I have a habit of downloading a copy of interesting e-books that are freely available on the internet so that I can browse through my collection whenever I am bored and I don’t have a working internet connection.
This evening, I noticed an interesting PDF document in my collection which goes by the title “Interesting and [...]

No, I am not talking about Eric Clapton’s song or Jeffery Archer’s senti short story.
I am refering to Number Theory, a subject which I have liked and aced since my high school upto my engineering. We had Number Theory and Cryptography as an elective and it was one of the most challenging papers I have [...]

While working on idle power management, I used vaidy’s klog based patches to profile an idle system to obtain stats such as:
* The time when a cpu enters into the tickless idle mode
* The various interrupts that bring the cpu out of idle state.
* The timers that expire in this interval and cause a wake [...]

Opening Mood: Hungry..
Opening song: Hamesha tum ko chaaya - Devdas
Got the official mail today morning. The “Power Aware Scheduler” Birds of Feathers Session Proposal that I had submitted for this year’s Ottawa Linux Symposium has been accepted. The rest of the BOFS can be found –> here
A couple of days back, Vaidy got confirmation that [...]

Opening Mood: Good Morning.
Opening Song: Boondein - Silk Route
The last and final Day of FOSS.in had some really interesting talks.
I missed the talk by Andrew Cowie, since we reached the venue pretty late. However, I managed to catch the next talk by Ulrich Drepper, the person whose article on Memory management I thought was brilliant. [...]

Opening Mood: Good Morning, and I’m still grumpy
Opening Song: None.
I saw him at the coffee house yesterday. It’s been more than a year since we last met. He hasn’t changed a bit. Dressed in a loose T-shirt and a pair of faded jeans, he looked casual as ever. He saw me and the next [...]

Opening Mood: Chillout and relaxed. NZ cruising along against Canada.
Opening Song: Dooba Dooba - Silk Route
Time: 9:15 P.M, 22nd March 2007.

I visited Indian Institute Of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) today to deliver a lecture on “Kernel Synchronization Primitives”. This being my first official technical lecture, I was quite anxious asto how it would turn out. [...]