Thermal Noise

Funny mail archived on LWN that draws an analogy to the working of the infamous OOM on Linux.

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Review of a few english films that meant more than just a way to “kill” time

http://ananth.shrinivas.googlepages.com/favoritemovies

I’ve resisted umpteen email forwards from my friends to play this game called KlueLess.

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The Best Operating System ever rolled out from India is one year old today. Happy Birthday BeleniX. Congratulations to Moinak, Sriram, Kishore and Pradhap who have put in a year of Nightouts, Weekends and Holidays and not to forget their great brains and creative energies into creating the most popular OpenSolaris LiveCD. BeleniX is talked about at the same level as Nexenta or GNU/Solaris, which is being devloped by a company, Nexenta Systems Inc. I have this gut feeling that the day when BeleniX is going to explode on the LiveCD scene big time is not too far away. Moinak already has been working vigorously towards adding some great new features (Somehow, he never runs out of ideas !). If you want to be a part of the action when that happens, visit the Project Page and find out how YOU can contribute to BeleniX. Thats not all. If you have other ideas, mail us and you might end up getting a cool BeleniX T-Shirt

I attended a class on creative thinking some time back. We had a follow up session on that today. I wanted to rant about the whole thing here. But I thought I would create and post a picture fo a change

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A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness,
That stripp’d her from his benediction, turn’d her
To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting
His mind so venomously, that burning shame
Detains him from Cordelia.

So reads a passage from King Lear by Shakespeare.

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Le Dîner de cons is a French Movie directed by Francis Veber. The title, literally translated, means “The Dinner for Idiots”. I have no idea how it got into my collection, but it ended up being one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.

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September had been a highly productive month. I ticked off 12 movies from my “Must Watch” list and completed five books. I tried finishing the Sixth - “A New Kind of Science” (NKS) by Stephen Wolfram but ran out of patience.

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