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After a break of almost 2 years, I've decided to re-start updating this blog. The older content will remain. There is a lot to say, lot to blog. Will see how it goes! |
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| Waypoint Display |
[Jul. 23rd, 2006|01:06 am] |
Do you have a set of co-ordinates that you noted on your GPS receiver and you now want to see the satellite map of the path that you took ?
Head to http://sumedhaswamy.in/map.php . Simply enter your co-ordinates in the XML format that is explained on the page and click "Plot". See that path drawn immediately!
There is an example there if you dont yet have any co-ordinates to plot.
Now, this application works on Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and Epiphany! (Latest versions)
Enjoy plotting. Send me your feedback. |
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TrustFlow results for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) sumedha |
[Jul. 22nd, 2006|11:49 pm] |
Thanks aivalli for the link!
I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for sumedha are close by:
- mannu, premshree, fugney, brainz, rashmiprasad (50 - 100)
- bluesmoon, balaji, fox2mike, noelladsa, kalyan, jace, fatmuttony, teemus, nash_da_basher, notanangel78, freegeek, sharat, ravi, kaustubhhere, prady, mrinal, sampada, mrsgollum (100 - 150)
- dhempe, angiasaa, pinak, pratibha75, subtle_blues, vandyvandana, crabbycool, namus, sriramb, al_lude, latelyontime, sumit_mittal, amitng, hariputtar, yellosonja, kewldeaf, shortindiangirl, rfc9000, yathin, luv_serendipity, vyshnavi, urmila (150 - 200)
( More results below the cut... )
Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.
TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends
list?
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| /drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h |
[Jul. 8th, 2006|01:02 am] |
Index: usb-2.6/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h
@@ -139,6 +139,14 @@ UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0420, 0x0001, 0x0100, 0x
US_SC_DEVICE, US_PR_DEVICE, NULL,
US_FL_IGNORE_RESIDUE ),
+/* Reported by Sumedha Swamy <sumedhaswamy@gmail.com> and
+ * Einar Th. Einarsson <einarthered@gmail.com> */
+UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0421, 0x0444, 0x0100, 0x0100,
+ "Nokia",
+ "N91",
+ US_SC_DEVICE, US_PR_DEVICE, NULL,
+ US_FL_IGNORE_RESIDUE | US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY ),
+
And waiting for my kernel compilation to complete .... |
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| My Google Maps Application |
[May. 8th, 2006|12:11 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  sleepy | ] |
First, I'm the owner of http://sumedhaswamy.in :)
Head to http://sumedhaswamy.in/bababudan.html : This is the first application that I've written using Google Maps API. It is still in a very rough state. But, I'll try and add some features soon. I'm very new to XML-DOM and Javascript. So, if there are any suggestions, I'm waiting to here them. I was inspired to create this app, on using "Map Generator" that Praveen and Sonal have created.
BTW, I learnt more Javascript today than I had in the past 22 years of my life( Which was close to zero ). "Function Objects" is a good concept. The speed at which I could get results was amazing. There is a lot more to explore. So, until next weekend, goodbye Javascript! |
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| Stock market analysis and speculation |
[Apr. 28th, 2006|12:26 am] |
I regularly track a few stocks and almost all news associated with those companies. Not that I have a billion dollars to invest , but just out of the curiosity about what these companies are doing and also because I find this very exciting. Exciting, partly because of the well spiced up news that I read.
I recently got to witness one such news material from the inside ( The event is irrelevant for this blog ) and compare that with what my trusted news sites report.
Its interesting how the specialists and analysts write their guidance. At best , I must say they are merely good story writers who get bits of news from here and there ( Could be genuine news) and weave an interesting story by putting the companies as characters. Some of the news clips speak of company as an emotional character with qualities like self-esteem, revenge and what not. Not that these are totally irrelvant, but most companies today (Atleast those who have been burned almost to death before they started breathing again) are not human characters. The are run by sane people who make decisions that make business sense. It doesn't make sense thinking of a company as a character and speculate emotionally about what could be the next move.
In a fairly big organization, most employees are barely aware about what is going on in another office location, let alone analysts knowing it. Even if the analysts happen to know something, it is foggy at best. So, speculating based on such information, and people actually taking that seriously is a scary situation.
I wonder how people could make up news and boldly publish it. Maybe it is the hope that the prediction comes true ( and the extremely positive outcome of that), that keeps these people writing such stories. But, what a sad thing to do for a living! |
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| Linux 3D Desktop |
[Mar. 17th, 2006|10:39 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | 3d, linux, suse | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  happy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world | ] |
I tried Kororaa last morning and I must say I was very impressed. I have used Project Looking Glass before and I thought it totally rocked, but is quite resource hungry. XGL on the other hand is so snappy that you'll get used to using those super eye-candy features, without even bothering about system resources or actually making an effort to use those features. If you can not relate to what I'm saying, download Project Looking Glass and use it. The sluggishness comes very much in the way while you use its 3D features.
But I must admit, there are not as many "coolness factor increasing" features yet in the XGL/Compiz (like for example, the wonderful minimization effect or stacking of windows in Looking Glass) I'm sure they'll come shortly. The best part is that it will all come without any effort with SUSE 10.1! How much easier could that get ?
If you can't wait until then, get a copy of Kororaa Live CD now! Or if downloading that is too much of a hassle, just leave a comment here or send me a mail. If you are at Bangalore, I'll burn a copy for you! |
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| Totally Wired! |
[Mar. 10th, 2006|03:09 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | internet | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | hopeful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Prayers for a quick recovery of del.icio.us | ] |
You'll only know how unimaginably dependent you are upon online services when *any* one of them goes offline , planned or not! |
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| March of the Penguins |
[Feb. 20th, 2006|02:20 pm] |
March of the Penguins is a must watch. Morgan Freeman's narration is outstanding. I hope a movie is made about how this documentary was shot. I really want to know how people got so close to penguins. After watching the documentary, tell me if you are not moved!
Note : I did not say port 6346 anywhere in this post. |
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