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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Some companies in US recenlty said that they are not going to employ smokers. The reasons that are stated as follows.

• Smokers go out for smoking once in half an hour which reduces the productivity
• Smokers' brains think less and tend to make more mistakes thereby reducing quality in products ...

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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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The anonymous poster was KK from Infy. Good KK! I atleast have one regular visitor for my blog other than me ;-)

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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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15 public sector firms to go for IPOs, 20 for fresh floats.

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's disinvestment policy proposes initial public offers (IPOs) in 15 public sector units (PSUs) as well as fresh issues for 20 listed ones.

“The 51 per cent shareholding in 20 listed and ...

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Business India: New Delhi, Oct 14 : The initial public offer of state-run utility National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) was oversubscribed 1,107 percent on the fifth and last day of bidding Thursday, book building data with stock exchanges showed.

As against 865.83 million shares on offer, the company has ...

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