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Ham radio License

I had almost forgotten about my ham radio license. I wrote the examination at Trivandrum centre of WPC on 20th January 2004. I was expecting a license in 4 to 5 months time. But nothing happened for a long time. I thought something had gone wrong after reading Ramakrishnan’s experience about ham license in India… Continue reading Ham radio License

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cdrecord on sarge

I havent burned cds on linux for ages now. Today I was trying to make one. It seems you no longer needs scsi emulation on 2.6 kernels. I had some trouble with cdrecord on my sarge box at home. cdrecord -scanbus said. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12.3 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and… Continue reading cdrecord on sarge

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Programming Linux

There is a good discussion on Tri(g)lug mail list after I posted this this. Some of the arguments put forward by Mr. Kannan are convincing. I have to agree with him on the duration of the course . My idea is to give help to aspiring students. I was teaching a group of students from… Continue reading Programming Linux

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