My personal laptop is now loaded with Ubuntu 9.04. I know I know..am late. I was always weary of running dual OSes on a system. But looking at the ease with which you can load a whole new OS, I could not stop myself.
All good things don’t come free ? Not true. Ubuntu is a free OS. More Here.
If you are filling air next time at the petrol bank… just look for this raw looking blue box. Its a nitrogen air filler. If you fill it today, you can forget re-filling for next 6 months!! Amazing alva?. It comes at a price of 30 Rs per wheel for the first fill. Rs 10 for the subsequent.
Top 10 search keywords which brought you to my blog in last 1 year
1. arvindtm.com
2. huttadalli hutta
3. mungaru male
4. kaviraj profile kannada
5. arvindtm
6. 1mbps = 1000 mbps
7. sarjapura blues band
8. sudarshana kriya ebook
9. 1000 kbps
10. high heels
Thanks to Analytics
When somebody writes a ‘what-is’ and ‘how-to’ primers I feel much of the text goes unread when there is no illustration. I happened to read one such article in the morning. Web 2.0 primer And thought, let me add my bit to the article by sketching these cuties.
Click on the pic to see the enlarged
Basically I wanted to illustrate the following points
Information discovery – It changes how people discover information
Personal expression – It gives users a greater ability to express their personalities to others
Efficient connections – It makes meeting new like-minded people more efficient
Am I ok ?!
soooooper 
as i told u .. u draw reely well
-Niks
Thx. It’s an amazing feeling to transport the characters. From Lalbagh to Space station! Try your hands
Dude , u should give your hand at drawing cartoons (or) start your own cartoon strip !. With your sense of humor ,your cartoon strip wont doo all that bad.
-NK
Am sure you are joking now! Cartoon strip idea….!! mmm..let me sleep over it and see. With Niranjan as lead character ?! microsoft’s giant engineer. Hahhhaa
I am serious dude . I dont mind being your cartoons lead character giant engineer!!,Lets be politically correct .
Am running a talk-format in office for over a month now. It’s nicked as 10-20-30, invented by Guy Kawasaki. I have tweaked a bit and applied at our office. This is the email message footer which goes out for that talk-invitation.
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10-20-30
That is for 10 slides, 20 mins and 30 people.
Internal Knowledge Sharing Sessions.
It’s open to anyone who would like to share their new learning and unlearning and anything under the sun, moon and a irvana.
Why 10 ? – Research says any presentation beyond 10 slider is a “drag”.
Why 20 ? – So that you don’t look at the watch.
Why 30 ? – Capacity of the main Conference room. ( 30 size font in the original version)
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It’s just three sessions old. So it’s early to know if it’s a hit.
Think of such a format like this. A movie trailer. You like the movie or not, but the trailer does not bore you. It has the drama, the action, the casting, but does not reveal the plot or the suspense. No story told. And it gets over in a blink.
Presentations, shorter the better. Tell what is most important. Details can wait.
Don’t you think so ?
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IP addressing and subnetting. Any number of times you read and try to apply, the basics evaporate in no time. Subnetting is little tricky and hence needs working through it to stick in the head. Let me make an attempt to give you some help in grasping the concept.
Get this one right. Subnetting is all about dividing a large network to a fairly manageable smaller groups or sub networks. Even before we go and divide the networks into smaller groups, it is divided already into class A,B and C networks. Let’s understand this division first.
Imagine this. Grandpa in his last days left a will to three of his sons Ason, Bson and Cson. Ason is eldest and Cson, the youngest.
To keep everyone happy and avoid any possible conflict Grandpa has done some homework and marked all the land he has to pass on. This is a clever division keeping in mind that eldest should get the lion share but again younger ones should not be disappointed. Hence the shape of the property.
Ason gets the taller box. It can accommodate only few but very very lengthy streets. So he can build many number of houses in a row. Bson’s box is little regular shaped. It can accomodate average number of streets and average number of houses per street. Cson has got a narrow wider strip of land, so he can have very few number of houses but large number of streets.
Class A network can have – 128 networks [streets] and 16 lakh machines [houses] per street. Class B can have – 16000 networks [streets] and 1/2 lakh machines [houses] per network. Class C can have – 2 lakh streets and just 250 machines [houses] per network.
Once this land is handed over to these three sons, they can rework within the allotted area . It’s upto the individual to come up with the desired number of streets and so many houses per street. So this is where subnetting will begin.
If Cson decides to increase the number of streets he might end up with an absurd situation like having one house per street. Similarly, if Ason decides to keep very few number of streets, he might have to line up the houses for miles together in a row that it may not be called a street.
So, a balance needs to be found in keeping the street length reasonably lengthy and with good number of houses. This is what subnetting is all about.
PS: Well, it took me nearly 6-8 hours of constant thinking to pick the topic, state the problem, referring the text, spin a story and illustrating with the free hand cartoon. Believe me, it’s not as easy it looks here.
hey this piece is totally worth of effort ! nicely put!
I pulled out a recipe from one of my old collection this evening for the dinner. MavinKayi Chitranna ( Masla Rice out of raw mango…?! )
mapquest generates location map if you specify the latitude and longitude values….
Latitude: 12.924 deg N
Longitude: 77.669 deg E
Our office location is marked with a star
Where did I get these accurate values for Latitude and Longitude?!
Our Lab BTS is powered with a GPS receiver.
This is a better picture if you want to know how this globe is dissected into latitude and Longitude.
Location values for Bangalore would be roughly around these values
Latitude: 12.924 deg N
Longitude: 77.669 deg E
N and E here represents North East. Right hand top portion of the globe.
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Arv_Narin 12:46 AM on July 23, 2009 Permalink
Nice Icon!!
Avik 8:40 AM on July 23, 2009 Permalink
Cool… Normal partition installation or you are using Wubi…?
A T M 8:47 AM on July 23, 2009 Permalink
I did not use Wubi. I had an installation CD burnt. Normal partition installation. In fact I have done three installations today. One was redhat/ubuntu and other two with windows/ubuntu.