BarCampMumbai is back with it's 5th edition and a brand new venue. Date: – 1st February 2009 Time: – 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m. Venue: – VJTI College, H.R. Mahajani Marg, Matunga, Mumbai. BarCampMumbai will be held in VJTI college…
A day in life of a geek
2 Minutes To Your Own Planet
Heh! Please don’t mistake me for one of those LHC guys. No, I am not talking about planets as in heavenly bodies which reflect lights from the stars but have give out no light on their own. I am talking…
Using tor and privoxy in linux
No how-to from my side this time around. But a nice link I followed to setup tor and privoxy on my machine. It’s really easy to follow and straightforward. http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/privoxy/setup-tor–privoxy-for-anonymous-searching.html Probably I will write a how-to on customising privoxy to…
Installing MaraDNS
Today on ##linux-india at irc.freenode.net people were discussing about DNS and the recent DNS security issue and it’s implications and solutions. So, I decided to try out the test for my ISP’s nameservers, the default nameservers that I use. The…
Hurray! Got my webcam working on linux
I was sitting at night browsing some friend’s blogs and adding RSS feeds to Akregator, after my new found fondness for KDE 4(more on that in a later post). Then Gaurish Sharma asked how to get webcam and fingerprint scanner…
qingy – a desktop manager with a difference
What is qingy? Here’s the quote from qingy developers Quote: qingy is a replacement for getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the user…
Better Late Then Never
The title relates to 2 dependent things that happened in the last 2 days. One is the convocation certificate and other is a visit to Mumbai University. Last Sunday a friend scrapped me on orkut if I had got my…
Hello World
Hello World Wide Web.
Look who’s conning too
I had almost given up blogging but came across this nice incident so had to post it. This is a true incident that happened with my friend rahul, who’s been looking to try linux but he’s a dumbhead when it…