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
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
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
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
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