Today, accidently I have come across the Open Source IP Router project. This effort seems to come up really well. This is definitely a helpful project for the use of students and network researchers as this is a really cost-effective solution.

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I have just set up this blog. Thanks to Wordpress for providing a simple and powerful solution for blogging.

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I am planning to drop my blogger account soon. I would use Wordpress. I am looking out for a good host. I am also planning to use Gallery 2 on the new site. For both of these, I will be needing MySQL support. I have decided about gallery. But regarding ...

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A round-up of Longhorn screenshots are posted here.

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There was a previous post in my blog regarding the new ad of the Kungumam tamil weekly. In examining the pattern of visits to my blog, I observed that quite a number of vistors are reffered to the site by Google and Yahoo in searching for "Kungumam weekly".

But, I ...

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I have installed Netbeans on my Debian. Too slow. Typically Java ;-) Here is a screenshot.

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I have migrated my Debian from Sarge to SID. Not much visible differences. Here is my sources.list

# SID
deb     ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb     ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ unstable ...

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Now I have Debian GNU/Hurd K7 CD1 and CD2. In it's present form Hurd sucks as it doesn't support IRQ sharing. For this reason I have to disable my serial port, inbuilt LAN adapter and inbuilt sound to get Hurd up and running. Real pain huh?!

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Mozilla Thuderbird is not working on my Debian Sarge since the last 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The program recieves SIGSEGV. This is really annoying. Here is the backtrace from GDB.

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x41287040 in CalcLength ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#1  0x41287279 in CalcLength ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components ...

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I am looking for migrating my old posts (less in number) from Livejournal to Blogger. Any ideas/suggestions?

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