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Wednesday, May 19

Life

I just noticed today that the version of Postfix that ships with RedHat-9.0 is called "postfix-1.1.11-11"..just a coincidence?

Monday, May 17

Sci/Tech

I had a peep into TeX today, and I wish I'd tried it much earlier! No more project reports to be done :(
A Super Short guide to TeX
1. In a text editor, write this:
\documentstyle{report}
\begin{document}
\author{Pramod}
\title{Test Report}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{Beginning}
\begin{itemize}
\item{First, u have to}
\item{Then u should}
\end{itemize}
This is first chapter
\chapter{Details}
This is second chapter
\end{document}
2. Save the file as try.tex
3. At the shell, run pdflatex try.tex
4. xpdf try.pdf

Saturday, Mar 13

Sci/Tech

The IP and OSI Models are being re-examined.
The packet network paradigm probably needs to change.
OSI was designed for a static infrastructure. With the growth of wireless devices, what we need is a model with "dynamic scalability".

Wednesday, Mar 03

Sci/Tech

The UNIX world and Windows are coming closer together. While Linux is acquiring cute GUIs with much fanfare, another revolution is silently happening. Microsoft is putting loads of powerful command line (yeah!) utilities onto Windows.
Windows XP, 2000 and 2003 are chockful of them. Cool ones are diskperf, at, and shutdown. Here's a long list of commands.

Sci/Tech

Did you know that Google has a special feature to search all Microsoft related sites? Just go to Google Microsoft. The XP type logo is cute!

Sunday, Feb 29

Sci/Tech

Joel Spolsky..Back to Basics. It's nice to see top notch developers talk about bits and bytes. Especially when all you hear from this is .NET and XML.