Linux began with this post to the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix, in August, 1991,
written by a Finnish college student:

Hello everybody out there using minix-
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be
big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

That student, of course, was Linus Torvalds and the “hobby” of which he wrote grew to
what is known today as Linux. Version 1.0 of the kernel was released on March 14,
1994.
(Taken from the book : “Linux programming unleashed”)

	There is an unprecedented outrage in India over the IPL Cheerleaders. The outrage has been created by both the players and politicians. Shahid afridi said that the skimpily dressed cheerleaders are distracting the batsmen. Afridi went on to say that cricket does not need cheerleders as cricket is an entertainment itself. Fair point there.
Next Rahul Dravid said that IPL cricket should be called bikini cricket because of the cheerleaders present in IPL.
On the political front the moral brigade are saying that the cheerleaders are against our culture. The issue was first discussed in the assmebly of maharastra and then in bengal. However right now it looks more like talk only. I doubt if any substantial action shall be taken against the cheerleaders despite claims to the contrary.
While we claim to be more respectful to the women folk, our actions speak otherwise. The cheerleaders who have performed all over the world feel thretened by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here. Recently, in a match played in Jaipur, the spectators passed some lewd comments on cheerleaders. A cheerleader from Uzbekistan told a national newspaper, “Wherever we go, we do expect people to pass lewd remarks, but I’m shocked by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here. Be it a 70 year old man or a 15 year old boy, they all ogle us and make amorous advances. I feel very threatened. We are here to entertain them, to add a bit of glamour to the game, but we are living in constant fear.”

May be it is time that we learnt to behave in a more mature manner and accept that we live in an age where there is no dearth of sources of vulgar content for anyone who may want to watch it. Be it internet or simple porn videos, even school kids have access to them. And politicians will do well to remeber that the voters have already realized this. So no amount of hard talk will not result in any gain in the vote bank.

If you are planning to do M.S in the U.S in a field of Computer science, i am sure you must be looking for a ranking of Universities (in Computer science) in the U.S .
Here is a link to a “U.S News” page which provides these rankings.

Hope it helps you.

Social Media Marketing seems to be the in-thing. Here are a couple of india centric social news sites that we use to promote binaryday.

http://www.indianpad.com

http://www.newscola.com/

http://www.humsurfer.com/

Inspite of the disappointing start to IPL yesterday, I have decided to cover the IPL series on this blog. Following is the final scorecard of the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Bangalore Royal Challengers.

Scoreboard

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Sourav Ganguly c Kallis b Khan 10

Brendan McCullum not out 158

Ricky Ponting c Kumar b Kallis 20

David Hussey c White b Noffke 12

Mohammed Hafeez not out 5

Extras: (b 4, lb 4, w 9) 17

Total: (for 3 wickets in 20 overs) 222

Bowling:
Praveen Kumar 4 0 38 0 (1w)

Zaheer Khan 4 0 38 1

Ashley Noffke 4 0 40 1 (1w)

Jacques Kallis 4 0 48 1 (1w)

Sunil Joshi 3 0 26 0

Cameron White 1 0 24 0 (1w)

Bangalore Royal Challengers:

Rahul Dravid b Sharma 2

Wasim Jaffer c Ponting b Dinda 6

Virat Kohli b Dinda 1

Jacques Kallis c Kartik b Agarkar 8

Cameron White c Saha b Agarkar 6

Mark Boucher c Kartik b Ganguly 7

Balachandra Akhil c Ponting b Agarkar 0

Ashley Noffke run out (Agarkar/Saha) 9

Praveen Kumar not out 18

Zaheer Khan b Ganguly 3

Sunil Joshi c McCullum b Shukla 3

Extras: (lb 8, w 11) 19

Total: (all out in 15.1 overs) 82

Bowling:

Ashok Dinda 3 0 9 2 (2w)

Ishant Sharma 3 0 7 1 (1w)

Ajit Agarkar 4 0 25 3 (4w)

Sourav Ganguly 4 0 21 2 (1w)

Laxmi Ratan Shukla 1.1 0 12 1

There was just too much of excitement before the first match of IPL between Knight Riders and Royal Challengers. Unfortunately the match was more boring than a five day test match . The only saving grace of the match was 158 off 73 balls by Brendon McCullum.

The second innings was a really sad one. The royal challengers looked lost right from the word go, loosing wickets at regular intervals. You can imagine the situation from the fact that Extras was the highest scorer of the challengers innings. Praveen Kumar was the only challenger to reach double digit score.

When you dual boot your system to Windows and Linux, it is important that you can view your data stored on Windows drives in Linux and vice-versa. Unfortunately Windows doesn’t recognize Linux partitions (ext2 and ext3) but it’s pretty easy to access your windows drives from Linux. But there is one thing to keep in mind… it’s pretty easy if your windows file system is FAT32. In case it is NTFS, you may have to get Linux plugin for recognizing NTFS for some distros.
First of all, how to recognize the windows drives…
Each separate disk is identified as hda, hdb, hdc, etc. in order if it is a PATA (IDE) drive (your CD drive or if you have a pretty old hard disk) and as sda, sdb, sdc, etc. if it is a SATA disk. For each disk the partitions are identified as sda1, sda2, etc. For eg. if you have a SATA disk and your Windows has three partitions, C: , D: , and E: then these will be represented in Linux as follows:

C: as /dev/sda1
D: as /dev/sda2
E: as /dev/sda3

if you have a CD drive it will be represented as /dev/hda1

Now for mounting …

Say you have a folder called /mnt/d_drive from where you want to access the contents of your D: then just give the command
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/d_drive
that’s it . Now open the folder /mnt/d_drive and you will be able to access everything on your d drive.
But this will mount your drive only for current session. If you want to permanently mount the drive you need to edit the text file /etc/fstab. Just open the file in a text editor and add a line like

/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

Make entries for as many partitions as you want to mount permanently. Save the file and restart your session.
Done.

I keep breaking my record in being an idiot. Everytime I think that I can not be a bigger idiot than this, I just go on to prove myself wrong. The most frustrating thing is that invariably the foolish ideas are the ones that I think are some smart idea of mine.

The latest in my idiot series was this post about IPL Schedule. I got hold of a pdf file with the complete schedule. I had found out how to embed pdf on the webpage. So I was pretty impressed with my idea to embed the pdf on the webpage.

2 days later, I just realized that this was a dumb idea:

The embedded pdf is slowing down the entire blog.
No one can read the pdf on my blog, it is just too large
Searchengines can not read the pdf either.
I could have avoided all these problems simply by giving the link to the pdf file.

Next time I get a cool idea, I will be more cautious. You will do good to do the same as well.

Click on the “Save” button to save the embedded IPL Schedule file. You must be looking for the IPL timetable 2009. The timetable below is for 2008 but you can download ipl timetable. The pdf has a column for results as well so that you can keep track of the winner of each ipl game.

The IPL Tickets are now available for sale. You can book the tickets at ticketpro.

IPL Timetable

Keeping tab of all the matches of the upcoming IPL can be really difficult. To help you with the task, I am trying to create a google calendar with the schedule of IPL matches. Click on the link of any IPL match timetable to get more details like venue. Request you to let me know how to make it more intuitive.