Avinash Joshi

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28vinciguerra.html?_r=1 . . . . . . If you’re fretting that 2008 is about to end, and that another year has slipped by, don’t panic: you do have some extra time on your hands. one second, to be precise. On New Year’s Eve, the international authorities charged with keeping precise time will add a [...]

The number 108 is significant in Hindu worship and ancient culture. We have 108 beads in a ‘Mala’ and our ancestors told us that we have to recite a mantra at least for 108 times. We don’t know why this constant is chosen and not any other? Is there a reason to it? We do [...]

It was 8th, Monday afternoon when I left Amritapuri Campus to attend and talk at the FSFS (http://fsfs.in) conference at Trivandrum. I met Unni, my seinor with whom I left for Trivandrum. We caught a bus from Vallikavu to Karunagapally (KNPLY) from where we got Fast Passenger bus to Trivandrum. On reaching Trivandurm, I went [...]

Gnunify is an annual gathering of the techies. It is organised by the students of the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) in association with the Pune Linux Users Group(PLUG) to provide a platform for exchange of ideas and knowledge among the industry professionals, students and academia. GNUnify symbolizes the philosophy behind Free/Open [...]

Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/get-your-gmail-stickers.html Not too long ago, one of the Gmail engineers broke out her vinyl cutter and made some Gmail m-velope stickers. Pretty soon, they were pasted to our desks, stuck on our laptops, and adorning the walls around the office. Then other people started asking us about them — first it was just other [...]

Time is set to reveal the system that will have the last laugh. OpenSolaris 2008.11 is out with more robust features. It would be great if you see the screen cast rather than me describing how great OpenSolaris is :)

Your modem is a peripheral device to Linux, like a CD-ROM drive, hard drive, or a mouse. Your modem will be connected to a serial port, which means that one of the serial devices in the /dev directory actually points to your modem. You may notice that there’s also a file, /dev/modem, which serves as [...]

2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture. 9-11, December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram The Free Software Movement, started about a quarter of a century back, pioneered the various movements for freedom in the digital world – for instance, free knowledge represented by Wikipedia or freedom of creative works from copyright [...]

Check out the FOSS.IN/2008 photos (Amrita’s Point of View) [flickr album=72157610639943400 num=30 size=Thumbnail] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Through my lenses: FOSS.IN 2008 You can find Kushal’s event [...]