Gotcha! Googling around matrimonial sites with the above search criteria. Koi hain? Yaaraavadhu irukkeengala? Is anyone out there matching the above criteria? Well, mail-me with your details and horoscope. ;-) (Click on "View my complete profile" link on the sidebar and click-on the "email" link in that page)
Hold on!!
The search is for my (elder) brother, who just turned 30 couple of days back and is a Sr. Software Engg working for E-Funds, Chennai. Wanna look at his profile? Click here.
Wait! Wait!! Wait!!!
Let me tell you the reason for me searching a bride for him. Hmm.. umm.. hrm... actually... its like... you know... well... if you see...
My marriage is getting delayed because of him. ;-D
(just kidding... (hmm.. only 50%))
Friday, September 02, 2005
New l(o)(o)K
Did I mention that?
Yes, I changed the look and feel of my home of thoughts(?) and added few useful(?) links to the sidebar. Will be adding more links there.
Should hack the template to match my preferences.
Yes, I changed the look and feel of my home of thoughts(?) and added few useful(?) links to the sidebar. Will be adding more links there.
Should hack the template to match my preferences.
A Beagle visit
Got some time to look back the road which I used to walk through when I joined Novell. The road has improved a lot. Got street lights, direction boards and a nice black road. Many vehicles, from two-wheelers to LMVs have started travelling on it. Soon, HMVs will be benchmarking the road and a grand-opening is awaiting to happen.
heh, what am I talking about?
Its Beagle.
Yes, took some time to hack something quick for beagle. As always, cooked up a filter for archive files. When I say Beagle is Fun, it is, I really mean it. The new filter had hit a bug in the FS backend and is due to be fixed after SuSE 10.0. However, I continued to fix the other corner-points that were blocking the filter from working. Finally, the fully cooked version of the patch lies here, to be picked up by Jon and Jon is a good friend of mine and will take it, haina Jon? ;-)
The filter indexes files inside the archive using appropriate beagle filters. Thus raising the ability of Beagle to smell and dig the contents to/from the core. The filter uses the ICSharpCode's SharpZipLib library and supports all of Zip, Tar, GZip and BZip2. (Though support for GZip and BZip2 are temporarily disabled now)
heh, what am I talking about?
Its Beagle.
Yes, took some time to hack something quick for beagle. As always, cooked up a filter for archive files. When I say Beagle is Fun, it is, I really mean it. The new filter had hit a bug in the FS backend and is due to be fixed after SuSE 10.0. However, I continued to fix the other corner-points that were blocking the filter from working. Finally, the fully cooked version of the patch lies here, to be picked up by Jon and Jon is a good friend of mine and will take it, haina Jon? ;-)
The filter indexes files inside the archive using appropriate beagle filters. Thus raising the ability of Beagle to smell and dig the contents to/from the core. The filter uses the ICSharpCode's SharpZipLib library and supports all of Zip, Tar, GZip and BZip2. (Though support for GZip and BZip2 are temporarily disabled now)
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Rescuing a Linux partition
One of my friends just screwed up her linux boot record by installing M$ Windows 2000 Professional on top of it. Luckily she didn't delete any of her partitions. This blog is for her and others who have done similar mistakes, unknowingly.
1) Reboot your system using the Linux bootable CD.
2) Choose "Rescue system" or similar option that would take you to a temporary shell.
3) Follow the steps mentioned in the link given below.
Well, I thought of writing all the steps to setup grub again, however, a google on "setting up grub" revealed this link here, which explains the steps to install grub quite comprehensively.
1) Reboot your system using the Linux bootable CD.
2) Choose "Rescue system" or similar option that would take you to a temporary shell.
3) Follow the steps mentioned in the link given below.
Well, I thought of writing all the steps to setup grub again, however, a google on "setting up grub" revealed this link here, which explains the steps to install grub quite comprehensively.
Scored Top
Thanks to "Google" to give me the top most rank among others. Well, those of you who are confused with my first sentence, look at my previous blog here.
A google search on "veerapuram varadhan" shows the link to my blog as the first hit.
A google search on "veerapuram varadhan" shows the link to my blog as the first hit.
Lights On
Today, got sometime to think about my real life. Well, it is quite evident from my blogs that I am hardly paying any attention to my personal life. Last 3.5 years have changed me a lot. Have become more work-aholic than ever. Because of which lost few good friends, well, not really but typically; yes. My FAQ stack on my mind gets overflown by questions like...
What happened to me? What made me change like this? What happened to my hobbies, interests etc?.
Few reasons popped up as answers and the prominent one being "staying alone". Yes, in Delhi, though I stayed alone, had very good, fun-filled and hilarious friend circle. We used to go out on a long drive every weekends. Never missed any movie that got released in Delhi till I was there.
Bangalore has totally turned my life upside down. Have I become more responsible? Would that mean no more such fun and joyous moments? Well, I think I am missing good partner(s) to hang around, kill time, chit chats etc. Most of my friends have got a registered partner for them, making my request to hang-around an invalid one. Though few things that my beloved-friends suggest which would bring a difference to the current way of my living and they are:
1) Go to office on official office timings and
2) Do not awake past MIDNIGHT
Lets see how soon this light brings brightness to the dark-side of my life.
Its around 4:40 AM now, which I have been trying to avoid for months together now.
What happened to me? What made me change like this? What happened to my hobbies, interests etc?.
Few reasons popped up as answers and the prominent one being "staying alone". Yes, in Delhi, though I stayed alone, had very good, fun-filled and hilarious friend circle. We used to go out on a long drive every weekends. Never missed any movie that got released in Delhi till I was there.
Bangalore has totally turned my life upside down. Have I become more responsible? Would that mean no more such fun and joyous moments? Well, I think I am missing good partner(s) to hang around, kill time, chit chats etc. Most of my friends have got a registered partner for them, making my request to hang-around an invalid one. Though few things that my beloved-friends suggest which would bring a difference to the current way of my living and they are:
1) Go to office on official office timings and
2) Do not awake past MIDNIGHT
Lets see how soon this light brings brightness to the dark-side of my life.
Its around 4:40 AM now, which I have been trying to avoid for months together now.
"Deja vu"
Two days in a week that I don't really like:
1) First working day after the weekend and
2) Last working day before the weekend.
Reached bangalore around 4:30 AM and had a sound sleep till 12:00 noon. Reached office on time ;) and had lunch. With a great determination, started to trace back the roots for the annoying 310461 bug. Yet to form a suitable patch to fix it. It was around 10:30PM, nags pinged me on IM to make me realize that I would miss my dinner. Packed my bag and rushed to my favourite Annapoorna hotel and got a parcel of 6 Idlies and 2 Chappatis.
Reached home, did sandhi and finished the dinner. After a very long time, today did lot of orukut found few of my friends. Tried hard to make vpn work with the tortoise connection (Reliance's rconnect) work, but, didn't get through. So, started reading through Joshua's semweb library to read/write RDF files. This would give me a break through to enter into Beagle land with something nice.
1) First working day after the weekend and
2) Last working day before the weekend.
Reached bangalore around 4:30 AM and had a sound sleep till 12:00 noon. Reached office on time ;) and had lunch. With a great determination, started to trace back the roots for the annoying 310461 bug. Yet to form a suitable patch to fix it. It was around 10:30PM, nags pinged me on IM to make me realize that I would miss my dinner. Packed my bag and rushed to my favourite Annapoorna hotel and got a parcel of 6 Idlies and 2 Chappatis.
Reached home, did sandhi and finished the dinner. After a very long time, today did lot of orukut found few of my friends. Tried hard to make vpn work with the tortoise connection (Reliance's rconnect) work, but, didn't get through. So, started reading through Joshua's semweb library to read/write RDF files. This would give me a break through to enter into Beagle land with something nice.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Evolution Mail-remote plugin sharp
Today I commited a fairly stable glue-code for the mail-remote plugin bonobo interface that I mentioned in couple of my previous posts. My first commit actually broke the cvs and I had to tweak the glib-genmarshal stuff a little bit to match the source tree structure that we have in evolution-sharp.
I learned quite a few things, though small, but significant. Errors in makefiles are cancer cells that eat your time like anything.
A major part of thanks goes to NotZed for his cons(is)tant support with couple of reviews and suggestions in IRC channel.
The todos are
* a test program
* simplify complex glue-APIs
* bug fixes. ;-)
I learned quite a few things, though small, but significant. Errors in makefiles are cancer cells that eat your time like anything.
A major part of thanks goes to NotZed for his cons(is)tant support with couple of reviews and suggestions in IRC channel.
The todos are
* a test program
* simplify complex glue-APIs
* bug fixes. ;-)
Monday, August 08, 2005
A Perfect weekend
Boarded the bus on Friday with an intention to complete certain pending tasks over the weekend. If I had known the plans of my parents for my weekend, perhaps, I wouldn't have taken my laptop all the way to my native place.
It all started with an heavy discussion with my auditor in filing my tax returns. Ugh, taxes are a RPITA. Apart from what has been deducted by Novell and my previous employer, I had to pay around 37K, which I paid last week. Though, my auditor got back with a new figure of around 39K and that means another 2K. Hope that chapter ends there.
Once I finished with my auditor, my cousin called me up and told me that he had setup an appointment with a property-broker, well, in Chennai (2 hrs of bus journey). So, accompanied by my father, I reached Chennai around evening. We saw three properties out of which only one appeared to be okay. However, lot many things have to be verified before signing-off a deal.
As mentioned in this post, real-estate business is really coming well. Hope to close that deal in time.
Met my cousin, after long long ago and spent good time with them. Chennai has changed a lot since my last visit (4 yrs?)
And the day of rest, Sunday, passed just like that with enough rest and nice homely-food.
It all started with an heavy discussion with my auditor in filing my tax returns. Ugh, taxes are a RPITA. Apart from what has been deducted by Novell and my previous employer, I had to pay around 37K, which I paid last week. Though, my auditor got back with a new figure of around 39K and that means another 2K. Hope that chapter ends there.
Once I finished with my auditor, my cousin called me up and told me that he had setup an appointment with a property-broker, well, in Chennai (2 hrs of bus journey). So, accompanied by my father, I reached Chennai around evening. We saw three properties out of which only one appeared to be okay. However, lot many things have to be verified before signing-off a deal.
As mentioned in this post, real-estate business is really coming well. Hope to close that deal in time.
Met my cousin, after long long ago and spent good time with them. Chennai has changed a lot since my last visit (4 yrs?)
And the day of rest, Sunday, passed just like that with enough rest and nice homely-food.
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