The Innovation Lover

Happy New year to all

The 2009 has end. When I look back to the year 2009, lots of events and moments scroll around my mind. It was a very unique year in my life till now. Till 2009, I was very rigid with my thinking and activities around. I was categorized to be a geek and I lived around that circle. But there happened lots of changes and the environment was totally different in the year 2009. I watched more around the world rather than sitting in front of an electronic box most of the time. i started to become more social. I received more new friends, lots of fun, lots of serious stuff and lot more.
Only one word suits better for that year with respect to my life, its very “Dynamic”. The year brought to me a lot of changes, lots of life learnings, lots of visions. It was really awesome to keep in memory.

2010 started off with nice traits. We had a lot of fun with friends around. I am doing absolutely nothing these days. But I love the very calm and peaceful environment around.

But more techie savvy stuffs are in my workshop TODO, it includes Android, Linux kernel and more fun.

Once again, wishing you all a very Happy new year 2010.

I bought an AVR-32 ATNGW100 embedded experimentation board. It runs a minature version of GNU/Linux on AVR archietecture. The NGW100 has two Ethernet ports, SD and MMC card reader, and connectors for USB and JTAG. It boots up soon after it is given power supply. The version of OS includes decent services like SSH, SAMBA, FTP etc.

My initial plan is to build an internet gateway with iptables hack. Also I plan to cross-compile SQUID for AVR so that I can have an embeded tiny sized proxy server with all controls. That can be used at hostel for sharing internet connection Tux powered Looking forward to it.

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Finally after long waits vaccation has arrived. It has been around 2 years since I missed out a long vaccation. Cochin university has only 1 month study holidays for first year exams. No post exam holidays are there. But from the second year, the university is good enough to give us two months vaccation.

This time I am going to spend most of my time hacking with Pardus project.

Today I have setup a local repository mirror of Pardus at home

Happy Hacking!

It has been a long time since I blogged, I am back again.

Life at college has been becoming so hectic with pathetic Assignments, Class tests routine. Moreover we are running out of time since this is a short semester. Waiting for the vacation to come sooner so that I can resume my contribution to some of the Open Source Projects I love.

Since last Novemeber 2008 I have been contributing Articles on Linux For You Magazine. You can download the articles that I have published over the recent months here.

• Schedule Your tasks
• Grand Unified Boot Loader Explained !
• Udev unplugged
• Recipes for Networking
• D-Bus - Smart, Simple, Powerful IPC

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