The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
Blogging after quite some time. Been busy recently with making certain important decisions about the future of Granular Project. My temporary obssession of packaging RPMs has returned. Packaging updates and new RPMs since a few days now. I try to start each day with studying, but miss it. The I try again to study after […]
This thought occurred to me when I was preparing for my end-semester exam of the Information Security Systems course. The course was all about computer networks, security, and cryptology. Before I come to the topic of this post, let me give a brief introduction to Monoalphabetic ciphers. Monoalphabetic cipher is a way to encrypt data […]
MyBlog is a very simple, nice looking, fast, and easy-to-use blogging application targeted to be used as personal blog. It has been completely coded in PHP, and uses MySQL as the database backend. Unlike many other blogging systems available, like WordPress, Movable Type, etc., MyBlog contains only those features that should be sufficient enough to […]
The category of small-sized Linux distributions (or mini distributions) is fast evolving. Every now and then we see a new mini distro coming out, sometimes as a light-weight edition of an already established distro and sometimes based on an innovative concept. The likes of this category involve Damn Small Linux, Yellow Dog, SliTaz, and Puppy […]
Computer Talks is the second blog that I maintain quite frequently infrequently. It is a Blogger-hosted blog and one of my oldest ones. Here are some recent blog entries from Computer Talks: Themed Gmail You heard it. Google’s Gmail offers themes now. Now, how did I first come to know about this? I woke up […]
VS Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux – both are totally disparate entities and I am talking about similarities? Yup, I sure am. And I have reasons to believe this. Most of us know what Vista is. Vista is the latest edition to the most popular operating system (OS) lineup – Windows. For those who are […]
Adobe Shockwave is an advanced platform for 3D applications on the Internet, and online games benefit the most out of it. But unfortunately, Adobe never released a version of Shockwave for the Linux platform. If you are a Linux user, worry not. Using Wine, you can easily play for favorite games made using Shockwave. Wine […]
Remember the little, cute Jumbled Words Game I prepared in Python? More than 4 months had passed since I made it, and now it was time it got some makeover. So, featuring a host of new improvements, here I am making the improved game available for download. Installing and playing is easy. Just to remind […]
It’s over and so early? Well, this was the only TV programme that I used to see on a regular basis, except C.I.D. Really, if you ask me, I am a bit sad to see the programme get over so early, it had begun just about 2 years ago, three seasons and it’s over. It […]
Simply hats off to it! A brilliant and rare combination of a thriller script, excellent performances, state-of-art direction and moral value. Very rare will you find such movies in the Bollywood industry, where most of the movies’ stories are derived from Hollywood or the films are made keeping in mind the action and comedy loving […]