available With Me. Oct 16 2004 Thunderbird Is Not Working Since Last ‘Apt-get Dist-upgrade’. Oct 16 2004 Anonymous Poster Revealed. Oct 15 2004 Livejournal to Blogger Migration - Help Needed! Oct 15 2004 35 PSUs to Offload Stake via Public Offer. Oct 15 2004 NTPC Issue Oversubscribed 11 Times! Oct 15 2004 Satcounter for Hit Statistics. Oct 14 2004 A Good Site Statistics Tool. Oct 13 2004 Rain May Spoil the Chennai Test Match! Oct 13 2004 Downloaded and Installed Debian GNU/Hurd K7. Oct 13 2004 Jamming of Mobile Phones at Theatres in France! Oct 12 2004 Linux Panoramic Photography Packages. Oct 11 2004 Polarizing Filter Tips. Oct 11 2004 UV, Skylight and Polarizer Filter FAQ. Oct 11 2004 Panoramic Photos. Oct 11 2004 Bought a New Circular Polarizer and a Tripod. Oct 11 2004 Lot of Posts to the Journal Today! Oct 07 2004 Google Likes Chennai. Oct 07 2004 “Email This Post” Feature for Blogger. Oct 07 2004 Configured POP on Localhost for Gmail. Oct 07 2004 I Am Now a Google AdSense Member! Oct 07 2004 Bought a New UV Filter for My Camera. Oct 07 2004 Nice Small Article on Filters. Oct 07 2004 Puduzu Kanna Puduzu Oct 07 2004 Short Courses on Photography. Oct 07 2004 Quite Busy. Oct 05 2004 It’s Raining in Chennai. Sep 24 2004 Freaking Spammer in Chennai. Sep 21 2004 I Am Going for Sify Broadband. Sep 20 2004 Bharthi Network Jammed; Connectivity Issues to Be Considered! Sep 16 2004 Life Is Not Just Coding! Sep 16 2004 Weird 11! Sep 16 2004 Mozilla Firefox Is Ramping Up! Sep 15 2004 HUM SAAB EK HI to HAIN!! Sep 15 2004 Solaris 10 Becoming Open Source! Sep 15 2004 GMail Invitations. Sep 14 2004 [Old News] MIT Students Suspended for Ragging. Sep 14 2004 What’s New in Fedora Core 3? Sep 14 2004 Rebirth of MITAA Website. Sep 13 2004 Leader vs. Boss Sep 09 2004 No Luck With NFSU! Sep 09 2004 I Have Bad Time With NFSU Sep 07 2004 Back to Work. Sep 07 2004 Damn! I Got an Adware on My Computer. Sep 01 2004 Gmail Review by MKS. Sep 01 2004 Vasoolraja MBBS! Sep 01 2004 Who the Heck Is This Internet Optimizer Aug 27 2004 Varalakshmi Viratham Aug 27 2004 myriad-zero.net Redirection Aug 26 2004 Strange Problem With IE6 Aug 26 2004 Happy B’day Keerthana. Aug 26 2004 Linux History. Aug 25 2004 Linux B’day? Aug 25 2004 A Nice Quote From LinuxQuestions.org Aug 24 2004 Me and My APC UPS. Aug 24 2004 Quitnet Rocks. Aug 24 2004 I Got a Domain Now! Aug 24 2004 Hello, Blogspot! Aug 23 2004 Planned to Say No for Alcohol as Well. Aug 02 2004 A Good Site for People Trying to Quit Smoking. Aug 01 2004 Planned to Quit Smoking (Again)! Aug 01 2004 It’s Party Time… Jul 13 2004 New Albums in Gallery. Jul 01 2004 Information of My System’s Configuration. Jun 22 2004 My First DVD Burn Under Linux. Jun 22 2004 Universal Blood Donors’ Day! Jun 14 2004 Me and My New Pinnacle PCTV Pro Card. Jun 11 2004 Funny Quote! Jun 03 2004 Annonymous Mobile Calls! Jun 02 2004 Raja’s B’day! Jun 02 2004 Planning to Do MS! Jun 01 2004 XLIX Anbuselva Is No More! Jun 01 2004 Aayudha Ezhutu! May 31 2004 Early Technique Works Well for Me. May 28 2004 Started Thinking About Reducing My Weight! May 27 2004 Low Frequency Detected! May 27 2004 Hurried Works for Public Election 2004! Mar 26 2004 India Done It All! Mar 25 2004 Water Supply Board Threatning the Life of People! Mar 23 2004 YaTV - Yet Another Team Victory! Mar 22 2004 Hello, Live Journal! Mar 18 2004