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Moving on
I have finally moved my website content over to dreamhost. The Net4 account has been utter nonsense, with its idiotic control panel and silly pricing. For more or less the same price, I am hosting two websites on dreamhost with unlimited email aliases, subdomains, mysql database, host of apps and a really good control panel. Livejournal has been ( Read more... ) -
Preparing for FUDCon -- Fedora Activity Day
September has been a very busy month for me with Siddhi going to UK for her studies, Mom moving in with us and my role change at work. In all of this confusion, a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) was planned for 10th September. I had to skip it because I had to go to Mumbai to spend the week with Siddhi before she left for Manchester. (Un)luckily, that ( Read more... ) -
My first program on my Samsung Galaxy S
No, it is not a java program, it is in assembly, which was possible because I recently flashed Cyanogenmod on my phone. Here it is:
.text .global _start _start: mov r7, #1 mov r0, #42 swi #0
The program simply returns 42 and exits. I used my own cross-built binutils (--target=armv-android-eabi) to build this and simply copied it over to my ( Read more... ) -
Changing the default loader for a program in its ELF
I was following an email thread in the libc-help mailing list, where the OP asked how one could force a program to load with a different loader, i.e. a loader from a different build of glibc. The answer, which is available if you follow the thread, is that it is necessary to rebuild the program to do this, with the --dynamic-linker switch to the ( Read more... ) -
Getting rid of annoyances... the hard way
Lately I have been tinkering around with code in shotwell, which is the photo manager I use to sort pictures I click. As a result I built an svn snapshot and set about making my changes. On firing up the freshly built app, I saw an "Updating libraries..." progress bar pulsing away for quite some time. it just would not go away. I didn't wait long ( Read more... ) -
FOSS.in day 2 - The Fedora miniconf day
I concluded my previous post yesterday, on my way to FOSS.in to attend day two. Before I left, I saw Gopal saying w00t! to Pradeepto on twitter and wondered what was going on. Turns out, Pradeepto was coming to FOSS.in!
When I arrived at the venue, I found that we had (once again) captured a table in the Expo area. We spread out the DVDs and ( Read more... ) -
FOSS.in Day 1
So I made it to what apparently is the last FOSS.in. It was late as usual and so I did not miss much by reaching late. There was a bit of confusion about big grown men like myself coming in as student delegates, but that was cleared out fairly quickly when one of the organizers explained to the volunteers that miniconf speakers were to be admitted ( Read more... ) -
Back to the OS class: Memory Allocation
A lot of us in India learn OS concepts from textbooks. The concepts really go directly from the textbooks into examination papers for most, including me. We would grab on to key phrases like "semaphores", "paging", "segmentation", "stack" and so on, and never really stop to wonder how this all is *really* implemented. Some of us aren't interested ( Read more... ) -
Yahoo chat room support now in libyahoo2 trunk!
Yahoo chat room support is now in trunk. Many thanks to Kai (Kay) Zhang for this effort, which he made as part of his Fedora Summer Coding project. The code still needs more testing, so I also need to start working on the chat room implementation in ayttm.
I expected git-svn to commit the patchset along with the history in ( Read more... ) -
libyahoo2 to get chat rooms soon
Kay has been working on the libyahoo2 project as part of the Fedora Summer Coding initiative. He's been working on chat room support and things are looking quite good so far. Kay has finished working on the core functionality of logging in, joining and leaving rooms; only the chat room list functionality is remaining. He was a little shy of ( Read more... )