tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101886492011-12-15T08:18:34.053+05:30<br><br><br> A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - John F. KennedySudhanshunoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10188649.post-1148657372773661222006-05-26T20:49:00.000+05:302006-11-16T20:09:06.066+05:30

Long time since I last wrote here. Life has been busy of course!In the meantime I have finished a project and am going to move on to another in a few days of time. Did quite a lot of research on caching algorithms. And was simply amazed at how much the industry is behind with respect to caching strategies. Solaris 10 still uses a 2-handed clock algorithm! Linux is still at LRU with page ageing.

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This is a follow up to the previous post. Let's tackle each problem one by one. Note that each problem can have several solutions depending on your preferences/requirements. Of course, I am assuming this system is our dear old Linux box. You wrote the communication protocol subsystem for a local client-server system (e.g. X-server & the TrueType font server) running on the system and want

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Quiz You wrote the communication protocol subsystem for a local client-server system (e.g. X-server & the TrueType font server) running on the system and want to verify everything being exchanged between the two over a Unix domain socket or a FIFO or a pipe. What do you do? You have recently noticed a suspicious program which seems to be reading/writing to sockets and communicating with

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"Given a point in the code, you have to build a system to inject a fault in the operating system."It was a statement made by my manager at Hewlett-Packard overlooking the OpenSSI project. I was still pursuing my post-graduation at IIIT, Bangalore and this project was to be the culmination of that 2 year program. This was the beginning of the fault-injection system that was to be built for the

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Audio search, ahoy! Within a few days of my last post on audio search, there comes news of Yahoo! launching it's own audio search engine in beta. The results? Not as much as we want, disappointingly. But before looking at the disappointments let's look at what it has to offer.Yahoo! has linked with around 18 music providers online and has a database of what content is available with which

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Life without a search engine on the Internet is unimaginable anymore. If it wasn't for the likes of Google and Yahoo! Internet would have been a strange and mysterious place covered in darkness and most of it inaccessible. Search engines have pervaded every nook and corner of the WWW. A look at the database of WWW URLs amassed at DMOZ blows one away - this site is apparently the starting

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Then a ploughman said, Speak to us of Work.And he answered, saying:You work that you may keep pace withthe earth and the soul of the earth.For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons,and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majestyand proud submission towards the infinite.When you work you are a flute throughwhose heart the whispering of the hoursturns to music.Which of

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Well, my attempts to demystify KProbes took me to some depths in it. And I decided to share the story of my incursions into enemy territory with the world through an article on KProbes. It was intended to be a walkthrough of the KProbes code but I and my editor decided to let it stay as an introduction to KProbes sprinkled with some digestible dose of KProbes internals. A long exchange of mails

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Another morning. Only the sun has not risen yet. But another one is rising on this Blog today. I decided to keep a quick access list to links related to Linux which will consist of anything and everything new and upcoming - kernel, desktops, interesting projects, articles, research papers. So everyone else has the access on the latest and greatest from my perspective and I get to keep track of

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I can see a red gradient painting the horizon and it's growing rapidly. It's going to be a beautiful morning. Both for me and my baby. No I am not yet married and no I am not having babies out of wedlock. The baby has resulted from the fruits of my labor in the last few weeks. It's going to wake up and bask in the glory of the bright sun today.Ok, for those of you who read my previous post on

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I missed the plane to fame, well even if 15 minutes of it :-) Evolution can never be stopped, I just learned it the hard way. It's like there are a few ideas, that are just waiting around the corner to happen. If you won't embrace them, somebody else will. And so happened with Podcasting.My story started with Parallel and Distributed Algorithms course in IIITB Semester II in the early dawn of

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Continuing on the topic of the previous post I just came across this news item about a tool being developed by Yahoo! which does something similar but on a lesser scale. It does not scan the pages automatically to check the context of the pages you are browsing, instead it relies on you to highlight a text string on the current web page you are viewing and then giving you an option to search for

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Today while researching for a particular project on Natural Language Processing techniques something struck me. I was using the browser for browsing all the websites - so the browser had access to everything I was doing. The kinds of sites I was visiting, all the text on every page I was viewing, all the links on the various pages, the time I spent on each page etc. So after knowing all of THAT

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It's amazing to see the passion that flows in the veins of the people who nurture a growing baby day in and day out to showcase it to the world every time it has something new to say. The baby is Solaris 10. Yes the baby is growing. And yes, it can talk a lot more than it ever did before. But this time even the nannies are talking. Perhaps more than the baby itself. You don't believe it! Just

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Well, it has been a busy last week. And satisfying as well. (You could see my fat belly deflate and settle down like a slowly deflating balloon as I let out a long sigh with a smile stretching slowly across my face. Only problem is I don't have a belly yet.) HP's deadline for the project proposal is coming near as I sit down with a scalpel in hand, fresh from my intrusions in the Linux kernel.

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Ok, Here I Am. Ideas strike when you least expect them to, at least when I least expect them to. Ideas also vaporize. Vaporize among the hundred other anxieties, deadlines, thoughts and myriad neuro-chemicals that churn within the unchartered domain of the mind. And then there came Blogger a few ages ago in terms of Internet time..... After much churning, fuming, musing and sleeping over what my

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