Aanjhan RANGANATHAN's blog » Misc rants http://www.tuxmaniac.com Technology, Science, Education, Travel, Photography, Books and life . . . Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:29:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Happy New Year 2009!!! http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2009/01/16/happy-new-year-2009/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2009/01/16/happy-new-year-2009/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:29:01 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2009/01/16/happy-new-year-2009/ What a year 2008 has been for me. As mentioned in the last line of this post, it has indeed been life changing. Top Events of my life 2008.. Here it goes..

  • Lost my lovely little Nikon Coolpix L2 (I miss it even now)
  • Became a proud owner of Nikon D60 DSLR
  • Became a Fedora Electronic Laboratory team member (The dev time line calls me a consultant :-) )
  • Got my Ubuntu Membership Approved (Yes I have a @ubuntu.com and @fedoraproject.org email ids now :D )
  • GNUSim8085 was awarded FOSS India Award by LFY magazine
  • 2nd time speaker at Freed.in (Will miss this year’s edition. Its like missing a family event :( )
  • NIT Calicut happened (3rd time) again. Miss that too this time around.
  • FOSS.IN 2008 Speaker. Was great to meet the known and unknown faces again.
  • Quite a few memorable trips with friends and colleagues. (I also did some snow sledging in the fag end of 2008)
  • Got Admitted to a World Top 15 Engineering and Applied Sciences University and shifted base to Switzerland.
  • I Quit my Nice Cosy Job as a senior Engineer and got back to Academic Environment and Research (Loving it!!)

And this year again, though I feel is not going to be that life changing is definitely going to be full of challenges, travel, loads of photography and a lot and lot of learning. Looking forward to 2009!!

PS: Around Christmas and New Year Abhijeet (I linked your flickr account. Happy now?? ;) ) and I went around a few cities in Swiss and here goes their photos. Enjoy!!!

 

Full Flickr Sets Luzerne, Bern, Les Diablerets, Montreux

I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

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Looking forward to it, because this is where everything started for me.. FOSS.IN 2005. See you at FOSS.IN 2008.

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/11/23/the-joy/feed/ 0 Really Really Sucky bug!!! http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/15/really-really-sucky-bug/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/15/really-really-sucky-bug/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:03:51 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/15/really-really-sucky-bug/ In my post on Intrepid Ibex, I had mentioned about the ugly bug which hangs the boot process. Here is the bug report and a lot of people are breaking their heads to fix it. So if you are experiencing it go and provide any little information you have. You never know, you could be the one who helped fix it.

Bug #263059

As an update, Matt’s work around proposal, seems to work temporarily. Much better than having to hard reset your system.

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/15/really-really-sucky-bug/feed/ 2 Hectic hectic! http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/09/hectic-hectic/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/09/hectic-hectic/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:46:09 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/09/hectic-hectic/ Its hectic down here but I am loving it. Long stays in the labs and full freedom. What more do you need? I am beginning to find time for Free Software and hopefully now this will be consistent as I am getting used to things here and have fairly settled down. Some quick updates.

  • I lost my beloved camera. I don’t want to talk more than that about it.
  • Upgraded to Intrepid Ibex Beta and guess what?!! The entire Upgrade took me less than 2 hours. The fastest Upgrade I have ever done. Advantages of being in a Western school :-)
  • Attending Barcamp Lausanne this Saturday. Planning to give a talk on Free Software in Education (someone already put it on the wishlist!!)
  • My to do hacks is growing. Have found a lot of improvement opportunities in the world of Free Software VLSI CAD tools.
  • And finally after a really long time I hit 5-a-day today.

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My 5 today: #280959 (terminator), #238241 (gnumeric), #165161 (compiz), #220268 (gnumeric), #280994 (hotkey-setup)
Do 5 a day – every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/10/09/hectic-hectic/feed/ 0 Got myself an identi.ca account http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/07/15/got-myself-an-identica-account/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/07/15/got-myself-an-identica-account/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:48:21 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/07/15/got-myself-an-identica-account/ After successfully managing to resist the temptation to join twitter for more than 6 months now, I gave in to identi.ca

Follow my microblog at http://identi.ca/tuxmaniac

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/07/15/got-myself-an-identica-account/feed/ 1 Atlast G0D can be reached via SMS http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2007/02/04/atlast-g0d-can-be-reached-via-sms/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2007/02/04/atlast-g0d-can-be-reached-via-sms/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:47:04 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=28 I got this message from Airtel today.

Reach out to God! Make offering(Rs 10 – Rs 150) via SMS! Sms to 64655 @ Rs 4/msg. Dharmasthala – SDM; Mantralaya-SRS; SiddiVinayak-SVT; Jalaram-JST

What the hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2007/02/04/atlast-g0d-can-be-reached-via-sms/feed/ 1 A nice weekend. AIGLX kinda works now! http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/08/27/a-nice-weekend-aiglx-kinda-works-now/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/08/27/a-nice-weekend-aiglx-kinda-works-now/#comments Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:52:48 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=9 Wooww!! Yesterday found one sooper dooper hot wi-fi spot(Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology provides free wireless to Barista, Koramangala Customers ;-) )Sad part is the signal quality seems to be not good enough for my laptop’s WiFi card to pick for usage though I am able to scan the cells. G0SUB is the one who benefited out of it. We sat there for around 6 hrs :O with me trying to get the link up and g0sub enjoying the free wifi. We then moved to have dinner at a nearby restaurant. Today I decided to try for a second time to install AIGLX/Compiz on my Compaq M2208TU laptop running Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

I followed this how-to. Well.. There seemed to have been a recent update to the compiz repos and it worked. The rotating cube is terrific and definitely a wonderful eye candy as well as pretty much makes you “use” the Virtual Desktops.

Again there is always a sad part following a happy time…

My window borders are not displayed and I am unable to Suspend to RAM when using Compiz. I will have to switch back to metacity to go into suspend mode :(

AFAIK this is a known problem, recently reported by quite a few people, and I sign off by hoping that this will be resolved as soon as possible. Till then its back to metacity!!

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/08/27/a-nice-weekend-aiglx-kinda-works-now/feed/ 4 Lazy me !! http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/30/lazy-me/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/30/lazy-me/#comments Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:43:51 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=6 Well I am here blogging about my last weekend experience at home. It was a nice and much needed break from the work work work thingi.. Went to ELCOT for a GLV(GNU/Linux Vidyashram) that was being conducted. I was surprised to see so many Govt Employes attending it and asking questions on Local language support and things like that. There was also one question on file system type. w00t!! Am I dreaming or something???

ELCOT GLV ELCOT GLV ELCOT GLV Well a futuristic vision indeed. Hats off Umashankar
Then some of us (mbuf, Casanova, technofreak) went to Barista to sip some coffee and have some chat. That was nice too.

mbuf and Deepan technofreak and moi (tuxmaniac)

Well the best part is that day I suddenly got the idea to take my family to some restaurant for dinner. I decided that it is not gonna be some cheap shit thing and want to make them feel proud and happy. So took them to a four star hotel for Dinner. It was a very nice experience. I forgot to take my Cam otherwise I would treasure those moments for life. Hope to take my parents on some more things like that.. may be take them on a Merc owned by me? Make them stay in a bungalow that I own with wonderful garden around for my mom to walk around.. Hmm Lets see!!!

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/30/lazy-me/feed/ 1 At home sweet home http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/22/at-home-sweet-home/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/22/at-home-sweet-home/#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:25:56 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=4 I got back to chennai today after switching off my mobile phone for the weekend :D .. Spending good time with my family and my bros new NGAGE QD. Guess what I was very happy for my Compaq 2208TU’s Card reader (a TI one) to read the MMC card out of the box on my GNU/Linux box.. Goody!!! Planning to go to ELCOT around 3 PM to attend the GLV(GNU/Linux Vidyashram) session organised by the ILUGC.

]]> http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/22/at-home-sweet-home/feed/ 0 “Third” First Blog :) http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/19/third-first-blog/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2006/07/19/third-first-blog/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:32:35 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=3 Hmm.. I have always started blogging at different sites but somehow I was very lazy to continue it. But suddenly I have got one more inspiration to restart my blogging. Lets see how long this continues.. Hopefully it will last the distance.

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