December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
1 post
Faith No More
parislemon:
My sources are very good. Unfortunately, they apparently do not have very good taste.
As I noted a couple days ago, Google was about to launch a native Gmail app for iOS. It came this morning. Unfortunately, while I had been told it was “pretty fantastic”, the app that got released is anything but. As a result, Google quickly became the laughing stock of the Internet for a few hours...
October 2011
3 posts
January 2010
1 post
“Well hello beautiful. You look nervous. Let’s put a smile on that face....”
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
6 posts
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack...”
– Richard Wright
“The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
“If Amdahls low would be appliable to increase in parallelism it would take...”
– The internet
“I am not naked. I am doing cloud clothing.”
– Slashdot
September 2009
18 posts
“Even theman in moon disappeared, somewhere in the stratosphere.”
August 2009
2 posts
“All important updates are random.”
Manipulating elf module sections in kernel,
as said in the movie matrix - “More important than where is when”. It’s really tricky to find when to appropriately get the section information to correctly manipulate the module section information. This article does a great job of describing cntd,.,
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Computer science is adolescent if not mature; there aren’t going to be radically better solutions for most of the fundamental operations appearing; there are about a dozen algorithms (hashing, indexing and inverted indexing, Bloom filters, tries and similar O(log n) structures, sorting, a few classic, simple graph algorithms) that are “the best” for certain extremely common needs, and even fewer...
Death of S60 platform and rise of Google's android
Apple’s iphone has changed the phone scene drastically. So much so, that probably 2007 will be remembered as the year as the emergence of actually ‘smart’ phones. The application platform is the final push that has forced a lot of people into getting one of these.
What this also means to me is the end of S60 platform unless there is a drastic makeover. But the latest release in...
“In our view, the move from mainframes to client server was painful for IBM and...”
– TechCrunchIT
July 2008
9 posts
Updating twitter messages from the terminal.
I wrote a script to modify twitter status messages online.
Steps
Install curl. RTFM.
Use my script : ip-204-15-110-41:~ Asim$ cat twitter.sh #/bin/sh curl -u username:password -d status=”$*” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
./twitter.sh “Coming from the shell! yay!”
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The NX protection bit
Many times while working in the Linux kernel(especially playing around with function pointers) you may get an error like:-
“kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)”.
This is painful and frustating. Initially, you wonder if you are trying to access some protected pages accidently by moving your kernel to point to some random kernel protected structure....
June 2008
1 post
Randomness
This is blog is very random. It was posts that are so not related to each other or even one person. But they are. I hope to add more content to this site over the coming weeks, more logic and more intelligence - and maybe less randomness. I picked up Ruby today and I think its a very attractive language.
May 2008
2 posts
Why google can't cloud it like Amazon?
Amazon - with its elastic computing has a headstart. With a range of services under AWS, its far ahead than anyone in leveraging its infrastructure as a business. Google, on the other hand, has an AJAX based cloud computing model. It can place its online ads all over those apps and then whine that all its money only comes from text ads. I beleive the truth is Google infrastructure is not as useful...