Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

For the past one week, I am hunting for a house at Bangalore. The areas that I am considering are BTM Layout, HSR Layout and Koramangala. I would have seen atleast 30 houses so far. I haven't liked even a single one. Either the place is too nasty or ...


GMail offers POPoSSL and SMTP on non-standard ports. Novell Evolution doesn't provides an explicit way of specifying the port. Instead, the port should be specified implictly in the URL. Expand the post to find some screenshots to help a Evolution newbies to configure GMail on Novell Evolution.

Configuring the ...


I have joined Novell today. The climate is too good in Bangalore. It rained yesterday as soon as I came here. The work place is good and the people are good. I bet I am going to enjoy this work.


Today is my last day at HCL Technologies. I am joining Novell, India on Tuesday (May 10, 2004). It is a great pain to leave my friends at HCL and HCL as well. I always loved the culture, openness and flexibility at HCL. I will defintely miss this. Hope I ...


Some eBooks (in PDF) on chess problems are available here. A best learning resource is available here.


I brief overview of Novell Evolution architecture is available here. The weekly status meeting of Evolution is on every Wednesday 16:00 IST(?) on #evolution-meet and Evolution Bug day is every Thursday during 20:30 to 06:00 IST on #evolution on GimpNet (Simple way to connect is through irc ...


I am trying to solve the puzzles available at Python challenge. I know a bit of Python. But the puzzles are interesting. Why don't you give a try!


Andy Kessler's new book "How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets" is available for free download. This book is an interesting reading. It touches from the historical scientific events to the latest markets.


There is a very good list of Linux applications against Windows applications available here. Some of the applications seems to be outdated. But this page has very valuable data and it will reduce a lot of your research time when you are looking for a Linux application which should replace ...


I am in the process of building Gnome 2.10 from source code on my Ubuntu 5.04. The process is smooth throughout except that I had some wierd problems in evolution-data-server module. It was because of the missing libnss-dev package and I took a long time to figure it ...