Avinash Joshi

A very nice article. Got an email from my Dad. Many of us have also reacted ‘instantly’ without really taking time to think over. Read on, its a very nice article. Rightly titled “CHOOSE YOUR RESPONSE” [ Click to see the full image ]

This is a story about chickens and one very confused eagle. As you read it, think about life from the eagle’s perspective. Can you relate??? [ Please do see this video before reading ]             One day, a naturalist who was passing by a chicken farm was struck with curiosity.  He noticed an eagle, the [...]

Many of us who love to work on Linux enjoy the privilege of using a plethora of commands and tools. Here is an effort to introduce you to a few very simple- to-use, yet enormously effective commands. The intended audience may belong to all classes of Linux users and the only requirement is to have [...]

Check out my mom’s post on Scooby… My Pet’s Photo:

“Hello, Internet, and welcome to the Omegle blog! First of all, let me introduce myself. I’m Leif K-Brooks, the founder of Omegle. I’m 18 years old, and currently finishing my senior year of high school. I plan to go to college next year, majoring in computer science.” says http://omegler.blogspot.com/ Facts about Leif and Omegle: 1. [...]

I got this kewl article on how to make  a jquery twitter plugin (plain html!!). You can view a blog demo on the right side of my blog…….. First, introducing you to jQuery plugin for Twitter v1.0 – View Demo A simple, unobtrusive and customisable client-side method for easily embedding a Twitter feed into a [...]

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can [...]

December of 2008, I attended and gave a talk on OpenSolaris at the FSFS conference @ Trivandrum (http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2008/12/09/fsfs-day-one-2008-09-12/). This is where I was enlightened about the reality of GNU by Richard M Stallman. Let me just put down my thoughts (mostly taken from http://gnu.org) The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete [...]

I had posted yesterday (http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/02/11/amrita-university-receives-a-grade-from-naac/) that my University (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) is now NAAC accreded with an A grade. To celebrate this, our chancellor, advisor and a loving Mother, our beloved AMMA had announced an icecream party for all students and faculties of our college!! The icecream party was at 4:30 p.m and it went [...]

!Ubuntu Rocks! Introduction: Today morning as I got into my class, my little friend Aswathy (I call her achu) bounced up and asked me for help. On enquiring, what the matter was, she told me that she wanted to install IBM RSA for her projects; but she was having vista!! Ok now I knew that [...]

Man… I just cant believe this. I have a reliance data card, running on ubuntu. I get a download of about 20kbps. You must have read my http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/01/26/radioverve/ post. It is really a cool stuff. I started playing the online player since i saw the webiste that is at 10:30 am. You want to see [...]

Radio VeRVe, a 24×7 online radio station is a great effort started by Gaurav Vaz (gaurav@radioverve.com) and Shreyas Srinivasan (shreyas@radioverve.com) that plays only independent music from India. The best part is that this awesome software was built only on FOSS technologies!! Here are some of the details from the Radio VeRVe website: Why RadioVeRVe? We [...]

This is a cool cartoon comic that I got from http://xkcd.com/ – Must read

Today was a great day…. Our classes ended at 2:40 pm. My friends and I went to get sanction for using laptop in the hostels(Leaving my HP laptop switched on and connected to the plug point). My friend Namitha logged into my laptop and connected to the internet using the data card as she wanted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I keep telling my friends – “There is no place like 127.0.0.1″ To me, this means there is no place like LINUX/UNIX! You will ask me “Isn’t 127.0.0.1 there in windows?” Ans: Yes it is there, but when i do a ipconfig, it will not display the loopback interface. But it does get displayed in [...]

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Sorry for not having posted all these days…. I am very very happy,excited and tension free today!! My classmates and me had something exciting to do today.. It was the most exciting, happening CCR (Centre for Corporate Relations) hour that had never taken place for us till today. :) We had something new and exciting [...]

Please spend 5 minutes of your time to listen to the video As Severn said her piece, her audience sat speechless. Some were teary-eyed; others sat their heads bent down in shame, while others simply nodded in agreement… Like them I was taken back -not only by the child’s maturity and wisdom but also by [...]