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We have our annual day celebrations tomorrow by 15:00 IST at Taj. First major event in Novell since I joined. Planning to attend without fail. The agenda looks pretty good.


There is a new screen saver that is introduced in Sarge, which initiated a flame war at a Debian mailing list. The screen saver is named "Web Collage", which takes images from the web by random search. The problem is that a lot of porn also comes along with the ...


I have noticed that my journal was the top hit for the search term "mallu rap" on Google, Yahoo and MSN!

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Few years back, I have received a forward about the evolution of a programmer. I just remembered it all of a sudden. I just wanted to read it again. I searched my mail archives. But I was not able to locate it. I google for it and found. Here is ...


I have updated my blogger <code />.

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I simply can't believe this. Oh, God! Please tell me this is not true and this nothing but a bad dream. I never got frustrated like this in my whole life!


It seems that there is a minor problem with Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD images. Here is a news about it.

Note: 3.1r0 CD image problem A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from these images will have a commented-out entry in ...


The most awaited stable release of Debian, the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 code named 'sarge' is released yesterday. Here is the release notes. Tons of new features and changes. Debian has gone more desktop friendly.


I have never read even a single novel for almost 23 years since I was born. I am interested towards technical journal/books instead. I always argued to my friends that one can learn a new programming language, technology or algorithm than to spend time in reading novels. It was ...