Just jotting down a few things that I remember about my recent visit to Mumbai.
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Ever notice that in a centrally cooled office, it’s always a bit warmer in areas where there are more people sitting? India is already a warm country. And there are 20 million Indians who live at Mumbai. No wonder, […]

Vineeth Kaimal, one of my friends in college, is working on a utility to convert text from roman script into Indian regional scripts. The utility is christned “WriteKa” and can be found at : http://writeka.com/ .
WriteKa currently supports transliteration to Malayalam and Hindi.
Some great work by Kaimal !

Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum’s Microkernel OS - Minix - which was originally designed purely as an educational tool, is now being converted into a usable OS.
From the website:
MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for […]

Ran across this amazing compilation of ASCII COWS on the Wikipedia. . .

An extract:

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I was just running through some of my old files and ran across this:

It’s a program that I wrote during my training in Progress at JKT Bangalore, in 2004.
In case you’re having trouble trying to figure it out, It’s a “hello world” program.
Output:

Pretty disappointing output, hmm?
So, In the spirit of improvement, […]