Maybe some of you missed this on slashdot recently...so here it is:
A bunch of prolific MIT geeks have put this dorm automation together. Its useless in my opinion, but cant help admiring the amazing lengths to which some people go!!

I am not a kernel hacker. But even for somebody like me there is System Tap which can help you find really cool stuff like this in a matter of minutes!!
No writing modules/creating probes/recompiling kernel!!  Works almost out of the box with FC4 and above.
Saved me a ton of work for my research...bless them!!

Gotta choose between working @ Microsoft (n/w stack) v/s VMware and soon!
Any ideas?

Philips is filing a patent to disable switching channels during ads on interactive TV!
I can imagine compulsively going click click click anyway.....
Thankfully you still have "mute"....atleast until they take it away  :-(

Schneier, a security guru, starts a contest to come up with a  filmy terrorist attacks!!
That analogous to ethical hackers posting vulnerabilities......only patches just arent there for a good vulnerabilty.
Somebody suugest  "snakes on a plane" and another wanted to poison salad bars across the US!!!

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Was having a debate with my adviser today on our immediate goals for the thesis I am writing. I suggested we split the effort 50-50 to positioning the work versus methodology. Our man is singularly focused on positioning, refuses to discuss methodology unless that is set right. For him methodology is just details which can wait ( Read more... )

I  (finally?) saw this VMware's virtual appliances idea and am so completely blown away because of:
1.The thought that I have wasted so much time installing and configuring stuff before this happened
2.The customized virtual apps, waiting in the wings, which won't be as conceptually new perhaps as they will be easy to use.

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Was watching the "shawshank redemption" last night. Its based in a brutal prison called Shawshank for the most part ( Read more... )

Will be in India for a month from Dec 26th. Headed straight to Shillong on arrival at Kolkata for a week!!
Hope to meet many friends...esp when in B'lore!