Just came across this via digg – Microsoft Live Labs has come up with a really cool idea called Photosynth. Basically the idea is to take a large number of photos shot at the same location and merge them into a 3-D virtual world through which one can walk through; the details being provided by [...]
The title says it all. Earlier this week, I tried to install OpenSSH with Kerberos authentication support for Dapper, using apt-get of course. Doing so broke my system miserably. Package ssh-krb5 was installed but not configured and it gave me an error saying it couldn’t stop the currently running SSH service. However, SSH stopped working [...]
Is this any less than terrorism? Using military force to kill unarmed, neutral, civilian diplomats from the UN? And that too after the UN peacekeepers called the Israeli forces ten times before the killing blow, each time only to be assured that the shelling would stop? It is fast becoming a world where might is [...]
This is just in via digg and other sources – apparently the Indian government has issued orders to ISPs to block blogging sites including blogspot. One of the reasons cited for this is that blogs are apparently being used by terrorists to communicate and spread information. I think this is not only draconian, but quite [...]
I recently discovered that my Ubuntu root directory was getting uncomfortably tight from a space perspective (I’d allocated about 6 GB, /home of course lives on a separate partition). The culprit, du soon told me, was /usr, eating up as much as 4 gigs of space. I guess thats because I’ve installed tons of apps, [...]
Last night, CNN and BBC world were both running feeds off Indian news channels for an hour or so to provide coverage of the blasts in Mumbai. I remember one particular commentator saying “Although Mumbai is no stranger to terrorist threats, this particular incident is one that affects everyone, and I feel that despite the [...]
In or around the following stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Borivali and Bhyander. So far, the news networks are quoting official figures of 135 dead. Given that the trains were packed during rush hour, the ultimate toll will be much more. A sad day.
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