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When I was small, we lived next to Dabolim Airport. In fact it was so close to our house, that if we had someone coming by air, Dad used to jokingly say that, “We see the aircraft land, have a beer and then head to the airport to find no one has come out yet”. [...]

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Lennart has just released systemd . systemd is designed as an init system replacement and adds a lot more cool features. Some of the cool features being parallel starts, on demand start of services, trapping services inside cgroups (which uses libcgroup, yay!) Technical minded readers, go ahead, try it out, go crazy and give us [...]

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Just read this. Folks come on. The iPad is NOT a real computer. It is a castrated device. Anybody who really loves a computer cannot call it a computer. A computer in my mind is something I can control. Something on which I can install whatever I want to, on which I can develop my [...]

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What just happened in the IPL. Mumbai and Bangalore kicking ass. Sachin in amazing form. And KKR losing . To all KKR fans out there, I have nothing against you guys. I just cannot support a team which is owned by a Pakistani sympathizer. Certainly not when so many of our people are getting killed. [...]

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So Google Buzz has come out. Unlike a certain other blogger, I don’t have very strong feelings about it. I don’t like the idea of buzz creeping up my inbox, but i can also turn it off, and turn off all the other stuff. So honestly, I do not care about it all that much. [...]

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So I have moved continents and am now in Pisa, Italy. I see the leaning tower everyday (yes, I do. While crossing one of the roads, if I look right, there it is !). Life is good, and a lot of fun. Made new friends, and had fun in general. Now, what are my observations [...]

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My irc client got disconnected. And when i reconnected, my previous session had not disconnected yet. so i became dhaval` so then i get * tglx idly wonders why the first derivative of dhaval is speaking up here * You are now known as dhaval * tglx wonders whether dhaval is the indefinite integral of [...]

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At the risk of being hit over by NDTV’s legal team, let me add a disclaimer. I am not attacking Barkha Dutt. These are questons I have for Barkha Dutt after seeing the “We the people” on August 30th, 2009. For sometime I have noticed (and this might be a perception I have and if [...]

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guis are great — for multiplexing terminal windows -Peter Zijlstra

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