Sep 29, 2006

Quilt

Quilt is a great tool to maintain patchsets. For those new to quilt, let me brief you on how it works.

Sep 25, 2006

Messing with the Colonel

I've been reading Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love recently, and it's exactly the book I've always been looking for.

Aug 24, 2006

Dukes and Kings

ApacheCon Asia was last week, and it featured some very interesting talks. The BSF4Rexx talk sparked an interest in Rexx and I was around looking for open source Rexx interpreters when I stumbled upon Regina!

Aug 8, 2006

The Magic Word

Once in every three years or so, I fire up an editor that I can't exit. First it was vi, many many moons ago. Then came emacs.

Jun 2, 2006

Way to blue

Been playing Nick Drake on endless repeat the past few weeks and it amazes me how it never gets old. I've been nursing a Drake obsession for more than three years now, but then I've been known to hook onto particular works for exceedingly long periods of time.

May 30, 2006

FOSS-ed for Hackers, a footnote

FOSS-ed for Hackers ended last week, and the entire geek blogosphere has been brimming with posts on the subject so I won't delve much into it. Overall, it was a success.

May 4, 2006

Chicken, meet egg. Egg, Chicken. Egg. Chicken.

Lately I've been stuck on z/OS, among other things, and managed to somehow fill up my allocated quota of disk space with considerable ease. But here's an interesting dilemma, clearing up some space isn't all that easy.

Apr 7, 2006

In the days when Sussman was a novice…

Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe, Sussman replied.

Apr 6, 2006

RMS @ MIT

It was a very eventful weekend. For one thing, the FSF associate member's meeting was being held at MIT on Saturday. I'm not a fan of social events, but as it turns out, geek hangouts are where I thrive.

Mar 20, 2006

Virtual Private Networking

I'm sure most of you would have had to mess around with VPNs at some point of your lives. Sometimes, VPNs can turn nasty and bind you to an OS that hinders your free spirit.

Mar 18, 2006

Hut 8, Bletchley Park

Came across the M4 project a couple of days ago while doing some much needed digging. Its simply a distributed effort to crack 3 enigma messages encoded in what is believed to be Shark, the formidable naval cipher which uses four rotors as opposed to Dolphin that uses just three.

Mar 14, 2006

The Onion Router

I recently tried out TOR for the first time as this has been something in my TODO list for a while. It was just a matter of apt-get install tor privoxy.