Google = God?
Now this is really really eerie stuff. Today I came to office wearing my “Holland” T-shirt. I normally never wear this shirt to office.
I fired up my Gmail in the browser, and see a “Study in Holland” Google ad!
A few minutes later, I received a call from this organisation. They were calling a friend of mine, but had my number against his name. I gave them the correct number. A few minutes later, on Google ads, I see the name of the organisation!
What the *hell* is going on here?
Attending OCR roundtable at Chennai
I have been invited to present a paper and discuss OCR related technology at the “National Conference on ICTs for the differently- abled/under privileged communities in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship 2009 – (NCIDEEE 2009)” to be held in Chennai. Looks like giants in the field are coming to attend. The likes of Prof. B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI Kolkata and Prof. C. V. Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad shall grace the occasion. Looking forward to listening to what they have to say. Seems like I am going to represent the free software community for OCR there.
There is a day (2nd November) devoted fully to OCR. The next day is devoted to Text-To-Speech. The dates do overlap with foss.in. Will miss the first few days at foss.in this year.
[1] http://cis-india.org/events/ncideee-2009
[2] http://www.loyolacollege.edu/NCIDEEE/home.html
ERRATA: The date is 2nd December. Not November
random note
1) random-noting after a long time
2) Will buy an internet connection so I can work on OCR from home.
3) Need to buy a drum set. Will keep it at Abhas Bhaiyya’s place.
4) Need to go to a gym.
5) Need a 2 wheeler. WIll have to go to Hyderabad to fetch my brother’s.
6) PyCon is coming up.
7) So is FOSS.in
Replicating ACLs from one file to another
Say you have a file a with certain modes:permissions:ownerships. You need to apply these same ACLs to another file. What do you do?
There are 2 commands that come handy: ‘getfacl’ and ’setfacl’
Example: getfacl qmail-scanner-queue.pl.old | setfacl –set-file=- qmail-scanner-queue.p
This will set all the ACLs of qmail-scanner-queue.pl.old to qmail-scanner-queue.pl.
Ramzaan
Ramzaan is the holy month of Muslims. Muslims try to be polite and curteous during Ramzaan.
There is a small shop near our office that sells food items and coffee. We generally go there and have a snack and a sip.
I would always notice that the quantity of coffee would be far lesser than what I would get somewhere else.
Today evening, I went to the shop and ordered a cuppa. To my pleasant surprise the cup was full 
The shop is adjacent to the Masjid-E-Khadria on Nandidurga Road in Bangalore.
deepOfix Installations worlwide
FYI deepOfix is a free and open source mail server. It is a Debian based GNU/Linux distribution.
Recently, Amit from our marketing team mined the internet for instances of running deepOfixes. Here are some of the locations he found:
Link : http://deeproot.in/deepofix
http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/sh= owthread.php?t=3D1737447&highlight=3Ddeepofix- Italy http://sathyabamauniv.ac.in/webmail/src/login.php -- Sathyabama Unive= rsity http://net.is= quareit.ac.in/ --- Pune http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/de= epofix --- San Jose,USA (Please see the comments) http://vainahtelecom.ru/ --Grozny, Russia (Mail Server) .. they ch= ange the copyright @ vainahtelecom http://mail.swsystem.it/ --- S W system -- i= taly http://122.160.140.98/index.php?func=3Dlogout -- Atmail -- New Del= hi = http://mail.antaressystems.com/--- mail server http://mail.mu.ac.i= n/ --- mail server http://mail.nacs.it/ -- mail server -- italy http://comunesangiustino.it/ -- mail server -- italy http://mail.sum= italia.it/ -- mail server -- italy http://www.icewarp.com/products/w= ebmail/ --- they deals in webmail http://www.car= leto.com.br/ -- mail server--- Auto Posto Carleto -- Brazil http://mail.f= lynetcomunicazioni.it/ -- mail server -- italy http://acli.homei= p.net/ -- mail server -- Rome , Italy http://mail.aicompro.com/ -- mail server = -- Canada http://mail.nls.ac.in/webmail/src/login.php -- mail server -- natioa= nl law school of india university http://151.13.11.231/ -- mail server --Comune di = San Giustino, San Giustino, Italy http://mail.ommonline.com/ -- mail server -- O.M.M. Officine Minut= erie Metalliche--Rome , Italy http://122.166.99.129/ -- mail server -- maya h= ttp://200.49.181.34/mail/src/login.php -- mail server -- Grupo Deincohttp://m= ail.sby.kingjim.co.id/ -- mail server -- Indonesia h= ttp://122.160.56.26/mail/src/login.php -- mail server -- Biotavia Labs = Pvt. Ltd -- New Delhi http://150.217.79.135/mail/src/login.php -= -- mail server -- Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Fiorentino, Italy http://www.ankursoftech.com/ --- mail = server --Antares Systems Ltd Bangalore, India http://209.85.129.132/= search?q=3Dcache:7rHA9kv5NVsJ:www.deeproot.co.in/deepofix/features+%22mail+= server%22+fetch+pop3&cd=3D16&hl=3Dde&ct=3Dclnk&gl=3Dde&= client=3Dfirefox-a -- its about deeproot http://207.28.165.1/mail/src/login.php -- ma= il server -- Nashua-Plainfield Schools, US http://202.62.76.146/mail/= src/login.php -- mail server -- Bangalore, India http://mail.sdmcet.ac.in/mail/src/login.php -- mail server --SDMCET = -- Dharwad http://mail.bmm.in/src/login.php -- mail server http://webmail.bekhrad.com/mail/src/login.php -- Bekhrad Co. -- Hormozan (Iran) http://cahcet.in/mail/src/login.php -- mail server -- = C Abdul Hakeem College Of Engineering & Technology, Melvisharam, Chennai http://ma= il.svimspa.it/mail/src/login.php -- mail server -- Sviluppo Marche = S.p.A---Marche, Italy http://mail.bartolinisestilio.it/mail/src/login.php -- mail= server -- Bartolini 1938 --Prato, Italy
Nice, na!
Things we say but do not mean
Sometimes one looks back at life. It maybe when one is content with his life and his happy with his success, or when one is regretful of the past and contmplating his past actions.
If we look at relationships that went sour, relationships that involved people you truly loved, it dawns on us that we said a lot of things we did not mean.
We say it assuming a level of understanding on the other end, that most of what we say but dont really mean will be rejected at the end of the day. However sometimes it does not go away, and it adds up, creating a cloud of mistrust and pain.
It takes a lot of courage to overcome feelings of personal pain, and see through the heart of the loved one. Focusing on actions more than words is helpful.
Also, it is so difficult a task to forgive someone, totally, completely, that most people do away with it and instead “move on”. Moving on is a way of not forgiving but forgetting for the time being.
Forgiveness is a confirmation of your faith in the person. It makes you vulnerable and puts you at risk. Your mental peace and happiness is hence at the mercy of the person you love.
One reason we end up saying things we do not mean is fear. Fear of loss. We assume we shall lose our loved one. Even that is an attempt at reaching out to the loved one. Somehow we sub-consciously think that predicting
ones actions correctly brings us closer to the person. Or may be not?
Night in office
Its 4:09 AM and I am in office. Writing this post using GScribble. People in the room include Abhas Abhinav, Gaurav Khambala, Vignesh Prabhu, Amit Gulati. We are discussing about Google Chrome OS while I hack the deepofix installer. Loving it
gscribble post
This is a test post created using gscribble http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscribble.
The author Roshan Singh is a fellow college mate and heads all technology related issues in at NIT Durgapur.
I have a feeling I will blog a LOT more now
Sunday
The day began with seeing off Shreyank (http://allsortsofshrink.blogspot.com/) at the Majestic Bus Stop (Bangalore). Vignesh and I then proceeded to Sandeep’s (http://ssandeep.wordpress.com/) place and had lunch. On Vignesh’s (http://2cents-by-viggy.blogspot.com/) insistence we then went to Jaydeep’s place at J.P. Nagar . Jaydeep had a life threatening motorbike accident a month back at NIT Durgapur. He had a brain surgery and was unconscious for almost a month. We spent around 2-3 hours with him. He has lost some memories and some part of his skull, but he is recovering very well.
We then went back to Majestic bus stop and explored the Market there. The shop keepers were quite rude. I asked a shopkeeper the price of a mp3 player and he said 600 Rs. Then I asked him the price of a mobile and he said “Ye dukaan daam poochhne ke liye nahi hai, item khareedne ke liye hai” (This shop is not meant for asking the cost, but for buying items). I was disgusted, and I told him that he lost good business. That shut him up.
We went around some more. Vignesh boarded a bus to his aunt’s place and I boarded the bus to R.T. Nagar. I noticed a young guy sitting at the opposite row of seats in the bus. He had a Diesel bag with a Fedora badge on it. I immediately felt the urge to talk to him. However, he was looking out the window and had earplugs on. Somehow, I could never bring myself to interrupt his activity.
Then I came to this cybercafe. Lets see what I do with the rest of the day. I do have a few things to buy. A door mat, and a duster cloth.
