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New Books on shelf

New Books on shelf

Few new Kannada books are on my shelf. More details in individual posts. D. V. Gundappa‘s -> Manku Thimmana Kagga Dr. B.G.L Swamy‘s -> * Americadalli Naanu * Daurgandikaapaharana * Mysore Diary * Panchakalasha Gopura * Tamilu talegaLa...
Fedora/Linux Security Guide

Fedora/Linux Security Guide

Scott Radvan, Content Author, Red Hat APAC sent an email updating Fedora Linux fans about the availability of very-nearly-finished Security Guide. It has its focus on Fedora and it will be available in the upcoming Fedora 11 release. He also invites reviews/comments...
Movies thundered my mind in new year

Movies thundered my mind in new year

Take Down – Movie based on Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer Outlaw’s capture. Book: Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It. by Tsutomu Shimomura (Author),...

Spiritual endeavors

Visiting temples and paying offerings is very religious and each and every Indian have been doing it irrespective of his/her cast or religion. There are hundreds of thousands of temples across the country. I too pay my offerings to Shabari Malai every year for many...
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex packaged with LFY

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex packaged with LFY

I was wondering if I can download all different flavors of Ubuntu 8.10. It’s quite painful to download large files when BSNL starts drizzling with low speed bandwidth. Today when I reached home, I found my December copy of LFY (Linux for you) magazine on my...
Book: Imagining India – Nandan Nilekani

Book: Imagining India – Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder of Indians one of the biggest IT company Infosys, an accidental enterprenur writes about the country’s past, present and future. Just got my hands on this new book. I shall write about the awakening writeup and ideas for th enew...

In the Beginning was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson writes about the initial days of computing in a beautiful way : In the Beginning was the Command Line He talks about Steve Jobs, Wozniak, Gates and Torvalds etc. He also talks about the things which made people create Mac, *Nix, Windows and why things...