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Discover why children struggle despite finished homework and how Self-Directed Learning (SDL) can protect their minds. - [Be Like Water: Lessons from a Diploma in Experiential Education](https://neependra.net/index.php/2026/04/10/be-like-water-lessons-from-a-diploma-in-experiential-education/) - Last year we decided to homeschool our children, and I was delivering trainings on GenAI. We were new to homeschooling, and with GenAI, things were/are moving at a pace I could not get a complete hang of. To get some grounding while dealing with both, I decided to join the DEEP (Diploma in Experiential Education & - [Colonised Twice - First the Land, Then the Mind](https://neependra.net/index.php/2026/04/08/notes-from-the-edge-of-the-mainstream/) - In November '25 I attended a 10-day course—"Nature, Culture & Economy | प्रकृति, समाज और अर्थव्यवस्था"—which was offered by Pagdandi Collective at the Jeevika Ashram, Jabalpur. It was attended by about 20 participants. The course has changed the way I look at history, understanding of village ecosystems, economics, and much more. Following are some of my learning from the course. - [Before You Join an Eco-Village Community: Read This First](https://neependra.net/index.php/2026/03/27/before-you-join-an-eco-village-community-read-this-first/) - Last year (2025), we did a bit of experiment with our life. We chose to stay in a village and do homeschooling of our kids. We joined a group of parents to form a community to eventually live in a farm after 1-2 years. Though that did not eventually happen for us, as we decided - [Are Indian Parents & Teachers ready for the AI Wave ?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2026/02/15/are-indian-parents-teachers-ready-for-the-ai-wave/) - There are many blog posts which are pending, which I would get to eventually but I decided to put down my thoughts after hosting a discussion on AI for Parents & Teachers. While preparing for the discussion I explored the current AI curriculum of CBSE board for class 9th, 10th, 11th to 12th and I - [Nature, Culture & Economy | प्रकृति, समाज और अर्थव्यवस्था Course](https://neependra.net/index.php/2025/10/07/nature-culture-economy-course/) - I came to know about this course mid last month and immediately decided that I should join this. What caught my eyes was the clarity of thought using which the article was written and the location of the course, which is my hometown, Jabalpur. To submit the application we have to through following content :- - [Natural Building Workshop @ Himachal Pradesh – Part 2](https://neependra.net/index.php/2025/03/20/natural-building-workshop-himachal-pradesh-part-2/) - Explore our hands-on experience at the Natural Building Workshop in Himachal Pradesh, learning cob, wattle & daub, rammed earth, and enjoying local festivities. - [Natural Building Workshop @ Himachal Pradesh - Part 1](https://neependra.net/index.php/2025/03/06/natural-building-workshop-himachal-pradesh-part-1/) - Follow me as I embark on a journey to a natural building workshop in Himachal Pradesh, overcoming landslides and snow to reach our destination. - [The AI Wave: Steering Our Career in a New Era](https://neependra.net/index.php/2025/02/17/the-ai-wave-steering-your-career-in-a-new-era/) - Explore how the AI wave is reshaping work and discover actionable strategies to steer your career in this new era. Dive into insights from our in-person discussion. - [How to cultivate actions for Soul-Nourishing Experiences?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2025/01/15/how-to-cultivate-actions-for-soul-nourishing-experiences/) - After the Art of Hosting training, which happened in Bengaluru Dec'24; it was very important for the new practitioners to practice different learned methods under guidance and to keep the community grow organically. To keep above in mind, Art of Hosting Bengaluru community; under the guidance of Melinda, hosted its first Practice Day on 11th - [Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Matters : Part 2](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/12/20/art-of-hosting-harvesting-conversations-that-matters-part-2/) - In the previous blog I shared my experience and learnings from the first 2 days of the Art of Hosting Training, which I attended in Bengaluru (7-10 Dec'24). This blogs covers the last 2 days of the training. While here, I would like to briefly mention about the diversity of the participants. We had participants - [Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Matters : Part 1](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/12/17/art-of-hosting-harvesting-conversations-that-matters-part-1/) - One great thing leads to another and that is how landed up at the Art of Hosting Training'24 Bengaluru, earlier this month (7-19th Dec'24) . I got its leads from one of the participants of the #Play14 event. After attending the training, it feels as the missing piece of my formal education is now complete. - [Play it Forward: #Play14 BLR Event](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/11/13/play-it-forward-play14-blr-event/) - Continuing my quest to learn and play more games I ended up attending the #Play14 Bengaluru event last minute between 8th - 10th Nov'24. It turned out to be an awesome break from the tech and other things which keeps me busy. More than 2 days just went like that and I am still missing - [Biodynamics Conference - 25 Years of BDAI](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/10/31/biodynamics-conference-25-years-of-bdai/) - While surfing the internet suddenly an ad popped out about the a conference on Biodynamics. I heard this word for the first time and assumed that it is going to be about some form of mixed cropping. I did not think much and registered for it after looking at the website, as some of the - [Farms Update - 12th Oct'24](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/10/12/farms-update/) - Last week (5th - 10th Oct'24) we had heavy rains and winds in and around Bengaluru and both of our farms have some negative impacts. One of the melia dubia tree had fallen in the Dhanvi farm and damaged our trellis structure. After chopping the tree we have kept the wood in open for now. - [Life@42 and what's next .....](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/10/12/life42-and-whats-next/) - From the time I read Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. which is more than 10-12 years before; I was kind of waiting to turn 42 to uncover the eventual answer of why I am doing anything and what difference does it make and to whom? For those who have not read the book - [Jeevan Vidya Workshop](https://neependra.net/index.php/2024/09/05/jeevan-vidya-workshop/) - I attended my first ever Jeevan Vidhya Shivir (Workshop) between 28th August to 4th September at Anahad, Telangana. It was facilitated by Shri Ashok Gopala Ji in English and attended by around 15 people. I decided to join the workshop after looking its details in a WhatsApp Group. It took me just one minute to - [Multi-Layer Organic Farming Workshop by Akash Chaurasia](https://neependra.net/index.php/2022/12/26/multi-layer-organic-workshop-by-akash-chaurasia/) - I attended a 5-Days organic farming workshop by Akash Chaurasia at the Sri Paripoorna Sanathana Ayurveda Medical College between 15th-19th Dec'22. It was a complete hands-on workshop on the fields with lots of insights. Some of the important things I learned and observed are:- Agriculture is the mother all industries. Many works because of this. - [Introducing Kubernetes and Cloud Native Online Meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2020/03/17/introducing-kubernetes-and-cloud-native-online-meetup/) - I always loved organizing meetups but decided to step down as organizer of the meetup I ran for close to 5 years. That decision was primarily due to time constraints and changing priorities. It was difficult to take time off during weekends and taking care of all the logistics. But I am very happy the - [Future Tech Blogs on neependra.net](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/05/04/future-tech-blogs-on-neependra-net/) - From now on I would be using this space (neependra.net) for non-tech and personal blogs. All the tech, meetup etc blogs would now go to my company's blog. - [Docker 4th B'day Celebration - Bangalore](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/04/03/docker-4th-bday-celebration-bangalore/) - In Bangalore we celebrated Docker's 4th Birthday at Microsoft Office on 25th March'17. Over 300 participants signed up and around 100 turned up for the event. We had around 15 mentors. We started the event at 9:30 AM. After a quick round to introduction with Mentors, participants started doing the Docker Birthday Labs. Docker community - [Join us for next community event on Microservices and Serverless](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/04/03/join-us-for-next-community-event-on-microservices-and-serverless/) - If you are following the updates here then you would know that in Feb'17 AWS, DevOp and Docker meetup group of Bangalore did a combined event in the following proposed community driven event format. Instead of INR 200 we charged INR 100 and did not look for sponsors. With all the collected money we gave - [Bangalore Kubernetes Meetup #4 and update on next community event](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/02/27/bangalore-kubernetes-meetup-4-and-update-on-next-community-event/) - Last weekend we had 4th Kubernetes Meetup in Bangalore at VMware's office. More than 100 people signed and ~40 people showed up. The first session was from Akshay Mathur and Manu Dilip Shah of A10 Networks who shared their experience on choosing and using Kubernetes for their product. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7V_hElKm5Y [/embedyt] The next session was from Krishna - [AWS, DevOps and Docker Meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/02/21/aws-devops-and-docker-meetup/) - Continuing our experiment with community driven conference, this time AWS,DevOps and Docker meetup collaborated to do a combined meetup. We charged INR 100 to each participants to make sure they are really interested in coming. From the collected money we gave gifts to speakers and some prized to the participants. The meetup was hosted at Bangalore's - [Bangalore Docker Meetup # 24](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/01/09/bangalore-docker-meetup-24/) - We did our first meetup for 2017 at GO-Jek's engineering office in Bangalore. ~400 people rsvped and ~120 people came for the meetup. This is first time we tried to live-stream and record the videos. Though we could not record all the videos due to out lack of experience but still we got two complete ones, which - [Time for Community Driven Conference/Larger Meetup ?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2017/01/07/time-for-community-driven-conferencelarger-meetup/) - You name the technology and you would find active meetup in Bangalore. Be it Docker, DevOps, AWS, GlusterFS, Machine Learning etc. Every meetup group meets at-least once in every two months and share the knowledge. These days cloud, be it public or private seems to common platform for everyone and containers are slowly becoming unit - [A year on my own...](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/12/02/a-year-on-my-own/) - Today I completed one year of being on my own. In 2004, after graduating from college and doing brief experiment with a startup I came to Pune, looking for a job. I failed clearing the interviews of many MNCs. In the last two and a half years of my college I spent most of my - [Docker Mentor Week 2016 - Bangalore](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/11/21/docker-mentor-week-2016-bangalore/) - Docker organised Global Mentor Week around the world between 14-19th Nov'16. In Bangalore we scheduled it on 19th Nov at Microsoft office. We divided the group into two groups Beginner and Intermediate of 125 each. Out of which ~60 turned up for each session. The content for the mentor week was shared by the Docker, which - [LinuxCon ContainerCon 2016 - Berlin Germany](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/10/10/linuxcon-containercon-2016-berlin-germany/) - LinuxCon, ContainerCon 2016 in Berlin was very special for me, as this is the first time I represented my company CloudYuga as a speaker in an international conference. The event was scheduled between 4th to 7th Oct.'16 . Got my #linuxcon #containercon 2016 #speaker batch. @cloudyuga #berlin pic.twitter.com/sxXmNn92XO — Neependra Khare (@neependra) October 3, 2016 - [Bangalore Docker Meetup #21 at Infosys](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/07/12/bangalore-docker-meetup-21-at-infosys/) - We had our last Docker Meetup at Infosys on 9th July'16. Though some 300 RSVPed but only 80 people attended. It is good to see company like Infosys coming forward and hosting such meetup. Thanks to Ganesh from Infosys for taking the lead here and making it happen. He started the meetup with introduction about Infosys and then - [Docker and DevOps Meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/05/04/docker-and-devops-meetup/) - Mohit and I met at first GitHub meetup of Bangalore in March'16 and discussed that it would be a good idea to do a joint meetup of Docker and DevOps groups of Bangalore. Later we followed up and decided to do it on 30th April'16. It was hosted at IBM's EGL office in Bangalore. We decided to do - [3rd Docker Birthday Celebration](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/03/29/3rd-docker-birthday-celebration/) - Bangalore Docker Community celebrated Docker's 3rd Birthday on 26th March'16 at Huawei's Bangalore office. Suraj has written a great report about the event. So I would cover some other points. More than 400 RSVPed for the event, so we had to divide the group in two batches and we were expecting ~100 in each. Due - [Second Paid Containers Workshop and Free Workshop in Kolkata](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/03/22/second-paid-workshop-and-free-workshop-in-kolkata/) - I did my second paid workshop in Bangalore on 12th and 13th March. I had the similar count of participation as last time. Most of participants had some prior experience with Linux so it was much easy and I was well prepared as well. So things went more smooth than last time. One of the participant from the - [Bangalore Docker Meetup #18](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/03/01/bangalore-docker-meetup-18/) - As decided in the last meetup, we'll discuss about the Logging and Monitoring Docker containers next time. This time our meetup was hosted at HPE office in Electronic City, Bangalore. Around 80 people attended the meetup this time. After taking few questions we started with formal presentations. This time I gave the first talk but did - [DevConf 2016, Brno, CZ](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/02/22/devconf-2016-brno-cz/) - DevConf'16, which happened between 5th to 7th Frb'16 at Brno, CZ; was my first conference after leaving Red Hat. My workshop on Comparing Docker Orchestration Tools got selected, so I decided to go. Though I got the accommodation but I had to pay my own air fare. Devconf is one of the conference which has very - [Free Containers (Docker) Workshop - Hyderabad](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/02/15/free-containers-docker-workshop-hyderabad/) - After doing free containers (Docker) workshop in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai; the next stop was Hyderabad which was scheduled on 13th Feb'16. Getting the audience and community space at Hyderabad was not as simple as other places because I have never worked there and did not have much community connections. When I scheduled it I - [First Paid Containers (Docker) Workshop !!!](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/01/27/first-paid-containers-docker-workshop/) - So finally doing trainings, started to pay out !!! I did my first paid workshop in Bangalore on 23rd and 24th Jan'16. In this first paid workshop I had 6 participants, all from different backgrounds and with skill-sets. I think this is a good start. I was able sell all the 40% discounted tickets of pre-registered - [Bangalore Docker Meetup #17](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/01/20/bangalore-docker-meetup-17/) - As decided in the Dec'15 meetup, in the next meetup we would discuss about different Orchestration tool available to run containers in a cluster. This meetup was hosted by Shippable at their Bangalore office and we talked about Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos and Amazon ECS. Thanks to Aditya for filling in for Mesos, last minute as - [Report from Containers (Docker) Workshop - Chennai](https://neependra.net/index.php/2016/01/10/report-from-containers-docker-workshop-chennai/) - After doing free workshop in Bangalore and Pune, next stop of free workshop was in Chennai which I delivered on 9th Jan'16. I got few registrations for Chennai last month but after announcing it on Chennai Linux User group, I got more registrations. I was looking for a community space to host the workshop as it was free one. - [Bangalore and Pune - Free Containers (Docker) workshop](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/12/29/bangalore-and-pune-free-containers-docker-workshop/) - After leaving my full time job at Red Hat I started offering some free workshops in different cities on India. As currently I am staying in Bangalore and stayed in Pune for 8 years before moving, I choose both of these places to start with. Later I'll be doing the free workshops in Chennai, Hyderabad and - [Docker Bangalore Meetup #16](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/12/08/docker-bangalore-meetup-16/) - Last Saturday on 5th Dec'15 we had another Docker meetup at Dell's India R & D office in Bangalore. I think this was most attended meetup and very well organized. We had great set of talks lined up this time. Docker 1.9 - New Features - Sreenivas Makam, Cisco Practical Docker Solution - Kesav Kolla, CTO HotelSoft - [Free Container (Docker) Workshop](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/12/05/free-container-docker-workshop/) - As mentioned in the earlier post I'll be doing free workshop on containers in different cities of India, I am putting down following google form to capture the interest. Loading... - [Left Red Hat .. Again, to start something on my own](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/12/03/left-red-hat-again-to-start-something-on-my-own/) - Yesterday (2nd Dec'15) was my last day at Red Hat (again). I left Red Hat in Dec'08 to join a startup and then joined back on Sept'12 . This time I worked in the performance engineering team, which does performance evaluation of all the Red Hat products. It was best team I worked so far. I did performance - [Akshar Bharati Library Setup at NIMHANS, Bangalore](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/12/02/akshar-bharati-library-setup-at-nimhans-bangalore/) - On 28th Nov'15, Akshar Bharati helped setting up Library section for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services centre NIMHANS, Bangalore. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services provides day-care to person with psychiatric disabilities and engage them with some vocational activities like arts, dance, yoga. Reading would be an additional activity. The library was inaugurated by director of NIMHANS Mr. P. Satish Chandra. At Akshar Bharati we generally setup - [Docker Bangalore Meetup #15](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/11/03/docker-bangalore-meetup-15/) - We hosted 15th Bangalore Docker meetup at VMware Office on 31st Oct'15. We wanted to do all the storage related talks this time, like we did for networking last time. But we did not get speakers for all the topics we decided earlier. Thanks for Debashish and Moorthy who came forward to pick a topic each. - [LinuxCon Europe 2015, Dublin, Ireland](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/10/14/linuxcon-europe-2015-at-dublin-ireland/) - In July this year I came to know my tutorial session on Data and Network management for Docker containers has been selected for LinuxCon EU'15 at Dublin. This was significant achievement for me. Having a book on Docker under my name and doing some community activities, would have helped for sure. The conference was scheduled between 5th to 7th Oct'15 - [Docker Global Hack Day #3, Bangalore Edition](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/09/23/docker-global-hack-day-3-bangalore-edition/) - We organized Docker Global Hack Day at Red Hat Office on 19th Sep'15. Though there were lots RSVPs, the turn up for the event was less than expected. We started the day by showing the recording of kick-off event. The teams here worked on four different ideas, out of which two submitted to the Global - [Bangalore Docker Meetup #14](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/08/28/bangalore-docker-meetup-14/) - As planned in previous meetup, this time we arranged all the networking related talks. We covered topics from basics to advance. We looked at current state of Docker Networking and how it going to evolve in near future. The meetup started with Q & A session, in which few participants discussed how they are using - [Bangalore Docker Meetup #13](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/07/13/bangalore-docker-meetup-13/) - VMWare hosted 13th Bangalore Docker meetup on July 4th. We covered following topics:- Docker Introduction - Prashant Tyagi, Wipro DockerCon Report - Neependra Khare, Red Hat Docker Security - Pravin Goyal, VMware Model Driven SDLC using Docker- Vinothini Raju, Bluemeric "ops management" for containerized apps, comparing tools in Docker ecosystem for it - Kumar Gaurav, VMware - [Red Hat Summit 2015](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/07/06/red-hat-summit-2015/) - After attending DockerCon on 23rd June I took what people call Red Eye flight to reach Boston on 24th morning. I missed the Day 1 of Red Hat Summit on 23rd and had to miss keynotes 24th has as well because the flight got delayed. Later I have watched all those keystones. Apart from Jim - [DockerCon 2015](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/07/03/dockercon-2015/) - I got the opportunity to attend DockerCon last month (June 22nn and 23rd'15) in San Francisco. This was my visit to SF. I reached there on 20th June'15. On 21st I took a bicycle on rent and cycled through Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito and Tiburon. While coming back to SF I took Ferry from Tiburon. - [PacktPub Docker Cookbook](https://neependra.net/index.php/2015/06/17/packtpub-docker-cookbook/) - I am happy to announce that my book on Docker, Docker Cookbook (dockercookbook.github.io) got published last week. I got introduced to the publisher through a tech friend of mine and I am thankful to him for sharing this opportunity with me. I started working on the book almost a year back. I was very new - [9th Bangalore Docker meetup - Session on Kubernetes](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/12/04/9th-bangalore-docker-meetup-session-on-kubernetes/) - After successfully organizing the Docker Global hackthon on 1st Nov'14, we have not thought about the next meetup. Then Vishnu Kanan from Google pinged us saying that he would be visiting Banglaore during last week of Nov and would like to talk about Kubernetes. We had quick discussion among co-organizers and thought it would be - [Project Atomic Test Day- 20th Nov'14](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/11/24/project-atomic-test-20th-nov14/) - Project Atomic test day for Fedora 21 was scheduled on 20th Nov'14. To be a part of that we organized test day in Red Hat's Bangalore office. As far as I know this is the first such activity we did in Fedora Community from Bangalore. In Pune, India Fedora community organised FADs on F21 testing and - [8th Bangalore Docker meetup and Global Hackathon#2](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/11/04/8th-bangalore-docker-meetup-and-global-hackathon2/) - On 1st Nov'14, Red Hat offices in Bangalore and Pune hosted Docker meetups and Hackathon. ~40 people attended Bangalore meetup. Before the hackathon we had following presentations :- Docker Global Hackday opening by Avi Cavale, Co-founder and CEO, Shippable. Introduction to Docker - Pranay Pareek, Shippable Introduction to Project Atomic - Neependra Khare, Red Hat. In - [Rockstor - A Btrfs based NAS](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/11/02/rockstor-a-btrfs-based-nas/) - Before joining Red Hat again two years back I was part of startup KQ Infotech (Which later got acquired by STEC Inc and now HGST). Before acquisition of KQ Infotech, we were extending the work from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) of bring the Sun/Oracle ZFS file-system to Linux by porting POSIX layer. After the - [7th Bangalore Docker Meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/09/26/7th-bangalore-docker-meetup/) - Last Saturday on 20th Sept'14 we had 7th Bangalore Docker meetup at Relevance Lab. The agenda of the meetup was :- 1. Introduction to Docker- Jeeva, IBM 2. Namespaces/CGroups - Madhurranjan Mohaan , Apigee 3. Intorduction to CoreOS - Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Verizon Labs The meetup started with round of introduction from participants and the - [Sequoia::Hack'14 - Social Listening with Docker Containers](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/09/21/sequoiahack14-social-listening-with-docker-containers/) - I participated in Sequoia Hack'14 with Shireeh Anjal. We worked in different teams at Red Hat. In last year's Sequoia hack we participated in different teams. This years we decided to form a team and use the team name I used last time Shadowfax. As currently I am playing with Docker, so I wanted to - [LinuxCon/CloudOpen NA 2014](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/08/31/linuxconcloudopen-na-2014/) - I got the opportunity to attend LinuxCon/CloudOpen NA this year, which happened last week b/w 20th to 22nd August'14. Few take aways for me from the Keynote of Jim Zemlin were - Software is eating the World and Open Source is eating the Software. - Any software foundation should work like janitor for its project, enable structured - [6th Bangalore and 5th Chicago Docker Meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/08/22/6th-bangalore-and-5th-chicago-docker-meetup/) - This month I got the opportunity to attend two Docker Meetups in two different parts of the World. One in Bangalore which I co-organizes and other in Chicago due to my visit to LinuxCon. http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Bangalore/events/194813972/ In Bangalore Docker Meetup we had following agenda :- 1. Introduction to Docker - Lalatendu Mohanthy, Red Hat 2. Hands-On - [5th Bangalore Docker meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/06/30/5th-bangalore-docker-meetup/) - Last weekend, 28th June we had 5th Bangalore Docker meetup at Shippabale. Over the last few weeks we worked on the agenda and finalized on following :- 1. Dockercon Report - Neependra Khare, Red Hat Dockercon is scheduled on 9th-10th June'14. If anyone of us attending Dockercon then he/she can share his/her experience. Else - [3rd and 4th Bangalore Docker meetup](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/06/01/3rd-and-4th-bangalore-docker-meetup/) - In May'14 we had two docker meetups in Bangalore. First was on May 10th and Shippable and second on May 31st at Red Hat office. In first meetup we had two sessions Issues faced while deploying Docker in production by Ragesh (@rageshk ) from Shippable Dry run of my Dokcer workshop @rootconf Though there were less attendees - [Second Bangalore Docker meetup @ Red Hat](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/02/25/second-bangalore-docker-meetup-red-hat/) - We had second Bangalore Docker meetup @ Red Hat Office on 22nd Feb'14. ~65 people registered for the event though only 40 - 45 people turned up, which I think is pretty good. We started the session with a round of introduction from everyone. Not many attendees used Docker before, so I hope the sessions - [Running GlusterFS inside docker container](https://neependra.net/index.php/2014/02/16/running-glusterfs-inside-docker/) - As a part of GlusterFS 3.5 testing and hackathon, I decided to put GlusterFS inside a docker container.So I installed docker on my Fedora20 desktop [sourcecode language="text" gutter="false"] $ yum install docker-io -y $ systemctl enable docker.service ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker.service' $ systemctl start docker.service $ docker version Client version: 0.7.6 .. Server version: 0.7.6 - [Is increased data collection and information sharing improve or damage 21st-century life?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/10/25/is-increased-data-collection-and-information-sharing-improve-or-damage-21st-century-life/) - In last week of our course Understanding Media by Understanding Google we have to answer question similar to mentioned above. Here is my take on that:- We love convenience !! We are always willing to pay something extra for it. The payment we make may, not be the direct one. Lets say you want to have pizza - [Is our constant urge to use mobile device or do google search good ?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/10/21/is-our-constant-urge-to-use-mobile-device-or-do-google-search-good/) - In second last week of our course Understanding Media by Understanding Google we have to answer question similar to mentioned above. Here is my take on that. Lets say our referred in the question is me. While at work or otherwise when I am engaged with my primary activity I do Google searches and browse the internet - [Comparing YouTube’s impact on politics, culture, news in India](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/10/13/comparing-youtubes-impact-on-politics-culture-news-in-india/) - One more week is gone and this week as part of assignment for Understanding Media by Understanding Google we need to explicitly rank YouTube’s impact in these three areas – politics, culture, news and then explain our choice for the area we believe to have been most affected. Here is my take on that:- I - [Cruise to the Coast, 5-6 Oct'13](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/10/10/cruise-to-the-coast-5-6-oct13/) - Last weekend I did Cruise to the Coast ride with CAM. We cycled through Bhagamandala – Bekalfort – Kasargod – Jalsoor and covered ~130 kms. We started from Bangalore on Friday (4th Oct) night and reached Bhagamandala at 5 AM on Saturday. Then after couple of hours of rest we started cycling to Bekal Fort. We followed http://goo.gl/maps/dDFtN route. - [How relevant are the ads, we see ?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/10/07/how-relevant-are-the-ads-we-see/) - As mentioned in the previous blog post I have been doing Understanding Media by Understanding Google course on Coursera and as part of second peer graded assignment I have to log the next 20 ads I encounter from Google, whether as the result of a search on google.com or through one of its partner sites and summarize what those ads get - [Is Google's intention to digitize all the world's books a good thing or a bad thing, and for whom?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/10/02/is-googles-intention-to-digitize-all-the-worlds-books-a-good-thing-or-a-bad-thing-and-for-whom/) - I have been doing Understanding Media by Understanding Google course on Coursera and as part of first peer graded assignment we have to write about "Is Google's intention to digitize all the world's books a good thing or a bad thing, and for whom? ". Here is my take on it :- Imagine if every book in the world is - [Bangalore::Hack 2013 by Sequoia Capital](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/09/22/bangalorehack-2013-by-sequoia-capital/) - I participated in Bangalore::Hack 2013 last week and was planning to do a blog post about my participation. So I started to collect the relevant link to put on the blog post and came across this :- http://yourstory.in/2013/09/sequoia-capital-bangalore-hack/ and saw the mention about my work. 4) Government information aggregator – This one is close to my heart; a - [GlusterFS presentation @LSPE-IN, Yahoo!](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/09/16/glusterfs-presentation-lspe-in-yahoo/) - Last Saturday on 14th September'13 I gave on GlusterFS presentation at LSPE-IN. The title for the presentation was Performance Characterization in Large distributed file system with GlusterFS . Few days before the talk I looked at the attendee list to get the feel of the audience. I felt that not many of them have used GlusterFS by - [Policy Hackathon @IIM Bangalore](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/08/15/policy-hackathon-iim-bangalore/) - On datameet group I saw a mail regarding the Policy Hackathon, which was pre-event for 8th Annual International Conference on Public Policy and Management at IIM Bangalore on 10 - 11 August'13. I have been to hackathons earlier but not sure what would be the policy hackathon. Anyways I thought to give it a try. I - [Open Data Camp 2013, ISB Hyderabad](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/06/24/open-data-camp-2013-isb-hyderabad/) - I got the oppotunity to attend and present at Open Data Camp 2013 at ISB Hyderabad on 22nd June 2013. Ealier this year I presented at Open Data Camp, Bangalore as well. My topic of the talk was "How to visualize the data over Web using Shiny + R". I showed how we can put the analysis done on - [Red Hat Summit 2013](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/06/17/red-hat-summit-2013/) - I attended my first ever Red Hat Summit last week and got the opportunity to present as well. I also got the chance to meet my team in here after interacting with them for almost an year now. The summit got kick started with on 11th June with Jim's keynote. Jim came on the stage wearing jeans. How cool - [Open DataCamp - Bangalore'13](https://neependra.net/index.php/2013/03/05/open-datacamp-bangalore13/) - I attended and gave a part of talk at Open Data Camp, Bangalore 2013, which was scheduled on 2nd and 3rd March'13. ~200 people participated in the camp from different fields. I met lot of smart people and had a great time. Sessions I attended :- Visualizing Politics: S Anand Anand took the data from 2004 Lok - [2012 - The Year it was for me..](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/12/31/2012-the-year-it-was-for-me/) - Three most interesting things I did/happened during 2012 : Taught a full semester course Joined back Red Hat and moved to Banagalore Did not watch television for the entire year Jan to March Started of the year started on a very high note with a bike trip to Mahabaleshwar with my wife. Just after that trip - [Joined back Red Hat!!](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/09/12/joined-back-red-hat/) - On 3rd September'12 I joined back Red Hat :) . Earlier I worked with Red Hat for 3 years in in GSS (Global Support Services) in Pune. This time I joined the peformance team in Banagalore office and will be working on Red Hat Storage (Gluster) product. I am really happy to join back the company - [Teaching experience at SICSR, Pune](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/09/09/teaching-experience-at-sicsr-pune/) - Last month I finished teaching a semester course on Operation Systems at SICSR, Pune. We Started the session in Mid June and finished on 1st September. In June and July I taught with my full time job at STEC. I left STEC on 3rd August and then teaching became my primary focus. I taught MSc(CA) first semester - [Linux Performance Analysis and Tuning talk at PLUG and University of Pune](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/08/26/linux-performance-analysis-and-tuning-talk-at-plug-and-university-of-pune/) - On this month's PLUG session I gave talk on Performance Analysis and Tuning on Linux, which has good feedback. Then I got an invitation to do the similar lecture from CMS (Centre for Modeling and Simulation) Department, University of Pune. I accepted it and took a session on 25th of this month. I covered same topics in - [The Fifth Elephant » Pune Data Hacknight](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/07/16/the-fifth-elephant-pune-data-hacknight/) - I came to know the Pune hacknight from the twitter and after digging some more on the net I came to know about The Fifth Elephant conference in Bangalore. I did not had any prior working background about the big data but I always found it interesting. In my current profile at STEC, I anyalize the performance - [Saurya-Mandal ki sair (Star-Party)](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/05/20/star-party/) - Yesterday I attended the star party organized by Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Pune.JVP organizes an over-night star party outside the city of Pune around 30 km from the city glow.Program contains necked eye star gazing, telescopic viewing of moon, planets, nebulae, galaxies,slide shows; astro-games, etc. I came to know about this from our Askshar Bharati group that - [Akshar Bharati Community Library goes online](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/03/03/akshar-bharati-community-library-goes-online/) - Today we made ABCL (Akshar Bharati Community Library) online. One can access it from http://abcl.aksharbharati.org/ We now have more than 3500 books and it is operational for last six months. By making it online now users can:- Search the books online Put a hold on book online Get email notification Suggest a book which is - [Gnunify'12 and Programming Contest](https://neependra.net/index.php/2012/02/12/gnunify12-and-programming-contest/) - Gnunify was scheduled on 10th and 11th February'12. This year Gnunify has completed 10 years.It has come a long way and I am attached with it since 2006. Since last year I started to more active part by organizing the programming contest for System Programming. We declare the topics for the programming contest one month - [Setting up 26 Libraries on 26th January'12 @ Akshar Bharati](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/12/25/setting-up-26-libraries-on-26th-january12-akshar-bharati/) - Akshar Bharati's vision is to help achieved India’s Vision 2020 of becoming a developed nation and sustain the growth through development of tomorrow’s citizens by encouraging environment of learning and education. Keeping this in mind we have decided to setup 26 Libraries on 26th January'12. To make this a reality we have to accomplish following tasks:- - Identifying - [Visit to God's own country - Kerala](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/12/03/visit-to-gods-own-country-kerala/) - We(Me and Kanika) visited God's own country Kerala b/w 25th - 29th'11. It was most eventful journey. We had to deal with the strikes in Maharashtra and Kerala. We catched the flight from Mumbai in last minute. Then visit to beautiful Munnar, beach and house boat and Alleppey. We started our journey on 25th Nov'11. - [FUDCon Pune 2011](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/11/21/fudcon-pune-2011/) - FUDCon was sheduled on 4-6 Nov'11 in COEP, Pune. Because of my other commitments I did not get the chance to attend keynotes or closing talks but I watched some of them online. I did get chance to attend few sessions which were scheduled after my talks. I subumitted two talks and both were got selected. 1. - [US(Santa Ana) Trip - Sep. - Oct'11](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/11/16/ussanta-ana-trip-sep-oct11/) - I had visited US for a month in Sep-Oct.' 11. This was my first US visit.I went via Dubai and and landed at Los Angles Airport on 24rd Sept'11. Santa Ana is about 45 Mins drive from LA. As soon I reached to hotel I decided to get some grocerry as I my room has the - [Yahoo…The Charisma of Shammi Kapoor](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/08/28/yahoothe-charisma-of-shammi-kapoor/) - On 24th August on Pune Mirror I saw that there is show on Shammi Kapoor at Yashwantrao Chavan Auditorium from Niche Entertainment and without taking a moment I discussed it with my wife and immediately we both decided that we should not miss this. Its was a weekday but as it was at 9:30 PM, - [Some Good Time with Friends..](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/08/07/some-good-time-with-friends/) - I met Abhishek(Verma) after 5 years though we keep in touch via phone. We were not able to make to each other's marriage. We were very close in our college days. We did lots of interesting together like a quiz show b/w differentschools which was aired (21 episodes) in local cable channel, Pre MBA test - [ABCL Inauguration Event](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/07/04/abcl-inauguration-event/) - As planned we have formally inaugurated ABCL on 3rd July. I was not sure whether I'll be able to make join this or not as I had to travel to and fro to my native because of something urgent. I reached back Pune on 3rd morning at 2 AM. Not only I joined , I got - [Akshar Bharati Community Library](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/06/23/akshar-bharati-community-library/) - Akshar Bharati is really encouraging the habit of reading in children between age group 5-15 years from underprivileged and remote areas. Can the similar be done for the poor students who stay near to our office/society etc? Also can we have a library for us or our children? Akshar Bharati Community Library is one such initiative by - [Be a part of India Vision - 2020 through Akshar Bharati](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/06/15/be-a-part-of-india-vision-2020-through-akshar-bharati/) - Lets see what most of us worry about these days:- Degree, Job, Package Visa,Onsite 2/3 BHK house, Car School for children..... I haven't cross 60 yet and not sure what I will achieve by that time. But in recent Akshar Bharati annual program Shyamji, Chief coordinator of of SEWA International mentioned following:- When someone crosses 60+, he/she sits - [Lohgad and Bhaja Caves Trip](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/05/24/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 - [My Journey @ KQ Infotech](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/04/24/my-journey-kq-infotech/) - On 19th April'11 my journey with KQ Infotech ended with a positive note. STEC INC. acquired KQ Infotech. In one of previous post I mentioned few points why I am leaving and Red Hat and joining the start up. It was a very hard decision for me at that time but now It looks, as - [Kernel Compilation Session @Embedded Nirvana](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/03/26/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 - [Programming Contest@Gnunify'11](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/02/14/programming-contestgnunify11/) - 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 - [Gnunify’11](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/02/13/gnunify11/) - 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 - [Volunteer work for Akshar Bharati on Republic Day.](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/01/27/volunteer-work-for-akshar-bharati-on-republic-day/) - 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, - [2010.. The year it was.](https://neependra.net/index.php/2011/01/02/2010-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 - [FOSS.in’10 Experience](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/12/21/foss-in10-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 - [Ftrace: Fedora Mini-Conf Session at FOSS.in’10](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/12/19/ftrace-fedora-mini-conf-session-at-foss-in10/) - 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 - [My New Machine](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/11/30/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 - [Going to the Mars in 2011](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/10/27/going-to-mars-in-2011/) - 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. - [Exporting blogs from blogspot to wordpress.](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/10/17/exporting-blogs-from-blogspot-to-wordpress/) - 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. - [SystemTap Article on LFY - Part1](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/10/13/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 - [Apue Quiz](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/05/23/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. - [Sunday ... Good food and Study](https://neependra.net/index.php/2010/05/16/sunday-good-food-and-study/) - I made Fish Curry today and spent rest of the time in re-visiting C basics. This is what I call a great Sunday. - [GREASY FINGERS](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/04/07/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 - [Cycle Ride ..](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/03/17/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 - [From Support to Development](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/03/01/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 your code with - [Frets on Fire](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/02/09/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 the - [First step towards implementing my New Year Resolution](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/02/01/first-step-towards-implementing-my-new-year-resolution/) - 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 for - [24th, 25h and 26th Jan’09](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/01/28/24th-25h-and-26th-jan09/) - 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.After - [PGDSP Entrance Exam](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/01/21/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 or - [Why you left Red Hat?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/01/10/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 to - [Friendship](https://neependra.net/index.php/2009/01/04/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. LewisThis first post of 2009 is to all my friends.Thanks for being with me. - [Jiffy, Jiffies & HZ](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/09/24/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, while - [How do log every thing printed on the terminal](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/09/17/how-do-log-every-thing-printed-on-the-terminal/) - 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 running - [Deleting a speical character file](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/09/03/deleting-a-speical-character-file/) - Sometimes we need to delete a special character file, which we can not delete with normal rm command.So here is the solution...delete it with the help inode number.$find . -inum __inode number from ls -i of the file __ -exec rm {} \; - [Highlighting the searched keyword with 'grep'.](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/08/11/highlighting-the-searched-keyword-with-grep/) - Add following lines in the ".bashrc" file, which is in your home directory. alias grep="grep --color" export GREP_COLOR="1;32" You can run either run following command to take this change in-effect $ source ~/.bashrc OR Logout and then login. - [Global File System(GFS) — Part1](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/07/11/global-file-systemgfs-part1/) - File system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them.There are different types of file system available* Disk file systems (EXT2, EXT3,XFS,FAT,NTFS,GFS,OCFS)* Flash file systems* Network file systems(NFS)* Special purpose file systems(proc file system)Each file system has it own structure.So - [Jabalpur LUG event, 17th June'08](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/06/23/jabalpur-lug-event-17th-june08/) - With the help of jbp-lug members I have organized a LUG event at Takshila Engineering college, Jabalpur.http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jbp-lug/Meeting Minutes:http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jbp-lug/message/393Pics:http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/jbp-lug/photos/browse/d30dAround 20 students from different engineering colleges attended the event. 80% students of city like Jabalpur lack the practical understanding of the subjects; they just somehow read them to pass the exams. As per my understanding lack of - [GEEP session on Virtualization](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/05/27/geep-session-on-virtualization/) - GEEP --- GEEKs Of Pune...GEEP is a non-profit group to promote Linux system software.You can find more details at :-http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geep_linux/On 25th May'08 GEEP has organized the session on Virtualization.There were two presentations:-a. For beginners by me.b. For advance users by Mr. Amit ShahIf we put "vitualization" on any search engine we get 'n' number of - [Why Para-vitualization was needed?](https://neependra.net/index.php/2008/05/18/why-para-vitualization-was-needed/) - Why Para-vitualization was needed?I had this question in my mind for some time but the answer was not clear to me. So, I read some docs and figured it out.From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel-VTx86 virtualization is the method by which x86-based "guest" operating systems are run under another "host" x86 operating system, with little or no modification of - [Chasing the Red Light (Full Moon Night Trek)](https://neependra.net/index.php/2006/01/17/chasing-the-red-light-full-moon-night-trek/) - This was my very first experience of trekking.Lot of people gave their name for the trek but finally we 10 people went for it.Five from my team,our Manager Mr. Ravi and his 3 friends.One of them in professor from IIT Mumabi.We started from office at 5:15pm and reached Katraj at 6:30pm.Then we loaded ourselves with - [My Night Shift Experience](https://neependra.net/index.php/2006/01/12/my-night-shift-experience/) - In Red Hat we are suppose to do night shift for a week once in a six week.This is my first night shift week.The very first day i.e. on monday I did not slept at day time.I came to office early and stayed till night.it is really tuff to work in night.Our timing for the - [Sinhgad Yatra](https://neependra.net/index.php/2006/01/09/sinhgad-yatra/) - Yesterday I gave my XAT paper and then I went to Akshay's Flat.Then Akshay,Abhishek Nema,Shekhar(Akshay's cousin) and me started for Sinhgad Fort.It is some 35 km from pune.We started at 2:30 pm .We stopped at "Tinku da Dhaba" for our lunch.It was really bad and we left almost half of the food.Again we started off - [Not cleared CAT this time](https://neependra.net/index.php/2006/01/06/not-cleared-cat-this-time/) - I am not able to clear CAT this time and got very less percentile.I tried but no luck.I started my coaching in May last year and started very seriously. 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Now as entered the dining room there were so varity to eat.I was confused , what to take. I do not know what to take.As I came back to my table where my other colleages were - [Induction at Singapore - 2](https://neependra.net/index.php/2005/12/26/induction-at-singapore-2/) - As we are about to land to singapore I can see a very beatiful port with lot of ships.It was like a film scene.I can see very beautiful buildings.It was very clean around the airport,as compare to our Mumbai airport.I can see planes from different countries and was trying to relate airline name from country - [Induction at Singapore - 1](https://neependra.net/index.php/2005/12/24/induction-at-singapore-1/) - Thanks to Red Hat.I went from my induction to Singapore.We started on Sunday 18 Dec after enjoying company trip last day at panshet, beautiful place 45 minutes bike journey from pune.I'll put some of the of this trip also.After coming from the trip at midnight, I have to get ready for S'pore by 4 A.M.I - [Red Hat](https://neependra.net/index.php/2005/12/24/red-hat/) - So ,Finally I joined Red Hat last month.It was like dream come true.I do not have words to express my self.In a months time I learned a lot,got new mentor, new freinds.At Red Hat It feels great.Work is like fun here.The very first day I joined , I felt at top of the world, a - [First Blog](https://neependra.net/index.php/2005/11/29/first-blog/) - This is my logs. ## Pages - [Invitation for Open Dialogue - AI & Parenting](https://neependra.net/index.php/invitation-for-open-dialogue-ai-parenting/) - We are parents to two children, aged 12 and 7. 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