Dreams no more
Posted onhave bid farewell to Dreamhost. After 2 long years of association with one of the most popular (??) shared hosting providers, I am moving on to bigger things (read VPS). I have now allied myself to linode.com š…
Dream Mail System
Posted onI finally have my āidealā mail system up and running. Everything goes into a āwaitā queue which is cleared on a regular basis. Only white-listed mails are moved to my Inbox. Bye-bye spam! Of course, I need to review mails in the queue periodically to make sure I am not…
An obligatory post on Chrome
Posted onA couple of days back, Google Chrome was launched. The Firefox crowd scratched their heads and muttered āWhat the hell?!ā, the Opera crowd sighed and the IE crowd pretended they didnāt notice. Apart from the usual Google trumpet-blowing, what caught my atttention was benchmarks that claimed that it was…
The Need For Speed
Posted onI 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 donāt get…
Ruby 1.9 on Openmoko!!
Posted onManaged to compile and package Ruby 1.9.0-3 for Openmoko!!! Download: ruby19-complete_190-3_armv4t [Update] Hereās the ruby package without dev and documentation (this would be smaller and more appropriate on the phone) ā ruby19_190-3_armv4t…
The Watchmen
Posted onat The Dark Knight: No superpowers..? I like thatā¦ The Watchmen: Then youāre gonna love me!…
Everybody knows that everybody diesā¦
Posted onWhen you run with the Doctor, it feels like it can never end. But however hard you try, you canāt run foreverā¦ 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…
Homo Complexio Simplo Sapius
Posted onOf 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…
Doctor Who T-Shirt quotes
Posted onSome Doctor Who quotes thatād 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. * Iām the Doctor, now run for your life! * āDaleks have no concept of…
Rubygame 3 on Ruby 1.9
Posted onCreating 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.…