The Bitx completed My bitx project has been lying dormant for a couple of months now. I completed wiring about 2 months back. The transmitter was working properly. But the receiver was not receiving anything . When I tried to increase volume, it started howling. After initial testing, I became QRL with lot of other… Continue reading Bitx Progressing
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Fork bomb
We run our college lab on LTSP built on Debian Etch. Today, one of our students inadvertently ran a fork bomb and the entire lab was stuck. We had to reboot the system. On examining the code , it was found that he put fork system call in an infinite loop. A fork bomb is… Continue reading Fork bomb
Exploring Pardus Linux
Pardus Kurulan 2008 is a cool Linux distribution from Turkey. It differs from conventional Linux distributions in several ways. This was pointed out to me by Sarath. Last night I installed Pardus on a Virtual Box virtual machine to explore this distro. I will share some of the screen shots and observations that I made… Continue reading Exploring Pardus Linux
Learning with NPTEL
The national program of technology enhanced learning (NPTEL) is an initiative of the Government of India to provide quality educational material to engineering students . The site has several video tutorials for various engineering subjects. However, the site is not very popular among Indian students. I have been trying to promote it among my students… Continue reading Learning with NPTEL
Storytelling Alice
My kids are having holidays for next 10 days in connection with Onam. During holidays, I let them play Gcompris if i am not using the computer. Today they wanted to play. I instead of letting them play Gcompris , I showed them StoryTellng Alice They were hooked to it within half an hour. By … Continue reading Storytelling Alice