Thursday 02 September 2010 at 8:34 pm
Just revoked my old GPG key as I do not use it anymore.
pub 1024D/04F130BC 2003-08-18 *** KEY REVOKED *** [not verified]
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>
Ritesh Raj Sarraf (Ricky) <rrs@researchut.com>
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <ritesh@cyberspace.com.np>
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@fastmail.fm>
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs_rhwlist@softhome.net>
Ritesh Raj Sarraf (NetApp) <rsarraf@netapp.com>
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net>
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Wednesday 01 September 2010 at 12:13 am
When I wrote the autoEqualizer plug-in for the Amarok (1.x) media player, to the best of my knowledge, there weren't any media players with this feature nor were there any plug-ins.
Recently, I came to know that the Samsung Galaxy S's media player looks to be having the Automatic Equalizer functionality. Not sure if this player is specific to Samsung Galaxy S or the Android Platform in general.
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Thursday 08 July 2010 at 2:08 pm
The latest kernel upload (2.6.32-16) brings goodies to SystemTap in Debian. This version has added support for kprobes, on which systemtap has a major dependency, for many of its features.
Most of the systemtap instrumentation should work now and all of this will be part of the Squeeze release. Instrumenting the kernel modules still needs some work (DBTS: #555549) but can be done.
Sunday 06 June 2010 at 01:38 am
First you go unethical by forcing users (stating security concerns) to upgrade to a newer firmware. And then, you don't even do a good QA on the firmware you release. It clearly looks you were in a hurry to strip off the "Other OS" feature.
I lost all my gameplay in the firmware upgrade.
Tuesday 01 June 2010 at 3:37 pm
The blog entry is about the F word.
What the fuck? You don't know what the F word is. Sigh!!!
Mea Culpa! Not your fault. It is quite offensive, no? More offensive than BC, MC, BsdK, LkB ?These are some of the usual terms used in our local derived languages in all its locally derived richness.
The word Fuck, many times, either from people with authority (HR) or the receiver, is termed and reacted to as a very offensive term. Usage of the word fuck is kind of blasphemy. In organizations, its usage can lead to harassments (to all those ultra fuckin' dumbs) and terminations. Sigh!!
Well! Yuck! to all those, who think that way.
Fuck is the most neutral word to express all kinds of feelings, be it anger, agression, disappointment, love, sex, celebration or anything else you can think of.
- Fuck you man
- I'm gonna fuckin' kill you.
- Fuck! It is painful.
- It was fuckin' amazing
- Let's fuck
See. How offensive it is. Now let's localize it with its equivalents.
- BC, Saala
- BC/MC, I'll kill you
- BC/MC, it is painful
- G phat gayi. It is so painful
- MC. Maza aa gaya
See. How nice it is. Not offensive at all. One can always argue that those words are not required to be used in the local languages, rather it is offensive terms not preferred. But be honest and ask yourself if you haven't used them when expressing yourself.
So when someone uses the F word, there isn't really a good reason to make those fucked up faces and feel offensive. The person is just making use of the best expressive neutral word to express himself.
At least, this way, while expressing himself, he still is sparing families and friends. So go ahead and make use of this wonderful F word and educate people on its endless possible usage. Or else if you still don't get it, I got 2 words: Fuck You.
Tuesday 01 June 2010 at 3:15 pm
So this past weekend, me and my friend, went on a drive to Yellagiri Hills. It was exciting driving on the highway in an entry level Indian car, Maruti Suzuki Alto.
Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to the destination. 5 kilometers before the destination, while we were uphill, the car b0rke down. On one of the hair-pin bends where we had to cut down the speed to zero, switch to the 1st and 2nd gear failed. Hmmm!! At that point, we were on a very steep road, with the car stalled and the gear box (for 1st and 2nd) broken down. Nice!!
Somehow we did manage to turn the car back (Don't ask me how) and reach down the hill with the slope. That's when we started "thinking". Now what. Still another 200+ kilometers to go.
Called up the Maruti "On the Road" pick-up service. Being Sunday, the contact was unavailable. Nice!!
We took the plunge and drove the broken car. How ?? The 3rd, 4th, 5th and Reverse gears still work. So we somehow managed to reach near to "Vanyan Badi" at a restaurant and asked for help. Luckily we did get a resource to help us out. Unfortunately, the resource was not resourceful enough. He recommended us drive down the b0rken car all the way back home. Nice!!
With not much choice left, and with all the Cats & Dogs rain (ah!! Yes. I will talk more about it in a while), we decided to move on with the b0rken car. Plan was: worst case, we dump the car and catch a cab (hopefully).
As soon as we started, we were welcomed with a very nice and heavy rainfall. Heavy enough that the water was near to on the road, the speed breakers were not visible and a very good amount of water was clogged at the sides of the road. Well! Fuck happens. We continue.
We did hit a big breaker which went unnoticed because of the water clog. Apart from that, otherwise, there weren't any issues. We covered 3 toll gates full of traffic with out b0rken car and reached back home safely. Then hunted down for food/booze, ate/drank and CRASHED.
So, when your car goes b0rke and you are just a bunch of dudes stuck, don't worry. Fuck it. It ain't gonna screw you that bad. 
Monday 10 May 2010 at 11:50 pm
Just uploaded tomoyo-tools and is waiting in the NEW queue.
Thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff, tomoyo kernel support should be available in Debian with kernel 2.6.32-13 and above.
What is Tomoyo ?
Description: Lightweight and easy-use Mandatory Access Control for Linux
TOMOYO Linux is Lightweight and Usable Mandatory Access Control with
- "automatic policy configuring" feature by "LEARNING mode"
- administrators friendly policy language
- no need libselinux nor userland program modifications
.
TOMOYO Linux consists of patches to Linux kernel and administrative
utilities, and this package contains its audit daemon and tools.
Description: Lightweight and easy-use Mandatory Access Control for Linux
TOMOYO Linux is Lightweight and Usable Mandatory Access Control with
- "automatic policy configuring" feature by "LEARNING mode"
- administrators friendly policy language
- no need libselinux nor userland program modifications .
TOMOYO Linux consists of patches to Linux kernel and administrative utilities, and this package contains its audit daemon and tools.
Monday 10 May 2010 at 11:46 pm
I just uploaded apt-offline version 0.9.8 to sid. Hopefully this is the one that would be part of squeeze. For those who still arent aware of apt-offline, it is an Offline Package Manager for apt.
I wrote a small howto that can give more details about it.
Wednesday 05 May 2010 at 03:02 am
Finally, I am proud to be officially part of one of the most successful and well organized Free/Open project, the Debian project.
I would like to thank everyone who have worked with me. I would also like to thank my Advocate Giridhar and my AM Pablo. It was and is really awesome working with you guys.
Tuesday 04 May 2010 at 6:04 pm
As you must have noticed, the interface of the blog has changed. I just am in the middle of migrating to PivotX.
I started blogging around 5 yrs back. Having had my domain, I wanted to have my own blogging software. Most of the blogging tools had dependency on databases and stuff where as I was looking for something very simple while at the same time easy to use, feel and administer.
Pivot was my decision then. And it was the right one. Today, migration to PivotX was not that very difficult. All my blog posts were easily migrated to the new PivotX tool.
One of my pre-req was to have my blogging software _not_ use a db. It should provide a flat file interface. Pivot[X] was and is the same way today. It still supports flat file databases without compromising on any of the features.
Thank you to the Pivot[X] team from an old time user.
