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I don’t see chrome OS suceeding. Google is making the same mistake we have seen others make in the open source world. The main complaint I have is that it stinks of NIH. From the google blogpost “And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely [...]

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One of the best I have heard in a long time “I will kill you. I will clone you and kill you and all your clones” The author, well you know who you are

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I was going through a post by Uttaran and it reminded me of some incidents. 1. I was flying from Bangalore to Mumbai in a Kingfisher Airlines flight. Generally when I fly, after sitting at the airport, I want water. And I want lots of it. So I finished something like 2 bottles before I [...]

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Random events… The sighing friend’s college had an exhibition, and since I was doing nothing that saturday I decided to go over and checkout what these artsy types do. Turned out to be an eye opener. It was interesting to say the least, and some of the posters were strong, and while I am sure [...]

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Thanks to tglx 1. The whip is one of the important maintainer tools. If stinking trout does not work, use whip 2.  A good maintainer never rejects his own patches. 3. A maintainer is good by definition 4.  Maintainers are lazy and therefor delegate the ugly work to contributors

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Life is all about suffering or correcting the mistakes one has made. Life is all about feeling the sorrow as much as the joy you do. In this life, I want to feel the sadness as much as the joy, because it is what reminds that I am alive, and that life hangs by just [...]

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A series of incidents about an intersting night.. The sighing friend had invited me to join her friends for dancing, and my first reaction was, “yeah, right! me and dance! fat chance.” And then we had the sighing cousin who decided that I was “normal”. Nothing hurt my ego as much as being told I [...]

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Since this took place, I have sort of decided real time was a good option, and so ego and I had yet another one of the crazy conversations… (11:35:18 AM) Dhaval: anyway, the headache got diagnosed as a tension headache by the doc (11:35:31 AM) Dhaval: so dipankar gave me the “women trouble” talk (11:35:39 [...]

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Today was an interesting day, something I would really not do normally, but did do, and I quite enjoyed myself. The highlight of the day was meeting a sighing friend (who is quite bizzare), her baby friends and her cousin. It was her cousin who had me a bit uncomfortable for sometime. (I am not [...]

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Once again, an interesting turn of events on IRC * peterz` (n=peterz@e53227.upc-e.chello.nl) has joined #linux-rt * peterz has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) <henr_k> tglx: what exactly does 1st derivative of peterz mean? In order for that to mean anything, what does f_{peterz}(X) describe? (where X is a vector describing the input) <tglx> [...]

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