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 [...]

Last year, around the same time, I had ranted about this function named find_busiest_group() in kernel/sched.c. This is one humongous function which can so easily scare the sh*t out of any programmer who sees it for the first time. Partly due to it’s sheer size, which spanned over lines, next due to the presence of [...]

I am in the process of applying to universities, like I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
Thus, earlier this week, it suddenly struck me that I didn’t have a Resume. So far I have had to prepare a Resume only once, and that was when I interviewed for the IBM Extreme Blue Internship. 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 [...]

Ever wondered why can’t we have a chat-bot that responds when we’re idling or away ?
Sathya tried this a couple of times while he “appeared” to be away on GTalk by responding something like “The recipient of your message is currently inactive”.
One could argue saying that the status should reflect what the person is doing. [...]

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 [...]

Okay, henceforth decided to give the opening and closing mood a break!
Anyway, I am currently reading the Linux scheduler load balancing code. And there’s this one function called find_busiest_group() which looks something like this:
[sourcecode language='cpp']/*
* find_busiest_group finds and returns the busiest CPU group within the
* domain. It calculates and returns the [...]

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: I’m back!
Opening Song: Romantic Piano - Chopin
Spent the last week at this place called Kudremukh. It used to be one of Karnataka’s famous mines before the operations were shut down in 2005. So now it is just a nice little place with lots of greenery and very few people to bother an occasional [...]

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. [...]