Recently, in a fit of splurgy madness, I went and acquired an Onkyo TX-SR504 AV Receiver (yes Mrinal, that’s what they call an “amplifier” these days and an Onkyo SL-107 subwoofer. This was to replace my stone-age Kenwood audio system that I had acquired sometime in the last century. I am yet to buy some [...]

Whenever I tell people about my paraskevidekatriaphobia, they usually scoff and give knowing smiles to each other, with an implied finger tapping at the temple. Well, I have good reason for being mortally afraid of Friday the 13th. It began decades ago, involving my friend Jaikishan, a car and a lot of associated factors, and [...]

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I grew up with this song. My mom made me listen to it. I learned to sing it before I could speak English. When I learned to play the guitar, it was one of the first songs I taught myself to play. It fueled my love for singing. I sang it to my girlfriend when [...]

Kernel hacker Dave Jones has this to say: What’s wrong with the word “meeting” ? Why does everything have to be a ‘summit’ these days? Even if its just a handful of people? The need to make things sound more grandiose than they are bothers me. .. and don’t get me started on the absurdity [...]

So you read all about the OpenMoko Project and are dying to learn more? Here’s your chance: Sean Moss-Pultz and Harald Welte – the two guys driving the OpenMoko project – will tell interested people all about the project at a special event in Bangalore. The event, organized by the Bangalore Linux Users group and [...]

Yesterday, Team FOSS.IN met face to face for the first time in 2007, to set in motion plans for this year’s event. This is the earliest we have ever met (usually, we start around July), but we had decided last year that starting early will ensure that we can consolidate on ideas and make more [...]

I am happy to announce that Geodesic has released Mundu IM v4. News can be read all over the place. Mundu IM v4 is an Instant Messaging client for mobile devices. Initially for PalmOS and Windows Mobile based devices, it will appear on several other platforms as well in the near future. Using Mundu IM [...]

Today (technically, yesterday) is International Womens’ Day. I don’t really want the day to pass by without my pointing to an article I wrote in 1994 (yep, 13 years ago), and it amazes me how relevant it continues to be today, and that’s rather sad. Women Online

The OpenAlchemy Project is the opensourced version of Alchemy – the user interface used on the Amida Simputer. Everytime I have shown the Simputer to people abroad, the first thing people have commented on was the interface, and have asked if it was possible to make the code available. Now Alchemy has been opensourced, and [...]