Lohgad and Bhaja Caves Trip

Last to last weekend on 14th May’11, some of the folks from office decided to trek the Lohgad fort.It is one of the many hill forts of Chatrapati Shivaji and situated 52 km from Pune in western India. We decided to start at 4:30 AM from our office, so that we can see the sunrise there and can return back before … Read more

Kernel Compilation Session @Embedded Nirvana

Embedded Nirvana is an initiative for hands-on knowledge sharing for Linux OS on Embedded Devices. Today we are having out event for COEP students http://embeddednirvana.org/about-envent/.  I also gave a talk on Linux Kernel Compilation. The commands are very specific for Fedora. Before getting into kernel compilation I would like to talk about few things which … Read more

Programming Contest@Gnunify’11

It all started in the January’11 PLUG meet. We were discussing about different tracks in Gnunify’11.As Gnunify is mostly student oriented, I put forwarded the idea to have Programming Contest this year. The main idea was to let students learn something new and to force them we decided to declare the topics of the contest … Read more

Gnunify’11

I participate in Gnunify this year as well. Other that presenting my talk on “Setting Up Linux Kernel Debugging Environment”, I organized a programming contest as well with the PLUG members. I’ll be putting another post for that. My talk was scheduled at 3:45 PM on 11th Feb and I was planning to go post lunch … Read more

2010.. The year it was.

I sat down to write down the blog post on my 31st December’s Bike ride and while writing I retrospected the whole year and thought to pen it down. Last year was more important at personal front. I completed one year of my marriage with Kanika. I think first year of marriage would be very … Read more

FOSS.in’10 Experience

From the previous post you might know that I attended FOSS.in’10 and gave a talk on Ftrace in Fedora Mini-Conf. I had great time there. Meeting with friends. talks, technical discussions on the flight/ at the venue/ at dinner… Apart from all the keynotes and Fedora Mini-Conf, I attended following talks:- Operating System Caches in … Read more

Ftrace: Fedora Mini-Conf Session at FOSS.in’10

I gave a talk on Ftrace in Fedora Mini-Conf  at FOSS.in’10. The slides are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedora_Ftrace.pdf I started my presentation with an example. I setup function_ftrace as  current_tracer and set the trace filter for all the ext3 functions and started the tracing: [sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”] $ echo function_ftrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer $ echo ext3* > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter … Read more

My New Machine

On 26th Nov’10 I got myself a new bike, Royal Enfield Thunderbird.. My Pulsar served me loayally for around 6 years. I drove it over 50K Kms.Lots of memories attached with my old bike. Its been some time since I booked it.I was keep postponing because of one reason or other. The bike is bit … Read more