Student, Gardener, Self-employed
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
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
I am also a part of great initiative called Akshar Bharati. Akshar Bharati collaborates with local NGOs and schools for setting up the library. NGO/School runs the library on a regular basis & AB provides them the support to run the libraries effectively and ensure it is making the right impact through regular activities, feedback, … Read more
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
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
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
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
I’ll be a part of history. My name will be on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011! Get yours.
While exporting my blogs from blogspot using the Tools->import of WordPress. I was getting “HTTP/1.0 403 Invalid AuthSub token” error. So, I used blogger2wordpress tool to convert my older blogs to wordpress format and import it as wordpress blogs.
I am writing kernel debugging article for Linux For You . I started with SystemTap and will writing on ftrace, kdb , kgdb crash etc. You can download the part-I of SytemTap article:- http://wp.neependra.net/kernel/Systemtap-I.pdf Part-II of SystemTap article is published this month and will be uploading the softcopy next month. update. Uploaded the Part-II as … Read more