Archive for April, 2008

A debacle of an exam…

30Apr08

One of the Life’s greatest ironies. I actually enjoyed studying for the Artificial Intelligence exam, one of my favourite areas. In fact an hour of my favorite anime, Ghost in the Shell: SAC on monday was timed perfectly for the exam the next day.
But when I received the question paper, I sat there wide eyed [...]


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odeviced: Device daemon for the FreeRunner

24Apr08

Man, its quite difficult to sneak up and write a blog post when semesters are around the corner. So as mentioned in the last post, my project for this summer would be to write a device daemon for the Openmoko platform. We already have neod offering keypad and power management, but its not that elegant. [...]


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Summer of code 2008

22Apr08

Atlast after sleepness nights, the results are out. I made it to this year’s Google Summer of Code. I will be working for the Openmoko project under the mentorship of Mickeyl. Fun times ahead. Will post the details later.
Now where the hell are my books. Got fricking semesters this tuesday .


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The fat penguin on Sony Vaio CR

06Apr08

As I said in my earlier post, Vista didn’t last long. I was planning to install Gentoo in my Vaio CR 36 but couldnt, as it had problems with the ethernet card ( not to mention the wireless). My option was to install Ubuntu Gutsy as it has very good support for laptops out of [...]


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