How many comments have you seen for a single blog ? Well, when i asked taggy (the internet guru of NITT) he replied around 10-20. Suren has seen around 50 for a he-she blog. But this one is amazing. A single blog (in fact a single line blog) getting around 268 comments (and still counting). Reminds me that “What you …
I attended the podworks.in last weekend. For those who don’t know what podworks is , PodWorks.in is a 2-day workshop styled unconference dedicated to the sharing of knowledge around audio and video podcasting. It’s a successor to the extremely successful BlogCamp that was held last year. Though i have lots and lots to say about the event, one strange and …
DNS makes our life real easy. Without that, i don’t think people will say check out http://google.com but check out http://64.233.187.99. I realized how important DNS is to us and without DNS how one can go mad. I installed Solaris (Neveda ) two weeks back and it was good. 🙂 . Though i was a bit scared in the initial …
Having written the test scripts for Firefox, this time going to tell how to test Firefox with these scripts. The test scripts can be found here There is a wiki page in LDTP website which gives quick tips about how to run LDTP test cases. First quick steps to get LDTP installed . If you have LDTP already installed, then …
My SoC is going fine and great. Hoping to finish this well ahead of time:) This is a blog + report 🙂 So i have started with Automation of Firefox. For the current status of all the test cases i have mentioned here, check this link The categories under which i have written test cases till now are 1. Firefox …
This is my first post related to my SoC. So let me just introduce things. I am doing Google Summer Of Code under Mozilla Foundation . My mentors are Nagappan from Novell, Bangalore and Emily Chen from Sun, China. When i started working for my SoC, i got a mail from Google SoC team saying “Hello everyone, In keeping with …
Never write a line of code that someone else can understand. Make the simplest line of code appear complex. Use long counter intuitive names. Don’t ever code “a=b”, rather do something like: AlphaNodeSemaphore=*(int)(&(unsigned long)(BetaFrameNodeFarm)); Type fast, think slow. Never use direct references to anything ever. Bury everything in macros. Bury the macros in include files. Reference those include files indirectly …
Well, i never thought i will ever say this but really “Hols @home sucks”. This is the first time i am actually staying at home after joining college (was lucky enough to keep myself busy with something or other during hols 🙂 ) and i never realized it will be so boring :(. Not that i don’t like my home …
I have never thought much about coding style before i did my NOSIP in Novell. But once i started coding for ldtprecord, according to the coding style suggested to me by nags, i was surprised to see how nice and neat the final code looks. Some tips/tricks for nice coding skills are, 1. Do spend some time to think about …
One day in heaven, the Lord decided He would visit the earth and take a stroll. Walking down the road, He encountered a man who was crying. The Lord asked the man, “Why are you crying, my son?” The man said that he was blind and had never seen a sunset. The Lord touched the man who could then see …
India’s Biggest Event on Audio & Video Podcasting Date: June 9 & 10 (Saturday & Sunday) Venue: Tidel Park Auditorium, Chennai. Cost: Rs.200 Alagappan designed banners saying I’m Attending Podworks.in and I’m speaking at Podworks.in. You can grab those here. PodWorks is an ideal place to learn how to start your own podcast or to discover the latest tips and …
I love Hello World programs. The reason is simple. Whenever i code a hello world, it means i am learning something new. I once found a huge collection of hello world programs here. And yes, i did a hello world program today. It is related cluster programming using MPI . 🙂 . The code for the hello world #include <stdio.h> …
Life is a beautiful poem with so many pages of lyrics written on every page. It depends on whether you sing a song with it or think it as a greek stupid probability junk and leave it . I am gonna sing 🙂 🙂
Wikipedia says, A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (for example, attempting …
Few days back got a message from one of my friend saying , Hey i sent you many messages but i have not received even a single message from you . So i will delete your number … gud bye … Well i was kind of shocked and surprised to get such a message since she was one of my …
Gifts are always fun 🙂 Finally i managed to give a nice senti gift for alagu. It was a small painting, but a nice one 🙂 But better than the painting is the small C snippet which we wrote for alagu It goes like this #include <lrsl.h> #include <kadalai.h> using namespace freenet; #define work fun #define alagu YAHOO MAN int …
“Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be “ I have admired this quote many a times . 🙂 🙂 . Infact it is one of my fav . Today i got a message saying “Hey..Dulta meeting today.. At 8pm .. Sun Lab ..Every1 must come.. So be there.. ! Being confused about …
This is my blog and i have all rights to crap here . This blog may appear as total crap for few, may mean more to few . I really don’t care what you are gonna think about me after you read this . Read the following two stories Story 1 Once upon a time , there was a crow …
Again i was jobless 😛 googling something arbit , when i saw the “I am Feeling Lucky” button in google. It is one of the features in google which i have never used. I always prefer seeing the list of search results and click atleast 10 of them 😛 But it made me think for a moment . Am i …
This is what www.shutdownday.org says — It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out …
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer —Oscar Wilde Wow , this suits my college cycle tests also . The one and only thing which i hate in my college is CT’s 🙁 :(. Those 3 days , I try to read something and end up sleeping the whole day. I think that i wont go to …
Was checking out the settings of google reader and found this quite interesting . The next bookmark is an innovative way to read your subscriptions. It allows you to use Google Reader through just one link – clicking on it takes you to the next unread item, marking it as read in the process. It is particularly useful for subscriptions …
Recently forgot mysql root password for one of the servers i maintain . Little bit googling helped me to reset the password . Just copy pasted the tutorials i saw so that i need not google again . If you have set a root password, but forgot what it was, you can set a new password with the following procedure: …
If at all if someone gives me the right to scrap three events from pragyan i will surely opt for junkyard wars, technical quiz and udaaan . These three are actually very good events when you are a participant. But when if you are the one who is responsible for the quiz software for these events, that too with all …
The big event is gonna start soon !!! “So where will you be from February 1 – 4 ?” . Thats what the website says :). I am doing bytecode and quiz management this time 🙂 . Bad that i could not do anything for dalal this time 🙁 .