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

SystemTap Article on LFY – Part1

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

Apue Quiz

I have created a quiz to test the Advance Unix Programming concepts of some of the MI trainees (http://kqinfotech.com/mentoring). quiz: http://wp.neependra.net/apue/apue.multiplechoice.quiz1 answers: http://wp.neependra.net/apue/apue.multiplechoice.quiz1.ans Some of the questions are just copy-paste from some university website.I don’t have reference now.

GREASY FINGERS

On 5th April we had a unique workshop called “GREASY FINGERS”. It was organised was the same group with whom I went for my previous ride. The programme was led by of Ashok Captain, He is great cycling personality of Pune. His energy level was awesome and the best thing which I liked about him … Read more

Cycle Ride ..

Last Sunday I went for around 45kms ride on my new bike .. TREK 3700, which I bought on last to last Sunday. I went with 100+ cycle enthusiasts.There is cycle group in Pune who go cycling regularly. Co-Incidentally I came to know about this group on the day, I bought my cycle. I met … Read more