Making a dent in the universe!

All it takes to destroy 3 months of hard work porting evolution to mac os x. Is a simple mistake at 1.

$cd /packaging

$rm -rf /opt/

wtf, no no no no it should be $rm -rf opt/

Thank god i noticed, Phew.

I was just browsing through cvs and found a commit message which i had written about couple of months back. heh, this one is seriously wacky.

I can write the most insane commit message and not even remember about it.

While( infinity_radio_is_playing ) {

tune_in_at_9PM( “you” );

announce (“Todays show will be hosted by Yours truly \n”);

announce (“Pre-Valentines day show \n”);

announce (“Theme: All rock no mush \n”);

announce (“Please do drop by \n”);

announce (“End lame c code \n”);

}

p.s: Life is what you make of it

We live in a society of constant ridicule. I think its a reflection of not being taught constructive criticism. I am constantly pointed to by stuff like this Dummy orkut profile of VTU VC. I feel disgusted that someone took time off
to do something like that. Incredibly juvenile and crazy but the truth is there is no avenue for healthy criticism. I just visited VTU’s website and there is no clear way to tell them the things that are wrong. It seems to be rather mindless that they have a Entrepreneurship Development Cell but no way for students to take initiative and fix the issues that concern them. I am not a big fan of leftist student unions, i think they tend to deviate towards power hungry people. What we need is a way to discuss, to question and to convince.

It seems to be mark of the times i live in, that people who matter think that anyone without tufts of gray hair is not capable of constructive thought. We are forced to align our dressing sense to suit requirements without a single way to convey our line of thinking. Its imperative that someone who matters reads young minds. We are all not drug addicts, we are all not eve teasers, we are all not lame ass teen somethings who need to be told. We need creative freedom to grow and express. bah, fix that first, dont create Entrepreneur wings.

This is not a rant. I am just trying to get someone out there to read this without making his/her blood boil. I am not questioning authority, all i am asking is a way to reason with authority.

If you matter to the vtu and you dont think i am some terrorist who needs to be shot dead and you see sense in what i say, then i have a few ideas which might be useful. Mail me and i will gladly elaborate.

Yes i know the chances are bleak, but hell i would rather die typing. I have been planning to make a movie about education system in India for like ever but i dont have a dvcam and my current state does not allow me to buy one. So if some one out there can either lend me his dv cam or wants to get involved in the project itself then do let me know. I think a documentary can make a stronger statement than a blog post.

Also Christopher Blizzard has nice insights on Open Source in India.

Which File Extension are You?

Dump her, she has old hardware.

he he he he he

Swaroop i do the same
freaking thing

I will be playing Radio Jockey on Infinity Radio today between 9PM and 10PM (IST). Please do tune in and make my day. I have a lot of Independent Indian music to choose from so if you have any dedications or requests please do post a comment, i will make sure they are honoured.

Also please do spread the word around. We are trying to get more and more Independent arists an avenue to present their music. So all the help would be welcome. Also if you want to write articles or act RJ then Mail me and we will get you on the air or the avenue to present your skills.

I have had a rough couple of days, hopefully this will cheer me up.

This post has been a long time coming, mostly delayed due to personal and professional activities which have kept me busy.

Anyway, this my take on the last Blug meet which was a special meet with Mark Shuttleworth. The meeting was a blast, Mark Shuttleworth’s speech was fascinating and very educational. Yahoo were awesome hosts, big thank you to Philip and co. We should do more meets there, that was a blast. But the question that haunted me throughtout the meet was
Was it really a BLUG meet?

Let me explain what a blug meet really means to me: The Bangalore Linux Users meet to discuss Free and Open Source in “general” and also acts as a medium where various user groups have a healthy discussion. Now this BLUG meet was totally Ubuntu and with a personality like Mark there, I think most of us would think twice before asking a tricky question, I mean i get a “OpenOffice sucks” every blug meet, do you think any of us would dare say “Ubuntu sucks” there? The meet turned out to be good marketing for Ubuntu.

I think we need to re-phrase such meets. The Blug meets should be about the BLUG not about Ubuntu or Suse or Red Hat. Such meets can be termed as spaces for interested user groups to meetup. I have no issues in people from the Blug organizing such events. Infact when Nat or Miguel get here next time, I would love for them to meet people from the BLUG but please lets not make it a BLUG meet. Thats not really what it means.

Advocacy is a standard practice in our world but lets not mix it with the BLUG.

Irc has this great talent to produce the kind of humor which IM can never seem to match. I got a private message from some dude today, he is a NOSIP student apparently, the amount of frustration in his voice was astounding and very hilarious.

Here is how it went…

[13:39]- xyz: hi sorry to distb

[13:29]- xyz: r u also in evo team

[13:29]- xyz: if so from how many days

[13:30]- shres: hey

[13:30]- shres: for about an year now

[13:30]- shres: wassup ?

[13:30]- xyz: oh wow thats great

[13:30]- shres: why ?

[13:30]- xyz: but how did u manage to build evo

[13:30]- shres: hehehe

[13:31]- shres: its not that easy ?

Heh, I know building evo can be painful sometimes but the way
he stated it made me roll, funny bugger that guy