From Support to Development

So, its been some time since my profile had changed .. from support to development. its has been very happening till now. Leaning new things.. debugging things more closely. Few things I learnt, which I will now follow forever:- Coding style. Think for sufficient time before you code. Take a paper and pen and follow … Read more

Frets on Fire

By looking at the meeting minutes of the last PLUG meet I came across a video game called “Frets on Fire“. Frets on Fire is a free, open-source Finnish music video game created by Unreal Voodoo in which players use the keyboard to play along with on-screen musical notes to complete a song. I liked … Read more

24th, 25h and 26th Jan’09

Last weekend DJ, Gulal, Kundan and I went to Diveagar (????????) beach at Konkan.It is around 200 km from Pune . We started on 24th afternoon and reached there around 5:30 PM.We just reached there on time as evening is the best time to enjoy there. Apart from DJ all of us jumped into water. … Read more

PGDSP Entrance Exam

Yesterday we had the PGDSP entrance exam at KQ Infotech. Around 50% of the students who registered, attended the test.The test was pretty simple; we asked basic C, Data Structure and Operating System questions.After the written test we took interviews. This was one of the opportunity for those who really want to do system programming … Read more

Why you left Red Hat?

Last month I left Red Hat and joined a startup KQInfotech. Some of my friends, relatives and few unknowns ask me why I left Red Hat in such scenario when the market is down. Here are some thoughts which I had while making this decision:- If not this time then never. I always to wanted … Read more

Friendship

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that gives value to survival. C.S. Lewis This first post of 2009 is to all my friends.Thanks for being with me.

Jiffy, Jiffies & HZ

Jiffies : The jiffies variable holds the number of times the system timer popped since the system booted. HZ: The number of timer ticks per second, is contained in the kernel variable HZ.The kernel increments jiffies, HZ times every secondJiffy: On a kernel with a HZ value of 100, a “jiffy” is a 10-millisecond duration, … Read more