Adventures of an High Elf Sorcerer

/home/aditya/rhpart.htm Red Hat Linux 9 - A comparative review There is a lot of speculation and debate whether Linux based systems can become the preferred desktop OS configurations. So here is a comparative review of the latest from Red Hat - Red Hat Linux 9 and MS Windows XP. The cost - Lets start from the beginning. a very important place to start. Red Hat Linux comes as a 3 CD set that costs Rs. 900. As compared to the per license cost of about Rs 4000 for MS Windows XP Home edition, this is really a good deal. Plus there is one major advantage. Linux based systems are (more or less) free software (for an introduction to free software visit href="www.gnu.org">The GNU organisation ). Red Hat, to the best of my knowledge, is free software. So you don't have to buy multiple licenses if you have multiple setups. Of course, for developers free software or even open source software is invaluable, but since I am cons...

Well, today I spent most of my time wondering why the Linux kernel needs two lists of file structures. But it is pretty good fun. ell, back to some more fun ... :-)

Very recently I had been to the Sinhagad fort. Actually we had a very casual trek up to the fort (we took a hour and a half) and it was more a picnic than a trek. The thing I would remember most is the wind at the famous "wind point". Only once before in my life have I felt so much wind.It was actually difficult to walk against the wind. We tried to hold our wind-cheaters open like wings and it was almost impossible to walk forward. In fact I believe, at a particular instant I was leaning against the wind, inclined at at least 30 degrees. And as always, the food up there was really good (which is basically why I go there in the first place). Today I had gone to meet my teacher (guru would be a better word, I think) Dr. Patankar. The satisfaction I got after talking to him is only to be experienced.Well, it's a bit difficult to write about him, because it would take a lot of time and effort to come up with something that that can do justice to his wide spec...

Well, its been a while since I posted. There have been quite a few developments since then. For starters I got my name published in the Times of India for fooling a reporter into believing that my project was something out of the ordinary. Actually, the project exhibition at the Institute of Enginners was fun. I was especially 'impressed' with a girl who claimed to have made a multi-layerd motherboard-like printed circuit board all by herself. I am still waiting for the results of that competition. Anyways, I am now waiting for my call from Infosys nad currently doing nothing. If anyone can come up with something worthwhile to do till then, please tell me.

If anyone out there has a properly installed GNU/Linux distribution and wants to have the time of his | her life, type "fortune linux" or "fortune science". You could spend hours doing this, I have. Of course, if you don't have the 'fortune' package installed, check your distribution CDs. It's sure to be there. And if you dont have a GNU/Linux system altogether ... here is what you are missing "... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies, 2nd Edition -- found in the .sig of Rob Riggs, rriggs@tesser.com For those who do know what the above experience is all about ... here is another one-liner "Less is more or less more." God, give me...

A short story for computer buffs- THE VIRUS "Where the hell did this come from ?" shouted Tony. In all of his 12 years of service with InSys as expert in system software, he had never come across anything like this. The year was 2028 A.D. InSys had, over the last decade slowly but surely obtained monopoly over the software market. The open-software revolution had broken the spine of Microsoft and had spread like a craze among the professionals. But a few people from the software giant had broken off to start their own company at that time and it had payed off, literally. One thing was certain, these few had not forgotten a very important skill they had learned - the art of doing business. In less than a decade they had managed to get their operating system on about 80% of the worlds servers. Only the most critical of them still ran GNU/Linux; a few of the top level nameservers still ran UNIX. But these were tough days for InSys. The heart of their tro...

I am posting this from Cummons college. I have registered for the project competiton in the hardware category. You know the best hing about hardware ... it never works at the last minute. Mine didn't either. Luckily I had my third year project as a backup. I am waiting for the results now. Lalit has already started packing up and screaming down my neck to do so. So ... ill stop now.