Well I wouldn’t ever do things which *I* felt were weird….
So please tell me what you feel is weird about me – fire away I will not delete or screen *any* comments howsoever weird they may be from my point of view 😉
Category: Live Journal Entries
foss.in
It is once again the time for our annual pilgrimage to Bangalore to participate in foss.in. This time I am more keen than ever because I will be meeting people whom I have not met for years and some whom I have known for eons but never met IRL. The who’s who of Indian FOSS community have promised to be there, though saying “who’s who” after all these years does feel a bit odd cause they have become such dear friends.
Oh yes! If I get time from pretending to be doing useful stuff or attending all the impromptu BoFs I may attend a few talks from the very impressive line up, but as an old man once said it is not so much about the talks but about all the community action which takes place around the venue!
We would also love to meet all of you (you know who you are) not yet confirmed to be there – lets meet up just for old times sake
Aasim
Aasim’s friend to him
“I will tell you a joke, but you will have to laugh at it”
Solving Fedora Core 6 Kernel Panic + ipw2200 issues
More a note to self than anything else for how I got FC6 working on my Thinkpad R51
For – kernel panic: Cannot execute a PAE-enabled kernel on a PAE-less CPU!
Do not choose virtualization during package selection and for a good measure select Legacy Support.
For – ipw2200 wifi not detected
Download latest V30 firmware from https://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php unzip it and copy the files to your /lib/firmware directory and reboot.
Growing Up and acting ones age…
Like Swati wrote Aasim turned nine yesterday but he had his party on Saturday. Playing the part of host does have some benefits…
A gorgeous lady to me “Aasim will soon look like your younger brother than your son”
Me “Thanks for complimenting me but it is Aasim’s party!”
She – starting to blush..
Me “In that case can I ask you for a date?”
She “Only if Swati also comes along”
Me “Damn! I would have never imagined you as that kinky”
Our present to Aasim was a near fullsize bicycle. It has an Aluminium alloy frame and 21 speed config. Since the seat height is easily adjustable I took it out for a spin yesterday morning for 10Km – could reach a speed of 40km/hr easily but the over all moving average was 23km/hr, guess I will be using it on weekend mornings for some time now 😉
There are times…
There are times when you need not feel bad – but you still do.
when you regret making the right choice
when you feel envious even when there is nothing to
when you are at the right place at the wrong time
when you are satisfied but yet not happy
when you should go to roots but reach for top
when you should introspect but you… whatever is the antonym for introspect
when things are clear but you are still confused.
when you have money but still feel poor
— Need to re-check your premises
On Steroids!
I had joked to someone – year 2005 was the year of Birds 2006 year of Nudes and 2007 is threatening to be the year of Still-Life. I will hold still while life passes by…
After nearly 2 months of my initial Chikungunya episode the arthritis and arthralgia continues to be there. I have observed that it is following a three week cycle and this time both my shoulders were badly affected. After considerable deliberation doctors have put me on oral steroids, plus I am to restrict my exercises in the gym to a great extent.
Steroids will continue for atleast a month.
And then…
And then there are times when every thing falls into just 2 categories
#1 Been there, done that
#2 Not worth doing…
W850i
Since I almost never get a phone call nor do I call anyone I decided to splurge the left over money from my watch purchase on a W850i. I was a bit reluctant because of the slider design but then I do not need a key pad 😛
Busy again
Looks like life is going to be very very busy… Two significant things happened last week.
#1 We finally got a good bunch of trainee programmers
#2 SANIsoft purchased a commercial property and the sale-deed was signed.
Some who knew about commercial property had asked why purchase? Why not rent? We had considered that but several factors made us decided in favour of outright purchase. SANIsoft is right now in an asset building mode – so a commercial premise makes a nice asset which will appreciate over a period of time.
The rent being asked was at 1.25% a month – that would have made it equivalent to giving 15% per annum, no safe investment is giving that kind of returns on this date so there was no point in holding on to cash and paying rent.
Lastly outright purchase allows us hold on to the property and not invest in it further till the current home/office is completed, This would be without any further loss…
So all considered I would say it was a wise decision.
On a more personal front I got my self a wrist watch – I had a budget of 25K+ but settled for the simple BL6005-01E Citizen eco-drive costing less than 1/5th of my budget. It does exactly what I want it to – tells time 🙂