A couple of days back, Google Chrome was launched. The Firefox crowd scratched their heads and muttered ‘What the hell?!’, the Opera crowd sighed and the IE crowd pretended they didn’t notice. Apart from the usual Google trumpet-blowing, what caught my atttention was benchmarks that claimed that it was…
I have a fairly powerful machine. A 3-GHz C2Duo (45nm) processor. 4 gigabytes of DDR2 800MHz RAM. An FSB of 1333MHz. SATA chugging at 3GBps. A Geforce 9600GT with the latest (beta) driver installed. Yet, it takes 62 seconds for my Ubuntu installation to load up. And don’t get…
Managed to compile and package Ruby 1.9.0-3 for Openmoko!!! Download: ruby19-complete_190-3_armv4t [Update] Here’s the ruby package without dev and documentation (this would be smaller and more appropriate on the phone) – ruby19_190-3_armv4t…
at The Dark Knight: No superpowers..? I like that… The Watchmen: Then you’re gonna love me!…
When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it can never end. But however hard you try, you can’t run forever… Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think, that all the skies of all the worlds, might just turn…
Of late, an event occurred that disturbed me immensely for it defied logic and try as I may, I was unable to explain the incident in a logical manner. It happened a couple of days back. After lunch (in my bedroom, what with me being quarantined and all), I went…
Some Doctor Who quotes that’d be good for printing on a t-shirt * Bigger on the inside < -- My favourite! * Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey * This is not war, this is pest control! * The angels have the phonebox. * I’m the Doctor, now run for your life! * “Daleks have no concept of…
Creating a Ruby 1.9 sandbox 1. mkdir /home/user/ruby19 (example folder) 2. cd /home/user/ruby19 3. mkdir src 4. cd src 5. wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-1.tar.bz2 6. tar -jxvf ruby-1.9.0-1.tar.bz2 7. cd ruby-1.…
I have never used Windows Vista excessively. Nor do I plan to. However, I love it that Windows Vista is driving more and more people to Linux/Ubuntu. Vista rules! It helps Linux/Ubuntu rock even harder!!!…
Some movies/songs hold you in awe, and stay with you for a long time. Some movies/songs mildly interest you, but are soon forgotten. Some movies/songs leave a bad taste in your mouth. Some movies/songs are so ridiculous that they are enjoyable. And then.. and then there…