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Shortly after the announcement of Saddam’s hanging, the highly `enlightened’ political parties of kerala called for a `hartal’ from 3pm onwards. There were protest marches all over the state in which G.Bush was symbolically hanged and burnt to death.
One can understand the protest marches - its perhaps the least you can do to show […]

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It is confirmed that Saddam’s death penalty has been carried out - time for G.Bush and friends to rejoice.
The Malayalam TV channels are happy - they now have a hot topic for `debate’. Saddam is even being hailed as a `martyr’!
Read what Noam Chomsky has to say
Saddam has been punished, but what about those […]

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At about 6:45 in the morning today, I was woken up by an unusual rumbling sound - as there were already two-three minor quakes in our area in the past one week, I instinctively felt that this was mother earth trembling (with anger?) once again. As I ran out, many other people were also […]

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Russian Mathematician Grigori Perelman has solved the famous Poincare conjecture, an unsolved problem from topology. It appears that Perelman had formulated the proof 4 years back, but it is being accepted only now by the scientific community.
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You can have your GNU, and eat it too!

A few students from Sreekrishnapuram Engineering college got together and ate a piece of the GNU cake, celebrating the spirit of love, sharing and co-operation, the spirit of X’mas and GNU!

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Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does.
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It would also be interesting to read more about Trusted Computing in this context.

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It’s taking too long to resolve a name with the BSNL DNS server; so I have just now installed `pdnsd’, a caching dns proxy. Let’s see if there is any improvement.
Here is an LG article about pdnsd

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Sandeep gave a talk at GECT today on his experiences as a M.Tech/PhD student. The idea was to make students understand that after doing a B.Tech in CS you have much more exciting options than joining Infy/Wipro/TCS/XYZ company and writing/fixing some stupid code. Because its so easy to get an `IT’ job these […]

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The whole of last night was spent installing Debian on the slug - and yes, it worked great!
There was nothing much to do, other than ssh over to the box; a menu based installer started automatically. There is an option within the installer to drop into a shell. I first verified that I could […]

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