Simplifier, Gardener, Trainer
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
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
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
On 1st Jan’09 I decided that I’ll learn Guitar his year. After inquiring for several times I finally went yesterday(31st) to join the class.Its been a month late but atleast I joined in the Jan month only. After getting my pick I went to class where Mayur (Guitar Teacher) gave me first lesson.I played it … Read more
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
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
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 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.
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
Sometimes we just keep working on a terminal and get lost what all we did.Isn’t it good if we can get some kind of logs which can give us all steps we followed. First thing which comes in mind is the “history” command, but that will not give the standard outputs which we got after … Read more