New office

Codito's moved to a new office last week to the very cosmopolitan Koregaon Park area in Pune. It has the Osho commune 5 lanes away, which is very popular with foreigners. Since I hadn't explored this area much earlier, this shift provides a nice opportunity for me to look around....

Do you know what Fire Fox is?

That was the question my dad asked me. I was surprised. How did he come to know about Firefox? He hardly uses a computer. He told me he read about it in the newspaper. Ah, right. But wait... he was reading the news in a Gujarati newspaper, the Gujarat Samachar....

The office cat

A very small, playful cat has been doing the rounds at Codito. She also gave birth to five kittens some weeks back. It's great fun playing with her during evenings. I've been contemplating taking one of the kittens home. My mom and grandmom are strictly against this, dad's okay with...

Linux on ARC

Linux on the ARC platform has been released... The long-standing not-to-be-disclosed platform I was porting Linux to is now finally in the open... it's the ARC family of processors. The press releases are here [arc.com] and here [lwn.net]. However, I was involved in porting uClinux and uClibc to the A4....

My entry on Planet FLOSS India

Sayamindu Dasgupta has added me to the Planet FLOSS India list... thanks, Sayamindu! From the Planet FLOSS India homepage: "Planet FLOSS India is a window into the world, work and lives of developers and contributors from India who are working on Free/Open Source Software." Good effort!

Gmail testing on the rise

Seems like the Gmail folks are stepping up their testing; I was given the notification to invite 3 people to use Gmail twice in one week! Yeah, I've been using it for quite a while now, but 6 invites in one week... could mean they're now entering the post-beta stage...

Linus on qmail

A thread's going on on LKML about a glibc bug that caches the value of getpid(), which breaks programs that create threads. Someone then reported qmail doing several getpid()s. Here's Linus' reply: qmail is a piece of crap. The source code is completely unreadable, and it seems to think that...

The debate on spatial UIs continues

One more article blasting Gnome's recent switch to the spatial finder. Well, it's right that we relate things spatially, we "know" where the buttons to the light bulb are, and we always expect them to be there. While this definitely does make sense, and it would also be nice to...

India - Pakistan: citizens' view

So the India - Pakistan One Day International series ended yesterday with a lot of cheering and support for both the teams by cricket-lovers from both the nations. It's great that India won the first series in Pakistan, also proving the people wrong who called the Indian team as 'chokers',...

Argh!

Had a horrible day yesterday; guess I pulled some muscle in sleep which caused my lower back ot hurt. Couldn't even move in the morning. It got better as the day progressed; could walk normally, but with occasional jerks by evening. Spent whole day lying on the bed and reading...